Full EP
https://specimenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghost-of-formentera-remixes

released August 2, 2023

Remixes produced by Telephasycx!, Luxus Varta, Manasyt, Ivna Ji
Tracks written by Jauzas Romain
Mastered by Bob Humid
Graphics by Roganski Genetik
©specimenrecords_2023

Elector Award for Best remix 2023

Jauzas The Shining -  Then (Ivna Ji Remix)

Migaja Exhibicionista

Digital release date: 08 November 2024
Link hub: https://music.imusician.pro/a/cACZyWZf
Bandcamp: https://ecunderground.bandcamp.com/album/another-level

A welcoming addition to the roster of EC Underground, Roi (https://soundcloud.com/roi-fanzine) makes a name for his unique brand of acid house with the release of his new EP Another Level.

This solid slab of dance music comes from a Spanish sound producer and offers a blend of traditional house and techno with a backbone of everything EDM. Consistency makes Another Level stand out among its peers with stable track duration, slightly glitchy beats, and evermore bubbling bass.

In the realm of Spanish electronic music, Roi stands out for his relentless innovation and deeply personal sound. As co-director of the Fanzine project and partner with The Panic Room, he embodies the spirit of pure electronic music, blending genres to craft sets that are as introspective as they are danceable. His rapport with audiences and commitment to pushing musical limits establish him as a cultural influencer and a guiding light for aspiring DJs and producers.

Written and produced by Roi Grobas Rocha https://linktr.ee/Roi_fanzine 
Mastering by Lefrenk
Artwork by moiCflo
© Roi | ℗ EC Underground 2024 https://ecunderground.com

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Roi - Alluvial

Kontour Visions w. Jaundice & Anticipation [19.09.24]

CHAMBER___Vinyl only dj set 08.11.24

Erich Fromm‘s “Escape from Freedom” was published 83 years ago. His assumption was that modern man, having freed himself from the shackles of the old days and living freely, longs to return to the totalitarian, destructive and conformist world. In 2024, the pluralistic and individualized way of life of the so-called West seems self-evident. Boundless freedom is suggested - but we continue to flee. Utopias are crumbling and conservatism is experiencing a renaissance. At the same time, the freedom to decide “to be able to stay” in contrast to “having to leave” currently seems to represent a high value.

This EP by the two producers from Germany and Ukraine, was created in this field of tension. David Heine and Konstantin Kost were already working together on the current AMAS project (Odessa EP). „Freedom From Escape“ adapts the former title of Erich Fromm‘s central work, which is given a prominent role on this record. Music and techno are freedom and escape at the same time: transcendence and escapism. In interaction and contradiction at the same time.

The cover picture was taken on 25 July 1909, when Louis Blériot became the first person to cross the English Channel in an aeroplane with the Blériot XI, which he had designed himself. The reversal of the title and the idea for the cover artwork came about during a conversation with the artist Jennifer Mattes in Vienna.

On the A-side, the two protagonists create a world of minimalist dub techno, which also has melodic, flat side strands in its narratives. The more than 60-year-old fragments from TV interviews with Erich Fromm on the subject of freedom, decisions, constructivism and destruction are presented so densely and rustlingly that you don‘t feel compelled to follow the lecture. Instead, the spoken word corresponds with the minimalist framework of the two pieces. The old audio recordings are embedded as part of the composition. Some of it may be understood and arouse the listener‘s curiosity, but again and again you get lost in the repetitive swamp of sound, so that you may understand more of the text each time you listen to it without it imposing itself on you.

The two remixes of the first track take a different approach. Save Your Atoll specifically frames and limits the spoken word in its interpretation and embarks on a hypnotic journey that is less worldly and more futuristic. Anna Kost goes one step further by literally suffocating the old man‘s spoken word, as if the destructive drum patterns were trying to shut him up.

„Freedom From Escape“ will be released on 18 October 2024 in a physical edition of 200 records and is available digitally on all common portals.

Freedom From Escape

David Heine X Konstantin Kost - Choices (Save Your Atoll Remix)

David Heine X Konstantin Kost - Choices (Anna Kost Remix)

Elitepop is a monthly radio show by Enfant Terrible for Intergalactic FM (IFM/CBS). A new episode is transmitted every first Monday of the month on the Cybernetic Broadcasting System channel at IFM for 1 hour from 21.00h onwards… No talking... just music!

Episode 56 was transmitted January 2025 and this episode is one hour of obscure 80’s music...


Elitepop #56

'Cartography of Sleep'
Droning Cats with NRV
See Blue Audio SBA 060

1. When Two Longitudes Overlap
2. Slumbering on a Swing
3. Dreams with Claws
4. Catastrophic
5. Dorian Tapestry

Release date: 14 November 2025

See Blue Audio: ambient / electronic / beatless / cinematic / downtempo / eclectic / introspective… Shade rather than light...

After a short hiatus, See Blue Audio returns with a collaboration between new artists to the label, Droning Cats, and one of our most established names, NRV. In the chaotic and fraught world in which we find ourselves, this partnership has yielded a wonderful musical pause for reflection in 'Cartography of Sleep'. As the title reveals, the sixtieth release on See Blue Audio is a sonic journey through the mysterious realm of sleep. This is an invitation to drift, while still keeping your bearings, as you travel across the blurred borders between waking and dreaming.

Droning Cats are the Brussels-based duo of Christophe Calis (guitar, baritone guitar, electronics) and Jan Delannoy (modular synths), who first met as part of a trip hop band before morphing into solo ambient artists. They came together to create Droning Cats with the emphasis on creating unpredictable and spontaneous music, rather like the curious nature of cats. Their free-flowing approach to creating music is perfectly complemented by the precision and emotional delicacy of NRV, the drone/ambient project from Japanese electronic musician, producer and radio host Nerve, best known as part of the electro-pop band antennasia. NRV has already contributed two exquisite releases to See Blue Audio in 'Blue Roofs' and 'Seasons Beyond the Ashes'.

'Cartography of Sleep' is the debut release from Droning Cats with NRV and was produced entirely by long-distance file exchanges. Across its five predominantly beatless tracks, the improvisational, genre-defying soundscapes of Droning Cats elegantly merge with NRV's finely tuned sense of spacious atmospheres. Drawing on their shared love of sonic exploration, the music charts a course through dreamlike states where languid, luminous passages meet darker, ominous undercurrents, like shifting weather in a strange, imagined land. The combination of shimmering guitar textures, slow-moving drones, gentle rhythmic pulses and textural detail invites the listener to join them in a richly immersive experience where geography is fluid and time dissolves.

As 'Cartography of Sleep' unfolds, it maps out an oneiric terrain where beauty drifts into unease and stillness hides quiet cataclysms. The eloquent interplay between guitar harmonics and subtle electronica gives the music a flavour of the natural world in all its myriad forms. Each track is a stopping point on an uncharted map of dreams, from the vast expanse of the opening 'When Two Longitudes Overlap' to the shadowy elegance of 'Dreams with Claws'.

This collection has a special quality that lent itself to being represented in other artistic forms; the world of sleep and dreams is, after all, also one of images, colours, words and sensations as well as sound. Accompanying the music is a PDF booklet featuring five pieces of text written by See Blue Audio founder Matthew Duffield. Completing the release are images drawn by illustrator Swann Quach. The music, text and images were all created completely independently of each other in different time and space, but they have serendipitously come together. Swann's illustrations adorn the cover artwork of 'Cartography of Sleep' as well as alongside the text in the booklet.

'Cartography of Sleep' is a sublime listening experience and one that gently nudges us into the shapeshifting universes of sleep, dreaming and waking. Take from it what you will as the music washes over you. It's commonly agreed that we all need more – and deeper – sleep; this could help us along the way.

Mastered by Simon McCorry.

Illustration: Swann Quach.

Cartography of Sleep

'Cartography of Sleep' (preview) – Droning Cats with NRV (See Blue Audio SBA #060)

From "orchid", released April 2017 on sound in silence.

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Delsin Records add two new chapters to their Mantis sublabel, with a double drop of 12" EPs from Varuna and Konduku continuing the series' trend of enigmatic and organic techno.

Mantis 04 (DSR/MTS04)

Varuna - Ratu [Delsin]