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STEP02 - Step Ball Chain 
Tapestry Of Sound
Pre Order @ One Eye Witness: https://cutt.ly/ocKIA8r
Digi Preorder: https://stepballchain.bandcamp.com/album/tapestry-of-sound

A1 Maypole Theme (Surrealist Piano Roll Mix) [6:58]
A2 Maypole Theme (Looming Giant Mix) [4:59]

B1 Wasp Of A Woman [5:50]
B2 Inhale, Exhale [5:32]

Visual Art and Music have historically shared an important, entwined relationship; often posing questions of which provoked which in a project? What about when the imagery is a medieval surrealist, hyper coloured XTC wonderland? Genre-blurred and stirred, daring and dynamic dance music for the twistedly imaginative minds and bodies! The Tapestry of Sound is an audio tribute to the liquid lockdown Tapestry of 2020, a wall-size mixed media art piece originally intended for a live-stream backdrop; despite not being completed in time, it became the epicentre of communal creative junction & release - no limits or logical sense. The result, a sonic terrarium cultivated by longtime partners in crime D. Tiffany and Roza Terenzi; with the help of friends, weaving their sapphic magic into something wicked and new for STEP02, Tapestry of Sound.

A maypole is a tall wooden pole often erected as part of late 19th century European Midsummer folk festivals, around which a dance often takes place; coinciding with Summer Solstice, or in Corona-era... Scrollstice. The A-side presents two contrasting offerings of the Maypole Theme, opening with the Surrealist Piano Roll Mix; an effortless euphoria gliding and twirling amidst a rolling 2-step garage routine, playfully anticipating melodic ecstasy via black and white keys. A complementary contrast offered by the Looming Giant Mix; sleek and deep. A hot-femme fiasco, driving and deviating between 4/4 and a freaky broken plot-twist; evoking imagery of the night, skipping fiercely round the pole; which was often considered a symbol of the union between masculine and feminine energy.

Wasp Of A Woman initiates the B side blowout, stripped back and sensual, but don’t be fooled; this is a straight-up b0mb. Low end throbbing underneath ferociously swung drums, topped by microphone assassin Kaylin with the fire lyrical content, a true upcycle of genres to set the mood for a flammable dancefloor. Cooling off, only slightly for a cigarette break, is Inhale, Exhale the final track from the EP. The tempo finally settling down but bumping up the groove with thumping toms guiding a playful party-starter, rhythmic and melodically inspired; infectiously cheeky with subliminal naughty memos teasing their way in through the backdoor.

Let your mind run wild with this effortless collaboration, two minds sharing the same obscurely forward-thinking visionary, the Tapestry Of Sound; a Meta Musical Time Capsule.

Mixing by Tapestry & Marco Pellegrino
Mastering & Cut by Marco Pellegrino @ Analog Cut
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Artwork by Sophia & Kathy

Tapestry Of Sound (STEP02)

Order: 
digital https://radiantlove.bandcamp.com/album/maara-goddess-within
physical https://one-eye-witness.com/release/1645096604/Maara-Goddess-Within

@maara

There is a culturally and perhaps spiritually bonded link between electronic dance music and what could be called most generally ‘the feminine divine’. In subgenres more oriented to trance and EDM, the vocal sample or progression is almost always uttered by a woman, unlike the variously-sexed divas of house; if divinity is invoked, it is less often a biblical God than some Gaia-derivative. Radiant Love’s fifth release, Goddess Within by the Montreal-based producer Maara, steps into this lineage stretching from Magna Mater to disco queen – Maara’s articulation of the feminine divine, however, is often off-hand, ringing at once sincere and deeply cheeky.
 
The double-side is summed up by the first track’s title, 'Goddess Within (Give It To Me Daddy)', which starts right off with a pumping bassline, carbonated synths, and a repeating sample speaking ‘goddess’ – what trance dreams are made of. What places these tracks especially in the realm of dream are Maara’s washes of delay, reverb and pan, drawing out melodies and textures into trails, clouds, blurs. The sonic fields are decentered, but driving and floor-ready regardless. 'Mommy’s In Trouble' follows up with a set of cleverly phased hi-hats and a swung kick drum. It’s a buildup we’re hearing, although one wouldn’t know until a sample asks us matter of factly, ‘Notice what you’re feeling. Are you calm?’ and the bass swings back in.
 
The B-side begins softer, with the wide pads of 'Plum Plum Paradise' eventually dropping into a downtempo break. The percussion is muted, and what gives the track its body is a shifting terrain of sample (‘Allow yourself inside, the time and space right now’), gurgling synth note, windchime and whisper. Goddess Within’s final track, 'Lezzies In A Jacuzzi' picks up the pace again, with a porny bass-throb, insistent hi-hats and a vocal fragment looping the word ‘amor’. This is exactly the kind of sound that would have me thinking on the dancefloor, Is she actually saying ‘amor’? Quickly I would reach the decision that it didn’t matter – the whole terrain of the actual, the explicit and undreamed is best left to masculinity anyways.

MAARA
Title: GODDESS WITHIN
Cat: RADIANTLOVE004
Format: 12”
Distributed: ONE EYE WITNESS
Mixed by: Priori
Artwork: YENNY JRANT
Text: NAT MARCUS

MAARA - GODDESS WITHIN

'Bushcraft' - Full track taken from the debut EP of visual artist and label founder AK-ONE. Available now on bandcamp.
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@akoneaudio
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Available here - https://common-ancestors.bandcamp.com/album/scenic-route-ep
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'Pulling inspiration from the depths of the psychedelic world to be translated into four tracks ranging from 110 to 160 bpm. This EP is locked and loaded for real life, dance floor transcendence, with the aim to provide an opportunity to step away from the day-to-day and feel the electricity of the here and now... Enjoy friends!'
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Tracklist:
1- Skygazer
2- Scenic Route
3- Bushcraft
4- Outer Circuit
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CA001 AK-ONE - Bushcraft (Scenic Route EP)

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* Pre-order: https://familiar-strangers.bandcamp.com/album/va-stranger-together

Bristol-based producer Remotif has lovingly curated a selection of tunes from some of his favourite producers for Stranger Together, a VA compilation aimed at raising funds for the International Rescue Committee (IRC). 

IRC is currently assisting with emergency resettlement for Afghan refugees. Afghanistan is the single country most at risk of deteriorating humanitarian crises in 2022, and 100% of the profits from this release will provide uprooted families with tents, clean water, sanitation and other basic necessities.

This 11 track release taps into a diverse selection of dancefloor tracks from producers across the world, offering everything from uplifting melodic house to dark, psychedelic techno - and everything in between.  

VÉRE leads the charge, easing the listener in with a salvo of ethereal pads and breakbeats on Only Just, before passing the baton on to Maara for her dark and trippy roller Going All The Way Up. Dylan Forbes drops shimmering house number Feels Like, which segues nicely into the effervescent uptempo sparkle of Manami’s Sunbeams. 
Remotif’s emotive, Final Fantasy-inspired The Golden Shiny Wire of Hope continues this uplifting energy before giving way to DJ Life’s trademark Aussie tech-prog funk with The Barrens. Alphonse’s Still Eye offers a propulsive, skitterish breakbeat workout and Ciel & Roberto switch things up with the bass-heavy machine groove of Deep FM.  

Ramu’s Nothing Else To Do adds a dash of hyperkinetic acid and LUXE’s Level Up hits hard with some truly stomach-churning basslines. To round off the compilation, Boulderhead deploys his trademark flavor of lean, wiggy trance-not-trance with Leaf Power Up.

Stranger Together

PREMIERE: Maara - Going All The Way Up

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* Pre-order: https://itsdelicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/edge-of-innocence

CALLING ALL FRENETIC LOONS - cursed to strut on thy toes, or to point them to the sky. Has a lack of dance based activity made you weary? The deprivation of bass inflected oxygen surging thru your body resulted in a euphoric fatigue? Well rise and shine all you Spiritually Deluded kinder, the hit parade is back, with Roza T & D. Tiff tip-toeing in with 8 tracks high in kinetic synergy and low in “bOriNGG!!”. The sound of 2 artists; serious in their intent yet blowing raspberries at the cork sniffers/snobs, obstinate to the world of industrial decay press shots + plastic ravers.


Instead they straddle the Edge of Innocence. Residue of lines once written, now your own personal tightrope. You wobble to and fro as part of a troupe of ethereal jesters, composed of Lil’ Drummer Boi’s pitter pattering on Gravity Bongo’s. Both tracks repping and following the rhythm of the ozone bounce house. With enough elasticity you’ll ^^break thru^^, experiencing Possession by momentary ascension. The weightless sensation of falling in a circle; catch yourself if you please. Such transcendence is lucrative, the Paparazzi on hand to flash and burn the retina, providing instant short-circuit delusions of grandeur. Sonically every hard knock is met with a “bOinKK!!”, illuminating the dark yet cartoonish nature of the practice - guaranteed to make u skip, achieve the perfect sly pout. You and your gang can terraform into bodacious bass-bins, and cast your personal Redemption Arc onto the ether.


Inhibitions are to be absolved, and fat kickdrums to be followed. In this hyper-informed yet unknowing present tense, who can ignore the beat based intrinsic incentive to fuck up the circadian rhythm - the music becoming a byte-based silkworm, spinning its digital silk from synapse to synapse, until your brain is a translucent cocoon playfully ricocheting, the cranium its pleasure dome. Call the drum dealer.

Edge Of Innocence

PREMIERE: D.Tiffany & Roza Terenzi - Gravity Bongo

https://soundcloud.com/escapeartistaus
https://soundcloud.com/x-kalay
🛒 https://x-kalay.bandcamp.com/album/wanna-dance
🔊 https://youtu.be/9cWMa5Wz5ZM

The first X-Kalay release of 2022 finds Melbourne’s Escape Artist traversing wormholes, complete with an assist from the ever-prolific Roza Terenzi.

Picking up where a 2019 Salt Mines debut left off, ‘Wanna Dance’ allows proggy tendencies to flourish across some mind-altering electro. Portals to higher planes of consciousness and uncharted star systems fling open as widescreen, celestial pads make way for lysergic climax.

Ramping up the intensity with her ‘Bassbin Mix’, Roza Terenzi jumps on remix duties; another electro workout, but this time more urgent, more propulsive. Bringing the tribal-breakbeat pressure in spades, it’s quintessential Terenzi.

More prog, but leaning further towards cosmic techno percolation, ‘Levitator’ finds mazy arpeggios in seemingly infinite ascent. ‘Time Knife’, on the other hand, is a radiant, beatless highlight. Deploying cascading synth arps to truly mesmeric effect, it sees the Antipodean achieve sublime tension in a rare moment of introspection.

Tracklist: 

A1. Escape Artist - Wanna Dance? 
A2. Escape Artist - Wanna Dance? (Roza Teranzi Remix) 
B1. Escape Artist - Levitator 
B2. Escape Artist - Time Knife

PREMIERE: Escape Artist - Levitator [X-Kalay]

@radiantlove co-founder @Byronyeates channels the Berlin rave and label's trademark euphoria on his debut solo EP

More info:

Premiere: Byron Yeates ‘Sweat Ur Prayers’

Annelida Remixes | Not For Profit Compilation
Bandcamp: https://fan-club.bandcamp.com/album/annelida-remixes-not-for-profit-compilation

FAN CLUB© is proud to present 8 twisted flips of Loïcc's 'Annelida' [FC01] from 8 exceptional Australian producers, with all proceeds going directly to Pay The Rent.

[3] https://soundcloud.com/eastern-distributor injects a cosmic ray into B1 - Watagans Crux with his euphoric, blissed-out Psytekk remix. 

Follow Eastern Distributor: https://soundcloud.com/eastern-distributor
Follow Loïcc: https://soundcloud.com/loicc
Follow FAN CLUB©: https://soundcloud.com/fanclub-au

To find out more about Pay The Rent - https://paytherent.net.au
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TRACKLIST
Watagans Crux (bluhol Remix)
Watagans Crux (Roza Terenzi Remix)
Watagans Crux (Eastern Distributor's Psytekk Mix)
Watagans Crux (Monako Remix)
Stream Stepper (E Davd 'Dark Trip' Remix)
Red Shift (Akul Remix)
Terrestrial Annelid (B-Psy'd Remix)
Terrestrial Annelid (Eggplant3 Remix)
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We would like to thank from the bottom of our heart all of our contributing artists, who without, this release would not be possible.

Mastered by Brendan Zacharias at Cirrus Audio
Remixed from original tracks on FC01 written, produced and mixed by Loïcc

Annelida Remixes

Loïcc - Watagans Crux (Eastern Distributor's Psytekk Mix) [FC01R]

@dreamsoftwarecorp @jjonjjones

Track: Gateway (Sunrise Mix) 
Artist: Jon Jones
Album: Hyla EP
Label: Dream Software 
Cat #: DSOFT001
Country: UK
Year: 2022

[PREMIERE] Gateway (Sunrise Mix) - Jon Jones | Dream Software [2022]

Esta faixa, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', é uma tentativa de fazer uma música menos introspectiva e mais divertida. Para isso, utilizei como inspiração a história homônima de Shakespeare. A música busca incorporar os elementos presentes na narrativa do autor: misticismo, mistério, energia, caos, surpresa e uma conclusão surpreendente.


This track, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' is an attempt to make music that is less introspective and more fun. To achieve this, the story of the same title by Shakespeare was used as inspiration. The music seeks to incorporate the elements found in Shakespeare's narrative: mysticism, mystery, energy, chaos, surprise, and a surprising conclusion.

A Midssumer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

a dance tune by Priori. Produced and mixed at Jump Source Studios in the fall of 2019. 

Release includes a Dust-e-1 Remix : https://prioricamp.bandcamp.com/album/infinity

Infinity

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