2022

Artist: @glovedhands
Album name: Empty Terminal LP
Label: La Luna
Cat #: La Luna 004
Year: 2021

Track Titles: 
A1 • Body
A2 • The Hungry Army Arrived As the Beans Ripened
A3 • Fashion Hamburgers
A4 • Group Setting
B1 • New Bland
B2 • A Pummeling Light 
B3 • Year Of The Cape
B4 • Never Catching 

Info: 
The debut full length album from Gloved Hands, entitled Empty Terminal, finds the musician straying from the dance floor in search of something amorphous and less tangible. Ambient in nature, the eight tracks that comprise the LP have a deep focus on texture, space, and human feelings rather than a need for constant propulsion and momentum. 

The A-side, the more rhythmic and percussive of the two, is awash with vague echos and smudged, slow-moving chords. Subaqueous drums shift in and out of focus. Sound sources are at once distant and intimately close. The curtains part to reveal a glimpse of a crystalline melody or a fraction of a vocal phrase only for the room to fill with fragrant smoke and go dark. It is a place beyond the dance floor. Perhaps it's a place without any floor at all.

The B-side is even more fragile and diaphanous. The foreground and background are obscured, leaving a hazy mesh of delicate, interwoven forms and rhythms; glistening and brushing against one another in the warm, dimly-lit space in between. With a swirling mix of cavernous bass and sweet-but-never-saccharine melody, the details are stretched and abstracted into something new yet familiar. The compositions ripple in midair, appearing and vanishing, close but just out of reach.

La Luna 004 • Gloved Hands • Empty Terminal LP

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/4navr1n
Track: Sweetness
Label: https://soundcloud.com/slipperysounds
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 29/10/21
Purchase: https://slipperysounds.bandcamp.com/album/ss004-an-avrin-08p

An Avrin delivers an EP packed full of dancefloor delights to suit any mood, whilst retaining his signature sound throughout. Sweetness packs a serious punch, journeying through crisp rhythmic percussion into fidgety fast paced melodic patterns. It's sure to get any dancefloor moving.

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PREMIERE | An Avrin - Sweetness [Slippery Sounds] 2021

Old & new friends join the next Nebulae cosmic trip. This time we're visiting E0102, a Supernova remnant that exploded in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbouring galaxy of the Milky Way. 

Armec @armecmusic
Zobol @zobol
Hex Editor @hexeditor
Not Even Noticed @not-even-noticed
Sound Synthesis @sound-synthesis-official
Hawaiian Surfer @rfmn

https://nebulaerecords.bandcamp.com/album/e0102
Release date: 31/03/2022

[NBL010] vvaa - E0102

Artificial Dance is very happy to announce that we’ve spent a wealth of time going through the archived recordings of Richard Zeilstra, AKA Genetic Factor. Richard was a pivotal figure in the Amsterdam new wave and avant-garde pop music circles. Besides hosting the ever-influential Spleen and Radionome radio shows on the VPRO he also found time to conduct his own audible experiments. As a firm believer of music by non-musicians Richard has made the effort throughout the last decades to keep on recording in a variety of different guises on different parts of the planet. In these different times and places, the genetic factor was always there. We are happy to announce that we will release a limited edition sampler 12” vinyl before the end of the year. The sampler contains 2 songs from a forthcoming 2x12" full-length archival compilation and 2 exclusives. The archival compilation will see the day of light in 2022. Fully endorsed and in collaboration with Richard, compiled by Olf van Elden & Robert Bergman.

Genetic Factor - Sampler 12" (AD015)

Carl Finlow keeps on keeping on. As the world changes around him, the veteran producer continues to do what he does best - craft top-quality electro tunes which invoke the sound’s Drexciyan heyday, yet carry themselves with an assurance that is all of Finlow’s own. 

Finlow remains a prolific producer more than a quarter of a century on from his emergence. Still averaging several records a year across a variety of aliases, recent times have seen Finlow forge particularly strong links with the Central Processing Unit label. Now, after a run of EPs for the Sheffield imprint which began with 2018’s ‘Projections’, Finlow’s Silicon Scally project offers up CPU’s first drop of 2022 in the form of the ‘Field Lines’ LP. 

Silicon Scally productions have long been marked out by how they combine piston-precise beat programming with more textured synth play. ‘Field Lines’ runs with this formula to deliver some of Finlow’s most atmospheric material to date. At once shadowy and expansive, listening to ‘Field Lines’ is the aural equivalent of taking a night-time drive around some futuristic metropolis. 

The beats cruise sleekly here. Many of these burbling machine-funk numbers hover at mid-tempo, the crisp clip of their drum programming given shape and depth by all sorts of percussive tones fizzing around at the fringes of the mix. Even when ‘Field Lines’ seems to set its sights on the club - the Bunker Records-aping ‘Amino’, for instance, or the dystopian whizz-bang of ‘Static Fire’ - the tracks here strut sturdily rather than giving in to full-on freakouts.

However, from this sturdy base, Finlow moves outwards. Working with tones which range from rapid-fire machine-gun bass to keening, dawn chorus keyboard pads, Finlow leads us through the futurescape with the expertise of a seasoned guide. Cuts like ‘Submerged’ and ‘Yield’ are brilliantly cinematic, blooming from those reliable drum pulses into miniature masterpieces of nocturnal electronics. Elsewhere on ‘Field Lines’ there is a mechanical majesty to ‘Inhibitor’ and ‘Altered Domain’ which invokes the brave new worlds that Kraftwerk repeatedly conjured in their heyday.

Central Processing Unit’s first release of 2022 is ‘Field Lines’, an LP of electro-funk explorations from Carl Finlow’s Silicon Scally project which will thrill regardless of whether it’s experienced through headphones or out on the dancefloor.

RIYL: Drexciya, Kraftwerk, Cygnus, Annie Hall

Field Lines

Silicon Scally - Field Lines

If looking at the headline made you think that Trommel switched to something illegal – relaaaaax. It’s just the name of the label – Sex Tapes From Mars, not a big deal. The label is having its second release and all the lights are on Muelsa. You may know him as a part of the blooming French scene, with landings on labels like Forest Ill Records. He also landed on the first release of STFM, as a part of VA with Nemo Vachez and Hubz. Let’s check what he prepared for today. As I’ve been told, “the whole release was made in the West of France”, not in Paris, Muelsa’s usual place to be. Let’s go. [continue reading at...https://trommelmusic.com/music/premiere-b1-muelsa-no-joke-g-knews-mix-sextape002/]

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Premiere: B1 - Muelsa - No Joke (G-Knews Mix) [SEXTAPES002]

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[Premiere] FTL - Drill U Back (out, self-release)

Pre-order: https://rezonantbody.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-rezonant

@daddyhyphen’s new imprint @rezonantbody launches with four diverse cuts with a nod to rudimental strains of trip-hop, hardcore & jungle-techno, Hyphen’s ‘i am rezonant’ [RZB001] refracts a simultaneously haunting, bracing & solacing sound through a modernist lens.

The EP's B2, 'active luv (AM dub)', scuttles and throbs amidst a playfully dubbed-out landscape. Sitting at an ambitious 184bpm, Hyphen closes RZB001 with a true system-rattler.

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Premiere: Daddy Hyphen 'active luv (AM dub)'

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Ten remix/edit utworu jest wyrazem mojej pasji i głębokiego szacunku dla twórczości Rosalie, Dominiki Płonki oraz Chloe Martini. Nie jest używany w celach komercyjnych i nie generuje żadnych zysków. Jeśli którakolwiek z wymienionych artystek ma zastrzeżenia, proszę o kontakt.

Dominika Płonka, Rosalie., Chloe Martini - Magma (Garage Edit)

MUSIC IS FOREVER. Tens of thousands of ravers, thousands of parties, hundreds of concerts, over 11 years of journeying through sounds and genres, one club - Projekt LAB. Although our adventure is coming to an end, we want to leave something behind, something that is most important to us in the club culture and serves as the bond of this community. The compilation for LAB's 11th anniversary is a summary of our activities, a multi-genre journey, featuring carefully selected high-quality productions from artists associated with us. We want you to have the best moments you spent with us in mind as you listen to it. Clubs open and close, it's the natural order of things but... MUSIC IS FOREVER.

released September 22, 2023

Mastering: Joe Farr

DALILA - Cieguita (feat. TontimerWeber)

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