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Manfredas' EP 'Pink Industry' - the second release from Ivan Smagghe's new label Les Disques De La Mort - has been getting us all hot under the proverbial collar - it's summer now so less shirts are being worn.

Now, the rather fine Lithuanian producer has gifted us an exclusive remix of Finnish wunderkind Jaakko Eino Kalev for all you lovely R$N-ers to hear.  

Feast your ears on this sublime piece of sunshine-fuelled Finnish pop. Funny how a few solar beams of light outside turn this from glacial to sunshine-fuelled.

Pink Industry is out now, available on vinyl only. 
For more information, check out the Les Disques De La Mort website.
http://www.lesdisquesdelamort.org

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Premiere: Jaakko Eino Kalevi - No End (Manfredas Remix)

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Magda (dj set)
Items & Things

Magda is an artist who can never be pinned down, no matter the timeframe or time signature. Any one of the Detroit-raised artist's DJ sets or productions breeds a rare feel of mystique and discovery. "I'm really obsessed with finding a line between things - between sounds and between genres. My influences come from a life spent in very different environments, which plays a huge role in the way I connect with music."

Dramatic sounds and eccentric basslines carry her multilayered sound, which veers everywhere from funked-out space disco to the intricately-programmed, metallic feel of Detroit to stripped down techno, all the way to Italian horror film soundtracks. The only thing that remains consistent is the element of surprise.

Her accidental entry into Detroit's underground party scene as a teenager was the kick-start she needed for a lifelong love affair. Soon all became a blur of "cities, record stores, and parties." In 1998, she joined Minus and began touring the world as Richie Hawtin's sole opener. From there, her distinctive sound began to develop and the rest is history.

Stylistically, Magda grooves through opposition - creating sets that are emotion-led yet clinical, having profound expertise with analog and digital technology. Her sound is otherworldly but visceral; dark with a warm sense of beauty and grace; sparse yet wondrously full-bodied with density and bass-swathed extremes. Magda's DJing style has been encapsulated on her mixed CDs 'She's A Dancing Machine,' and her mix for London club Fabric 'Fabric 49' (a mix CD with as much artistry and vision as an original album).

In the fall of 2010, Magda revealed her debut, 'From The Fallen Page,' a darkly- tinged, transportive album that curiously combines natural, organic sounds, and modern electronic grace. Similar to her unpredictable DJ sets, 'From The Fallen Page' took listeners from one end of the spectrum to the other, treading the fine lines of extremities along the way.

These days Magda isn't home very often. In-between touring, she's fully focused on her recently resurrected label 'Items & Things.' The label's vision always pinpoints the off-kilter and the uncommon, seeking out new artists and sounds that push boundaries. "Items and things are bits and pieces of uniqueness we come across. The label is a platform to launch the music that we love. There are no rules, just sounds we like and artists we believe in."


Connect with Magda:
www.soundcloud.com/magda-official
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/magda
www.discogs.com/artist/Magda
www.gigs.gigatools.com/user/magda
www.dj.beatport.com/magda
www.twitter.com/magda_music
www.facebook.com/unmagda

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IT031 Golpe de Estado - Secreto (Magda's Vulture Mix)

Played and supported by: Magda / Richie Hawtin / Erol Alkan / Amine Edge / Tim Paris / Justin Robertson / Populette / Tronik Youth / Golden Bug

Hailing from Buenos Aires in Argentina, Octavio Sardi AKA TYf draws his influences from sexual tensions, surrealist arts, and terror films. TYf’s releases are full of eerie sounds, dark atmospheres and funky bass lines. They have a certain trippyness and groove that really draws you in as a listener. 

To complement the original works, we’ve enlisted three of Join Our Club’s brightest stars along for the ride. Cabaret Nocturne cranks up the tension on his remix of Red Hills, whilst Emile Strunz drops the tempo, pushes the electronic body music settings to +10 and turns out a fine posh trance rendition of Scissors Dance. To finish up Alexander Khov rounds off proceedings with some bass heavy machine funk. 

TYf - Scissors Dance 'Alexander Khov Remix' (Join Our Club)

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Maceo Plex's remix of 'Sordid Affair' is a textbook Plex edit.

Deep, powerful and synth heavy, this could well be the best Royksopp edit we've heard all year and is certainly the perfect way to say goodbye.


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Premiere: Royksopp 'Sordid Affair' (Maceo Plex Remix)

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Imaabs - Analogic Idyll

Lorca returns to Breach's Naked Naked imprint with the the monstrous tech-driven Calcutec and the African dance inspired Ndlamu. Rolling percussion meets hypnotic vocals, gritty tribal beats and a proper dose of bass on this certified dance floor number. Forthcoming on 1st December, press play on this exclusive premiere. 
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Premiere: Lorca - Ndlamu

This ten-minute long track from German-duo Voigt & Voigt offers a mind-bending dose of minimal techno as it weaves through a variety of static sonics and blistering beats from start to finish. 'Superstar' is a digital exclusive off of Voigt & Voigt's upcoming release entitled 'Speicher 82'. Set to drop on 1st December via Kompakt, the album includes 'Superstar' along with the equally as intense tracks 'Superpitch' and 'Supertrip'.

PREMIERE: Voigt & Voigt - Superstar

"Bittersweet pop music from the future haunted by ghosts from the past." Andrew Weatherall

C.A.R also known as Chloé Raunet formerly of Battant follows up the release of her album, ‘My Friend’, with single Glock’d. 

We've got the great honour of premiering the The Asphodells aka Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J. Fairplays remix of the track. GLOCK’D is C.A.R’s trademark washed out sarcasm and bleached cynicism. The track forages paths through Chloe’s dark mind. It was one of the first songs she wrote on her own, and was recorded down in the bunker with Timothy J Fairplay himself. The remix from Andrew and Tim voyages through ethereal atmospheric electronics and edges into glam-stomp territory.

Get it in your ears here: 

Elsewhere Les Disques De La Mort protégé and R$N favourite Manfredas reworks album track Angelina plus there's also a fresh new track ‘Silk’. A Rhodes rendition recorded live in Paris "on a cold winter’s day."

Check the rather fine video for the track here:

C.A.R – Glock’d EP 
B/w The Asphodells & Manfredas
Label: Kill The DJ | www.killthedj.com

A1. Glock’d
A2. Silk
B1. Glock’d (Asphodells Remix)Anchor
B2. Angelina (Manfredas vocal Remix)

Premiere: C.A.R - Glock'd (The Asphodells Remix)

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https://pro.beatport.com/track/post-traumatic-son-ben-klock-techno-mix/1639478

O/V/R - Post-Traumatic Son (Ben Klock Remix)

Ben Klock - OK (feat. Elif Bicer)

Get your foot on the accelerator and set your body to pumping mode. Other than the fact that your car will start moving in a motion not unlike that of a less-than-intelligent cow, you'll be in the right place to get this new selection of sonic belters from John Heckle into your ears.

Set for release via Midnight Shift on 8th June, we're bringing you the title track which opens up Heckle's Wet Noises triplet of tunes. This particular element is a no frills affair that's more banging than a circus cannon. It'll feel like you're on a caffeine rush in the middle of the day and that the only way to calm yourself is with MORE CAFFEINE. 

Go on, get this down your throat... I mean your ears;

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PREMIERE: John Heckle - Wet Noises - Midnight Shift

Laid down with authority by L/F/D/M are four no nonsense cuts blasting fresh air into that perennially en vogue phenomenon known as acid house. After stunning EPs for Glasgow’s prestigious Optimo Trax and Clan Destine Traxx, an equally crushing full-length for Kompakt's Ecstatic imprint, and two brain melting EPs for Diagonal with Factory Floor's Dominic Butler as Bronze Teeth, it is an honor to have his sounds grace CGI with a release that sees him playing right for the heart of the dance floor. Opener "Spare Ribs, No Napkin" is meaty and greasy with abandon, as rude and distorted as it is irresistibly syncopated. "Cutting Fingers" contrasts with a slow burn with a deep kick anchoring shifting rhythms and unsettlingly hypnotic riffs. Flip this treasure over and get pummeled by the rolling stomp of "Heavy Clouds” with its massive 808s and just-off-the-nose acid cycles. Closing things out is the bright paranoid jack of "Hippos In Slumber" with its muted chords adding freaky color to steady and heady 707/303 workout that charms and overpowers with an electric stink that lingers long after the needle has reached the lead-out groove.

CGI010 - L/F/D/M - Psychopaths Eating Jelly EP - CLIPS

L/F/D/M is a purveyor of no-nonsense aural excursions. His latest release on CGI Records does nothing to disprove this wonderous fact. There's a straight-to-the-point attitude to the music which lets you know exactly what his intentions for your listening pleasure are in a matter of seconds.

If he were to be engaged in some kind of martial arts face-off this may be a bit of a problem - he lays his cards out on the table instantly and gives the game away to their opponents, allowing them to mount a counter attack pretty sharpish. However, this isn't martial arts, this is music - right? - and the security that these sounds offer your ears is as fulfilling as a cleansing cotton bud.

Go on, give it a spin. We think you'll like it

PREMIERE: L/F/D/M - Heavy Clouds

FOUND05 Ben Parris - Glotsback (Magda Remix)

Ich hab mal wieder in der Musiksammlung geschaut und einen Oldschool Mix fertiggestellt... 
Wie immer viel Spaß beim hören ;-)))

Playlist:
1. Utah Saints - Star (Union Jack Mix)
2. Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness( Oliver Liebs Main Mix )
3. Der dritte Raum – Hale Bopp
4. A.N.S. - Traveller
5. Der dritte Raum – Mechanoid
6. Der dritte Raum – Trommelmaschine
7. Pulse – Behind the Eyes
8. Dee Rex – The Garden of Life
9. Crazy Malamute – Stratocaster
10. Gaine Force – X-Emption
11. Koenig Cylinder - 999 The Horrorist Remix
12. Eternal Basement – Another Shot
13. Resistance D – A Scientific Fact
14. Resistance D – Skyline (Sky Mix)
15. Syncroton – Deep Tought
16. Edenhouse – Nevermind
17. Hobo – Freedom
18. Quadripart - Joy (Exit-EEE Remix) 
19. MikeroBenics - Julika (Comes Too Late Mix)
20. Fuego - El Diablo (Rosario Mix) 
21. Hoschi – The Tribe
22. Pergon - Loop Therapy
23. The Enigmatist - Total Immersion
24. Sabotage – Kayth (Mix 1)
25. Pergon - The Deliverer 
26. Resistance D - Rezolution

Oldschool Acid, Techno and Hardtrance Session mixed by Bitter Sep 2015

exclusive mix for NovaFuture Blog by @norman-nodge

Infos & Tracklist:
http://novafuture-blog.com/2015/11/15/norman-nodge-novafuture-blog-mix-november-2015

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Norman Nodge - NovaFuture Blog Mix November 2015

Phillip Lauer seems to be generating a vast amount of music at present. Every couple of weeks an email will drop into our busy inboxes with a new release or remix from the Tuff City Kids member. His album for Permanent Vacation last year caught our attention with it's zealous melodies and excitable percussion. It was a real feel good affair which can often go amiss. His sensibilities remain similar on his latest release for Futureboogie. It seemed an odd choice of release for both the label and artist, however, after a listen it begins to make perfect sense.

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PREMIERE: Lauer - Birsk - Futureboogie Recordings

Full of cyclical riffing, circulating clapping and rotating reverberation. A revolving, coiling, chaotic, corkscrewer of a rekkid. Wind it up.

PREMIERE: Benoit Gagnon & Massimiliano Pagliara - In Spirals - Correspondant

Dutch techno veteran Orlando Voorn joins patriotic forces with notable Amsterdam label and distribution house Rush Hour to present his fourth full length album, In My World. Voorn has built a reputation as the key figure to forge links between his native Amsterdam and the techno mothership of Detroit. Voorn's heritage (or the musical kind, as well as the national) means his partnership with the label comes as no surprise – especially as Rush Hour has formerly distributed releases off his Night Vision label, as well as Voorn contributing tracks to compilations by Gerd Janson and Rick Wilhite.

The release features ten original tracks all contrasting in mood; from the ~9 minute-long Mogwai-esque journey of the opening "Turn Left Right Here", to the strange choice of found sounds and samples overlaying an moreish 4x4 beat in the album's closer, "In My World". This track comes up trumps in our eyes, with a groove that grips you from its very outset. Voorn uses these layers cleverly, enveloping listeners in a sound that becomes infectious instantaneously. A proud moment (of many) from In My World's comprehensive body of work.

In My World drops on January 25th.

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Orlando Voorn "In My World" - Boiler Room Debuts


Ecstatic offer a fascinating, often dizzying insight to the primitive industrial minimalism of Italian siblings, Giancarlo and Roberto Drago, a.k.a. The Tapes, via Selected Works 1982 - 1992 sourced from original tapes and pressed to vinyl for the first time ever. 

Following on from Ecstatic’s issue of “mail artist” Danielle Ciullini’s Domestic Exile Collected Works 82-86, this set surveys a blind-spot in most people’s knowledge of early ‘80s Italian underground music, framed against a backdrop of the Anni di Piombo, or Years of Lead - a period of domestic political turmoil between the late ‘60s and early ’80s - and the mushroom shadow of nuclear war. 

Like their international tape-scene allies, The Tapes reacted to this world thru a matrix of mono- synths, drum machines, microphones and 4-track recorders, mostly recording/experimenting ideas direct-to-tape in one take and making a virtue of their lo-fi set-up’s infidelities and imperfections - randomness and mistakes were embraced rather than discarded - whilst absorbing the counter-cultural influence of William Burroughs or Throbbing Gristle, and the sci-fi dystopia of J.G. Ballard and John Foxx. 

These 21 tracks, drawn from 10 different, limited tape releases, perfectly distill a wandering, weirdo spirit, ranging from the funereal swagger of Tanz Fabrik and the darkwave hip-thrust of The Day of Silence to freeform, motorik trajectories such as Time Out of Joint and singular enigmas like the Actress-esque bobble of The Wait and Falso Movimento B2’s weightless, hyaline spindles. 

Collected and compiled by Alessio Natalizia (aka Not Waving) and remastered by Matt Colton, Selected Works 1982 - 1992 represents a decade of modest but searching and instinctively grooving experimentation of the rarest, precious and compelling kind. 

As Giancarlo Drago explains: 
“The Tapes was an unplanned experience, an unplanned need to express myself Looking back 
on this music I wonder sometimes how I did it - the whole process from the concept to the completion. Everything I do now seems trivial and obvious and I just end up aborting the idea. And exactly for this reason I think that everything has its time, with a beginning and an end...”

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The Tapes 
Selected Works 1982 -1992
Ecstatic Recordings
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The Tapes - Tanz Fabrik [ELP017]

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Cxemcast 040 – Anna Haleta

Take an exclusive listen to new single Shottin’ as Riz MC, Heems and Redinho aka @SwetShopBoys take you on a journey of discovery through the South Asian devotional music that permeates their important debut LP, Cashmere. Learn more on i-D.co


Premiere: Swet Shop Boys - Shottin'

Zipperface Not Waving Remix is Out Now: https://thepopgroup.lnk.to/ZipperfaceNotWavingRefix

The original 'Zipperface' single is available on the new album Honeymoon On Mars. Out Now: https://ThePopGroup.lnk.to/HoneymoonOnMars

"It was an honour to be able to work on the music of a band that meant so much in my life" Not Waving

One of the more prominent personalities to emerge on Powell’s Diagonal Records, Alessio Natalizia aka Not Waving has produced a relentless acid refix of The Pop Group’s first single 'Zipperface' from their new album 'Honeymoon On Mars'

Hailing from Italy but now based in London, Natalizia has been operating under the Not Waving guise since 2013, clocking up an impressive series of self-released cassettes and LPs on his own Ecstatic Recordings imprint. As well as applying himself to a continuing evolution in his own music, Natalizia has also displayed a specialist interest in obscurities from the 80s underground. This interest culminated in the 2013 release of 'Mutazione: Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988', an acclaimed compilation of proto-industrial and primitive electronic music that completely reset the consensus on Italian music in the 1980s. Whilst maintaining a strong release schedule on Ecstatic (Pye Corner Audio, Gavin Russom, The Tapes, Daniele Ciullini and more) this year Natalizia perfected Not Waving’s calling card with 'Animals', an LP that alternated between and often combined liminal ambience, industrial amplitude and incisive, malfunctioning body music. 

On the back of touring America with the Diagonal Records crew Not Waving completes a trilogy of Pop Group remixes after contributions from Hanz and Goth-Trad. Like Hanz and Goth-Trad it comes from a place of enduring respect for The Pop Group’s daring experimentalism. Yet unlike the efforts of Hanz and G-T, Zipperface isn’t led into shadowy echo chambers or sub-bass assault but carved up and weaponised into a barrage of convulsive computer glitch, muscular EBM and thuggish acid. 

The single is taken from the 10 track album produced by dub titan Dennis Bovell, who worked on their seminal debut album 'Y', and Hank Shocklee, producer of Public Enemy’s iconic first three albums as a member of the Bomb Squad. 'Honeymoon On Mars' was released through Freaks R Us on Friday October 28th 2016.

Zipperface (Not Waving Remix)

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Not Waving - Populist EP [E026]

• Not Waving recoils back to his Ecstatic label after an ace LP + 12”s for Diagonal 
• Four tracks flirting with sleazy New Beat, nEuro EBM, Acid n0!se and deep-raved Italo
• Edition of 500 copies, initial 200 pressed up on coloured vinyl. Housed in fluoro green/hot red jacket
• Mastered and cut by Matt Colton @ Alchemy

Not Waving takes 2017 by the scruff with his Populist EP, consolidating the myriad stripes of his acclaimed Animals album in four peaktime hammers forged for darkrooms, basements and warehouses alike. 

If last year’s LP saw you thru from day-into-night, or vice-versa, this one is aimed squarely at the gurny hours of abandon in between, with ferocious acid lines and jabbing drums stripped down and strapped up to prompt reckless behaviour on the ‘floor.

Containing his first material written in the wake of Animals, the Populist EP is Alessio Natalizia a.k.a. Not Waving’s strongest dancefloor statement since the 1-sided Get Serious (2015) bullet. It finds him taking the opportunity to make straight-up bangers, rather than ‘songs’, which were thoroughly tried and tested over successive tours of the USA and countless shows in Europe too in the last 9 months.

Too Many Freaks is an anthem in waiting, harnessing a barely-hinged sense of chaos between its careening synth lead, acid squabble and velvet-clad kicks, before the dry-rutting jag and plaintive vox of Vibe Killer takes a dog-grip like This Heat meeting Tuning Circuits.

Top marks go to the check-your-stylus intro for Control Myself on the B-side, which holds its fizzy line into a fetid crevice of what sounds Russell Haswell ramping with Powell, whereas the crooked clampjaw groove of Ur Lucky Ur Still Alive pivots around a sample of a lone raver at Atonal, Berlin “who had no idea how she got there and what she did the night before”. A ruddy good night all-round, then?

Alessio Natalizia a.k.a. Not Waving co-owns the Ecstatic label alongside Sam Willis. Not Waving is widely regarded a connoisseur of Italian new wave and post-punk music - he compiled the Mutazione (Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988) set for Strut - and has issued a series of acclaimed, sought-after, playfully anachronistic twists on that sound since 2013.

Populist

NOT WAVING - TOO MANY FREAKS [E026]

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