Covidoff'. This track already represents the heavy grooves which are present throughout the full EP. The synthwork smoothly matches the groove and together they are forming a perfect interplay. The minimalistic development of the track ensures that the break and its build-up are becoming pretty intense, after which the arrangement goes on in its trusted rhythm. Loris Frigau took the atmospheric and dreamy ambiance of the original and surrounded it with a second layer of warm elements. At one point these layers have to make place for the harsh and falling melody, but after a while this melody got wrapped again by the positive and pleasant ambiance. This minimalistic remix forms a perfect end to this sophisticated EP.

Joseph DL - Covidoff

Felsina is a tribute to Bologna at its most experimental and underground. It tells of a journey of research, scouting, passion and innovation within the electronic music scene, in the city and elsewhere.  With tracks selected and mixed directly by the founder of the Switch Music Recordings label, Roberto Affuso (aka Light Minded) Felsina wants to celebrate the approximately 30 releases published since the label's foundation in 2016. This "best of" is divided into two discs: "Night-Shift" to celebrate the energy of the musically demanding clubbing scene, and "Open-Minded", for more refined ears attentive to quality listening-oriented electronic music. A massive collection of more than 50 tracks, including unreleased, reissues and reinterpretations featuring numerous artists in addition to Light Minded's personal productions. A perfect combination of Techno, Ambient, Intelligent Dance Music, Industrial, Indietronica, and Berlin School elements.
The experimental nature of Light Minded and its label shapes this magnificent collection with great accuracy.

Bom's Lake

Week#1

Tarbela

La Ruota

Alibi Primo

Reboot

Covidoff

Femdom

Electron (Plaster Remix)

Felsina

FELSINA | Night-Shift | Continuous DJ Mix

The Glitch Side Of The Loop

Light Minded and Jacopsen | Live AV @ "Graf" San Donato - Bologna [07 July 2023]

Digital Artefacts comes from DVKA's endeavour to re-create and innovate analog-like sound material with digital technology. Combining raw/distorted sound sculptures and digital crystal clarity as well as heavy rhythms and dark/cinematic drones, Digital Artefacts aims at conveying the experience of the Sublime through looping vortices of techno music.

25/07/2016

DVKA - Kaotic

Magnetic groove, darker route with a subtly evolving baseline, powerful synthesis, electricity in the air! Light Minded signs the 1st release on his Switch Music Recordings. After his releases on Planet Rhythm, Dark & Sonorus, Innatural Records and more, Light Minded release a really amazing EP and confirms his imprint to the underground music scene.

Electron

Light Minded - Impedance

Switch Music Recordings celebrates the first year of activity with its first various artists compilation. 
Play Group Vol. 1 - Alternative Electronic and Modern Left-Field is a collection of several tracks made by artists closed to the label. A fluid listening that alternates electronic and techno sounds in the usual experimental way loved by Switch Music Recordings. 
Circuit Bender and Velvet are tracks by Light Minded, where his techno soul is expressed in his most experimental side, but melodic at the same time. This is then enclosed in the remix of OAU (Torakiki feat. Giulia Olivari). OAU is an extract track by Torakiki of his album released by the band in 2016.
Routine and Fast Romances are Spong-X' s tracks. These new released tracks follow his usual style in mixing warm melodies with techno sounds. Routine is a deep techno track that sounds like the anxiety generated by the daily routine, while Fast Romances wants to be more faster in the same techno-electronic mood. 
Bist and Cixxx J have produced a single work, Green Window, divided in two tracks, Beat Pad and Fantasia Veneziana. Ipnotic sounds broken by an hard kick drum and techno rhythms. Outside from their label Noisybeat for this time to take part to this various artist.
Femdom is the Giulia Benedicta's track. The singer-songwriter expresses her experimental side through a pleasant song. Drum beats, arpeggiators and effected voice loop mixed in the typical dark and deep electro way of the artist.
Gino Di Fazio, pianist and keyboardist, made two tracks for the label presenting himself as electronic music producer. A sidereal trip features by broken rhythms, alien atmospheres and fine melodies.

Tullia Benedicta - Femdom

Blacksun is referred to the ancient Mayan mythology and to the symbol of the spiral galaxy. As the cyclicism of the Universe, Blacksun's sound is characterized by deep, dark and hypnotic grooves wrapped in rarefied atmospheres. The use of field recording, synthesizers and conceptual sound design experimentation gives to his techno tracks a ritual vibe.

Blacksun - Unbio

The Pace of the Rites is a four steps study based on the relationship between the music and tribal rites. Indeed, sounds and rythms have always been part of the rites for giving an atmosphere to preparate the participants or to celebrate an achievement. According to our modern world each track is a representation from the way a lot of us consider parties as rites.

Vardae - Hanblechya

Vardae - Niyol

Vardae - Il Murran

Vardae - Hassun

Switch Podcast 04 - Krabe

Switch Podcast 08 - Alessandro Giustiniano

Play Group Vol. 2 - Alternative Electronic and Modern Left-Field is the second various artist release by Switch Music Recordings. The LP presents nine tracks made by artists that have already released works for the label and guest artists that are close to Switch: different electronic music genres and artists coming from different musical experiences are mixed by alternating of groove, that converge in the same passion for the researching of sound.

Light Minded - Asterisk

Francesco Novara feat. Paolo Tarsi - Seven Nights Awake (Gesamtkunst on the Dancefloor)

TASCAM DR-05

Switch Podcast 09 - Reject

Switch Podcast 10 - Shadowcomplex

Sand-B - Children of the Sun (Spong-X Remix)
Woo York - Black Rain
Arthur Oskan - Maximilian
Township Rebellion - Moses
Minilogue - The Leopard (Extrawelt Remix)
Metodi Hristov - Impuls
Metodi Hristov - Wild East
Jensen Interceptor - Symptoms
Aitor Ronda - Tweezer
Hidden Empire - Black Beauty
Anna V. - Cryogenesis
Sebastian Wolf - Under the Bottom Pt. III (Spong-X Remix)
Reset Robot - Manhattan Project
Amelie Lens - In Silence
Spong-X - Pure Technique
Blue Hour - Falling Lines
Donato Dozzy - Quadra Nove
Yotam Avni - Yeezianity
Capcom - M1 (Spong-X Remix)
Amelie Lens - Stay With Me (Perc Remix)
Spong-X - They're Livin'it Up

Switch Podcast 11 - Spong-X

Borusiade - Silent
Lag - DHC3
Kangding Ray - Evento
A001 - Agra
Kalter Ende - Pressure Clamp
REALMZ - Radar Jamming
War Scenes - Grunge
SØS Gunver Ryberg / Aïsha Devi / Rrose / Paula Temple - Dr2 - 2
Tommy Four Seven - X9
CNC - The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun
Brendon Grant Moeller - Inside Dimensions
W.I.R.E. - Dstance
SNTS - The Grinding Inside
Ike Dusk - Interference
Stave - Break
Male Intellectis - 1
Radical G - Kryptonite
N_O_T_A - Return of Prometheus
I Murdered - Confessions
CNC - Invenies
400 PPM - Sintered Bauxite
NX1 - 020 (SAMOT Remix)
JK Flesh - Bayley Tower
ANFS - Kouba
Damaskin - Presence
Bas Mooy - E1V
Adam X - Chaos & Mayhem (Sonar Remix)
CNC - Melting Point
Heretic - Between Lies and Hate
Olēka - Fresh Meat
AnD - Free at Last
bunkerterror - Pagan
Daniel.B.Prothese - a++ak v1
Ectotherm - Make Them Remember
Stanislav Tolkachev - Perforated Spoon
La Bile - Face Z
Progression UK - Brontide
Privacy - Apex Predator

Switch Podcast 12 - Computer Numerical Control

Varhelst Stormen Tar Mig means "wherever the storm takes me", Bmbmnd recorded a few sounds and noises in a rainstorm day, when he runs home. The shoes that walk on the wet road and finally the door of his house that closes and leaves everything behind. 
Varhelst Stormen Tar Mig means consists of modular sounds and recordings mixed with recordings and as always the very classic mold of Bmbmnd consisting of drum machines like 808 and 909 glued to a texture of ambient celestial pads.

Bmbmnd - Varhelst Stormen Tar Mig (Ambient Mix)

Bmbmnd - Varhelst Stormen Tar Mig

Switch Podcast 13 - Marmo

Random Numbers founder, BXP is a perfect balancing throw Italian style and UK vibes.
Based in Bologna like us (UNESCO city of music), BXP presents a fine vinyl selection that is literally tainted by acid, old-school techno and downtempo. 
Listen it non-stop in this Christmas time!

Switch Podcast 15 - BXP

Francesco Resta, also known as François, gives us this wonderful podcast to start a new year in an emotional flow.
Veteran dj based in Bologna (Italy) since the early 2000s, Francesco has played alongside many important techno / house artists and is an example of professional approach and high quality djing.
Let yourself be carried away by the melody;)

Switch Podcast 16 - Francesco Resta

Inspired by his various passions such as retro-gaming, synths and computer programming, this LP is the real expression of Post-Techno.
Using languages like JavaScript with the evolved DAWs, and with analogue and digital instruments, this release confirms the mature sound design experience and the unique clubbing approach of this Italian artist.
The whirring riff is hypnotic, and the moment it gets going it creates a strong energetic pulse.
The atmosphere reaches its climax before continuing to roll out in its creeping malevolence. With accented bass-lines, strong personality, IDM and melodic Ambient influences, every track presents a Sci-fi background that can fire up the dancefloor and embrace all with pure electricity.

Light Minded, or Roberto Affuso, stands out for its approach, which reflects his attention to new technologies without ever moving away definitively from the past: ranging from hypnotic, ambient or left-field sounds and blending the traditional drum machines and vintage synthesizers with the latest computer technologies. Having been playing since the nineties, in 2009 he became the art director of Switch, electronic music party based in Bologna, and now the co-founder of Switch Music Recordings, a record label that crosses the deepest techno as well as the most delicate electronic vibes. His sets have supported artists like Terence Fixmer, Perc, Ellen Allien, Adam Beyer, Maceo Plex and more - he also plays with other Switch musicians to create live sets and multimedia installations that range from classical contemporary to IDM.

Available from 07-05-2019 
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Light Minded.

Light Minded - Reboot [SWCLP04] [PREVIEW] - OUT 7 MAY 2019

"Munchies On Flowers" is the new solo project of Fauve! Gegen a Rhino member, Riccardo Gorone.

After his self-named release on our label, Riccardo has created this amazing and eclectic mix for our podcast series.
Enjoy!

Tracklist:
Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker;
Hobby Horse – The Go Round;
leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs – Tin Mine;
The Third Eye Foundation - That's Why;
Oliver Coates – Perfect Love;
Peter Evans Quartet – Chorales;
Skarn – Revolver + Jurgen Ploog – Tapes Part 2;
Sonae – I Started Wearing Black;
Djrum – Showreel – Part II
Ian Chang - __ + Jerusalem In My Heart – Thahab, Mish Roujou', Thahab;
Burnt Friedman – The Pestle (feat. Takeshi Nishimoto);
Karen Gwyer – Did you hear the owls last night;
Waq Waq Kingdom – Oh It's Good;
MGUN – You Inside Me;
Pictureplane – Boys In Blush;
Martin Rev – Salve Dominus;
karenn – pace Yourself + Delia Derbyshire – Sea;
Topdown Dialectic – A3 + Delia Derbyshire – Sea;
D-Leria – Her Smile;
Jon Hassell – Al Kongo Udu;
Ursula Bogner – Proto;
Glass Knots – Present Tense 1
The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles – Chapter 6: Transformation (Pt. 1);
Boris Hauf – Le Chien + Daniel Higgs – The Srmon Fools Part 1

Switch Podcast 17 - Munchies on Flowers

Sacrobosco è il moniker con cui a partire dal 2019 Giacomo Giunchedi sigla la sua produzione di musica elettronica IDM, composta su linee minimali di drum machine, synth e un consistente uso di sample ricavati dal campionamento di voci e suoni. L’incontro con questo mondo avviene nel 2014 attraverso l’esperienza del progetto Torakiki, che lo ha portato assieme agli altri due membri sui palchi di Ypsig Rock,  NIM e Gondar (per un djset in apertura ai Prodigy), oltre che in alcune date a Berlino. Attualmente è in fase di produzione di un realese in prossima uscita per Switch Music Recordings.

Tracklist:
The will and the end - Mount Kimbie
So good So right - Sinichi Atobe
I need you - Octo octa
Bird - Kelly Lee Owens
New Romantics - Andy Stott
Fluo - Beatrice Dillon
Maraiah - Nikki Nair Fading Shlohmo
Paralize - Suuns (VRIL Remix)
Boston - Oblivion
Shifetd - Control
Knights + Bishops - Ancient Methods
4 Floors of Whores - Tzusing
Red line II - Varg
Via Sub Mids - Skee Mask
Deep In Daylight - Pedestrian

Switch Podcast 18 - Sacrobosco

Switch Podcast 19 - Eva Benfenati

Switch Music Recordings, born in Bologna in 2016 from the visionary mind of Light Minded (aka Roberto Affuso), is a pioneering force in the electronic music scene. With a rich history rooted in years of event organization under the Switch banner, the label has become a beacon for cutting-edge electronic sounds. Specializing in avant-garde electronica, experimental music, IDM, and mental/hypnotic Techno, Switch Music Recordings is renowned for its unique fusion of genres, often intertwining elements of UK Bass, Ambient, Leftfield and High-tech music. With over 30 groundbreaking releases, the label continues to push boundaries and redefine the sonic landscape, captivating listeners with its innovative approach to music production. Switch Music Recordings stands as a testament to creativity, experimentation, and a deep passion for the limitless possibilities of electronic music.

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