Damn. I stumble into a 4-year-old track on Drumcode and it feels like fresh out of the oven.

Drumcode faves <3

Joseph Capriati - Gashouder

Having developed an impeccable reputation in the past twenty years since delving into the word of turntables and mixtapes at an early age, Sims can be called a genuine legend in the world of techno. As a producer he has remixed Jeff Mills, Chris Liebing, Adam Beyer and Kevin Saunderson as well as releasing on just about every seminal techno imprint there is. As an A&R he’s been at the helm of nine labels, including the highly influential Ingoma and KB Records inc, and continues to steward Theory and Hardgroove towards the boxes of the discerning fans. 

Most recently the London-based producer has seen his ‘Way Back Wednesday’ (with Tony Anderson), ‘Funk You’ and occasional disco radio shows garner huge support while ploughing further energy into the futurist techno club night “Machine’ alongside Kirk Degiorgio. 

It’s with Sims’ multitude of achievements and notoritey in mind that the knowledge that ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ is his debut LP is somewhat unbelievable, but fact it is. After initially hooking up with Adam Beyer’s Drumcode imprint late in 2010 after a long standing friendship, the affable and dry witted Sims’ was persuaded to deliver an LP and the lengthy writing and selection process began. The result is 11 superb productions which showcase Ben’s talents, influences and perhaps most importantly, his vision of what techno can and should be. 

From the off ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ is a technicolour affair that refuses to sit too comfortably into one groove, preferring to pull the listener through a range of vibes that, while disparate, flow together perfectly. As the album moves, snippets of new vibes bleed through before developing into themes and this is one of the brilliant elements of ‘Smoke & Mirrors’.  

The rousing and prophetically titled ‘Riots in London’ opener leads us into a frenetic, dub-tinged and filter-driven aesthetic which is neatly carried on in ‘Descent’ but subtly augmented with almost-there soulful vocal samples. This nod to soulful elements is then carried on in the less pacey, house referencing ‘ The Snake’ which fuses stabbing keys to a skipping beat which is as much New York as it is Detroit, London or Berlin. 

As ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ develops, suprises like the out-and-out tech-funk of ‘Back To The Pod’ and the street party disco of ‘Can You Feel It?’ are hinted at but never lack surprise when dropped. The emphatic drive of the huge sounding ‘I Wanna Go Back’ featuring Blake Baxter takes things back to techno territory and does so with real purpose while darker edged tracks such as the lethal ‘Bullet’ and the late-night discordance of  ‘The Afterparty’ ramp up the tension. 

The twilight sections of Sims’ debut are perfectly judged. The dubbed (and blissed) out title track lightens the mood before the slightly more aggressive but widescreen ‘The Calling’ trips proceedings out in anticipation of the closer, the Tyree Cooper vocalled and aptly titled ‘I Feel It Deep’

‘Smoke & Mirrors’ has been more than worth the wait. It’s as balanced, entertaining, engaging and powerful as you’d expect from such an artist as Ben Sims and, complete with artwork from Alan Oldham and collaborations from Blake Baxter and Tyree Cooper, is essential stuff.

Ben Sims - The Afterparty

Since 1996, Drumcode has grown to become an institution in the global techno scene, encompassing a radio program, an event series, and a home for the musical vision of its artists and founder, Adam Beyer. “15 Years of Drumcode” celebrates this landmark by focusing on the present.

There are no throwbacks, rehashings, or remixes of the label‘s back catalogue. Instead, the 28-track compilation showcases the newest work of Drumcode‘s current roster alongside fresh material from some well known names from the labels history and special contributions from some of techno's undisputed heavyweights. 

DCCD06 - 13 Joel Mull - Shake Trip

Read:
"Michal Jablonski showcasing his energetic LIVE SET"
https://mnmt.no/podcast/michal-jablonski/ ‎

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/michaljablonskipl
https://soundcloud.com/michaljablonski
https://www.beatport.com/artist/michal-jablonski/182658

MNMT 114: Michal Jablonski (live)

The 10th anniversary celebration continues with the second installment of the Eternal Series. Four deep, atmospheric and melodic cuts from great artists and friends that we love like Tensal, Aleja Sanchez & Ricardo Garduno, Ness and Edit Select. Pressing on gold coloured vinyl.

Artists: Tensal / Aleja Sanchez & Ricardo Garduno / Ness / Edit Select
Cat. number: ATTICETERNAL02
Title: Eternal 2
Format: 12'' golden vinyl
Release date: 23.11.2018

Tracklist:
A1. Tensal: Blood Of Heroes
A2. Aleja Sanchez & Ricardo Garduno: Louder Than Storms
B1. Ness: Mentalist
B2. Edit Select: Octave

Mastering:
Carlos Koschitzky

Design:
Fabio Milito

Tensal / Aleja Sanchez & Ricardo Garduno / Ness / Edit Select: Eternal 2 (10th anniversary)

"! 5/5" - Adam Beyer
"Bass heavy spaced out techno? Superb - full support for crude! 5/5" - Len Faki
"Crude is a BOMB!!!! Have been playing it in almost every set since I got it. 5/5" - Ida Engberg
"Wow amazing EP, really love "Crude" but i will play both tracks for sure! Bomb again on Drumcode! 5/5" - Joseph Capriati
"Finally some good techno!" -Butch
"I love Crude. Patrick has the Funk!! Been playing it since i got it from Patrick in Malmö. Give me more!! :D 5/5" - Joel Mull
"Firing!!! will blast the fuck out of this! 5/5" - Pig &amp; Dan
"Again good stuff from sweden! 5/5" - Stephan Bodzin
"Big tracks from Patrick, will play a lot!" - Gregor Tresher
"Dancefloor killer! Max support! 5/5" - Jesper Dahlbäck
"Again a great Drumcode release. Both tracks are perfect for me." - Karotte
"Another superb release from Drumcode. Bad Carnival is the top one for me. Full support 5/5" - Mistress Barbara
"2 Special tracks for me!! really loving the work on the percussion in this shot! many thanks! Flavio 5/5" - Flavio Diaz
"Very impressed with Patrick Siechs EP. Have been playing these a lot! Bad Carnival is my fav! 5/5" - KIMONO
"PHAT! Love both mixes, will play and chart! 5/5" - Sasha Carassi
"Cool one thanks!! 5/5" - Dubfire
"Ohhh yesss - I like that a lot - Full support from me on both tracks" - Laurent Garnier
"Fucking A - love them both - "Crude" just edges it - full support" - Slam
"Loving Bad Carnival! Will play at the Brazilian carnival soon indeed…" - Andre Sobota
"Really liking this!" - Kyle Geiger
"Great cuts from Patrick!" - Nihad Tule
"Very good one !! Loving Crude !! :) Thanks !!" - Tom Hades
"This release is off the hook! Full support!" - Nima Khak
"Crude is my fav, support" - Technasia
"100% Support!!" - Alexi Delano
"Definitely will play Crude, nice groove!" - John Selway
"Nice one thanks!" - Kaiserdisco
"Bad Carnival = Baaaaaadddd! Great techno!" - Michel de Hay
"Good stuff!" - John Digweed
"Excellent!" - Christian Varela
"Love this. Top release and great start for new producer!" - Alan Fitzpatrick


Patrick Siech - Crude [DRUMCODE 72]

"Binary Archives" is the brand new parallel catalogue of AWRY. It will showcase digital EP's from newcomers and established artists with a tighter schedule.

AWRY - Binary Archives 001
Notzing - Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience.

This EP is about the self-disorder, a psychological phenomenon of disruption or diminishing of a person's sense of minimal self.

The Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE) is a psychiatric semi-structured interview that attempts to capture the extent of the mainly non-psychotic self-disorders experienced by the person. It is divided into 5 domains:

Cognition and Stream of Consciousness.
This domain covers disturbances in the flow of thoughts and experiences, including such self-disorders as "thought pressure", an experienced chaos of unrelated thoughts, "loss of thought ipseity", a sense as if the person does not own their thoughts (but not to the level of psychosis), and "spatialization of experience", where the person experiences their thoughts as if they occurred within a space.

Self-Awareness and Presence.
This domain deals with dissociative experiences of the self and world as well as a tendency toward intense reflection, in addition to a declining understanding of how to interact with others and the world called "perplexity" or "lack of natural evidence";

Bodily Experiences.
This domain deals with alienating experiences of the body as well as with "mimetic experiences", the sense of a person that if they move, pseudo-movements of other, unrelated objects are experienced.

Demarcation/transitivism.
This domain covers specific disturbances in the person's ego boundaries such as the person confusing their own thoughts, ideas, and feelings for that of their interlocutor.

Existential Reorientation.
Domain oriented to changes in the person's experience of the world that reflect the effect of self-disorders on the person's worldview.

https://bit.ly/2m0lFg7

AWRY​-​BA001 - Notzing - Examination of Anomalous Self​-​Experience

Oslated Premiere 048

Aleja Sanchez - Epona
V.A - Affinity 3 [Affin 048 LTD / Affin]

Produced by Aleja Sanchez
Mastered by Giovanni Conti at Artefacts Mastering
Print Solutions by Oliver Keil
Released by Affin from Germany
Release Date : October 15th. 2019
The Vinyl EP is expected to be available in Autumn.

Aleja Sanchez (Bogotá, Colombia)
https://www.alejasanchezofficial.com
https://soundcloud.com/djalejasanchez
https://www.facebook.com/AlejaSanchezOfficial
https://www.instagram.com/alejasanchezofficial
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/alejasanchez

Affin
https://joachimspieth.de/affin
https://soundcloud.com/affin
https://www.facebook.com/AffinLTD
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Affin
https://www.instagram.com/affinltd
https://affin.bandcamp.com

Oslated Seoul.
http://www.oslatedseoul.com
https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://www.facebook.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/oslated

V.A - Affinity 3

Epona

Support & Buy

PREMIERE : Aleja Sanchez - Epona [Affin]

Joey.Beltram.-.Striking.Distance.(Original.Mix)

premiere of "Episodes Of The Observed Mind" by @anders-hellberg
taken from the EP "NFR005" on NFR Series (@nferee)

EP Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2020/02/17/anders-hellberg-nfr005-nfr-series/

Anders Hellberg - Episodes Of The Observed Mind [NFR005 | Premiere]

Oslated Selection 159

Yukari Okamura - Irritate
Occultech Hypnotic Series 01 [HYP-01 / Occultech Recordings]

Produced by Yukari Okamura
Released by Occultech Recordings from Bengaluru, India
Release Date : March 24th. 2020

2020 brings new sonic dimensions to Occultech. Our first release of the year sees us venturing into the beautiful and massively growing world of Hypnotic Techno, a style that we are very passionate about since a while. Deep music that is so well fitting and set for lush outdoor gatherings. We are glad to set our sights to Asia and welcome the first Japanese artist on to our fold. A highly talented artist Okamura Yukari , who has been releasing some exquisite hypnotic techno on solid imprints such as Circular Limited and Oslated. Her music is deep, lush, soulful, uplifting and psychedelic with a subtle dancefloor vibe.

Yukari Okamura (Osaka, Japan)
https://soundcloud.com/yukari-okamura-859403399
https://www.facebook.com/Yukari-Okamura-106111577550259
https://www.instagram.com/__yukari_okamura__

Occultech Recordings
https://soundcloud.com/occultech_recordings
https://www.facebook.com/OccultechRecordings
https://www.instagram.com/occultechrecordings
https://occultechrecordings.bandcamp.com

Oslated Seoul.
http://www.oslatedseoul.com
https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://www.facebook.com/oslated
https://www.instagram.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com

Occultech Hypnotic Series 01

Irritate

SELECTION : Yukari Okamura - Irritate [Occultech Recordings]

POV004 Digi 1. Samuli Kemppi - Dissolution step

Dissolution step

Eine Reise durch den Geist EP

Zyklus (Motionen Remix)

Various Artists - Metaphysical Communication
[BAHN002_MIND]

Artist: @Einox
Track: As for the Essence

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Written & produced by Taegyun Yoon (Einox)
Mastered by ASH at BAHN· Records Lab. (Barcelona)

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Metaphysical Communication (BAHN002_MIND)

Einox - As for the Essence (Original Mix)

Einox - As For The Essence

Various Hearts Year One is our way of celebrating our first anniversary on the label. This compilation is to thank everyone for the great support they have given us during the first 12 months of the project's life.
This compilation includes an unpublished track by each of the label's member artists this first year.

Each of the artists that the label represents is an a independent sound from others, a different sound, a special and unique sound.
This compilation is not based on genres or styles, it simply represents a little of each of the artists on this Label this first year.

. Юродивый - Restless
. Eafhm - llB
. Stigr - Uncut
. Nahualism - Mantra
. Exoterran - River
. Biocym - Souvenir
. Doctrina Natura - The Healer
. Hamandra - Methaphysical

Free Download:
secuenciastemporales.bandcamp.com/music

This phonograms is a protected intellectual work in favor of its producer. Rights protected. ℗ & © 2020 Secuencias Temporales. The rights of this phonogram are recognized by the Federal Copyright Law. Its production, reproduction, import, storage, transport, distribution, commercialization, sale or lease is prohibited, as well as its adaptation, transformation and direct communication to the public without the prior written authorization of the owner. The violation of this prohibition constitutes a crime and an infraction that are sanctioned according to articles 424 bis, 424 ter, of the Federal Penal Code; 232 section III and 232 section I of the Federal Copyright Law and other applicable regulations in force.

Mastering by Jorge Eafhm at Secuencias Temporales Studio in México City.
Secuencias Temporales ℗ & © 2020 - All Rights Reserved

Nahualism - Mantra (Original Mix) Various Hearts Year One [Part B]

Techno adventures between jungle and space

booking: linda@parabelmusic.se

Founder and engineer at euromix.net

Germany 
Techno & House 
Alles hat ein Ende nur der Rave hat keins ...


Patrick Siech - Crude [DRUMCODE 72]

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