Shit.... this ist electrizzzzity.....❤️❤️❤️❤️

A very strong electronic theme this week, starting with the electronic pop sounds from The International Teachers of Pop. The pop theme is picked up by Squid, and carried on by Les Big Byrd, before Last Japan and Inner shift things much more electronic (and drum and bass). Max Cooper then takes over with a track from his new album (on my list), before we take a step back to last year with Perel. Then it's back up to date with some more upbeat pop from Inge van Calkar, before the deep house of Harrison BDP, some gospel-infused from Tom Noble, and finally back to the electronic sounds of Tourist. Best track: I do like Tourist's "Apollo", and Inge van Calkar's "River", but The International Teachers of Pop's new single "After Dark".

Sep 21 - Sep 27 2018

Beating Off of Xosa's Buildup

Rebirth Lab Vol.4

Perel - Cantuccini

It’s that time again… Every summer Jennifer Cardini’s Correspondant imprint celebrates another ground-breaking year with a far-reaching collection.

Ranging from palpitating ambience to chuggernaut technoid trips; the stirring 16 track set features late night creations from old friends (Red Axes, Zombies In Miami, Mike Simonetti, Moscoman) new friends (Simple Symmetry, Perel, Julian Stetter, ) and friends that have been Correspondant kindred spirits since day one, but have never had the opportunity to cast their magic on the label… Until now (Black Merlin, The Golden Filter, MR TC, Yula Kasp & Mi.ro).

As always, the vibe is deep, smoldering, emotive, innovative and unapologetically cosmic as we’re pushed headfirst into Correspondant’s boundary-less soundscape. From the coiled spring funk of Javi Redondo’s ‘Fictional Friendship’ to the hypnotic harmonics and trippy vocal textures of Uriah Klapter’s ‘Breeze’ via the slinky arpeggiated charm of Marvin & Guy’s ‘Cowboy Disco’, it’s another sublime excursion from one of the most consistent and considered imprints on the left side of techno.

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Rina - Roboto

Out 21st Sept on ltd 7" (250 copies) + digital.
Order the vinyl here >>> http://speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW025 - Squid - The Dial

New single by INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP,OUT NOW and available to buy/stream here.
http://hyperurl.co/After-Dark

AFTER DARK - INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP (SINGLE)

Taken from the new album 'One Hundred Billion Sparks', released 20 Sept.

Buy / stream: https://maxcooper.lnk.to/ohbs

It's hard to know what to say when it's the release day of a new album. So much time and work and thought and joy and pain goes into the process, and then I need to sum it up in a sentence somehow. All I can say is, I put everything I had into this one, and tried to be as musically honest as I could, I hope some of the ideas and feelings resonate with you.

As with my other releases of recent years I've used a visually related theme and collaborated with visual artists for every track to tell the overall story. I wanted to try and link this theme into my process of creating the album as closely as I could. So I chose a theme of the mind, and spent the first month of the project in total isolation with no outside contact, in order to look inwards for what creates us, and me, to provide content for the music and visuals. 

I named the album "one hundred billion sparks" after the one hundred billion neurons in our heads, and their act of "sparking" to create our experiences. It seemed a nice way to visually summarise what the project was about, and lent itself to the album artwork form, beautiful delivered by Tyler Hobbs with his countless networked fragments. 

The individual chapters of the story stray pretty far from the usual ideas around brains, but that's way too much info to include here, so we've made a little website summarising the whole project, which will be updated with each music video as they're released.

So that's it, I hope you find some music or ideas in there which you enjoy, and I'll be touring the new album AV show in 270 surround visual format wherever possible, so hopefully catch you at one of those gigs sometime soon.

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Taken from Les Big Byrd's second album "Iran Iraq IKEA", out October 12 via PNKSLM Recordings on vinyl, cd and digital. Pre-order at www.PNKSLM.com/store

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Les Big Byrd - "Geräusche"

ASCEND 001 / COLD ASCENT 

Available on all services:

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Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2xZwDVM 
BandCamp: https://lastjapan.bandcamp.com/

Cold Ascent

The Projects - Last Japan & Inner

Nothing Is Real welcome Low Manuel for the 6th release of the label. 

Low Manuel is a real music lover born in Italy in the 90’s.  His music vision is the expression of his character, introspective, dark and sophisticated.
His style is a mixture of indie electronic but also Techno and his compositions transmit emotions, influenced by the Stars and the Marine World. The 'Scourge Ep' explores new musical shades, hinting at moments of new wave through a lens of psychedelia.
The title track is a trip with an incredibly catchy rhythmic pattern and a strong bassline, while 'The Room’ has a ravey hypnotic and powerful touch.
The Italian duo Margot remix ’The Scourge’ delivering a strong version with their typical synth-driven kraut-techno style adding insane beats, fizzing synths and peaking chords for optimal dancefloor effect. While Nhar gives us his unique and introspective reinterpretation giving the track a mesmerizing deep electronic vibe, taking us to a journey between the bright and dark sides.

Another strong release on Nothing Is Real

Low Manuel - The Scourge (Margot Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/sinchicollective is a not for profit label that donates all proceeds to their own foundation, supporting the preservation of indigenous culture. After two fantastic releases already, the third offering is a various artists compilation that shows off the label’s broad array of sounds from producers all over the world.

Up first is a rising star and Milan based selector, Tagliabue. He takes stylistic cues from the natural environment around him and breaks down genre boundaries. His ‘Canto Nativo’ is a brilliantly tropical bit of chugging disco with breezy pads but twisted bass.

Gimel connects ambient, psychedelic sounds with deep, melodic moods, he plays at renowned clubs such as Opium and runs the ‘Samsara’ events in Vilnius. Here he offers ‘Dobilelis’ a superbly transcendental cut that is littered with vocal chanting and rugged bass riffs that really cast a spell.

Raised in the heart of the Middle East, Rabih delivers ‘Bowing Pill’, a track moulded by rolling synths, heavy drums and a hypnotic flow that stimulates your body and brain.

Mexican Braulio Renteria draws on dark disco and is inspired by futuristic, deep and unique rhythms. He offers the vital ‘Venus’, a moody and heavyweight cut with punky attitude and cosmic keys making for a real trip.

Play Pal Music founder Teniente Castillo who has a rich history of releases on labels such as Ombra Intl, Relish and Nein amongst others, delivers ‘Personality Goes a Long Way’ . This is sci-fi, low slung machine music with retro flavours which has a compelling starkness in the hits and synths.

Last of all, Andreja Salpe and Filip Polski aka BarumBarum follow up on the success of their ‘Ritual’ EP released on the same label by closing out the fantastic compilation with the desert chants and rugged drum work of ‘Sensation.’

This is a widely infused collection of disco tracks that take you around the world with a real sense of style.

Sinchi - Altered States Vol. 1

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PREMIERE : Rabih Rizk - Bowing Pill

Buy/stream 'Melt {The Editions} - Part I' here: smarturl.it/CH038E1
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On his debut album Melt, Stevie R brought us the sounds of rebetronica, his very own fusion of the rebetiko music he was raised on during his childhood in Greece with the latest in forward-looking off kilter house and techno music.

Allying himself with the Egyptian poet and glitch producer CERPINTXT and Turkish singer/songwriter Djanan Turan, he delivered a wonderful LP. Now, through the Editions of Kincaid, Simple Symmetry and Martin Buttrich, the album is presented in a new light through a set of fresh and powerful remixes.

They do not disappoint. Londoner Kincaid (Aeon, Anjunadeep, Futureboogie) reimagines Botsa Botsa into a killer starry, widescreen slow disco cut powered by a hypnotic acid line. Meanwhile, Disco Halal heroes Simple Symmetry draw inspiration from rave-era Prodigy to create a reworking of Delias, which is equal parts incredible and insane. Dancefloor destruction is assured.

The package finishes with two versions of Gkii from the legendary Martin Buttrich, who draws on a classic and rolling deep house vibe for his glitch inspired Class A Edition, along with his Blib Dub. The days of rave are here again. Part I has fully delivered; watch out for Part II of Stevie R’s Melt Editions in the New Year.
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Support from the likes of Black Coffee, Maceo Plex, Nick Warren, Âme, Andhim, BLOND:ISH, Ruede Hagelstein, Jennifer Cardini, Theo Kottis, Echonomist, Benjamin Fröhlich, Iñigo Vontier, David Mayer, Gab Rhome, Damon Jee, Just Her, Thodoris Triantafillou, Aera, BOg, Unders, Toto Chiavetta, Switchdance, Mathias Schober, Reznik, Fabrizio Mammarella, Moderna, Fideles, Sobek, Andy Bros, Brigado Crew, Baikal, Stereo MCs and many more.
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Follow the artists: @stevie-r @martin-buttrich @simple-symmetry @kincaidofficial
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Original artwork by Simon Vaeth

Melt {The Editions} - Part I

Delias feat. Djanan Turan & Master Dani {Simple Symmetry Edition}

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Stevie R - Delias feat. Djanan Turan & Master Dani {Simple Symmetry Edition} *Out Now*

Stevie R - Melt {The Editions}: Part II
Label: Chapter 24 Records (https://soundcloud.com/chapter-24)
Release date: 7 February 2020
PRE-ORDER : http://smarturl.it/CH038E2

On his debut album Melt, Stevie R brought us the sounds of rebetronica, his very own fusion of the rebetiko music he was raised on during his childhood in Greece with the latest in forward-looking off kilter house and techno music.
Allying himself with the Egyptian poet and glitch producer CERPINTXT and Turkish singer/songwriter Djanan Turan, he delivered a wonderful LP. Now, for Part II of the album Editions, he teams up with three heavyweights to deliver yet more heat with their reworks of one of the album's standout tracks, Red Lemon.
First up, Me Me Me hero Man Power breaks down the original's groove to its bare naked acid line and rebuilds it with a crushing analog hook, insanely hooky timpani and a host of subtle trippy textures.
Osunlade joins the party in his Yoruba Soul guise to offer a driving and sensual revision that emphasises a crunchy distorted arp line. Finally, Counterchange bossman Ed Davenport delivers a thumping twist of the original that’s equal parts pneumatic and aquatic.
All three reworks hit the spot and are accompanied by the original to round off the package. With Melt {The Editions}: Part II, Chapter 24 mark the start of the decade and their five year anniversary with a memorable EP from one of their core artists.

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PREMIERE : Stevie R & CERPINTXT - Red Lemon (Ed Davenport Edition) [Chapter 24]

out on nein 
https://neinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/drop-the-hook

J.Staaf & Z1 - Drop The Hook

Exclusive Mr. Tea - Working With Animals (Panthera Krause Remix)

It's tea-time with a brutish addition as British artist and San Francisco residing Michael Devin, better known under his Mr. Tea moniker, makes his debut on Engrave Ltd. Dividing Lines is the title of Michael's five tracker on the Italian label and covers several genre-overlapping musical approaches – from Disco to Deep House over to the synth-driven and influenced S.F. Bay Area Housey moments. With four original tracks and a remix from Leipzig creative Panthera Krause Dividing Lines captures the artist's diversity in the most complex yet beautiful manner, namely music. Panthera Krause's remix for Working With Animals is no exception as the Riotvan co-label head delivers an approach that combines sounds and elements from various genres and assembles them to a hybrid, which is meant to be designed for some physical exercise – the synonym for dancing your shoes off in a club these days. Robert, Panthera Krause's real name, uses a lush bass line for his remix and feeds the mid- and high-frequencies with several chords and rock-ish elements making the listener starve for more. Without a doubt having Panthera Krause remix Working With Animals does not merely have nominal reasons as the lion's share of this approach is dedicated to the musical manège.

Mr. Tea's EP Dividing Lines will be released on Engrave Ltd on March 30th, 2020.

Buy the EP
Beatport: www.beatport.com/release/dividing-lines/2859003 

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Mr. Tea: www.facebook.com/pg/Mr.Tea.SF // @21stsentry // 
Panthera Krause: www.facebook.com/PantheraKrause // @panthera-krause // www.instagram.com/panthera_krause
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Dividing Lines

Working With Animals (Panthera Krause Remix)

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EXCLUSIVE: Mr. Tea - Working With Animals (Panthera Krause Remix) [Engrave Ltd]

Long-time (3+ years!) curator of a regular weekly 10 track playlist of legit, (mostly) new tracks from Soundcloud, dug up here, there and everywhere. The lists always start out as 10 tracks, but some subsequently get pulled from Soundcloud by the band/artist or the label, so don't blame me for any short lists!

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Perel - Cantuccini

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