Many thanks to Producerloops for the initial ideas and samples provided. 

Spiritual Reality (2025)

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After shining a light on the Garage’n’Breaks of Persian and the Bump’n’House of Brian Bristol, the Mysticisms’ crew return with another reissue, to a source of love and inspiration, the epicenter of the 90s NYC club music’s explosion and development, with an EP from the music production partnership of Lee Rodriguez and Steven John Craden.

Better known as the team behind must-have The African Dream double-header on Eightball Records, they were a feature, under numerous pseudonyms, on the early 90s NYC scene with appearances on a who’s who of labels including Movin’, Strictly Rhythm, Tribal and with Elements of Life, on Oxygen Music Works.

Released as a 12”, a 2 x 12” and a CD album, the want of a lot of US labels at the time to mirror the success of Hip Hop saw an attempt to grow House ‘projects’ from club EPs to being seen as artists via albums and onwards.

The limited success of that tactic wasn’t to the detriment of solid music and what the four tracks included here show is at their heart are talented producers who can encompass ambient, jazz and deep / spiritual House music with aplomb.

The EP starts with Opening, a short introductory piece with mellow hats and warm keys that serve to show this is not your average 4 tracker, before soon giving way to the deep intensity of Dark Intervals. Tight drums, hats high and keys pushing, the vocal samples and swirling atmospherics all yield to a bass calling for loud sound systems.

On the reverse is an immense example of spiritual NYC house music for the ages in Innocence And Inspiration. The up, up, up hats, double bass, swirling arpeggio, tight claps, whistle strings, ridin’ jazz fused break-beats and then that purity of the piano cuts through everything like that shit is real. A break and solo for talc, drop and spins on Vinyl Sundays, those Latinos stage left, just watch and learn.

To close, the other side of Rodriquez and Craden is apparent in Are You With Me My Love? Taken from the album, here included to provide a repost to the grooves that have gone before. A song for sunset and sunrise – Ibizan ambience, with lilting keys, shanty samples, vocal questions and a melancholic horn refrain till end.

Uncover the Mystery.

B2. Are You With Me Love?

Moving towards faster bpms and with some fresh faces Cong Burn's fourth 12" is a step into new ground for the young collective. A1 sees St Petersburg's Flaty follow up his Gost Zvuk 2xLP with some twisted electro. At A2 Lack shifts gears to an early doors stomper. Chekov's B1 showcases the Leeds producer's hypnotic side. While the B2 is closed out by Martin Stromstedt aka Martinou with a lengthy trip floating on airy pads and a subtle groove.

Cong Burn 04

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Artist: 96 Back
Title: Excitable, Girl
Label: Central Processing Unit
CAT#: 01000111
Format: 2x Vinyl LP / Digital

Excitable, Girl

96 Back - Excitable, Girl

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So, then we have Vina Konda's solid debut EP. Vina Konda's productions use club weapons to translate his vision of efficiency. Zinkala is some dubby reflections with breaks timestretched, elemental pads, bass/sub tensions, phasing voices and a curious passion of marimba's solo... 
After his first apparition under WVRXRVW on Nous Disques Records's Various, he takes off and burst into his mind to connect his propositions. 
Highly recommended with pills to fall/fail in love on the dancefloor !

Check Vina Konda
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https://www.discogs.com/artist/6830861-Vina-Konda

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Vina Konda - Lunar's Orbit [Discolored Field]

Various Artists - Djax-Re-Up Volume 2
Dekmantel (DKMNTL063-2) - 2x12"

https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/djax-re-up-volume-2

a1.	Terrace - Bewitched
a2.	Glenn Underground - Real Space
b1.	Felix Da Housecat - Temptation (Color Mix)
b2.	China White - Theme From The Underground
c1.	The Operator - The Mind Strike
c2.	Steve Poindexter - Body Jam
d1.	Mike Dearborn - Deviant Behaviour (Instrumental Mix)
d2.	DJ Skull - Don't Stop The Beat

The second edition of Dekmantel’s foray into the era-defining, trans-Atlantic, cult techno label that is Djax-Up-Beats, comes another re-issue of classic 90s cuts. The Dutch label was responsible for releasing some of underground’s most foundational dance music, mixing together Chicago and European artists alike, and acting as the launchpad for some of today’s biggest producers. Featuring offerings from luminaries such as Felix Da Housecat, and Glenn Underground, alongside veterans such as Steve Poindexter, and DJ Skull, this second EP highlights the classic label’s old-school’s sound, while showcasing its diverse range, from dubbier, ambient moments, to wall-thumping, body crushing house force. Timeless music, repressed, and re-released for a new generation of DJs who covet the classic machine music.

The second re-issue EPs, offer a more introspective look at the label’s earlier releases. Leading Volume 2 is Terrace’s 'Bewitched', to which DJ Richard has described as being the defining track of the label’s beginnings with its "dreamy, Detroit-style techno mixed with the harder rave elements of Northern Europe”. Glenn Underground’s bass-roller 'Real Space' weaves together soulful passion and Chicago prime beats, while Felix Da Housecat’s Temptation — originally from 1993 — gets a well earned re-release, reminding us of the soulful, deep and lustful energy the producer once had. China White, whose name doesn’t get banded around as much as it should nowadays, see their ethereal hit 'Theme from the Underground' get another opportunity to bliss out the more upbeat rave community.

The energy turns darker with Frank de Groodt’s The Operator, breaking the outer-most barriers of electro-techno, with 'The Mind Strike'. Chicago and Dance Mania’s Steve Poindexter turns out rolling, dance-energy bomb 'Body Jam', while Mike Dearborn’s deliverance of unreal, dry techno in 'Deviant Behaviour' runs aplomb with classic drum-machine pulses, claps, and uncomfortable, yet punishing melodies. DJ Skull’s 'Don’t stop the beat' rides the EP with gushings of hand claps, and gentle, early 90s warm techno color, that transport you back to a time of more informed, and conscious electronic musings, a feeling that embodies Djax’s heyday. 

Founded in Eindhoven at the turn of the 90s, Djax-Up-Beats quickly earned an international reputation for being a key source of Chicago house, acid techno, and floor-filling, heavy-hitting, straight up underground 12”s. It’s a sound that spawned the sonic aesthetics of today, and can be heard in the left field techno productions of the likes of Bjarki, Salon des Amateurs and other erstwhile analog junkies.

DKMNTL063-2 // VA - Djax-Re-Up Volume 2

Artist: Various
Title: Furthur Journeys Into Electronix 2
Label: Furthur Electronix
Cat No: FE 022
Format: 3x12’’ Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1 – µ-Ziq – Meridioid
A2 – Greenraver – Etic
A3 – Utopia Cloak – E.g.i
B1 – Ben Sims - Day One, I Can See The Light
B2 – Dawl – Cyberdrone
C1 – Lobec - 5am Nostalgia (Stripped Back Version)
C2 – The Jaffa Kid - Sqa Desert
C3 – Cignol – Amen323
D1 – Low Tape - Don't Leave Me
D2 – Rico Casazza - R Dom
D3 – D-UFO - Binary Star System
E1 – Calix - Shadows Of Time
E2 – WeRU - Quantum Leak
E3 – Lostlojic – LV-426
F1 – Drøn - Memories Of Earth
F2 – Thee Almighty & Insane – Wiesel
F3 – Blu3b0x - 3ibkHUEd

Various - Furthur Journeys Into Electronix 2 - 3x12" (FE 022)

Artist: Various
Title: Outer Solar System
Label: Distorted Sensory Perception
Cat No: DSP002
Format: 12’’ Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1.  Moodex - Persistence 
A2.  Sound Synthesis – Early Morning Hours
B1.  Oshkossh - Impulse Control
B2.  Caramel Chameleon – Brainacid v2
B3.  Foreign Sequence – Grny89

Distorted Sensory Perception is back with a journey of deep space exploration in the form of their 2nd Various Artists release ‘Outer Solar System’. Featuring a diverse selection of deeper Electro and Techno of the broken beat variety. 

The A-side boasts a nostalgic stripped back yet progressive cut ‘Persistence’ from Maltese duo Moodex. Next up, a deep ethereal musical statement ‘Early Morning Hours’ from fellow Maltese producer Sound Synthesis in his unique style. 

The B-side opens with the moody, new school heavy hitter ‘Impulse Control’ from French producer and label co-founder Oshkossh. The penultimate track ‘Brainacid v2’ comes in the form of dusty machine music from Italian newcomer Caramel Chameleon that is reminiscent of AFX ambient works. Last but by no means least the record is brought to an epic conclusion with the frantically emotive and intricate ‘Grny89’ from France's Foreign Sequence.

Various - Outer Solar System (DSP002)

Headcast 25 sees the light and comes from @malte_magnum. The mix, full of breaks and electro jewels, was crafted in the Central German Metropolitan Region, more specifically in Halle - or was it in Leipzig?
We got to know Malte hanging at a lake shore in Lithuania during a little rave camp where we enjoyed having one or another secco. Without fulfilling the diverse high-level agreements we made in Lithuania, we met again at another cosmic gathering in Chemnitz where we renewed our ambition to arrange something for the future. A party exchange on a North-East axis was the plan, but as Covid is still keeping us busy, we are happy about Malte's Headcast delivery.. for now! What's not, can still be or not?
Do not miss to also check his multiple mixes and appearance as 1/2 of 808 POPPING RANGERS. You will notice that there is definitely a good taste of music around.
If you are lucky (unlike us) to have snatched a ticket for this year pandemic-friendly Tarmac Festival, which Malte and his crew ORGIA are co-running, better do not miss him!

@malte_magnum
@user-408166295
@orgia3000
https://www.facebook.com/Malte-Magnum-259404324723417/
https://tarmac-festival.de/

Headcast 025 | Malte Magnum

Binaural proudly presents a distinguished guest for its podcast #17. 3S Basic is the owner of the bar/record store & label 44 Tours (https://soundcloud.com/user-481072039 ). 
As much to say that despite an overture less than two years ago, it is already a Nantes institution, and Binaural’s headquarters. 
To get your own record store is probably the best solution to maintain your digging addiction while being at work. 
3S Basic delivers here his recent favorite tracks in matter of uk breakbeat and electro . A track from the next 44Tours Records’s Ep even slipped into his selection...

Tracklist : 
Milz & Hitek - Spin Off
Layo & Bushwacka! Kipping
Roza Terenzi - Yo-Yo
A Sagittariun - The Soft Machine
Same O - ORDID
Nasty King Kurl - When That Booty Drop
DJ Sense - Finest
Anz - Loos In Twos (NRG)
Arkajo - Zenit
Felix Leifur - BROT 5
Sepehr - Artificiality
Benedikt Frey - Shadow (Feat. Nadia D'Alò)
DJ Ungel - Diffused Engines
Bliss Inc. - Hacking The Planet ( Sansibar Remix)
Priori - Dreams Of A Digital Sublime (Roza Terenzi Remix)
Omformer - Distance

!! ONLY VINYL !!

Binaural Podcast #17 - 3S Basic

@andydufraine
https://andydufraine.bandcamp.com/album/shawn-cartier-dufraine-split-ep

This edition of Cyberdomain brings Dufraine. The mix displays an array of electro  from classic detroit, through synth-rich emotional, to new school jit, topped off with some favourites from friends and his own productions both released and forthcoming

Superflux - Alison Kirk (lowfish remix)
Thomas kress - electronic isolater
Commuter - systemausfall
MNLTH - Flektro
Microthol - supergravity solutions
Hiver - floor diving 
Danny daze, defekt - negative pressure (feat. DeFeKt)
Aux 88 - voice modulation (Anthony rother remix)
Gesloten Cirkel - Feat. Liette
Silicon scally - homeworld
Scape one - a million useful things 
Umwelt - deep space exploration
Radioactive man - gugs
Fasme - brume
Dmx krew - closed system 
Anthony rother - hacker 
Fischerspooner - Emerge (Dave Clarke remix)
The Droid - Scheming
SAAH - transmission
Kerri chandler - Planet Sonic 
Aux 88 - you don't want none of this
Dufraine - Spatial Awareness (forthcoming on APEX records)
Paulo Cicillioni - internal corrupt  (Abu Recordings)
The advent - funkage
Shawn Cartier - RIPPA (self released)
Radioactive Man - sleepfighting
Binary Digit - 35KElektro
Dufraine - glass shards (self released)

CyberDomain - Dufraine

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