The raw adventure and happy accidents that led to some of electronic music's career-defining debut records.

Breakthrough Debuts

Gel Gidelim

In Vitro - Volume One

Peace of Mind (Electrosoul)

Ron Trent - Altered States

Night Skanker

Seasons

Sterling Jones and Paul Lesley make up "A Number of Names." Their track "Shari Vari" was the first Techno track to be released out of Detroit in early 1981. Electrifying Mojo along with Detroit staff writer Jim McFarlin named the group "A Number of Names." 
 I actually heard about this while listening to a J-Rocc  (LA Hip-Hop DJ) mix, and he spelled out what track it was. Really dope considering the time it came out.

03 - Shari Vari by A Number of Names

Don Carlos - Alone -  Calypso Records

In Order to Dance (Bonus Track Version)

Analogue Bubblebath

Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath

BTSTU

BTSTU (Demo)

Sueño Latino Paradise Mix

A Girl Between Two Worlds

What's a Girl to Do

NOUS011

Bandcamp

upsammy - B2| A Window - Nous'klaer 011

Chime

Chime (Edit) [Remastered]

I'm Every Sparkly Woman

SOPHIE - NOTHING MORE TO SAY (DUB)

Inner City Life

Yaeji - Guap

Taken from the Terminus EP by @Forest-Drive-West
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Forest Drive West - Impulse

Narst / Love Dub

Love Dub

Beyond The Yellow Haze is the debut release by Nigerian sound and installation artist Emeka Ogboh on Ostgut Ton sublabel A-TON. Combining subtle layers of ambient electronics, dance music and field recordings from the city of Lagos, Ogboh’s compositions reflect both the Nigerian city’s soundscapes as well as the artist’s increasing immersion in electronic music since moving to Berlin six years ago.

Like his sound installation Ayilara for Berghain’s main floor in the current STUDIO BERLIN exhibition, Beyond The Yellow Haze contains a veritable atonal orchestra of honking, motors, sound systems, sidewalk sales pitches and various sonic artifacts of Lagos’s Danfo bus stations and beyond. These serve as both punctuation and swirling atmosphere within a kaleidoscope of bass and polyrhythms. The unpredictable result is at once place-specific and geographically indefinable. A city in situ – and processed in memory and rhythm very far away.

The recordings were originally included as part of Ogboh’s 2018 exhibition No Condition Is Permanent at Galerie Imane Farès and self-released as a stamped and signed artist edition. Beyond The Yellow Haze will be released on A-TON as a 2x12'' LP on black vinyl and in digital formats.

Born in 1977, Emeka Ogboh’s artistic practice focuses on ethico-poltical questions through sound, food and scent. His diverse body of work includes installation, video, photography and beer and has been featured in dokumenta14, the Venice Biennale, the Brooklyn Museum and the American National Museum of African Art, amongst others. He lives and works in Lagos and Berlin.

Breakthrough Debuts

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