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Will & Held - Ours EP
Forthcoming Spinning Plates Feb 15.
12" only.


B1 - Will & Held - Ours (Trus'me Zonsondergang Mix) - Spinning Plates - The Bakehouse

NERDI001 // Nerdiboy - First love ep

Nerdiboy start the label with the First love ep. Nerdiboy is the name under Antonio Hernández make his more dub and lofi house influenced works, always remembering the atmosphere of the 90s and the love of Chicago and Detroit.

The four tracks are fully of heavy kicks, lo-fi percussions, and love filtered pads, chords and strings accompanied with acid minimalistic lines, all to make you feeling like in your first love history.

TRACKLIST //

A1 - Really, are you kidding me? 
A2 - Look at my eyes 
B1 - Renaissance
B2 - Learning to let go

booking/contact/remixing: nerdiboymusic@gmail.com 
fb: www.facebook.com/nerdiboyhouse/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKXCyUUSeEuP1Qb5XcDmDzw

BE NERDI !! BE LOVE !! <3

House, nerd and love. 


Mastered by Sergio Córdoba at Eternal Midnight Mastering.

B1 - Renaissance [CUT]

A1 - Really, Are You Kidding Me? [CUT]

A1 Blind Observatory - The Long Tomorrow II

"This single is about my teenager period, so much Hip hop and street, Break dance, weed and all this shit in the hood. Enjoy my life!" - Dj Nerdiboy
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*Premiere* Dj Nerdiboy - When I Was A Teenager

Taken from the album 'Family Portrait', released 27 July 2018 on Brainfeeder: https://rossfromfriends.lnk.to/fpSo

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Family Portrait

Pale Blue Dot

Ross From Friends - 'Pale Blue Dot'

Tokyo-based Hoshina Anniversary readies his new EP on Volvox and John Barera’s Jack Dept label. ‘Pimp’ is a propulsive techno heater with an arpeggiated electro flare…

Read more: https://goo.gl/aPZ6fR

A Cid EP

Premiere: Hoshina Anniversary ‘Pimp’

Anna Lann - Embodiment
Out 14th December 2018

Latvian-born, Tel Aviv artist @annalann is that most rare of creators – not simply a jack-of-all-trades, but a master of many. Producer, composer, singer, videographer, visual artist, dancer and DJ, she excels at capturing the imagination through audacious creations.

'Embodiment', Anna’s first EP on Ransom Note Records, does its utmost to evade description, existing in a state of perpetual motion and terminal formlessness. Over four singular tracks she projects a thrilling blend of techno, experimental electronics and left-field pop music, realised in pristine and often brutal sound design.

Lann’s originals are accompanied by four stellar remixes courtesy of Panorama Bar resident Nick Höppner, DJ/graffiti writer Richard Sen, and Ransom Note artists Flug 8 and Placid One.

More Info / Pre-Order: https://ransomnoterecords.bandcamp.com/album/embodiment

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Embodiment

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Anna Lann - Feeling Emotional

The legendary Josh Wink celebrates 25 years of Ovum Recordings with its 300th release, ‘Aries In Mars’. Hear the typically rip-roaring original mix now…

Read more: https://bit.ly/2EfqeKF

Premiere: Josh Wink ‘Aries In Mars’

For the second release on the Galaxiid imprint, a label of electronic music archeology and quality, we are transported to the strange sonic world of an elusive 90s pioneer. Solar X’s 1997 album X-Rated will be released for the first time on vinyl, as well as reissued digitally, with new artwork by the Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami. Two worlds connecting sonically, visually and culturally.

Solar X enjoyed a burgeoning career in post-Perestroika Moscow making playful, low-tech electronica from Soviet analogue instruments, which he masterfully configured to forge animated compositions and dancefloor rarities. Fascinated by chaos and complexity, his music explores the ways in which our minds can be manipulated by structure - an endeavour quite plausibly linked to his other career as a lecturer and researcher of AI, information theory and cognitive science, his interest in which was in turn triggered by his young experiments in computer music.

Solar X gained international attention at a time when Russia was (quite unfairly) seen as a vacuum for electronic music, but was exploding in the period of piracy, poverty and freedom following the collapse of the USSR. Young Russians had benefited from the soviet education system and there was a strong DIY computer programming and music scene, fuelled by hackers, gear freaks and party animals. Viewed from today, the album is reborn at a time of further political and social strife, which many see as fuelling the huge creativity and radical thinking of modern Russia’s young creatives.

X-Rated treats tempo and form as fluid concepts, administering sudden changes to its sonic landscape with disorienting effect, underlain with a subtle dose of humour and experimentation. Downtempo trip-hop sits alongside frenetic IDM and blistering electro, all bound together by peculiar melodic inflections and lively distortions. Warm, trippy harmonies and robotic synths are offset with angular drums, shifting erratically through moods and genres with cunning intent. Much like his contemporaries from the era, it’s his ability to breathe life into a humble production setup that makes his music so compelling some twenty one years later. 

The track titles are from a book of call girl cards in London phone booths, that reached the artist in Moscow in 1995. "I liked the titles from these cards, which were self-promoting and offering pleasure (e.g. "Mistress awaits you"). So, I thought since my tracks also offered some kind of pleasure, they might as well advertise this through their titles.” 

Label head Nina Kraviz was introduced to the work of the 83 year old sensei Keiichi Tanaami by Ukawa Naoshiro, founder of Dommune in Tokyo, one of the brightest figureheads for the arts in Japan, responsible for the graphic design of the cover. In September 2017 Nina played for the opening of Tanaami-san’s first exhibition in Moscow at Gary Tatintsian Gallery. Nina performed a live sound palette, to accompany the looping 7 minute animation, of experimental music from the Soviet Union, Russian pioneers of electronic music like Species Of Fishes and SolarX, Soviet-time pioneer Lev Termen, Kuryochin, avant-guard rock mixed with some Stockhausen and just pure abstract sounds, as well as treasured artists like Biogen.

Tanaami‘s illustrative work has strong sexual elements, so out of the five art pieces Nina selected and commissioned for Galaxiid, the first fits perfectly for ‘X-rated’. The vertical line of text on the left is the traditional form for Japanese covers of foreign releases. The cover, together with the accompanying poster and sticker, are printed in Japan to ensure the highest print quality and purity of the colours.

Xrated

X-rated

C2 Spanking for Pleasure

Mad, hypnotic rhythms and darker ambient by DJ Neumann. Contactless over Bank Transfer. Zero EUR paid. Brought to you by Funkycan & Max Gee. Double 12 inch plus locked grooves!

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Where The Hoes

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U Can't C Me

The noise echoed loud and proud, the chime of bells rang out to see in the new year and many people danced with great joy and delight in the streets. There was a sense of purpose about this night but it would all mean nothing if the new year did not bring with it some form of change, a new mentality and a delightful sense of peace. The night was dark but his own hopes were filled with promise and aspiring glory, there was a warmth to his insides as he sipped upon red wine and looked out upon the stars. To night or tonight, it all might change. 

Tred is set to release a new EP on Doe Dee, the "Planet Perth" EP to be precise and it draws upon some sort of mutated influence sitting somewhere between electro and trance. It's bloody great and we can expect it will be wholeheartedly well received. Big tip.

Planet Perth EP

PREMIERE: Tred - To(night) [Doe Dee]

Phosphor Bells

Buy ltd. hand-stamped 12" vinyl & digital EP: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-not-a-robot

Strictly limited 12” pressing of 600x hand stamped records. No repress.

UK
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DE
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Das Ding presents ‘I Am Not A Robot’ - the third record our White series, dedicated to limited vinyl-only pressings of EBM, wave, synth, electro, italo, industrial and experimental sounds.

'Alien Insane' opens the record with a relentlessly progressing piece of dark machine music, followed by the dazzling cosmic journey of 'Idiomatic Transnominator', both tracks vividly blending Das Ding's signature sound with classic Dutch electro, synth and italo styles.

On the flip, 'I Am Not A Robot' presents a more blissful soundscape, elevating higher through dreamy synths, tight percussion and an inescapable bassline, before Ksitigarbha rounds off the record with a slow, enchanting sonic journey into strange and ghostly territory.

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I Am Not A Robot

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Das Ding - I Am Not A Robot [MTRONW003]

For the next @DarkScienceElectro premiere, we look to @serotonin-records with a new release from Brooklyn-based DJ/music producer who calls himself Ulysses.

When it comes to new music from Ulysses, you never know what you're going to get as his productions span across quite a few genres. An important figure in the late-‘90s Electro scene in New York, Ulysses threw some of the biggest large-scale Electro parties with legends such as Alexander Robotnick and Arthur Baker, as well as stars like I-F, Adult., and Miss Kittin & the Hacker.  Over the span of his eclectic discography, this Brooklyn-based DJ and music producer has collaborated with many including John Selway in their long-running collaboration called @Neurotic-Drum-Band, who also appears on this record.

The track selected to premiere on @DarkScienceElectro is the 808-bangin' track entitled 'Shiny Destruction', which is the final track on the record. Classic Roland beats, bit-crushed percussive rhythms, a persistent bass line make this a clear stand-out in my opinion. The string pad used in the track brings it all together for this 6-minute adventure. This record will become available in February and is being distributed by Triple Vision, Complete and Clone NL.

Clips here: 
https://soundcloud.com/serotonin-records/ser024-preview 

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Tracks

PREMIERE: Ulysses - Shiny Destruction (Serotonin Records)

In a galaxy far, far away there was a party underway. The stars glittered up above, they were like beautiful dazzling pearls amidst the dense heat of the dark black sky. Miles away, back home on earth, there were people who knew nothing about the futuristic extravagance of alien life and planets beyond the line of sight. This was a special place in which the best of beings moved back and forth, the dancers were easily pleased and the beats bumped all night long, on Nebulon. 

Tone Dropout has moved from strength to strength, the rave inspired label has become a powerhouse for breaks, hardcore and electro having been championed far and wide with each release selling hard and fast.

PREMIERE: Dawl - Nebulon [Tone Dropout]

The town was derelict, not even a murmur could be heard throughout the cobbled streets. Ominous grey clouds loomed overhead casting an eerie shadow over the buildings. The street lamps flickered unnervingly, in brief flashes they illuminated colourful shop fronts and striped parasols. This place had once been full of life, a place where people had come to escape the stresses of every day life. But now everything had changed. Something had been here and it had taken all signs of civilisation with it.

After releasing on Frits Wentink’s Bobby Donny label and Dirt Crew Recordings, Icelandic producer Felix Leifur brings four tracks of hazy deep electronics to BROT01, the first in a trilogy of releases on Reykjavik-based label Lagaffe Tales.

PREMIERE: Felix Leifur - Brot 4 [Lagaffe Tales]

The colours flickered abruptly on the television screen as he sat and stared into space. He was not paying attention to the wave of meaningless colours before him for his life was now nothing but grey... 

'Black, blue, yellow, green...' 

They flashed once more.

'Black, blue, yellow, green...' 

They'd always said that this day might come, that we'd become numb as a nation to all the colour and life in the world. To all the glory in variation and difference, in beauty and in light. It was a sad state...

Concret & TYU are set to release a dazzling new EP packed with rugged energy and life for Trafico Music. They've also drafted in a host of remixers including the likes of Corrado, Luzius and Bellville. Our stand out from the release however, came from Comeme affiliated producer Borusiade who continues to move from strength to strength.

Halo EP

PREMIERE: Concret & TYU - Black, Blue, Yellow, Green (Borusiade Remix) [Trafico Music]

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PREMIERE: UZEF — This Is House (Original Mix) [OFDM Records]

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