https://inverted-audio.com/feature/selected-works-march-2024/

March was undoubtedly a fire-starter month for underground music. We’ve cut through the clutter with this sifted list of hot releases.

Selected Works: March 2024

vibin

$lZT3M

Volcano

Good At Breaking Hearts (feat. Jnr Williams & Loaded Honey)

Pretty Little Thing (feat. Bas)

Us Against The World

I've Been In Love (feat. Channel Tres)

Buy / stream digital: https://hypeddit.com/aromanice/lostrealms

"I live in a small scene-less seaside town called Southport in the North West of England where there isn’t much to do other than wander beaches, parks and dunes and nab vinyl from the record and charity shops with intent to make tunes. Growing up I've been exposed to all types of music from Jazz to Jungle, Easy Listening to Hardcore, you name it. I like all kinds of music and try to incorporate elements from multiple genres fused with my favourite heartbeat - breakbeat Jungle. Here I present to you a collection of tunes I’ve produced using an combination of software and hardware. Themes include procrastination, disgruntlement, isolation, quarrels and boredom. Ladies and Gentleman I present to you Lost Realms."
— @aroma-nice

Artwork by the amazing Payo Sanf: https://www.instagram.com/payosanf

Lost Realms

Digital

Aroma Nice — Lost Realms

Quantum Web

Pair A Dice

Vinyl & Digital here: https://ffm.to/slvmncr003

All music created, performed and mixed by Gesloten Cirkel

Artwork by Simon Fowler
Design by Niek Kessels
Mastered by Alain Paul
Distribution by Clone
Unleashed by Selvamancer

A2. Gesloten Cirkel - Everything For The Dev

Hold Your Horses

One Hand One Bounce

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More about the world has changed than not in the decade since dance production dyad Frank & Tony released their last full-length record, 2014’s You Go Girl. Despite, or perhaps in spite of, this shifting landscape, house music has managed to stay fundamentally reliable (either a bug or its greatest feature, depending on who you ask). Where previously, Frank & Tony have been celebrated for their contemplative, studious approach to the genre, with 2024’s Ethos, the Brooklyn/Biarritz-based duo return amidst metastatic cultural upheaval to prove out those scholarly credentials — with an album that serves to remind listeners why dancefloors and liberatory politics consistently share the language of movements and revolutions. 
"House music has always been an expression of political desire as it often was the only safe space for communities to come together in ways that society at large disallowed,” Harris enthuses. “The same energy in the ‘90s could be found in parts of the punk & hardcore scene. Countercultures exist to create temporary autonomous zones of desire outside of dominant narratives that are roadblocks to creation. We have always been inspired by these countercultural movements and the Frank & Tony project is deeply influenced by it."
Though the project originates from the relationship between house legends Francis Harris and Anthony Collins, the titular Frank & Tony were born of a fictional, happenstance meeting inspired by Harris’s experiences in the more liminal, amorphous dance and punk scenes of the late ‘90s/early 2000s (as exemplified in the early works of photographer Anouk Schneider, whose photographs feature on the duo’s first releases). In a world beyond dialectic, where bodies are simultaneously revered and decentered, Frank & Tony connect for one night on an imaginary dancefloor, vowing to make work together in the future; however, having exchanged no information, and with classic club kid garb obscuring any common identifying characteristics, they turn to the internet in hopes of reconnecting for a collaboration.
This origin myth hones in on the crucial history of the dancefloor as a stage whereupon individuals, regardless of background, enact political and socioeconomic desire to scale, highlighting such locations as the tertiary factor present in intimate relationships of all kinds, brought about when two individuals unite and produce that mysterious third thing that was never really possible without blurring the lines of identity so that collaborative creation can happen. 

In practice, it sounds like the record needed by fans of the genre, full of the lightness and space in rooms full of fellow revelators. “We’re only able to make house music because of the vast legacy of producers from New York, Detroit and Chicago who laid the foundation for what we do today,” Collins divulges. “In many ways it can never really live up to that legacy as our art is born out of privilege rather than necessity to create spaces of political desire in the face of marginalization. So what does this mean? We take that legacy very seriously and we want our stamp on this history to resonate with current and future generations as a bridge to the real history behind it."

Undoubtedly, Ethos is tremendously influenced by the multitude of projects originating from, and supported by, the duo and their label in the decade since You Go Girl– releasing records from a vast diversity of artists (including Nadia Khan, Gry, Villete, Darand Land, Alex Albrecht, Dj Sprinkles and CCL), and Harris becoming curatorial voice of Brooklyn’s premiere venue for audiophiles, Public Records, where he continues to amplify work across a global diaspora (and where the duo maintain a residency of wide praise).

By The End They Will

Frank & Tony - By The End They Will

Doc Sleep arrives at Dark Entries with 'Cloud Sight Fade', an album of ethereal house and techno.

Featured: https://klubikon.com/2024/02/27/premiere-doc-sleep-professor-eucalyptus 

'Cloud Sight Fade' LP will be available after the 8th of March https://doc-sleep.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-sight-fade 

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Cloud Sight Fade

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PREMIERE: Doc Sleep - Professor Eucalyptus

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-marijn-s-micro-wave

Hong Kong-based record label Transarctica prepare to unleash ‘Tiny Rave‘ EP from Dutch producer Marijn S...Our pick from the release is 'Micro Wave'. Kicking off with a breakbeat prelude reminiscent of the quick-mix theory from the legendary Grandmaster Flash, followed by space-echoed drum rhythms combined with a high-spirited chorus and deeply rooted basslines, the track encapsulates uncanny textures sitting between downtempo-infused IDM and deviant breaks, perfectly suited for a global warming situation on a deliquescent dancefloor.

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Tiny Rave EP

Micro Wave

Marijn S - Micro Wave [Transarctica]

Artist: ValaV
Title: Urphänomen
Label: Silencio Collective
Cat. Number: SLCVA001
Format: Digital
Follow the artist : https://www.instagram.com/valav_official/

Follow the collective : https://www.instagram.com/silencio.in/

GTG Premiere | ValaV - Urphänomen [SLCVA001]

REVIEW > inverted-audio.com/review/howes-cold-storage

With numbered tracks and a succinct title, @john-howes 'Cold Storage' seems without reference, a series of sounds seemingly left to speak for themselves. Yet at its finest moments, the album points towards hidden depths, wells of inchoate meaning that speak volumes without saying anything at all.

Tape 08 - Howes - Cold Storage

A.04

A.02

Scissor & Thread is cut from a different cloth than your average dance imprint.

Frank & Tony - By The End They Will

Scissor and Thread