The shaman uses ceremonies to transform fear and guide others through their own transitions. In ceremonies we learn to be present with the direct experience of fear, even when we want to avoid it.

Sound has long been known to have deep therapeutic qualities. The main element of healing music is the root sound. The focus on one note brings the listener to the present. It is grounding and can induce a higher state of consciousness. Combine that with dancing and you are now moving the energy, freeing your body from stuck emotions.

This is the purpose of this album. These are the tools for the modern shaman.

https://soundcloud.com/tadan127
https://soundcloud.com/rotciv
https://soundcloud.com/electric_shapes

Premiere : Tadan - Initiation (ROTCIV Transmix) [Electric Shapes]

Artist: Javier Segura
Track: Camino Largo
Label: https://soundcloud.com/bureau-1
Format:, 12" Vinyl, Digital, VA
Compiled by: https://soundcloud.com/detlefnet
Release date: 20/8/21
Purchase: https://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/v-a-kiosque-of-arrows-2-compiled-by-tolouse-low-trax-845376
https://bureaub.bandcamp.com/album/kiosque-of-arrows-2-compiled-by-tolouse-low-trax

"Kiosque Of Arrows 2" is Detlef Weinrich’s (a.k.a. Tolouse Low Trax) first compilation for Bureau B.
Eleven tracks of unique pop fusions meander through states of casualness, a nocturnal thirst for adventure, and the intense yearnings of hot, sultry afternoons with an uneven and brittle quality. It all helps to pinpoint Tolouse Low Trax as artist and curator in the grander scheme of things, whilst evoking the spirit of countless nights at the Düsseldorfer Salon des Amateurs.
Listen to this psycho darkwave extract 'Camino Largo' from the 'Kiosque Of Arrows 2' VA originaly released on spanish JAJA records on 1983 by Javier Segura.

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PREMIERE | Javier Segura - Camino Largo [Bureau B] 2021

Artist: GUN
Track: Boput
Label: https://soundcloud.com/mememerecords
Format:, Digital, EP
Release date: 13/7/21
Purchase: https://lnk.to/MMM25

GUN (Grim Up North), the new alias of Newcastle mainstay Peter Wilson, aka one-half of People Get Real, debuts on Me Me Me this August with 'The Reef' EP featuring remixes from REES & Sahar, Fall Forward & Grainger and Kiaki.
Over many years as People Get Real, Wilson has established himself as one of house and disco's most assured and accomplished DJ and production duos. He has played at various major clubs and festivals globally, has served up a wealth of club-ready weapons on his co-founded Join Our Club label, and now branches out with something just as vital under the new alias, GUN.
Our pick falls on  'Boput' which slows things down to a tense and paranoid crawl, crashing hits and drums for a dark atmosphere. Prickly acid, jacked-up percussion and modulated synths all add fryer colour and detail to this backroom classic. Last of all comes a remix from Kiaki, a brand new artist and young talent who will release a full debut on this label later in the year. His version is a leggy and shadowy, industrial-tinged dark disco groove with angular drums and tension in the synths.

The Reef

PREMIERE | GUN - Boput [Me Me Me] 2021

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/endomonk
Track: Hörsturz
Label: https://soundcloud.com/teerpappe
Format: 7" Vinyl, VA 5xEP BOX
Release date: september 2021
Purchase: 
http://teerpappe.com/
https://teerpappe.bandcamp.com/

German imprint TEERPAPPE has gathered its fellow musicians to release several 7-inch records in the best German electronic alternative wave style. 100 x limited 5x7" various artist box, included names as: Syncboy, Fred und Luna, Cid Hohner, Hans Solo, Fallbeil.
Endo Monk is a new alter ego of Hans Solo, who has been experimenting with analogue and modular synthesizers since his school days.
In recent times, so many electronic tinkerings have been created, which, however, always contain cross-references to hip hop in the form of beats and voice samples.

PREMIERE | Endo Monk - Hörsturz [TEERPAPPE] 2021

Iñigo Vontier & Thomass Jackson are back with their label Calypso Records. Listen to a mix by the two label heads.

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Outsiders: Calypso Records w/ Iñigo Vontier & Thomass Jackson @ Kiosk Radio 04.09.2021

Nothing could prepare him for the colossal amount of commitments and activities that lay ahead of him. The deadlines were many and the hours few, he had to get his priorities in order and sleep and health would not make the cut. But this wasn't his first rodeo, he was well trained in the art of ploughing through. He no longer needed his vitamins to get the job done.

Known for his hazy, off-kilter take on electronica, Tel Aviv-based producer and Age Of Self co-founder Autarkic has brought us some of our favourite leftfield dancefloor releases, for the likes of Bahnsteig 23, Höga Nord and Life and Death. For his new LP, a debut on Red Axes' Garzen Records, he goes back to his roots, leaving the club behind for songs sung in Hebrew over guitars, synths, samples and lo-fi atmospheres.

PREMIERE: Autarkic - Vitamin X [Garzen Records]

Infuso Giallo - Ocular Soda 12"
BUY LINK: https://infusogiallo.bandcamp.com/album/ocular-soda
Release date: 30 september 2021
Label: Kame House (https://soundcloud.com/kame-house-852734962)
https://soundcloud.com/infusogiallo

Infuso Giallo aka Philipp Carbotta originally hails from rural Western Germany, first cut his teeth in the music scene of nearby Cologne and conducts a host of activities in Berlin for a couple of years now – co-running the label Kame House, designing graphics and producing and playing leftfield electronic music. His debut LP Ocular Soda presents an intersection of these activities – self-released, self-designed, and of course self-produced. Even before the first synth chords and reverse atmospheres of the two-part opener 'Every Waking Hour' tickle the ear, it is the eye that is drawn to the bright, cut-out style cover art – itself made up of two eyes on the front and what seem to be their rough shapes or discarded counterparts on the back.
To stay within that metaphor, Infuso Giallo's music is indeed of a reflective and calm nature, taking cues from Berlin School, library, and New Age musics from roughly the 1970s to the 1990s – steadily repeating and slowly evolving ostinatos, lush digital pads, quirky filtered toplines and electronic percussion that mostly eschews four-four monotony in favor of much more subtle syncopations. Balearic bomb 'The Big Rip' with its big drums and acid bass turns the energy level up a notch while retaining the somnambulistic, lingering quality that makes Ocular Soda such a coherent listening experience – music on the sheath of waking and dreaming, both worlds and their inherent logics freely bleeding into each other. There are moments of great expanse, such as in 'Mole Gaze' – I couldn't help but see myself hovering somewhere in mid-air while the music unfolds as if on a great deserted plane below me. Maybe this is what it sounds like once the mole leaves his tunnels and takes in the sound of the world overground. 'Hello World', indeed, in its multitude of information to eye and ear, in its gently overwhelming quality. The title track 'Ocular Soda' closes the proceedings with a whimsical nod to 1970s botany-centered library music, its brooding chord sequence and sweet lead lines gradually fading in the distance. A fitting ending to an impressive LP of highly evocative, at times somber and at times blissfully naive pieces that leave me yearning for more.

Ocular Soda

PREMIERE : Infuso Giallo - The Big Rip

https://soundcloud.com/99-letters
https://soundcloud.com/mote-records
🛒 https://moterecords.bandcamp.com/album/byakuya-ep
🔊 https://youtu.be/guN4R4PcCvk

99LETTERS aka. Takahiro Kinoshita, a Japanese artist who has been an active member of the local Japanese underground scene and has a knack to create deep and atmospheric soundscapes.

Early on he was producing chip-tunes using a Nintendo Gameboy, these experiments gravitated him towards a more raw and esoteric house and techno soundscapes.

Takahiro Kinoshita says BYAKUYA/MIDNIGHT SUN’ EP was composed by using various noise components and Tape-like sounds to take the listener on a fascinating and atmospheric voyage.

Tracklist:

1. Byakuya / 白夜
2. Hakai / 破壊
3. Inpei / 隠蔽

Byakuya / 白夜' EP

Inpei / 隠蔽

PREMIERE: 99LETTERS  - Inpei / 隠蔽 [MOTE Records]

let me down

into the labyrinth

LAST DAY OF SUMMER

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PREMIERE: Autarkic - Vitamin X [Garzen Records]

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