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A wise character once reminded her to tread the heavy ground with light feet. After a whirlwind two years since moving back to Hong Kong and starting from scratch, Xiaolin has re-emerged from the depths of her studio stronger than ever with a second EP - her first vinyl release to date.

Inspired by the Tower card from the Tarot, Tower Moment EP is a cosmic journey through four stages of healing: darkness, acceptance, transformation and freedom.

The record begins with “Dark Night” (of the Soul), followed by the gentle comfort of “Safe With Me”, a nostalgic electro ballad. On Side B: a chuggy tune layered with textures and samples, “Lemuria”, transports listeners to a surreal land of self-discovery, while Blue Hour completes the experience with his anthemic “Elevator” remix.

With her signature mix of 909 kicks and 808 breaks blended with acid bass lines, subtle percussion and ethereal melodies, Xiaolin’s organic approach to techno and electro showcases her colourful palette and sensitivity as a musician, along with a love for jazz and warm synth sounds from the early 90’s era.
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released November 4, 2022

Artists: Xiaolin
Album: Tower Moment EP
Label: 宀 Music
Cat Label: MIHN006
Release date: 04/11/2022
Supports: Digital + 12’
Distributor: One Eye Witness
Remix: Blue Hour
Mastering: Marco Pellegrino @ Analogcut Mastering
Wording: Olivia Mok
Visual: Maison C.C.

Tower Moment

Lemuria (Blue Hour's ‘Elevator’ Mix)

Lemuria

Safe With Me

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https://soundcloud.com/synergycult
🛒 https://synergycult.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-in-synergy-with-ua
🔊 https://youtu.be/GdATOpLTS9E

On the occasion of 2 years from harsh Russian invasion into Ukraine, Synergy Cult has prepared a CHARITY UA compilation to raise funds for the volunteer association Kyiv Angels which helps civilians & army with equipment on the Ukrainian territory (FPV drones for the brave defenders in particular)! Cities in ruins, daily rocket attacks, shattered lives is still the reality in Ukraine at the moment.

We've gathered 25 talented artists from all parts of the world who contributed their incredibly top-notch compositions to support Ukraine! This is a narrative about love, support, friendship & synergy within the electronic music scene to bring the war to an end as soon as possible!

SNIPPETS: soundcloud.com/synergycult/va-in-synergy-with-ua-snippets

All incomes will go to the UA local volunteer organisation Kyiv Angels!
More infos about Kyiv Angels: www.instagram.com/kyivangels/

Huge thanks to all the artists who took part, to Internal Explorer, who amazingly mastered all the tracks for free, to Ola Procak who crafted this beautiful cover also for free, to all the streaming platforms which have premiered the compilation!

Curators: zenwerk & aist (@zenwerk_ & @aaiiist)
Mastering: Internal Explorer (@internalexplorer.music)
GFX: Ola Procak (@procak_gfx)

Please buy the compilation to support UA!
Preorder: 7th February
Full Release: 24th February (2 years from the invasion)


Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

Tracklist: 

1. Zenwerk - Curiosy 
2. Shjva - Exhaust 
3. Archypness - Ultra 
4. Joely - Transitional 
5. Exthract - Secret Weapon 
6. Pawlescu - Słodowiec 
7. Zharkov - Layer 23 
8. Bartender - U GOOD? 
9. Maks Yos - Smeared Vibe (Vox Mix) 
10. Aslamin - SWS
11. Alexander Erdmann - Connectivity 
12. Bohan & Lisovskey - Stimulator 2 
13. Dolu - TOI 
14. Iro Aka - Aperture Science 
15. Stpdmnk - Ufo Attack
16. DJ Normal 4 - Digital Rebellion (Stomp Mix) 
17. Ceremonial Rite - Everybody Is In A Trance 
18. Okravan - Space Tribal Truble 
19. Glen S - Horny Devil 
20. Factor X - Rewrite The Dream 
21. Ilya Semashkevich - Initiali 
22. Badalian - Drifting 
23. Kvrk - Blind Visions 
24. Zenwerk - sns (SVET on Violin Mix) 
25. Elvira - Skyline 
26. Volodymyr Gnatenko & Bo - Lurker

PREMIERE: Iro Aka - Aperture Science [Synergy Cult]

Amsterdam-based @polychrome_audio returns with a two-part compilation featuring label’s favorites and showcasing its singular curation and perspective on club sounds. 

Part I - Diffraction EP - takes you through the full journey of waveforms traveling through our beloved clubs. Sparking the A-side, Hong Kong’s wonder producer and @mihnclub resident @oliviaxiaolin fires up with a progressive and flamboyant house cut, opening an ambitious dance. The tension is taken one notch deeper with Barcelona’s duo @_iroaka_ signature hypnotic and driving techno sound, dimming the lights for an introspective groove. On the B-side, Lyon’s @julie_desire_ flirts with an electrifying psy-infused track where pounding beats and floating melodies dance in harmony and psychedelia. It is in a firework that Dublin’s prodigy @_dylan.forbes closes out the EP, with an energetic progressive anthem that will light up the space.

Track list below and snippets slides 1-4

A1. Xiaolin - Yonggum
A2. Iro Aka - Psy Sights
B1. Desire - PSY AGAINST MEN’S TEARS
B2. Dylan Forbes - In Tongues

Out on 06/09
Available for preorder via @oneyewitness and Bandcamp

Cat Num.: PA005
Format: 12”/ Digital
Written, Produced & Mixed by Olivia D. Mok, David Iriarte & Carles Rocamora, Julie Desire and Dylan Forbes
Mastering - Analogcut | @analogcutmastering 
Visual Direction by Gerard Musquera aka geri | @geri_______________ 
Distributed by One Eye Witness | @oneyewitness

PA005 - Diffraction EP - snippets

Order here:
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/all-trades-volume-two-feat-tolouse-low-vinyl/972159-01/

The second volume of Emotional Response’s All Trades compilation continues its discourse of bringing a selection of artists together that have contributed an influence on the label and the NTS show the release is named after.  

Running for 7 years plus, the show is a smorgasbord, a hodgepodge of the music enjoyed by label founder, running from ambient beginnings to dance music later, with a lot of dub and smatters of off-kilter, new wave and beatdown electronics in-between.  It is here, that the compilations ideas centre.  

Volume Two opens with one of the outstanding producers of this sphere, in Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax.  A founder of the cult Dusseldorf’s Salon Des Amateurs, as well as a member of krautrock stalwarts, Kreidler, Weinrich has been supporting the label since its inception in 2012, including appearing on soFa DJ’s Elsewhere LVI and remixing supergroup, Dream Machine.  Here a perfect opening with a special unreleased Dub mix of Ossia - featuring guest vocals from Eva Geist - from his most recent album, Leave Me Alone.  

Following is t-woc, Ireland’s mixing master / producer, as with his appearing on Elsewhere LVI, providing a beatdown vox pop, that delicious knack for a hook and floating Latin grooves.  Delightfully, Al Wootton joins the fray, his Altai is intricate percussion showing his journey from Dubstep prodigy, purveyor of UK Garage and with his recent incarnation as co-founder of trio Holy Tongue, a Dub meets Industrial mastering of all things bass.  

Iro Aka, a Barcelona duo steadily gaining attention provide some modern acid dance psychedelics with Generations.  Gentle breakbeats, tripthelightfantastic vocals and twisted fx propel Side two.  Building on releases for Hivern Discs and Terra Magica, their productions and edits lend ears.  The Digidub of HLM38, with the beautifully titled Mystery Train Riddim follows, capturing Julien Viallet’s (General P.D.C / Notte Brigante) project, a welcome counterpoint and hint at future collaborations.  To close this half comes stalwart of sub-label [Emotional] Especial, with friend, uber-designer and producer Jamie Paton.  As that label approaches its own 50th release milestone, Paton jumps over to highlight his “primordial soup”, an acidic dub wide-screen excursion of late make Lost Margins, an aptly titled close.

The final half of All Trades switches it up, with the Balearic bounce of London’s Good Block.  Diggers, DJs, party purveyors and now producers, their 3 self-released EPs are all ‘must haves’ and here, Strong Relax is the light to a lot of the compilation’s darker moments, a wonderful bass and keys skip in the sunshine.  Next Stefan Schwander aka label favourite Harmonious Thelonious / A Rocket In Dub offers his new project, the electronic Dub-Funk swing of While My Sequencer Gently Bleeps and the hopping breaks of the infectiously titled Ready.  Anatolian Weapons return to the label, after appearing on the Elsewhere LVI compilation of past, the ethnic chug of Mountain Echoes the perfect addition from a producer steadily showcasing.  

The final side starts with Shelter, Alain Briand’s wide-ranging project that has encompassed New Age and Balearic leanings, before moving on to House and Breaks and later some Digidub essence for Séance Centre.  Here in The Four Knights Dub, his pushes his love of bass further with a widescreen crashing digital explosion.  Susumu Mukai offers the counterpoint.  From his early electro inspired years with XL, Kitsune and Ed Banger, Mukai has carved a niche as a Bass player extraordinaire, as one half of the Balearic Pop-Funk of Becker & Mukai, the Psychedelic Pop of Vanishing Twin, the new addition to Holy Tongue, plus his recent return as Zongamin for Multi Culti, highlight a man in his prime.  To close, a new artist appears with Akulina.

B1. Iro Aka - Generations

Strictly dancefloor biz on Terrazzo number five as Kalani, Beltrac, Macé and Iro Aka jump up and down and move it all around with a glaring selection of 303-laced tech riddims.

Iro Aka
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/iroaka
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IroAka
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_iroaka_/

Terrazzo
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/terrazzotrax
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ssstodorovic/ https://www.instagram.com/holly__lester/

PREMIERE: Iro Aka - Leyrt (Terrazzo)

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🛒 https://sungaterec.bandcamp.com/album/healing-rays-valencia-fundraiser
🔊 https://youtu.be/fs0E5mmV_g0

Sungate joins friends and family with a V.A in support of the victims of the storms in Valencia.

On October 28th, flash floods decimated the better part of the southern and western areas of the Valencia province, alongside many other points of spain. What followed was a catastrophic event resulting in storm surges, collapsing bridges, thousands stuck on roads and streets, ultimately leading to a death toll that is now estimated over 200, and unfortunately, rising.

Homes, animal shelters, businesses, personal property, and ultimately, families, have been destroyed by this catastrophe. an event that caught thousands out in the street, heading to and from school, work, and daily lives unalerted. severe warnings only got to our phones 10 hours after, despite being warned by weather centers and flood prevention institutions for days.

With Sungate’s staff both residing and having ties to the city, we’ve decided to release “Healing Rays”, a V.A with 22 tracks to gather funds to re-distribute to those most in need, buy essential products and help in the re-construction of a damaged region. We are joining a series of charitable releases from others in the city that has seen a wave of supporting press, and more importantly, an overwhelming amount of support.

We are infinitely thankful to Maspaventi for mastering this release and all the artists that have given their music away for the cause.

Tracklist: 

ABSIS - Terra
Alderaan - Captivate
APRS - I Was Still Awake
Arkajo - Ascension
Deano - When It Rains
Dj Sodeyama - Daisy
Einerlei - Gaizka Mendieta
Fase Bipolar - Syllable (Vitamined Mix)
Gentian - Redundant Questions
IORI - Tree
Iro Aka - bi02
Kato De Vidts - Mihr
Markus Suckut - Imagination
Oma Totem - Cançó per València (u)
Private Press - Modulated
Raytek - Unity
Saku Niamh - Eat Your Melancholy
Sayne & Escalated Edits - Planet V23
Scøpe  - Luminous
Skudge - Sungate
So Oishi - Chromatic Ground
Vera Logdanidi - Parkovi Ozera

PREMIERE: Iro Aka - bi02 [Sungate]

[HARMONY018]—is a VA compilation consisting of 4 tracks brimming with shapes, textures, and funky patterns.

Side A kicks off with Anatole Serret's “Hyperdulia,” a high-tempo blend of drums, breakbeats, and subtle seduction. It’s followed by Xialin's percussive “Breath of Water,” a heavenly yet pulsating journey.

The B-side is dedicated to a dream-like, colorful sensation. Feenicks' “All Fairies Tell Tall Tales,” closing banger layers uplifting trance with a touch of new wave. Wrapping up the compilation, Alfred Czital’s “Sunday Morning Routine” is a fast, progressive, and supersonic contribution, showcasing his latest signature style.

VA - EC359
Release name: EC359 [HARMONY018]   
On label: Harmony Rec.
Release date (digital, vinyl): 17.1.2025

A1: Anatole Serret – Hyperdulia
A2: Xiaolin – Breath of Water

B1: Feenicks  – All Fairies Tell Tall Tales
B2: Alfred Czital – Sunday Morning Routine

Artwork by: 100G STUDIO BERLIN
Mastered by: Analogcut 
Distributed by: One Eye Witness 

Buy:
https://harmonyrec.bandcamp.com/album/ec359

@anatoleserret
@xiaolinmusic
@feeenicks
@fred-czital

VA - EC359

Amsterdam based independent record label distributed by One Eye Witness.

Underwater EP by RDS available via Bandcamp and One Eye Witness

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PA005 - Diffraction EP - snippets

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