Toby Tobias was back in the studio today with 2 hours of ambient, reggae, trance, house and a few breaks. Listen back.

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Toby Tobias - November 2022

Release date: 3/3/23
Order the lp here:
https://icube.bandcamp.com/album/i-cube-eye-cube-verlp45
We wanted to leave you the surprise of the full lengh tracks for the day of the release, however,we know it’s annoying not to be able to listen the music before eventually order a record.
So we decided to make an auto zapping of the records you can check it out.
Hope you’ll enjoy and understand our way to do it

Eye Cube - album snippet preview mini mix

I-Cube/Eye Cube/album snippet preview mini mix.

Enjoy & share the music!
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Ernie @ Personal Deeper January 2023

@sessionvictim
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Sonic Revelations reveals the first episode this year with a very special contribution. matthias reiling (1/2 of @sessionvictim) is kicking off the first hour with „a mix of in-game music from the best home computer there can ever be“. hear the early beginnings of commodore amiga 500 music, composed to an explorational and aesthetic journey. @samrein continues to showcase the early beginnings of more raving video game gems and develops thriving energetic break- and acid-vibes. this stuff should be heard on a dance floor!

Tracklist Matthias Reiling:
(artist - game - track)

Greg Haggard, Jim Simmons - It Came From The Desert - Intro
Martin Iveson - Darkmere - Forest Intro
Matt Furniss - Laser Squad - Moonbase Assault
Jochen Hippel - A Prehistoric Tale - Level 2A (edit)
Stephane Picq - KGB - Ingame
Allister Brimble - Assassin - Intro Speech
Olof Gustavsson - Pinball Dreams - Intro/Ignition
Matt Gray - Last Ninja 2 - 01 Loading Music (Remix)
Paul Van Der Valk - Hybris - Ingame
Jochen Hippel - The Seven Gates Of Jambala - Title Screen 2
Chris Huelsbeck - Apydia - The Pond
Nation 12 - Speedball 2 - Theme
Chris Huelsbeck - Turrican 1 - Main Theme
Andreas Starr - Legend Of Ferghail - Intro

Sonic Revelations #8 w/ Matthias Reiling (Session Victim) 19.01.23

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JVXTA is a DJ and producer based in London (UK). He also co-founded the label Hardmatter.
  
Here, Scissor And Thread, the Brooklyn imprint headed by Francis Harris and Anthony Collins share JVXTA’s debut album - Euston Blues. 

The album is a collection of moods and textures, from woozy soundscapes like opener No One Needs to Know and Voyager, to grooving, dusty house tracks like Hold On, Water Temple and Lost in Place. 

Tracks develop from ambient textures into leftfield beat excursions (Beyond) and incorporate thoughtful samples such as the spoken word poetry in The Stolen Child.

Elements of free improvisation and experimentation pepper the album, while a strong thread of atmospheric cohesion winds its way through the eight tracks - making Euston Blues a truly rewarding and rich listening experience. 

"Euston Blues synthesises deep chords, classic house rhythms and jazz laden influences to chronicle an intimate journey of physical and psychological isolation." says Charles Field, the man behind the JVXTA project. 

"Scope is relative and this transposition is explored from the seclusion of a single room to the expanses of the Beyond".

Euston Blues

Voyager

JVXTA - Voyager

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Black Light Smoke returns to revered New York label Scissor and Thread with Ghosts, a sophomore LP that sees the Chicago native revisiting his youth through exploring the origins of house music, while touching on themes of closure, creativity and identity. This LP is something of an anticipated homecoming as he debuted on the label over a decade ago with his gritty, analog sound, and he’d become a regular fixture throughout Scissor and Thread’s earlier years before pursuing other projects.

Rochester-based Black Light Smoke is the moniker of Jordan Lieb. Moving to New York in 2001 for close to two decades, as a multidisciplined musician his career has taken flight in many forms. Writing music for TV and film for over 20 years, recognition for his work came early with Emmy nominations and an Emmy win. Recent projects include Ana Lily Amirpour’s movie The Bad Batch, starring Keanu Reeves, Suki Waterhouse and Jason Mamoa, and biographical sports mo- ckumentary I, Tonya with Margot Robbie. Aside from working full-time in TV and film, his passion projects under Black Light Smoke include releases via Brooklyn labels Scissor and Thread and Cut Mistake Music, as well as from his own imprint Death Decay Magic which since its 2020 launch has found fans in Bloody Mary, The Hacker, DJ Hell, Green Velvet and Posthuman for its explorations through dark wave, post punk and dark techno.

Spanning ‘90s house, soulful beats and dusty grooves, Ghosts speaks to Jor- dan’s clashes with the intrusive shadows and demons of his past. Written across a two-year stretch, it was a fraught period which heavily impacted his creative life. “Producing this LP took so much more time than I’m used to,” he explains. “I’m invited back to Scissor and Thread but I didn’t know how I’d fit back into the label after years away. I’d then ask myself what am I doing producing house music - I’m now family-focussed and not out clubbing any more, so what am I dra- wing on. I didn’t realise that there’d be two years of soul searching, and that I’d come up against a bit of an identity crisis in trying to find my artistic voice again. I realised that I didn’t have to reinvent, but simply had to make something that came from my heart. I needed to push through a lot for the new ideas to come.”

Once Jordan honed in on his reverence for the origins of house music, from the founders to the creators behind its “second wave”, he felt a shift forward in mo- tivation and productivity. Born and raised in Chicago, he was an impressionable teen during the mid ‘90s, with illegal warehouse raves being his access point. That era left its mark and influenced his need to later immerse himself in club culture which he’d do in New York.

“I found myself in that world. I found my purpose and identity in New York’s scene and did it all with brilliant people. House music was the soundtrack to this trans- formative decade in my life. It was everything through my twenties and thirties. There were the iconic clubs like Cielo and Output, but also the golden era of after parties, connecting and crate digging with mates - there’s nothing as beautiful as that. This LP kinda closes that chapter of my life while creating music that I feel stays true to my roots.”

All of his personal proceeds from the LP will go to The Little Bit Foundation, a non-profit committed to improving access to education for students living in poverty across St. Louis, Missouri. “We start with our children when working towards generational progress. I’m now a father to young children so this hits home. I went with The Little Bit Foundation because of their broad and holistic approach which focuses on health and nutrition, academic equity, family support, and college readiness.”

Sprinkles Says

Black Light Smoke - Sprinkles Says

O'RHEUN Mix // @Gasbe_Sound

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O'RHEUN Mix - Gasbe

Jackmin (real name - Mindaugas Juodeikis) is a DJ and promoter who started his career back in 2005 in Kaunas. Mindaugas' musical style was formed while dancing at the then legendary progressive, deep house parties, and behind the DJ decks he was known as a representative of deep house, jackin house styles. During many years of playing, Jackmin was a resident of clubs and bars in Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, played at such festivals as Sūpynės, Granatos, on radio shows and curated the Spicy Sugar series of events and podcasts.

Over the years, the musical style has correlated with trends, but has always maintained a positive deep, spacy sound, placed in the framework of house, disco genres and maneuvering between modern and 90s sound.

Named as a "sun and see music pioneer", Jackmin maintains tradition and sound and presents a summer house mix that takes you to the sea and far into the African jungle.

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238⚡Jackmin

stretched into infinity, until it’s only texture
2025-04-15

paul stretch my hands

L'entré du bureau

In My Head (Slowed Down)

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