Artist: https://soundcloud.com/808hz
Track: Djinn
Label: Feng Shit Records / https://soundcloud.com/decalerecords
Format: Cassette Tape, Digital, VA
Release date: 23/3/21
Purchase: https://fengshit.bandcamp.com/album/castalia-drops

French Décalé records launching new sub-label Feng Shit Records. 
Born from eponymous LYL’s radioshow, this new imprint will highlight electronic and experimental music from contemporary artists. (Vs Décalé that focuses only on reissues). 
The launching release is a 14-track compilation on tape called "Castalia Drops". We took our project inspiration into Greek mythology: the water fountain of Castalia, frequented by the oracle Pythia of Delphi, were capable of inspiring poetic creation to those who drink its water or listen to its murmur.
In that context, Castalia Drops delivers a futuristic testament of club no-club music rooted in melancholia. A prediction of fourteen titles by warned visionaries (Epsilove, Christian Coiffure), freshly illuminated (OKO DJ, Dhakira, Explorations Silencieuses) from France, Switzerland and the super talented Israeli Tai Rona. It’s an ode to destiny oscillating from softening aural breezes (Eiger Drums Propaganda, Aloe, AM Khamsaa) to psychedelics rituals (Gavr, One Foot Step & Nitrate) and spiritual dance substrates (808Hz, Yolek, Antoine). 
The 4-sided insert contains also inspirational texts and poems provided by the artists themselves in their languages of preference like Romanche and Hungarian. 
The curation of the compilation has been done by Orsett & Fischer from Décalé, the mastering by Louis de La Gorce (from the Pilotwings) and the graphic design by the Swiss Martin Cramatte.

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PREMIERE | 808Hz - Djinn [Feng Shit Records] 2021

The sky was clearer than ever tonight, its canvas studded with a thousand stars. The night air felt cool on her face as she made her way to the top of the hill to gaze at the atmosphere above; a ritual that had now become a part of her daily life. From up here she could see everything; the hazy lights emitting from the village below, the pylons that seemed to tower over the landscape and the winding river that stretched for miles. From up here, she felt on top of the world, like a predator presiding over its empire...

Dischi Autunno bosses Jennifer Cardini and Noura Labbani have been hard at work on their label's next dispatch: a whopping 22 track compilation split across two parts. Exploring the plethora of sounds that orbit the imprint—from electro, italo and acid to synthwave, coldwave and lo-fi— 'Intermezzo' unites artists from across these musical spectrums, including previous label mates like Curses, Pablo Bozzi, Chinaski, The Golden Filter and Younger Than Me, as well as new, burgeoning talent including Mogambo, Zillas on Acid and A Strange Wedding.

PREMIERE: Younger Than Me feat. ZaaZaa - Rave Therapy [Dischi Autunno]

Serge Geyzel - Limbo
BUY LINK: https://diffusereality.bandcamp.com/album/serge-geyzel-with-remixes-from-illektrolab-karsten-pflum-vinyl-12
Release date: 30 july 2021
Label: Diffuse Reality (https://soundcloud.com/diffusereality)
Remixes by https://soundcloud.com/illektrolab & https://soundcloud.com/karsten-von-pflum
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Catalogue: DRC3
Artwork: Jantus
Tracklist:
A1.Time Thief
A2.Bass.Motion
A3.Limbo
B1.Don't bother
B2.Return (Illektrolab Remix)
B3.Time Thief (Karsten Pflum Wopper Mix)
DI1.Return (only dig)
DI2.Unsuccessful (only dig)

Limited 12'' Lathe Cut handmade.

All Vinyl orders include two Diffuse Reality stickers and digital downloads of the full release.
www.diffusereality.net

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PREMIERE : Serge Geyzel - Return (Illektrolab Remix)

In life and work she did everything by the book. Spontaneity was not in her vocabulary, she liked things to be just so; nothing out of place, everything perfectly presented. In her opinion rules were in place for a reason; breaking them was simply incomprehensible. You'd find no foul play or corner cutting; protocol had to be followed.

Music platform Onderwereld's origins lie in The Hague's the bunker: a meeting place for the city's electronic music scene and the former home of IntergalacticFM. The space may have closed down now but the spirit still lives on through those who were part of it, Onderwereld being one of them. The platform is now levelling up with the launch of a new label arm, the first release of which rallies together a wealth of artists from the country's rich underground music community—the likes of Das Ding, Legowelt, Intergalactic Gary, unit moebius anonymous, Gamma Intel and many more.

PREMIERE: Das Ding - Protocol [Onderwereld]

Blood flowers are wounded memories that refuse to let go

Blood Flowers is a heavy duty 4 tracker for the freaks. electro, dungeon techno, slinky acid and tribal excursion - properly damaged party starters for lowlight dreams and nightmares. Over the last 10 years, Mule Driver has been making special 808 day releases. This latest set is his most convincing effort to date, jumping from idea to idea but retaining a solid guideline of sci-fi weirdness and collapsing body movements.

on Unnamed War, maddening backward sounds are backed by a jumpy bass line and a heavy electro beat. Blood Flowers brings the hot middle eastern desert wind over tribal war rhythms, covering the poor drummers with burning sand. Those lost souls keep wandering aimlessly over a rumbling bassline in the Tunnels of track 3. Naqoura, the closing track, brings a hazardous grinding feedback, pounding bass drum and sword-like cymbals, topped with Fata-Morgana-synth-sounds that flicker a glimpse of hope.

https://confusedmachines.bandcamp.com/album/blood-flowers

https://soundcloud.com/muledriver
https://soundcloud.com/confused-machines

Blood Flowers

PREMIERE: Mule Driver - Tunnels [Confused Machines]

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/sordid-sound-system
Track:  Beginning To See The Dub
Label: https://soundcloud.com/hoga-nord-rekords
Format: 7" Vinyl, Digital, EP
Release date: 30/8/21
Purchase: https://hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com/album/hnr041-escape-temps-au-revoir-beginning-to-see-the-dub

Stuart Evans, aka Sordid Sound System is one of the founders of The Green Door Studio, a not for profit, analogue recording studio in Glasgow which emerged from an increasing disillusionment with the modern ways of music production. His sound holds outsider qualities, being everything but generic and predictable, mixing dub with movie soundtracks in the tradition of Carpenter and Italian likes.
On this 7” released on Höga Nord Rekords, SSS deconstructs and rebuilds music in an imaginative style, pairing tribe-ritual “back to ape”-beats with synthesized cosmic harmonies. In a way, we are enjoying straight up dub here but this record is also a display of the vivid and creative Glasgow scene centred round “The Green Door Studio” and record labels like “Invisible, Inc.” where krautrock and 80’s/90’s electronic music is part of the foundation. Boundless joy for every girl and boy!

PREMIERE | Sordid Sound System - Beginning To See The Dub [Höga Nord] 2021

Behuá Icára - Ritmos para Sanar Vol.2 is our second compilation in order to support artists from the Amazonian ethnia Shipibo Konibo Xetebo in Ucayali, Perú. All profits will go directly to the Shipibo Konibo Xetebo artists that has participated in the compilation.
In some of the tracks there is a collaboration between Shipibo artists and a producer, like Peruvian producer Valicha, with Shipibo deceased maestra Panshin Beka also known as Olivia Arévalo “The last Meraya”, Shipibo Rapper Wihtner FaGo with Eomac from Ireland, Reshijabe also known as Olinda Silvano with Carmen Villain Norwegian Mexican as well with Ciel from Canada, from Colectivo Shipibas Muralistas Milka, Nimia, and Shipibo artist Rawa has collaborated with Peruvian producer Aristidez.
The artwork is based on Shipibo artist Lastenia Canayo aka Pecon
Quena and his guardian "The Maquisapa Monkey", with the graphic
designer Beto Prieto, and the “Xao Kené” pattern by the Shipibo artist Inin Bita.

PREMIERE : Valicha Ft. Panshin Beka - Maestra Olivia

In the middle of the summer Yeho, an Israeli musician coming from Tel Aviv, was wandering around Italy and randomly he found himself in the “Quintino Basement”, lair of Ninja Exotic Machine.
This casual encounter gave birth to three new tracks where the
duo’s downtempo and tribal style merges with Yeho’s crisp and raw vocal together with intriguing percussions samples extracted from live recordings of the percussionist Andrea Greco.
The result is an Ep called “36 questions” out on Pho Bho Records on the 14th of October.

PREMIERE : Ninja Exotic Machine Feat Yeho - Disolve

Amoureux du son des années 90 et de la culture rave révolutionnaire de ces années-là, la musique de @youngerthanme fait le lien entre l'esprit rebelle des anciennes raves et les influences modernes de la musique de club, créant ainsi une touche inimitable. @hirschmann-music s'occupe de la première heure en voguant au gré de ses envies.  Au final, l'esprit n'est pas dans les étiquettes de genres musicaux mais dans les sensations durant ces deux heures.

Hirschmann Invite Younger Than Me • Dischi Autunno

Sojo - CB-32
Part of Mister Nobody EP
Catalog: SW004

Label: @sonido-wey
Artist: @sojomx

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PREMIERE: Sojo - CB-32 (Sonido Wey)

Rendezvous (Jewellzy Rework)

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