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Order: 
digital https://radiantlove.bandcamp.com/album/maara-goddess-within
physical https://one-eye-witness.com/release/1645096604/Maara-Goddess-Within

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There is a culturally and perhaps spiritually bonded link between electronic dance music and what could be called most generally ‘the feminine divine’. In subgenres more oriented to trance and EDM, the vocal sample or progression is almost always uttered by a woman, unlike the variously-sexed divas of house; if divinity is invoked, it is less often a biblical God than some Gaia-derivative. Radiant Love’s fifth release, Goddess Within by the Montreal-based producer Maara, steps into this lineage stretching from Magna Mater to disco queen – Maara’s articulation of the feminine divine, however, is often off-hand, ringing at once sincere and deeply cheeky.
 
The double-side is summed up by the first track’s title, 'Goddess Within (Give It To Me Daddy)', which starts right off with a pumping bassline, carbonated synths, and a repeating sample speaking ‘goddess’ – what trance dreams are made of. What places these tracks especially in the realm of dream are Maara’s washes of delay, reverb and pan, drawing out melodies and textures into trails, clouds, blurs. The sonic fields are decentered, but driving and floor-ready regardless. 'Mommy’s In Trouble' follows up with a set of cleverly phased hi-hats and a swung kick drum. It’s a buildup we’re hearing, although one wouldn’t know until a sample asks us matter of factly, ‘Notice what you’re feeling. Are you calm?’ and the bass swings back in.
 
The B-side begins softer, with the wide pads of 'Plum Plum Paradise' eventually dropping into a downtempo break. The percussion is muted, and what gives the track its body is a shifting terrain of sample (‘Allow yourself inside, the time and space right now’), gurgling synth note, windchime and whisper. Goddess Within’s final track, 'Lezzies In A Jacuzzi' picks up the pace again, with a porny bass-throb, insistent hi-hats and a vocal fragment looping the word ‘amor’. This is exactly the kind of sound that would have me thinking on the dancefloor, Is she actually saying ‘amor’? Quickly I would reach the decision that it didn’t matter – the whole terrain of the actual, the explicit and undreamed is best left to masculinity anyways.

MAARA
Title: GODDESS WITHIN
Cat: RADIANTLOVE004
Format: 12”
Distributed: ONE EYE WITNESS
Mixed by: Priori
Artwork: YENNY JRANT
Text: NAT MARCUS

MAARA - GODDESS WITHIN

V/A - Hypnotic Mindscapes presents Vol. 2

Toronto party and record label Hypnotic Mindscapes returns with the second instalment of their compilation series featuring an array of Canadian and International artists both established and emerging. 
The A side begins with label head Cosmic JD exhibiting a high-energy, acid-infused number, entrancing and mysterious modulations ideal for the witching hours. The A2 cut welcomes long-time Hypnotic collaborator, Montreal ’s own Adam Solomon aka Weekend Logic with a retro-futuristic acid breakbeat with round basslines and enhancing science-fiction melodies. On the flip-side, Hypnotic member DJ Zenta from Tokyo debuts on the label with an unique approach to timeless progressive and tech-house vibes. The final cut on the B-side presents Japanese via Toronto Masayuki Tomita contributing with an after-hours track that exposes his signature of funky and wonky analog electronics. Full colour sleeve art by label artist Sofia Eleni. 
 
Artist: Various 
Release Title: Hypnotic Mindscapes Vol.2
Label: Hypnotic Mindscapes
Series: V/A 
Cat n: HYPM002
Release date:  November 21st 2021

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HYPM002 - Hypnotic Mindscapes Vol. 2 [Snippets]

Dwell Time for Dublab Radio (01.11.22)

Damo B in the mix for Nocta !

1. Bobo 'Cairde' Furthur Electronix
2. BufoBufo 'Remote Viewing' EMOTEC 
3. Mariska Neerman 'Twin' We’re Going Deep
4. MOY 'Wheel Of Time' EMOTEC 
5. DAWL 'Freaks Of Nature' Vinyl Fanatiks
6. Elliot 'Metamorphic' (Violet REMIX) Ritual Poison
7. FASME & Maelstrom 'Monores' Central Processing Unit
8.  Koova 'DLD' Analog Concept
9. Sound Synthesis 'Robot Collision' 20/20 Vision Recordings
10. Ed Chamberlain 'Place' Semantica Records
11. Inkipak 'Innervisions' Touched Music / Ping-discs
12. Sound Synthesis 'Necessary Order' We’re Going Deep
13. Eversines 'Connection' Nous'klaer Audio
14. Lloyd Stellar 'Echeoes From Another World' Gated Recordings

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Damo B Nocta Numerica Mix

Nocta Numerica Mix #53 / Damo B

Setting off 22 with some feel good Dub & Roots Reggae!

Peace Pilgrimage 14/01/2022 - Lyl Radio

This week on Drumcode Radio Live we have a studio mix from Veerus

Veerus - Yard
Alex Lentini, STOMP BOXX - Tropospheric
A.S.H - Obsession
Veerus - Nobody
Maxie Devine - Toxic
Ronnie Spiteri - Amnesia
Bart Skils, Weska - Shades of Summer 
Veerus - Lights On Me
David Huss - Delirium
Charles D (USA) - Uncaged
Veerus - Bypass
M83 - Outro (Veerus Bootleg)

DCR601 – Drumcode Radio Live – Veerus studio mix from Treviso, Italy

Ben Nicky Live @ Hellfire, Manchester 2022

Tracklisting :

1. Lost Dancing (Billy Gillies Rework)
2. ID - ID
3. Underworld & Bradbury vs Schweizer  - Choose Control (Ben Nicky Mashup)
4. Darren Styles - Save Me (ID Remix)
5. Rapture (Billie Gillies Rework / Lucas Mashup)
6. ID - ID
7. Ben Nicky & Greg Downey vs Reorder - Always (Ben Nicky Mashup)
8. Robin S - Show me Love (Billy Gillies Rework)
9. Linkin Park - Numb (Distorted Dreams Rework / Ben Nicky Edit)
10. Ben Nicky x Distorted Dreams - We Come 1
11. Charlie Sparks - Welcome To London (Ben Nicky Edit)
12. The Hum - ID Bootleg
13. Splinta - Abuse (Ben Nicky Edit)
14. Rokit - Shit Go Bang
15. Age of Love (ID Bootleg)
16. Homeless (ID Bootleg)
17. ID - The Launch
18.Dr Phunk & Ben Nicky - ID
19.SHM - Dont you worry child (mandy bootleg)
20. TNT - Reverse The Bass
21. Heads will roll (Gammer Flip)
22. Silence (Brennan Heart Remix Dailucia Edit)
23. Darren Styles - Reactivate (Ben Nicky Edit)
24. Calling (ID Bootleg)
25. Skrillex - Scary Monsters (DVRGNT Rework / Ben Nicky edit)
26.Everybody Free (Hixxy Bootleg)
27. Gareth Emery & Ben Nicky - Because The Night (Technikore Remix)
28. Gareth Emery - Concrete Angel (DS and Chris Unknown Remix)
29. Becky Hill - Forever Young (ID Remix)

Ben Nicky Live @ Hellfire, Manchester 2022

Passion & Pain

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DJ Snowman - Passion & Pain (Andromeda, Coley & Project 88 Remix)

Ref: DNZF1180 - Style: UK Hardcore - Vocals by: Julia MSP - Produced by: Eightyone
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ITUNES: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/dont-give-up-feat-julia-msp-single/1609284876
HARDSTYLE: https://music.hardstyle.com/albums/eightyone-feat.-julia-msp-dont-give-up/114951

Eightyone Feat. Julia MSP - Don't Give Up

Artists: MOY & Zodiac Childs
Title: MOY x Zodiac Childs
Label: Dynamics Of Acid Records
Catalogue No: DO303 002
Format: Vinyl / Digital Download 
General Presale: 14.02.22
BANDCAMP Exclusive Green Presale: 01.04.22
Released: 24.04.22
Distro: Bandcamp / Under The Radar

Track Listing:
A1. MOY - Ratufa
A2. MOY - Ratufa (Zodiac Childs Remix)
B1. Zodiac Childs - Overstep
B2. Zodiac Childs - Overstep (MOY Remix)

On the second EP for his Dynamics Of Acid label, acid aficionado MOY — fresh from releases on Nocta Numerica and Batrachian —  teams up with the mysterious Zodiac Childs for a feast of shredded breaks, electro melodies and moody atmospheres.

On the A-side, MOY’s ‘Ratufa’ mixes euphoric pianos, hardcore drums and glowering bass with a side order of 303, while Zodiac Childs ups the intensity with a remix that adds ascending arpeggios and gigantic rave stabs to light up the dance.

On the B-side, Zodiac Childs offers up the smouldering break chops and cavernous bass bleeps of ‘Overstep’, before flipping into acid madness halfway through. Finally, MOY’s version threads serpentine sulphuric tones through an intricate melodic arrangement and a dusty hip-hop drum loop. 

It all adds up to a jaw-dropping release from two of the hottest names in the electronic underground.

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Our most emotive record to date... 3 years in the making, our 15th release on the label comprises five evocative, glossy cuts produced by an incredibly talented artist and very good friend of ours; Wyatt (@jwyatt). His ‘Netherwood’ EP is a time capsule back to his hometown Norwich, turning memories into alchemical moments, a sensory voyage of stripped-back breakbeat, travel intercom samples and ear-worm melodies. 

This record is an indefinable sculpture of synth melodies nestled between weightless ambient, a shadow-cast realm of melancholy and introversion, joining the hands of broken beat and synth lines into a melodic collaboration, drunk on its private thoughts. 

Sometimes, existential introspection happens through external movement. ‘Netherwood’ is a catalyst for those epiphanies. 

Release date: 01.04.22

Distributed by Subwax.
Artwork by Finn Cleverly.
PR text by Emily Rose Howard.
Mastering by Curved London.
Pressings by R.A.N.D.

Wyatt - 'Netherwood' [HAWS015]

Pre-order: https://bfan.link/rips-1

For the 6th release on the @prettyweirdrecords imprint, @chloerobinsondj enlists the architectural minds of @djadhdgotbngrz and @nikki-nair to return once more to the label with a two-track EP of peak-time proportions.

Nikki’s solo jaunt on ‘Startrack’ is a crossbreed love affair between acid and breakbeat, with crisp kicks and psychedelic loops that seem to be caught in an endless, hypnotic crescendo.

On ‘Rips’, the Knoxville producer is joined by DJ ADHD, who recently
made his debut after a diversification from his ALXZNDR alias. It’s all stripped back drum-patterns for this one, with lurching bass inflections and clipped vocal hollers that demonstrate the power of minimalism employed attentively.

The final result: two razor-sharp tools designed for primal bodies and responsive lighting.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Nikki Nair + DJ ADHD 'Rips'

Title: Two Bruised Egos EP 
Label: trUst recordings
Cat No: TRST002
Format: 12” Vinyl + Digital 

Tracklist:
A1. Gentle Romance
A2. Can't we just have fun
B1. Chubby

Launching in 2021, London-based artist Saoirse returns to her trUst label with her second EP ‘Two Bruised Egos’. The record was teased last December with the pumping single ‘Gentle Romance’, which is now to be followed up with a full EP release on the 30th April. 

The release comes hot on the heels of the debut edition of Body Movements Festival - a celebration of queer bodies in electronic music where Saoirse is the co-founder and musical director -, the month-long Phonox residency, which was a sell-out success and featured guest appearances from Peach and Andrew James Gustav, and her debut BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.

There’s a sense of fun and playfulness to Saoirse’s productions, always primed and ready for those big dancefloor moments. ‘Two Bruised Egos’ is full of energy from the euphoria of ‘Gentle Romance’, the vibrancy of ‘Can’t We Just Have Fun’ to the bouncy, mind-melting anthem ‘Chubby’, the EP gradually builds in tension and captures that dancefloor release we have all been waiting for. It’s another marker of a huge upcoming year for the Irish tastemaker. 

Trust is one of the key foundations of safety, within yourself and with others. Vital for good health and happiness. The inception of trUst Recordings was finally being able to trust in one's own ability. Trust in music made for dancefloors. Trust in its simplicity yet importance. This label founded by Saoirse will be asking those who she trusts, herself, her friends and her most loved producers to join the label as collaborators and solo artists.

Pre-orders: https://saoirsemusic.bandcamp.com/album/two-bruised-egos-ep

Two Bruised Egos

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Saoirse - Two Bruised Egos EP [trUst 002 previews]

Read the feature: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2958

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Bookings/Demos/Etc contact: moymusic@icloud.com

UK-based producer fusing melancholic braindance and breakbeat-laced electro with cosmic acid melodies.

Label Owner - Dynamics Of Acid Records.

Releases on: Analogical Force, Batrachian, AC Records, EMOTEC, Exalt, Nebulae, Sin Hilo, Zodic Wax, We’re Going Deep, Ryoko, AmenTec, Nocta Numerica, MASA Series.

Tangled Worlds presenter on Threads Radio.