Zauberstab V.A. Volume 1 is a compilation of electronic bedroom music made by contemporary artists that belong to similar sonic spheres.

The A side feels like a holiday in an exotic landscape; the kind of place you don't want to leave. The B side then goes in a slightly deeper meditative direction, but not too far, since the sparking disco-infused psych exploration of ’Space Surfari’ will hold you back from falling into the void of the unconscious.

What comes next is the sound that would welcome a moonlit night sky. The C side slinks into a minimal synth oriented exploration, ending with the intergalactic hopeful drift of ‘Har’.

The last side will provide a comfortable seat on this hypnotic journey. ‘Été 2017’ is an ode to the late summer nights, a mind-driving loop carried by gentle percussive sounds, filled with some bass deepness. The next tracks are the right balance between a hug and a breeze of fresh air for your mind and soul.

At this point you might find yourself wondering if it’s a good idea to open your eyes or just keep them closed for a bit longer and thoroughly enjoy all of the details of this story.

But, why not? This one is, after all, a record to build beautiful memories with.

~

2x12" Vinyl only
Mastering by Donato Dozzy
Handmade covers by L'Anacrónica
Inserts printed by Maquina Total
Distributed by Clone
Released by Alicia and Pierre during Pandemic


Artists: ODL (Laura Ondula), Cosmic Palms, Paedro Magnum, Poetas Sonicos (Eva Geist & Donato Dozzy), Konsistent, Lil Ronin, Walden (Franc Sayol), Bejota Nova, Vintage Cucumber, CDRip (Mikel Acosta), Megamal (Alicia Carrera & Benjamin Sánchez)

Lil Ronin - Été 2017
Music by Pierre Ronin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFPesjxBs9s
Film by Antoine Ronin https://www.antoineronin.com/

Poetas Sónicos - Har
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9FbySfx-3M&feature=youtu.be
Film by Alicia Carrera
https://soundcloud.com/poetas_sonicos
https://www.facebook.com/poetas.sonicos

Zauberstab V.A. - Volume 1 (LIOVA01)

BUY VINYL: https://billconverse.bandcamp.com/album/take-parts

Underground hero Bill Converse returns to Dark Entries with Take Parts, perhaps his most muscular and floor-focused work to date. Converse has honed his analog craft since the early days of the Midwest rave scene, absorbing lessons from luminaries like Claude Young and Traxx. His skill as a producer has been established with releases on labels such as Dark Entries, Fit Sound, and Obsolete Futures, and his prowess as a DJ has been witnessed on floors the world over. 
On Take Parts, Converse peels away the layers of acidic gauze that have characterized much of his work, revealing his sharp grasp of dancefloor dynamics and DJ functionality. While the 808’s, 909’s, and 303’s are on full display, Converse does not indulge in retro-fetishism; he channels the future forward impulse of the originary rave ethos. Tracks like “Stroke” and “What You Have” pit seasick chords and analog squelch atop funky but unsettling loops. The flurry of 808 snares on “Measurement (Of What?)” nods towards both footwork and jungle, but feels ultimately planted in a world of Converse’s own. With the acid-electro masterpiece “Take Apart”, Converse implores us to both join him in this new world and reconfigure the one we’re living in now. The 6-tracks on Take Parts present a new focus for Converse, and will excite DJ’s and thrill dancers

Take Parts

Bill Converse - Take Parts SNIPS

SIDE B.CHBB - NBKE

Sonidos Subterraneos is pleased to premiere a new Veslemes gem on French based label 'Macadam Mambo'.

Macadam Mambo announces this great release titled "The Well" by the greek musician Yannis Veslemes.


The confirmed artist - who has previously appeared on labels such as Byrd Out, Invisble Inc., Won Ton, Optimo Music or Into The Light, under differents projects : Felizol, Steamcut, Sportex or his own name, and composed for movies OST - started to integrate Macadam Mambo on the latest compilation Danzas Electricas vol. 3, and very naturaly proposed his new album. It needs to be said what an honnor to receive such quality music. In term of composition, production and universe it’s a land of influences and uniqueness, in which you will recognise a bit of Yello, Coil, Nick Cave or Igor Wakhevitch vibes embrassing folkloric greek melodies or cosmic pop ballads. It’s brillantly dark, obscure and lightful. A tempest of sensuality and roughness. To say it short it’s EPIC! and will definitely give the recognition that Veslemes deserves as a major composer in Modern Electronic Music. 500 copies limited

Artist: Veslemes
Title: The Well
Label: Macadam Mambo
Format: Digital & Vinyl
Catalogue: Catalog#: MMLPXX303
Release Date: 1 October, 2022
Artwork by: Marija Delic 
Mastering by: Rude 66
Distribution: Rubadub, Syncrophone
Buy: https://macadammambo.bandcamp.com/album/mmlpxx303-veslemes-the-well-pre-order

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The Well

| Premiere | Veslemes - The Oracle Freaks | [Macadam Mambo]

Macadam Mambo launches another special LP to end the 2022 season, presenting the debut album of this Belgo-Italian aural freak show called « Sexo Y Fantasia ». A delicious record full of sun by aspect, dreamy, dubby and balearic in the tone, flavored and contrasted with little bits of darkness and tension in the background. As the name suggests it, the sexiness is in every note, the erotic male voice is floating all over it, surfing on waves of endless reverb and delay. Throughout being anchored with clear hints from the 80ties and 90ties, this 35 minutes oeuvre still keeps full modernity in its form. DJ-friendly, it’s also an excellent overall listening experience to enjoy from beginning to end while sipping a fancy cocktail somewhere out in a cosmic dreamland. 
Don’t miss this joint, it might be one of the highlights of the year.	      

Artwork : Sacha Mambo / Mastering : Rude 66

TRACKLIST :
A1. 23  4 :46
A2. Love Delivery	4 :31
A3. Oneirotic  4 :28
A4. Intimate Life	4 :41
A5. Cherry Coca	4 :43
B1. Polylove Cha Cha Cha   5 :14
B2. Luce  4 :58
B3. Drama Queer	5 :40
B4. Desire Of Mind    4 :53

Catalog#: MMLPXX404
Format: Vinyl – LP
Released:  15 November 2022 
Distribution : Rubadub, Syncrophone

Oneirotic

MMLPXX404 - Sexo Y Fantasia "Oneirotic" LP [PREVIEWS] OUT!

Premiere of the track "I'dont On Tools • 1984" by KOSA, member of the legendary French Ethno-industrial group Vox Populi!, taken from his upcoming album "Kosa and Friends 1987/97" on Notte Brigante.
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Artist: KOSA
Track: : "I'dont On Tools • 1984"
Album: "Kosa and Friends 1987/97"
Label: @nottebrigante
Format: Black vinyl, with a collage of 80's fr6 as artwork + Digital
Release date: October 28, 2022
Pre-order: https://nottebrigante.bandcamp.com/album/kosa-francis-man-fr6-kosa-and-friends-1987-97-lp

All titles were acquired from Francis Laffont, then restored and mastered by Brian Ladd (Psyclones).
Artwork: Francis Laffont
Graphisme: Jad Hussein - www.look-specific.com
Distribution: hello@kuroneko-media.com

Premiere: KOSA - I'dont On Tools • 1984 [NB008]

The clock chimed loudly in the empty square but there was nobody left to hear it. They had all left this town long ago, escaping the concrete jungle for a warmer, more welcoming climate.

The ticking of the old thing was perhaps the only sign that anyone had in fact ever lived here. Soon that too would stop and there would be no sense of time to guide what remained of this old place.

Who knew when the final five minutes might be up?

After the legendary French Ethno-industrial group Vox Populi! faded into obscurity in the early 1990s, members Arash Khalatbari, Ariel Kyrou, Axel Kyrou, Chester Harlan, Mithra, Pierre Jolivet and Francis Manne all embarked on new artistic adventures in their own way. Some, like bassist Francis Lafont aka fr6 Manne, aka Kosa Nostra, aka Kosa and Friends, left Paris to make a profound change in his life. He settled in Lyon and traded his job as a graphic artist and musician for that of a landscape designer. From his pure artistic universe, he has never stopped making music.

Today, Notte Brigante presents “Kosa and Friends 1987/97”, twelve previously unreleased recordings that illustrate Francis Laffont’s ongoing musical creation following the dissolution of the group Vox Populi! With the music and video collective “Kosa and Friends,” he welcomes attentive listeners into an eccentric world of pop and poetry, experimentation and groove. Kosa blurs the lines between proto funk and post punk, indie and cold wave.

PREMIERE: Kosa - Cinq Minutes [Notte Brigante]

@freybenedikt RIO09 // 11.18.2022 // Distr. One Eye Witness

When British Airways got privatized and listed on the London Stock Exchange, somewhere in Canada the first Starbucks outside of the US opened, and the Walt Disney Company signed an agreement with the French Prime Minister to construct Disneyland Paris. In the sky above southern Argentina, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, northern Somalia, and the Atlantic Ocean a hybrid solar eclipse materialized for 7.57 seconds, whilst Margaret Thatcher performed for 45-minutes on Soviet television. Some days later, The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, Diego Maradona wins his first Italian soccer championship with Napoli, and Eighteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. In the mists of the world's first conference on artificial life at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Mainland China opens in Beijing, and Prozac gets approved for use as an antidepressant in the United States. Much give way for the future, down there in 1987, the year that marks the title of Benedikt Frey’s freshest mini album, out into the world on R.i.O., the label he runs with some pals in the North of Berlin. It’s a dubby melancholic conqueror, wistfully, repetitive, drilling, absorbing, spooking. It makes you dream. Not particular of the year 1987. But it’s all there: The Red Square, the untouched land of the Val d'Europe, Diego on fuego. Six dark-ish tracks in trance, melancholic dub, downbeat heaven, journey music depths, all full of light and yet so dark. Futuristic dramas linked to a speculative past. In our dreams all might look different. The eclipse may last 27-minutes. You meet Neuromancer cyberpunks and blade running Ghost dogs, all taught to hack by Phrack. Cristal clear melodies, sampled voices, and veiled basslines, analogue scopes, and digital ropes, longing for a past that storm into the future. A time where deep listening widens the acoustics into infinity, while neon glows charm the light smog. Benedikt Frey been down there. Or maybe not. His latest music tells stories from the bygone, vested with the forthcoming. Come in and look out. There is nothing to see, yet so much to hear. ML

A1) Phrack 5:55
A2) Trencher 6:15
A3) ORI 3:38
B1) Attitude 5:45
B2) Dummy 5:43
B3) Steam 5:30

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

1987

Bandcamp

RIO09 Benedikt Frey - 1987

Catalog#: MMS505
Format: Vinyl – 10inch EP
Country: FRANCE
Released: 25 dec 2022
Genre: Electronic
Style: Industrial, Dub, Electro

Our dubby ‘detective’ Axel Larsen is back for another 10 inch on the « Special » series (MMS), establishing the « Criminal Music » genre for good !
You will find in this EP a concentrate of foggy atmospheres, heavy basslines, tension rhythms and dark melodies that will fit perfectly in your next Cluedo night. It can also be used during a GTA session, but be sure that its maximum effect will be in a dark room full of crazy motherf****rz ☺
Limited to 300 copies, don’t snooze !!
Mastering : Rude 66, Artwork : Axel Larsen, distribution : Rubadub/Syncrophone
TRACKLIST :
A1. Hygiène du squelette 4:46
A2. Dans la Peau d’un Simplist 4:47
A3. Chevaline Dub 3 :26
B1. Automatique Détéctive 4:53
B2. L’été Noir 4 :55
B3. Le Pyromane du Château Rouge 4:31

MMS505 - Axel Larsen "L'été Noir" [PREVIEWS] OUT!

Phase Group continue their exploration of the fringes of contemporary electronic music with a release that brings together two separate projects born from analogue hardware improvisations. 

‘A Given Moment’ presents the dub-laden, mind-bending and noise-driven music of Brussels-based artist and Vastechoses label head Lostsoundbytes, and the lo-fi, early morning lysergic experiments of Lowspace, an unearthed, forgotten collaborative project by French DJ and musician Low Bat and Dresden-based producer Heninspace.

This is music that takes you deeper into the vortex, made for dark and smoke-enveloped clubs and cosmic day-break afterparty moments. On the A-side, Lostsoundbytes continues his prolific output of masterfully crafted bass-heavy and dub-wise analogue machine jams, while the B-side presents two lost psychotropic experimental recordings by Lowspace made in 2016 upon a visit by Low Bat to Heninspace’s Dresden studio.

Tracklisting: 
A1. Lostsoundbytes - In 1000 Years
A2. Lostsoundbytes - Fou De Croire
A3. Lostsoundbytes - Brain's Rewind 
B1. Lowspace - Sonntag Gibt Milchkaffee
B2. Lowspace - Dance For The Underwear Hour

'A Given Moment' will be out on Phase Group in December 2022

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović
Mastered in Glasgow by Murray Collier.
Professionally dubbed to cassette in Prague by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

Lostsoundbytes / Lowspace - A Given Moment (Preview)

https://soundcloud.com/cv-vision
https://soundcloud.com/bureau-b
🛒 https://orcd.co/cv-vision
🔊 https://youtu.be/tHYxecAVrd8

Taking inspiration from deep in the mediaeval mists of times long past, CV Vision comes riding over the hills like a knight to the rescue, and his new album Im Tal Der Stutzer is packed full of galloping drums, feudal prog riffs and poetic lyrics harking back to a golden age.

You might’ve caught CV Vision in Berlin, either on stage or behind the mixer at some of his favourite clubs like Arkaoda, Heiners or O Tannenbaum. He could be accompanied by synths, or drum kit, or even full band – channelling his love of Bo Hansson and Claude Larson, or Soft Machine and Picchio dal Pozzo. Always heavy on the backbeat, the songs awash with heady synths and expansive psych inversions.

For this record, CV Vision recruited two wayfaring collaborators in the form of songwriter and musician Martha Rose, and drummer Uno Bruniusson. They started the project at the dawn of the Covid outbreak, and it quickly became a coping mechanism against the lockdown. During those months of uncertainty, the collaboration blossomed into a sanctuary of psychedelic prog, acid folk and warped feudal weirdness, a refuge built on layered synth lines and reel-to-reel
delays.

Im Tal Der Stutzer invites you into its kaleidoscopic reality from the get-go – from the pulsating swing of Die Frommen Wanderer and frenetic synth arpeggios of Die Nachricht Schneller also der Wind, to the misty-eyed folk of Lichtermond. The whole record is punctuated with field recordings of ironmongers and cowherds and campfires, adding to the theatre.  

It’s a testament to the wide-ranging world that CV Vision has created, that he can at once invoke the Hildebrandslied while sounding like a library record that DJ Shadow might’ve sampled. In CV Visionverse, it all makes perfect sense.

Tracklist:

01. Willkommen im Tal der Stutzer
02. Die frommen Wanderer
03. Die Nachricht schneller als der Wind
04. Die Königin weint
05. König Friedrich II.
06. Im Hühnerstall
07. Zauberer und die Hex
08. Bevor und nach dem Sturm
09. Die Reise ins Innere
10. Wald Melodei
11. Lichtermond
12. In der Schmiede
13. Der fröhliche Gaukler
14. Kinder des Müllers der am Waldrand wohnt
15. Über Liebschaften

PREMIERE: CV Vision - Die Nachricht schneller als der Wind [Bureau B]

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With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history.

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PREMIERE: Kosa - Cinq Minutes [Notte Brigante]

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