This is an alternate take to the track I called "Winter Layers". Recorded February 2025. Thanks for listening ✌️

Sweater Weather

c'est la vie

Pax Digitalis is the début album from Anti Drone Squad, a duo from Balearic Islands now based in Barcelona. The EP becomes Sin Hilo’s next promising bet. As usual, the label embraces freedom to choose and edit the sounds that overtake the conventional and exceed the dance floor experience.

Pax Digitalis

Self-Surveillance (Neinzer's Orbital Refix)

@bizarro-recs

Daze 'Complaints Department'
Bizarro Records BZR004
2 x 12" Gatefold Sleeve, Yellow Vinyl, Full Album, LP

Pre-Order digital and vinyl here: www.bizarro.store

A1: War Room
A2: Two Minds

B1: Melodronin Syndrome
B2: Manipulation Condition

C1: Whiplash
C2: Complaints Department

D1: Pocket Watch Acid
D2: Coma Scale

Artwork by Underprose, Milano
Written by: Daze
Mastered by: Corey Kikos @buttersessions studios

All Rights Reserved
P and C Bizarro Records, 2020

We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Complaints Department LP // Previews

Ronan is an artist we’ve been following for time, having released a string of records on D. Tiffany's Planet Euphorique, Haus and his own label - Eternal Ocean. 

Across an hour, Ronan explores a pool of moods; toying with the concepts of light and dark through sun-kissed melodies, deep weighty bass and wicked breaks.

Be sure to check out his latest record over on the Eternal Oceans Bandcamp: https://eternalocean.bandcamp.com/album/ronan-return-to-the-sea
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Ronan
SC: @ronan-music
IG: https://www.instagram.com/a.little.seal/

Eternal Oceans: 
SC: @eternalocean
IG: https://www.instagram.com/an.eternal.ocean/

Plain Sailing:
Web: www.plainsailing.live
FB: www.facebook.com/plainsailingbelf
IG: www.instagram.com/plainsailingbelfast

Ronan - 024

There was a buzz in the chamber, the sound of electronics rumbled and reverberated in the tunnel beneath the great city of old. This was where the wheels went round, keeping the whole thing in motion. A city travelling underground accompanied by the sweet hum of chaos and fuzz. Some glanced at telephones, others read newspapers - they were all blissfully unaware of the complex engineering and the intricacies of the machine upon which they travelled. Perhaps it was best that way. 

Club In Theory is a record label which is shaping up very promisingly indeed, we were pleased with their first but now the second release on the imprint is here we have high hopes for something special. This EP comes from Aheloy! and features some playful electronics and delicate programming.

THEORY 002

PREMIERE: Aheloy! - Y-Shape [Club In Theory]

TRACKLIST
A1.) Alfredo92 - Tente Hjul (DJ Fett Birger's XB3711 F3 Remix)
A2.) Fantastic Man - On The Run
B1.) ESB - Sequential Dub
B2.) 2wo2imes - Immune

Release Date: November 23rd, 2020
Vinyl: Coming Soon
Digital: https://00am.bandcamp.com/album/00am004
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"As we continue our ever long winded hiatus from the dancefloor, we are happy to welcome a new group of producers to the label in the form of 00:AM’s fourth various artists compilation. Certainly not the only way we expected to come together this year, but we’re grateful to be able to cultivate another 12” to share with the world.

Across the A Side, we are joined by three artists who we’ve had the pleasure of hosting and playing with in Montreal over the past couple years. Alfredo92 of the Axces crew in Copenhagen presents ‘Tente Hjul’ which gets the remix treatment from Mr. ACTION SHADOW himself, Fett Burger. The result in something distinctly mechanical but not without a human pulse and a tear jerking conclusion. Fantastic Man then puts his own psychedelic twist on the hardcore continuum, taking the beautiful palette of his recent LP on Mule Musiq to the brink of insanity with ‘On The Run’.

On the B side we find two new friends to 00:AM. We have a mandatory “minimum of 1 ESB tune gets played a night” policy round these parts, and so its truly a pleasure to release his ‘Sequential Dub’. Nothing less than a future classic, it’s dubby and understated, but a little quicker than you think. And finally, its a pleasure to introduce 2wo2imes, who delivers ‘Immune’ a deep and driving excursion into the wormhole.

It’s a weird world, we miss you all, but we’ll keep doing what we know best, releasing and enjoying the music that moves us - no matter the time or place."

V/A - 00AM004 - 12"/Digi

@lapisciine

Lapiscine is a producer and DJ from Naarm and one of the many minds behind @cratemates, one of our fav local collectives responsible for great events like Tesselate and Envelope. His mix for melt features an hour of tasty house, garage and breaks. Enjoy!

Artwork by Gabi Hermans

melt mix vol. 21 - Lapiscine

The environment around them was ever changing, for as much as it was bright and light there were also moments of bleak, bitter darkness. They lurked around the corner. The planet was as much a living organism as they were, a bubbling ball of fertile unrest and unpredictable consequences. As the clouds rolled by slowly overhead he listened to their rumbling - it was ominous and yet weighted with such promise. A living dub, a noise and a drone in the distant skies above. 

Max In The World is a New York based producer and label boss. He runs Bliss Point - a promising imprint with a penchant for deep, ethereal electronics, dub and beyond. Max himself is set to release a new EP at the start of this year. It features an all guns blazing remix from Lyon dj and producer Sentiments.

BP002

PREMIERE: Max In The World - The Living Dub (Sentiments' D-More Mix)[Bliss Point]

meltdown 23 - explicit joy

Artist: Utopia Cloak / The Jaffa Kid
Title: The Imaginary Museum 001 
Label: The Imaginary Museum
Cat No: TIM001
Format: 12” Vinyl Transparent/black Marbled 

Tracklist: 
A1. Utopia Cloak – Summer Holiday ‘98
A2. Utopia Cloak – Matter Changing State
A3. Utopia Cloak – Summer Holiday ’98 (Mause Remix)
B1. The Jaffa Kid – A Certain Retro
B2. The Jaffa Kid – Jig Jag Electron
B3. The Jaffa Kid – Carago

The Imaginary Museum is pleased to open its doors in 2021. It is the first museum of the imagination in the world: driven by insatiable curiosity, a deep belief in music as reliable witness and document to human history, and sound research, reflecting the desire to expand the wealth of human knowledge.

The first exhibition is a joint endeavour from Utopia Cloak and The Jaffa Kid, presenting priceless artefacts collected from their respective kingdoms where melodic electronica reigns supreme. Presented on beautiful marbled vinyl, each artist shares a side expressing their unique sonic aesthetics.

Utopia Cloak comes forth with melancholic whimsy in “Summer Holiday ‘98”, explores textures and hauntological soundscapes in “Matter Changing State” and enlists Mause to relocate that particularly meaningful holiday to a Brighton beach front with a cold can and seagulls included for good measure.

Flip over to witness The Jaffa Kid illustrate smokey ambient atmospherics in “A Certain Retro”, punchy dynamic electro scenery in “Jig Jag Electron” and pure braindance indebted melody in the masterful “Carago”, worthy of Richard D James at his very best.

Utopia Cloak / The Jaffa Kid - The Imaginary Museum 001 (TIM001)

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