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Deniro - Pelé EP (TAPE-015)

Deniro's 4-track EP is a triumphant return that puts TAPE Records Amsterdam firmly back on the map. With his signature synths and unwavering Detroit techno flair, Deniro blends melodic vintage sounds with a perfectly balanced techno groove that will transport you to another dimension. Get ready to be swept away by the infectious energy and mesmerizing beats that Deniro is renowned for. Don't miss out on this epic journey that will leave you in a state of pure bliss.

Physical release date: Out now at your favorite records shops!
Beatport & streaming services: 21-07-23
Full release date: 04-08-23

Artwork by ankhsious

Deniro - Pelé 3

Möd3rn - Mö 7

Skudge appears courtesy of Lazy Reflex Complex for the label's third instalment. Skudge delivers two signature style cuts

LRC003

Departure

Tool 1

Release date: 26.09 single / 10.10 EP
Track Name:  STREET SYNC
Artist name: ROOMPUNX
Label name: FTW DUBS
Release name & Catalogue number: FTW002: STREET SYNC
Release date: 10.10 
Pre-sale:  https://ftwdubs.bandcamp.com/album/ftw002-street-sync
Links: @roompunx 
@ftwdubs 
soundcloud.com/roompunx soundcloud.com/ftwdubs 

PREMIER | Roompunx - STREET SYNC

DREAMING (O&S)

Gaetano Parisio - Pain 23 (Dave Clarke Rmx)

Artist: Amanda Mussi
Title: Keyboard Cats
Label: Massa Records
Cat: MASS05
Genre: Techno
Release Date: 30/08/2019
Buy Here: www.beatport.com/release/keyboard-cats-ep/2683967

In 2010 the electronic music scene in Brazil is experiencing one of the most interesting periods. Following the consolidation and popularization of the previous decade, innovative countercurrents and those helped revitalize the alternative scene with parties at old factories, activist DJ collectives and unpublished crosses between genders, particularly thermal fusions between brazilian and electronic sounds.

The Massa Records label was born in 2018 to channel some of that energy and creativity into quality music productions. With their sharp radars of sound and ideas, the label's founders, DJ and producer Renato Cohen, and DJ and manager Fernando Moreno, demand a bit of national exuberance for the world.

Soundcloud:
@massa-records / @ohmussi
Curator:
Enrico Cherbino

Artwork:
Kaio Batista

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PREMIERE: Amanda Mussi - Keyboard Cats (Original Mix) [Massa Records]

FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC):
https://cmc.lnk.to/cmcd141d

Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original".
Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with ‘Mad’ Mike Banks & Jeff Mills, his seminal works on Jeff Mill's Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late Nineties.
Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. 

"Growing up in Detroit, I grew up with Motown in the house - a lot of Motown and Philadelphia soul, artists like Marvin Gaye of course and Curtis Mayfield. I remember Isaac Hayes, the soundtrack from ‘Shaft’ had come out. My father was a jazz musician; he played piano, trumpet and drums. My mother was in an R’n’B group.
We listened to a lot of Motown - in fact, my grandfather’s first cousin is Berry Gordy.
"I was influenced by my father - I wanted to play trumpet like he did."
Robert's father tragically died when he was just 6. The photo of Robert siting down holding a trumpet is his fathers.
"I had to beg my grandmother to let me borrow the trumpet to take a picture with it"

In the early 90's he began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-102 were big stepping-stones for him as they were the first releases he worked 100% on his own. The X-101 to X-102, were Waveform Transmission projects with Mills for Tresor. He slowly progressed to work more and more on his own, but collaberated on some of the first Axis releases with label owner Jeff Mills as H&M (Hood & Mills) with ‘Tranquilizer EP’ and ‘Drama’.

He soon decided it was time for him to start his own label to focus on what was in his soul musically. M-Plant started in ’94. I had developed this “grey area” sound - what I mean by that is that in Detroit, even when the sun is out, there’s something in the atmosphere. I don’t know if its pollution or whatever, but the sky has that grey haze over it. It’s got to be something from the industrial factories there. I’d never really heard a sound like that before and it came from a Roland Juno - it was a chord sound that really went along with my depiction of what Detroit was at that time. A lot of buildings were abandoned and there was a lot of lifelessness in the city, especially downtown. The M-Plant, in minimalism, kind of reflected that. I remember thinking of Detroit like a museum. You know, like a work of art standing still, suspended in time. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity going on.

Releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", “The Protein Valve” "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts", "The Pace", more recently "Range", "Alpha" and that isn't even touching his other monikers Floorplan, Monobox, The Vision, etc.
"M-Plant is what I've always wanted to hear: the basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. “It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound. M-Plant is just M. minimal. “

Although his desire to remain underground has been replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, mainly via his housier, disco, gospel moniker Floorplan with his daughter Lyric Hood,   Hood remains fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and has combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends.

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Robert Hood - Floorplan