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Severin Black & Vanessa Bedoret 'First Passage' [AV007]

Harnessed the Storm

The Plankton Organization

Tri Repetae

Eutow

Pavel Milyakov — drifted off (feat. Richie Culver)

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Track from NE58 Varg – Sky City: A Weak Heart to Break (Spit)
Out on vinyl and digital May 3rd.

Part curse, part declaration, part Rorschach test, Varg's new collection of EPs is a barely balanced inferno. Side by side, raw club burners arrive from the wretched plateaus levelled out by chaotic neurotransmissions, while sweet and soft anthems take the pain away.

The first EP, Sky City: Even in the Heart of Heaven, Angels Can Still Feel Fear, affirms Varg's deft and agile take on techno. Here minimalism spars with blissed out programming, unafraid to pepper sedate hooks with intricate percussive rufige. With each track's eyes on the raving kru, Varg restates his permit to take it to the floor. It's foreboding, but it always has been—and Sky City: A Weak Heart to Break (Spit) makes this its method. Launching itself under the opening track's dazzling melancholic sweep, the EP loses its way in every direction at once by the last track's glitching gabber meltdown. Fair warning is required for the demonic and cosmically unhinged piece of rhythmic noise that begins the second side.

Artwork by David von Bahr
Production assistance by Anthony Linell
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Sky City: A Weak Heart to Break (Spit)

Varg – A Weak Heart To Break (BD 4-Ever)

Nordic Flora Series, Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City

Yamanote Line (原宿)

Misantropen

Stambanan

Nordic Flora Series, Pt. 1: Heroine

I Think I'd Lie for You

Body of Lila

From: Placid Angles - Touch The Earth (FIGURE LP07)
Out: March 29th 2021
Preorder: http://bit.ly/FIGURE_LP07

When the first Placid Angels album dropped in 1997, Jon Beltran was already an established force within dance music’s then-emerging scene. He had a knack for both the melodic side as well as intricately designed rhythmic programming. A signature style that went for his early records in the 1990s as much as it does for this new installment of the Placid Angels series.

The blissful synths, Aphex Twin-era IDM and loose percussive patterns take you right back to where it all began when genres didn’t mean anything and Beltran was just starting out to experiment with any sound that would elevate your consciousness.

The Michigan-born artist since has spanned a career of nearly four decades, remaining relevant all the while, by playing the music he found himself most drawn to express. By working with artists like Detroit veteran Carl Craig, labels such as R&S or more recently his LPs for Delsin or his joint work with Four Tet. Whether it be his more Techno-leaning or New Wave-inspired works, his takes on Ambient, or the more Latin-influenced productions - he has always stayed active and re-invented himself while painting his records with a clearly own palette that is full of beautiful melodies and a timeless sound-design. 

The album Touch The Earth itself comes as diverse as the artist’s own legacy, ranging from skittish, colorful UKG to proper pulsing sub-basslines as it progresses deeper into intelligent drum programming and further into the melodic ventures of what’s at the core of Beltran’s work. Drawing to a close, ambient tones overweigh, as Beltran oozes the last drops of emotion from this LP, leaving the angels to look down placidly.

Artwork by Tim Calver Photography.
www.figure-music.com

Touch The Earth

PREORDER

Premiere: Placid Angles - Beauty Begins With Us (Feat Malibu And Baby Blue)

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Ryoji Ikeda