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WOW.  
With the summer months ahead, Sweat Equity is getting you ready with MAXIMUM HEAT.  That's right, 19 tracks of super-flame, sure-fire dance floor scorchers united under a shared concept: EXTREME.  

Spanning the full reaches of American dance music (and even a few Europeans in there if you can believe it), EXTREME HITS is the only record you'll need to leave scorched earth and burning soles where there was once an unused dancefloor.  Holy smokes!

This edition of our ongoing compilation series also marks a collaboration with Savannah, GA hot sauce co. Greg's Famous, who has paired our record with its own blend of piping hot herbs and spices for a limited edition Sweat Equity Hot Sauce titled...what else.... EXTREME HITS.  Give your burgers an EXTREME HIT, give your Mac n' Cheese a few EXTREME HITS, hell, SMASH UP YOUR SALADS THIS SUMMER WITH SOME EXTREME HITS.

SWEAT EQUITY VOL. 3: EXTREME HITS

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The name Pale Blue references “Pale Blue Dot,” Carl Sagan’s remark on the photograph of planet Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990. This new project was conceived around the time that Hurricane Sandy hit New York and came to completion with Mike Simonetti’s severance from Italians.  Thus, many of the tracks that make up The Past We Leave Behind grapple with themes of loss and new beginnings.

The Past… encompasses a myriad of sonic elements, ranging from rhythmic, melodic techno to atmospheric ambient productions, while also incorporating Simonetti’s varied background in noise, drone, and even experimental dream pop. Above it all though, Liz Wight’s vocals remain the focal point, saturating the record with a lush melodic warmth that’s so often missing in the electronic world.

Tougher

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Pale Blue - Tougher

Jono Ma Remix of Confidence Man track 'Bubblegum'

Bubblegum (Jono Ma More Cowbell Remix)

Confidence Man - Bubblegum (Jono Ma More Cowbell Remix)

from the album ‘First Opus'

for the interactive visual visit fractalfantasy.net/firstopus

Spotify: tinyurl.com/FirstOpus-Spotify
Apple Music: itun.es/gb/TVzmjb
iTunes: tinyurl.com/FirstOpus-iTunes
Boomkat: boomkat.com/products/first-opus
Google Play: tinyurl.com/FistOpus-GooglePlay
Bleep: bleep.com/release/85100-sinjin-hawke-first-opus

First Opus

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Onset - Sinjin Hawke

Allergy Season is pleased to share NYC-based producer Beta Librae’s first release with the label, Whisper Games - a surefire cure to late spring showers and a sticky prelude to a blistering summer.

Beta Librae introduced Kansas City to her airy, organic techno over a series of cassette-only releases, before moving to NYC and starting the jubilant and necessary Techno Feminism night at Bossa Nova Civic Club, along with fellow producer Umfang of Discwoman. Across four sweltering cuts, Whisper Games blends bongo-driven techno and sinuous deep house into a hypnotically-rendered dreamscape. Stitched together from live takes, the four tracks’ turbulent echoes and plasmic pulses seem to burrow straight into the ground (or club floor).

Ask your doctor if Whisper Games is right for you.

"Whisper Game" by Beta Librae is available with a prescription from the Allergy Season on Tuesday, May 30th, 2017. Written & Produced by Bailey Hoffman. Mastered by Max McFerren. Artwork by Michael Magnan.

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Beta Librae - Buu

http://www.nts.live/shows/pandoras-jukebox/episodes/pandoras-jukebox-4th-july-2017

STORY EIGHTEEN NTS 4717

Artist: STILL
Album: I 
Format: LP / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 80 
Release Date: 15 September 2017
@st-ill

order:  https://still-pan.bandcamp.com/album/i

Shapeshifting through his vernacular worlds of sound and imagery, Milan artist and musician STILL (Simone Trabucchi)'s practice is defined by a unique, nomadic approach. Previously known as Dracula Lewis, a project developing his personal take on ‘folk’ music, he has accumulated a number of releases on various seminal labels, alongside running Hundebiss Records.

His new moniker, STILL, follows the unearthing of the histories that connect his hometown of Vernasca to Ethiopia and Jamaica, explored under his visual arts project Invernomuto as an in-depth fieldwork lead to ‘Negus’: a series of sculptures, installations, a book, and a long-feature experimental documentary, screened at Unsound 2016.

'Negus' revolves around a cleansing counter-ritual performed by Lee "Scratch" Perry in the Vernasca square where 80 years earlier, an effigy of Haile Selassie I was burned. The documentary then follows a trajectory connecting Italy's overlooked colonial past seen through personal history to a reverberation of symbols in Ethiopia and Jamaica. Within STILL, he connects these research threads, evolving their sonic and linguistic aspects further, where ‘computerized riddims’ sustain a shared gospel channelled through a polyphony of voices.

Six Milan-based African-Italian vocalists and singers voice a complex, overarching past that is both communal and individual. Using the medium of language, the record is a multi-layered with meanings contemplating the historical weight of words. Both the city and the studio became workshops for the shaping of their complex network.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, artwork by Invernomuto & Bill Kouligas.

STILL - Nazenèt [Wasp Riddim] (PAN 80)

Artist: Errorsmith
Album: Superlative Fatigue 
Format: 2xLP / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 81 
Release Date: 20 October 2017
@errorsmith

https://errorsmithpan.bandcamp.com/album/superlative-fatigue

Returning with his first album in 13 years, Errorsmith’s ‘Superlative Fatigue’ long-awaited release on PAN arrives as his perhaps most optimistic record yet.

Placing a strong emphasis on spectral exploration, the tracks tell an inherent story and span a musical arc with his recognisable synthesised tones, computerised vocal effects and timbral changes in motion.

In comparison to his previous productions, Errorsmith (Erik Wiegand) sees the release as less abstract, harsh or aggressive: “I would say it is rather accessible and cheerful; at times ridiculously cheerful but still very sincere and emotional.” He suggests. “I find it touching when this little android raises its pitch at the end of ‘Lightspeed’ or the android catching its breath in ‘My Party’ for instance.”

The album title, ‘Superlative Fatigue’ reflects this tension between an over-the-top, hysterical emotion, against more deeply felt expressions or realness.

Besides collaborating with the likes of Mark Fell, to Berghain resident Fiedel as MMM, and Soundstream as Smith N Hack, Wiegand has released a string of seminal dancefloor tracks. Building his own instruments using modular software synthesizers is a large part of his work. Where almost all the sounds in the LP were created with his synth, ‘Razor’, (a synthesizer plug-in he developed for Native instruments, released in 2011) or slightly modified versions of it.

Premiered at Unsound Festival last year, this new material he has developed since has finally taken form in this epic full-length.

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by James Hoff and layout by Bill Kouligas.

Superlative Fatigue

Errorsmith - My Party (PAN 81)

2012 release: https://www.discogs.com/Lost-Trax-The-Connection-Machine-Lost-Machine/release/3363075
2018 reissue: https://www.discogs.com/Lost-Trax-Lost%C2%B2/master/1378036

https://ishi-vu.bandcamp.com/album/planet-of-death
Digital Download & Audio CD in jewel case with print design by Jacob J. Wise.

@ishivu

Planet of Death

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ishi vu – Retina Scan

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Softcoresoft - Small And Slow

Ariel Zetina - Oil Rig

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Ali Da Rave God - Hoover Time

Extreme Hits Intro

Jeremiah Meece - Fuck Me

Drumloop - Gloomroom

Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan 
Wilhelm - Mercurial 
Kevin Carey - Try_Again
Randomer - Percussion Workout 2 
Da Poet - Fly Over Palestine
EPROM - Samurai

MERCURIAL

Episode Four…things are getting serious for Listening Blue.
For this new VA installment, four millennials talents from around the world join forces, defying fleeting trends. At times daydreaming of cheerful and receptive crowds dancing to their beats, Fiend-X aka Clay Louis, Soma, Bête Imaginaire, контур сс and Vronsky offer their personal take on what Techno can mean today.

While some stay faithful to classical structures and aesthetics, others venture into unexpected sonics and innovative blends.
TECHNO 101% is an official statement on the state and place of contemporary Techno on the eve of the 3rd decade of the 21st century.

Artist: Fiend-X
Track Title: 1 Gm
EP Title: TECHNO 101%
Label: Listening Blue
Cat #: LB004
Release date: 14.12.2018
Format: Digital

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@clay_louis