Punks don't know

"Expect the unexpected," they say, and it should come as a surprise to many as we warmly welcome to the Kompakt family one of America's most celebrated producers in dance music, John Tejada! Born in Austria, he relocated to his current home of Los Angeles at the age of 8 and, following a brief career in hip-hop, found his home in electronic music. If you're even the slightest fan of the genre, you'll be hard-pressed not to have heard his music over his decade+-long career. Whether on his own Palette Recordings, Poker Flat, or Plug Research — plus a Fabric Mix CD under his belt, it's thanks to a steady stream of massive releases (think "Mono On Mono" and "Sweat On The Walls") that he remains a mainstay in the charts of Beatport and uncountable DJs. He is also half of the long-standing City Centre Offices act, I'm Not A Gun (together with Takeshi Nishimoto). "I wanted to experiment with some longer phrases again and to step away from the analog sequencers more and get back to using my hands to create the melodies. I also feel for the first time in quite a while I've made an album of songs for myself without worrying about the usual pressures." – John Tejada Kompakt presents his extraordinary new album "Parabolas". Resident Advisor called Tejada "one of the most notoriously meticulous producers around" — an unmistakable proof lies within these recordings. Genres collide and combine with an unraveling of blissful layers on "Parabolas". The opening track, "Farther &amp; Fainter," offers a musicality today's techno and house often lack — an accomplishment that resonates throughout the album. Tracks such as "Subdivided" and "Unstable Condition" reflect the wondrousness of Aphex Twin's Polygon Window project, something that could only be reanimated and brought to 2011's standards by Tejada. "Parabolas" is a true highlight in John Tejada's deep catalogue. Bold words indeed for a producer who is known for unexpected variation and tremendous musical imagination.

Unstable Condition

Remix by https://soundcloud.com/rodhad

// Daniel Avery - New Energy [Collected Remixes]. A double album.
// Includes new reworks from Rødhåd, Silent Servant, Volte-Face, Powell, Conforce and Ø [Phase]
// www.soundcloud.com/phantasysound

Out now: http://go.phantasysound.co.uk/PHLP05

Tracklist

Drone Logic (https://soundcloud.com/factory-floor Remix)
All I Need (https://soundcloud.com/roman-fluegel Remix)
Platform Zero (Volte-Face Remix)
Naive Response (Ø [Phase] Remix)
Spring 27 (https://soundcloud.com/silentservant Remix)
Free Floating (https://soundcloud.com/mattwalsh Remix)
Knowing We’ll Be Here (https://soundcloud.com/kink Remix)
New Energy (https://soundcloud.com/beyond-the-wizards-sleeve Re-Animation)

Drone Logic (https://soundcloud.com/rodhad Remix)
Need Electric (https://soundcloud.com/audion Remix)
Reception (https://soundcloud.com/perc Remix)
These Nights Never End (https://soundcloud.com/ricardotobar Remix)
Simulrec (https://soundcloud.com/conforce Remix)
Water Jump (Powell Remix)
Taste (Special Request Remix)
Naive Response (https://soundcloud.com/dannydaze Remix)

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Daniel Avery - Drone Logic (Rødhåd Remix)

Wavy

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Pipe down

Dear dancers,

Ramona is proud to present Fort Romeau's second installment for her Live at Robert Johnson audio enterprise. His take on neo-dance, post-disco and proto-house is as unmistakable as it is dreamlike. Ramona is still in love.

Stay gold, 
Ramona

Fort Romeau – Secrets & Lies (Snippet)

Now in its second decade, with a steady stream of the most forward thinking and cutting edge techno productions, Drumcode has one of the biggest selections of releases from industry heavy hitters, whilst not forgetting its future by bringing the newest talented producers into the limelight, where Layton Giordani is now a name firmly within that line up.

The New York born, but now EU based producer first had recognition back in 2014, and his debut release came via Drumcode with his track “Rivington” on the A-Sides Vol5 compilation in 2016. 

Consisting of 12 original tracks, the album packs a punch when it comes to no-nonsense techno. Successfully weaving relentless drums and catchy vocal hooks into a selection of thick, brooding, atmospheric tracks.

Layton Giordani - Escalate - Drumcode - DC170

A Girl Between Two Worlds

Half Moon Rising

A Violent Noise (Four Tet Remix)

the xx a violent noise four tet remix

Listen to the new single 'Apricots'
New album "Isles", out 22 January on Ninja Tune: https://bicep.lnk.to/islesYo

'Aura' Out Now -
Ninjashop / Stream / Download: https://bicep.lnk.to/aura

Taken from the debut album 'Bicep' released 1st September 2017 via Ninja Tune.
Pre-Order: https://bicep.lnk.to/bicep

Album Pre-Order And Tour Pre-Sale: http://bicepmusic.com/store 

Follow Bicep -
Spotify: http://found.ee/bicep-sp
Apple Music: http://found.ee/bicep-am
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Twitter: http://found.ee/bicep-tw
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Bicep

BICEP | AURA // CLIP

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Tracklist:
Tell - Daddy’s A Lowrider [Coastal Haze]
Tell - I Remember [Coastal Haze]
Folamour - Kickflipin' That Stuff [Moonrise Hill Material]
Folamour - Jah Love [Moonrise Hill Material] 
Lorca - All My Love [Live Ones] 
Lorca - Intimate Friend [Live Ones]
Ron Blanco & TRP - Emmy’s Tree [Down By The Lake]
Ron Blanco & TRP - Farraige [Down By The Lake]
Gab Rhome - Beach Bummer [Kindisch] 
De Gama - Yebo [Samosa] 
Bicep - Orca [Ninja Tune] 
Bicep - Rain [Ninja Tune] 
Future Classic: Doc Daneeka - Better Dayz [Ten Thousand Yen]

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Forthcoming on Reflective (Part 2) - OUT NOW!
https://www.bassnectar.net/reflective-pt2

“Other Worlds” was inspired by a new collage from Sebastian Wahl , which we brought to life with the help of Black Lake Media. The collage shows portals emerge and unfold and evolve within and around a picture frame… a magical gateway, like the wardrobe in The Chronicles of Narnia.

On a sunny day in Brooklyn I sat down with @DorfexBosMusic to write a piece of music to go along with the visuals, and the ideas just came pouring out. We finished the song in 24 hours flat, with various instruments and sounds mapped to various details and dimensions of the various worlds within the collage.

Reflective (Part 2)

Bassnectar & Dorfex Bos - Other Worlds ◈ [Reflective Part 2]

BICEP DRIFT

DJ Koze - Muddy Funster (DJ Sorgerecht Remix)

Bruxas - Sirocco - Dekmantel (DKMNTL059) 

a1.	Sirocco
a2.	Hermes
b1.	Sirocco (Club Version)
b2.	Maria's Holiday

https://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5982

Sirocco is the second EP by Bruxas, the psychedelic, beat-driven, tropical, house group consisting of Jacco Gardner and Nic Mauskovic, featuring the percussive talents of Jungle By Night’s Tienson Smeets. Sirocco features the combined talents of cult retro artist Gardner, and the percussive fortitude of Mauskovic, delving into the world of exotic, cinematic, Balearic-sunshine, that cruises leisurely throughout, and is layered with phazed-out, tropical synths. It’s a sound for the summer. Good vibes only please. 

Following up from last year’s Más Profundo EP, Bruxas return with Sirocco, an EP named after the Mediterranean wind warmed up by the sun drenched Saharan sands. Lead track ’Sirocco’ washes over like a sea current of dreamy, tribal, synth-wave, flowing and ebbing in mixed colours of a psychedelic haze. It teases of something grandiose, which later appears in the form of a club version. Remixed for some secret island hideaway orchestrated by DJ Harvey, 'Sirocco (Club Version)' builds on the resplendent melodies and driving percussion of the original, adding some foot-tapping, devilish keys and retro-progressive synth lines to add subtle, summery tension and flare. 'Hermes’ meanwhile drives along at a casual 100bpm, with a cumbia-styled Casio line, and a jaunty, leisure-like, Latin-groove, and fiesta feel. The final track on the EP, 'Maria’s Holiday' has another up-beat, Casio-styled groove, set alongside a poolside party, with bongo-beat rumblings and a disco rhythm. It’s the soundtrack to a summer cocktail party, to watch the sun slowly set on a tropical fiesta. 

Bruxas is the collaborative project between Jacco Gardner and Nic Mauskovic who joined forces while playing in the support band for the 70s James Brown-meets-Black Sabbath act, Witch. Gardner — having firmly established himself as a credible force within the psych-rock community with two solo LPs and a psych-rock sound — and Mauskovic — whose catalogue includes acts such as Altin Gün, and The Mauskovic Dance Band — teamed up in Portugal with their shared love for library music, and 70s psychedelia, naming their new creation Bruxas — Portuguese for Witch. With a featured appearance booked in at Dekmantel Festival, also featuring Tienson on percussive duties, be sure to note that this will be a big year for the retro-party boys.

DKMNTL059 // Bruxas - Sirocco

Available to stream & buy: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/PentagramSD

It’s been over 10 years since the release of Gui Boratto’s breakthrough full length debut 'Chromophobia'. As to what its title suggests, he shook up the techno game with a contrast of lushly coloured minimal grooves and melody, whilst many will recall that the album included the highlight single “Beautiful Life” which became a dance floor anthem for that era. Four albums in and countless EPs and remixes under his belt, the Brazilian producer's unique savoir-faire in carving out a functional album out of diversely routed singles and features is back at it on his fifth studio LP, 'Pentagram'. Here Gui Boratto lays down a nuanced 12-track narrative that reinvigorates his signature sound into a refreshingly different perspective that feels all too familiar – including the return of “Beautiful Life” vocalist (and Gui Boratto’s wife) Luciana Villanova on the single "Overload".

Through his signature kaleidoscopic approach, Boratto delivers an album built as a far-reaching hub-and-spoke system, broadly inclusive as can be. From the opening cut, 'The Walker' - hot on the trail of Tears For Fears 'Elemental' (one of Boratto’s "favourite 80's bands") - to the hi-NRG euphoria of 'Forgotten' and its pounding tech alter ego 'Forgive Me'. "I was going into 2 different directions", Boratto says; "the typical “indie- electronic-rock” Boratto kind of production like “It’s Majik” or “Like You” and a much more techno approach." He goes on, "I decided to split them into two twin sister songs. When I play live I always put these two songs together."

The Brazilian Producer further embraces the pop-friendly essence of his past work on tracks like 'The Phoenix', featuring vocalist Nathan Berger, and 'Overload', both melding acidulous synthlines with laser-precise breaks, vox hooks and drops calibrated for extended radio and club use, although sieved through his distinctive rainbow-hued musical prism. For the symbolists out there, the album's pared-down closer '618' duration accidentally happens to equate the proportions of the said pentagram. "Coincidence?" Boratto questions, and capsulises, "not so ufanista and supporter of Brazilian neo-concretism, but I guess the brazilian sculptor Lygia Clark also inspired me a lot. Not the meaning of her sculptures, but the shape of the hinge of most of her work. I’ve wanted to transmit the scientific pentagram’s point of view. It’s not a religious kind of thing."

Whereas 'Spur' (a field-tested 808 and 909-heavy "purist track", "very, very old school" Boratto insists) and 'Alcazar' are sheer smooth-edged four-to- the-floor epics, the album also shares its lot of startling moments, such as with the John Barry'esque 'Scene 2' (with a hint of Amon Tobin, 'Easy Muffin' style, throw in) and its refined string-laden buildup, 100% fitted for a 007 opening credit sequence; or with 'Hallucination' (feat B.T.) and the further James Holden-ish title-track 'Pentagram' (think 'The Idiots Are Winning'); "one of those exercises I did when I got my Buchla modular synth" Boratto analyses, "I think I’ve used more then 30 different snares, with different delays and reverbs. The whole song is alive". And so is 'Pentagram' in its entirety: alive and definitely just as manifold and hopeful as its architectonics are the stuff of science and dreams all at once.

Gui Boratto - Scene 2

All you gotta know is that I'd like to rip the fabric of Space and Time and put it back together with the visuals I see through my mind's eye when I listen to good music.

BICEP DRIFT

OHL

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