Kenorland is one of the earliest known supercontinents, dating back almost 3  billion years. Formed by the collision of smaller continents, including what are now North America, Greenland, and parts of Asia and Africa, Kenorland's tectonic activity over eons eventually broke it apart into smaller supercontinents.

Mixed and mastered for headphone and earbud/AirPod listening.

Continental Drifting

Kenorland

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Post lockdown does not mean we need to fall back into the same patterns like we did before. This EP contains a smooth transition to a new reality. ULTRATERRENO is TAGLIABUE`s (@josephtagliabue) newest EP on the Berlin and Zurich based micro Label Lustpoderosa. 

The celestial sounds from the italian producer Tagliabue is a healing process of well tempered analog synthesizers. The cure is in the mix of pre dancefloor and ambient tracks inlcuding a slow trancy chug from well known and apreciated selector @AnatolianWeapons. 

Tagliabue is not just inspired by the afro cosmic heritage of Beppe Loda and Daniele Baldelli, but also from post-folk, rock, prog and kraut influences of 70’s and early 80’s, passing through New Wave and Synth Pop of Gaznevada or The Stupid Set and not to forget italians rave culture of the 90s with Franceso Farfa and Marco Dionigi just to mention a few. 

This very intimate EP is a meditative and transcendental journey to another world. Literally. 

Out on Vinyl and Digital in June 2020.
Distribution by Wordandsound

Preorder on Bandcamp!

Thanks to all involved. Special thanks to Joseph Tagliabue for his amazing music, Aggelos for the bombastic Remix, Tymen you are just the best, Cansur <3 I love you and appreciate so much working with you, Sneaker, thanks for your patience and all the correspondence filled with so much valuable information.

CGI Front: Tymen Goetsch
Layout: Cansur Ergun
Art Direction: Neu Verboten
Mastering: Sneaker at TailOut Studios

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**SNIPPETS**LPDR008 Tagliabue - Ultraterreno EP

Liquid fell from the sky in small droplets, each raindrop was multi coloured and sweet to taste upon the tongue. Delicate and moist they were a blessing from above, fruit pastel acid which was sent from the heavens like a radiant kaleidoscope of liquid fluorescence. The night was young, his dreams were wild as he careered amidst the city streets in search of his next adventure. Who knew where he might end up come morning, perhaps by then his fears would be long gone. 

Miss Represented is set to release a new EP via Edinburgh based record label Paradise Palms. A slow moving acid tinged affair for heads down dancers.

PREMIERE: Miss Represented - Fruit Pastel Acid [Paradise Palms]

Label head Random Alias shapes the first release “Innerchild”. A dancefloor killer A Side! Sawl's crispy bass waves create a
dense acid feeling and sets the ground for Hibiscus to impact with its futuristic electro patterns and aggressive sharp drums. On the flip side Basilisk runs fast, with glitchy fills and metallic percussions in an almost ethereal atmosphere. Innerchild closes the record with a deep melodic journey modeled across euphoric sequences of notes, leaving a warm and wistful feeling...almost like coming back home.

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PRÉMIÈRE: Random Alias - Basilisk [Breakfast On Mars]

For the third release by Darkish we propose three retro-futuristic tracks strongly inspired by Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter, 1980s  obscure sci-fi, and TV Series scores like V Visitors and Miami Vice, which had originally been composed during our Berlin years and revised until today, keeping however the original incomplete structure. To counterpoint the mood of the tracks, the syncopated Detroit driven remix of Prelude To The Stars by Dutch legendary producer Orlando Voorn. The release title is inspired by a verse of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.

PREMIERE : Darkish - Do I Dare

Nobody's life was perfect but he started to think he'd been dealt a far worse hand than many others. Several toxic relationships, a myriad of lost jobs and unsuccessful opportunities, not to mention the countless mishaps, had seemed to be the dish of the day since his youth. Luck had never been on his side and things just didn't seem to go his way; he'd come to terms with living with it after all these years. 

Previously shrouded in mystery, Brother Nebula is the moniker of dance music veteran Lance Desardi who, over the last few years, has crafted cosmic and atmospheric breaks and house. He made his debut on Legwork back in 2018 with a collaborative EP alongside Solar, before quickly following it up with his first solo releases on the same label. Last year saw him land on Nick Höppner's Touch From A Distance, but now he makes a triumphant return to Legwork once again for The Physical World, an album of retro-futurist and interstellar electronics.

The Physical World

PREMIERE: Brother Nebula - Living With It [Legwork]

Urexboyfriend (Opium Club / Digital Tsunami // Vilnius)
@urexboyfriend

Illustration:
@steviewhisper

Urexboyfriend says Yes.

She was preened and pruned, not a hair out of place nor a crease in sight. Heaven forbid she'd be seen in anything but her best, she had a reputation to uphold, a name to represent. As the guests entered she greeted them with a quivering smile painted on with bright red lipstick — it wasn't easy for her to pretend she liked these people, but she could put on a false front for a few hours. At least until she got what she needed from them...

Having added releases for the likes of Pinkman, Bunker and Blackest Ever Black to his arsenal, Dutch producer Ian Martin joins the roster for Onrijn Records with a new 6-track mini album. The release is as eclectic as his general output, bringing several different influences to the table, from new wave and house to minimal synth and electro, searching for different melodies and building tension along the way.

PREMIERE: Ian Martin - Conservative Chakra [Onrijn Records]

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/june
Track : Infinity Room
Label : https://soundcloud.com/artificialdance
Format : 12" Vinyl, Digital
Release date : 01/02/21
Purchase : https://artificialdance.bandcamp.com/album/june-horizons-ad012

Following up to his studio companion Trenton Chase’s latest LP ‘Planar Array’ released earlier in 2020, half of Manie Sans Délire June turns up on Artificial Dance with his anticipated new mini-album, ‘Horizons’. True to the signature synth-splattered sound of his and his duo, June’s newest wave-imbued manifesto has us swimming amidst an organized chaos of roughly extruded keyboard wizardry, punk-minded drum programming and a retro-futuristic headspace.

Scanning out the gap between Italo, new wave, EBM and new beat, ‘Horizons’ shifts seamlessly from forward-moving, arpeggio-laden circuitry (‘JW’, ‘Infinity Room') to hi-intensity body music (’New Horizons’), through ambientoid spaced-out sonic explorations (‘Uncharted Territories’) and quirky downtempo chuggers (‘Reverie’, ‘Psychic Process’). A kaleidoscope of rhythmic tricks and shape-shifting mirages, June’s scope-expanding six-track voyage vows to play mind games with its listener till all lights have gone off.

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PREMIERE #1400 | June - Infinity Room [Artificial Dance] 2021

Producing under Euclio moniker since his early dubstep years, Prague based architect by the time shaped his vibes to more club-oriented territories.., yet still forming both unusually structured and (thus) strangely catchy environment and beat patterns..
But where to move when there are no dancefloors at all?

His addition Cyno is likely taking place at voluntarily dissociated living rooms, outputting undetermined schizoid of intensions to dance, but in mostly isolated spaces.. experiencing lonely happiness and moments of introversion. Like a look onto smile and grin of the presence, with the black coloured lipstick on.

While original versions feel weirdly charming and somehow pure and simple in its effectiveness - tight percussions are riding like razor edges over surrounding darken lights of the atmospheres, beats‘ clips and pieces swarming with bubbling and blopping synths..; remixers puts heavy-atmo lines and waves, observing sound material, worming you, or hypnotise.. But still, there’s enough space to drow or sink in..

https://soundcloud.com/euclio
https://soundcloud.com/anskrmelec

PREMIERE⚡️Euclio - Trouble2k [Krmelec Recordings]

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