Lex Ludlow is back on Atomnantion on November 11th with a new three-track EP titled 'So Long' that comes a year after her beautiful 'Midnight' debut. Now, she shares the EP track 'Between Us Penguins'.

Meriyam Exon released painterly work of emotive synth and compelling grooves on Midnight, her debut EP on Atomnation. With its evocative found sounds and carefully manipulated vocals, the release resonated far and wide and took Lex to a series of post-covid club and festival shows. Inspired and influenced by those experiences, she headed back into the studio to craft new music that is again rich in detail and studio know-how as she proves across three carefully evolved tracks of colourful and evocative house.

The opener' So Long' has a real crunch to the drums. Sheet metal sounds snap about the mix next to chopped-up and panning vocal stabs. It makes for a paranoid sound that is alleviated by the gorgeous molten melodies that rise up and take your attention as the driving drums lock you in for the ride. The lush 'Pigeon Street' is much more deep and smooth, with nimble drums and gliding hits sweeping you up next to warm blasts of synth. The track is detailed with barely-there vocal sounds which dart about the stereo field and bring a sublime sense of future soul. Last of all is 'Between Us Penguins', a perfectly trance-inducing tune for 5 am: the buoyant drums, the sleek lines, and the subtle euphoria all wash over you and place you at the heart of a dance floor with your eyes closed as you bath in the glow of the groove.

So Long is an EP that builds on the Lex Ludlow sound and takes it into fascinating new realms.

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PREMIERE : Lex Ludlow - Between Us Penguins

Zeynep Erbay - Flashlights On Love
BUY LINK: https://soulclaprecords.lnk.to/ZeynepLove
Label: Soul Clap Records (https://soundcloud.com/soulclaprecs)
Release date: 21/10/2022
https://soundcloud.com/zeyneperbayy

The biggest trick, a cliche one might even call it, and the reality of life itself is this; everything in the world revolves around love.

It comes in different shapes and forms, and flows through life.
We sometimes feel love, whether consciously or unconsciously, with a little external help from chemicals, foods, drinks. (Track ->Chemical Love).

The question is; what does it take to be vulnerable, can we connect to the pure self within each of us and truly feel the love? (Track -> LAVA)
Whatever the circumstances may be, if we try to bring our best selves into the present, can we perhaps feel it even more? (Track -> Heart  Math).

Love is part of our existence,  so this time, let's put flashlights on 'Love' and think one more time :)  Hope you enjoy the ride! ( Track -> Flashlights on Love)

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PREMIERE : Zeynep Erbay - Chemical Love

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https://toy-tonics.lnk.to/GommaDancefloorGemsVol1

Toy Tonics presents GOMMA DANCEFLOOR GEMS VOL.1
It’s all about Y2K, Punkfunk and Indie Disco!
Toy Tonics record brings a collection of tracks originally released on the German GOMMA RECORDS label between 2001 and 2010. Gomma was one of the key labels of the Y2K indie dance wave along with labels like James Murphy’s DFA and Trevor Jackson’s OUTPUT Records. And as the 90ies revival that dominated the last years in fashion and electronic music reached its peak (Techno and Electronica is pure 90s revival music) the Toy Tonics gang thought it’s a good moment to re-mind some of these early 2000’s tracks that connected a more raw, indie disco and punky funk vibe. It was another energy in those party days. Gomma was happening in Berlin off-location clubs like SCALA and RIO, London’s TRASH or 333 parties and Paris KILL THE DJ and PARIS PARIS clubs. 

Those Y2K clubs and the Gomma label brought together 80ies inspired Indie rock artists like NickMcCarthy of Franz Ferdinand (who was producing records on Gomma before getting world-famous) and Electro punk princess Peaches (who did a whole Disco album on Gomma records and is featured on this compilation with a cover of „Maniac“ from the Flashdance movie soundtrack). Italian disco legends like Baldelli or Robotnick were popping up in those times after years of silence (before getting hype again later) as well as Gomma’s own discoveries like WhoMadeWho (their first 2 albums were quite punk funky and produced by Gomma’s head honcho Mathias Modica), Italian disco punkster Rodion, Parisian nasty funk dude Golden Bug, London’s mysterious prince of new wave prince Midnight Mike (who started at Gomma and later ended up on Ed Banger records) and Gomma’s main act Munk. And yes, there is even DJ Severino, who did a proto house remix for the label in the early Horse Meat Disco days.
That raw and nasty Gomma sound that mixed up many genres and made it's own sexy, in your face music mélange that was very in demand in those days from 2000 to 2010 and inspired many artists. Not just music people like James Murphy, who did music with Gomma before, starting his own LCD Soundsystem, or bands like Chromeo, New Young Pony Club or Soulwax, who started later with a similar vibe, but also art, graphic and fashion people took inspiration from the Gomma world: Gomma’s edgy album cover designs, their poster fanzine, their colorful t-shirt designs and the whole style that the bands, DJs and people at their worldwide parties were rocking became a MUST all over the world. In the early 2000’s it was just art students from London’s Central St. Martins or Berlin’s UDK school that played that sound on their parties, later magazine like VICE or i - D invited Munk and the Gomma acts to their parties and later it was fashion brands like Prada, Margiela, Karl Lagerfeld and Hedi Slimane who used Gomma artists to make music at their fashion shows or events.
Gomma then in 2015 finally closed. When a lot of new labels popped up copying the Gomma attitude and styles (till these days).
Gomma’s head honcho and main inventor Mathias Modica stopped the whole thing, changed the name and started something new:  Toy Tonics records. Yes!
Toy Tonics came out of Gomma and that’s why now it’s time to remember the old inspirational days.
(Gomma’s other very important part was the graphic designer Mirko Borsche who created the whole Gomma look with Modica and Jonas Imbery the other Gomma member. Mirko Borsche since then made an exceptional career doing designs for fashion labels like Supreme and Balenciaga and being the creative director of magazines like ZEIT, Spike or Kaleidoskope.)
Mathias Modica aka Munk aka Kapote himself now is busy with Toy Tonics, which basically is bigger than Gomma ever was: Spreading a very own sound of organic house and disco funk. With party happenings all over Europe every weekend and a very young audience. 

Released 27.10.23

Munk - Androgyn

A distinctive piece from the Ballroom Records archive, “Strawberry River” by Ben Haydie and Noaski is featured on TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 4 — a curated collection exploring the label’s most atmospheric and genre-defying Electronica.

TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 4

Strawberry River

https://utrorec.bandcamp.com/album/off-the-bus-ep-incl-never-alone-in-a-dark-room-remix

[UTR042] \\ K Tacere - Off The Bus EP

Written & Produced by K Tacere
Remix by Never Alone In a Dark Room

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Mastered by: Dimmed Sounds
Artwork by: Masha Abrosimova



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K Tacere - Off the Bus

- release date : October 14th on Meander Records - 

Eclectic, raw, diverse and deeply driving - these 4 tracks are pure hypnotic Hreno vibes.
New Life! That is what has inspired and influenced this EP on many levels.
New life brings new inspiration and new energy often in beautifully diverse and unpredictable ways.
Everest. Positivity throughout, heights, strength, light, potential and future instantly come to mind,
when listening to these songs. We are happy to present Hrenos second release on Meander
as the follow up of his well received 2012 Frank Barns record.
180g vinyl release, comes with fullcover artwork illustrating traditional indigenous art from Borneo.

Everest (MEANDER 18)

Hreno - Everest EP 'Fingerprince'

Recorded by Michał Zygmunt at various locations across Odra river in winter 2018.

Early spring on the river- soundscape

Small World Disco 01 (LTJ rework edit) : Side a Cry -- Side B : Love Extra 

Small World Disco 01 - Cry (LTJ rework edit)

The night air was warm and sticky, she breathed deeply as a light breeze washed over her face. Walking the dusty winding streets, dulcet sounds echoed all around; beautiful intricate melodies that transported her to a different time and place. She was far away from home but she had no intention of returning anytime soon. Things were much more interesting here, you never knew what strange delights would greet you around each corner. 

Berlin-based producer Cosmo Vitelli presents the sixth release on Edit Service, the rework driven sub-label of his I'm A Cliche imprint. Indebted to breathing new life into forgotten tracks, the label has seen the likes of Rouge Mécanique, Red Axes and Ólta Karawane deliver their own fresh interpretations of everything from new wave and synth-pop to house, EBM and electro. Next up are Multi Culti and Edits du Plasir alumni Youkounkoun - a duo made up of Get A Room's Jeff Lasson and Gaëtan Rossi - who are no strangers to edit duties. For their mini-LP they explore kraut, post-punk and industrial, rearranging and transforming seven tracks that have never previously been edited.

PREMIERE: Youkounkoun - Musique Du Texte [Edit Service]

CAMAROS GANG - Fuerza Major (Tensnake Remix)

Next on Cxema's fundraiser takeover – it's composer, DJ, curator & designer @poly-chain.

Our Streaming From Isolation series is now raising donations directly for Black Lives Matter-affiliated causes. Donations to this stream go to NAACP Legal Defence, a US civil rights organisation that fights for racial justice through litigation, advocacy, & public education. Read up, support & donate if you can.

Poly Chain | Boiler Room: Streaming from Isolation with Cxema

It's a great privilege and huge honor for me to be asked to do the first official remix in 36 years of legendary Italo masterpiece Mono Band - "Ghost Town". Originally released on Discomagic in 1984. Now released on ZYX 12inch vinyl. Big thanks to the entire crew at ZYX and especially Jörg Kunz.
On this release you will also find a remix by Victor Ark

Mono Band - Ghost Town (Flemming Dalum remix)

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Mono Band - Ghost Town (Flemming Dalum Remix)

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Black Barrel combines with Ant TC1 one on the Patreon exclusive 'Jimmi Man'. 

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Black Barrel - Jimmi Man ft. Ant TC1

Piotr Bejnar - Everything's In You (Vakula Remix) free dl

We call upon new talent for our fifth 12" release, a four track EP that also includes a remix from Dexter. The Leeds-based producer is set to blow up in 2010, having announced his arrival last month with the “Your Words Matter” 12" on Aus Music, a collaboration with pal Ramadanman. “Play The Game” begins moodily, Midland setting the scene with deep dub-chords before letting rip with a beautifully controlled breakbeat and a warm,insistent bassline. When the doleful string-pads arrive you know you're dealing with an anthem, and the intensity continues to rise as yearning, ethereal vocal snippets a la Burial, Pangaea or Joy Orbison skirt of the rhythm's surface. The track is a masterclass in building tension, with a succession of nail-biting builds giving way to subtle but devastating drops, and in this Midland shows uncommon maturity for such a young producer.On the remix front we find Holland's one and only Dexter. Fresh from “Redbox” – on Steffi’s Dolly imprint, Dexter completely reinvents “Play The Game”, turning out a finished product that really doesn't sound like anything else out there right now. Driven by a warped, distorted bassline that recalls the hoover sound of 90s Belgium and Kevin Saunderson in his pomp, teamed with dramatic strings, old-school percussion and positively oceanic breakdowns, it's big-room, electro-inflected techno of the highest order.“Leitmotif” finds Midland exploring an even deeper techno style, strengthening the groove with spectral FX and panning, dubbed-out percussion, and then scything it in half with a buzzing, trance-inducing bassline - this one has 'secret weapon' written all over it, primed for the club but with a pleasingly introspective quality as well. 'Head Down' continues his penchant for melodic, echo-drenched chords and disembodied vocal textures, this time riding an irresistibly skippy 4/4 rhythm. The record has received great feedback with djs across the board getting on different tracks from Ellen Allien, Laurent Garnier, Jimpster, Richie Hawtin, Deetron, Ramadanman and many more.

Piotr Bejnar - Everything's In You (Vakula Remix) free dl

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