https://facetstrax.bandcamp.com/album/breakable

Working with old friends is always a joyous thing so Optimo Music is delighted to be releasing the new EP from our old friend Facets. Boris has been coming to our New York gigs for as long as I can remember and always brings a great energy. That energy flows over into his music. EBM has become a much abused term in recent times but here are some tracks exploring that EBM DNA where the creator 100% knows that history and what they are doing. Taking that knowledge and bringing that sound right up to date. We asked Boris for some notes on the tracks.

He said -

All three tracks spread across different genres I like and each has its own unique type of energy. 

“Noć,” which includes haunting Serbian vocals from Marija Kovacevic and lyrics by Jesus Martinez, has an arpeggiated sequence along with a new wave-esque bassline. 

“Breakable” is a driving synth track that used lots of modulation accompanied by a 12-bit drum machine. 

Finally, “Reveal Yourself” is an EBM track on which I incorporated my own vocals for the first time, as well as lyrics that came from a vivid dream I had.

Released digitally 10/11/23

Breakable

OMDD 53 - Facets - Breakable EP

Working with old friends is always a joyous thing so Optimo Music is delighted to be releasing the new EP from our old friend Facets. Boris has been coming to our New York gigs for as long as I can remember and always brings a great energy. That energy flows over into his music. EBM has become a much abused term in recent times but here are some tracks exploring that EBM DNA where the creator 100% knows that history and what they are doing. Taking that knowledge and bringing that sound right up to date. We asked Boris for some notes on the tracks.
He said -
All three tracks spread across different genres I like and each has its own unique type of energy. “Noć,” which includes haunting Serbian vocals from Marija Kovacević and lyrics by Jesus Martinez, has an arpeggiated sequence along with a new wave-esque bassline. “Breakable” is a driving synth track that used lots of modulation accompanied by a 12-bit drum machine. Finally, “Reveal Yourself” is an EBM track on which I incorporated my own vocals for the first time, as well as lyrics that came from a vivid dream I had.

Breakable is out on November 10th.

Facets
Soundcloud: @facets-music
Facebook: www.facebook.com/facets.muzik
Instagram: www.instagram.com/facets_music/

Optimo Music
Soundcloud: @optimo-music
Facebook: www.facebook.com/OptimoMusicGlasgow/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/optimomusic/

Facets - Reveal Yourself (Optimo Music)

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/helios 

Artwork: Ventral Is Golden
Mastering: Matias Parisi
Hermetics Bancamp: https://hermetics.bandcamp.com/
Lux & Hermetics Bandcamp: https://luxhermetics.bandcamp.com/
Hermetics IG: https://www.instagram.com/hermeticsmusic/
Lux IG: https://instagram.com/_ll_uu_xx_?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==

Lux & Hermetics is a musical project from Buenos Aires composed of the producers and musicians Lucas Chaumont, also known as Lux, and Santiago Nino, also known as Hermetics. This EP was produced during the Argentine winter of 2023, with nothing more than a laptop, a guitar and an extensive work of sampling, sound curation, and sound design, giving this work a rather unique cinematic and nostalgic personality. This four-chapter work tells a journey that goes from innocence, through solitude and emptiness, to the serenity of a timeless existence.

‘Helios’ is a sonic quest that seeks to unify opposites and inject wonder, mystery, and a sense of the sacred into ordinary life and the complex simplicity that surrounds us. Its atmosphere represents a celebration that does not rely on something already defined but is enriched by the diversity of its sound, by the multitude of worlds it wishes to manifest, thus creating a wild desire for freedom and exploration.

Released digitally on December 1st.

Earth

OMDD 54 Lux  & Hermetics - Helios EP

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/expansion-ep

1) Expansion
2) Slinky
3) The Golden Ratio (with Fossil Archive) 

The debut solo release from Glasgow based Stevie Cox. We asked her to tell us about it - 

I have a love hate relationship with producing music and these three tracks all fell into the love pile. I scrap any ideas if I get stuck and it isn't flowing even if i'm halfway through them, but these three all came out super naturally and easily. I made Slinky and Expansion in one sitting each after a really good Subculture night (at Glasgow’s Sub Club) when I was feeling inspired and very present. I played a lot of acid that night and when I sat down to write, the tracks ended up being acid too. Although everything I write seems to feature acid. It's my favourite noise in the world, I love the squelch of it and it just makes a dancefloor pop off when played right. Expansion works perfectly as a transition tune from the warm up into peak time, my favourite time to play. Slinky is a bass heavy, heads-down wobbly number and both these tracks were inspired by endless b2bs with Domenic Cappello at the Sub Club. The Golden Ratio is a wee dnb collaboration with my really good friend Fossil Archive. I've taken Robert's approach of going with the flow when writing music and now don't touch a tracks structure after I've completed it. His encouragement to carry on producing is one of the reasons why this EP exists, so I'm endlessly grateful to him and it means a lot to have him on my debut solo EP. Having seen other DJs play all three tracks out now has been really special and the reactions they got from the dance floor will stay with me forever. I hope you like them too :)

Dedicated to the loving memory of Alexander Theodossiadis.

Released digitally February 2nd 2024.

Expansion

OMDD 55 - Stevie Cox - Expansion EP

This had never been part of the plan – not like this, not at such scale. The night was dark and cold all around them as they wandered through the forest in search of a way out. Who knew the woods went so deep and beyond what they might ever had imagined? Such expansion was unprecedented, dense thick greenery everywhere which swallowed the light.

Soon the night would come, heaven forbid they were still wandering, looking for a way out.

In the distance they could hear the noise of the city, yet they were on the outskirts, lost in the trees.

Stevie Cox is set to release a new EP via Optimo’s digital label, the Glasgow based Sub Club resident has become highly regarded in the booth and now turns focus towards the studio with a killer EP based on progressive, cosmic sounds destined to uplift on the dancefloor.

PREMIERE: Stevie Cox - Expansion [Optimo Music]

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Mix info

EG AFTER.135 Iñigo Vontier

Tracks used:
Theus Mago & Curses - Dafne (Optimo Music)
Darco - Qatar (Diynamic Music)

PREMIERE: You Have Not Heard This One Before

JOY RIDE 063

See Me Now (unofficial refix)

Episode EP.67 (24.6.24)
On Kiss fm
Hosted by @traxion1

XPRESS-IONS Radio w/Traxion. EP.67 (24.6.24)

Without the influence of dub, there’s no house and techno as we know it. The history of dance, especially underground dance music, is in many ways a history of dub. And the UK, thanks to its unique cultural mix and pioneering sound system culture, has played a massive role in the spread of these sounds.  

Joy Ride 84 is a tribute to dub's enduring and frequently surprising influence on everything from four to the floor techno and house to disco, post-punk, breakbeat and leftfield pop. 

It’s the old school meets the new, sometimes the very new, or tracks that are 30 years old but are only being heard for the first time today. It is perhaps the most ambitious mix I’ve attempted to date. 

Deep love and respect to all the incredible artists and the champions of this music for making all this possible.

Featuring tracks by Trans-4m, Octo Octa, Mike Dunn, Manakinz, Josh Micky, Future Sound Of London, Bicep, and more... Track IDs on request.

JOY RIDE 84 on TNT Global Radio

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/anarcho-disco-volume-1

Optimo Music excitedly unleashes Japan’s GǼG and their Anarcho Disco volumes 1 & 2 into the world. We thought we were done with 12” single release, at least for now, but then these tracks showed up and it was instantly obviously ESSENTIAL that they get pressed up on big fat twelve inch singles. Every single track here has been tried and tested and caused delirious delight on the dancefloor over the last year. Now it is time to share them with YOU! Truly Anarchic, Psychedelic dance music for the open-minded and genre-free crews.

GǼG say -


DISKO KLUBB boss MONKEY TIMERS, who leads Tokyo's underground disco scene, and KEITA SANO, who has been gaining attention for his releases on labels around the world, have started the project "GǼG”.

Using a variety of sampling and unique FX, our music has created a unique GǼG sound that is psychedelic and anarchic. 

This subversive sound is sure to be the key to shaking the dance floor.

Volume 1, 12" and digital released 23/08/24. Volume 2, 20/09/24.

Distribution via Kompakt.

Merpa

OM 59 - GǼG - Anarcho Disco Volume 1 EP (sampler) 12" vinyl and digital released 23/08

I don't normally post track listings, but I'm making an exception for this one.  

Pete Seeger - Ode To Joy
The Sabres of Paradise - Chapel Street Market at 9am
The Break Boys - My House Is Your House
Tom Sharkett - It's 5am Somewhere
Lord Of The Isles (feat. Ellen Renton) - Inheritance
Tom Sharkett - It's 5am Somewhere
Pete Seeger - Everyone In All The World

JOY RIDE 101

JOY RIDE 107

Off the back of a weekend at Panorama Bar, a freewheeling mix of Detroit techno, deep and classic house, underground disco, Italo, Bassline and breaks. Featuring tracks from Optimo Music, Tiga & Hudson Mohawke, Manakinz, Robert Hood, Kevin Saunderson, L-VIS 1990, Carl Craig, Logic1000 and many more.

Robert Hood - The Pace - Wandering Endlessly 
Ploy - When In Room
Johnny Fiasco - Taurus
L-Vis 1990 & Eklipse - Bass
Rhythm II Rhythm - A Touch Of Jazz (Lifestyles Of The Rich mix)
Josh Micky - Imaginarium
Al Wootton - Vitus
Baltra - O'Neal
Cormac - Leather and Lasers
COL LAWTON & SEN-SEI - Hulla Girl
Inner City - Back Together Again (Reese Phuture Dub Trip)
Marst - Panorama (Extended Mix)
Logic1000 & Rochelle Jordan - Promises (feat. Rochelle Jordan) 
Manakinz - Blootaboyz
Roman Flügel - Parade d'amour
Pet Shop Boys - I'm Not Scared
Q - The Voice Of Q (Original 12 Mix)
Project Sandro - Friday Night Action
Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life
69 - Desire_(Original Mix)
Terence - Like A Circle
Tiga & Hudson Mohawke - VSOD
Dynamix II - Just give the D.J. a break (12 Club Version)
Noo - Just Can't Give It Up
Terrence Parker - Secret Fantasy (TP Plastic Soul Remix)
Freeez  - I O U
Lowheads  - Tsubasa
Move D - The Garden
Phase II - Reachin' (Original Brotherhood Mix)
Romanthony - Let Me Show You Love

JOY RIDE 118

Tracklisting 

Fede Lng - Acid Raindrops (Hidden Spheres Remix)
Jimpster featuring Oliver Night - Lightening In Me
Prins Thomas - Fehrara
Le Motel - Squawks (feat. Charliee Cole)
Theo ECLA - Joy
Fede Lng - Acid Raindrops (Original Mix)
Joe Goddard, Fiorious and Ray Mang - New World (Flow) (Ray Mang Extended Remix)
Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (Yulia Niko Edit) 
Delay Grounds - Main Room Agoraphobic
Claro Intelecto - Peace Of Mind (Electrosoul)
Le Motel - La Cupola
Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards - Ghost From The Coast
ABSOLUTE - Time 2 Love Again
Cinthie - Higher (Demi Riquísimo Remix)
Mistareez - Realistic Goals
Factory Floor - Between You (Extended Mix)
Le Motel - Didjeridoo
Pangaea - Manía
Chevals & Todd Terje - Svensk Sås (Chevals Bass Harmonization Edit)
Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards - Ay Carmela
Suze - After Party In Poland
Prince, Maurice Joshua - If I Was Your Girlfriend House Mix
Bicep - Aura (12” Mix)
Happy Mondays - W.F.L. (The Vince Clark Remix)
Radio Slave & Cagedbaby - Amnesia (Instrumental Mix)
Midnight Analog - Evening song
Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Boney M Down
Naum Gabo - Galena
Desire - Love Is A Crime (Feat. Mirage)
Tom Sharkett - Mechanical Love (ft. Modema)
BOOF - Cereus
Bent - Always

JOY RIDE 130

Full tracklisting 

Jack Cutter (Feat. David Harks)Serpent Strut - Larry Heard’s Fingers Deep Mix"
Sho Madjozi, Double Zuksh, Zuksh, Young Zuksh - Zamaleky
Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards - Ay Carmela
BOOF - Cereus
K.A.T.O. - Disco-Tech (Soulphiction's Pause Tape Edit)
Koreless - Black Rainbow
Torus - anything your heart desires
Jorja Smith - Rose Rouge
Love Root - Hold Me Right (Dub Me Right Mix)
Trey Risqué - Search the Nite (Razor Beats)
Ben Sims - Xotnuc (Stevie Cox Remix)
Atelje - Zephyr
Basti Grub, Sonson - Robotooo
Le Motel - Dawn
Lifelike - Italo Disco
Sex Judas feat. Ricky - Pope Naked The First
Emjay - Come 'N Get It (Soulphiction's Tweakin Edit)
Deetron - V-NRG Extended Mix
SAULT - Miracles (snippet)
St. David - Blow Damn It 
Mystic Bill - U Won't C Me
Mamacita ft. Persona RS - Tu Amor (Your Love Spanish Version)
Blue Mondays - NERD TECHNIQUE
Joe Goddard - Gabriel (feat. Valentina)
Hector Couto - Changes 
Celeda - The Underground (St. David Dark Swing Mix)
Dee Gorgeous - Better Than Sex (Dirty Channels Edit)
Domenic Cappello - Moon Jump
Tiga & Hudson Mohawke - IN ORDER 2

JOY RIDE 131

DJ, producer, writer and founder of The Night Trains. One half of Frolic+Detour. Former Sub Club promoter. Optimo kid.
 
Screw your courage to the sticking-place.

Author and DJ. Prize nominated debut novel FOLK out now on Velocity Press.

EG: Where Music Matters

Visit us at www.electronicgroove.com

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Founded with a mission to push the electronic music scene forward and away from traditional standards, EG holds the modern mold of dance music culture up to the fire to spark insight and discussion across the board. We are an amplifier and platform for new music, news, interviews, and special features in a credible, objective, and compelling approach.

For over 15 years, EG has been at the forefront, supporting artists, labels, brands, and festivals in a dedicated and bespoke manner, understanding and caring for the artistic product. We've always valued those who take the time to create and have been there at every step of the road.

EG’s constant growth has seen the brand expand into the Spanish-speaking territory with the launch of Electronic Groove en Español, a full online media platform that focuses on bolstering the region’s cultural development. With established headquarters in Miami and supporting offices across the globe, we strive to deliver quality content to our worldwide audience.

Creator/Curator @traxion1

XPRESS-IONS radio, hosted by Traxion every week on Kissfm Australia, takes listeners on a journey through a diverse array of genres including nu wave, post punk, indie dance, electro clash, and disco, while also sharing insights about labels, artists, and more. Featuring both local talent and international guest mixes and interviews, XPRESS-IONS is a platform that celebrates music from all corners of the globe. Additionally, XPRESS as a brand is committed to making a positive impact through charity-based events and a dedicated edit series on Bandcamp, where every donation from the tracks goes directly to the corresponding charity. With over 20 current edits from respected artists worldwide, XPRESS-IONS not only entertains but also gives back to the community in a meaningful way.

All purchases/donations from each track which will be available on Bandcamp, will also go towards the charity of the artists choice. Aiming to raise as much money as possible for many different and amazing charities!

Ransom Note is an online music, arts and culture magazine. We provide a home for readers and writers with boundless enthusiasm, esoteric knowledge, fierce opinions and impeccable taste.

With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history.

Alongside this we offer musings on film, books, life, and art, generating some context and controversy as an antidote to the reheated PR that clogs up the internet. Our office is fuelled by Tunnock’s Bars, cat memes, hangovers and a ridiculous, never ending love for our culture.

We're always interested in getting new writers on board – feel free to get in touch if you’ve got a story to tell.

With love until the grave.

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