and this is why you are a genius @jaffakid-1

For more than a decade now, Fleck E.S.C. has marked himself out as one of the most playful and prolific producers in the electro game. Across dozens of releases for labels including Bass Agenda and Science Cult, the France-born, Japan-based artist has made his name through a production style which balances limber beats with exploratory textural work. 

Fleck E.S.C. debuted on Central Processing Unit in 2018 with the Discrete Opinion EP. Now, after stopping by the Sheffield label last year on a Silicon Scally remix job, Fleck E.S.C. delivers his second EP for CPU in the form of Rough Silk. The record’s intriguing title proves an apt introduction to this four-track affair. These cuts are at once sleek and abrasive, anchored by robotechnic machine-funk grooves yet also full of strange, shifting shapes.

The opening title-track expertly sets out Rough Silk’s stall. Heralded by gurgling synths and all manner of whirring percussive tones, ‘Rough Silk’ blossoms around the minute mark with the introduction of a wickedly buoyant lead synth. This is music at once visceral and full of mystery, the sound of wending through the back alleys, and the feeling carries through to the following cut ‘Hat in the Cat’ - as the synth pads spool out overhead, the machine-funk snap of the beat has an almost aquatic quality that links it back to Drexciya.

Much like ‘Rough Silk’, the record’s first B-side ‘Faking Sweet’ also shifts gears. The opening strains of the track seem to be preparing for another insistent, expansive broken-beat pulse, but it stiffens its neck around ninety seconds in. Programmed drums whirr around a jittery machine-gun bass while discordant synths pull at the edges of the track, all of which brings a strong dystopian energy that increases further as the percussion sounds become increasingly bug-eyed.

After so much excitement, ‘Digger Play’ closes out the EP with a softer touch. There’s still plenty of low-slung bounce to the beat, but the track runs a little slower, and there’s a warm wistfulness in the synths which gives ‘Digger Play’ a painterly, almost poetic feel. However, while it may take its foot off the gas, the production here is as deft as it is everywhere else on Rough Silk. 

With new EP Rough Silk, electro whizz Fleck E.S.C. brings the sort of casual mastery to proceedings that has characterised his career to date.

RIYL: Silicon Scally, Jensen Interceptor, Annie Hall

Rough Silk

Fleck ESC - Rough Silk

For the second edition of the Zanderhythm Sunsets there is my mate Vertical67, who was also part of the legendary Various Vegetables crew which threw parties in Berlin around alternative electronic music from 2012-2014. Vertical67 keeps releasing great music since his first LP "Reflect", which came out on the Irish Acroplane Recordings in 2008. He released records with Brokntoys, Lunar Disko, 100% Silk, Magic Waves and on his own label Vortex Traks, which he co-runs with Naks. There was also a tape for Zanderhythm as "The Coloured Chaos". He is really prolific and a top quality music maker, so don't forget to check out his recent releases on Eudemonia, Pulse Drift Recordings and Brokntoys. For this mix he pulled out mostly ambientish musix by artist which are – at least to me – more known for some upbeat stuff, some good finds in there.

https://vertical67.com/
https://soundcloud.com/vertical67
https://vortextraks.bandcamp.com/


Tracklits : 
Cloudface - U & Me\
Jodey Kendrick - Strength Of Mind\
Wanderwelle & Bandhagens Musikf\
'f6rening - Victory Over The Sun\
Zenker Brothers - When Nothing Is Safe\
VC-118A - Cylinder\
Barker - Gradients Of Bliss\
Morphology - Bipolar Nebula\
Special Request - Compassion\
Vivian Koch - Enter\
Skee Mask - Rev8617\
Ryan James Ford - Max Bell\
Squarepusher - Dedicated Loop\
Reload - Peschi\
Convextion - Distant Transmission\
Ceephax Acid Crew - Plusion\
LFO - Premacy

Zanderhythm MIX SERIES #02 - VERTICAL67

https://soundcloud.com/rawambassador 

https://soundcloud.com/nto-11


Raw electro by ANTONIO aka Raw Ambassador.

Co-released with Another Perspective Records.

https://zyrcadianeditions.bandcamp.com/album/antonio-aqu-tica-ep

Antonio aka Raw Ambassador - Aquatica EP [AP004 / ZE003]

Konerytmi aka Kirill Jonolainen has been around the electronic music scene for quite some time. Even though he didn't see his first vinyl release as Konerytmi until 2020, he was already able to make a name for himself with a lot of EPs under various other aliases like JLM Werx or Dr. Floyd. For eudemonia Kirill created a unique 6-track EP tingling between Electro and Italo showing what an outstanding producer he is.

Tracklist: 
A1 - Turun Palloseura 
A2 - Ikuisesti Nuori
A3 - Uimaranta 
B1 - Valokuvaus 
B2 - Aikakone
B3 - Muoti 1986

Release Date:
05.08.2022

Presale:
https://kompakt.fm/releases/muotiviesti

Konerytmi - Muotiviesti EP

M4M comes back for summer with a unique and yummy mixtape by Moot (@damooter)

Representing and collaborating in the non-temporal Intergalactic FM station, where you can catch him at Laniakea channel every 2 weeks (Thursdays), UK Dj and music collector Moot brings a straightforward set full of groove, Italo, electro, industrial and psychedelia.

Get ready to rock!

Tracklist:

Ali Renault - Infinity Eyes
Brassica - Celestial Suspension
My Mine - Zorro
Caltrop - Lenny
Revolting Cocks - Animal Nation
Alpha Sect - The Sanity (Happy 707 Remix)
Electra (ft Tara Butler) - Carrots and Beets
Esser'ay - Forces (Reece Mix)
Aqua Regia - NYC Smile On Me
Sluts'n'String & 909 - Promises
Mule Driver - Nayura
Christopher Just - House 2
Analogue Cops - Grove Line Forcing
Hard Ton - Trancend Your Body (Larionov Remix)
Mono Junk - Halo
Animistic Beliefs - Molucca Quake (Exaltics remix)
Neuropolitique - I Can't Get Off The Slide
DJ Overdose - Brain Compartments
Pankow - Me and My Ding Dong

M4M 21 w/ MOOT

Next up is the mix by Isabella Venis.

“Nothing to say here… Just listen!”

Isabella Venis [25.07.2022]

The Jaffa Kid - "Lef" (from Passing Signals - suction056)
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Artist: The Jaffa Kid
Title: Passing Signals
Label / CAT#: Suction Records / suction056
Format: Vinyl / digital LP
Release date: June 3 2022

“Passing Signals” is the Suction Records label debut of The Jaffa Kid, aka UK producer Daniel Pringle. Over the past few years, The Jaffa Kid has been building up a strong following amongst braindance/d’n’b/acid heads, with killer releases on labels like 030303, Altered Sense, Utter, and his 2 standout “anonymous” WH03 and WH09 EPs on the Withhold label series. 

From the melody-drenched 303 acid of “Olyqu” and “Xom”, to the Bochum Welt-style electro vibes of “Ief” and “Tropet”, it was clearly just a matter of time before The Jaffa Kid appeared on Suction. With these 8 carefully curated tracks, Suction Records delivers 8 tracks of timeless melodic electronics, and surely the most solid The Jaffa Kid release to date, in our books!

Available digitally, and on limited vinyl LP in a reverse board jacket — includes a Bandcamp download card inside. 

Tracklist:

A1. Olyqu
A2. Lef
A3. Globbi
A4. Renumb
B1. Exa
B2. Tropet
B3. Xom
B4. Octaxonagonn

The Jaffa Kid - "Lef" (from Passing Signals - suction056)

Decomposition is a mix series by Dead Channel. Fig. 14 comes from Ju Ju. Hailing form Bryansk, she has dug deep in her extensive collection of gems to bring forth this haunting mix full of dark and strange obscura.

@ju-ju-9448725

www.deadchannelrecords.com/
www.instagram.com/dead__channel/
www.facebook.com/dead.channel.records/
www.discogs.com/label/2023500-Dead-Channel-Records

Decomposition - Fig. 14: Ju Ju

PRE-ORDER: https://linktr.ee/suctionrecords

Artists: Lowfish / Solvent
Title: suction001
Label / CAT#: Suction Records / suction001 (25th anniversary reissue)
Format: Vinyl 12-inch/Digital EP
Release date: November 11, 2022

2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Suction Records, the Toronto-based electro/IDM label founded in 1997 by two emerging producers, Lowfish (aka Gregory De Rocher) and Solvent (aka Jason Amm), the latter still overseeing the label to this day. The label’s inaugural release was a split Lowfish/Solvent 12”, marking both artists’ debut vinyl appearance. 

Gregory and Jason had known each other since high-school, but a deeper friendship was forged during their university years, after Gregory introduced Jason to early Rephlex releases by Aphex Twin and µ-Ziq. Gregory had been making electronic music in his bedroom for more than a decade, but it was those Rephlex releases that ignited Jason’s passion to do the same. After several years of obsessive gear buying, music making, and playing tracks for each other, Lowfish and Solvent had hit their stride, and their demos even attracted the interest of legendary early IDM labels labels Skam (for Lowfish), and Isophlux (for Solvent). But things were slow-moving in those days — letters, faxes, phone calls… nothing was panning out. So that’s when they decided to start their own label, and put out 300 copies of this 12”, suction001.

The label was heavily inspired by contemporary artists like AFX, Autechre, and Panasonic, but on suction001, those influences collided with their ‘80s synth-pop and industrial roots to create something unique. 25 years later, it still sounds fresh, and like nothing else out there. On suction001, 808 drum machines are run through distortion and breakbeats are chopped and mangled, contrasting with melodic OMD-style leads and catchy synth-pop basslines — a sound the label would refer to as ‘distortion pedal new wave.’ 

Over the past 25 years, Suction’s sound has morphed and evolved, but in recent years has shifted back to it’s original Rephlex-inspired roots. That makes 2022 the perfect year to revisit this wild, 1997 debut, now reissued in a new, expanded edition for it’s 25th anniversary. The reissue adds 2 bonus tracks — a 1999 remix by Detroit electro-punk duo ADULT., along with a previously-unreleased version of Lowfish’s A1 cut, and also features new and improved artwork, including an insert with full label discography. 

Limited to 500 copies, and comes with a Bandcamp download card.

Tracklisting:

A1. Lowfish “Helski Gotenks”
A2. Solvent “Course Hub with Garnish”
A3. Lowfish “Helski Gotenks (version)”
B1. Solvent “Flexidisc”
B2. Lowfish “Your Last Legs”
B3. Solvent “ESP (edit)”
B4. Lowfish “Peanut Butter Castles”
B5. ADULT. vs Solvent “Flexidisc (remix)”

ADULT. vs Solvent "Flexidisc (remix)" (from suction001 25th anniversary reissue)

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The Jaffa Kid - "Lef" (from Passing Signals - suction056)

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