If I Want To Live

https://soundcloud.com/bb948 

Cover: https://soundcloud.com/bhkr2
Mastered: https://soundcloud.com/bb948

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Chest pulsing quickly, she inhaled in short bursts, trying to regulate her breathing. Anxiety was slowly creeping in but she tried her best to keep it at bay, focusing her attention on a spot on the ceiling. The temperature was obscene, unbearable almost; the open window offering very little respite. After a while she began to succumb to the reality that she would be twisting and turning all night long, sleep was off the menu. 

Stepping up for the next release on Barcelona-based Playground Records comes from Ukrainian artist ID_UA, a two-tracker backed up by two hypnotic remixes. Sticky, ritualistic rhythms are present from the off, joined by sharp synths, acid touches and powerful basslines, while our pick, a remix from Disco Halal and Inside Out producer Kincaid, brings sparse tripped-out drums and modulated vocal snippets.

PREMIERE: ID_UA - Anyway (Kincaid Remix) [Playground Records]

buy there : https://cosmicpintglass.bandcamp.com/album/mountain-dance

There's nothing like trekking halfway up a mountain to set up camp and taking in the majestic splendor of your surroundings. 

Energy, freedom and vibrancy, Luke Sanger has nailed that feeling with his Mountain Dance EP for Cosmic Pint Glass. 3 tracks of airy, spacious techno with euphoric tinges written in the foothills of the Pyrenees. With remixes from Jamie Paton, bringing a darker psychedelic edge to proceedings, and Møzaika taking us into the drumming circle for a furious freestyle drum workout. 

Luke Sanger aka Luke’s Anger aka Duke Slammer has got over half a hundred releases under his belt! he’s been programming his electronic groove boxes, drum machines, sequencers and synths to sing in harmony (and not so harmony) for decades. In this latest EP, Mountain Dance, we see the many facets of Sanger working together; Acid House, Ambient, Techno to create heady dance floor material.

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PREMIERE : Luke Sanger - Pyrenees Dreams

As the sky began to turn an orange hue, she pulled out of her drive and into the empty street. Reaching the motorway she pushed her foot down hard on the accelerator, feeling the cool evening breeze drifting through the open windows. She loved driving at night. The roads were quiet, peaceful and gave her room to process her thoughts and feelings. It had become a nightly ritual and her purest form of escapism...

French duo, music platform and label Les Yeux Orange embark on the first instalment of their new Driving Blind compilation series. Following solo releases from the likes of M.S.L., Earth Trax & Newborn Jr. and Mytron & Ofofo, LYO cast their net far and wide for a lovingly curated compilation of boundary-pushing electronics from artists across the globe, including contributions from Cardopusher, Errortica, Timothy J. Fairplay, The Populists and Tecwaa.

PREMIERE: Tecwaa - Nîpan [Les Yeux Orange]

Compilation of slow industrial punk EBM edits by Russian duo Olta Karawane. This is their second appearance on Maturre after their previous release on I'm a Cliché last year.

https://soundcloud.com/oltakarawane
https://soundcloud.com/maturre

PRÉMIÈRE: Ólta Karawane - Urin Wärmt Karl Marx [Maturre]

Spazio's eight release takes quite a different musical route than earlier releases, without leaving the main idea of the label.

The LP contains four tracks of the Malmö based band Toi Let. The tracks spans from more classical rock to a more experimental and instrumental sound.

On the B-side you find three remixes of the track Leatherman. It's a more dance oriented sound. B1 is an acidic affair produced by tOWLIE, the boss of the infamous Stockholm label kÄFTEN. B2 is produced by our own Behrang Mohammadi, adding some quirkyness to the B-side. While B3 takes another direction, and is produced by Döden, which is a solo project of one of the members of Toi Let.

PREMIERE : Toi Let - Leatherman (tOWLIE RemiX)

Artist: Cole Baby, Break Mode
Title: Color Drink
Label: Bed Of Roses
Format: Digital
Release date: 09/10/20
Purchase: https://bedofrosesentertainment.bandcamp.com/album/color-drink

Cole Baby lands on planet Earth with a 9-track EP of hypercolor pop-techno, featuring remixes by fellow Portland-based heavenly voyagers Break Mode, Krycek, Etbonz and MagicPink. Acid dreams turn into cosmic synths, rays of sunshine bleed into your ears and it all comes together as rosewater spray hits under the disco lights. Unconventional in structure and style, Cole Baby invites you to take a sip of his special concoction, his Color Drink.

https://soundcloud.com/gumar
https://soundcloud.com/bed_of_roses-1

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PREMIERE #1233 | Cole Baby - Color Drink (Break Mode Remix) [Bed Of Roses] 2020

New album "Der große Preis", out on November 13th, 2020. Preorder via https://orcd.co/neuzeitliche-bodenbelaege

Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge is the musical vehicle of Niklas Wandt and Joshua Gottmanns. They released a single – Ich verliebe mich nie – in 2018 and an EP entitled Leben in 2019 on the Düsseldorf label Themes For Great Cities. Now the time has come for the Berlin duo's long-awaited debut album. The 7 tracks comprising Der große Preis distil the inimitable NB sound which blends velvety synth-pop and crystalline digi-dub, basslines like cubes of glass and whiplash snares. The album title certainly lives up to its name: The Grand Prize. This is adventure time, from wild romance to petty crime – it's all waiting for you right here.

Der große Preis

Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge – Haare

The desert plains were endless, he had been walking for miles through this vast expanse of land yet never seemed to find his way back to the mirage. The sky was a hazy shade of pinks and purples, a sharp contrast to the dense deep browns and golds upon which he was stranded. The heat burned down from up above as he began to hallucinate. Lying down upon the warm sand he gazed and stared upwards into oblivion, unaware as to whether he'd rise again. That's when the music started... 

Dj JA is set to release an EP on Hundert, a three track affair of wonky, wonderful electronics which will make for great fun in dark and misty basements all over. Our favourite track from the EP is "Sand" - a deep, pensive, melodic cut which still carries enough punch to shake a leg.

WARM

PREMIERE: Dj JA - Sand [Hundert]

Days, weeks and months passed without any word; all avenues of communication had run dry. It was as though he'd disappeared into thin air, leaving no trace behind him. Taking matters into their own hands, they began their detective work, leaving no stone unturned. But after following all of their leads his whereabouts remained shrouded in mystery. They wouldn't give up that easily though; the search would continue until they had their answer. 

A year after his first EP, Is This EBM?, Geneva's Brainwaves crew are gearing up for the release of Thomas Bodenständig's sophomore album, Speed Am Rhein. But the label are releasing it with mixed emotions. In May they received a box of 66 hand-numbered cassettes from Thomas, along with a largely illegible letter that seemed to detail that he was delving in high-speed trading during visits to Franfurt and had some sort of pulmonary affliction with complications. It outlined one final ask of the label — no matter what happened they must release the album before the end of 2020. 

Since receiving the package, they have had countless failed attempts at contacting him through every possible line of communication, but to no avail. His apartment in Leverkusen is now vacant, his favourite barstool in his local is gathering dust and his cellar seems to have been emptied of all of his recording equipment. They enlisted their friend to go and scour the streets and the bars, and even checked local hospital and morgue records for his name, but it's as if he's vanished off the face of the earth. 

The label are still searching for his whereabouts and they won't be giving up until they do, but on Thomas' instructions, and after six months of no news, they are releasing the album into the world with a mixture of sadness, pride and nostalgia...

PREMIERE: Thomas Bodenständig - Langsam Leverkusen [Brainwaves]

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