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Artist: @djstrawberrymusic
Titile: Beyond
Label: guides
Release date: 15.03.2024
Format: digital / cassette (edition of 70)
Additional mix and mastering: Mateusz Wysocki
Artwork: Marta Sieczkowska

Released in 2022, the debut album "Cycles" by Turkish producer DJ Strawberry brought a surprising mix of genres. The tracks, which were kept at 160 bpm, combined the Chicago footwork tradition with its hybrid formula inspired by Japanese minimalism and spacey dub techno in a highly inventive way.

Two years after the release of his debut album, DJ Strawberry, returns with a follow-up to "Cycles" entitled "Beyond". The process of making the album was accompanied by many difficult moments. In February 2023, his country was hit by the largest earthquake in its history that significantly affected his family and loved ones. What brought the producer respite from these hard times was to dive into making music. "Beyond" is therefore a story about suffering, anxiety, but also about the process of coming out of these difficult emotions towards something constructive that brought joy and relief.

The album begins with crystal and delicate sounds in "following you". We see some idyllic and jittery imagery, which lightly jumps to the rhythm of complex rhythms. The character and atmosphere of the album transform with the second track. In "soyut", a noticeable tectonic shock is triggered by nervous percussion loops and the deep intensity of the infra-pulse. This physical aspect of experiencing sound and the vibrations it generates constitute the primary foundation that binds the music of "Beyond". The low-pitched, rough bass that appears in "soyut" also resounds in the next anxious track "çıkmaz", its dirty, earthy sound referencing footwork productions dedicated to competing dancers. The change in atmosphere doesn't come until "euphoria." After the first half, echoing the emotions of earlier tracks, the second half of the piece, DJ Strawberry, transports the listener into a space of liberating relief and affirmation. Ending the album, "feedback loopjuke" is a minimalist coda with swirling looped drums and juke claps fired off in the final part of the track.

The therapeutic aspect of the music contained on "Beyond" places DJ Strawberry's actions in close proximity to the similar sonic practice of another representative of the outlines, Jana Rush. Her album "Painful Enlightenment", released on Planet Mu, also used footwork to deal with difficult emotions. Once again, then, a musical genre whose prior function was mainly to "serve" competing dancers has transcended this traditional format to become a vehicle for DJ Strawberry's personal narrative.

DJ Strawberry - Beyond (preview)

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We’re thrilled to share with you the third volume of our beloved series ‘‘traversée’’ - a space for producers to explore their own versatility.

‘‘traversée 03’’ gather – once again – super talented artists who shape the vision of the label on a daily basis through the diversity of their musical background and origins.

Talking about musical process with artists is super important to us and sharing it to the world is even more significant : soon we'll share some ‘‘words behind the track’’ from artists themselves to dive deeper into their own reflexions: take a deep breathe in —

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The Ick — a sense of sanity amidst the storm of information. This album by Archetype is an abstract scream for something quite fragile — a polarizing society, disruptive isolation, and the fading collective experience. Utilizing dramatic vocals, industrial trip-hop, and post-punk-leaning electronics, Archetype marks the new moniker by the ever-versatile Viennese Rotterdammer, Leonard Prochazka. Following his manifold of concept-driven, instinctive musical output, Archetype's "The Ick" releases in 2024, following "Strapazen und Genesung" as Geier Aus Stahl on Knekelhuis in 2022.

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French disrupter Jan Loup debuts on Nerve Collect with a new EP that channels her emotional response to events of the last year into a bold collision of dubstep, breakbeats and drum and bass. Maquis Son Sistèm as well as label co-founder Gamma Intel remix two tracks on the EP which arrives digitally on May 18th.

This EP, "In My Fury", is the sound of her channelling personal challenges into empowering music that serves as a soundtrack to a therapeutic warrior dance. 'Shanti' opens up with lurching broken beats and malfunctioning percussion against a backdrop of witchy wordless mantras. It's a dense and eerie dystopian world that leads into the more ethereal 'Oda Damo Asodi' backlit by celestial white light as ghoulish sounds and fractured drums come at you from all directions. 'Mojo Nosoa' is jittery dubstep with menacing low ends and jumbled metal sounds conveying the breakdown of a factory and 'In My Fury' is built on a heavy half-time rhythm that fizzes with caustic sounds.

First to remix is Maquis Son Sistèm aka Stefan Dubs, a sound system music innovator who tangles disparate sounds into trance-inducing rhythms. His take on 'Shanti' is a deeply hypotonic world of loopy sound detailed with sonic bacteria, alien life forms...  more
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releases May 17, 2024

All tracks mixed and arranged by Jan Loup
Artwork by Nina van den Berg
Mastering by Maspaventi Studio

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Big Science records announces the 12th release, cassette and digital formats, scheduled for June 2024 by marino2. Based between Nantes and Brest, marino2 is closely linked to the local scene, notably through his collaborative work with Dites Safran. The french dj/producer joins the catalog 6 club-oriented tracks. This first EP unveils a unique blend of bass club, indus and downtempo elements, promising a captivating and immersive sonic experience, so dear to its author.

A1 - ggrip 4:12  
A2 - ppause 4:08 
A3 - xxtc 4:29
B1 - ttwork 4:14 
B2 - rrbum 5:22 
B3 - ddose 4:10

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[RA001:] 'SALT LICK' - GG Mothra
[RA002:] 'Plushie' - NO-CLIP 
[RA003:] 'Coming Around' - Current Bias 
[RA004:] 'Hardcore' - VSB 
[RA005:] VA001
[RA006:] 'Hell Na / MOOM' - GG Mothra
[RA007:] 'Frontal' - Current Bias
[RA008:] 'Mutuals' - BJ Leo
[RA009:] 'tilo' - cusoon dj

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