Delicate Features is the moniker of composer Pavel Diakov and vocalist Radmila Nikogosian, a duo who have recently fled their native St Petersburg. Since making their debut in 2012, they have released music on this label as well as Cellar Tapes and Not Not Fun Records, exploring immersive soundscapes that invite listeners deep into their world. The events of the last year have led to the pair fleeing their homeland in search of a place that better represents their ideals and can provide the artist freedom they require. "The idea for this EP came to us during our escape from Russia," says the pair. "The last few years in Russia have been difficult. The government's pressure on freedom was felt more strongly so when the war was launched we urgently left Russia and went to Yerevan in Armenia since we could no longer stay in the aggressor country. The EP is a response to these terrible events that began in 2022 and are continuing to this day. It is an attempt to immediately reconsider what we have and make a change toward a peaceful future." The opener' Formula of Faith' is a cosmically minded cut with beautiful melodic patterns unfolding over warm, rubbery house beats. It's wistful but dynamic while 'Economic Outlook' is a dreamy and deep cut of synth-laden dub. Pads are smeared across a starry sky with all the soul of Detroit while the plump drums and buried bass add weight below. The fantastic 'Get Ready' is a quick and physical house track with razor-sharp hi-hats and more majestic pads. The fulsome groove is detailed with meaningful chords that turn thoughts inwards as the drums power on. The excellence continues on 'Melting Dream' which is cosy backroom music with emotional depth and persuasive drums. The myriad synth wisps and floating chords make it a heady affair that pairs romance with ruefulness. Last of all is the humid atmosphere and cavernous dub chamber of 'Speed Of An Immobility' which sounds both futuristic and timeless. It's a world of subtle pads and booming bass that has real energy and tension. This is stylish and well-crafted music that truly brings something fresh to the dance floor.

Economic Outlook

PREMIERE : Delicate Features - Formula Of Faith

HOOPALAÏ - Electric Tartar 
BUY LINK: https://hoopalai.bandcamp.com/album/electric-tartar
Label: Icewax Records (https://soundcloud.com/icewax)
Release date: 17th March 2023
https://soundcloud.com/hoopalai

Montreal duo Hoopalaï drop rugged retro house 12” on Icewax Records

Opening cut ‘Electric Tartar’ is a night-time joyride with colourful arps, an irresistible bassline and filtering synths, its chic reverb giving it a disco-tinged dose of nostalgia. Next up is ‘SonaBar2am’, this after-hours offering melts minds with dubbed-out rhythm and continuously evolving effects. ‘Das Geht Nicht’ then closes out the record, its sweeping guitars and tingling acid making for a synth-fueled dancefloor bomb.

HOOPALAÏ was founded in 2015 by longtime friends Lebaron & Pfreud, who quickly established themselves as key artists in the Montreal scene by frequenting spots like Stereo Bar and Piknic Electronik alongside names like Gene Farris, Wolf + Lamb & Marc Rebillet. Their debut release was charted by legendary American artist Felix Da Housecat, leading the way in a series of quality releases on labels such as Get Physical Music, Kindisch, Poésie Angulaire & Victims Music Company.

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : HOOPALAI - Electric Tartar

I have been a huge fan of Pye Corner Audio ever since I heard the album ‘Sleep Games’ in 2012. I was instantly hooked by the sound Martin Jenkins created, and have followed his incredible career ever since. For me his sound is a beautiful mixture of the nostalgic and dystopian, pushing sonic boundaries with every release. The world of Pye Corner Audio is a warm yet brooding place to completely lose yourself in. It has always been a dream of mine to work with Pye Corner Audio so it was incredible to get that opportunity!

The remix of Lack Of Sleep is fantastic, and I couldn’t be happier with the results! Majestically, unashamedly huge in every way, it really is a monster of a remix. The build throughout is magnificent, and takes the original further towards the dance floor - while still maintaining Pye Corner Audio’s signature, inimitable style. Complete with Acid squelches, euphoric pulsing synths and the constant pushing rhythmic momentum, the remix is a work of beauty and a perfect rush of endorphins. Turn it up!

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Premiere: Maps - Lack Of Sleep (Pye Corner Audio Remix)- Mute

Hell Yeah takes a look through the weird and wonderful lens of Brussels-based Caramel 3000 for its next dance floor trip. He serves up four cuts that collide leftfield electronics, dark disco and ancient cosmic wonderment into captivating new forms.

Caramel 3000 operates at the fringes, where eerie textures, irregular arpeggios and silver-tongued samples all coalesce. His interest in visual culture, semiotics and fiction permeates his musical understanding while he also embraces accidental methods and primitive designs when cooking up his sonic brews.

Opener 'Ottagono Corse' is a lithe, slow-motion workout with gurgling leads and sludgy bass. It's an elastic rhythm that pops and hops as it fixes your gaze down a trippy rabbit hole.
'Super Rapido' is another brilliantly loose assemblage of lumpy drums and withering sci-fi synths. Synthetic bleeps and drips are offset by warm percussion and make for something alluringly exotic. The same slow and heavy, dubbed-out rhythm defines 'Wetlands Tempo,' this time with muffled voices, muttered spoken words and melancholic pads all layered up to perfection. It somehow sounds like an ancient ritualistic dance and futurist disco at the same time before 'Holy Studio' takes you deep into a steamy jungle amongst distant elephant trumpets, squeals and cosmic leads that signal the end of the world.

This is kaleidoscopic music for curious minds; freaky grooves for eccentric dance floors.


Supported by Sean Johnston (ALFOS), Idjut Boys, Toulouse Low Trax, Peter Kruder, Felix Dickinson, Justin Robertson, Chris Coco, Bill Brewster...

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PREMIERE : Caramel 3000 - Holy Studio

tici taci 083 - Uj Pa Gaz - Omo Can / Fritz

released 14th April 2023

Uj Pa Gaz - Fritz (clip)

Enter Planet Dust's next release is our first album, courtesy of Manuel Jesus aka World Wild Web. His debut LP will follow lead single Cursed Fruits which drops on March 31st. 

World Wild Web's organ, guitar and drum machine-led music nods to the global Cosmic continuum, and explores themes of anxiety, overconsumption and Web 3.0. The album features creative and catchy vocal dance tracks in both English and French (Colony, La Nuit, Je Mange Des Animaux, The Best Is Yet To Come), scrappy guitar anthems (Pills, Don't Quit!, Scrolling) and exotic Cosmic joints aplenty (PA 2, M-Gola, Druid Dance). We at Planet Dust are reminded of the likes of Suicide, Rizan Sa'id, DJ Stefan Egger and more.

Transmutation

PREMIERE: World Wide Web - La Nuit [Enter Planet Dust]

https://soundcloud.com/softriot
https://soundcloud.com/user-628750708
🛒 https://bfan.link/siders
🔊 https://youtu.be/WIliU5CdPYE

After the release of his first album MOONPARK last fall, NEWEM (Sebastien Chenut of Scratch Massive) is already back with a new single FEELS LIKE HOME with Prudence, Olivia Merilahti of The Dø. 
This is the second collaboration between NEWEM and Prudence, since the 2 artists had already met on the fabulous and powerful THE THRILL I NEED present on NEWEM's first album.
Here, this new collaboration takes us into a more dancing and hypnotic world, while keeping this touch of melancholy and space so specific to NEWEM productions.

FEELS LIKE HOME is the first extract from SIDERS album of remixes and unreleased tracks to be released on April 28 with artists Heidi HOVEN (Dj Heidi Lawden + Hein Hoven (Duran Duran, Stay Cats))BLAACON, DAVE AJU, SOFT RIOT...

Tracklist:

01 -NEWEM - Feels like Home ft Prudence [Heidi Hoven Remix] 
02 -NEWEM - BLACKMOON - BLACOON REMIX 
03 -NEWEM - IKKO - Soft Riot Remix
04 -NEWEM - Feels like Home ft Prudence - [Lost on the dancefloor by Heidi Hoven] 
05 -NEWEM - Feels like Home ft Prudence 
06 -NEWEM - Feels Like Home -Dave Aju’s Dub 
07 -NEWEM - IKKO - Soft Riot Remix Short
08 -NEWEM - Feels like Home ft Prudence [Broken Version]

PREMIERE: Newem - Ikko (Soft Riot Remix) [bORDEL]

All Mutant Disco Radio Show premieres available on :

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Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/mutant-disco

Taken from "Ubre Blanca  - Rhizome LP  (Archaic Future Sounds)". Out June 05th 2023. Buy here : https://archaicfuturesounds.bandcamp.com/album/ubre-blanca-rhizome

"Rhizome"
From Ancient Greek rhízōma 'mass of roots',
'Horizontal underground plant stem capable of producing the shoot and root systems of a new plant. Rhizomes are used to store starches and proteins and enable plants to survive an unfavourable season underground.' - Encyclopedia Britannica
After years of exploring fictional dystopian futures in sound Ubre Blanca, like everyone else, found themselves living through a real life dystopian nightmare during the COVID pandemic. The ensuing chaos and forced hiatus from playing live changed their way of working and the direction of the new music.
Drawing on old and new influences ranging from the pioneers of '70s synth music to the contemporary wave of Dark Disco and Neo-Italo via '90s rave, House and Trance, the resulting album, 'Rhizome' is an unabashed celebration of being back on the dance floor and a way of reaching out and reconnecting with other artists and DJs around the world.
From 'Narcopolis', a tribute to old-school House with an Italo twist and 'Pacific Palisades' recalling the band's 'Terminal Island' EP and '80s FM euphoria to the three part 'Nocturne' suite, which evolves from the band's long-time John Carpenter influenced sound through a space rock slide guitar solo into Synthwave territory, this album sees Ubre Blanca exploring the roots of the band's sound and influences and branching out in new directions. Released digital and on tape on young Archaic Future Sounds.

Artist social media:

https://soundcloud.com/ubreblanca
https://www.facebook.com/ubreblanca
https://www.instagram.com/ubre_blanca
https://twitter.com/ubre_blanca
https://soundcloud.com/softriot
https://www.facebook.com/softriot
https://www.softriot.com
https://www.instagram.com/softriot

Label social media:

https://soundcloud.com/disco-frisco
https://www.facebook.com/archaicfuturesounds
https://www.instagram.com/johnnyyenseits

Rhizome

NOCTURNE I

PREMIERE : Ubre Blanca Feat. Soft Riot - NOCTURNE I (Arhaic Future Sounds)

brainwave research center - the NYC Electronic music duo of Chase Smith (W.T. Records, Apartment, Is/Was), & documentary filmmaker, Christa Majoras (School of Visual Arts) - returns with their 2nd LP, Mosaic.

Mosaic combines together analog synths with electro-acoustic experiments, vast soundscapes with intricate textures, and naive rhythms with pop melodies.

Following their debut in early 2023, brainwave research center continues their journey and experimentation in Electronic music while paying homage to their musical influences. Hints of Edgar Froese, Martin Rev, Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter, and early Kraftwerk can be heard.

Recorded and produced in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in the back of Smith’s synthesizer/electronic repair shop.

https://soundcloud.com/brainwaveresearchcenter

PREMIERE⚡brainwave research center - Guajillo

Discover the Sound of Bar Melodia! Journey through the world of progressive house, melodic house, deep house, and organic house sounds, with each release bringing smooth melodies and rhythmic depth that resonate on every level. Tune in for your weekly dose of melodic progressive house and deep house beats.

Stream/download: https://go.protonradio.com/r/rllxHVE2UKBE8

Follow Bar Melodia
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@barmelodia
• Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/label/bar-melodia/126442
• Bandcamp: https://barmelodia.bandcamp.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barmelodia
• Spotify: https://bit.ly/futureavenue_spotify
• Website: https://www.soundavenue.be/barmelodia
• Merch: https://bit.ly/futureavenue-tshirt
• Submithub: https://sbmt.to/sound-avenue
• Submithub Coupon: https://www.submithub.com/coupon/soundavenue

Follow our Spotify playlists:
• Back Catalog: https://bit.ly/futureavenue_spotify
• Progressive House: https://bit.ly/progressivehouse_sa
• Organic House: https://bit.ly/organichouse_sa
• Deeper Underground: https://bit.ly/deeperunderground_sa
• Ambient: https://bit.ly/ambient_sa
• Lo-Fi Music: https://bit.ly/lofi_sa
• Mixes: https://bit.ly/futureavenuemixed_spotify

To submit a demo, send a private Soundcloud link to demo(at)soundavenue.be

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BM055 | Quantzka - Sanctuary [Bar Melodia]

The musical piece combines elements of electronic music to create an immersive soundscape. Its emotional impact is felt through the use of repetitive beats that build up gradually towards a crescendo or breakdown. The overall vibe conveyed in this composition is one that celebrates individuality while also acknowledging shared experiences and emotions across different cultures.

Feel it Go

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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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