.....concept of R-Zone, which would like to shift the focus away from namedropping .....hehe preach water and drink wine :-)

Our first ever premiere introduces the 129th imprint on Montreal-based label, Archipel. This album from Italian Rico Casazza hosts 8 intriguing tracks, 4 of which are available only for those who invest in the wax!

Our featured track is one of those vinyl bonuses, named as the entire album is...'Yaman'. Its hypnotic and music box styled melody, is the first stand out feature. As the electro-led beat and energetic claps develop, so does its wonderful 303 bassline. The track epitomises Rico's style in its perfect balance between his melancholic songwriting and his desire to make people move.

Yaman is out on the 30th November on 12” & digital. Available in stores or available direct from the label here - https://archipelmusique.bandcamp.com/.

You can check other previews from the album here - https://soundcloud.com/ricocasazza/sets/yaman

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ARTIST PROFILE (by Miles Murgett):

@ricocasazza
@archipel

After ten years of producing electronic music, Rico Casazza has created a successful identity for himself and his moody, yet melancholic style of making music. Casazza has released on labels such as Soma, Archipel, Plastic City and our very own platform Loose Lips, which has helped him establish himself amongst the ranks of diverse producers in London. This is no easy task due to the sheer volume of quality artists hailing from this great city. Whether it is Ambient, House, Electro or IDM that you are looking for, Casazza will have his own tripped-out and crunchy take on it. His highly effective, sample-based way of producing reinforces these stylistic qualities. 

Rico Casazza has had a very successful career so far with over fifteen releases under his belt and even with this impressive figure behind him, he shows no signs of slowing down.  Showing the depths of his musical knowledge, he's turned his hand to teaching others how to use Ableton live and all he knows about the DAW. As well as teaching, he also spends time working on his hybrid live set that gives an insight into his love for analogue synthesisers. Rico’s live performance has taken him around Europe and South America, adding to both the maturity and vast array of influences behind his productions.

Rico Casazza’s latest offering is eight tracks in the form of his second LP. We have the privilege of premiering ‘Yaman’, which demonstrates his no-holds-barred approach to writing. As a teacher, producer, live performer and an incredible selector behind the decks, Casazza has cultivated a varied and detailed range of skills. We here at Loose Lips have followed his musical journey thus far with great curiosity, and can’t wait to see the ways in which he will surprise us in the future.

Yaman

PREMIERE: Rico Casazza - Yaman (ARCH129)

Propaganda Moscow launches electro offshoot 'Code' with split EP from DJ Overdose & Hadamard
Following a succession of techno VA’s throughout the course of last year which included the likes of Jeroen Search, Dj Deep and Psyk among others, Propaganda Moscow launches an electro offshoot entitled ‘Code’.
With all forthcoming 12”s as split EPs (2 artists and 2 tracks for each side), the Russian-based crew hail DJ Overdose & Hadamard for ‘Code One’.

Juno

DJ Overdose - Kill Dr. 5

written by: @johnselway
label: @serotonin-records
release date: 9/3/2018

buy: https://www.beatport.com/label/serotonin-records/7305

Selway - Brainchild

Written and produced by Greg Schappert. Artwork by Yamako King.

Distribution release date: 21/01/18

Buy Now

Subapical04 - SC-164 - Transmitter Park

https://solaronemusic.bandcamp.com/

The "Between Places" Saga continues..This time with non other than powerman Jensen Interceptor. 5 tracks of icy electro which defently burn down every dancefloor. Including a special collab with "Das Muster" from Germany.

BP05 Jensen Interceptor - Activated EP

ELECTRIC ECLECTICS - www.fundamental-records.com/electric-eclectics

Available NOW!
you can order directly here: info@fundamental-records.com
or Bandcamp
fundamentalrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/ele…lable-now

The ELECTRIC ECLECTICS BOX includes:

•  21 vinyl records in high quality sleeves manufactured with italian cardboards from 100% recycled waste and silkscreen printed one by one using luminiscent ink.

•  18x12" full works by:
Carl Finlow - Microlith - Cignol - MetaComplex - Nullptr - Scape One - Nebenprodukt - Franck Kartell - Kan3da - Das Muster - Johan Inkinen - Luxus Varta - Obergman - Foreign Sequence - Mesak - Mental Note - Cygnus - Noise&Noise

•  2x12" vinyl records VV.AA.
Hieroglyphica - Heimelektronik - Darren J Horgan - Acidulant - Jensen Interceptor - Luke Eargoggle - Automatic Tasty - Mutex - Aquagonia - Noamm - Binary Digit - Martin Matiske

•  Extra record 7" by  ARPANET

•  High Quality T-Shirt silkscreen printed in luminescent ink that glows in the dark

•  Certificate of Limited Edition

•  (NEW!!) Wooden Box

• All tracks mastered by Alek Stark

ABOUT THIS PROJECT:

These times where everything occurs so fast is really difficult to make a pause and with calm try to understand what you have in front of you.

Just for the simple fact you are reading about this new project, we want to thank you, so thank you very much for supporting this project, we really appreciate you put some of your time reading and listen about it.

This is an epic crusade that simply wants to show in all its splendor what it means for many of us such an eroded term but as beautiful as it is the word "underground".

For many of us, this music represents values that we would like to see more often, values that we want (and we need) to be reflected in future generations.

Now that everyone talks about our music is easy to read here and there things like "...electro music is very limited ... sounds always the same"... These words really hurts many of us, the many we love, and we know in depth what electro music is, because electro music is just the opposite, it is a very diverse and rich music, you can feel the pulse of electro in many compositions, thousands of tracks, even in ambient tracks with no beats.

For this reason we call this project ELECTRIC ECLECTICS

The support we received to our last projects, the 5th Anniversary 808 Box and Music For The Other People Place helped us to take more risk and decide to start with Electric Eclectics.

The foundations and the aim of this project is exactly the same of the 808 Box, but this time we want to put the light over some artists who helped to build and develop the sound of modern electro music, but also others that we consider the present and the future of our music, the Underground Electro Music.

This new box includes 21 high quality vinyl records, mastered and cut at 45rpm for the best sound and dynamics. Each of the first 18 records are dedicated to one artist, the other 2 are an advance of the second part of this project next year. The audio included here is about one/two minutes of all tracks included in each record... this is more than 3 hours... the total length of the 21 records is almost 9 hours of pure electro music.

+ info:

www.fundamental-records.com/electric-eclectics

A2 - Greasy Strangler

Lobster returns to it's scorched earth roots with a dark, gritty blend of techno-based power traxx from New York staple Heidi Sabertooth.

Tracks scraped from the surface of the NY underground. Proper hardware jams with a raw, scorched edge!

Eyes Are Watching combines punched kicks, squelched synths and pitched-down grunting mosh vox. The mood then lightens a touch for the hypnotic, dusty hardware workout Non Such. Jackin' Chitown vibes peppered with plucked & arp'd synths.

On the flip Makin Cutz is pure can-recorded techno. Overdrive-central in a caged industrial basement. Detuned acid & raw af hammering drum programming. Then for the finishing move, Weeding Through Distortion adds some off-club IDM-tinged sonic flavour to proceedings. Echoes of early Warp (think elements of Autechre live in Wakefield in the early 90's) shot through with some hard US noise processing. A tough, melodic gem.

A1. Eyes Are Watching
A2. Non Such
B1. Makin Cutz
B2. Weeding Through Distortion

>> @heidisabertooth

Ur Eyes Are Watching

BUY RELEASE

LT059 // Heidi Sabertooth - Ur Eyes Are Watching

Release date: September 30
Buy link: https://idasound.bandcamp.com/album/tiger-space-arc

10th release on the label comes from Bogdan from Saint-Petersburg, also known as Krjuk and member of duo Soft Metal. 

Artist: @krjuk
https://www.facebook.com/bogdansounds
https://www.instagram.com/krjuk/ 

Label: @idasound
http://instagram.com/idasound
http://fb.com/idasound

Premiere : Bogdan - Pankratov Black [ИДА]

Savage Grounds return to the never ending warpath with their new Ep “Body Weight Compressor”. After a one-year break, which was used to collect ideas, machines and material, they are releasing six titles with brooding melodies, sounds from the factory, diystopian texts and authoritative marches. An unnaturally restrained chaos. Being released by Infoline Global it provides a reflection of the city they live in.

Artist: Savage Grounds
Track: Masse und Macht
Ep: Body Weight Compressor
Label: Infoline Global
Release Date: March 13, 2020
Link: infoline.global

Premiere #82 Savage Grounds - Masse Und Macht [Infoline Global]

008 by Trivia. Is the Sci-Fi Electronic Music Experience by Moralez aka Kind Human Being and Zombierella.

Trivia - Zombie Experimental (The Hacker Remix)

Deep, moody techno ... just the way i always loved it -- Love this
Laurent Garnier (F-Com)

Dead is sublime. Thank you. May I have WAVS? 
Midland (Aus Music)

Superb EP. Thanks!
Luke Hess (DeepLabs, FXHE, Planet-E)

Nick Höppner (OstGut Ton)
I really like Dead. Smooth late night action with enough functional traction!

Chymera (Berlin)
Great depth on Pain. Dead is a good uptempo take on that sound, think I'll find a place for both of these

Delta Funktionen (Ann Aimee) (Berlin)
both tracks are nice

Jackmate (Philpot)
great 12"...PAIN!

Dave Mothersole (proton radio) (Worthing)
really like rag's stuff. both tracks are great. thanks.

Estroe (Rotterdam) wrote
I'm in(to) Pain...a lot.

Kuczera (heerlen)
Dope release again, and it gets better too.. keep them coming!

Hendrik Stein (bln.fm) (Berlin)
Luv it - Both Tracks are amazing! But it doesn't top the 01 for me...

Paul Woolford (Planet E/Hotflush) (Leeds)
Quite a potent murky atmosphere pervading 'Dead' - fantastic afterhours or early doors selection for my sets, thank you..

Alex from Tokyo (Tokyo Black Star)
Pain is pretty dark moody and atmospheric, Dead is a lot of light and aerial and is the one for me!

Dj T (GET PHYSICAL MUSIC GMBH) (Berlin)
thank you for good music!

Paul Mac (Stimulus Records) (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Liking Dead a lot reminds me of old Master C&J in atmosphere somehow and that can't be a bad thing :)

Dj Deep (Deeply Rooted House) (Paris)
very cool record

Cosmin TRG (50 Weapons) (Berlin)
These will sound so deadly on a big system.

Tommy Four Seven
Pain!

Henning Baer (Grounded Theory, K209) (Berlin)
Pain is great!

Gilb-r (Versatile) (Paris) wrote
Dying for Dead..huum..

Karim Sahraoui (Transmat records) (Aix-en-Provence)
Dead is the more danceable and groovy but pain has the deepest melody...both tracks are solid..will play

Santiago Salazar (Historia y Violencia) (San Gabriel)
Both are super deep tracks. Love it!

Michel De Hey (Rotterdam)
both nice!

Ambivalent (Berlin)
Fits well with the other releases in the series so far. I will save these for a moment when I can play this deep. I like Dead the most.

DVS1
DEAD!!!!!!!

Will O'Brien (SUB-SCAPE) (Antwerp)
More mellow than the previous offerings but still classic sounding stuff.

Fabrice Lig (Biesme-Sous-Thuin)
Love "Dead" a nice organic and deep track.

Skudge (Skudge Records) (Stockholm)
Cool stuff. Like ''dead'' the most

Electric Indigo (indigo:inc)
i'm more into pain than dead ;)

Dimi Angélis (A&S, Traut Muzik, Balans) (Amsterdam)
Pain and Dead please...! thank you

Pär Grindvik (Stockholm LTD)
love them both, thanks!

Paul Boex (Dynamic Reflection)
Although the name "dead" doesn't sound very pretty, the track does ;)

Fred Deepsounds (Deepsounds.fr)
nice tracks, pain in particular. thanks.

Chris Miller (Little White Earbuds) (New York, NY)
dead is sounding really nice. turning out to be a nice series. thanks!

Dave TTB (TOTHEBONE) (London)
I was a little disappointed with the second R-Zone release but this is a return to form. I like both tracks and will play one on the radio. Thanks.

Norman Nodge (MDR) (Berlin)
Good stuff!

Owain Kimber (Dessous Recordings / Littledetroit) (Cardiff)
Whilst those days seem like an age away. This EP is class. A must have on vinyl for me, thanks for the promo :)

MaSpaventi (MaSpaventi) (Amsterdam)
Dead is an excellent tune! Thank you

Marko Nastic (Radio B92 / Exit Festival) (Belgrade)
dead all the way :)

Dj Simbad (Various / Browsnwood Rec.)
Very dope that Dead tune ... Maximum respect to R-Zone always. Playing / Charting

Nubian Mindz (Kildare)
'Dead' is most definitely ALIVE! Can't wait to play this out.

Marco Bernardi (Bristol)
Dead for me on this great "secret " release

Neville Watson
"Have you ever?" Yes I have, with bells on!!!! And these tracks lift me up and take me back there. But no mere retro pastiche here just solid, timeless and emotive dance music. Will be playing both sides forever.

Surgeon
Will use 'Dead' for radio play.

Monty Luke (BLACK CATALOGUE) (DETROIT)
featured the last release on my 'unknown tones' podcast...will give this a serious listen.

Tr nch (Samurai FM/MYM Tokyo/Mariana)
"epic!"

rook (Kaunas)
Both tracks sound great, midnight burners.

Hunee (Hunch Music / Rush Hour)
dead is so good. love the oldschool r-zone vibe!

Sven VT (Berlin)
Another R-Zone, another killer. Twilight zone house music!

Martyn
"dead" is great

A Made Up Sound / 2562 (When In Doubt) (Utrecht)
'dead' is the one for me, probably my favorite r-zone track so far.

Mosca (BBC Radio 1)
Preferred 01 I think... 03 is still nice but just haven't wet myself

Koen van Bommel (VICE)
i kinda feel like putting this music over the vampire rave scene in blade

Andrew Duke (Andrew Duke In The Mix/Cognition Audioworks) (Halifax NS)
Excellent material. Will play. Thanks.

Nuno Dos Santos (KOLLEKTIV) (UTRECHT)
deeep haunting tracks will play both!

Angel Molina (Sonar Music) (Barcelona)
nice mysterious feel on 'Pain', that´s my pick on here. thanks.

GET IT HERE

R-Zone 03 - Pain/Dead (OUT NOW!)

WE DONT CHECK MESSAGES HERE!

BOOKINGS: infoATglobaldarknessDOTcom

We R here

R-Zone. Who is involved isn't exactly a secret, those who feel so inclined can piece the information together quite easily. It is however irrelevant to the concept of R-Zone, which would like to shift the focus away from namedropping and perception based on hype around individual artists and bring it back where it belongs; in the lap of the music.

The sounds exhibited across each track are fresh offerings that combine brightly coloured synths, swirling pads and non-standard beats into captivating and kaleidoscopic soundscapes that constantly evolve from start to finish. A cosmic, intergalactical energy pervades each release, transporting you to a world far away from here. The rest of the tell can be told by R-Zone themselves:

“Have you ever stood in a traffic jam in the middle of nowhere with complete strangers desperately looking for a party that may or may not exist? Have you ever wandered around a bombed out illegal warehouse rave at X in the morning on an E come-down? Have you ever stood in limbo between the click of a strobe or between the shards of a dense orange haze that emanates from a fog machine? Floating away on never ending waves of music and substance induced - we may as well call it - LOVE? Where for one brief moment it didn't matter who you are and what you do and how you look or how many scene-points you have? If so then you will remember the R-Zone as a shadowy place that never fully exists yet is always waiting. “

“In the whip of a snare, the beat of a kick, the wail of a string or the rush of an arpeggio, in those heart pounding moments of anticipation and in the glorious release of a drop. And then, as those frozen moments echo out and fade into a corner of space-time where nothing seems quite real, you descend among your peers, feeling somehow richer and more enlightened - as if you have been touched by something. You know it can make the world seem an empty place, a barren wasteland devoid of endorphins, where neurotransmitters merely twinkle but never shine. Just remember you are not alone. Others have entered the R-Zone with you and together we may embrace its infinity - as we enter into a new age.”

R-Zone 03 - Pain/Dead (OUT NOW!)

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