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SUM [SNDST025]

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1: Amelie Lens - Paralyzed
2: BEC - The Devil On My Shoulder
3: Clint Stewart - Vaults
4: Frazier - Blind Spot
5: Gellert - Enius
6: Michael Klein - Volution
7: Oliver Albach - NP2612
8: Reform - Last Night
9: Stephan Hinz - Onyx
10: The Reason Y - Interception
11: VONDA7 - Tel Aviv

Following in the footsteps of the HUB series, we are elated to present you the first installment of our new biannual various artist series: SUM. With the focus on individual tracks from our core artists as well as close friends, cohorts and like minded producers, SUM opens the doors for a wide array of artists to release cutting edge tracks spanning the spectrum of modern Techno. From the stripped back, rumbling cuts of Amelie Lens, Stephan Hinz, and VONDA7 to the ethereal vibes of Clint Stewart, BEC and Reform to dusty warehouse compositions of Michael Klein, The Reason Y, and Oliver Albach to the lively playfulness of Frazier and Gellert, SUM merges eleven stunning tracks compiled into a single, powerful exhibition.

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Amelie Lens - Paralyzed

Move Your Body To The Beat EP

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Reinier Zonneveld, Miro - Shining (Reinier Zonneveld's Filth on Acid Remix) [Filth on Acid]

16. Reinier Zonneveld - Manifesto (Original Mix)

I am fortunate to present the remixes of CAITLIN Freaks & Misfits by Victor Ruiz and myself on Electric Ballroom.

Freaks & Misfits is CAITLIN’s first solo release after years of producing electronic music and songs along side contemporaries like Noir, Patrice Bäumel and Thomas Schumacher.
CAITLIN and I have collaborated on the original three track EP released on WIR Musik as well as two of the remixes on this three track offering. (Thomas Schumacher)

CAITLIN - Far From Home (Thomas Schumacher Remix)

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Filth on Acid keeps it Filthy with a Brazilian national under influence of Berlin fumes: Alex Stein, who delivered us 2 super filthy tracks for your dancefloor.
This is FILTH ON ACID NOW!

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Alex Stein - Bonfire

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Picking up where 2018's debut album left off, Pleasurekraft continue their foray into the Cosmic Techno sub-genre they helped usher in to the dance music lexicon.

The new album Love in the Age of Machines is in no short supply of the sonic signatures the production duo have become known for, there is a clear maturation at work here.  The album's non-techno tracks showcase an artistry rarely seen in conventional dance music and techno in particular. From the gritty dystopian future that establishes the album's themes at the onset in Last Sapien, to the dark, rainy, urban-lit textures that form the spine of Nostalgic for the Future, there is a sense of impending self-wrought catastrophe, tempered with a sense of wonder of all that is, and all that could be if humanity somehow overcomes its hubris. 

Things get more intense and turbulent on Panopticon (The Patron Saint of Global Surveillance) [ft. Thomas Gandey] before the voyage to the edges of our galaxy continues on I Sing the Body Electric & Main Sequence which keep up the enthralling techno atmospheres with increasing pressure, before the tension is released with the cinematic grandeur of Novacene. Two more hard hitting bangers in At The Mountains of Madness and Primordial then rebuild the all consuming techno mood before you're left adrift in the cosmos with the album's swan song Requiem For the American Dream.

As Kaveh Soroush of Pleasurekraft puts it, "Without sounding too reductionist, humans are simply a bundle of biochemical algorithms with a few holes at either end, who mistake their sensory experiences as objective, and their sense of self as something concrete, when in fact science reveals to us with each new finding that our basic intuitions about reality and the world around us have not evolved much from our first ancestors, who just wanted to make sure not to get eaten for long enough to feed and procreate on the African savannah. While there are certainly wonders about the Cosmos we have discovered given our enlarged frontal lobes, and technologies that we've invented dating back to when the first tool was built thanks to an opposable thumb, we haven't been the best custodians of the only planet that can sustain us, and history makes it abundantly clear that our wisdom lags far behind the technological advancements we develop with each new day."

Despite the overtly pessimistic tone, ultimately there is a sense of potential change on the horizon. That perhaps a species which has come up with abstract ideas of love, justice, liberty, and created works of immense artistic and scientific beauty, might just find a way to correct course before it's too late. This sense of wonder is in full display on The Occupant, and the potential seed for our enlightenment is planted in Corpse Reviver Number 3, a track brimming with homages to the love of philosophy and its place in navigating a more examined life.  

Ultimately Love in the Age of Machines feels like a dystopian sci-fi soundtrack written for optimists who want to change humanity's looming fate.  While still firmly rooted in the techno genre, the album evokes themes and ideas that are universal to the human experience and our place in the Cosmos, and it is this aspect of the album that makes Love in the Age of Machines such a rewarding musical experience.  It's techno that is at once accessible and intelligent, a combination rarely heard in today's endless sea of dance music.

Premiere: Pleasurekraft ft Amāl Gama - Hush

One of Drumcode’s most indispensable talents, Tiger Stripes blesses us with another classy two-tracker.

In the last 11 years Mikael Nordgren aka Tiger Stripes has appeared on Adam Beyer’s Drumcode and Truesoul labels a total of eight times. The Swede has a masterful command of his machines and is an inspired sound designer, imbuing his productions with bags of creativity and cross-genre futurism. His last outing on DC ‘Into Isolation’ was a colourful five-piece of super-charged techno, reinforcing the breadth and strength of his studio work. Nine months on, we have another offering to add to the canon.

‘Jack The Garage’ is a fast and furious leader, mixing up jacking dancefloor functionalism with raw and distorted sounds inspired by garage rock bands such as The 13 Floor Elevators and The Stooges. ‘Back in Black’ draws influence from unlikely sources, Nordgren mining latent inspiration from the smooth synthesized sounds of Travis Scott after his daughter introduced him to the hip-hop maestro. The resulting cut is a slick slice of electro-fuelled techno, with as many sides as a rubik cube, as bass stabs, muffled vocal effects and distorted guitar stabs keep things interesting throughout.

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Tiger Stripes — Back In Black — Drumcode — DC228

Warpspeed T78 Remix

Warpspeed (T78 Remix)

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Egbert - Warpspeed (T78 Remix)

Reinier Zonneveld & Miro - Black Sun (Original Mix) [Filth On Acid]

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