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OP Breaks - Can't Test Me

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OP BREAKS - CAN'T TEST ME (FREE DOWNLOAD) [OHSF045]

Taken from the Infinite Machine 3rd Anniversary Compilation, which can be found here: 

http://infinitemachine.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-machine-3rd-anniversary-compilation

Rough Patch

Today we introduce the single 'Plumes' extracted from the upcoming release by the same title, from the London producer https://soundcloud.com/keplrr

Known for his productions on trendsetting outlets like Control Freak Recordings and Pressure Dome where he showed his excellent take on forward thinking broken techno music.

Keplrr's creative process delves into the profound, seeking to encapsulate the sensation of falling or morphing, blurring the lines between reality and reverie. His aim is to transport listeners to a state somewhere between a dream and a trip, where the boundaries of perception dissolve, and the subconscious takes flight. This EP embodies that quest, each track a sonic voyage into the depths of consciousness.

The record will be out at the end of May!
Watch out for surprises, on the day the full Ep it will released ;)

Plumes

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Keplrr - Plumes

London producer Keplrr https://soundcloud.com/keplrr debuts on Midgar with 'Plumes'. Known for his productions on trendsetting outlets like Control Freak Recordings and Pressure Dome where he showed his excellent take on forward thinking broken techno music, right here for Midgar he uses a more straight forward approach with two versions of title track 'Plumes'. The original is a subtle, percussive and playful techno groover, where the 'Meditation Mix' flips this impeccable groove into an airy atmospheric after-house mood. Second track 'Pulse' continues on this breezy atmosphere, it's a floaty eyes-closed deep trip, with carefully arranged drums creating the perfect breakdown. Keplrr's creative process delves into the profound, seeking to encapsulate the sensation of falling or morphing, blurring the lines between reality and reverie. His aim is to transport listeners to a state somewhere between a dream and a trip, where the boundaries of perception dissolve, and the subconscious takes flight. This EP embodies that quest, each track a sonic voyage into the depths of consciousness.

Mastering by Stefan Betke at Scapemastering in Berlin
Pressed by AFG Record Manufacturing in Rome
Distributed Worldwide by ReadyMade

Keplrr - Plumes (Meditation Mix)

Keplrr - Pulse

Full stream of Keplrr's "False Awakening," taken from False Awakening EP on GRACE, out on November 8.

Pre-order: https://gracelabel.bandcamp.com/album/keplrr-false-awakening-ep
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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False Awakening

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Premiere: Keplrr - False Awakening

The second release on GRACE comes courtesy of @keplrr. Following Katiusha’s EP in spring, ‘False Awakening’ extends the label’s vision for mind-blurring techno flavours.

The UK artist showcased his ear for unusual ceremonial techno on his recent ‘Plumes’ record for Midgar. On GRACE002, Keplrr goes deeper into that style. What’s now becoming his signature psychedelic elegance unfurls over two 8-minute journeys, run through with hallucinatory ebbs and flows.

‘False Awakening’ releases digitally on Friday 8th November 2024.

Label: @gracelabelhq
Buy: https://gracelabel.bandcamp.com/album/keplrr-false-awakening-ep

PREMIERE: Keplrr - Alkaline [Grace]

Companion track “Witness” then proceeds to espouse many a jungle mainstay alongside a thoroughly broken beat and a devilish chant of “you were there, so was I” (hence the title) – seemingly casting off aspersions of Ashley’s prodigiousness precluding him from having partaken in the jungle phenomenon at its inception. The movement is timeless, however, he insists, both in intent and execution.

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Witness

I Was Crossing A Bridge

The Ship Was Sailing (Original Mix)

02 DJ Normal 4 -Purity 0% (snippet)

Not An Animal keeps up the pace and pressure with yet another high quality distinctive release, further cementing the labels specific sound and revealing more of the scope of its musical mission. Machete Savane are comprised of label co-owner Andy Bainbridge and producer/composer Saul Richards. Manticore continues with their instantly recognisable hi octane yet organic discofied sound, as previously displayed via their releases on Cynic and Redux. Remix wise, there's a very much 'night and day' choice to be had here, with Johnny Nash (Land Of Light) providing his trademark blissed-out ambience to a beatless rendition and Ian Blevins taking the original even further into dancefloor territory, upping the tempos and evoking the drive of Paperclip People.

PREMIERE : Machete Savane - Manticore

https://tremorsglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/memory-gene

Arctor - Memory Gene

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Will & Ink’s latest is a remix EP that finds Bambounou and Simo Cell team up for four reworked versions of Yaleesa Halls Woodall LP. Bambounou is a Paris-based hybrid techno and house producer who has long been close to the 50 Weapons label, and Simo Cell is an experimental artist whose music finds a home on labels like Livity Sound and Wisdom Teeth. 

Up first, Bambounou goes in and turns ‘Woodall 0217’ into a menacing, stripped back track with a soft flurry of toms and freaky sine waves all underpinned by lurching, subliminal bass. Simo Cell then steps up for a version of '0224' that is much more dubbed out and for the club. It breezes along on a swaying groove with hi fidelity sound designs colouring the airwaves as the drums scurry down low. Then the pair link up for their Trance-Attitude-Mix of 'Woodall 0406'. Again the drums are weightless down below as they turn in big, sweeping loops and the slivers of silvery synth really electrify the whole thing as they flash about like fireflies. Finally, they remix the same track again but remove the drums, instead making it a paranoid and dark, spares and suggestive minimal number that is wholly from the future. These two have a very specific sound and one that sounds like little else, a solid match with Yaleesa Hall and the Will & Ink imprint, as this EP proves.

Woodall Remixes

A2 Yaleesa Hall - Woodall 0224 (Simo Cell Remix)

Smile

Distance

More info - http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/mystic-letter-k-at-your-own-risk-mlk3

Occulimus EP

PREMIERE: Mystic Letter K - At Your Own Risk (MLK3)

In 2017, Benedikt Frey released his breathtaking debut album with the ESP Institute, 'Artificial', and now as we finally come up for air, we’re more than proud to offer an eclectic collection of remixes that’s nothing short of essential. Side A leads with 'H For Hysteria' remixed by a beloved hero, Nicolas Chaix a.k.a. I:Cube, one of the most prolific and respected electronic artists Paris has to offer. His touch is considered and elegant, imbuing the track with a tasteful 303+808 backbone to support an array of patiently floating melodies and angelic vocal samples. Following this, Tolouse Low Trax of Düsseldorf’s infamous Salon Des Amateurs remixes the same track, stripping instrumentation down to a skeletal palette of bass guitar and stabbing percussive punctuations, chopped up inna minimalist stylee that has become his beat-making signature. Side B leads with a remix by another Düsseldorfer, DJ Normal 4, whose re-imagination of 'Private Crimes' takes us for an even more menacing ride, half-timing the tempo and skillfully rolling out an barrage of jungle snares from rave days of yore. Closing the release is the most aggressive remix of them all, a bonafide techno beatdown of the same track by DALO, the co-producing artist to whose haunting vocals lace the original version. Her dark vision opens with sparse industrial drums that blossom into a driving assault of raw machinery, definitely not for the faint-of-heart. An all-around solid release here, fun for all the family… more than just the tip!

[ESP048] Artificial

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A1 - H For Hysteria (I:Cube Remix) - SNIPPET

It has been over five years since Nick Höppner left his position as A&R and label manager of Ostgut Ton, the Berghain inhouse label, he had not only founded, but also steered through it's most creative and influential years. In the meantime, he has honed his skills both as a DJ and a producer touring the four corners of the world and releasing two critically acclaimed albums and a row of 12“ ep's. At the back of his mind, though, he always felt an itch which he can now finally scratch as he launches his very own record label, Touch From A Distance.

For the label debut Höppner enlisted the extraordinary talents of Desert Sound Colony from London, whose first two records on his own label Holding Hands, Höppner already loved and played out. On these, Desert Sound Colony's outstanding skill at sound design, composition and arrangement were already prominent and have now culminated in his Fast Life EP for Touch From A Distance. The four tracker presents DSC at his most focussed and versatile, constantly shapeshifting between the rich, bass heavy UK heritage and Continental-European traditions of dancefloor minimalism.

Opener „Fast Life“ is as huge as it gets: an undercurrent of electro breaks and a giant bass line push the track forward while celestial melodies elegantly provide contrast and relief. Next up is „Somehow I Talk“, a minimal banger not only displaying Desert Sound Colony's tongue-in-cheek humour, but also his incredible inventiveness in the studio. Deceptively simple at first listen, the track reveals an abundance of smart arrangement ideas keeping you locked all the way. The way the vocals twist and bend here is just breathtaking.

On the flip, „Finger Flies“ ramps up the tempo and the syncopation for a bass heavy chunk of fun loving beat science, before „Glixen“ closes the ep featuring Desert Sound Colony’s friend Baby Rollen who helps to steer the track's bouncing funk into deeper realms.

Fast Life EP

Fast Life

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A1. Desert Sound Colony - Fast Life

First Appearance

The Cruel Psychic

Get your copy: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/LilyEPSD

Elina Shorokhova aka SOELA (@soelaela) is a multi-talented artist hailing from southern Russia who now calls Berlin her home. It is there where she continues to build her presence in the community through her live and DJ sets alongside documenting the local scene and artists through her lens as a photographer.

LILY EP may be 4 tracks but as a collected whole, sounds and feels like an album when heard from beginning to end. The title track emits her talent as a pianist by setting a tone of gracefulness that is carried throughout the EP – broken beats float in and out of dub drenched ambience that flows with cascading vocals. CLOSE YOUR EYES echos a spirit of Detroit House with refreshing new intensities. Again, her vocals caress the track but as an incredibly catchy hook. WHITE BECOMES BLACK shows her own interpretation of dub techno and combines that into a classic house beat. I HAVE A DREAM sounds like she bridges all of the previous track elements into a single whole which makes this tune the perfect closing track for any DJ set and of this release. A steady low-end groove keeps the ricocheting snares and somber synths cruising to an up-tempo rhythm.

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Soela - I Have A Big Dream

Soela - Lily

Link Common - Cloud Words [CLIPP106] 
Fanlink - https://fanlink.to/linkcommon

‘Link Common’ is the secret alias of a producer from Wales in the United Kingdom who runs his own label & has quite a healthy following with a gang of smart detroit-y & idm vibe electro tunes released under his main artist pseudonym. Opting for a change of gears via the title Link Common he wanders into ether realms of fat breaks and swirling ambience, and it's a decision that does not disappoint. Titular track Cloud Words from this Link Common double header channels some mid-90s Good Looking rec flavour with its undulating pads and angular beats, and the breakdown is mesmerizing. On the flip, “Loop Call” (originally titled “Jam Toast”) is quite simply a thumper and thumpers. Alias or no, we’re pumped to have these tracks sit strongly at the tail end of 2019, firm in the canon of clipp.art belters.

Follow Link Common - https://soundcloud.com/linkcommon

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Link Common - Cloud Words

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It's Around Us, It's Everywhere

Masked with a metal face, draped in copper. Moving like us, but different. Trying to work out the world for itself, but is this just a world that works for us? Different when experiencing emotions and connections, less free for those we created in a way we’ll never truly understand, no matter how advanced we become over time. Even though we're clanging around hopelessly, trying to find a grasp is something that we all can relate to.

Keplrr returns with his second release, Reconstructed Club, on Control Freak Recordings, the sister label of the infamous London party, Cabin Fever. Like his debut EP Translucent, his sophomore release showcases a similar aesthetic, taking inspiration from UK techno and flaunting his knack for meticulous sound design. Our pick titled ‘Bods Realm’ takes a deep drive through spaced-out effects and harsh Warp-esque synth stabs, skilfully complemented with weighty sub-bass.

Reconstructed Club

PREMIERE: Keplrr - Bods Realm [Control Freak Recordings]

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