Amazing, love it and this piano ... ! @djwhiprsnipr

PREMIERES

Low-slung Polygon Window-esque acid from Tramic on Kulture Galeri’s Metropolitan Soul Museum round 2: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premiere-tramic-lanterns-kulture-galerie/

In a Tramic town, lanterns aglow, Kulture Galerie, where nonsense does flow. Dancing Tramic with lanterns in hand, In a whimsical world, oh, so grand.

Pigs recite news, cows wear polka-dot, Lanterns paint rainbows, a peculiar lot. Kulture Galerie, a surreal decree, Where whimsy and folly dance merrily.

Elephants strum guitars, as snails scribe verse, A tale of Tramic, lanterns, and whimsy diverse. In this fanciful land of peculiar spree, Kulture Galerie, a nonsense jubilee.

PREMIERE: Tramic - Lanterns [Kulture Galerie]

A deep and enigmatic electro EP that invites you into a powerful atmosphere,
Composed by Ruksby.

🛒 https://jadelabel.bandcamp.com/album/broken-knee-jad014

Release 2024/01/22
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● Ruksby
https://soundcloud.com/ruksby
https://www.instagram.com/ruksby/

● Jade
https://soundcloud.com/jadelabel
https://www.instagram.com/jade.lab_
https://jadelabel.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/c/jadelabel

Broken Knee

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𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚 : Ruksby - Turning Heads

Hawaiian Surfer - Perplexed Look

Behrang Mohammadi - WUB003
BUY LINK: https://warningberlin.bandcamp.com/album/wub003
Label: Warning (https://soundcloud.com/warningberlin)
https://www.instagram.com/warning._____
> Behrang Mohammadi (https://soundcloud.com/behrangmohammadi)
https://www.instagram.com/behrang.mohammadi/

No stranger to the label having assumed mastering duties across several releases, Behrang Mohammadi touches down for his official Warning debut. It’s a deadly one-two punch as the Inkonst resident conjures DIY spirits on a typically idiosyncratic lathe cut 12", complete with a remix from OG Salon Des Amateurs resident Philipp Otterbach.

Original cut ‘Tears Only Fall From The Right Eye’ recalls Dutch darkwave innovator Das Ding at his strangest. Eerie retro-futurism awash in a sea of spatially-aware dub FX, Mohammadi summons his more explorative side with some hauntingly sparse, smudged. electro.

But where the original deployed dub sirens and swathes of reverb to mesmeric effect, Otterbach leans fully into his dubbiest inclinations. It’s the axis point where break-neck IDM pointillism, industrial heft and pure dread bassweight collide. Bone-rattling stuff.

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : Behrang Mohammadi - Tears Only Fall From The Right Eye

The don of Siberian techno Roma Zuckerman made his debut double LP ‘Phenomenon of Provincial Mentality’ on Gost Zvuk with a much-anticipated showcase of his remarkably diverse language of sound, from quickfire DJ tools to off-kilter extrapolations with a full stylistic diversity in between.

Working through the archive, the label assembled a collection of hypnotic loops in the vein of early Robert Hood and click-and-cut experiments that recall the punk attitude of Berlin's Elektro Music Department, all the while with nods towards European minimal. The album opens with two subdued, speak-and-spell processed vocal jams before 'Text Regulator' brings things into overdrive with furious drum programming and wide-eyed glitch FX. Over to Side B things take a turn into something more melodic and relaxing, an almost BBC radiophonic workshop zone with synthetic underwater sounds bringing to mind Amadeo Tomassi's library soundtracks of the late 70s. Think of early sonic portrayals of deep space exploration or the ocean's vastness mixed with repetitive 909 stabs.

‘I Play Everyday’ strikes as one of the album's highlights, a prime example of Zuckerman’s fascination with creating loop-based grooves to get lost in. There’s a hint of Richard H. Kirk’s 90s IDM classic ‘Freezone’ in the timbre of the opening moments, but where Kirk goes into sample-heavy cross-cultural futurism, ‘I Play Everyday’ seems acutely concerned with subtle reductions. ‘Extra Work’ harnesses a kind of pounding warehouse gabber energy with what sounds like a collage of shortwave radio voices, whereas album closer ‘Companeros’ brings in snippets of traditional Spanish-style acoustic guitar, albeit layered in a concrete manner with bursts of electrical distortion. It makes for one of the LP’s most surprising moments, but all round ‘Phenomenon of Provincial Mentality’ shows an artist working with a vast variety of styles. A truly great body of work to kick off the year. 

Roma Zuckerman
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/roma-zuckerman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/idea_by_roma_zuckerman/

Gost Zvuk
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gost-zvuk-records
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gostzvuk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gostzvuk/

Phenomenon of Provincial Mentality

PREMIERE: Roma Zuckerman - I Play Everyday (Gost Zvuk)

Buy: https://silvaelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-point
Releases on February 27th, 2024
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Introducing Slow Blink, the latest sonic venture from acclaimed producer Michael Claus, who this time pivots to a more raw, club-centric sound. Under this new moniker, Claus unveils a 5-track EP that radiates raw, rave-inspired energy, marking a stark contrast to his typically more ambient and introspective creations. This release is a resonant journey through overdriven drum machines and subaquatic electro, meticulously crafted for the pulsating heart of the dance floor.

The EP showcases two original tracks by Slow Blink, where Claus delivers a frenetic concoction of saturated rhythms and kaleidoscopic melodies, interwoven with iridescent atmospheres that pulse with vibrant intensity. These are complemented by a special rave edit, a high-energy rendition that intensifies the originals' dynamic energy and is perfect for peak club moments.

Complementing Claus' originals, the EP features two striking remixes by Farsight and Pteron, adding an extra layer of depth to the EP. Farsight's interpretation infuses a bass-heavy rhythm, transforming the original into a breakbeat-driven powerhouse, enriched with a new dimension of funk and bounce. Meanwhile, Pteron accelerates the tempo, reimagining the track as a sub-heavy drum and bass odyssey. This version layers swift percussion over deep basslines, evolving the original melodies into a captivating, rhythmically complex soundscape. Together, these remixes not only pay homage to the essence of Slow Blink's debut but also push it into thrilling new realms.

Slow Blink (aka Michael Claus)
Instagram: www.instagram.com/mikec187/
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/michael-claus
BandCamp: michaelclaus.bandcamp.com

Farsight:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/djfarsight/
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/djfarsight
X / Twitter: twitter.com/DJFarsight
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2gTyZstDbbmkkohxLNchlj

Pteron:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/pteron/
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/pterontracks
Club Moniker: clubmoniker.bandcamp.com

Silva Electronics:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/silvaelectronics/
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/silvaelectronics
Bandcamp: silvaelectronics.bandcamp.com
Website: www.silvaelectronics.net
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/11glIMvFlbpftSVUPrVLB0?si=8356319043d240c9&nd=1

SE 19 // Slow Blink - "Liminal Point" (feat. Farsight & Pteron)

Arvid Wretman, AKA Your Planet Is Next, has assumed the role of musical storyteller with a serious mean streak of DIY electro.

Wretman’s latest album tells its tale through the eyes of an imagined anti-hero. He conjures up the gritty underbelly of an over-populated megalopolis; a world of dilapidation, ruin and sin, where stiletto knives are a dime a dozen and our titular protagonist, the FOG MAN, stalks the streets.

In an oddball tradition, there’s an absurdist, left-of-centre flex coursing throughout. This is the Stockholm native at his strangest, radiating fuck-off attitude and an embrace of imperfection as he maximises the potential of a limited studio setup.

Bleak spoken word lyrics only serving to bolster the narrative storytelling, ‘Sad Fog’ paints a vivid picture of hardships endured, while ‘Fog Power’ resembles the inner dialogue of a man teetering at the edge of sanity. Think corrosive, industrial fug and rugged, tape-damaged torque.

Through ‘No Fog’s menacing machine funk to the visceral, downbeat sleaze of ‘Freaks’ and queasy, Wolfenstein-sampling 'Eisenfaust’, the FOG MAN deals that dystopian gear in spades.

Ready 2 Fog will be released as full album on tape and digital with a limited edition of 7" lathe cut vinyl containing 'Look 4 The Fog' and 'Ready 2 Fog'. All physical copies are accompanied by an exclusive 24 booklet with visual works from the world of the FOG MAN.

All tracks written and produced by Arvid Wretman
All drawings by Arvid Wretman as well
Mastering by Henry 3000
Lathe Cut by disc_archive
Cassette by Headless Duplication
Special thanks to Cliff Lothar, Philipp Otterbach and Snitch

PRE ORDER https://warningberlin.bandcamp.com/album/ready-2-fog

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PREVIEW: Your Planet Is Next pres. FOG MAN - Ready 2 Fog

Ship072 Snippets for Side B
B1 Dead Calm
B2 Phantom Machine

About:
The Netherlands has proven to be fertile ground for electronic talent. Few can turn their hand to the range of styles that Ian Martin can, even fewer can match his sheer quality. Shipwrec are delighted to welcome this talent to the label with four tracks making up "Future Dawn." Cosmic Garden opens. A piece that blurs genre lines, soft synthlines are coupled with ruffled rhythms that immerses the listener in gentle orchestral ebbs and flows. Sounds of isolation introduce "Future Dawn", modulations reaching over an ever-widening expanse before strings descend. Drums arrive late in this atmospheric journey, a journey that pulses with a primal energy while conjuring vivid images. The ominously titled "Dead Calm" opens the flip. Soundtracks have always been an inspiration for Martin and the scores of the silver screen are at the forefront of this work. Brittle beat patterns are the bedrock on which melodies whirl, a bitter acid bass bubbling as tension builds to paranoic peaks. Darker skies loom with the marine chop of "Phantom Machine" finishing. A flotsam and jetsam of hi hats swirl in the liquid undulations of distorted bass and aquatic echoes, rougher rusted rhythms providing ballast to the eddies and maelstrom of Martin's machines.

Release date vinyl: 4th of March 2024
Release date digital: 1st of April 2024

Cat# Ship072
Written and produced by Ian Martin
Mastered by Johanz Westerman
Distributed by Clone Distribution
© Shipwrec 2024

Ian Martin - Future Dawn - Ship072 Side B [Forthcoming]

Nørus & Dj Whipr Snipr team up for Gravitational Attraction on Nerang Recordings. The duo air their Second collaborative EP With flavours from breaks, electro, techno and beyond.

Title: Invisible Commission
Artist: Nørus & DJ Whipr Snipr / @djwhiprsnipr 
EP Title: Gravitational Attraction
Label: Nerang Records
Release Date: March 8th, 2024
Buy: https://nerangrecordings4211.bandcamp.com/album/nrng015-n-rus-dj-whipr-snipr-gravitational-attraction

Gravitational Attraction

PREMIERE: Nørus & DJ Whipr Snipr — Invisible Commission (Nerang Records, 2024)

"Couple of my demos from summer '23 that somehow ended up from the folder 'untitled' to the folder 'complete.' Featuring cracked VSTs, YouTube rips, samples from cheap 90s CDs, and a lot of sarcasm plus sincerity at the same time. It's definitely 'name your price' tag music, but it's nicely mixed with additional help from Cnstruct, mastered by simply the best, Lopazz, and comes with lovely design by Mollakaev. Feel free to support! And remember to always stay hydrated." ~ Zhilin

Artist: @andrei-zhilin
Title: Stars&
Purchase: https://zhilin.bandcamp.com/album/stars
Released: 13 March 2024

PREMIERE: Zhilin — Stars& (self-released, 2024)

Amarhac is an audiovisual artist from Mar del Plata, Argentina. In his productions, futuristic soundscapes are explored through synthetic and digital sounds. He also incorporates digital art and 3D animations to visually enhance the sound scenes.

Asplenium, his 2nd release on the label, moves through different ecosystems within a unified narrative. It is divided into parts, but the aim is to provide a single, uninterrupted listening experience without cuts. The EP incorporates IDM, broken rhythms, deconstructed and ambient tones, all layered under a highly defined palette of textures and sound design.

Artist: Amarhac / @amarhac
Label: @nodolabel
Release date: 24 April 2024

PREMIERE: Amarhac — Part 6 (Nodo, 2024)

naive has returned to releasing music on vinyl and digital formats, now distributed by Rotterdam's finest Clone Records. NAIVE020 epitomizes what the Lisbon-based label, run by Violet, has become cherished for: imaginative yet timeless, soothing yet moody, melodic yet sonic music. Entitled 'Computer Hermetics', this new record is an EP by UrbnMowgli, a fairly new Berlin-based artist who began releasing music in 2020.

The opening track, 'Fast Love Life', is a 145 bpm electro-bred, breakbeat-driven emotive dancefloor banger. It features menacing stabs juxtaposed with beautiful pads and acid-drenched arpeggio motifs that lend it a oneiric quality. 'Oracle Algorithm' picks up the 303 spirit and delves into trippier territories, densening the dreamlike, expansive atmosphere while infusing the record with electro-driven grit. Closing side A is 'Warschauer Rush-Hour', a futuristik, high-tempo twisted electro banger that's both tough and playful.

'Immaterial Desires' inaugurates side B—an ode to adventurous drum programming and intricate sound design in the form of a percussion-punctuated curveball belter. 'Digital Dawn' brings it all back home to the heart and closes the record with its deepest, most immersive moment, giving us big bass lines that alchemically converse with angelic bleepy melodies as if soundtracking a soulful sci fi movie that doesn't exist yet.

https://soundcloud.com/urbnmowgli
https://soundcloud.com/naivetrax

PREMIERE⚡️UrbnMowgli - Digital Dawn [naive]

Artist: metra.vestlud / @metra_vestlud
Album: Crystallllliiiine
Label: Фактура / @faktura_ural
Release: 15 April
Format: Cassette

Buy: https://faktura-ural.bandcamp.com/album/crystallllliiiine

PREMIERE: metra.vestlud — Maallachittebiird (Фактура, 2024)

Bogdan Ra is based in the musical hotbed of Lisbon and his excellent What Is A DJ? EP on Craft Music Records takes its inspiration from the late 80s acid house and Italo, displaying a real mix of vintage charm and contemporary relevance that will strike all the right notes on the dancefloor. From the snappy title cut to the electro rhythms of 'Arroios' via the funky disco rhythms of 'Tonic Glue' and feel good factor of closer 'That's All', this is quality production that will more than stand the test of time.

Artist: Bogdan Ra @bogdan_ra
Title: What Is A DJ?
Label: Craft Music @craftmusique
Cat. CMR007
Release date: 01 Jul 24
Format: 12” + digital

Pre-order: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/bogdan-ra-what-is-a-dj-vinyl/1010462-01/

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PREMIERE: Bogdan Ra — Arroios (Craft Music, 2024)

Stunning 4-tracker by contemporary Japan's fine electronic mind Doltz @doltzdeep

Meta-ambient, beyond space, heavy yet subtle mixture of tranquility and anxiety that will take a listener on a hypnotizing journey through furtive meanings and rhythms.

Issued on 12-inch black vinyl disc jacketed in the design envelope.

Artist: Doltz (Fukuoka, Japan) / @doltzdeep
Label: @shurale_records (Kazan)
Format: vinyl, digital
Release date: May 2024
Presale: www.decks.de/track/doltz-komainu/cmk-3r
Bandcamp: shuralerecords.bandcamp.com

PREMIERE: Doltz — Komainu (Shurale, 2024)

'Now I am become death..'
Video: https://youtu.be/PHk32vdJr5s?si=OnAm9cMxNnx52N2b

Thi$ track contain$ element$ of 'Elegy No.1 in D minor' by Giovanni Botte$ini (1821-1889).. Go green - recycle old mu$ic....

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