Mal - Uomo Squalo (MG edit) - Free Download

Following the launch of Stuttgart-based label, Constant Change, head honcho Jakob Mäder returns with the remix package. The uplifting four-tracker gets remixed by a selection of international and local favourites, including Johannes Albert, Brian Ring, Banali and Markus Phillip. Brian Ring's offer is airing with us today, who roughs up the outline of the original. Quality sun-laced outdoor stuff.

Read more: https://liquidyouth.nl/music/premieres/jakob-mader-relax-euphoria-brian-ring-remix-constant-change 
Buy: https://constantchangestuttgart.bandcamp.com/album/remember-ep-the-remixes 

https://soundcloud.com/jakobmaeder 
https://soundcloud.com/brian-ring 
https://soundcloud.com/constantchangestuttgart

Premiere: Jakob Maeder - Relax Euphoria (Brian Ring Remix) [Constant Change]

Common Factors - Perversions Of Loss
BUY LINK: https://www.decks.de/track/common_factors-perversion_of_loss/chk-95
Label: Life Scripts
Release date: 16 April 2021
https://soundcloud.com/configofself https://soundcloud.com/jameswelsh

Configurations Of Self off-shoot, Life Scripts welcomes back head honcho Alexander Church and James Welsh as Common Factors, as the pair deliver their second EP, ‘Perversions Of Loss’.

Title cut ‘Perversions Of Loss’ is a shimmering slice of entrancing electronica, delving deep with a medley of playful strings, breaks and distorted low-end frequencies. ‘Inference’ focuses on warped basslines, swirling synths and floating melodies all sitting upon a rolling break. Next up, ‘Existential Truths’ offers five and a half minutes of jungle influenced nostalgia, as we see Church and Welsh enlist off-kilter drums alongside trippy effects and oscillating synths. To close, ‘Escape Hatch’ is a raw and wonky techno track that perfectly marries the elements of light and dark. This latest EP highlights why Common Factors have been picking up love from the likes of Tom Ravenscroft on BBC6 Music, Ransom Note and a raft of top DJs.

Common Factors is a recently launched project from Bradford-based DJ and producer Alexander Church, alongside James Welsh. Church is label boss at Configurations of Self and produces music that takes deep inspiration from the human condition. James Welsh is a multi-faceted artist and former post punk band member who releases via leading labels including Futureboogie and Phantasy Sound, whilst frequently collaborating with Church on this and other projects.

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PREMIERE : Common Factors - Inference

Mason Bee - Lumito (inc. Charles Webster remixes)
BUY LINK: https://masonbee.bandcamp.com/album/lumito-charles-webster-remixes
Release date: 16 April 2021
Label: Pollen Kit Recordings
Format: digital + vinyl album reissue
https://soundcloud.com/the-beedrones https://soundcloud.com/charleswebster

Long-term Plaid collaborator Mason Bee steps out with more stunning solo work for his own Pollen Kit Recordings, with the always on-form Charles Webster contributing three remixes. A fantastic video from groundbreaking video artist Bob Jaroc also arrives with the new single, and all this leading to the re-issue of his debut album on vinyl.

Mason Bee (aka Benet Walsh) is the multi-instrumentalist who, for many years, has been a co-writer and touring partner with Warp's seminal UK electronic act Plaid. Last year he showed off his natural flare for melody and beautiful arrangements on his acclaimed debut album. It drew on folk, electronic and psychedelic sounds to serve up ever-morphing landscapes made from field recordings, acoustic instruments and DIY studio techniques. He now kicks off his 2021 with another innovative and enigmatic new single.

The gorgeous 'Lumito' has a groove constructed from clicks, zips and hits, while there is true beauty in the lead melody that drifts up top. Perfectly combining the synthetic with the acoustic, this naturalistic track has a lush sound with breezy vocal coos and live jazz drums that swell all around you as you gaze on in wonder. The accompanying music video is a perfect visual reflection of the record from creator Bob Jaroc (Plaid, Fatboy Slim, Paranoid London) which seamlessly mixes vintage textures, artificial intelligence, lasers and classic oil and dye techniques, weaving Mason Bee's track into a psychedelic magic carpet ride "through the conception and birth of the Lumito moon".

Revered UK veteran Charles Webster has been a core part of the underground for decades. Known for everything from house to downtempo and everything in between, he is associated with cult labels like Peacefrog and Defected. Last year, his ‘Decision Time’ album provided another sumptuous serving of his signature sounds with plenty of contemporary flourishes. His first remix here is a gorgeously airy and delicate fusion of folk, indie and electronic into a track that encourages daydreaming. The delicious Deep Dub is just that - something primed for getting lost in while it plays loud on a basement sound system, and the Reprise is pure ambient beauty with soul-enriching flutes, keys and smeared vocal sounds that help you ascend into the sky.

With this new single, Mason Bee once again steps out with a truly original sound, providing a timely reminder of why he is so essential, ahead of his debut album’s vinyl reissue on 7th May.

Lumito (inc. Charles Webster remixes)

PREMIERE : Mason Bee - Lumito (Charles Webster Deep Dub)

For some time she could see no way out; no way forward; no escape from her own mind. She stepped blindly into each day, hoping that at some point things would miraculously change and she'd wake up from this dream she'd been trapped in. That didn't come on its own but a realisation did, and so she began to take steps in a new direction, and carved herself an invisible path to freedom.  

Tbilisi-based DJ and producer Gacha Bakradze makes his debut under a new alias, Clarinets, for Massimiliano Pagliara's Funnuvojere imprint. Traces of Gacha's work under his own name, which has previously graced labels like Fever AM, Die Orakel, Lapsus Records and Cin Cin, can still be felt across the four tracks on 'Invisible Path', seeing him play with emotive harmonies and blissful, Balearic atmospheres.

Clarinets - Invisible Path EP

PREMIERE: Clarinets - Invisible Path [Funnuvojere]

Various Artists - Dusk Volume 1
BUY LINK : https://duskrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dusk-volume-1
Label: Dusk Recordings (https://soundcloud.com/duskrecordings)
Release date : 4 June 2021
https://soundcloud.com/sonns

Building on their alignment as the DJ collective Surround, who host and DJ some of Los Angeles’ finest warehouse parties, the trio established Dusk Camp, a three-day music and art camp-out/festival in California’s desert lowlands. Born from their ethos to champion their local scene’s emerging talent, Dusk Camp merges their community's artists with invited guests.

The new label is inspired by the same principles as the events; freedom represented by the vast California landscapes where camp-out festivals are held, and independence represented by the renegade DIY warehouse parties in LA. The intersection of empowerment and expression, of light and shadow, of sun and moon—these dualities are the essence of Dusk, a thriving platform for radical inclusivity balanced by the chill vibe inherent to California.

The inaugural compilation, Dusk Volume One, is a love letter from California. Nocturnal household names among the unsung soldiers of the West Coast underground scene—Woolfy VS Projections, John Tejada, C.Love and Dave Aju to name a few—have contributed exclusive and previously unreleased tracks to the cohesive 14 track release, best enjoyed from start to finish. This narrative journey of tracks paints an image of vessels cruising throughout cosmos to dock at deep house islands, a contrast of vivid and subdued sonic textures that interplay like the marine layer haze and rhythmic waves on the Pacific horizon. All tracks were commissioned, conceived and produced during a global pandemic as a way to stay connected locally, and now globally, upon its release.

Tracks :
Dave Aju - Desierto
Woolfy VS Projections - Graffiti Fonta
C.love - Deux Femora
Heidi Höven - Dancefloor Dreams
Warehouse Preservation Society - Body Station Juliet Mendoza - Soul Rhythm
Masha Mar - Last Light
John Tejada - Ashes
Tevo Howard - Television (JP & Vulinej Fantasia Remix) SONNS - Texas 84
Force Placement - Her Feet Never Touched The Ground Initial Sequence - R & R Time
Aldridge Brothers - Traffic Jammers
Tevo Howard - Television (Bonus Track)

PREMIERE : SONNS - Texas 84

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/nokkenofficial
Track: Espirit
Label: https://soundcloud.com/polymathlabel
Format: Cassette Tape, Digital, LP
Release date: 06/8/21
Purchase: https://polymathlabel.bandcamp.com/album/n-kken-lp

A shape-shifting water spirit, with the ability to transform into anything in pursuit of luring prey to its depths. Sonically conceptual, warm, classic-inspired and hardware-enriched palette with roots in 90’s Detroit style electronic music.
With an illustrious past in music, Nøkken is a fresh start for the elusive musician. The album opens with a Vangelis-like chord, setting the tone for the rest of the play. 808 drums and 303 bass-lines traverse Electro, Garage, Trip-hip, after-hours Techno Electronica, Ambient and...the list goes on. Nøkken closes the LP with a gorgeous Eno- inspired track, featuring field-recordings from the Nøkken itself.
The album will be available on high-bias cassette tape and digital.

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PREMIERE | Nøkken - Espirit [Polymath] 2021

Time had slipped through his fingers, he could barely recollect a moment of the last 12 hours. He’d fallen into another world and left reality behind him, his mind lost in the spaces in-between. Now he had to piece the fragments back together and find a way back to normality.

For the next instalment on Jason Peters’ Roam Recordings, Italian producers Giorgio Giri and Marco Lentano unite under their Mushrooms Project alias for a dose of hypnotic, downtempo cuts. True to their name, psychedelia is the dish of the day, with the duo serving up four tracks that match mind expanding electronics and analog instrumentation.

PREMIERE: Mushrooms Project - Dirty Dune [Roam Recordings]

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With “Benny,” 84 Avenue delivers a magnetic blend of groove and emotion that perfectly captures the label’s forward-thinking sound. Known for their deep, approach to melodic organic house, a release that feels both timeless and immediate — a journey through rhythm, texture, and space. 

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84 Avenue - Monoï (Extended Mix) [Amulanga]

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Andrey Kravtsov - Alone

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