A look back on the music we loved in 2024.

Divided in four categories.
Some songs are missing here since they're not on soundcloud.

1-8: "Nine Faves: Daylight" 
9-17: "Nine Faves: Strobenight"
18-23- "Last Songs we played that are definitely not made for mixing into" 
24-27: "Songs that stop time"

some music we loved in 2024

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ACUD taktet seinen ersten Langzeitspieler mit dem erfrischenden Lied Supermarkt auf!
Der Berliner Musiker, bildende Künstler (fast Diplom) und Labelbetreiber Lasse Winkler aka ACUD hat mit Titeln wie MATJESFILET oder VERBRENNUNGSMOTOR auf sich aufmerksam gemacht. Er zeigt, das elektronische Tanzmusik durchaus Humor haben kann, ohne im Klamauk zu enden. Stilistisch schwer einzuordnen, eckt er zeitweise hier und da an Genres wie IndieDance, Downtempo und AcidHouse an. Knarzende Bässe und swingende Rhythmen aus alten Drum-Machines treffen auf warme analoge Synth-Chords und unterstützen seine helle Stimme. Das Mikrofon, immer einsatzbereit, ersetzt seinen Notizblock. Es entstehen knappe, spontane Schlagwörter, Sätze, den Alttag aufschnappend. 

Die nun erste Single seines im Februar 23’ erscheinenden Albums VERDAMMT NOCHMAL beschäftigt sich mit den einfachen Dingen des Lebens: Supermarkt. Dieses Mal ist es aber kein Matjes, den er sich im besagten besorgt. Nein, jetzt wo der hohe Sommer vor der Tür steht, steigt sein Bedarf an Zitronen und Quark- immer Garant für den von ihm besungenen guten Tag. Dass diese Single sich in Bauch und Beine spielen wird, ist nicht nur den warmknarzenden Beats, die noch jeden aus dem Bett schleifen würden, und dem klaren Optimismus seiner Stimme gegeben. Auch das einhergehende Musikvideo, in dem u.A. die Schauspielerin DEBORAH KAUFMANN (Dark) zu sehen ist, zeigt auf, dass ACUD mit Single und Platte wieder und jetzt so richtig da ist!

Foto: Greta Ipfelkofer & Lasse Winkler
Grafik: Mirco Fiß

KLR053 Acud - Supermarkt
Release July 15th, 2022
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Acud - Supermarkt

Voluminous Arts happily announces its third official release, a 12 track digital album and accompanying 3xLP limited 3 color vinyl edition entitled “Disco” by Gavilán Rayna Russom’s elusive alias Black Meteoric Star. 

This is not a Disco record. The title deliberately troubles the music biz’s incessant tendency to hierarchize genre classification over the experience of listening. If you must categorize these mutant sounds think of them as a proposed alternate score for those long, caffeinated sessions in Abby Sciuto’s forensics lab, the soundtrack to a heavy workout in the Westchester Danger Room or perhaps the musical accompaniment to deep body investigations of your own ancestral memories. 

What this record really is, and why it’s called “Disco” has to do with the layering of time and life energy present in the spaces where we have traditionally danced to music which are sometimes called Discos. From the pounding urgency of “Muscle Machine” through the unbridled night vision romp that is “Fluid Feline Forms” and the shimmering investigations of “Whispers Between Worlds” to the extended lazer pointer focus of “I’m Unmelting” this record lays out a broad slab of practice-based research into the ghosts we connect with on the dance floor. Whether it be through partying in former industrial buildings, contested spaces of labor built on lands violently appropriated from indigenous people, uncomfortably inhabiting vacuums in queerness left by the AIDS epidemic, lifting lineages through sampling, or the relentless cycle of whitening that accompanies dance music’s march into the market, our experiences in the Disco have been permeated by the spectral and the haunted. Through rhythm and frequency, organized over time, this music blurs the veil between the living and the dead inviting those who move to it to connect with experiences beyond that false binary. 

What you have here is another fantastic Black Meteoric Star record, as always made without multitracking or overdubbing, recorded directly from single live takes. It is is utterly consistent with all that name has come to mean, but on “Disco” Black Meteoric Star’s vision has been allowed to expand into an almost mythologically epic space. Ancestral time works differently. Settle in and absorb the frequencies. As the closing track suggests, the virtual Disco these sounds evoke is for “Freaks Only”.

Disco

Freaks Only

Black Meteoric Star - Freaks Only

Affection

Cinch

Who Dis

Dance With Your Feet (ACD Mix)

DANCE, DANCE, DANCE (Original Mix)

Double Trouble

Copé

Millennium Surfer

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/the_super_album_remixe

Hot on the heels of his recent “The Super Album”, our favorite seafarer is back with a delicious round of remixes. Frau Blau head honcho KADOSH takes “About Love feat Speakwave” to darker disco territories. Rome’s WHITESQUARE gives “Shifting Basslines feat Chicks on Speed” a powerful 90s progressive house inspired spin. Last but not least, the Las Vegas duo THIRD CULTURE (aka Sian & Sacha Robotti) are taking a swing at “I Love Watching You feat Arnaud Rebotini”, emphazising the noir EBM vibes of the original.

The Super Album (Remixe)

Shifting Basslines feat. Chicks on Speed ( Whitesquare Mix )

Captain Mustache - Shifting Basslines feat. Chicks on Speed (Whitesquare Mix)

Dj Merci - Timelapse

Buy Here:

https://theverypolishcutouts.bandcamp.com/album/cut-outs-ep


Skalpel spotyka The Very Polish Cut Outs - aż dziwne, że do tak oczywistej współpracy dochodzi dopiero teraz! Okazja jest jednak nie byle jaka: 20-ta rocznica premiery debiutanckiego, kultowego już, albumu duetu Skalpel.

Debiut Marcina Cichego i Igora Pudło w Ninja Tune bez wątpienia zmienił oblicze polskiej muzyki, przedefiniował percepcję rodzimego kanonu i wytyczył nowe ścieżki młodszym twórcom. Bez wątpienia także TVPCO Skalpelowi zawdzięczają bardzo wiele. Owocem tej mentalnej i przyjacielskiej więzi są remiksy podpisane przez Zuchy i Pejzaż - dwójkę przedstawicieli TVPCO.

„Together" w pejzażowej interpretacji zaskakuje rozmachem - zamiast kontrabasowej repetycji oraz kameralnych współbrzmień trąbki i wibrafonu, porywa nas wyrazisty beat i rozlane, ciepłe klawiszowe barwy. Wychodzimy z zadymionej piwnicy, by złapać oddech nadmorskiej bryzy i dać się porwać pejzażowej synth-wave. Aż chciałoby się krzyknąć: "pod chodnikami znajduje się plaża!"

Zuchy brykają na tej plaży w karnawałowym rytmie i na wyrazistym melodycznym motywie z „High" rozkręcają acidowe party. Opener ze skalpelowego debiutu nabiera tu rytmicznej muskulatury, nadal zachowując jednak aurę tajemniczości i ulotny wdzięk. Autorskie remiksy „Break In" i „Together" naprowadzają nas na brytyjską ścieżkę. Oba mogłyby znaleźć się na nagrodzonym Fryderykiem, ostatnim albumie studyjnym Skalpela "Origins".

Cichy i Pudło wychodzą z hip-hopowy jazzowych korzeni (własnych i wytwórni Ninja Tune), aktualizując swoją autorką wizję o rytmicznej wzorce
Uk-garage i dubstepu. W „Break In" zamiast „garidżowego" haju i skunk-paranoi, słyszymy nośny basowy riff, porywającą rytmiczną wibrację i niepowtarzalny skalpelowi klimat. Z kolei synkopowane breaki „Together", szczególnie w zestawieniu z wersją, którą proponuje Pejzaż, pokazują jak niezwykły potencjał miał i wciąż ma debiutancki materiał duetu.
To płyta, która się nie starzeje, nadal zachwyca, niezmiennie inspiruje i prowokuje do nowych odczytań. „Cut-Outs" EP jest tego doskonałym potwierdzeniem.

Skalpel „Cut-Outs" EP powstało we współpracy TVPCO z NoPaper Records. Jak zapowiada zespół, to preludium do obchodów tegorocznego jubileuszu – na jesień planowane jest kolejne wydawnictwo z remiksami.

All Tracks Written and Produced by Marcin Cichy & Igor Pudło
Additional Production on track A1 by Bartosz Kruczyński
Additional Production on track A2 by Michał Zakrzewski & Maciej Zambon
Additional Production on track B1 & B2 by Marcin Cichy & Igor Pudło
Mastering & Lacquer Cut: Marco Pellegrino at Analog Cut
Pressed at Objects Manufacturing in Berlin (DE)
Cover Design: Bartosz Szymkiewicz

A1. Together (Pejzaz Remix) [Master Digital]

Gottwood Festival's imprint Gottwax returns for its eighth installment. At the controls for this release is the London-based duo Make A Dance, whose playful, party-driven sound has been making waves in the underground since their inception. Delivering a lively four-track EP, which includes two originals and two reworks, all of which are club-ready and certainly have 'The dance in mind.' This one's going to make it into a lot of DJs' bags this summer and is not to be missed.

BUY:
https://makeadance.bandcamp.com/album/woof-doof

PREMIERE: MAKE A DANCE - POCKET BEAGLE [GOTTWAX]

The Claremont 56 Versions

Music to Be Murdered By

For over a decade, COHN has been crafting his unique blend of house music. The DJ and producer, from London, combines crisp beats and rich synth lines to ignite speakers and dancefloors with his disco and Italo-infused creations. Now, he arrives at Bordello with a new EP, “Kafka in the Sheets”, featuring four tracks.

The EP kicks off with “Margiela in the Streets”. Driven by a steady snare and a pulsating arpeggiator, a soaring melody of analogue arcs sails skyward.“Balearic Sun” awakens the listener with birdsong and bongos. A relaxing, revitalising and re-energising experience, guiding hearts and minds through an audio oasis of light wind instruments and soothing samples.

The energy ramps up with the powerful “Uptown and Queens.” A HI-NRG-inspired rhythm is set to a steady march, delivering a workout of wry smiles and bold builds. The EP concludes with “Let’s Groove On”, a track that welcomes the dawn. Classic hi-hats and toms are garnished with a low whistle while juddering vocals push the track forward, making it the perfect last dance before sunrise.

PREMIERE: COHN - Let's Groove On [BORDELLO A PARIGI]

Multi Culti shine light on one of the key players of the Lithuanian scene with ‘V’’s ‘Voyage Voyage.’ 

Venerated mystery man V stands for many things, but first and foremost: Vilnius. Resident at Opium Club & Gallery 1986, founder of Ant Bangos, Alfavilnius and OLE Festivals, creator of Silence Music, Best Kept Secret and Le Temps Perdu labels - the artist formerly known as 'Vidis’ has been a mainstay in Lithuanian music for over 20 years, a talented curator, community builder and, of course, DJ.

With ‘Voyage Voyage’, V crystallizes his musical aesthetics, presenting a stripped-down mix of 80s new wave and 2000s electro  - influences no doubt familiar to the legions of Lithuanian fans that have been chugging along to his sets for the last 20+ years. 

On ‘Avventura,’ V enlists Domenique Dumont for a cinematic instrumental, with a new-wave indie bass-line sailing us past epic strings and contrapuntal melodies in dreamy nostalgic fashion. 

Multi Culti co-founder Dreems jumps in to the deep end on ‘Kosmische Muzik,’ a rollicking jam that combines the pastoral psychedelic feeling of Krautrock with industrial prog-tronica.

There’s enough variety in this triptych to keep things interesting while still feeling cohesive, a skillful set of tracks that showcases V’s vast experience while pointing to this being very much the beginning for him as a producer.

Voyage Voyage

Avventura (Feat. Domenique Dumont)

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Long time friends and Lisbon-based Mirror People & OITO//OITO for the last 20 years have been lighting up dancefloors all over their native Portugal and beyond, with their passion for eclectic sounds as the main fuel for their sonic mission.
'MP88' marks their first EP together. 'Howard' opens with rugged 4/4 rhythms, acid squelches and meandering arps to set the tone, 'New Ears', takes things on saturated drums & fills, vintage stab sequences and enigmatic strings. Last but not least, is the dropped tempo acidic feel 'Alive & Kicking'.
Another flawless EP in OITO//OITO Discos, limited to 300 copies, this time in Yellow vinyl.

MP88

New Ears

DJ GRAVLAX & Opprefish - Popopopopopohooo

@thomassjackson - anxiety division
Label - @kaputtwav

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Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7sd3nFrzl9itGooHqItGFG

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PREMIERE – Thomass Jackson – Anxiety Division (Kaputt)

Freeride Millenium label head Jorkes sits right at the heart of the European scene. Their DJ sets and productions are famously emotionally charged and draw from house and disco across ages. They come on labels like AUS, Permanent Vacation, and Live At Robert Johnson and alongside Jorkes's work as a vocal LGBTQIA+ activist who always centers marginalized people in what they do alongside partner Daniel Rajcsanyi, who always provides original artwork for the releases.
This new EP is a homage to the bathhouse cruising lifestyle and is themed under Jorkes's lover’s ‘Paris Böhm’ alias, as he is a masseur at Apollo gay city sauna in the heart of Vienna, which is where Freeride Millennium hosted sauna parties.
'+4367762558223' kicks off with thumping house drums and a grinding bassline before tender, molten synth sounds swirl about the mix to bring intimacy and romance. Melancholic leads extend the lushness further amongst muffled vocal musings. The loved-up 'Pool' is awash with exuberant old-school piano chords and dusty Chicago drums that bring the good times. 'Apollo City Sauna' shows a vulnerable side to Jorkes's sound, with introverted synth work and rubbery basslines providing deep thought and late-night dancing. Closer 'In My Arms' is a five-minute synth odyssey full of self-reflection and tender keys that soothe the soul.

Written, Produced, and mixed by Jorkes.
Published by Copyright Control.
Mastered by Lopazz.
Distributed by Kompakt.
Typography by studio mizuiro.
Picture by Daniel Rajcsanyi.
Also available on Bandcamp and all the other digital platforms.

In My Arms

Jorkes - In My Arms

@DemiRiquisimo is returning to his in-house imprint, Semi Delicious, with his second EP and ready to pick up where he left off with the aptly titled ‘Mysterious EP’, dropping today (3rd May 2019). The only vinyl release imprint saw his first EP lock in huge support from names like Optimo, Rex The Dog, Horse Meat Disco, Theo Kottis, Skream, Loods, Auntie Flo, Simian Mobile Disco and Tensnake, and even a coveted premiere on BBC Radio 1 by Pete Tong himself, while this one did not fail to get the attention of the infamous BBC1 “Danny Howard” claiming that he knew little about Demi but quite literally he would have played all the four tracks after receiving this EP in his inbox.

Opening with Pa De Chevaux, the chugging Bootsy Collins-style topline bass works in harmony with the vocal sample to create something so deliciously funky that you’ll still be moving long after the track ends. Fans of A Lifetime On The Hips are in for a treat on A2 as Certified revives the former’s stomping 4/4 kick and delivers one of the naughtiest modulated acid-arp basslines to ever grace the dancefloor. Enter lush chords, dreamy vocal sampling and wonderfully pacey hi-hats, and you’ve got one of the EP’s strongest tracks.

On the B-side, the quality doesn’t let up and you’re reminded that each track could easily be the lead. The title track, Mysterious, is a clear follow-up to Sarong Song with the perfect combination of acid basslines, 808 kicks and an array of live strings, organs, and horns mixed in to pack plenty of punch. Tagine Machine leads with an afro-centric percussive intro before delving into the depths of tough, synth-laden electro-disco. Inspired by a trip to Morocco and the sights and sounds that the souks of Marrakesh are filled with, Tagine Machine reflects the breadth of Demi’s musical inspiration. Bringing together elements of acid, disco, house and everything in-between, Demi Riquísimo once again demonstrates why he’s quickly becoming one of the most exciting talents on the scene.

Release Date - 03/05/19

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfM5lEfNWWU&t=139s

SInchi Blog: https://www.sinchi-collective.com/premiere-demi-riquisimo-tagine-machine-semi-delicious/

Mysterious

PREMIERE – Demi Riquísimo – Tagine Machine (Semi Delicious)

synthesizer disco, acid-dripping house & psychedelic techno - RSS Disco's straws slurp across the cosmic melange that is music.

have a dance with us at hello@undundbooking.com
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we run Mireia Records (@mireiarec) 

here's some upcoming dates:

01.01.25 - Sisyphos / Berlin 
26.01.25 - Island Universe / Berlin
08.02.25 - Ursprung Fi / Köln
22.02.25 - Turtur / Hamburg
15.03.25 - private / CH
29.03.25 - Discoteket / Stockholm / SE
26.04.25 - Nachtasyl / Hamburg
30.05.25 - private / Mainz
31.05.25 - Bosburcht Festival / NL
15.06.25 - Daylight Discotheque / Hamburg
21.06.25 - Tauron Nowa Muzyka Festiwal / PL
29.06.25 - Fusion Festival  / Lärz
05.07.25 - Thalia Theater / Hamburg
12.07.25 - HMV Sonnendeck / Hamburg
19.07.25 - Georgies Wundergarten / NL
27.07.25 - Salt & Silver / St. Peter Ording
09.08.25 - Daylight Discotheque / Berlin
15.08.25 - Dockville Festival / Hamburg
16.08.25 - Bucht der Träumer / Festival
14.09.25 - Sisyphos / Berlin
27.09.25 - Pratersauna / Wien / AT
02.10.25 - Allnighty / Nachtasyl / Hamburg
04.10.25 - 10 Jahre Z-Bau / Nürnberg
11.10.25 - Alter Ego / Amsterdam / NL
18.10.25 - ://about blank / Berlin
24.10.24 - RBL Torino Radio
24.10.25 - Devozioni Baleari / Turin / IT
14.11.25 - Le Confetti Club / Berlin
15.11.25 - Alle Lampen An / Südpol / Hamburg
06.12.25 - tba / Berlin
27.12.25 - tba / tba
31.12.25 - La Dolce Vita / Thalia Theater / Hamburg
01.101.25 - tba/tba
03.01.26 - Kater / Berlin

hope to see you soon again!