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C3 // TOMMY FOUR SEVEN // X THREAT [PREVIEW]

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@sophiasaze
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Fleeing her Soviet ruled home of Tbisili at a young age with her parents, Saze grew up as a nomad living in Russia, France, Canada and the USA before finally settling down and pursuing a career in NYC. A classically trained musician and dancer, before long the Georgian turned her back on corporate life to pour her heart and soul into the arts. Becoming a diligent and versatile electronic music producer, DJ and live act, Sophia Saze is as comfortable sculpting intricate and atmospheric productions in the studio as she is decimating dancefloors with robust Techno and frenetic Breaks. 

Reflecting on her turbulent life and how it’s formed her own identity, Saze composed her aptly titled debut album, ‘Self’. Released on cassette in two instalments, ‘Part I’ dropped in June and was critically acclaimed with support from the likes of BBC 6MUSIC’s Tom Ravenscroft, Mixmag, DJ Mag, XLR8R, Resident Advisor, Future Music, Attack Magazine, TRAX, Tsugi, Ransom Note and Groove Magazine, with the latter drawing a
parallel between hers and Burial’s music.

Completing the journey, ‘Part II’ meanders through genres like Ambient, Hip Hop and Breaks, and features very personal insights including handpicked samples from Soviet television shows and VHS cassette recordings from her childhood.
Hidden allusions of her classical music education bring up distant memories and melt together the organic but thoroughly electronic ambience. Crackles, hushes and hisses are elaborated so well that the record virtually gushes over the ears like mountain torrents. It appears peaceful and quiet, then rousing and it is sparked with bewildering sounds. It lets scattered beats arise from the thicket and drown again in streams of noise. But in the end, especially the haunting seriousness of the album is compelling.
As a concept album, ‘Self’ consists of short and precise tracks mixed together, signifying a proper way to redefine a musical work in the modern age.

Mixed by commended Kingdoms label head Francis Harris, Sophia Saze’s detailed sound-design is brought to the front for an illuminating listening experience.

Sophia Saze - Mtvare (მთვარე)

Label: Vitalik Recordings
Cat No: VIT034
Vinyl Release: 6th September
Digital Release: Pre-order now
https://www.beatport.com/release/tesseract-1/2769509

Tesseract 1 is the first remix EP taken from debut album “Corpus Hypercubus” by JESLOVESACID, the figure head behind Vitalik Recordings. The music from the album was described as “IDM with a Balearic twist” by Resident Advisor and was picked up by a wide range of selectors. Tesseract 1 employs some heavy hitters on remix duties, Mathew Jonson and brother Nathan Jonson team up under their Midnight Operator moniker for a high octane acid techno workout, the production is immense as you would expect from the duo and they have managed to retain the ethereal chords of the original track (which also features on the EP) whilst producing a peak time dance floor weapon. Appleblim takes things into dreamier territory with a pitched down breakbeat remix of “Philosophy”, a sublime ode to blissed out hardcore, it’s an enthralling dub masterpiece, another instant classic to add to the collection. Finally there is the anonymous “Wax Works Edit” a dub acid edit aimed squarely at the floor, rounding first vinyl 12” from the JESUSLOVESACID project.



(I:cube, John Osborn, Bill Brewster, Throwing Shade, Extrawelt, Hrdvsion, Al Doyle (Hotchip), Norman Nodge, Franck Roger, Monty Luke, Ame, Ed Davenport, Joris Voorn, Maya Jane Coles, Iron Curtis, Marc Pinol, Dop, Baikal, James Zabiela +++)

B2. JESUSLOVESACID - Philosophy  (Appleblim Remix)

Clark - Branding Problem 12" - 22 November 2019

A - Branding Problem
AA - Legacy Pet

Throttle Records (THROT003)

Order 12" vinyl and buy your digital Legacy Pet https://lnk.to/THROT003
Bandcamp - https://clark.bandcamp.com/album/branding-problem

“I’ve been quite amused at how easy it is to stream background music these days. How accessible it all is and how entitled we all feel to it, like it’s some sort of air freshener you spray in your Uber.

For some reason I’m imagining a future where Elon Musk does a streaming deal, so he can prance around controlling nano implant VR chips for 1 million amortal coastal elites, while the rest of us don’t have electricity and only manage one rave a year - to a sound system powered by rationed candles. This is music for that fantasy scenario, ha.

Anyway, I don’t want these 2 tracks to be part of background air freshener world. They are limited edition club gear. I wanna play them out so badly in my live show.

Influences: Hardcore UK rave, Detroit techno, Jungle, Oizo, Ed Rush and Optical, No U-Turn. The origins, the source and it’s constant subsequent mutations. BEHOLD THE CONTINUUM, HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE.” Clark

Branding Problem

Legacy Pet

Scales + Measures EP

Rose Red

Red Rack'em's take on 'D.I.E.' by super fresh new post-punkers, The Imbeciles - is wonderfully curveball as one might expect; homing in on one unique part of the vocal and making it the fullcrum, from which his psychedelic, deep-house, hardcore jazzathon is then able to blossom and unravel before your very eyes. Atmospheric, experimental and hooky too - clever business from the Bergerac boss.
Next up we have the amazing Oliver Ho and his Broken English Club. Here we see a more flagrant and faithful use if stems - as through layering both band parts, and instruments of his own design - he turns 'D.I.E.' into a towering slab of dark and raw, industrial EBM...

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PREMIERE : The Imbeciles - D.I.E (Broken English Club Remix)

@jab_es's Track „Glass Censors" will be released on November 29th as part of his EP „klunk 001” @klunkrecs
More Info: http://bit.ly/jabes_klunk001

Glass Censors

Jabes - Glass Censors

Geometry of Curves

A a masterful exercise in tension-building as Forest Drive West remixes Toma Kami's "percussive body music."

'Oscillate Tracks 004' is out November 30th.

Pre-order: bit.ly/33K2EzC

@forest-drive-west
@toma-kami
@oscillate

Premiere: Toma Kami - This Side Up (Forest Drive West Remix) [Oscillate Tracks]

Second single from the Virus LP. Out 22nd Nov

Buy/Stream: https://17steps.lnk.to/P41

Virus

Buy/Stream

Christian Piers - P41

The Midnight Orchard (Epilogue)

Earthbound

Dropped out Sunshine

Same Way (Interior Paramours Mix)

Intuitive Linear View

Are The Bot Talking To Each Other? 200 Ok

On the heels of the recent reissue of the Point 2 LP, James Ruskin follows up for Tresor Records with a bold new EP entitled Siklikal.

Right from the outset, Nepte draws in by vast sonics and laser focus, unruly synths distort over a skipping beat that hits hard in the right places. As the beat takes a backstep but no less rhythmic, Kn Te3 is one for adventurous DJs, recalling the minimal loops that Ruskin is known for, seeped in industrial melancholy that fizzes a granular decay.

On the b-side, Nocke brings the beat back to the forefront with a muscular UK techno sound, highly effective and pounding. Closing the EP is Kn AM3 which retains the industrial sinew of its near-namesake Kn Te3, exposing raw synth excursions over brutalist machinations. This EP symbolises Ruskin's dynamic approach, pushing at boundaries yet never without a strong grip over the dancefloor.

Tresor.314 released November 15th on 180g. 12” vinyl and digital.

Siklikal EP

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James Ruskin - Nepte

The American cable-television industry exploded in the 1980s, pushing broadcasts of diverse programming and emissions of low-laying cultures into homes. Community stations piggybacked on the digital developments of the time, extending their existence through telephony and broadcast affiliates. For those growing up in this time, in locations such as New York City, the localized communications beamed into their homes exposed them to an impressionable array of disparate sounds and visions. Move into the 1990s and New York was filled to the brim of emergent cultures drawing from this ebullition of communication. From Rammellzee’s shapeshifting to Frank and Karen Mendez’s Nu Groove imprint fusing reggae, poetry and house, nascent ideas emanated from the city walls, from within stores such as Sonic Groove store and on VHS releases such as Stakker’s The Evil Acid Baron Show, a legendary technicolor psychedelic trip along the wildest frontiers of acid house. As scenes expanded and identities developed, such individuals weather the events of the visceral now, expressing themselves right into an unpredictable future.

Function’s long career has seen him uncover a vast range of sonic identities, a mainstay through house, techno and industrial with collaborations with the likes of Regis, Damon Wild alongside his highly influential Infrastructure imprint. With influences deeply tied to pop art, rave and gay scenes, and early memories of block-parties emitting Kraftwerk and Strafe, he found himself seeking out the undercover illegal nights of the 90s on a quest of sexual unearthing, mixing the ever-yearning escapology mission of disco with the influential DJ sets of Jeff Mills. For his new album Existenz, he marks a clear step away from the corporeal techno of his recent releases. Pivoting around themes of religion, sexuality, trauma and healing, it is a work expansive and celebratory, a clear liberation from a deeply internalized past. Formed from a collection of recordings made in a period from late 2016 to mid 2019, Existenz takes the form of a creative outburst in reaction to a number of traumas - recent, childhood and throughout Function’s life.

Cosmic synths soar and swoop in ‘Pleasure Discipline’ through towering stacks of rhythm that stutter and creak to a halt before rebooting, a firm robotic response to human intervention. ‘Zahlensender’ reflects a spatial tetris of urban life, as digitalization set within an XYZ matrix confronts the sprawling city. Constant arpeggiated meditations echo synaptic transmissions, effecting a dissolution of boundaries. ’The Approach’ recalls the unification of the self, a state of delirium non-subjective and smooth, as all connections and functions give way to simple intensities of feeling, crossing the threshold into spirituality. ’Golden Dawn’, featuring Stefanie Parnow, marks a further elevation of dubbed-out euphoria, as once more positive rays emerge. Parnow assisted the production process in its entirety, providing inspiration and featuring vocal contributions. His ode to the effortless short-trip urban navigation 'Kurzstrecke' finds Function in motion, upfront and bold, snapshots of conversation and flickers of light. 'Ertrinken' finds metallic bass jabs swamping snipped synthetic voices, with hidden stores of emotion set as a nod to the history of vocoders as a tool for encrypted military communication. House icon Robert Owens features on 'Growth Cycle' and 'Be', entrenching a celebratory atmosphere over Function's clubwise leanings. Closing track 'Downtown 161' reflects the unmistakable filtered and squashed interjections of television, and sampled dance vocals - a sound for the curious, dreamers and dancers.

With Existenz, Function reveals an essential body of work, spread over 4LP/2CD - thought experiments on the role of identity and spirituality after a lifetime of upheaval and trauma.

Existenz

Function - No Entiendes

Scuffed Recordings rounds off another big year with the third edition of its Scuffed Presents V/A series. Hear Dubrunner’s low-slung, atmospheric and electro-leaning ‘Zoya’s Trip’ now

More info :

Scuffed Presents 003

Premiere: Dubrunner ‘Zoya’s Trip’

Listen entire tracks >> http://bit.ly/LS001stream
Downloads >> http://bit.ly/LS001download

More than a live performance it is simply a journey through the various iterations of electronic music that the artist @Sataisha feels deeply indebted to.
While taking inspiration from various styles Sataisha manages to infuse his music with a personal touch and to convey a wide range of emotions.
It is an honest and refreshing story carefully narrated by textures and sounds, recalling the artist love and respect for electronic music.

'Live Series' is a new concept from Volute records combining a live performance to listen at home on your favourite streaming platform and a few carefully selected tracks extracted from this very performance for djing purpose.

RELEASE DATE 2019-12-06
LABEL Volute Records
CATALOG LS001

Inspirde By True Events

Sataisha - How High **PREVIEW**

The Imbeciles are back! Their follow up to 'D.I.E.' is a raw slab or paranoid post-punk action, and the remixes they've brought along for the ride, celebrate the vibe of the original in wonderfully contrasting ways.
First up is Ryan James Ford - one of the most exciting underground techno producers on the block - who hits us with fast scuttling break beats, thick atmosphere, dark melodies and an upfront, experimental attitude.

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