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Washington DC-based Lurid Music welcomes Belgian producer YNV for his debut album entitled “Golden Hour Ritual” that showcases his entrancing blend of avant exotica, Middle Eastern mysticism and cabaret electronica.

YNV was born in Brussels in 1979 and moved to California in 2013. He has so far released tracks on Invisible Inc and Emotional Response. Along with his upcoming debut album on Lurid Music, he has a single ready to be released on Neubau. He is a video artist and music curator for the Vague Terrain nights in San Francisco. In his music, as with his videos, he exploits the liminal space between our most disparate emotional states and the tenuous thread that binds our inner world to reality at its face value. Carrying the torch of his Euro roots, you hear the influence of his homeland with some California sunshine and a palm tree thrown in for good measure.

His LP for Lurid Music features nine original tracks of a brooding cinematic nature, transporting you to the sheltering courtyard shade of a desert riad where every movement seems as theatrically measured and eccentrically calculated as anything Tuxedomoon, The Residents or Dead Can Dance ever produced. The LP closes with a slow acid trance remix from Anatolian Weapons.

https://soundcloud.com/ynvynv
https://soundcloud.com/anatolianweapons
https://soundcloud.com/luridmusic

PREMIERE⚡️YNV - Golden Hour Ritual (Anatolian Weapons Remix) [Lurid Music]

A New Age Cat EP is out November 8th, 2022 on our beloved Bed of Roses label.
@bed_of_roses-1

Burning the midnight soil, Wormbox is the amalgamation of two new age cats - Break Mode and Cole Baby - whose collaboration results in a euphoric trip that makes your feet glide against a smokey checkered floor. Their jams are uniquely sewn together by combining each of their distinct production styles, creating a truly singular sound. Pulling from all sides of their electronic and dance music predecessors, the outcome is just as delightful as it is unexpected, proving these worms are anything but grounded.

In this, their first offering, the two introduce you to their friend Kachina Sedona Max, a New Age Cat who enjoys drinking crystal water and meditating in the bathroom. This track is backed with the cosmic epic The Defender of Heaven. 

Rounding out the release, Thomass Jackson brings a spritely psychedelic remix of a New Age Cat ripe for any dancefloor. Then Coast2c strips The Defender of Heaven down to the studs and runs it through a spin cycle.

A New Age Cat

https://soundcloud.com/betonska
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🔊 https://youtu.be/UMRwAg9TkK4

Previously unreleased, Manchester, 1991. Betonska hits hard with their second release traveling back to a crucial period of dance music history. A record blending rave, downtempo, ragga, dancehall, and early hardcore/jungle;
a crossover that continues to shape and define some of the most innovative sounds of contemporary club culture.

Who Said?

PREMIERE: Two The Hardway - Who Said? (Instrumental Version) [Betonska]

Acoustic, no-age krautrock from Berlin releasing on Glasgow label, Phase Group. 

The next release on Phase Group unearths a truly unique project that has existed as an outlier in the Berlin underground since 2002. 

A stage decked out with xylophones, tambourines, timpani, wooden percussion, two drum kits, a cello, harmonicas, saxophones and pieces of scrap metal. Eight unassuming musicians playing repetitive, trance-inducing phrases, at times serene, fragile and dream-like and at others wild, primitive and driving. This isn’t a scene you might associate with hazy nights out in Berlin but it’s what you’d find if you ended up at a Kulku show.

Kulku's music is a hard to define blend of percussive minimalism, folk, krautrock, post-punk and no wave, almost exclusively derived from acoustic sound sources. Their debut album ‘Fahren' presents this unique sound-identity that they have been crafting for the best part of two decades. 

The A-side presents 3 tracks of percussive propulsion, minimalist xylophone motifs and repetitive drums alongside monotone organ, dramatic narration and woodwind instruments moving in and out of dissonant howls and melodic improvisation. The B-side is devoted to lighter tones, beginning with the glockenspiel minimalism of ‘Unterm Himmel’ and rounding the record out with trance inducing drone of the album’s title track which builds up into a cacophony of snare drums, dissonant accordion and melodica before fading out like dream.

All songs composed and recorded in Berlin by Wenzlovar, Gatis Silde, Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Johanna Riska, Cornelius Onitsch, Alexander Samuels and Maxfield Gassmann

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

‘Fahren’ is released in August 2022 on Phase Group Records. Distribution via Rubadub.

Fahren

Kulku - Fahren (Preview)

@gumar Break Mode - Dub in the Heather [Edit Factory 009] 

Indulge Break Mode's gambling habit, and place a winning bet on his delay-laden edit of Bull in the Heather. This pulsating dubby rework of the Sonic Youth classic will turn up the temp on any sizzling dancefloor.

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Jokios Kultūros is back with a new Asian infused EP. Along with him he took some of the Electric Shapes beloved friends for couple of ground breaking remixes.

https://electricshapes.bandcamp.com/

Label - https://soundcloud.com/electric_shapes
Artist - https://soundcloud.com/jokioskulturos_official
Remixer - https://soundcloud.com/adventuresociety

Crouching Tiger

PREMIERE: Jokios Kultūros - Earth Magic (Adventure Society Remix) [Electric Shapes]

@david-sibley-742728998 @higherloverec

South Coast sunset soundtrack stalwarts, Higher Love Recordings, pair up with fellow Balearic Brightonian, Perry Granville, aka Hotel Pellirocco`s Dave Sibley, for a proper pukka 6-track piece of plastic. Two tunes, Sailing Ships and New Arp4, slipped out, digitally, a couple of years back, but now they’ve been dusted off, polished, and given a stellar set of remixes, before finally being pressed to vinyl.

The former is a chugging, chunk `o funk, dynamite for darker dance-floors. A boisterous mid-tempo bouncer that pits wild, wonky, unpredictably pitched chords against twisting tones, gated shouts, and sampled `80s American network news footage. Early reports on this “fad” called “house music”. For the rework, Sean Johnston and Duncan “Tici Taci” Gray join forces, as Hardway Bros Meet Monkton Uptown. The dynamic duo delivering an epic dose of post-punk dub, that (Jah) wobbles to a lithe, live, bass-line. Its journey electrified by bubbling, effervescent sound-effects, ricocheting rimshots, and thunder / lightning strikes. A mediative melodica melody topping everything off.

The latter is a glacial, kinda gothic, wall of sound, set to a sleek electro beat. Ethereal ghosts inhabiting its machines, and shaken by explosions of cymbals. Towards its close Mr. Sibley switches on some serious TB-303 snarling. Break Mode takes the acid and diaphanous voices and fixes them to a loop of The Winstons B-boy /drum & bass classic, Amen Brother. Further adding shoegaze-esque 6-string action to create an emotional monster. Leeds` Mr. BC - real name Bob Salmond - constructs something equally anthem-like, but significantly more sleazy, by introducing a huge, resounding, reverberating thump. The rock guitars, rolling piano, and edgy menace of this wee small hours strut, had me personally thinking of butch, leather-clad gear, such as The Skatt Brothers` Walk The Night. A stunning, sparse, stripped-back, spaced-out reimagining from Justin Robertson`s Deadstock 33s completes the package. Driven by beatnik bongos, and shot through with spinning, spiralling strings, haunted by John Barry-like harpsichord - think The Persuaders TV theme - Justin’s jam is suffused with a sort of cinematic end-credit drama. A super suitable setting for the song`s found / sampled line, “How many can say they walk away the hero.”
Copy by Dr Rob @banbantonton
Mastered by Rich Lane @rich-lane-2 Mastering

Perry Granville - New Arp4 (Break Mode Remix) [Higher Love Recordings]

@wormbox
Burning the midnight soil, Wormbox is the amalgamation of two new age cats - Break Mode and Cole Baby - whose collaboration results in a euphoric trip that makes your feet glide against a smokey checkered floor. Their jams are uniquely sewn together by combining each of their distinct production styles, creating a truly singular sound. Pulling from all sides of their electronic and dance music predecessors, the outcome is just as delightful as it is unexpected, proving these worms are anything but grounded.

In this, their first offering, the two introduce you to their friend Kachina Sedona Max, a New Age Cat who enjoys drinking crystal water and meditating in the bathroom. This track is backed with the cosmic epic The Defender of Heaven.

Rounding out this release, Thomass Jackson brings a spritely psychedelic remix of a New Age Cat ripe for any dancefloor. Then Coast2c strips The Defender of Heaven down to the studs and runs it through a spin cycle.

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Wormbox - The Defender of Heaven

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. — Frederick Sanger

Artist: Wormbox  
Title: "Unreleased Territory Vol. 4" 
Label: Electric Shapes / @electric_shapes
Release date: February 11, 2023
Format: digital
Buy: https://electricshapes.bandcamp.com/album/unreleased-territory-vol-4

PREMIERE: Wormbox — The Loon (Electric Shapes, 2023)

Slow Motion Records is back with a guest mix by Anbu, the alter ego of Ceremonial Rite dedicated to dancefloor energy with crafty EBM, indie acid and dark disco sounding. 

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https://soundcloud.com/confused-machines
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🔊 https://youtu.be/UQ_8Tkny9VM

On 26 February, hundreds of Israeli settlers went on a violent late-night rampage in Huwara and other villages in the northern West Bank, leaving one local resident dead and 100 others injured and the town ablaze.

This compilation of music was put together in order to raise funds that can hopefully give some aid to the residents of Huwara, all of the proceeds Confused Machines make from digital sales will go directly to Physicians For Human Rights – Israel (PHRI) www.phr.org.il An NGO that works in the occupied Palestinian territory, promoting Palestinians' right to health and providing direct medical and humanitarian assistance.

The compilation hosts a roster of both local and international artists spanning a wide spectrum of leftfield electronic music. Acid, Drone, Noise, Downtempo, Techno, SoundCollage and more.
All of these tracks are new and have not been heard before, many of them have been created with Huwara and Palestine in mind.

Though we know our reach is limited, we see this as a part of a bigger political effort to help raise awareness in our artistic circles and set motion to positive forces in dark times.

Tracklist: 

1. Tai Rona - A Dad Fish From a Book
2. Dim Garden - Verboden Kracht
3. TLXCO - Doppia Negazione
4. Mule Driver - Pogrom
5. Kolette Hsu & Tamar Weiss - Can You Also Be Real
6. Jauzas The Shining - Fractional Difference
7. DJ Shatta - Where Were You?
8. Call The Boy - Prophets of the Hatred
9. Marco Segato - Rescue Dog
10. Ian Martin - Hypnosis
11. Yotam Natan & Rina - Zanav
12. Finkelstein - To Hell With Zionism (part I) Ein Partner
13. Spirit Skinned - Haklavim
14. Ohad Fishof - Solo Y (The Prophecy)
15. Lily Haz - xx11
16. Elena Sizova - P.S.
17. Anatolian Weapons - Information Overload 07:07
18. Oyoyoni - Fatcat
19. Ian Richter - Cup Half Full of What
20. Ason Teva - Письмо II
21. Borderline State Disorder - If You Are Neutral in Situations of Injustice, You Have Chosen the Side of the Oppressor
22. Roni hajaj - Contact
23. Autarkic - In Guantanamo (or any Cellar)
24. Tisser - Painotomspher
25. Tyrel Williams - Resistance
26. Afik Naim - Tussock
27. Cosmic Dream Club - Peninsula
28. La Musique Rituelle et Profane feat. Rashid Esfhan - Pray for Iran
29. Timothy J. Fairplay - Race to the Antenna
30. Chris Mitchell - Fanatics Franchise
31. Narvalos - OIOI22
32. Swiss Arrow - Crushed in a Day

Race To The Antenna

PREMIERE: Timothy J. Fairplay - Race To The Antenna [Confused Machines]

Everyone is an observer at some point in time. Everybody is watching, observing, researching something in own life.

Whether it is the old Hindu looking forward to the time when his body will be carried in a shroud to the last journey to the Ganges by the scent of flowers and then he has been liberated from the cycle of samsara, or when the cataphract is finally done with its struggle and freed from its armour somewhere in the midst of the steppes of Eurasia.

Whether it is the blind man who enters his inner garden of silence and explores there the images that none of the rest of us can see.

Whether it is the viewer who floats in a difficult to grasp triptych.

What is "there" behind that observation? Something modest, or something that changes our lives?

After more than two years Martin Kuška returns with his project Goodbye Mirage with a new EP "Turning Point Observer". A hypnotic dreamy-progressive five track and five remixes EP, in whose tracks you can constantly search for something new - the endless faith or doubt, the loneliness of days or the shining energy of social moments yet to come, body to body.

When you hear it on the dance floor, you can dance and smile, or dance and feel deep sentiment. It's up to you. The possibilities are endless as the vast ocean - let yourself go and become an observer of... who knows... perhaps a turning point in your life.

Artist: @goodbyemirage
Remixer: @etbonz
Record label: @lectric_shapes
Release date: June 30, 2023 
Buy: https://electricshapes.bandcamp.com/album/turning-point-observer

PREMIERE: Goodbye Mirage — Cataphract's Liberty (Etbonz Remix)(Electric Shapes, 2023)

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darkened passion (Moledro)

https://breakmode.org

Releases and remixes out his own Bed of Roses as well as on Byrd Out, Ransom Note, Electric Shapes, Higher Love Recordings, EYMS, Boomarm Nation, Dub Disco, Paradia Sound, and Dropping Gems

DJ Mixes out on Pender Street Steppers show on NTS, Dream Chimney, Gop Tun, Radio Panini, Why People Dance, Electric Shapes, Dancing Dolphins, Balearic Banana, Felisha Ledesma's show on NTS and his own Bed of Roses.

Other projects and aliases include...
Wormbox, Freak Out!, Tomato Tapes, Renegade Sunset, and Cafe del Gumar

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PREMIERE: Wormbox — The Loon (Electric Shapes, 2023)

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