@cloudyku @djali3313 @amphibian_rec.

Taiwanese, Naarm/Melbourne-based DJ and producer Cloudy Ku teams up with Lebanese DJ and producer DJ Ali for their evocative Trance collaboration, "Angel Dust," featured on Transmission for Lebanon via @amphibian_rec.

All proceeds from this album will be donated to the Lebanese Red Cross, Beirut Synth Center, which directly supports local shelters and provides resources to displaced communities, as well as Secours Populaire.

Explore the full compilation on Bandcamp:
https://amphibianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/transmission-for-lebanon

Tracklist:

takaDumm - الواقع المتغير
Lost Dog & GbClifford - Someplace Else
expandcollapse - the world keeps ending and the world goes on
Kabal - Escape From Zion (lo-fi tape mix)
Malachi Constant - Doves Above Mount Lebanon
Oblaka - Land With a Throbbing Heart
Elpac - Silicon Studies
ODM - shun
Ancestral Vision - Sizzler
Trauma - Desertwalk II
Atoloi - Contaminazioni Riddim
count - Setback
Alfred Czital - Yan’s First Interview
Feenicks - In Better Hands
Cloudy Ku & Dj Ali - Angel Dust
MASS CONSUMPTION (C4AT) - STRIKE1
Schacke - The Waiting Game
Mu'taism & Kobayashi Maru - Primal Resources
atch22 - Cedar Tekk
Aplus Plusplus - Fofr
INN - Phantom Wave
Inger Illel - Never Ending Light of Lebanon

Graphic design: Farah Fayyad
Mastering: Ancestral Vision

Released by:
Amphibian Records
Release date:
30 January 2025

Premiere: Cloudy Ku x DJ Ali - Angel Dust

To speak to Luca Daniel Schwarz aka LDS about his music is to be enthusiastically guided into a complex world of his own creation: clean and powerful techno which pulses with life from the textured patterns and drum sequences that have fills and accents that would make anyone who's picked up a set of drumsticks envious.

Yet this ecosystem of noise is deceptive; Schwarz's process for making music is very different to how a live drummer would create the same subtlety of performance. Forever researching new technology, Luca got deeply interested in different programming languages, and created a series of probability based music tools for manoeuvring sounds and sequencing.

Manipulating those probabilities takes a skillful alchemy, needing understanding of both musical structure and how the tools he devised work. To return to the drummer analogy, if the drummer is focussed and intentional in the moment of playing, then the method used in LDS tracks is almost diametrically opposed, with all of the intention coming in the assembly of the instruments, potential paths, and gateways; once play is pressed the music flows, following all the rules that were set in advance, not unlike a domino run or Rube Goldberg machine.

And like a domino run, the results are fascinating and, ultimately, fun: staccato vocals pop in and out in 'zipp prompt'; laser-like synths pulse; background noises sweep across the aural plane of the dub techno of 'diff, blockmix' and 'pow' adding texture that brings vitality all-too-easily missed out when complex mathematical processes become entwined with music creation. The high sensitivity to texture and rhythmic detail in Stadion Progg is multiplied further on Jean Redondo's remix - whose track, Hypersonic, was the backbone of 2023's 'yet' compilation on Tresor.

The balance between technology and a sense of fun might also come from the maker; it's not easy to overstate Schwarz's passion for what is now his favourite way to make music, "it never gets boring. There's always a moment of anticipation to see what actually emerges." And the true "power of 2" comes into play when the resulting music can be fed back through the system again and again, potentiating the music in exponential ways.

BANDCAMP

PREMIERE: LDS - stadion progg

Letgo

Unmastered and unreleased bangers from Bjarki's archive. 

Bjarki - PINK - 02 Cooking electric tech house

untitled doomsday

Max Cantrell - Pressure Test

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from coldsweat. "pointy sharp ouch" comes off the new LP, Positive Merits, forthcoming on Surfrimiento. The release features five original tracks by coldsweat, alongside three powerful remixes by Ekzander, DR. GRECO, and Justin Jay.

Spanning eight tracks in total, the LP is a dynamic and genre-defying ride through the vast spectrum of club music. From techno and UK garage to bass, ghetto house, and even flashes of eurodance, coldsweat and its remixers blend intensity, rhythm, and emotional weight with a distinct and fearless voice. With this release, Sufrimiento Records continues to celebrate the diversity and mutability of dance music—one foot in the rave, the other in experimentation. 

Out August 29th. Get it at: https://sufrimientorecords.bandcamp.com/album/positive-merits-sr027

PREMIERE: coldsweat - pointy sharp ouch [SR027]

Free Download

Mounem - Kosmos

Some connections just are after crossed paths in a club — misfits in our own ways, but instantly aligned in spirit. The electronic scene gave us room to be odd, to be ourselves, and that’s where this collaboration found its ground.
Liquified and Reassembled EP is the outcome: three tracks born from restless self experimentation and a refusal to follow the straight line. The title says it all — dissolving form, breaking down, reshaping again and again. It’s emotional and physical at once, moving between intensity and release, chaos and clarity.
With Schacke’s roots in Copenhagen and Irene's vision from Berlin and the global south, the EP fuses different angles of the underground into one fluid statement. It’s music for those who live in the margins and turn them into playgrounds.

Schacke & Cunt Remember - Liquified And Reassembled 

S-IN 004

Sacred Interface.

Mastered by: Joel Krozer at Sixbitdeep
Artwork by: Irene Carbonari 
Photos by: Feyd Angles


Liquified And Reassembled

Black Back Drop

4-Venox-Transhuman-150 Bpm. V/A Ethereal Step

Turn Down The Lights (Epic Demo Version)

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