The Rotterdam-based label and agency On Board Music proudly marks its 10-year anniversary with a carefully curated compilation of likeminded artists. This milestone release showcases those who have shaped the label's sound and identity, while also setting the tone for the years to come. On Board 10 features nine tracks on vinyl, complemented by five exclusive digital bonus tracks.

The collection traverses a diverse spectrum: from the immersive depths of Altinbas' atmospheric journey Submersion to the intricate, rhythmic craftsmanship of Polygonia's drum-workout Broken Temptation, and from GiGi FM's ethereal dub-techno exploration Maova and Dorisburg's percussive, Nordic-techno gem Sensorik. The release blends introspective meditativeness with dancefloor-ready energy - a balance between home listening and club environments. It's atmospheric, trippy, dubby, broken, ambient, techno - all the sounds that define the essence On Board Music.

Release date vinyl/digital: March 31 / April 4, 2025
Distributed by: Clone
Mastered by: Enisslab Studio in Rome
Visual and design by: Artur Olès
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Release date:
4 April 2025

Polygonia - Broken Temptation

To speak to Luca Daniel Schwarz aka LDS about his music is to be enthusiastically guided into a complex world of his own creation: clean and powerful techno which pulses with life from the textured patterns and drum sequences that have fills and accents that would make anyone who's picked up a set of drumsticks envious.

Yet this ecosystem of noise is deceptive; Schwarz's process for making music is very different to how a live drummer would create the same subtlety of performance. Forever researching new technology, Luca got deeply interested in different programming languages, and created a series of probability based music tools for manoeuvring sounds and sequencing.

Manipulating those probabilities takes a skillful alchemy, needing understanding of both musical structure and how the tools he devised work. To return to the drummer analogy, if the drummer is focussed and intentional in the moment of playing, then the method used in LDS tracks is almost diametrically opposed, with all of the intention coming in the assembly of the instruments, potential paths, and gateways; once play is pressed the music flows, following all the rules that were set in advance, not unlike a domino run or Rube Goldberg machine.

And like a domino run, the results are fascinating and, ultimately, fun: staccato vocals pop in and out in 'zipp prompt'; laser-like synths pulse; background noises sweep across the aural plane of the dub techno of 'diff, blockmix' and 'pow' adding texture that brings vitality all-too-easily missed out when complex mathematical processes become entwined with music creation. The high sensitivity to texture and rhythmic detail in Stadion Progg is multiplied further on Jean Redondo's remix - whose track, Hypersonic, was the backbone of 2023's 'yet' compilation on Tresor.

The balance between technology and a sense of fun might also come from the maker; it's not easy to overstate Schwarz's passion for what is now his favourite way to make music, "it never gets boring. There's always a moment of anticipation to see what actually emerges." And the true "power of 2" comes into play when the resulting music can be fed back through the system again and again, potentiating the music in exponential ways.

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𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Metamorphism

Beatrice M.'s Bait invites Trois-Quarts Taxi System back into the fold for both the artist’s and label’s debut album release, ‘Plexus’. Leaning into innovative 140 mutations, Trois-Quarts Taxi System dedicates his first long-format release to exploring the depth of this space and stepping away from his usual 170/80 sound. A deep meditative journey of introspection.

Taking the name ‘Plexus’ from a key he found in the street, the album is split into various parts with the heart of album comprised of three parts of ‘Plexus’ - drone-like soundscapes which retrace different states using a variety of acoustic and electronic sounds combined with samples from an anonymous cassette found in the street. This hybridisation of sound is often influenced by ideas Trois-Quarts Taxi System comes across whilst working on his live shows; an artistic practice that is very important to his output. On this occasion, Trois-Quarts Taxi System has used this extended period to explore the bridge between dubstep, techno and experimental, pieced together with quiet ambient moments.

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Lost In Ether | P R E M I E R E | Formant Value - D0 [Decadance]

artist name: Formant Value
label name: Decadance
release name & cut number: Rizoma Granulare
release date: 31/03/2025
shops links: https://decadanceamsterdam.bandcamp.com/album/rizoma-granulare

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Lost In Ether | P R E M I E R E | Formant Value - D0 [Decadance]

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A 4x4 techno delight by 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗺𝗮 (@solmadj), designed for optimal digging efficiency.

𝖥𝗋౿౿ 𝖣𝗈⍵𐓣ᥣ𝗈ɑᑯ : https://hypeddit.com/virtualforestrecords/solma-valentino

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Artist : Solma
Album : Hiking Equipment
Format : Digital
Cat# : VFREE

written & produced by @solmadj
mastered by @oton
artwork by @fluidmatter
© 2025 Virtual Forest Records

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Solma - Valentino [Free Download]

Presenting a portfolio of twitchy techno tectonics with a sharp line in corporate acumen, LDS returns to the market with a double-dose of limber futurism for PM+.
 
Stuttgart shock broker Luca Daniel Schwarz has been firing and perspiring on all cylinders since he went public around 2016. Past form for the likes of Subwax BCN and Blue Hour have all shown a deadly instinct for modern variations on the techno tradition, and he keeps pushing at the form with a fine balance between playful disruption and poker-face propulsion.
 
'Business Influencer Theme' is a jagged bolt of hi-tech soul littered with crafty edits, luminescent synth strokes and a mid-section pep talk to get you match fit for the midnight power lunch. 'Portal Merge (Peak Mix)' leans towards the growling, subtly emotive brand of electro pioneered by the Weatherall-Tenniswood dream team, bolstered with modernist sound design flex and another canny helping of sliced-up word salad.
 
Forecasting at the intersection of social commentary and cutting-edge club clout with devastating clarity, LDS packs a lot into his wry, laser-focused motivational workouts. The outlook is weightier than a hedge fund manager's bloated bar tab.

Mastering by: Isle Audio
Artwork by: Håkan Ullberg

LDS - Portal Merge (Peak Mix)

“A house built from sound”: that’s how Seoul-based artist https://soundcloud.com/sijin_synthasia introduces DOMAIN, his forthcoming self-released EP. Spanning five tracks, including reinterpretations by Yuki Matsumura, Inn, and Matthew Cha, it approaches contemporary electronic music as a kind of dwelling: not fixed or possessive, but somewhere to pause, reflect, and gradually let go.

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-sijin--domain-inn-remix

DOMAIN will be out on June 21st, 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://sijin.bandcamp.com/album/domain

Premiere: SIJIN- DOMAIN (Inn Remix)

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Artist: Catartsis
Track: Log
Label: SousTraitance

>> https://soustraitance-sstr.bandcamp.com

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CRUDE Premiere: Catartsis - Log

Introducing - Catartsis - Ainsi Vient Le Doute [ SousTraitance ]

Somewhere between memory sediment and subconscious drift, “Les matières errantes” marks the second solo expedition of the Sous Traitance timeline, this time led by Catarsis (aka Mathieu Bonnafous).

This new EP from the Parisian producer gathers four elusive productions, each one forged in a different temporal layer across a period of seven years. Oscillating between states, they reveal a raw urge to blur genre borders, where bass-heavy architectures bend into murky techno spirals, breakbeat fragments dissolve into dubstep low-frequency voids, and drum & bass pulses flirt with collapse. There’s no linear path here, only shifting zones and unstable rhythms, moving like tectonic plates beneath the surface of club logic.

A disjointed archive, a driftwork of forms—"Les matières errantes” doesn’t narrate a story so much as it exposes its own erosion. It’s a confrontation of industrial and natural environments for an unique, organic sound, making Catartsis a key figure in the renewal of the French Techno scene. 
Human Lessons premieres Ainsi Vient Le Doute  from the release.
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releases July 1, 2025
Artist: @catartsis
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catartsis_music/
Label: @soustraitance
Instagram: www.instagram.com/spiral.dance_x_soustraitance/


Text: Lois Markarian
Design: Max Colin
Music: Mathieu Bonnafous
A&R: Jean Sebastien Aknouche

HL Premiere : Catartsis - Ainsi Vient Le Doute [SousTraitance]

Prague’s https://soundcloud.com/amphibian_rec resurfaces with Induction Texture, the solo debut from https://soundcloud.com/kobayashi_maruuu. The EP distills cybernetic echoes into a synthetic pursuit, part swamp crawl, part signal chase, with https://soundcloud.com/aboabosound and https://soundcloud.com/a_strange_wedding each offering their warped reimaginings along the way.

Find the full read here:  https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-kobayashi-maru---huorn

Induction Texture will be out on July 17th, 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://amphibianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/induction-texture

Premiere: Kobayashi Maru - Huorn [AMPH004]

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Spiral Dance X EveryBody Trance
W/Marco Maldarella,Toé, Byche, Jessaka.

Spiral Dance X EveryBody Trance
W/Trois Quarts Taxi System, Or+Be, Maelita,Maxco,Jessaka

Spiral Dance X CJA Warehouse W/Different Shades,Antoine,Jessaka,Sklaer,Maxco,Chuimix

Spiral Bamboo W/Jonquera, Sleek Fata & Salma Rosa, Kick21, Verveine & Toé, Jessaka, Brahim Lumière & Erevan Dj

Double vitrage W/Sabla, Jacques Satre , Guillaume des Bois
Fragile W/ Antoine80, Jonnnah, Yolek, Jessaka
Le Sucre W/ Cosmo Vitelli, Jessaka
Fragile W/ Toma Kami, Basic
Fragile W/ Lulu, Gamma Intel
Positive Education festival
Point of View W/ Minou Oram
Sismo festival
Nuits Sonores W/ Katzele, Alex from galax , Les Fils de Jacob
Parsec W/ Philip Jondo , Les Fils de Jacob
Fragile W/ Anatolian Weapons , Erevan DJ , Guillaume MTH
Spiral Vs Positive Education W/ Merel, Identified Patient , Job Sifre 
Fragile Special event Spiral Dance Vs Groovedge
Fragile W/ Woody 92, Dj Sundae , Oko DJ, Maxco
Garden Party w/ Andre Pahl, Kasra V, Eiger drums propaganda

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