"Spiral Snare" was recorded by Mike Parker in 1998.  For years, it remained lost until it was rediscovered in an archive of digital audio tapes.  Now "Spiral Snare" gets it's first official release as the B-side of GPH23.  [Official release date (vinyl & digital) in September, 2021.]  Remastered at Enisslab. | Geophone catalog number GPH23.

Spiral Snare (1998) [Excerpt]

Release Date: 13/09/2024

Artist: ARGIE
Title: Afterglow
Format: Vinyl, 12" / Digital
Art: Yvonne Cilia

Tracklist:
A1. Argie - Sleepless (Original Mix)
A2. Argie - Groove me (Original Mix)
B1. Argie - Nebula (Original Mix)
B2. Argie - Nebula (Squaric & Franco Rossi Remix)


Artist Socials:
https://www.instagram.com/__ar.gie__
https://soundcloud.com/argielivemusic

Label Socials:
https://www.instagram.com/diffusereality
https://soundcloud.com/diffusereality

BCCO Premiere: Argie - Sleepless [DREA014]

‘Intertwined’, the first collaborative EP by Paraíso founders @mariaamoramormaria & @shcuro, is up next on the decade-old Lisbon label. This pair of syncopated, energized, immersive techno tracks comes with remixes by Tresor residents Fireground and DC’s own Black Rave Culture, a trio composed of James Bangura, Amal, and Nativesun.

‘Waves of Hope’ opens the record in full force with a relentless beat that combines early 90s euphoric energy and jacked-up snares over a fat bassline, soulful pad progressions, technoid bleeps, dubby washes, and Maria Amor’s own soothing cut-up vocals, elegantly touching several foundational club music sounds through an inspired lens.

On the A2, ‘Hotspring Love’ brings levitating, airy textures and mixes them with subtle acid arpeggios, pure-hearted vocal melodies, and bouncy percussive accents. The rolling subwoofers of a proper techno party can practically be seen, the fast-paced kick perfectly perforating the bassline.

Two remixes can be found on the B-side: first up is Berlin-based @fireground_r12, who flip the original ‘Waves of Hope’ into a more concise take, exploring its dub influences and adding in cinematic, ravey chord progressions to a hypnotizing, ecstatic effect. The italian duo add a distinct dose of Neapolitan techno, carrying the textured intensity of that unmistakable sound.
@black-rave-culture pick up ‘Hotspring Love’ and turn it into an ode to junglism, reappropriating the original pads in a classic DnB workframe with crisp breakbeats and an absolutely nasty bassline that no words can do justice to.

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B1 - Maria Amor & Shcuro - Waves Of Hope (Fireground Remix)

To speak to Luca Daniel Schwarz aka LDS about his music is to be enthusiastically guided into a complex world of his own creation: clean and powerful techno which pulses with life from the textured patterns and drum sequences that have fills and accents that would make anyone who's picked up a set of drumsticks envious.

Yet this ecosystem of noise is deceptive; Schwarz's process for making music is very different to how a live drummer would create the same subtlety of performance. Forever researching new technology, Luca got deeply interested in different programming languages, and created a series of probability based music tools for manoeuvring sounds and sequencing.

Manipulating those probabilities takes a skillful alchemy, needing understanding of both musical structure and how the tools he devised work. To return to the drummer analogy, if the drummer is focussed and intentional in the moment of playing, then the method used in LDS tracks is almost diametrically opposed, with all of the intention coming in the assembly of the instruments, potential paths, and gateways; once play is pressed the music flows, following all the rules that were set in advance, not unlike a domino run or Rube Goldberg machine.

And like a domino run, the results are fascinating and, ultimately, fun: staccato vocals pop in and out in 'zipp prompt'; laser-like synths pulse; background noises sweep across the aural plane of the dub techno of 'diff, blockmix' and 'pow' adding texture that brings vitality all-too-easily missed out when complex mathematical processes become entwined with music creation. The high sensitivity to texture and rhythmic detail in Stadion Progg is multiplied further on Jean Redondo's remix - whose track, Hypersonic, was the backbone of 2023's 'yet' compilation on Tresor.

The balance between technology and a sense of fun might also come from the maker; it's not easy to overstate Schwarz's passion for what is now his favourite way to make music, "it never gets boring. There's always a moment of anticipation to see what actually emerges." And the true "power of 2" comes into play when the resulting music can be fed back through the system again and again, potentiating the music in exponential ways.

BANDCAMP

PREMIERE: LDS - stadion progg

Release Date: 20.06.2025

Early 2000 goa themes re-imagined as modern deep techno trance and drum&bass hybrids to dance to. Energetic, introspect & trippy.

With this collaboration Hyphen Records present the works of our label founder vauna and two high-profile artists in the realm of deep techno and neotribal, known for their flawless sound design and outstanding compositions: SHFT (Qilla, KVLTÖ, TGP, ...) and Forest on Stasys (Aura Sonora, space lab, ...). Enjoy!

Mastering: Stefan Betke at scape mastering, Berlin; Artwork: Isabel Faulkner

Support the Label: 
Hyphen Records 
https://hyphenrecords.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/hyphen-berlin
https://www.instagram.com/hyphen_berlin/

Support the Artist: 
vauna
www.soundcloud.com/vaunamusic
www.instagram.com/vaunamusic/

BCCO Premiere: vauna - Historic Archetype [HYPH004]

Bandcamp

JSPRV35 - Intergalactic Funk

Emotional and percussive journey opening my upcoming release on Hyphen Records. Enjoy. ❤️

Artist: vauna
Track Name: Before The Shift (Original Mix)
Release: Before The Shift EP
Record Label: Hyphen Records
Catalog Code: HYPH005
Mastering: David Becker at Manmade Mastering, Berlin
Artwork: Isabel Faulkner
Buy Link: https://hyphenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-shift-ep-hyph005
Release Date: 26/09/2025

Follow:

vauna
▫️ www.instagram.com/vaunamusic/
▫️ @vaunamusic

Hyphen Records
▫️ instagram.com/hyphen-berlin/
▫️ @hyphen-berlin

Press Release:
Mental trips and primal grooves. Interpreted as modern deep techno and techno trance hybrids to dance to. Energetic, introspective & trippy.
Hyphen present works of our label founder vauna featuring two uprising artists from the spheres of psychedelic and hypnotic electronic music: TOMO (DE RIO) (https://soundcloud.com/tomo_sound) and Peppe Amore (NR, Planet Rhythm) (https://soundcloud.com/peppeamore1996). Enjoy!

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PREMIERE | vauna - Before The Shift [HYPH005]

Lawrence Lee - Moebius

ankh (free dl)

RELEASE INFO:
Release Date: 14st Nov, 2025 
Title :   Haze
Artist: Hemnis @hemnis_ (Karl Forest @iamkarlforest / HAWLIE  @hawlie_rhythm)
Remix: Raissa Febriani @raissafebriani /  B E N N @bnnwx7_tw / NirBorna @nirborna

https://hemnis.bandcamp.com/album/haze

After releasing his solo EP on Hekdb earlier this year, Hawlie joins forces with Karl Forest to form a new electronic dance music duo, Hemnis. 

Their debut EP marks the first release under this new project. Built upon the duo’s exceptional sensibility and distinctive sound design, the EP weaves together textures of minimal, electro, and UK bass, establishing their own unique style. The release also features remixes by [Raissa Febriani], [B E N N], and [NirBorna], whose individual approaches further expand the sonic world that defines Hekdb.

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS (LABEL & ARTIST) 
Hekdb (Label)　
https://soundcloud.com/hekdb-wav 
https://www.instagram.com/hekdb.wav/ 


PREMIERE: Hemnis - Haze [Hekdb]

A sonic portrait of letting go and the quiet pull of memory.
Across five tracks, Voice Of Tone explores the tension between separation and return, stillness and intensity.
Deep bass pressure, metallic resonance and fragile melodies capture the moment where past and present collapse into one.
Failure to Return is a cinematic reflection on what remains after everything has changed.

Release Date: 07/11/2025

Mastering: Sawlin
Artwork: Franca Bartholomäi

Lawrence Lee - Moebius

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