Artist: https://soundcloud.com/d-u-k-w-a-m-u-s-i-c
Track: It's U
Label: https://soundcloud.com/transientnaturerecords
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 22/4/21
Purchase: https://transientnature.bandcamp.com/album/think-potential

Transient Nature is a label dedicated to the world of machine funk with a sonic aesthetic of off-kilter techno and electro, and the first release sees Dukwa deliver an EP as varied as it is powerful. Transient Nature has a busy 2021 planned with releases from Detroit's Scan7, Black Cadmium and Maarten's solo project: Wanderist. The 'Think Potential' EP is deeply rooted in gritty electronics and illustrates the producer's love for hardware and vintage techniques - three of the tracks are hardware jams recorded straight to tape.
The driving Rhodes licks and fluttering percussion on 'Who Cares' gets the EP rolling before the distorted electronica and stabbing 303s fuse harmoniously on 'High Position'. Up next, 'It's U' delivers an old-school tinged electro number with its slamming drums, robotic vocals and squeaking acid lines. The EP closer, 'Eye2eye' sees Dukwa moving deeper into the electronica territory with industrial drums and dreamy piano lines working together with mesmerising effect.  With recent output ranging from Detroit house inspired MPC-driven tracks to more conceptual electronic work, Dukwa's soulful yet dynamic releases for the likes of Numbers, Don't Be Afraid and his eponymous imprint have won a wide range of support as well as picking up a coveted 'Hottest Record in The World' from the BBC's Annie Mac.

Think Potential

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PREMIERE | Dukwa - It's U [Transient Nature] 2021

Yoann Pisterman - Water Groove
Sortie :  25 juin 2021 
https://yoannpisterman.bandcamp.com/album/water-groove
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Yoann Pisterman is a visual artist and multi-instrumentalist composer from the French Riviera who is now based in Berlin. Water Groove is his debut album , an impressionistic sound journey into waves, frequencies and electronic resonance. Yoann employs loops and repetitive patterns, interwoven between drones and melodic elements, to create magical, transportative music with echoes of the classic Japanese ambient and New Age music of the Eighties and the trippy Kosmische of 1970s Germany. It’s a tribute to some of Pisterman’s musical influences that, in his words, have “reached a cosmic sound quality”, such as Hans-Joachim Roedelius, François de Roubaix, Geinoh Yamashirogumi and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Water Groove next album is a calm and airy , a mesmerising voyage into Yoann’s joyful sonic ecosystem. For recording he used a reduced set up comprising a Korg Volca FM synthesizer, a Korg Minilogue and a Doepfer Dark Energy, along with samples and field recordings that were rearranged within a DAW - digital audio workstation. At the end of the composition process Yoann asked Andrew Claristidge (Acid Washed) to mix the album in his full analog studio in order to give space, dynamics and organic shapes.

In common with the Japanese ambient artists of that golden period there is a strong connection between Yoann’s music and architecture. The artwork is taken from a study by Yoann of landscape architecture, a series of visions and reflections put down using ink on paper. Whereas Yoann’s sonic palette is broad and colourful, for the artwork he has reduced his tools and the process. The aim was to make the person looking at it more observant, with the colours in the imagination of the beholder.

album https://yoannpisterman.bandcamp.com/album/water-groove

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Water Groove

[PREMIERE] Yoann Pisterman - Water Groove

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/ceprensynth
Track: Qu'elle Est Bonne 
Label: https://soundcloud.com/undo-seat-belts
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital, EP
Release date: 01/7/21
Purchase: https://undoseatbelts.bandcamp.com/album/the-sorry-best-of

‘Cepren Synth - The Sorry Best Of’ is the second imprint on ’Undo Seat Belts’.   
Delivering you an 8th track album from the french artist Victor Gaudin also known as ‘Cepren Synth’
The album contains, 5 years of unreleased tracks from ‘L’oiseau Blue’, Brussels and ‘168 Cours De La Marne’, Bordeaux.
All tracks are written by Victor Gaudin and live recorded at home.
No edits, no cuts, no reasons as freedom is a distant memory.
Undo Seat Belts is a Brussels based record label. Founded in 2020 locked up at home.
Created to ease the urge to release any kind of music, as long as the spirit goes with it. 
Responding to any kind of moods, Undo Seat Belts is here to heal you for good.

PREMIERE | Cepren Synth - Qu'elle Est Bonne [undo seat belts] 2021

Edinburgh enigma Eyes of Others steps out of the woods to present his long-length debut « Elevenses » on Global Warming Records. With a sound once described as « post-pub, couldn’t get in the club music », Eyes of Others sonic style is a ghostly mix of leftfield pop and electronic dub. His melancholic productions are a reminder of a failed relationship whilst doing the dishes, celestial and conversational in equal measure. Putting pleasure first always, picking up the pieces thereafter - may this record be your lover and strife.

But Eyes of Others is not taking his first steps here. Previous releases on Edinburgh’s ‘Paradise Palms’ Records saw remixes from the late legend Andrew Weatherall and plays on BBC 6 Music help establish his signature sound. Elevenses now renders a coming of age moment as it grooves and meanders through everyday subjects in a light-hearted yet cutting fashion. Stuart Evans of Green Door Studio puts the finishing touches on the productions using his mixing techniques to elevate the tracks to a dubby space of their own.

The release is visually scored by the Manchester-based creative studio DR.ME, using original Eyes of Others footage from a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. The record will be released as a K7 tape including 2 exclusive tracks + a limited edition hand-printed t-shirt + an original print booklet.

Global Warming Records is run by Franco-British producer and talent seeker Malcolm, who imagines and shapes each project hand in hand with his artists. Elevenses will be the label’s 15th release.

PREMIERE : Eyes of Others - Turn Out A Light

Freeride Millenium label co-founder Jorkes quickly follows up his well received Wet Dream EP with a new five tracker including remixes from Younger Than Me and Curses.

Jorkes is the driving force behind the ever-excellent Freeride Millenium label, he hosts a residency at radio 80000 alongside ParisBöhm and has been busy producing and streaming over the last year, despite the pandemic. His recent ‘Wet Dreams’ release was a critical success, with BBC radio support, a raft of press coverage and a mass of DJ support, now he follows that up with this latest inventive and rugged EP of club sounds.

Opener 'All Your Juices' has snappy snares and a taught, tight groove that makes for a mechanical rhythm. It eventually grows looser with big synth sounds and vamping chords that layer in fluidly and a great sense of electronic funk. Remixers Younger Than Me are a Berlin based duo that represents a link between the old and the new. They have released on the likes of Tusk Wax and here flip the original into a dark and pulsing tune with hammering drums and edgy, trance influenced synths.

In original form, 'Dancer in the Dark' has a kinetic drum and hit combination that makes you immediately jerk your body. As the synth energy grows, celestial chords bring light and cosmic rays and take you off into the future. Dark disco don Curses then steps up with another brilliantly rugged and raw remix that layers sleazy synths into angular drums. Finally, the brilliant 'Afraid of Letting You Go' has an eerie and mysterious vibe with crashing hits and unsettling synths that make for a dystopian abandoned warehouse feel.

Once again here Jorkes has cooked up left of centre sounds that draw on synth, disco and techno in bold new ways. Artwork as always comes from the ever creative Daniel Rajcsanyi.

Dancer in the Dark

PREMIERE : Jorkes - Afraid Of Letting You Go

https://freeridemillenium.bandcamp.com/album/fragile

This World

"What next? a tuft of evening primroses, O'er which the mind may hover until it dozes; O'er which it well might take a pleasant sleep, But that 'tis ever startled by the leap, Of buds into ripe flowers; or by the flitting, Of divers moths, that aye their rest are quitting; Or by the moon lifting her silver rim, above a cloud, and with a gradual swim coming into the blue with all her light."

The mission behind new London label E2-E8 is a simple one: a means to celebrate friendship and share new artists with the world. Their first release calls on the talents of two friends, Netil Radio founder Miro Sundaymusiq and sound artist Avsluta, both of whom offer their own take on soothing and tranquil sounds and the introspective states they stimulate. While Miro takes care of the A-Side with two versions of the same cut—a deep trance excursion and a beatless techno number—Avsluta offers up two ambient Meditations, 03 and 18, both of which are laced with emotive, soaring synths.

PREMIERE: Avsluta – Meditation 18 (On a Summer's Day) [E2-E8]

The strange song floated through the trees, growing ever louder as you plunged deeper into the jungle. It were as if the whole of the jungle had come together for its own personal concert; a natural spectacle that united animals, insects and reptiles. The frogs chanted while the cicadas buzzed loudly, joining the birds in a cacophony of sound that radiated for miles and miles.

Dans le Desert is a brand new label seeking to "translate the movement of dancing spirits into language of sound". Their first ritualistic offering comes from Cafe de la Jungle, a seven-track EP titled 'Dancing with Cicadas'. Like the name suggests each production marries organic and natural atmospheres with fluid rhythms to oscillate your body and hypnotic soundscapes to open your mind and connect with your spirit.

Dancing with Cicadas

PREMIERE: Cafe de la Jungle - Tapuaya Bush [Dans le Desert]

Citizen:Kane - The Last Whistle [RAVETUGA008]
BUY LINK: https://ravetuga.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-whistle
Release Date: 28th May 2021
Label: Rave Tuga (Paraíso sublabel)
https://soundcloud.com/discosparaiso
https://soundcloud.com/citizen0kane

Lisbon veteran and scene agitator Citizen:Kane has been reverently experimenting with the limits of electronic music in the past few years, bringing a much-needed generosity and curiosity to the artistic practice in the community.

We're lucky enough to have his new album on Rave Tuga. Titled 'The Last Whistle', it concisely and soulfully encapsulates his signature sound-spirit, one where synths can sing and drum machines laugh and cry. Cinematic drones and sci-fi bleeps invite us to an otherworldly realm on the opener, 'Cujo Fujo'.

And so the trip to new and exciting sonic territories begins, with deliberate playfulness and experienced experimentalism taking the wheel on A2 and A3, with twisted synths expertly programmed taking us places both mentally and physically. Arpeggios, digital birds, field recordings and familiar echoes in Portuguese invade our senses in 'Lavar as Tripas'.

With 'Perplexing' we are taken into dubbed out, flanger-led dance-landscapes in a superb dialogue between sound design and trance-inducing DJ weaponry, just before we jump into the warm yet defying bassline that closes this side of the album, automated to emulate the kind of metamorphose our minds experience while sweating it out at a suburban Lisbon warehouse.

Dark, energetic arpeggiated basslines continue to haunt us perfectly as we step into the B side, with echoes of EBM and industrial creating the otherwise swingy techno heavy-hitter that is 'The Mad Parade'. Things get headier and trippier as we dive deeper into the album, with ambient and slow jams that manage to marry the celestial and the austere.

Closer 'Baking' drives us out of this mesmerising ride with what sounds like traditional music from a nonplace in the future, where humanity's old problems are redundant and communal life is full of possibilities.

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : Citizen:Kane - Lavar As Tripas

FM Music Show #048 Que Sakamoto - PH-9000
soundcloud.com/que-sakamoto
instagram.com/quesakamoto

Artwork by Daniel Rajcsanyi
@djflorianboehm
instagram.com/danielrajcsanyi/

FM Music Show #048 Que Sakamoto - PH-9000

RAPH’s debut EP, the first in a new series for 199, is here. Across 21 minutes, it captures the pensive reflections of this curious time, drawing on the sunny and the dark, the hopeful and the scary. Organic and electronic sounds marry somewhere between techno and hip hop.

Buy: https://199leeds.bandcamp.com/album/as-the-clouds-near

https://soundcloud.com/199leeds

Premiere: RAPH - Evansville, WY [199]

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PREMIERE: Avsluta – Meditation 18 (On a Summer's Day) [E2-E8]

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