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The Twins - You've Got A Twin In The Attic (You Lunatic) EP.

A1) You've Got A Twin In The Attic (You Lunatic)
AA1) Water Coaster
AA2) Love Monarchy 

It has been all quiet on the Optimo Music front recently while energy has been devoted to the launch of Optimo Trax but do not fear, there are a plethora of scintillating releases in the pipeline for 2014.

First up is a stormtrooper of an EP from The Twins. We first met The Twins when they were hanging out in Glasgow before they were twins and were simply known as Julienne Dessagne. By the time our paths had crossed in various European capital cities they had fully developed their Twin like tendencies. A mutual appreciation was born and out of that came the suggestion that The Twins might make a record for Optimo Music. The resulting three tracks far exceeded our wildest expectations and we are incredibly proud to be presenting this Twins magnum opus to the world. Haunting, forceful, transcendent music with spine tingling vocals this EP has perhaps a tad more dancefloor capability than many Optimo Music releases but is also a record equally capable of giving your ears a lot of loving at home. 

It was hard to pick one track to showcase the EP but this one is the one that has perhaps been tested out on the dance floor the most and always results in people clamouring to know what it is. The kind of track that completely changes the atmosphere in a club and often results in spontaneous cheering, it has been mixed to perfection by The Twins ally, Superpitcher who will be releasing their debut album on his and Rebolledo's Hippie Dance label.

Expect Twins live shows in 2014.


This will be released on a three track 12" and digital on March 17th 2014. Distribution by Kompakt. 

The Twins - Water Coaster (from Optimo Music 022 12" EP)

Cowboy Rhythmbox are Nathan Gregory Wilkins and Richard X, latest signings to Phantasy. Coming together to create their own singular strain of music for dancing, they draw on a collective love of outsider house, bargain bin cut-outs, hard drive debris, rudimentary jack trax, obscure TV themes, Euro disco, EBM, Detroit Techno, the Smith & Wesson Model 3 and horses.

"We Got The Box" brings to life the playground game of repeat-a-word-until-it-sounds-weird, pushing and pulling a disembodied voice by milliseconds to create a hypnotic mind episode. On the flip "Rattle" takes off where their debut track "Shake" left off, a devastating barrage of industrial drums and frenetic chants.

Out now:
Phantasy: http://shop.phantasysound.co.uk/
Phonica Records: po.st/PH41Phonica
Juno Records: po.st/PH41Juno
Piccadilly Records: po.st/PH41Piccadilly

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www.facebook.com/cowboyrhythmbox
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www.phantasysound.co.uk

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Cowboy Rhythmbox - We Got The Box

Producers Kasper Bjørke and Jon Atli Helgasson’s second issue for the label, Bullschnitzel, continues in the futuristic techno and dark disco vein of preceding Correspondant releases, here injected with 80s post-punk and cold wave.
The EP’s opener, “I Love The Way You Hold My Hips”, struts at a steady 112 bpm, with an acoustic percussive structure offset by spaced- out synths and smoldering guitar riffs. The remix comes from Red Axes, a joint project from Tel Aviv-based producers and DJs Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi, who run the track through a chemical bath for looser sound.
The Mansisters’ second original submission, “Bullschnitzel”, is a soundtrack for subversion and strange phenomena. Tension diffuses through the deployment of escalating drones, cut with off-key synth tunings and a brooding, regular pulse.
Correspondant label head Jennifer Cardini offers up a remix to round out the release.
The syncopated Roland TB-303 rhythms that drive her “Highway to Schnitzel” are adulterated with a heavy dose of acid, nodding toward the diverse dancefloors she’s worked in over two decades in electronic music.

I LOVE THE WAY YOU HOLD MY HIPS - Red Axes

Out now, original version available on the album 'Claustrophobia'

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Scuba - PCP (Audion Remix)(Full Stream)

Vinyl out on May 17th / digital June 1st
http://www.imacliche.com
We’re proud to present the debut EP from Docteur Satan, a new project by Krikor, whom I'm a Cliché followers already know as Crackboy.

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Docteur Satan - Entity (Red Axes Remix)OUT NOW

Following their excellent Urgent Turquoise release for Om Recordings, the eclectic and ambitious San Francisco duo Tone of Arc have contributed their evocative sound to Roam Recordings’ second offering of 2016. Tone of Arc are comprised of Derrick Boyd (previously recording under the name Dead Seal) and Zoe Presnick … through well-received releases for the likes of No. 19 Music, Om Records, and Touch Of Class Records the pair have transmitted a series of moody electronic compositions that draw as much inspiration from cerebral post-punk gigs as sweaty, visceral dance floors. 

“Sundust” opens the single with its methodical tempo and haunting soundscapes, electrified by Derrick’s pensive words. The cut unfolds like a dream as layers of synths and vocal snippets build and vibrate throughout. “The Indigent” is a more stripped-down affair. A straight-forward four-on-the-floor rhythm, accented by big tom fills, creates the space for backwards pads and hinted melodies. It’s a mechanical meditation. Barcelona-based producer Lokier (HAKT, Days Of Being Wild) is also on hand for a haunting remix of “Sundust” that adds a commanding bass line and puts a spotlight on the vocal. Its steady forward motion is hypnotic in effect, intensifying the brain-to-feet aspect of Tone of Arc’s music. 

www.soundcloud.com/lokier
www.soundcloud.com/roamrecordings



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Tone Of Arc - Sundust (Lokier Remix)

Emerging from Detroit's vibrant DIY underground scene, Matthew Dear's Audion project has been feeding off the energy reverberating from dancefloors across the UK and Europe, but with a sound and spirit that is uniquely his own. Described as "techno in its purest sense", Audion now returns with his first album in a decade that embodies this ethos.

Forthcoming on !K7, Alpha is a collective body of work that was brought to life by Audion in a mere matter of weeks, coming at a defining moment in the artist's life. The mind bending "Destroyer" stands out in its warped, cyclical grandeur. Its distorted synth and tenacious bass provides listeners with the full bodied dancefloor flavour they have so eagerly anticipated. A highlight moment of Alpha – which stands as a visceral ode to the vibrancy of our global dance culture.

No sleep until Alpha drops. Catch it on 10 June.

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Audion "Destroyer" - Boiler Room Debuts

_Guillermo é um projeto de acid house/techno iniciado em 2014 pela manauara Viviane Mendes, com influências que vão desde os álbuns de disco que ouvia na infância passando pelo chicago house e detroit techno. A admiração por labels como L.I.E.S, hyperdub, warp, DFA são alguns dos exemplos dos estilos e conceitos que modelam o desenvolvimento de projeto.

https://soundcloud.com/guillermo321 
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A primeira compilação da Tropical Twista voltada totalmente para as fertilidades femininas na música. Aqui estão artistas de diferentes vertentes que se enredam na cena eletrônica latino-americana nas mais variadas texturas sonoras e beats por minuto. São mais de 20 mulheres envolvidas - e somente mulheres -, dentre já consagradas e novas potencialidades, reunidas por Ágatha Barbosa (Cigarra) em uma grande rede no projeto Hystereofônica.

English 

The first Tropical Twista compilation that totally focuses on the feminine fertility in music. Here we have artists that come from different branches that ensnare the electronic latin-american scene in the most variable sonic textures and beats per minute. There are twenty-two women involved in this project - and only women - , some already established and some new potencialities among them, gathered by Ágatha Barbosa (Cigarra) in a big net on the Hystereofônica project. 

Music by soundcloud.com/guillermo321

VA Hystereofônica Vol. 1 (Tropical Twista Records - 2016)

Guillermo - Space Cake

Girl Power on Bandcamp

Classic Italo Banger reedited for maximum dancefloor satisfaction

Charlie Smooth - Feel The Drive (edit)

OT 29 - Man Power - Sonic Pressure

A1) Sonic Pressure - 7.55
AA1) HDS - 8.47


Newcastle-born, Mexico-based Man Power debuts on Optimo Trax with two psychasonic missives cut extra loud for optimum sound system performance.

We asked Man Power for some words about this release and he told us -

"Both tracks sound different, but they're both from the same place in as much as they represent a conscious effort by me to strip back some of unnecessary niceties in my music and really sharpen my focus on what makes people dance without crossing the fine line of what makes me sound like me.”

Two track 12" (and digital) released on July 7th 2017. Distributed by Kompakt and Rub A Dub.

Optimo Trax 029 - Man Power - Sonic Pressure 12" (sampler)

Pete Callard - Inbox Me Hun - Rigopolar Remix

John Parsley - Do Not Wear My Coat (Inigo Vontier Remix)

Lyckliga Människor

A1. Lyckliga Människor

Brainchild of Multi Culti A&R, Sascha Funke and Niklas Wandt were introduced by Dreems, who charted a course for the seasoned Berlin-based producer and funky multi-percussionist and singer. 

Wandt was just about to enter the scene forcefully with his collaborative 2LP with Wolf Müller and the debut single of his band Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge. In the icey cold of his warehouse rehearsal space, Funke had him record a variety of slapped, bowed and scratched percussions (congas, talking drum, prepared cymbals played with a bass bow) over his tracks. These first efforts were later expanded into joint sessions at Sascha's home studio and, within a few weeks, the journey reached it’s destination: Wibe strasse, Deutschland.

At first glance, they seem an odd couple: a techno veteran of almost thirty years meets a side-burned upstart socialized in Free Jazz and Krautrock. but the shared sonic influences come through in the hypnotic, dubbed-out sound, perhaps rooted in the close connection the two share to the Rheinland region in West Germany, Funke as part of the Kompakt family and Wandt by origin and socialization in the Cologne and Düsseldorf music scene centered around the Salon des Amateurs. Regional flavours, global appeal. Multi Culti, promoting local collaboration, one freaky record at a time.

Wismut [MC043]

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Sascha Funke & Niklas Wandt - Umarmung Aus Holz

DJ and producer duo Discodromo are delighted to present a three-vinyl compilation and a book to celebrate the tenth birthday of their Berlin party CockTail d’Amore.

A1 Jonathan Kusuma - Energi Hall

He loved her so much that he did stupid things that all my all his words sounded terribly banal, at her sight his knees trembled and began to scrape in his stomach. This went on for quite some time, while constant criticism of those who knew him and the lack of her reciprocity began to cause personality disorder in him. Just feel that you cannot live without someone - and he will kill you with his indifference. That's how life works in many cases, Loves to yourself - much more safely and reasonably, because it's for life.
Madrid based producer Landikhan, drop his second single from upcoming Album 'Earth Chronicles' Landikhan - Por tu amor.. o no remixed by Tolouse Low Trax. Digital release out January 10th, buy here; https://www.beatport.com/release/por-tu-amor-o-no/2794900

https://soundcloud.com/lndkhn

PREMIERE #773 | Landikhan - Por Tu Amor [LNDKHN] 2020

@Sonar-Kollektiv needs no introduction, founded in 1997 by “Jazzanova” as a platform for own releases it soon attracted numerous new discoveries and like-minded musicians to illustrate the musical taste of the collective, its flavourful development, and recollection of past sounds. They are celebrating their 21st birthday with a massive compilation from their back catalog consisting of two volumes with a total of sixty tracks covering releases from the last two decades that showcase their wonderfully broad approach to A&R.

With this colossal compilation, it was a challenge to choose our favorite track and in the end, our personal selection deviated towards “Mooryc’s (@mooryc) – One day” and “Jules et Spatz”(@julesspatz) or otherwise well known as “Jimi Jules & Kalabreses” has bought this song to the dancefloor with their remix.

Release Date: 25/01/2020
Grab your copy Vol 1: https://sonarkollektiv.lnk.to/21YearsFeel
Grab your copy Vol 2: https://sonarkollektiv.lnk.to/21YearsVergnugen

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9HoF9sy4uM
Sinchi Blog: https://www.sinchi-collective.com/premiere-mooryc-one-day-jules-et-spatz-remix-sonar-kollektiv/

Sonar Kollektiv 21 Years... Feel Vergnügen (Vol.1)

PREMIERE – Mooryc – One Day (Jules et Spatz Remix)(Sonar Kollektiv)

Kalyko Remixes EP

Pvlomo - Clikíta feat. Ximena (Tronik Youth Remix) [Controlla]

We are more than happy to share with you our edit of a favourite 80’s track from SANDRA. 
Free download on our Bandcamp page: http://boysshorts.bandcamp.com/track/sandra-hi-hi-hi-boys-shorts-high-edit

This is the first of a series of edits we are working on, for 80s & 90s tracks we love.
Originally released in 1986. 
Songwriters: Michael Cretu, Hubert Kemmler, Klaus Hirschburger

FREE DL

Sandra - Hi Hi Hi (Boys' Shorts High Edit)

Advices. For all my life I heard only one really wise advice: “Do as you want, anyway you will regret in the end".
French Andres Komatsu release his first EP in NUFF Records with a crossing point between EBM and electronic music.  Integrally composed with hardware, chasing a sound that fluctuates between techno roughness and the played pulse of a band, influences of new wave, synth pop and dark disco stand out, wrapped up in an suspense halo of policial film noir.
One of remixes from this EP that we present you today coming up from German man Fringe Society who goes out to gleam his dub and experimental side and deliver a remix full of texture and maddening sounds, hi hats that come and go, electrical beats running from one side to the other. Choosing the most bewitched notes, he plunges us in a freaky hypnotic trip, full of characters who appear and hide between shadows.

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