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Ombra INTL 010

The Halfs second EP was written & recorded during the summer of 2014 in Worcester, Massachusetts over the course of a weekend.
credits
released 03 December 2014

Nina Petropolous, drums, synths, vocals & lyrics
Jasper Boyd, drums, bass, guitar, synths, vocals & lyrics

Mixed by Uncle Bhai
Mastered by Jasper Boyd
Album Art by Nick Pagan
Cover Design by Jasper Boyd 

4 O'clock

When I first heard Alex Clare's “Too Close,” I started to get ideas for a more danceable rendition of the song.  Im incredibly excited to finally share my remix of this classic with all of you!

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Alex Clare - Too Close (White Cliffs Remix)

Sexy, Primal Remix by Buddha Bass and Curtis Sea of Morillo's Bangalore. 

Morillo - Bangalore (Buddha Bass & Curtis Sea Remix)

Finally, my new single 'In The Name Of Love' together with Bebe Rexha is here!

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In The Name Of Love

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Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha - In The Name Of Love

Check out the new merch! https://merch.illenium.com/
Follow me on tour! http://illenium.com/#tour

Thank you guys so much for your support this year... It has been absolutely amazing so far.  I'm so stoked to finally release this remix I did for Flume! Hope you guys enjoy.  Stream only for now.

ILLENIUM:
@illeniumofficial | facebook.com/illenium | twitter.com/illenium

Flume:
@flume | facebook.com/flumemusic | twitter.com/flumemusic

Tove Lo:
@tovelo | facebook.com/tovelo | twitter.com/tovelo

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Flume - Say It ft. Tove Lo (Illenium 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)

PREORDERS : https://thirdcomingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tcr022-deadpan-fool-moon-ep
MUSIC VIDEO : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u5KVcABuRU

Soon after the break with Deadpan Interference back in 2016, Martin Funder, Max Cosnier and Sofie Westh already knew that they weren't done with developing their music. During the years 2017-18 new sounds grew out from their collaboration and is now ready to be shown to the world. 

It's near impossible to put a specific genre on the band's characteristic sound, but the heavy, experimental approach to songwriting and rhythm - mixed with a great love of explosive pop-music - isn't to be mistaken. 
With the new sounds came new songs and an urge to play around with a brand new set up. 

Two members have been added to the Deadpan stable who is now running a pack of five. The new people added is the lead singer Arsene Survie (Syringe) and guitarist and synth player Christian Skibdal (ex-The Wands) 

Deadpan are ready to present themselves with their new EP "Fool Moon" released on December 7th. 
The album has been produced by Oliver Volz (Shiny Darkly) and is being released on Paris based record label Third Coming Records. 

First single from the EP and the titel track Fool Moon is to be released October 18th and will be accompanied by a video made by director Frederik Valentin
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Deadpan - Fool Moon

@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)

From the EP "Shiny Darkly" , 
May 2012 on Crunchy Frog

Diana

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)

Mother 

Our Work Is Done / Total Eclipse

Our Work Is Done

We present for you a live set recorded on September 19th at Hypnotic Spa by the Swedish artist Hans Berg, who we were fortunate to be able to invite while he was in town for Sustain-Release. As co-founder of the label UFO Station Recordings with Johanna Knutsson, Hans typically produces and releases spiraling techno with a hint of ethereal. For this occasion he brought a table of gear and performed a touching, massaging soundscape for the Spa. Was a treat to host and meet him and we hope you all enjoy the music.
https://soundcloud.com/hans-berg

Hans Berg (Live) at Hypnotic Spa

Intense and immersive mix from the Berlin legend DJ Shlucht. DJ Shlucht is the arbiter of DIYChurch and fine events at the West Germany space. A member of the PL family for years, we are excited to share this fantastic example of his work.

PL MIX - DJ Shlucht " I Used To Sleep Under Rocks (NYC Spring 2018) "

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)

There was a jigsaw sprawled dismantled across the floor, the pieces were in parts. A thousand dotted pieces each with a formative place in a story waiting to be built. The empty house was quiet during the summer holidays, board games were all that they had to keep themselves entertained. It was an old haunted mansion, busy with the rush and bubble of spirits and ghosts... It was a magnificent puzzle in itself, yet one which you'd not be inclined to explore. In the middle of the countryside, it was easy to become lost. 

Up next on a label very close to home, Insult To Injury, is an EP from Type 303. A rave inspired release drawing upon elements of hardcore and acid, as banging as ever and as destructive on the dancefloor as they come. Here is a remix from Japanese producer Shun, one to watch, as he reworks the lead track 'Thousand Pieces' into bits.

Type 303 - The New Ravelution: Remixed EP

PREMIERE: Type 303 - Thousand Pieces (Shun Remix)[Insult To Injury]

Hot on the heels of his breakthrough ‘Serenade’ and ‘Knife Edge Heart’ 12”s, Ransom Note Records linchpin Timothy Clerkin returned earlier this year with the hotly tipped "Unborn Ep". Comprising four slices of leftfield, rave-infused behemoths, it further added to his growing catalogue of precision-tooled acid anthems. "Insult To Injury" is incredibly excited to announce a remix EP, featuring three variations on the original themes of Unborn EP, from an all-star cast of some of our favourite producers.
First up is style icon, multi-instrumentalist, DJ extraordinaire and mega-producer, Curses. He takes Akathisia on a dubbed out journey via chugging guitars, acidic synth stabs, swirling arpeggios and beyond. This one hits hard!

Preorder : https://insulttoinjuryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unborn-remixed-ep

PREMIERE : Timothy Clerkin - Akathisia (Curses Remix)

The 10th digital release for @DogsandVulturesRecords comes via Mexican producer Alfredo Cardenas aka @2612Montessori in collaboration with the producer, dj and vocalist @Badmoiselle.

There are two originals on the EP 'Aircraft Reel' and 'Fanjoyen', both focused towards the floor . Remixes come from fellow countrymen Rigopolar and Colossio, Italian duo Younger Than Me and French artist @Dombrance.

The latter who is coming hot off the success of his recent album take on 'Aircraft Reel' delivers a killer cut which has an fantastic weirdo break down and kick and is sure to be ripping up many a dance floor.

Release Date - 26/06/19

Sinchi Blog - https://www.sinchi-collective.com/montessori-aircraft-reel-dombrance/

Youtube - https://youtu.be/B6VJgaYFsrg

PREMIERE - Montessori ft. Badmoiselle - Aircraft Reel (Dombrance Remix) (Dogs & Vultures)

Höga Nord Rekords have had the opportunity to work with Al Lover twice before during the last four years and now it’s time for the next step in the relationship between them, this time with the 7” single ”Dark Matter Discotheque / Mark E. Moon”. In these tracks, Lover’s influences mainly stems from a decadent eighties New York or Paris and you can almost smell the heavy perfume mixed with indoors smoking get the feeling of sitting in a room with mirror walls.

Right away, listening to the opening bars of ”Dark Matter”, you can tell that Lover is on to something new and different from his previous Höga Nord-releases. In some ways you hear similarities to ”Zodiak Versions” (2015) but on these two tracks of the 7”, Lover has left the German regions of Europe and the 70’s behind to instead embrace an updated 80’s sound. He comments the new direction with these words: ”'I'd say the influences for these tracks was mainly me wanting to do something different then I have before. I'm alwyas on to next idea, becoming bored with what I've already done”.

pre- orders taken at: https://hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com/track/dark-matter-discoth-que

PREMIERE | Al Lover - Mark E Moon [Höga Nord Rekords] 2019

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Kirfiklere (JackWasFaster Edit)

LIES-135
Parrish Smith+ Interstellar Funk
Misinformation
from the upcoming s/t 4 track ep
to be released July 10th 2019

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Parrish Smith + Interstellar Funk-Misinformation (LIES-135)

Juan MacLean and Man Power debut as Juan Power for Life and Death

Life and Death continue to serve up brilliantly unpredictable releases with a new one that brings together American DFA stalwart Juan MacLean with the UK’s Me Me Me label head Man Power, plus an edit from the boss, DJ Tennis. 

Juan MacLean is a multi-faceted artist who has a history of everything from playing in post hardcore bands to producing some of DFA’s most celebrated releases. He does classy house bangers with synth pop and disco layers like no one else. Man Power, meanwhile, is someone who is fantastically eclectic in what he does on all fronts as a DJ, label boss and producer. He’s made corrugated acid, hands in the air house and machine disco and plenty in between on his own label, but also cult outlets like Correspondent and ESP Institute. The coming together of these two undoubted studio wizards, then, is a fascinating prospect. 

And so it proves right from the off: opener ‘Crescendo’ is a nine minute masterpiece with rickety house drums making you move while the shuffling percussion builds the pressure. Gorgeously warm chords eventually join the fray and have a blissful effect that sets you off dreaming and keeps you in a trance until the end. 

DJ Tennis himself then steps up with an edit of ‘Excuse Me Daddy’ that is deep and cavernous. Next to the suspensory pads is an intricate synth line that takes you in on yourself in perfectly melancholic ways. 

Closer ‘Praise The Toad’ then picks up the pace with more live sounding drums and a sparkling lead synth that rises and falls to cosmic effect. Drawn out over the full length of the track, and in amongst some chattery claps and smart effects, it makes for a journey to the stars that will cast a real spell on all who hear it. 

This is an innovative collaboration between two masters of their craft.

Tour dates
22nd June: Juan Power @ Topaz Deluxe, Mexico
26th July: Juan Power @ Elsewhere, NYC

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Juan Power - Praise The Toad

#Premiere 102

Artist: Years Of Denial 
Title: Love Comes And Goes
Album: 'Body Map' EP
Label: Pinkman Broken Dreams
Format: Vinyl, Digital
Release: Aug 09th, 2019
Pre order: bit.ly/2JNGYJY
Video Offcial: bit.ly/30B7nBz

Years of Denial joins Pinkman Broken Dreams and deliver an EP with four devilish and cataclysmic electronic body tracks. The duo’s sound combines influences of deranged experimental music with vocals surrounding themes of isolationism and dark romanticism. 

The outcome is stunning in its very own way, as the music creates a deeply immersive atmosphere, and is abundantly vigorous to keep dancers on their toes and moving from the night’s darkest corners to the dawn of day.

More information and promos: www.tforgotten.org
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Premiere: Years Of Denial - Love Comes And Goes [Pinkman Broken Dreams]

Stranger / Umwelt - Rave Or Die ROD13
Number 13 is at the center of many superstitions, some consider it to bring bad luck. We at Rave Or Die believe instead that number 13 always delivers happiness, success and even ecstasy to the mass. In particular when it gathers altogether two heavyweights from the Dance music culture on the label’s thirteen release. On A side we find Self Refelktion Boss Stranger in an acidic distorted exercise, injecting on “Motief” the perfect balance between pounding techno beats a la  90's Axis release and Woody McBride 303 loops and a little " je ne sais quoi " to make you jump on the Dancefloor. On the flipside, ROD mastermind fates the heavy artillery with “Shut Up And Dance”, a nod to the now defunct and eponymous mythic Rave London  label. Distorted yet irresistible electro techno tones characterize this pure Ravey anthem calibered for spacious warehouse with a generous sound system.
Raw techno tracks all the way from two masters of the genre!

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Stranger & Umwelt - ROD 13

Complete darkness engulfed the street as one by one each house switched off the lights inside. A curfew was no in affect all over the country and anybody who broke it would suffer grave consequences. The street lamps ommited a deep orange glow providing the only light for those who dared to travel by night. Although many were afraid to enter into the darkness, there were still nocturnal beings who would frequent the twilight hours, wittingly recruiting travellers to their growing pack each night. This was when the real excitement took place, it always is when you're breaking the rules.

Berlin-based imprint Ombra International have found a winning formula when it comes to their releases; bringing together artists who operate in the same sonic sphere who complement one another's creative outputs. Their VA EPs have seen the likes Local Suicide, Mondowski, Amarcord, Roe Deers and Ombra boss Curses, representing a cross section of sounds spanning wave, EBM, minimal synth and dark disco. This one sees Hard Fist boss Cornelius Doctor step up for a slow motion synth trip alongside Mufti, Renate's Sebastian Voigt and Colossio.

PREMIERE: Cornelius Doctor - Soft Rocket [Ombra INTL]

The hypothesis of God gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. An approach like that doesn't require any knowledge. Just a few memorized formulas plus so-called intuition and so-called common sense.
One of these formulas seems to be perfectly understood by Luca Venezia AKA Curses who once again (tenth time in a row)shows his eclectic taste , presenting fantastic collection of artists, this time uniting France, Germany and Mexico.
Our pick up is the Salon Zur Wilden Renate's man himself, Berlin based producer, dj and promoter - Sebastian Voigt with EX2 composition - remarkable psychedelic, keeping in constant tension track, composed of a paranoid pulsated bass line, a torn rhythm, anxious synths and vocals which all together sounds like soundtrack to the devilish rail-trains race somewhere on Mars .  12" out September 6th. 
buy: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/cornelius-doctor-mufti-sebastian-voigt-ombraintl-010/740013-01/

https://soundcloud.com/sebastian-voigt
https://soundcloud.com/ombrainternational

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PREMIERE #566 | Sebastian Voigt - EX 2  [Ombra INTL] 2019

After an edit for @Ombrainternational in their lust & fury edits 1, Mufti (@muftimix) returns to Ombra International with a full-blown track "Control"  designed with few but robust elements. This multi-instrumentalist, producer, and DJ from Guadalajara, México has shown his musical background with a melody that turns into an anthem as the track proceeds to formulate its story that is driven by its simple but powerful bassline. 

Youtube: https://youtu.be/_nPg3xMN92o
Sinchi Blog: https://www.sinchi-collective.com/premiere-mufti-control-ombra-international/

PREMIERE – Mufti – Control (Ombra International)

(ES) Ombra INTL es de esa clase de sellos que no da puntada sin hilo, que en todo momento saben lo que hacen y no dejan nada al capricho del azar, aunque a veces sus decisiones nos puedan parecer insólitas, poco comerciales o fuera de lugar. Ahora aterriza de nuevo con su última referencia, la número 010. Esta vez, empuñando una paleta sonora inmersiva, un amalgama de influencias de varias décadas proyectadas de forma tan singular como personal. Artistas como Cornelius Doctor, Sebastian Voigt, Mufti o Colossio, con el cual tenemos el placer de presentar, se dan cita en un disco trabajado con mimo, dando lo mejor que se podía ofrecer.

El track que nos viene a caso, ECO, de Colossio, es bello, emocional, con luces y sombras, consiguiendo dar con un resultado redondo, que no flaquea por ningún lado. La elegancia, el vigor y la aventura no están reñidas con la accesibilidad, y aquí se demuestra en cada una de sus notas. El resultado es cautivador, con la cantidad perfecta de sustancia para que sea incombustible, presentado con un estilo potente que va desde lo clásico hacia lo más innovador. Una delicia sólo para melómanos. Join Us!

(EN) Ombra INTL is of that kind of stamps that does not give stitch without thread, that at all times know what they do and leave nothing to the whim of chance, although sometimes their decisions may seem unusual, not commercial or out of place. Now he lands again with his last reference, the number 010. This time, wielding an immersive sound palette, an amalgam of influences of several decades projected as singularly as personally. Artists like Cornelius Doctor, Sebastian Voig, Mufti or Colossio, with whom we have the pleasure of presenting, come together on a disc worked with care, giving the best that could be offered.

The track that comes to us, ECO, by Colossio, is beautiful, emotional, with lights and shadows, getting a round result, which does not falter anywhere. Elegance, vigor and adventure are not at odds with accessibility, and here it is demonstrated in each of its notes. The result is captivating, with the perfect amount of substance to make it fireproof, presented with a powerful style that ranges from the classic to the most innovative. A delight only for music lovers. Join Us!

Link: https://bit.ly/2ZfNPFU

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PREMIERE: Colossio - ECO [OMBRA INTL] (2019)

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)

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