Alex Albrecht returns with Aurora - a pristine followup to his Blue Caves transmission via Scissor and Thread in 2018.

The Melbourne based composer and sound designer Albrecht has leans into his predilection for woozy, affecting melodies intertwined with skittering drums and snaking grooves, and Aurora brings that to the fore with six tracks of shimmering beauty.

The title track Aurora is shared here as a remix by @roza-terenzi, who entirely reworks the track with her signature club ready grooves.

Remixer: @roza-terenzi
Buy: https://melquiades-alexalbrecht.bandcamp.com/album/aurora

Aurora

PREMIERE: Alex Albrecht - Aurora (Roza Terenzi Remix) [Scissor and Thread]

Artist: @soelaela
Buy/Stream: www.linktr.ee/scissorandthread

Soela is the DJ and production alias of Elina Shorokhova, a Russia-born Berlin-based experienced pianist and vocalist who has made a hugely impactful transition into electronic music.

Having released material on such labels as Kompakt, Dial, Shall Not Fade, Lost Palms, E-Beamz, Red Ember Records, Sushitech, and others, Soela joins the ranks of Scissor & Thread for this exquisite album - Dark Portrait. 

The album opens in a typically understated manner with Unsuitable - a melancholic trip-hop adjacent track that sets the tone for the next 8 pieces. As Soela explains, “I was dealing with some very complex feelings, so I came up with this album, which helped me not to despair, to work on myself, to grow internally, and to start listening to myself. It helped me to keep sane when my country invaded Ukraine with a full scale war. It absolutely broke my heart, and music was one of my main salvations.” 

This complex mix of emotions plays out across the album with tracks that utilize her beautiful musicality (Through the Windows feat. Francis Harris and Philipp Priebe, Drowning feat. Module One) and ear for details with skittering beats, ambient soundscapes (Spirits, Lost In The Fog) and lose-yourself dancefloor moments such as the collaboration with Lawrence on February Is Not Going To Be Forever. The title track Dark Portrait combines dubby elements with affecting pads and melodic touches, while the lead single Even If I Ask You Stay delves into multiple feelings around escaping toxic situations, and battling depression. It features a powerful vocal from Soela supported by a deeply affecting arrangement. The closing track The Darkest Hour Before Sunrise brings a sense of hope and light, balancing subdued keys and strings with ethereal tones and atmospheres

Dark Portrait

Soela - Lost In The Fog

The Final Versions - Movements in an Empty Department Store (Remixes |||)

Clouds Floating in a Haze of Light (Hame Remix)

https://www.decks.de/track/tm_shuffle_monoder_aleksi_myllykoski_tapani_rinne-soulful_dubs_02/cn9-rt

Coming out late 2024

Soulful dubs is Tm Shuffles outlet for sophisticated, atmospheric & deep house/techno. Soulful Dubs 02 A-side brings you Velvet by Tm Shuffle, Monoder and Tapani Rinne. Both two versions serve you soft tender moods backed by deep bass and strong earthy vibrations. Move your body into nightly hours, whether in the bedroom, balcony or a sweaty basement club. B-side takes you on a flight further commanded by Aleksi Myllykoski and Tapani Rinne. Slowburn turns the strobelights on and your flight into darkness is powerful and pleasant. Tm Shuffle has you diving even further into distance with his trademark echos and moods.

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https://www.decks.de/track/ohm_kvadrant_armin_bender_tm_shuffle_gonzalo_villarreal-ruutana_city_mood_series_vol_2/cn9-rn

Dub House n Techno at its best. VUO Records!

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I just released an EP that was sleeping in my computer for too long. 

Bandcamp

Pheek Spae (Original Mix)

A final offering of light and surrender, where form dissolves into presence and intention fades into grace. Each sound moves like a silent prayer, unfolding without demands or weight. In the act of letting go, everything finds its place: whole, eternal, and free.

Golden Eclipse

Stuck - 90bpm

The water was calm and still. The fountain which sat perched amidst the middle of the pond was beautifully illuminated by the glow of flickering lights and beaming golden tapestry. Sat perched upon a bench she watched the people walk past, very few even glanced towards the the magnificent feature. They were absorbed in their own little worlds, busy distracted by ambitious prospects and bothersome thoughts. The bench was cold beneath her weight as she perched, this was the same spot that she had visited for many years. It always felt like home. 

Sevensol & Bender are the enigmatic duo behind KANN, a label which has been home to the likes of Traumprinz, Llewellyn, Sven Tasnadi and more. The pair have contributed a number of EP's themselves to the label, however their latest might be the most special to date. A truly beautiful EP set for release on the 16th of February next month.

Das Ideale Geschenk

PREMIERE:  Sevensol & Bender - Mythen Center Korfu [KANN]

The keeping of pets marks humans’ attempt at taking possession of a part of reality that is not at his disposal. Dressing a piece of the real that lives according to entirely non-human rules and which only in the saddest case does not resist the discipline of the human symbolic order vehemently and in a sustained matter, is a violent act of protection. Because in the non-place of the real, all that which we are helpless in the face of looms: the non-logical and the nameless, the violence and the noise, yet also the unrestrained and unfiltered desire.
The innocuous figure of the pet marks a gateway to an investigation of these eerie milieus, while electronic dance music lends itself to this investigation in an outstanding way. This constellation marks the subject of Column’s ‘Pets II.’ 

Column is the name of Cologne based renaissance man Jan Philipp Janzen, who, as chief emissary of Cologne’s pop internationalism, has been playing the field in various functions for Von Spar, Cologne Tapes, Urlaub in Polen, Owen Pallett, Scout Niblett or The Field, and who has also, in one way or another, been involved in most relevant records coming out of Cologne for the past number of years. After his
excellent solo debut ‘Pets I’ (Areal, 2016), Janzen presents another extraordinary record in ‘Pets II,’ perfectly complemented by another ghostly oil work of Burkhard Moennich on the cover.
Sonically, ‘Pets II’ marks a clear development for Column. In its exploration of the thresholds of the real, it sets two points of focus, corresponding with the split in sides A and B. Side A, on which Janzen teams up with long-time friend myr. (PNN), explores the uncanny as a fissure of the symbolic order, and the subsequent breaking in of the real. It opens with two peaktime rockets that have their wooden, nether-regional groove narrated by grim, down-pitched vocals. The ethereal remix by Leibniz (hundert) seems to be observing the situation from a hiding place, and is the side’s clandestine and no less dark closer. Side B, for which Janzen invited studiomate Marvin Horsch (Dorfjungs/Beats in Space) along, delivers two swaying synthesizer workouts, the second of which, “Molly and Swerve,” is directed firmly at the dancefloor again. What is at stake here is the transition between a free, undirected jouissance of the real and a more ordered becoming-lust. Here, as in
Map.ache’s (Kann/Giegling/Altin Village) remix which closes out ‘Pets II,’ it becomes clear what connections dance music can foster between a free, impersonal desire and the sphere of interpersonal wanting, but also the losses that are negotiated in it.

Above all, however, it becomes evident what a courageous daring project ‘Pets II’ is in all of its conceptual and aesthetic determination; with Von Spar’s standout ‘Garzweiler’ 12” (Altin Village & Mine, 2017), it documents a New Cologne Realism.

Pets II

Hostels (Map.ache Remix)

Column - Hostels (Map.ache Remix)- IRR017

Selected and mixed by @andrey-pushkarev

Artwork by www.christine-auger.com

Tracklist:

1) Anna Akhmatova - From the cycle "Secrets of Craft": Creativity (Мелодия)

2)Factice Factory - Wie Raben (Ambient Version) (minimood)

3)Arctic Hospital - Rotating Water (Narita Records)

4)Warmth - Concave (Past Inside the Present)

5)Cheise - Planet Four (AHAAD)

6)Sonmi451 - Bay Hatch (Astral Industries)

7)Warmth - Reflector (Past Inside the Present)

8)Pablo Bolivar - Mechanical Age (Regular)

9)Juan Atkins & Moritz Von Oswald - Afterlude (Tresor)

LOA Triptych Podcast: Ambient

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