Artist: Benedikt Frey / @freybenedikt
Album: V.A. — Egonlab Dynasty
Label: Pinkman / @pinkmanrecords
Release date: 20/05/22
Format: digital / cassettes
Buy: https://pinkman.bandcamp.com/album/egonlab-dynasty
Additional: @egonlab

The label's word: "We're proud to finally present our collaboration with Paris based fashion brand Egonlab. Building bridges between past and future, fashion and music, Paris and Rotterdam, Egonlab incorporates Pinkman’s DNA in a new exclusive T-Shirt, while we've gathered six Pinkman artists to compose the theme's sonic interpretation.

The collaboration is the second chapter of the main Egonlab Spring/Summer 22’ line inspired by the activism of the middle ages. Consequently, both the visual and the audio parts are spreading a positive message, as much as they are channelling the rebellion."

PREMIERE: Benedikt Frey — Alleys (Pinkman, 2022)

► Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avm1YpGJBQc
► Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4E0UbbGCpojXlZdZVsTrvf
► Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/we-had-the-same-dream/1632463776?i=1632463777
► Bandcamp: https://visonia.bandcamp.com/track/we-had-the-same-dream

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Visonia - We Had The Same Dream

This is that very case when the MC tag could be easily exchanged for DJ, but that’s just an unnecessary formality, and we’ll do without it. Podcast 111 was a drum and bass mix from MC Senechka, who’s as liquid as DnB itself

Тот самый случай, когда приставку MC можно было бы сменить на DJ, но это лишь ненужная формальность, и мы обойдёмся и без неё. Подкастом 111 стал драм-н-бейс микс от МС Сенечки, в диквидности которого ноль сомнений.

@mccene4ka

SYSTEM108 PODCAST 111: MC СЕНЕЧКА

A2  Druum & Melatron - Blind Fury

YouTube Streaming | youtube.com/live/JS5m1zv17vk

Kid Cope | Kivach Radio | 21.05.23

After his sold out LP "Salz" and an extensive tour in Europe, L.F.T. aka Johannes Haas is back on Mannequin Records with a brand new 6-tracks EP  "Hollow Head".

Blessed by the vocal features of Rosaceae ( the bloodthirsty breaktbeat 'I Want To Be A Witch'), Nils Fock (the banging wave 'Hörst Du Das') and Petra Flurr (EBM anthem 'Panzer Tanz'), L.F.T. music evokes a urge of dancing while simultaneously embracing a DIY aesthetic, creating a sonic universe where past, present, and future converge. 

The Hacker aka Michel Amato, a long time collaborator of Mannequin Records, is joining the pack with his interpretation of 'Panzer Tanz', turning the track into a straight techno banger.

L.F.T. is a visionary artist who takes listeners on a mesmerizing journey through a sonic landscape that fuses elements of electro and new wave aesthetics. 
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released July 7, 2023

Limited edition of 400 copies on black vinyl. First 100 copies on smoked clear vinyl, handnumbered.

Mastered by Rude 66, Amsterdam, 2023.

Mixed by Alessandro Adriani, Berlin, 2023

Graphic design by AA.
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Hollow Head

B3 Panzer Tanz (The Hacker Remix) DEF

Taken from the forthcoming "Sea Songs" single by ex-Indirect band member Hennadii Boichenko. Pre-order 7" vinyl record.

This is the 3rd appearance of Odesa-based Hennadii Boichenko (ex-Indirect) on Muscut, after his contribution as a part of the Indirect band (Ab Pharmacy / Waltz - 2014, Ode To The Sea - 2016 with Nikolaienko). 7” single, “Sea Songs,” - is a record mixed and tape mastered by Dmytro Nikolaienko. This is also the first episode of a newly started series of analog production chain releases with master reel tape transfer to lathe cut (the label has only been sending digital master files to the record plant before that). This year, Muscut twists from electronic music to instrumental and eclectic ones with more similar releases in the queue - Cukor Bila Smert's recordings from 1990-1993, Nikolaienko's "Meta" (exploration of metallophone on tape loopings), Fleischesmarkt's - disbanded Odesan punk/kraut band from the late 2000s.

Credits:
Composed and arranged by Hennadii Boichenko
Vocalese (A1) by Mila Solovyova
Saxophones and flute (A2) by Mike levtushenko
Mix, processing, master tape by Dmytro Nikolaienko
Graphic design, visuals, and video by Day Night
Muscut 32,2024
Direct tape to vinyl transfer, MONO, 33RPM

Sea Songs

Detouch

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Hennadii Boichenko - Detouch (Muscut 32)

Order here:
www.juno.co.uk/products/benedikt…-vinyl/920213-01/

Emotional Response completes its 10th anniversary by welcoming Benedikt Frey to the label with a special release, a fantastic dub-psychedelic cover of Joy Division, delivered in multiple versions, including a wonderful dub-meets-prog reinterpretation from Lucas Croon.

An established producer for over a decade, with a releases for a myriad of respected labels like ESP Institute, Crème Organisation, Hivern Discs, Live At Robert Johnson and Serious Trouble, plus Frey’s own excellent R.I.O Records that is quickly becoming label to watch, it’s pleasure he joins Emotional Response with a fresh, but respectful remake.

Alongside PiL Ltd, Joy Division were the ultimate post punk band, the music, design and untimely passing of lead signer Ian Curtis, creating a mystique around the band that survives today. Opening their second, and final, album Unknown Pleasure, the song is a big part of their history. Frey’s version – with secret vocalist Carla Koller – offer a wide-screen retake, the dub bass and modulated snare wrap around lyrics, while haunting guitar adds to an unease.

Starting with a classic, but perfect Vocal Mix, there is an accompanying Instrumental that together highlight a propulsion and incessant groove, allowing the space between to herald the production’s beauty.

This is backed with a live remake by Lucas Croon. A label fan since his appearances in Stabil Elite, BAR and The Kloom, this Dusseldorf fraternity member continues Emotional Response’s long-standing association with the city. With celebrated releases on Aiwo Recs and Themes From Great Cities, his fireside remix begins as some dub-psyche odyssey before morphing in to a steppas-delight rock out that will capture the open ears and minds.

To close, Frey returns with his own Dub. Possibly the EP’s stand-out, this half step remix sucks the listener to the spaces between, as vocals dissipate and collapse within, bass bins distorting to distraction, the pull of a true and worthy dub symphony.

B1. Benedikt Frey - She's Lost Control (Lucas Croon Dub)

Listen to "Your Eyes" by Shoom Berez taken from "Transparent Eyes Collection" out on 30th August via Fuselab

Bandcamp: https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/transparent-eyes-collection

"This album is a guide to symbols and spaces.
A dusty box of glass toys.
A collection of buttons and eye balls from old teddy bears, bunnies and foxes."

Links:
Shoom Berez
https://soundcloud.com/shoom_berez
https://www.instagram.com/shoomberez
Fuselab
https://soundcloud.com/fuselab
https://fuselab.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/fuselabrecords

Lo-fi Synthpop 2

Nick Mariano