He watched with careful attention, gazing out across the room and taking in those who wandered and meandered between each hallway. His third eye saw them all, it saw everything whether he chose for it or not. He could tell a thousand stories of precious, private moments thought not to be seen. He saw the secrets, the crimes, the actions, the glances and the stories behind the scenes. It was his gift yet at times it drove him crazy as he watched the world spin recklessly in full circle. 

Joey Anderson features on a new compilation from Release Sustain who have drafted in the big guns as part of their Conclave series. The record also features music from the likes of Lord of the Isles, Amir Alexander and more. This track features the notorious, moody, melancholy edge of a producer who never fails to disappoint, Joey Anderson.

PREMIERE: Joey Anderson - Third Eye [Release Sustain]

Online shopping had become her vice, or perhaps you could call it an addiction. Every day an influx of parcels in all manner of shapes and sizes arrived at the door, it was a wonder she could find any room to house them. Clothes and paintings to ornaments and records; the number of materialistic goods that littered each room far outweighed the depths of her purse. But she enjoyed the anticipation, there was nothing like waiting for that next arrival.

Gothenburg's Höga Nord Rekords add to their evergrowing catalogue of mind-expanding sonics with a solo album 'I'm An Arpeggiator' from Stiletti-Ana, who makes up part of hazy electronic duo Jesse. There are nods to the sound and production characteristics of Jesse's work across the LP, but it's imbued with mysterious, ancient atmospheres, influenced by the Babylonian fishing god, Dagan, realised through the Finnish producer's huge collection of vintage synthesizers.

PREMIERE: Stiletti-Ana - Waiting For EMP [Höga Nord Rekords]

Yoann Pisterman - Water Groove
Sortie :  25 juin 2021 
https://yoannpisterman.bandcamp.com/album/water-groove
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Yoann Pisterman is a visual artist and multi-instrumentalist composer from the French Riviera who is now based in Berlin. Water Groove is his debut album , an impressionistic sound journey into waves, frequencies and electronic resonance. Yoann employs loops and repetitive patterns, interwoven between drones and melodic elements, to create magical, transportative music with echoes of the classic Japanese ambient and New Age music of the Eighties and the trippy Kosmische of 1970s Germany. It’s a tribute to some of Pisterman’s musical influences that, in his words, have “reached a cosmic sound quality”, such as Hans-Joachim Roedelius, François de Roubaix, Geinoh Yamashirogumi and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Water Groove next album is a calm and airy , a mesmerising voyage into Yoann’s joyful sonic ecosystem. For recording he used a reduced set up comprising a Korg Volca FM synthesizer, a Korg Minilogue and a Doepfer Dark Energy, along with samples and field recordings that were rearranged within a DAW - digital audio workstation. At the end of the composition process Yoann asked Andrew Claristidge (Acid Washed) to mix the album in his full analog studio in order to give space, dynamics and organic shapes.

In common with the Japanese ambient artists of that golden period there is a strong connection between Yoann’s music and architecture. The artwork is taken from a study by Yoann of landscape architecture, a series of visions and reflections put down using ink on paper. Whereas Yoann’s sonic palette is broad and colourful, for the artwork he has reduced his tools and the process. The aim was to make the person looking at it more observant, with the colours in the imagination of the beholder.

album https://yoannpisterman.bandcamp.com/album/water-groove

[premiere] 
in friendship with @byteslabel @the-ransom-note @yoannpisterman @k7-records

Water Groove

[PREMIERE] Yoann Pisterman - Water Groove

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/cafe-de-la-jungle
Track: Triple Suns
Label: https://soundcloud.com/dans-le-desert
Format: 12" Vinyl, EP
Release date: 04/6/21
Purchase: https://www.deejay.de/Cafe_de_la_Jungle_Dancing_with_Cicadas_EP_DLD001_Vinyl__973724

The artistic roots of Cafe de la Jungle lie in electronic music, a fluid traversin through abundance of rhythms, sounds, and subtle impressions in order to reveal and celebrate the primal instincts of the listener. Symbolic mythologies of the outer and inner world carefully craft sonic rituals in a space where modernity meets indigenous traditions in hypnotic trippy soundscapes.
Dancing with Cicadas debut EP delivers elegantly synthetic narration, amplified by the modular wires. Entrenched in the grooves of the jungle, every track mirrors a different conceptual and esthetic journey into our transcendental connection to the earth. .
The recording emerged from a powerful urge to create a universe of never-ending journeys between movement of dancing spirits and the mathematical language of sound.
Engaging your inner listener-creator, you are invited to bring to life your own dreams guided by the sounds we create in honor of the development of your spirit. We combine electronics and folklore with live subcultural soundscapes using various ethnic instruments, voice and anything else that helps you dive deeper into acoustic and spiritual experience. Through this platform we explore mystical dreamlike states with a sense of futurism in it.

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PREMIERE | Cafe De La Jungle - Triple Suns [Dans Le Desert] 2021

Each day, just before the warm hues of dusk melted across the sky, he rose from his slumber to take to the mountains. The fresh morning air opened his lungs, juddering him from the haze that controlled these waking moments. Day by day he changed his path, hoping to discover something he'd never seen before; that was what got him out of bed every morning.

Born in the medieval city of Fribourg, Switzerland, Rababoo is a new record label helmed by friends Emmanuel Küng aka OneFootStep & Nicola Marthaler aka Oase. For their first outing, they've invited former local producer Marcel de Sie—one half of new wave and chanson duo, Reymour—to take care of proceedings with 'UMA', his debut EP under this alias. Made up of three original tracks, complete with remixes from Dark Entries alumni Anatolian Weapons and Stroom affiliate Victor De Roo, the release draws from industrial, techno, minimal synth and coldwave, exploring different dance floor narratives.

PREMIERE: Marcel de Sie - Poetic Frame (De Roo Remix) [Rababoo Records]

"Out with the old and in with the new" - that's what they always say. But it's never that easy in practice. The transition is always strange: it's a period of change, sometimes of destruction, definitely of adjustment. Morphing from one form slowly into the next, prompted by actions of your own doing, or someone elses. Things are going to be different and, unwilling or willing, you have to deal with it.

Having been immersed in music culture from a young age, becoming hooked on collecting records as well as training as a sound engineer, Italian DJ and producer David Agrella is now taking things up a notch with the launch of his new label, Agrellomatica Records. Named after his monthly radio show on Bloop, the imprint will be a space for his musical inspirations which bridge many different strains of electronic music. For his first outing he offers up a four tracker, 'Transition', which melds together fluid drum patterns, rubbery synth lines, soaring pads and dreamy electro grooves.

Transition EP

PREMIERE: David Agrella - Transition [Agrellomatica Records]

Starting as a multimedia artist and filmmaker, https://soundcloud.com/milavdlinden has carved a world of her  own through film and photography, either featuring herself or by spot- lighting  non-conforming people through her medium. Over the last few years, she started  producing music to accompany her visuals but quickly found her groove when she began collecting analogue synths, sampling them and adding her own vocals to the process.
With “Clear Eyes” she really defines her emotional acid sound yet again, the track melancholic synth samples together with her bold vocals and choir of eerie pitched vocals tells the story about realizing that you don’t owe someone anything and distancing yourself from emotionally greedy people. While “the Craze” was the final goodbye, “Clear Eyes” tells the story that came before. With another show extravaganza video for “Clear Eyes” in the making, Mila V is set to be  shaking up some dust, whether in the club or in your living room. And she is creating her own genre of cross- over acid pop music.

PREMIERE : Mila V - Clear Eyes

Who are they? Where are they from? Or maybe you should ask who is it? One, two or an infinite number of higher beings trying to unify everyone through sounds from around the globe. A mysterious entity behind the name of “Tribalistic Junkies Of Universe” graces you with a four track musical journey for “Global Unification”.

PREMIERE : Tribalistic Junkies Of Universe - Discovery Channel

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