CROSSING FOR A GOLDEN BLANKET
Taken from the debut album 'In the Middle @Bawrut
Out Now on Ransom Note Records - https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/IntheMiddle

5% of the album profits will be donated to Open Arms, a non-profit non-governmental organisation dedicated to protect those who try to reach Europe by sea, fleeing from armed conflict, persecution or poverty https://www.openarms.es/

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Ransom Note stalwart BAWRUT presents a new sound in his debut album ‘In the Middle’, a striking eleven-track journey through sunset pop, electronic melancholia and delusive migrations taking place around the Mediterranean.

'Crossing for a Golden Blanket' is the first track to be lifted from the album. Perhaps the strongest and hardest hitting track on the LP, its message is reflected in the loops that never quite close, giving a sense of instability, shaping a dark digital sea with a refugee's makeshift dinghy about to capsize at its centre. The morse code S.O.S. announces the end of the struggle before a risky rescue. “The song ends between hope and uncertainty”.

The LP ‘In the Middle’ is a reflection on recent years. A story about movement and migration around the Mediterranean but also the notion of a moving identity. It’s about the luck of the drawer, finding yourself born in the middle of the ‘West’, whilst others strive to get here with the hope of a better life. It’s about being in the middle of music and cultures and the beautiful accidents that this movement has produced over the years. Above all, it’s a celebration of the beauty of the movement to a better life, to create something new, with hope and optimism whatever the circumstances. It’s a celebration of diversity and inclusivity.

“I was born in Gorizia, a city with a centuries-old, multi-ethnic identity literally split in two by a border (Italy and Slovenia) after the Second World War. Perhaps for this reason I have always felt closer and more aligned with the encounters between cultures and people, instead of the rigid idea of nationalism and the notion of a unique identity.
Through my music I try to combine languages and sounds to make a record that celebrates the union, the meeting and crossing of experiences.” – Bawrut

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PREMIERE: Bawrut - Crossing for a Golden Blanket [Ransom Note Records]

https://soundcloud.com/j0be
https://soundcloud.com/quirksmode
https://soundcloud.com/unfoundsounds
🛒 https://www.beatport.com/label/unfound-sounds/97642
🔊 https://youtu.be/4f1ZAXtwZDQ

'Diarabi EP' is the 3rd release on Unfound Sounds, a new UK based imprint founded by JOBE.  The label was born throughout lockdown, providing JOBE with a platform to release his own music.  Unconstrained by genre, the label focuses on releasing music that is both timeless and forward thinking.  

The track premiere ‘Idle Moments’ is collaboration with JOBE’s lifelong friend Quirksmode.  Created primarily on modular synths, ‘Idle Moments’ highlights the beauty in simplicity, utilising a single synth voice that weaves intricately over looping percussion, continuously evolving to create an uplifting, hypnotic groove.

The EP is due for release on 12th November, and features 4 other tracks from JOBE, ranging from deep house to electronica. 

Tracklist:

JOBE - Diarabi 
JOBE & Quirksmode - Idle Moments 
JOBE - Feels of Green 
JOBE - Isolate 
JOBE - Missing

JOBE feat. Quirksmode - Diarabi EP

Idle Moments

PREMIERE: JOBE & Quirksmode - Idle Moments [Unfound Sounds]

https://soundcloud.com/oblakomaranta
https://soundcloud.com/samorecords
🛒 https://samorecords.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-cube
🔊 https://youtu.be/0S4OmK9apsY

We present to you our 3rd compilation, Cube, a set of 8 tracks that, as usual, go in different and intriguing musical directions. 

We welcome a brand-new group of artists to the label: Anatolian Weapons starts it off with a slow acid burner; Azaria follows with a hypnotic trance-y track; Ruksby picks up the tempo with an acid-infused EBM heavy-hitter; WLDV gets dark and dirty with an Industrial/EBM smasher; Kidaudra offers a high-tempo monster; Orchid delivers a fun electro-italo track; the recently formed Oblako Maranta project contributes a haunting leftfield track; and Robert E. Livingood wraps things up with a lo-fi psychedelic new wave track. 

Tracklist:

1. Anatolian Weapons - Melt 
2. Azaria - Path To Black, Fade To Light
3. Ruksby - Step To Track: 
4. WLDV - Obsessed
5. Kidaudra - Snow
6. Orchid - Talgi
7. Oblako Maranta - Seasea (Baltic Mix)
8. Robert E. Livingood - From Outside

Various Artists - Cube

Seasea (Baltic Mix)

PREMIERE: Oblako Maranta - Seasea (Baltic Mix) [Samo Records]

This is the third release by Troels Yuri on the https://soundcloud.com/witnessprotectionprogram label.
There may be more in the future.

When E Was Late was made one night, when Troels and his friend E (who's not a member of the Witness Protection Program) were supposed to go to the first club party after the long lockdown of 2021. E was late, and Troels started listening to the Weatherall remix for Django Django. An hour later, this new track was almost finished. This goes to show that getting to clubs on time is not always the best thing to do.

You Said You Needed Me is a slightly older track from Troels Yuri extensive back catalogue. It's a bit of a melancholic banger, if you're into this type of thing.

Release date : 04/02/2022

PREMIERE : Troels Yuri - When E Was Late

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/tainovibe
Track: Indika
Label: https://soundcloud.com/movpic
Format: Digital, VA
Release date: 04/11/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/MdYgWs6E4IY

“Since last autumn, water in the area had turned crimson. Its surface was disturbed by occasional swirls. Local fishermen and traders would avoid the site, and their boats would carefully sail around it. As summer heat struck, it was possible to see the dimensions and outlines of an ancient construction; laying under the water, waiting for its time.”
Third V/A Compilation of Moving Pictures Label is titled “Aegean Forcefields”. The genres and musical borders are blended and twisted, as it is already customary to our carefully curated compilations. This time artists from Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, UK and Sweden are contributing their colours and textures to the palette of Moving Pictures imprint. Inside this package you will find dancefloor weapons alongside livingroom melters and everything in-between. All of these sounds freely coexist and flow in our Moving Pictures universe.

PREMIERE | Täino - Indika [Moving Pictures] 2022

This a remix of deadmau5's song avatitia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDo4tgre8i0&list=RDMMaDo4tgre8i0&start_radio=1

Dedamua5 Avaritia - (thymia Remix 2025)

RT 009 - Track 10

Trancefire

Dark Days and the apocalyptic dream became reality. A world where only scattered elements of society and technology remain. Whips, chains, metal drums are the only weapons available to create music to help the psychology of survivors, the only way to maintain the human race alive and together as one.”
We know clubs are not open yet in most part of the world, but these are made for illegal raves. So put on your leather coats and high boots and get ready to Mad Max it out. Launched by regular caterpillar RFX. This new series will be dedicated to re-working and re-inventing forgotten New Beat jams from the not-so-far past.
Now you know what to put in your headphone the next time you go to the grocery store to fight for toilette paper.

PREMIERE : RFX - Once Upon A Time (Edit)

After his turn it down music debut "back in flight", this is the second release from Manchester-based Kid Machine. In keeping with the season, the opener track is called "Iceman". On the B - side the track "Strange Lands" awaits the inclined listener with fresh retro electro with an Italo disco touch.
www.turnitdownmusic.de/

PREMIERE : Kid Machine - Iceman

out now on nein
https://www.beatport.com/release/decade/3281649

Slum 159 - Decade (From Beyond Remix)

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