https://soundcloud.com/strapontin
https://soundcloud.com/abstrack-records
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/N-8wFA9zc8Q

The second release of the year already from the party music people of Abstrack. This time, it’s Brussels-based artist Strapontin whose original production is on the menu, with reinterpretation from several gifted companions. The multitude here is no excuse for genericity or easy recipes, rather a fertile playground for toying around with a wide range of vibes and moods.

Matches is a poetic, sensual spoken-word piece. The song feels like a flower about to blossom, though with plenty of hybrid DNA in it. In the end, it leaves the way wide open for further emotions to get through. And they do.

Sasnal Park is the emotion of wonder: looking for something forever, but for what? The drums make you believe that you found it but they turn out to be a mirage, and so does every tangible element of the track. A beautiful journey in the end even if you don’t know where you’ve been.

Family Diner … no ambiguity this time: a mystical roller as dark as it is trippy. Or maybe more trippy. Either way, not sure you can resist dancing to this one played out loud. Lose yourself to screaming halfway through, but only to fall back well-rooted in those dancing feet afterward.

On the flip, remixers put it where they’re expected to: A Strange Wedding takes the wandering “Sasnal Park” on the Edge of trancy club music, closer to the roots of Abstrack parties.

Feon turns the belter “Family Diner” into a road roller: sirens and massive subs engage into a memorable fistfight.

And home man Vidock chooses the very dreamlike “Matches”, adding quite a touch of dancefloor but not removing one inch of a dream.

A digital bonus of great value is delivered by the hands of Anatolian weapon, remixing Sasnal Park. This time, no messing around: its full-on club mood, the acid line, and the powerful beats turning the wander and the dream into a strangely haunting dancefloor weapon.

Tracklist: 

A1. Strapontin - Matches
A2. Strapontin - Sasnal Park
A3. Strapontin - Family Diner

B1. Strapontin - Sasnal Park (A Strange Wedding remix)
B2. Strapontin - Family Diner (Feon ""Dead Rat Salad"" remix)
B3. Strapontin - Matches (Vidock ""Tandoori Jam"" remix)

Strapontin - Sasnal Park

Family Diner

PREMIERE: Strapontin - Family Diner [Abstrack Records]

Lithuania’s Ponty Mython brings his signature style of dubbed out cosmic breaks to Not An Animal Records.

The title track Onimano X991 sparkles as it leads the way with a heavy four to the floor bass kick laced with an eerie interstellar melody and signature broken beat drum pattern. Deliciously squelchy interludes and breakdowns are the cherry on the space cake here. Not An Animal are known for bringing in the heavies, this time music round, musical rearrangement aficionado DJ Fett Burger gives ‘Onimano X991’ an atmospheric massage. Launching with an eerie melody recognisable from the original mix but minus the squelch. Fett Burger transcends the track from a 2am floor killer to a 6am floor chiller via a cleverly reprogrammed drum pattern, drawing the stress right out of your deltoids with his beautifully formed fingers like only he does.

‘Walkie Talkie’ is a late night squelch-a-thon from the get go, oozing NAA style with its vocoder arps and space didgeridoos all over its four to the floor kick. Closing out the EP ‘We Expect A Soft Landing’ nails its orbital re-entry calculations, touching down squarely on the realms of ambient dub techno. A tasteful composition reminiscent of something from The Higher Intelligence Agency’s ‘Colourform’. This track leaves us with a perfectly paced build that culminates in chesty bass swells and loads of bleepy sounding arps.

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https://soundcloud.com/pontymython
https://soundcloud.com/notananimalrecords

PREMIERE: Ponty Mython - We Expect A Soft Landing [Not An Animal]

https://soundcloud.com/anatolianweapons
https://soundcloud.com/peopleandplacesldn
🛒 https://peopleandplaces.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-void
🔊 https://youtu.be/t3Pq8ta0wG4

People & Places present their inaugural EP from Anthens’ Anatolian Weapons. Throughout the 4 tracks, we are immersed in a sonic exploration of trancey-inspired techno cuts.

Tracklist: 

A1 - Higher Planes
A2 - Into The Void
B1 - Lost
B2 - Cloud

PREMIERE: Anatolian Weapons - Cloud [People & Places]

FNS004 - Fear No System

DVS NME - Class War

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/prinsthomas , https://soundcloud.com/balamok , https://soundcloud.com/mijomijo & https://soundcloud.com/danyf , https://soundcloud.com/antakaatweed , https://soundcloud.com/yotam-russo , https://soundcloud.com/tecwaa , https://soundcloud.com/mymy_music .
Album: Lucky Seven
Label: Playground Records
Mastering: Submarea Estudio
Press & Communication: Avoiding The Issue
Catalogue: PGR059
Release date: 11/07/2024

Playground is proud to bring together seven great artists in its 59th reference.
Prins Thomas from the north of his native Norway, Mijo & Dany F from the very heart of Latin America and Balam from the far southern reaches of Argentina are some of the artists you can
find on this eclectic, lysergic and groove-packed compilation that breaks boundaries and celebrates diversity.

Rolling the dice, the number seven emerges as a symbol of luck, a mystical dance between chance and destiny. In the realm of music, it's the heartbeat of a perfect melody, echoing the universe's esoteric rhythms, a cosmic note that harmonizes the unseen forces, guiding us through the mysterious symphony of life.

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Bandcamp: https://is.gd/HgKoOE
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Lucky Seven

Acid Dulce De Leche

Time Machine

Bandcamp

The Southern - Parole (Electro)

Artist: Treatment
Title: Treatment002 (2X12INCH / VINYL ONLY)
Label: Treatment / TRM002

Tracklist:
1. a1: untitled
2. a2: untitled
3. b1: untitled
4. b2: untitled
5. c1: untitled
6. c2: untitled
7. c3: untitled
8. d1: untitled
9. d2: unttiled

Vinyl Only LP.  Onur Özer and Binh team up to release the second from Treatment.

Treatment(Onur Ozer & Binh) - TREATMENT 002 (2X12INCH / VINYL ONLY)

The noise was bellowing and he could feel the pressure bubbling within the small cabin as the train whizzed beneath the murky depths of the city. The underground was no place to spend a comedown let alone at rush hour as the busy people of the day to day world moved here and there with little care for pleasantries. He took his seat in the packed carriage and began to wonder where he might end at the last stop. The end of the line was coming, this much was clear. 

The Healing Company are set to reissue a piece of rave gold in the form of Automation's "Comedown". It comes accompanied with some finely tuned remixes of which Adesse Versions' is one.

Comedown

PREMIERE: Automation - Comedown (Adesse Versions Remix) [The Healing Company]

With a focus on Copenhagen-based talent, Kasper Marott's tribal workout conjures feelings of ritual and ceremony on the first Axces Recordings release.

The 'Os To EP' is out later this month on Axces.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2Km4XUm

@kaspermarott
@alfred092
@axcesrecordings

Os To

Premiere: Kasper Marott + Alfredo92 – Fest på Taget (Tandoori's Partii Mix) [Axces]

PBR Streetgang return to their home imprint KURTZ to deliver their latest EP ‘Sendeturm’, accompanied by a remix from Paranoid London’s Johnny Aux.

Long-standing members of the house and disco landscape with releases via the likes of Skint, Crosstown Rebels and Futureboogie amongst many, Bonar Bradberry and Tom Thorpe, aka PBR Streetgang, continue to evolve and impress as one of the most consistent and diverse duos on the scene. Holding down residencies at the likes of Pikes in Ibiza, whilst making stand-out appearances at the likes of Glastonbury, Printworks and Love International – a festival which holds a special place within this latest EP – the duo launched their vinyl-focused KURTZ imprint in 2019 in impressive style, gaining support from the likes of DJ Harvey, Bicep, Soul Clap, and the late great Andrew Weatherall. Following a brief hiatus, the duo now return to home turf with possibly the strongest release on the label to date as they unveil their ‘Senderturm’ EP, welcoming Paranoid London member and electro-favourite Johnny Aux on remix duties.

Opening cut ‘Zoot Module’ welcomes a moody, low-slung slab of electro with haunting riffs and eerie synth lines which hold your sonic gaze front and centre, whilst title production ‘Sendeturm’, named after the lookout tower above the Love International site, takes listeners on a dreamy beat-less ride through melancholic tones and showcases an ode to a summer lost in place of beauty.

On the flip, Johnny Aux’s interpretation of ‘Zoot Module’ welcomes his signature rough and raw dirtbox sound which buries its way under your skin to reveal a pacey, true body mover, before closing proceedings via the blissful and rich ‘Thru The Shutters’ – a production imagined as the final track in the early hours of a Sunday morning dancefloor and a hypnotic closer that shapes up proceedings in emphatic fashion.

Sendeturm EP (incl. Johnny Aux Remix)

PREMIERE : PBR Streetgang - Zoot Module (Johnny Aux Remix)

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