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CONTRA Collections 35

Cantor - Releases 2019

The pampa, filled with enigmatic lines and geoglyphs known as Nazca, gives name to this record label.

Nazca Records was created to collect the music that Viracochas (beings of other worlds), shared with the ancient Nazca people, known for their love for music, dance and nature. 

These recordings represent the music that was once played in another time and that will be played again in the future…They are the memories of the future.

Each vinyl and recording tells a story of the memories from each ceremony that took place in the Pampa Colorada, from music that was played, and of the figures and lines that the Nazcas used to show their gratitude to the Viracochas.
Maybe you’re wondering how its possible or how we were able to capture those recordings in Nazca Records to then press to vinyl. 
It has been discovered that if an intelligent or exotic species wanted to connect to others, they would use radio signals as they can travel any distance and require very little energy to send.
The logical wave frequency to communicate would be 1420 Megahertz, which is the frequency irradiated by the neutral hydrogen, when its atoms interact between each other. 
Based on this info and knowing that hydrogen is the most abundant element in space, and after a lot of tries, in the end we were finally able to connect with the Viracochas!
This second vinyl contains recordings of the Viracocha Rigopolar. A disc, a journey, a history narrated along the 4 tracks and represented by the lines that the Nazcas called “the greater hands.”

Release date:
Vinyl - 14th July 2017 https://goo.gl/Ye6PGa
Digital - 24th July 2017 https://goo.gl/Hu5eVB

A1. Rigopolar - Greater (Original Mix). NAZCA002

Artist : @acidpauli & @roman-fluegel
Label : @ouiemusic
More premieres : bit.ly/2eTWTpU

BLD Remixes B

Premiere : Acid Pauli - René (Roman Flügel Remix)

Familiar Five: Remixed is out now via @dfa-records, with remixes from Prosumer, Gerd Janson, Justin Van Der Volgen and Ara Koufax: smarturl.it/MARCUSMARR_FMLR5RMX

Remix by @justin-van-der-volgen.
Original played, produced and mixed by Marcus Marr.

Artwork by David Sessions

Familiar Five: Remixed

Familiar Five (Justin Van Der Volgen Remix)

@NeinRecords continues in fine form with 'The Sheatfish' EP from @Low_Manuel. Featuring two originals and a quality remix on the title track from Panorama Channel.

@Panorama-Channel  is a project based in Russia and founded by two friends who have united to implement shared ideas. Their music can be described as a mix of futuristic acid with modern textures of techno and disco. This remix is one of our favourites of theirs to date.... a dark and trippy journey through the cosmos which is sure to be a dance floor filler.

Release Date - 10/08/18

Sinchi Blog - https://www.sinchi-collective.com/premiere-low-manuel-the-sheatfish-panorama-channel-remixnein-records/

Youtube - https://youtu.be/9CBQ-MJZZvI

PREMIERE - Low Manuel - The Sheatfish (Panorama Channel Remix)(Nein Records)

Mexico’s leading underground label Duro Records is back with another brilliant EP, this time from Mijo, who serves up a fine original that comes with remixes by Paulor, D.Y.O.R., The Chica and Moisees.Mijo is a multi-instrumentalist with a raw sound that mixes up tech, disco, house and analogue synths. He releases on Her Majesty´s Ship, Sanfuentes Records and Correspondant and impresses with the refreshing ‘THXTASY’ here. It’s a perfectly warped, heavy tune with fleshy bass and trippy synths that are driven by punchy kicks. A big vocal will get hands in the air and the whole thing oozes late night menace.Fellow Mexican Paulor from the likes of the You and Your Hippie Friends label then excellently remixes the track into something brilliantly dark and cosmic. The drums hit hard and there is a real rock angst in the stabs. D.Y.O.R is a soulful, jacking and deep house proponent from the Netherlands who flips the track into something more elastic and house in nature, but with acid lines and chattery, Chicago-esque percussion.Next The Chica steps up with two terrific versions. The first is a slamming techno cut with whirring machines and flat, forceful drums and the second is a fist pumping, turbo charged old school house version with raves stabs. Both will do real damage on the ‘floor.Last but not least is Duro co-founder Moisees, the man behind last year’s superb ‘Train Station Philosophy’ release. His vision of ‘THXTASY’ is one of corrugated funk, macho disco grooves and stuff hits that make you jerk your body.

THXTASY

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PREMIERE : Mijo - Thxtasy (Paulor Duro Remix)

Es momento de presentar el regreso de @Modernphase (Gameboyz/ComolasGrecas/Melomana Records) a Shara Music con un lote de remezclas de su reciente EP “Píntate los labios que nos vamos de after". Para “Repíntate”, que así se llamará el disco,  se ha rodeado de una muestra de los mejores artistas de la escena, todos ellos con frescos y pisteros remixes bajo el brazo. Leer mas en https://bit.ly/2TrpTNV

REpintate los labios

Repíntate los labios

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PREMIERE: Modernphase - Traga (Two Mamarrachos Remix) [Shara Music] (2019)

➤ Release Info:
Artist: Arutani 
Release Title: Various Gems I 
Label: Circles & Stones 
Release Date: July 8, 2019 on vinyl & digital (Beatport, Bandcamp)
Pre-Order Link: https://www.beatport.com/release/various-gems-i/2608007

➤ About the Release:
Arutani’s slow burner “Back in Time” is a track that conveys a flavour of darkness that’s never heavy and always intriguing. The groove is easy, almost playing with a lightness that permeates the whole track, all the while alternating with a baseline that gives a contrasting twang and reminds us of his individual, pervasive sound.

➤ Follow & Support:

Circles & Stones:
SC: @circlesandstones
FB: www.facebook.com/circlesandstones.music
IG: www.instagram.com/circles_stones

Arutani: 
SC: @arutani
FB: www.facebook.com/arutanimusic
IG: www.instagram.com/arutanimusic

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➤ Connect with Us:
SC: @deephousevancouver
FB: www.facebook.com/deephousevancouver/

Various Gems I

Beatport

PREMIERE: Arutani - Back in Time (Original Mix)[Circles & Stones]

Concret & Cantor Hardcode (Industrial Decomposition)

Just in case the weather’s not hot enough for you, Correspondant bring even more heat with the second instalment of their ‘Numéro’ series. A new unchartered galaxy for new and rising artists and friends of the label to explore and lay down their own rules, anything can – and will – happen.
Following the concept launch earlier this year, ‘Numéro 02’ instantly thrusts us out of orbit for another cosmic crusade from Belfast man-of-the-moment LOR. Triumphant synths on a rocket powered groove, it sets the tone as Israeli newcomer Niv Ast, who makes a swift return after remixing Fort Romeau, takes us even further into the universe with ‘Generally Alone’.

For the return ticket back to our over-heated home planet Italo duo Concret and friend Cantor take the controls. ‘Freaks’ is a chunky psychedelic blur through the stars with occasional asteroid washes of guitar while ‘Hardcode’ marches us back into reality with staccato savoir-faire.

https://soundcloud.com/correspondant
https://soundcloud.com/concretmusic

V/A - Numéro 02

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PRÈMIÉRE: Concret & Cantor - "Freaks(Italo Friends)" [Correspondant]

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Here's a cheeky little edit of the weird and wonderful 'Holland Tunnel Dive' by Implog. We've not done a great deal to it, just beefed it up a little. The original came out in 1980. There is only one 12" for sale on discogs, which is going for $75. 

Our version is not going to be for release, we just wanted to credit the original music.

01 Implog - holland tunnel dive (PBR Streetgang edit)

What’s hiding under the surface?
Earthly creatures consider oceans as the Land of the Unknown. Mysterious, deep, and dark, oceans and wetlands may invoke fear or attraction.
While entering bodies of water, light gradually declines. But soon, a new kind of brightness appears. As profound and obscure submarine worlds can be, they sometimes offer more clarity than the surface. Aquatic worlds shine with their own sun.

Support Women Music

Analog Dolphins Are Making A Party

Concret & Cantor  - Ghost (Ending)

Müstesna Records’ VA “shelTer” album with the contributions of 25 artists willing to provide financial support for creating national and international awareness about the trans murders and trans suicides in Turkey, where has the highest trans murder rate in Europe. Its income will be transferred to “Eylül Cansın Trans Guest House" which was founded by the Istanbul LGBTI Solidarity Association and named after Eylül Cansın, a transgender person who committed suicide January 2015, was accommodating 11 people almost all of whom have immigration experiences until its closure due to infrastructural and security reasons. Eylül Cansın Trans Guest House, which is in search of a new place, aims to move quickly and then to evolve into a system, with a policy that will strengthen its guests, in which anyone can live without a need of the guesthouse. The ”shelTer” album will generate income for the guesthouse to find a new home and a healthier environment after renting, repairing and so on. It also aims to raise national and international awareness that Trans murders and suicides are political. 

https://soundcloud.com/beesmunt-soundsystem
https://soundcloud.com/mustesnarecords

PRÈMIÉRE: Beesmunt Soundsystem - New Deji [Müstesna Records]

Ombra International returns with another five-track V/A monolith that reinforces the label’s international status. Each artist on Ombra 012 – Mike Sacchetti, Volta Cab, Zakmina, Salto Honduras and Pontias, all making their debut on Curses’ ever incisive label – hails from a different territory: Lithuania, Russia, Israel, Spain and France all representing… And all sounding deep, mysterious, sleazy, cosmic and alluring.

Dig deeper for more smouldering grooves as Mike Sacchetti’s "Dead As Disco" gets full-on psychedelic in an early 2000s Ewan Pearson kind of way with hints of end of the 1980s New Order’s sonority. "I wanted to capture the essence of Dark Disco music and mix it with the influence of Psychedelic Rock. For me, it’s a very emotional, introspective and melancholic track, but that’s just how I feel about it", said Mike, whose contribution to this indispensable release ended up bringing an Indie Rock touch to the multi-genre compilation. that delivers something for everyone. It’s definitely another superlative EP from the Ombra family.

Special credits to Sam Berdah (The Wall Studio) for the mastering.

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label: https://ombrainternational.bandcamp.com/

Follow @mikesacchettidj & @ombrainternational, peeps!

Ombra Intl 012

PREMIERE034 // Mike Sacchetti - Dead As Disco

El sello madrileño Rotten City vuelve a primera línea con un nuevo lanzamiento. El 6 de diciembre es la fecha elegida para la publicación de una colección de remixes de su excepcional recopilatorio "Rotten Citizens Vol.3". El citado álbum apareció en junio de 2018 con diez incontestables temas inéditos de otros tantos artistas. Todo un elenco con lo más representativo de la escena slow/dark disco, donde se citaban gente como Roe Deers, Thomass Jackson, o Dionigi. 

Centrándonos en lo que nos ocupa, nos complace compartir con vosotros el estreno de uno de los mejores cortes contenidos en el trabajo. Se trata del que se ocupa de inaugurar el tracklist, “Hunting” del lituano Roe Deers, reconstruido por los  incombustibles The Two Mamarrachos. Los donostiarras se lucen y plantan cara al original, convirtiéndolo en un pelotazo para la pista. En sus manos el tema pasa a tener una identidad oscura, bien secundada por un ritmo metálico y arreglos corrosivos marca de la casa.
No te lo pierdas!.

► FOLLOW:
@comolasgrecas
@rotten-city-records
@roedeers
@the-two-mamarrachos

COMO LAS GRECAS
► Website: www.comolasgrecas.com/es/
► Instagram: @como_las_grecas
► Twitter: @COMOLASGRECAS
► Facebook: www.facebook.com/comolasgrecasoficial/?ref=br_rs

Rotten Citizens Vol.3 Remixes

PREMIERE: Roe Deers - Hunting (Two Mamarrachos Remix) [Rotten City Records] (2019)

@DinoLenny is an Italian electronic producer based in London and the founder of Frenetica and Fine Human Records. Who has enjoyed successful releases on labels like Ellum, Innervisions, Crosstown Rebels, Exploited, Yoshitoshi, Toolroom, Suara and many others.

His latest offering ' Secret Tapes' sees him join the @NeinRecords family for the first time and is supported by killer remixes from Cabaret Nocturne, Colossio and Cabizbajo

Hard to pick a favourite from the package but today's pick comes from @Colossiomx, who once again showcases his unique brand of techno music, which is influenced by Krautrock, psychedelia, Can, Chac Mool and The Golden age of Mexican cinema.

Release Date - 18/12/19

Sinchi Blog -  https://www.sinchi-collective.com/premiere-dino-lenny-secret-tapes-colossio-remix-nein/

Youtube - https://youtu.be/lKviW3efmLA

Secret Tapes

PREMIERE - Dino Lenny - Secret Tapes  (Colossio Remix) (Nein)

Buy: https://www.beatport.com/release/inside/2785619

La Dame Noir Records is happy to welcome back their long-time friend and resident, Arthur Johnson with a brilliant 4 tracks Ep entitled "Inside". 

No need to say that this ep was worth the wait... This new music reveals once again how Arthur is good at doing adventurous and dancefloor club music. "Inside", "Rrheatr" and "Eastern" contain nasty basslines, dancefloor rhythms, crunchy drums, sexy vocals and classy melodies that perfectly encapsulate the spirit of our club nights in Marseille. 

The Ep closes with an outstanding club reinterpretation of "Inside" produced by Mexican producers Colossio and Mufti... for those out there who did not check the 1st Arthur Johnson ep Called Thime Has Come, DO IT !!"

Premiere: Arthur Johnson - Eastern [La Dame Noir]

The village was deafly silent, you could barely hear a pin drop or a murmured whisper echo through the streets. Nothing happened in this god forsaken place anymore. Many, if not all, had left for other climes or intrepid adventures. They'd abandoned everything, in search of something better. Those that remained were intent on making their move soon. They knew the next chapter would be greater than this one. But then again, the grass is always greener... 

Paris-based Motordiscs, conceived by the team behind late nightclub Garage, set a pretty high bar when they launched their label earlier this year with a four tracker VA featuring an all star cast of artists: Khidja, Zombies In Miami, Curses and Kasper Bjørke. Their second helping is no different. This time they've locked in contributions from Sascha Funke, Modular Project, Massimiliano Pagliara and our pick from Concret & Cantor, a heads down cut driven by synths, atmospheric guitar licks and squiggly acid lines.

Motordisc 2

PREMIERE: Concret & Cantor - Defected [Motordiscs]

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