The mighty Italo Moderni, Spanish imprint curated by Adrian Marth (SXDNS188), presents "Modernation Vol. 4", (unfortunately)  the last episode of its acclaimed compilation series. The closing chapter comes dressed to impress by featuring a great selection of hot-shot acts of the so called Indie Dance/Dark Disco scene: Timothy J. Fairplay, Alessandro Adriani, Chino, Chupacabras, Leroy Se Meurt, Univac, Le Chocolat Noir, Rapha, E-Bony, Diana Berti, Yobkiss, LBEEZE, and the label boss himself brought AAA+ retro-modern-infused cuts for the high-style finale.

The track we were solicited to review/premiere comes from the mastermind of Chupacabras. The UK-based producer, with previous appearances on Throne Of Blood, Distrokids, and L.I.E.S. Records, to name a few, strikes hard with the impressive "Planning Stages", an Electro-meets-EBM-meets-Industrial ferocious beast with a powerful and frenzied atmosphere and a shut-up-and-dance attitude - it's definitely one of the highlights of the release.  

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

Follow @djchupacabras and @italo_moderni, peeps!

PREMIERE394 // Chupacabras - Planning Stages

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PREMIERE CDL \\ Black Dot - The Rainbow Children [Osàre! Editions] (2022)

Artist » Black Dot - https://soundcloud.com/yasssa
                                  https://soundcloud.com/allegedwitches

Ep Name »   OE 016 - V.A. - The Male Body Will Be Next Pt1  

Label » Osàre! Editions - https://soundcloud.com/osare-editions

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Format: TAPE  + DIGITAL ALBUM

Release date:  November 28, 2022

BUY HERE  >>> https://osare-editions.bandcamp.com/album/oe-016-v-a-the-male-body-will-be-next-pt1

In 2022, Osàre! Editions founder Elena Colombi approached artists and musicians with a prompt: Every body, everyone needs love to flourish. In her book The Will to Change, the eminent author and social activist bell hooks invites men to excavate their innermost selves, challenging the way that patriarchal society limits their capacity for intimacy, tenderness, care and emotion. As hooks lays out, feminist thought and work requires the collective participation of all genders in order to realise a liberated world. How can we imagine cross-gender solidarity through music and art? And how can we tell sonic stories that facilitate our full potential as desiring beings? These are the questions that The Male Body Will Be Next starts out from.

The title of the record draws connections between hooks' writing, a film by Rebecca Salvadori and Peter de Potter's stunning photo series of the same name. In de Potter and Salvadori's depictions, men's bodies appear as vulnerable, naked and exposed.

Divided into two parts, the first instalment of The Male Body Will Be Next hinges on colliding energies – the melding of club dance floors and haunting ambient textures, agile techno and noisy experimentation.

'The sun on my skin… it’s so warm and gentle,’ speak-sings Olivia Salvadori on ‘Su Di Te M’Infrango’, visualising utopias. Laurel Halo crafts a dreamscape spun from golden threads of synth and strings. Pensive and reflective, Ben Bertrand’s bass clarinet roams searchingly, its piercing tonality full of longing. Yet, in between these lucid, cinematic passages and spoken word, The Male Body Will Be Next finds space to dance together. Moving in fervent, rhythmic patterns, Sepehr’s ‘Divooneh’ pivots between tension and release. Filmmaker unleashes a wave of energy and The Spy delivers a potent take on vintage electro, the track title hinting at the double-bind of gendered expectations. Propelled between these eclectic styles, the record encapsulates the full spectrum of sonic expression. 


Mastered by Rude66
Manifactured by T.A.P.E. MUZIK, Leipzig
Cover art is a still from 'The Male Body Will Be Next' film _ by Rebecca Salvadori
Covers printed at TerryBleu, Amsterdam
Art direction by Elena Colombi
Words by Hannah Pezzack 


Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCciZZCgKfHeu99C5kKYFXwQ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/osare.editions
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/osare.editions/

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Art/Designer CDL by Rennst

• https://soundcloud.com/RENNST
• https://www.instagram.com/_rennst_

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#cdl
#acid
#osareeditions
#LeChocolatNoir
#allegedwitches
#minimalsynth
#electro
#commedeslarmes
#tape
#cassete
#80s
#electronicmusic
#industrial
#ambient
#techno
#ebm
#newbeat
#blackdot
#Amsterdam
#Netherlands
#leftfield
#idm
#avantegarden
#musiqueconcrete
#synth
#elenacolombi

OE 016 - V.A. - The Male Body Will Be Next Pt1

PREMIERE CDL \\ Black Dot - The Rainbow Children [Osàre! Editions] (2022)

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Ali Renault's debut on Nocta Numerica (vinyl / digital)

Pre-order your copy here:

Bandcamp: bit.ly/3W3rLID

Syncrophone: bit.ly/3Fo8dcs
Clone: https://bit.ly/3DghFx1
Juno: bit.ly/3B5fk6L
Deejay: bit.ly/3B4t4yB
Decks: https://bit.ly/3DcLZZ8
HHV: bit.ly/3UFcPz9
Redeye: bit.ly/3iqicEN


Release date: 25/01/2023

Catalog number: NN024
Title: Stone Tape EP
Artist: Ali Renault
Distributed by Syncrophone (Worldwide)
Artwork: Christophe Le Gall
Mastering: Brassica

A1 - Gypsy Ritual
A2 - Her Kind
A3 - Minerva's Shrine
-
B1 - U'Vaddit
B2 - Stone Tape

Ali Renault - Stone Tape

Introducing Im Osten Geht Die Sonne Auf, the second full-length album release by duo Recht auf Rausch from Offenbach, Germany. This 12-track album features the captivating vocal stylings of Momo paired with Kalocain's masterful electronic production. Together, they create a cold and immersive environment that will leave you entranced from start to finish.

The album doesn’t follow homogenous guidelines nor conceptional requirements.
It’s a spontaneous expression of our moods facing obstacles of society.
Producing music to connect, grow, heal - a cathartic process.

While drinking tea and smoking cigarettes in our bedroom studio the procedure of making music starts with some sounds till we feel the direction of the song, then we begin to implant the lyrics.
The fast flow defines our collaboration which feels mostly symbiotic and unforced. In this way our creations become raw, honest and vulnerable.

https://soundcloud.com/rechtaufrausch
https://soundcloud.com/metamoto

PREMIERE⚡️Recht Auf Rausch - Im Osten Geht Die Sonne Auf [META MOTO]

The cars whizzed past at lightning speed, kicking up the puddles of water in the gutter and drenching her from head to toe. She'd never considered herself a lucky person, generally bad things seemed to follow her around - an unwarranted parking ticket; a lost purse; countless trips and falls over uneven paving slabs... It must have been something she'd done in a past life, some kind of systemic karma that was, and would continue, to always be part of her. Or maybe there was no explanation at all, she'd simply drawn a proverbial short straw...

Athens-based label FERMA is starting the year with their first ever vinyl release, a Various Artists EP that compiles dark, heady sounds for the dance floor. Rites of Passage is packed with the styles that are at the core of the DIY imprint's output, from electro grooves and EBM flavours to metallic synth cuts and heavy, industrial sounds. Tasked with each bringing one of these dishes to the table are Jack Roland, Serge Geyzel, 5ZYL and Amsterdam-based producer Extase Urbaine (AKA Pablo Diskko) who's behind today's premiere.

PREMIERE: Extase Urbaine - System Karma [FERMA]

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PREMIERE CDL || Anatolian Weapons - Sub-Aquatic [Sounds Of Ogigia] (2023)
 

Artist » Anatolian Weapons - https://soundcloud.com/anatolianweapons

Ep Name »  Terpsichore Dance 

Label » Sounds Of Ogigia - https://soundcloud.com/soundsofogigia

Edinburgh, UK


Format: Cassete + Digital Album 

Release date: March 15, 2023 


BUY HERE >>> https://soundsofogigia.bandcamp.com/album/terpsichore-dance


Disciple of the god Apollo, Terpsichore was the Muse of the dance, and it was known to be the most enigmatic of the nine Greek muses.

She was the mother of the sirens, and she would lure sailors to shipwreck on their island with their music and hypnotic, beautiful singing.

Terpsichore has been invoked as a metaphor for rhythm and ordered movement in the universe.

The planets orbit the sun and the sun, with other stars, orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The planets go through the Milankovitch cycles in which their orbits around the sun adjust in very regular, periodic, or rhythmic, ways.

Terpsichore’s influence goes beyond just the humane, as It can also be seen in the observable universe.

She is now the Muse not just of human dance but also the cosmic dance in which the whole universe participates.

Music by Anna VS June, Steve Pepe, Francesca Colombo, Bear Bones, Lay Low, Pannotia, Nixxon, Tassilo Vanhoefen, Yuto Takei, Amerza, Orestt, The Dude Of Stratosphear, Anatolian Weapons, Théo Muller, Konsistent, Vidock & Ghassen Chiba

Design by Vanja Rakic
Label run by Pako Vega
Mastered by Sam Smith at Green Door Studio in Glasgow

Availabe on a limited edition cassette (50 copies)

Snippets: soundcloud.com/soundsofogigia/va-sounds-of-ogigia-terpsichore-dance-soo03-snippets


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• https://www.instagram.com/_rennst_


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#techno
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Terpsichore Dance

PREMIERE CDL || Anatolian Weapons - Sub-Aquatic [Sounds Of Ogigia] (2023)

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Psykhe sees Lithuanian musician and composer Gediminas Jakubka continuing to explore his own distinct sound, but taking it in a new direction: a step away from the euphoric new age dance floor and into a significantly murkier, more precarious territory. Psykhe is meant as a sonic simulacrum of the artist's psyche during the pandemic – a quickened mind bred by a decelerated world. In that and other senses, the record is a modern take on the ‘80s/’90s Detroit ethos of dance music created for an illusory dance floor.

Incidentally (or not!), Psykhe is much more electro-based and darker – intent on delivering catharsis, but not euphoria.

https://soundcloud.com/patriciakaas
https://soundcloud.com/islatoisla

PREMIERE⚡️Patricia Kokett - Das Risiko [Isla to Isla]

01. DJ Nephil - Timeless
02. Black Dot - Castles In The Air
03. Bianco Negativo - Love In The Raw
04. Chupacabras - They're Watching You
05. Larionov - Nothing Left
06. Ole Mic Odd - Power Squad
07. Aura Nox & Christian Kroupa - Your Constraints Lack Power 
08. R Gamble - Auto Et Mani
09. Spinal - Condena
10. 198319831983 - Long Distance Transportation

Kri Records strike back with a cassette compilation under an
appropriate name: Trust the Rust! Rust dealers come from all over
the globe.

Nasty electro cuts are served by LA-based Ole Mic Odd who
has released on labels such as Zement, Italian producer and the
mighty Gravitational Waves owner DJ Nephil, British veteran
Chupacabras with seals of approval on L.I.E.S. among others, and
our Russian friend Larionov, who regularly puts out bangers for
Rotterdam Electronix. The Electro part of the compilation is
rounded by the local Ljubljana legend operating as a DJ and
Honest Work label owner, 198319831983.

EBM-ish march is saluted by Black Dot, the duo of Christian Kroupa
and Le Chocolat Noir, soon releasing music on Mechatronica and
responsible for our first release. Christian has also joined forces
with the Dallas and Science Cult native Aura Nox. NYC and wave EBM
bangers are represented by R Gamble, Spinal is an up-and-coming
producer from Chile having released a great EP on Pildoras Tapes,
while Bianco Negativo is an Italian duo behind one of our fav
labels, Marguerite Records.

10 tracks exploring the dark corners of Kri Records are available
on a super cute cassette or digitally via Bandcamp.

Big thanks to everyone involved, especially all the producers.

Released on cassette and digitally end of April 2023.

@djnephil
@allegedwitches & @yasssa
@bianconegativo
@djchupacabras
@larionov
@ole-mic-odd
@auranox & @allegedwitches
@rgamble
@spinal_x99x
@198319831983

Trust The Rust vol.1

KRI002 Trust The Rust VA Vol.1 (snippets)

@timothy-j-fairplay

https://italomoderni.bandcamp.com/album/timothy-j-fairplay-hot-night-for-slum-lord-ep

UK based studio wizard Timothy J. Fairplay returns to Italo Moderni with a masterpiece EP including remixes by Dj Overdose, Intergalactic Gary and Univac! 3 originals and 3 remixes influenced by italo disco with catchy basslines and acid harmonies. It is not a surprise that Italo Moderni & Timothy J. Fairplay are great combination together and this is a fine example of his quality studio productions. Welcome Timothy! 
Mastered by Alden Tyrell.
Design by Hysteric

Timothy J. Fairplay - Hot Night For Slum Lord EP (Snippets)

Artist: Timothy J. Fairplay https://soundcloud.com/timothy-j-fairplay
Track: Chase Through The Steel Yard
Release: Hot Night For Slum Lord 
Cat: IM013
Label: Italo Moderni https://soundcloud.com/italo_moderni
Release date: 16 June 2023
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Pre-order: https://italomoderni.bandcamp.com/album/timothy-j-fairplay-hot-night-for-slum-lord-ep

DT PREMIERE: Timothy J Fairplay - Chase Through The Steel Yard [Italo Moderni] (2023)

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