Arpège head honchos are joining the Sentakast series. 
We met each other a few years back in Nantes and got along so well that we've been enjoying annual gatherings ever since! 
Unfortunately, this year has been challenging for all of us, but we are proud to present you this drum & bass infused recoding, proper UK style! Big thanks to our two brothers for putting us in this awesome mood!

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Artwork by JXQ

Sentakast 013 - Darius Zoltan & Deux Rue

Artist: Reedale Rise
Title: Forest Canopy EP
Label: Subwax Excursions
Cat No: SUBWAX E-X-C 1208
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1. Tranquille
A2. Arbour
B1. Nocturnalism
B2. Araya

Reedale Rise here with a strong follow up to his much appreciated "Luminouse Air" album released earlier this year on Kondi Records. Forest Canopy EP has all the Reedale Rise trademarks of futuristic warm and souldful electro with a bit of a acidic twist. Highly recomended!

Reedale Rise - Forest Canopy EP (SUBWAX E-X-C 1208)

The Rota Bene crew is proud to present their first release. Taking a timemachine back to cyberspace, deep into an era of pure rave and cosmic elevation. Destination 001: Defective Bytes. A fine selection of one of the most sophisticated labels out there awaits you. We gathered a 4 track missile with forgotten anthems, heading to a target more clear than ever: planet dancefloor.

A2 DJ Who - Hard Winter's Night

After more than 25 years after his last release on Deeper Audio Cuts, Scott Featherstone’s “Triform” project is back with a selection of tracks dug out from the DATs vault. DAC sound legacy is being carried on!

A1. Messy [Master]

A2 - Sci-Fi Jazz

Artist: Jack Keo
Title: 303less Anxiety EP
Cat No: GMN02
Format: 12" Vinyl Only + Bandcamp Digital Bonus

A1. Trendy Anxiety
A2. On Core
B1. We're Out Here
B2. On Core (Otis Remix)
B3. Speakler (Bandcamp Digital Bonus)

Release Date: January 2021

[GMN02] B2. Jack Keo - On Core (Otis Remix)

[GMN02] A2. Jack Keo - On Core

The Numbers

B2. Escape Two - Blauer Affe

B2 Jos - The Palace Of Illusions (CLIP)

B1 Jos - Rituals Of Resistance (CLIP)

Release date : April 2021

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SAISEI is a Japanese label founded and curated by Junki Inoue. Known as an avid record enthusiast and for his impeccable dj sets, Junki Inoue brings a very carefully curated, idealised and conceptualised platform that marries his native Japan and his current London-base.

SAISEI is a Japanese word which means ‘reproduction’ and ‘to play’ (as in playing records).
Japanese culture is widely known for being traditional as much as it is known for being forward into the future and this label’s concept makes justice to exactly that. Having started to dig records as early as 16, Inoue delved into productions from 1990s Japan to feature native gems previously unreleased on vinyl. The idea is to recapture and reintroduce unique pieces of Japanese electronic music on a new (old) medium which is vinyl and, to an audience it never reached before as most of this music was only released in Japan.

As with most things Japanese, they are generally ahead of their time, in this case, it means this is music sounding so fresh now as it did when it came out, one that survived the test of time to, 30 years later, prove the true meaning of timeless, sublime, elegant and sophisticated music. With that said, it is no surprise this label will not limit itself to necessarily functional club music but way beyond.

The first EP on the label is by artists KINO-MODERNO formed by Dat Planet and Wah Wah Fuzzmaster and distributed by Berlin’s ‘Off the Grid’. This extraordinary acid house & techno music of Kino-Moderno that was originally created with the assistance of a powerful sound treatment of a 3D recording system called BMC that makes it sound so refreshingly retro-future but with an undoubtedly 2021 twist when listening to it. While incorporating a binaural recording technique via dummy head and given an improvised digital remix treatment via a classic synthesizer, Synclavia 2, you can enjoy these powerfully penetrating tracks that sought a 3D audio, trip-like feel throughout.

Kino-Moderno was experimenting very early on with emerging, different recording ideas such as rapping, poetry-reading and synthetic voicing. Their use of a 3D recording system called BMC added to the sound carrying over to today, paired with binaural recording technique via dummy head and an improvised digital remix treatment via the classic Synclavia 2 synthesizer. The album which featured ‘Into the Future’ and ‘The Glove’ was quite experimental in its time but very danceable as well.

Original release on VHS:
https://youtu.be/ukre8NXkw04
https://youtu.be/hXKwc-UmI7g

B1. Eclipse - Live Mix (Extended Re-Edit) (snippet)

Approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year.

Serenity Records is a new not-for-profit record label, aimed at raising essential awareness on the growing epidemic of mental health within the music industry.

B2 Jos - The Palace Of Illusions (CLIP)

Serenity Records

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