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On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

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Black Sites - 707

18. Hard Ton - Misled

FutureUnknown

FutureUnknown (Voxattack)

Line Up

Main Room :
ORDEP
ROMMEK
LACCHESI
PHILIPPA PACHO B2B BLUE HOUR
ANETHA
JAMES NEWMARCH B2B VOICEDRONE WITH MC CHICKABOO
NORBAK
MAC DECLOS
LOLSNAKE
SAROOR
WOODY92
SYBIL
ANABEL ARROYO
GARETH WILD
TASHA
KAMEN
PABLO BOZZI

Steam Room :
BBECKS
GLORIA ROSE
L.F.T
DJ WIGGLES
RYAN ASHWORTH
ALBA HEIDARI
KAMIKAZA
RIVA
CITYRONIX B2B NOHEXCODE
SALLY C
BESSIE-MAE AND DJ OT
TEECRA
INNEZ ZONE
S RUSTON B2B LOCKHART

Tracklist : 

Benza - Unreleased
Arkan - Speedway
Rene Wise - Complicated
Pierce - Sidequest
Metapattern - Martains Among Us
Benza - Unreleased
Ikari - Unreleased
Mython - Heuristic
Kashpitzky - Midrange
Flits - Overdrive
Casual Treatment & Kashpitzky - Diffusion
JakoJako - Amygdala (Kamen Floor edit - Unreleased)
Temudo - The Radius 
Ebass - Unreleased
Kamen - Unreleased
KHAS - Cutting Deep
ASEC - Reconnaissance
Pfirter - Turning Point
Crime Partners - Deep Cover 
Bours? - Another Mirage 
Larsson ES - La Pergola
Bailey Ibbs - Make Me Feel
Kamen - Caveman Skank
Kamen - Unreleased
Rethe - Evaporate
Benza - Unreleased
Kastil - Zero Wear
Underworld - Mosaic
Quelza - Atlas Express
Pierce - Corrosive (Mislaw Remix)
Toobris - A Little Life
Benza - Unreleased 
Genex - Get Together
Pierce - Relic
Alarico - Caresses After Lies
Bailey Ibbs - Unsociable Hours
Vilchezz - Duff
Ikari - Unreleased
Lobster - Spiced
Franco Rossi - Canidae
Levzon - Please Come Back 
Nicolas Vogler - Suave (Beau Didier & Isaiah Remix)
OFF / GRID - Bloody Raindrops
Crime Partners - One More 
Joseph Spiteri - Divine (Isaiah Remix)
Crime Partners - Disco Inferno
Crime Partners - Unreleased
Undivulged - Provoque
Human Safari - Jazz Affair
The Hacktivist - Drah Groove
ANNE - Rain
Isaiah - Repeatedly
Alec Dienaar - Out Of Print (Chlar Remix)
TineX - Calling For The Groove
Lars Huismann - Estar Farto
William Arist - Form
Flits - Unreleased
JakoJako & Rohdad - Passeri (Floor Mix)

Kamen | UNFOLD C. The 100th Edition | 22.05.2025 | Full Recording

Cocoon Compilation V

Aura

Eternal Life EP

The Throne

I am glad to finally share this new vinyl with you all, coming from my deeper emotional side.

This is a tribute & was made during a place of sadness & grief for two amazing humans we lost last years, Rob Maguire on 18 december 2023 & Léa-Rose Besson aka Radical Softness on 14 February 2024.

They were the most unconditonnal loving persons I ever met, sharing love, breathing love, teaching us so much about being better everydays, leaving us as their mission on Earth were completed.

Still, the ones who stay, stand still. With only our memories to remember their souls, being infused by their aura of life forever. Its from those people when you feel instantly good around, making you feel confortable, loving yourself more, accepting yourself & being vulnerable while powerful.

From all over the world and especially in Berlin, many of us where impacted so much by their kindness and souls, offering us a space to be heard & seen, when so many of us couldn't. We all know that it was such a priviledge to knew them & shared wisdom with and timeless experiences, being kids around old souls, teaching us how to love beyond time & space.

Its from this place that most of the tracks of this EP were created, fighting for resilience through dark times. I felt the need to make them this tribute while healing from pain to find love in myself and others. Being grateful for everything that happens in life even if it never last.

Gaman, from the japanese means, perseverance. That illustrate never giving up on ourselves, our dreams, our life, keep shining one day after the other, because being alive is the most unique priviledge we will ever have.

While everything is temporary, music still belong, making them heard a little bit longer through vibrations.

My dear Rob, my dear Lea, may you rest in peace, may we see us again in another realm. We love you.

Thank you to everyone, I hope you will appreciate this release full of emotions available in vinyl & digital on all platforms / fav record shop.

Here, 36th release by Arkan.

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Genre: Electronic 
Style: Techno
Catalogue: DR036
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Release date : 25.07.2025

Mastered by Arkan

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Gaman

Arkan | Gaman | DR036

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Arkan | Gaman | DR036 (12")

We are very excited to present “Skogstokig” by Alexander Johansson & Mattias Fridell. Forthcoming on Lomsk July 4th!

Support the artist:
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@fridell

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PREMIERE: Alexander Johansson & Mattias Fridell - Skogstokig [LMSK014]

Sonoral Resistance

In a worldwide moment that most of people that consume art prefer to do it in a faster and superficial way here is a sonoral trip of two hours that propose resisting the immediacy and disposable consumption of art. A exploration of patience and looping including sounds and textures that inspires me to make music that feels alive.

Act 1: Textural proposal 
Act 2: Introducing loop and periodic stuff breaking the cycle
Act 3: Becoming matter

Soundcloud ➟ @outer909
Instagram ➟ www.instagram.com/__outer909

Upperberry | OUTER909

SC: https://soundcloud.com/katia_musik?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
IG: @katiamusic_

Katia | Symbole @ El Invernadero 09.05.25

Pink Concrete describes himself as someone who does pink touches to concrete music.' This can be seen in his production and his style of mixing, as he is not afraid to add something light-hearted to techno music, which is a genre often understood as being quite serious. However, he still tends to travel through a range of emotions; there's always a hint of melancholia in his sets.

https://seven.berlin/artist/pink-concrete/

See the stream in video on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BEwSH8YUCI

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https://www.instagram.com/pinkconcrete/

#smilewhenyoudance

SEVEN House Mix 038: Pink Concrete

up tempo rework of one of my favourite vinyls - free DL

Dweed - Who needs N.M.E's (PONDIE Rework)

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FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC):
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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.

The Throne

Robert Hood - Floorplan

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