2020

https://soundcloud.com/unknown-mobile

Unknown Mobile “Mobile Sorcery”- PE009


Levi Bruce, aka Unknown Mobile, has been a prominent figure of the Canadian Underground for quite some time. He resides in Montreal and has contributed to a number of North American labels. It seems only natural that he is the next release on Planet Euphorique. 

“Mobile Sorcery” could be his most rhythmically diverse 12” yet, recorded in just a couple of weekends it breaks free from 4 to the floor, experimenting confidently with syncopation, voices dipping in and out of focus. The opener Broke Melt presents a driving baseline filled with attitude, flickers of glistening synth arpeggios to soften the clanging drum patterns, working in harmony with delicate top lines. The hypnotic haze of textures carries through the record, A2 lifting in energy; shooting stabs, ricocheted sub base filling the space between commanding snares. The Beat Dub of Sorcery strips the track back to the essentials, resulting in a perfect tool for DJ’s building tension. Surprisingly keeping the essence of the tune whilst offering hints of more dubbed, percussive club pushing UK bass.

The B Side explores more of these unconventional rhythmic themes whilst highlighting the power of melody. Heavenly Depression accurately depicting it’s title, pulling on the struggle of your emotions through an ever-progressing lead woven tightly over sweeping pads. The closing track Wilders Lake ties the record together cohesively, lifted stabs to calm the tripped out percussion swooping in and out, growling bass alluding to darkness. The EP blends genres to create new feelings from familiar foundations, channelling Detroit inspired grit and emotion; well rounded to suit hazed and hedonistic dance-floors.

Unknown Mobile
Title: Mobile Sorcery
Cat: PE009
Format: 12”
Distributed by Rubadub
Artwork by Nick Amezdroz
Preorder: November 11, 2019
Release date: -

Pre-order: https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/11276/s/mobile-sorcery/

Unknown Mobile "Mobile Sorcery"

Dreamy textures, emotive synths, intricate drum patterns and some occasional acid drops. Barcelona-based Nebulae Records starts the year with an extensive various artists package, featuring music by Trudge, Placid One, Low Tape and Arctor, among others. With a multitude of releases under his belt for his own Tremors label, our pick of the bunch comes from Glasgow-based DJ and producer Arctor, as he delivers a propulsive and ethereal piece of spacey breaks.

Read more: http://liquidyouth.nl/music/premieres/arctor-phoebus-cartel-nebulae-records  
Buy: https://nebulaerecords.bandcamp.com/album/n49

https://soundcloud.com/tomlivingstonmusic
https://soundcloud.com/nebulaerecords

NBL006

Premiere: Arctor - Phoebus Cartel [Nebulae Records]

MINT TEA - MTWL001
https://mint-tea-records.co.uk

Limited run of 100.

Artist:  @Zobol
Title:   Creeper
Label:  Mint Tea
Release: 140g Handstamped Vinyl 12“  
Date: (06/02/2020)
Cat No: MTWL001
Dist: Self distributed
Mastered: Curvepusher
Pressed: Curved Pressings

Mint Tea proudly presents a new white label series showcasing emerging artists. MTWL001 sees @Zobol with both two adaptations of his track Creeper. 
Creeper was made from a few vintage machines and a little FM synthesis, TR606 for drums, Roland JX3P, Volca FM, Korg MS20, the powerhouse of the Elektron Octatrack and lastly the Roland SH-101. The music was based around the concept of growth in nature and the inevitable links this has on our psychology and behaviour.

A - @Zobol - Creeper (Extrovert Mix) 
AA - @Zobol - Creeper (Introvert Mix)

Creeper

MTWL001 | Zobol - Creeper (12" 140g)

PRE-ORDER: http://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/rescue-squad-ep

First up on Irish selector Holly Lester's new label Duality Trax is three tracks from Pear Records boss Fio Fa who recently kicked off the Radiant Love imprint. 'Transcending Into Nonsense' gets the super sultry breaks treatment from everybody's favourite Portuguese Violet.

Rescue Squad

More exclusive music

Premiere: Fio Fa 'Transcending Into Nonsense' (Violet Remix)

Taken from the new Jex Opolis album called "Net Worth." Out now on Bandcamp.

What Am I Gonna Do?

BLANK007 by KLEIN / MELCHNER

a1 - critical mass
a2 - DUSTWUN
b1 - nazaré swell 
b2 - call me freddy

Distribution oval-distribution.com/

BLANK007 - KLEIN / MELCHNER - CRITICAL MASS

Roza Terenzi will release her debut album ‘Modern Bliss’ next week on Planet Euphorique. Hear the bright and hypnotic mantra and tough house groove of the title track now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-roza-terenzi-modern-bliss-feat-ivy-barkakati

Modern Bliss

Premiere: Roza Terenzi ‘Modern Bliss feat. Ivy Barkakati'

Bang On (J.S. Tool)

Slikback / Soda Plains — Split
Format: 12"
Cat.No: PAN 115
Release Date: 21 April 2020
Purchase: https://bit.ly/2RV8XfW

Hong Kong born, UK-based producer Soda Plains (production for Chynna, Scintii, Ian Isiah) and the Kenyan, Nyege Nyege-affiliated artist Slikback bring their distinct sounds to the third instalment of PAN’s club-focused "Split" series.

Limited to 300 copies, hand stamped, no repress.

The EP is mastered by Jeremy Cox

@freddymn @sodaplains

http://p-a-n.org

B2. Soda Plains - No Fear (PAN 115)

Synth-buoyant euphoria on the maiden Coymix release, courtesy of South African producer Biodive aka @terrencepearce who clocks in with 4 huge Balearic grooves. The halcyon days are not over!

Buy: https://bit.ly/2YcfW7U

Biodive - COY001

Listen to the tracks submitted in the feeder sound II OPEN CALL for producers: https://www.feeder.ro/2020/05/12/feeder-sound-open-call-tracks/

Between 12th of May and 12th of June, the jury composed by Ema Remedi, Tripmastaz, Dudley Strangeways, Hendrik, Miss I, Primărie, Jay Bliss will listen, select and award 3 tracks. The lucky WINNERS will be announced on the 15th of June.

Terry Benedikt - Losing Control
Track description: This track is very close to my heart. It was not a very conscious process of composing it, things just unfolded and I let them be. All I knew was that I wanted it to sound original. The sketch of it was made during a spontaneous all-night session when I couldn’t sleep, sometime in February 2020 in Berlin. Losing Control aims to embody how life can be lived by most of us in these daring capitalist times, always at the edge of getting your shit together.
Control can take many forms. The losing of it as well. Losing control of awareness, losing control of patience, love, peace, order, you name it. I wanted to convey a feeling of selflessness which is then relieved towards the end of the track with hopeful warm pads, which make the losing of control feel almost pleasurable. Because consciously losing control can also be a very good thing indeed.
I tried to keep the percussions very raw and edgy to underline the roughness of control being lost. Friends told me that the lead synth, in the beginning, sounds like a Super Mario game. Hadn’t thought of it but now I can’t get this picture out of my head anymore. Unlike many of my previous tracks, this one still makes me happy after listening to it more than 100+ times. Therefore, I chose to submit it for the open call and I hope it triggers something in you too.

Artist biography: After diving into the electronic music scene in Barcelona with the Kommuna crew, Terry now returned back to his hometown Berlin with the ambition to perfect the crafts of DJing, composition and event curation. Being part of the Love Foundation network taught him how to bring like-minded people together to acknowledge the importance of music in life. Recently he co-founded the Berlin-based event series Orbiting Souls next to his dear friend zodya, which aspires to become a music label and multidisciplinary platform in the very near future. Other interesting projects, such as the launch of a new festival in Poland, are in the pipeline and will be shared very soon.

Portfolio link: @terrybenedikt
Current city: Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
3 releases you enjoy the most: Kamasutra – Running Away (Wildflower Records / Italy / 1993); Chris Korda ‎– Akoko Ajeji (Perlon / Germany / 2019); Litia~Loe ‎– Life Love Dance (Façade Records / US / 1994)
3 Romanian artists you follow: Alexandra, Dragos llici, Miss I
3 international artists you follow: Laurine, Rubi, Francesco del Garda
Most played album: Stevie Be Zet – Archaic Modulation (Recycle Or Die, Germany, 1993)

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The feeder sound II project is organised by Save or Cancel team, composed of Cristina Popa (random) and Andrei Racovițan (ubic), through feeder.ro and is co-funded by AFCN, Thematic area: Digital art and new media. The program does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the program or the way the program results can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

feeder sound II OPEN CALL

Losing Control

❤️

Terry Benedikt - Losing Control

@vitiosus
@varg
@northernelectronics

The fourth instalment of the Scandinavian Swords series breaks with its predecessors’ forms. Deviating from the austere brevity that marks Northern Electronics out, Scandinavian Swords IIII: Atlas of Visions completes a survey of the label’s confidants and components in the same breath as it introduces a swarm of new artists and genre-collisions.

With the swell of the last 12 months behind them, Anthony Linell and Jonas Rönnberg have forged the compilation with a paradoxical formula: Atlas of Visions stakes itself as a milestone release that retains the sure-footed programming of its proprietors yet cuts a new silhouette for what the platform of a Northern Electronics release consists of.

Presented across two volumes, Atlas of Visions courses through the hyper-pigmented and infectious fallout zone between club-focused works and the abstract territories of experimental modes. The release compiles egression and intensification into a pandemoniac whole, a refracting design for fractured times.

Scandinavian Swords IIII: Atlas of Visions Pt. I

Premiere: Varg2™ & VTSS present VARGTSS1 'Do the Roar'

Psychedelic Budz are Ciel & D. Tiffany

All proceeds donated to bail & mutual aid funds. Black lives matter.

https://planeteuphorique.bandcamp.com/album/tiny-planet-vol-2

Support

Psychedelic Budz - Deep Space Rubdown

https://soundcloud.com/cl_lit
https://soundcloud.com/d-tiffany
https://soundcloud.com/ludwig-roehrscheid
https://soundcloud.com/adampits

PRE ORDER
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/12212/s/faerie-stomp/

PE012 is a label friends & family junction, a 12” summoning the distant yearning of otherworldly sonic release. Ciel and D. Tiffany unite as new collaboration Psychedelic Budz, long time friends who share a mutual affinity for prog and a desire for elevated states; offering Faerie Stomp, it’s internal reworking plus remixes from Ludwig A.F. and Adam Pits. The aural synergy of the record is laced throughout, tripped out spooky tech-trance, evocative dark imagery conjured at different speeds and energies. Like most of the Planet Euphorique catalogue, these tracks can duly be heard echoing throughout the night sky through forest or bush, as bodies flicker and move in hypnotized, unleashed states. 

The A side; the Origin Mix of Faerie Stomp and the Enchanted Mix by the Psychedelic Budz themselves sets the tone; tweaked atmospherics and field recordings, scurrying textures creating rhythmic collage. Drama and tension build through drones and bubbling 303 lines, villainous cackling and delay consuming the introduction in anticipation as the track develops into a stomping four to the floor promenade. Snares roll and chop in dizziness, encouraging your surrender to the lucid melodic synth lines, twirling in transfixion. The alternative mix could almost fit entwined into the original, slightly murked and more rhythmically rigid with metallic snares cutting through the denser timbre. Overall an expanded aura and creative opportunity for the deejays and those inhibiting dance space. 

Flip to the B side for the remixes, firstly Ludwig A.F.’s Haunted rendition. Keeping the eerie attitude in check he morph’s Faerie Stomp into a bombastic bass heavy club anthem, playing with build ups and stripping back elements for effect, the track is always propelling forward, shuffling shakers and scratches making it impossible not to move with it. Adam Pits also maintains the essence of the original whilst offering a whole new translation for his Undergrowth Mix, gargling baselines and whip crack percussion - buckle up for a hard and fast trip to new heights. Sweet relief is brought from floating stabs and melodic subtlety, softer break chops rolling over the brutal low end before the end of the record dissolves down to the encompassing swirling modulation and charging drum work. 

Four different devilish dance workouts for this unprecedented time. The power lies in the mesmerization. Lose yourself to the supernatural environment in the sonic texture.

Psychedelic Budz
Title: Faerie Stomp
Cat: PE012
Format: 12”
Distributed by Rubadub
Artwork by Logan Sturrock
Words: Katie Campbell
Preorder: July 21, 2020
Release date: August 3, 2020

Psychedelic Budz "Faerie Stomp"

I Love Acid 022 - Kerrie

Out 5pm / 17:00 UK time, Weds July 29th (Bandcamp)
Other shops will follow later in the week.

A1: Blackshadow Interloper
A2: pH0
B1: pH0 (Posthuman Remix)
B2: Magneticon

Follow Kerrie on Soundcloud: @kerrie_dj

www.balkanvinyl.bandcamp.com

Kerrie - ILA022 [preview Clips]

cut and reconstructed from DJ Dustin's 2018 Nachtdigital set

Aaliyah - One In A Million (LL remix)

Rising Australian DJ and producer Andy Garvey debuts on X-Kalay showcasing her take on deep and breaksy electro.

Pre order: https://bit.ly/30NpB5K

Available 30th September 2020

@andygarveyandygarvey

Buy 12"

XK022 | Andy Garvey - More Than Meets the Eye

Rising producer @dylanforbesirl is up next on Coymix with 4 proggy and trance-licked house anthems, heaving with rapturous melodics, driving atmospherics and relentless build-ups.

Buy: https://bit.ly/3kQpGNi

Dylan Forbes - COY002

Hout

https://soundcloud.com/regfant
https://soundcloud.com/d-tiffany

PREORDER
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/12663/s/magic-plush/

Plush Managements Incorporated; the OG lux & lavish party starters. Lifelong friends and associates Regular Fantasy & D. Tiffany welcome you to their flamboyantly finessed world of plush. Soft and subtle dance-floor realness with their inaugural release on Plush Records. A 6 track EP referencing r&b mega-hits and naughty pop nuance, adding their signature tongue in cheek genius to create an irresistible collection of straight up sumptuous hits. Merging as Plush Managements Inc, producing individually and welcoming esteemed collaborators Bea S-P and DJ Chrysalis, Magic Plush is the riotous celebration 2020 has been craving. 


Immediately infectious, the A side bursts to life, modestly bumping and rolling, bleep injections oozing over bright, brilliant stabs, “Slow Prayer” illuminated; read my, body language. A2 “Mr Mailman feat. Bea S-P” aka the official unofficial anthem of the year. Contagious & outrageous, strut worthy, sexy opulence. Deliciously demanding lyrics you won’t be forgetting anytime soon. DJ Chrysalis from Down Under™ joins Regfant for a tech driven switch up of teenage lore “We like to Party” - Ring the alarm! 

Flip it & “Touch My Body” - B-side bounce, undeniable groove and timeless feel-good sensibility with a sensual switch up, Mariah’s glow-up at the plush penthouse. B2 starts sweet and slow, sensitive 2-step drum-work building around the Let Me Love You Down (2dam doap) vocal cuts, tinged with melancholy, laughing, crying and dancing until dawn. Closing out the record in style is Waiting For Plush; sultry, brooding bass gliding under sassy percussion and chopped vocal chatter, perfect evening initiation.

The much anticipated first offering from Plush Records has arrived. Polished Plush-House heaven!

Plush Managements Inc. "Magic Plush"
Cat: PLSH001
Format: 12”
Distributed by Rubadub
Artwork by the Plush Managers
Words: Katie Campbell
Preorder: 27.10.2020
Release date: 30.11.2020

2020

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