LTE presents its debut release titled Long Term Evolution, a 6-track compilation bringing together pieces from six artists from around the world. Music we fell in love with, sounds we find appealing, paths to explore. Between now and then.

Vinyl 12" / Digital
PRE-ORDER: https://bit.ly/LTE01

LTE is a newly-born music label from Prague. Its goal is to build a platform for local and foreign musicians, producers and sound artists. Label's focus lies on contemporary electronic music and a wide spectrum of genres. Learning, trying and experimenting. Putting love, time and effort.

Bad times, good timing.

credits:
@mrtcmusic
@ethnoservice
@ldyosc
@nadia-d-al
@mayotunes
@moducz

Mastered by Boris Carloff.
Artwork by Jiří Thýn and Anymade Studio.
Made in EU, 300 pcs
2021 © LTE

V.A. - Long Term Evolution | MR TC, Ethno Service, LDY OSC, DALO, Mayo, MO-DU

brutalism in music

@grischgrisch

release date: july

Perspektivwechsel

Seasoned heads may already be aware of dynArec. The project of one Chris Kalera, dynArec has been a force in the electro underground for more than two decades at this point, releasing numerous records and helming the Vaporwave label to boot. He has marked himself out as a purveyor of top-quality machine-funk during his career, a producer who runs with the spirit of Detroit to craft club traxx of wicked intensity.

After a period of relative quiet in the late 2010s, Kalera has roared back into action recently, with a run of releases emerging in 2021 and 2022 across labels including Cultivated Electronics, Superluminal and Umwelt’s New Flesh. Now the Vaporwave Records founder takes his Central Processing Unit bow with the Force In The Sum EP, and his hard-hitting electro style is immediately at home on the Sheffield imprint.

Force In The Sum commences with ‘A Dispatching Role’, a track where eerie vocal snippets and delay-drenched anti-melodies cluster around a volatile low-end wobble and crisp 808 snap. It’s equal-parts ominous and invigorating, kind of like the Thom Yorke of ‘Kid A’ times if he’d been granted an audience with Gerald Donald. ‘A Dispatching Role’ is prime slalom music, and the mood carries through to following cut ‘Stabilized’. After a stentorian opening of unerring kick drums and fizzing keys, ‘Stabilized’ soon blooms into a retro-futurist robo-electro joint which comes off like a more textured iteration of Unit Moebius.

Things open up a little more on first B-side ‘Canonical Form’ - at least, they do before the track’s pretty opening flushes are interrupted by a vicious blurting bassline reminiscent of, say, Jensen Interceptor. There are no broken beats here, the track’s unyielding four-on-the-floor thud pushing the joint a little more towards techno mode than the A-side jams. This straight beat remains on Force In The Sum closer ‘Classification Of Elements’, with sputtering hi-hats playing off the groovy pings of the synths to devilishly danceable effect. Slip-sliding saw sounds and spine-tingling, almost ‘X-Files’-esque lead lines enter to up the ante, but the mood shifts after dynArec starts to lace lush chordal stabs and delay-drenched modular runs through the track. All the while, a voice repeats the mantra “what matters is the sound” - and who could deny the truth in this statement?

dynArec’s prolific recent run continues with the four track Central Processing Unit debut Force In The Sum. Tense, expansive and worldbuilding, this is wickedly danceable electro done right. Truly, what matters is the sound.

RIYL: Jensen Interceptor, Cardopusher, Cygnus, Silicon Scally

dynArec - Force In The Sum

Artist:  Rapha https://soundcloud.com/rapha707
Track: V More Karabli
Release: Modernation Vol.4
Cat: IM010
Label: ITALO MODERNI https://soundcloud.com/italo_moderni
Release date: 16 September
Format: Vinyl + Cassette + Digital
Pre-order: https://italomoderni.bandcamp.com/music

6 tracks on vinyl + 16 on Cassette + Digital

DT PREMIERE: Rapha - V More Karabli [Italo Moderni] (2022)

https://ratliferecords.bandcamp.com/album/data-theft

Since a couple of years there has been a lot of data transfer between the thief and the rat. 
After the first bytes got exchanged, it was clear they speak the same code: Communication on the basis of rhythmic structure! After some interferences and transmission drop-outs, we can finally announce the transfer is complete and will materialize in form of a 12“ vinyl record. Data Theft is a six piece strong selection of Rhythm Beat Master ship. It will be difficult to find more bang for the buck anywhere else. You can now own this magnum opus that is Rat Life Records 20th release!

BUY HERE

Data Theft - Data Theft (Rat 20)

Bad luck seemed to follow them around wherever they went, they just couldn't catch a break. A dark shadow that loomed over their every move, they wondered whose joke they were the butt of, it was almost laughable the amount of things that seemed to not work out in their favour. They often pondered what they would need to do for this luck to change or perhaps the universe was simply against them... Their fate was in somebody else's hands.

Fides, the Berlin-based label run by Tresor Resident Z.I.P.P.O, have been moving in the worlds of electro, techno and IDM-inspired electronics since 2015. For their 15th release they welcome Amsterdam producer and DJ Mayo for a five-track EP that comes with two remixes from Mary Lake and Danny Daze. Like her previous releases for United Identities, Marguerite and brokntoys, on Frenemies she delves into EBM-leaning sounds, fusing electro, techno and industrial influences with her distinctive use of ghostly synth lines, distorted vocals and meticulous sound design.

PREMIERE: Mayo - Not Your Shadow [Fides]

Ali Renault's debut on Nocta Numerica (vinyl / digital)

Pre-order your copy here:

Bandcamp: bit.ly/3W3rLID

Syncrophone: bit.ly/3Fo8dcs
Clone: https://bit.ly/3DghFx1
Juno: bit.ly/3B5fk6L
Deejay: bit.ly/3B4t4yB
Decks: https://bit.ly/3DcLZZ8
HHV: bit.ly/3UFcPz9
Redeye: bit.ly/3iqicEN


Release date: 25/01/2023

Catalog number: NN024
Title: Stone Tape EP
Artist: Ali Renault
Distributed by Syncrophone (Worldwide)
Artwork: Christophe Le Gall
Mastering: Brassica

A1 - Gypsy Ritual
A2 - Her Kind
A3 - Minerva's Shrine
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B1 - U'Vaddit
B2 - Stone Tape

Ali Renault - Stone Tape

Artist: Free Range @ernestas_sadau @thatwhichisnotsaid
Track: Rats On Coke
Release: Wild Life
Label: DKA Records @dka-records
Release date: 7 April 2023
Format: Cassette + CD + Digital
Pre-order: dkarecords.bandcamp.com/album/wild-life

DT PREMIERE: Free Range - Rats On Coke [DKA Records] (2023)

Gladio Operations inaugurates 2023 with its seventh release titled “Split Machine”, a new series of shared EPs, where in this first episode the producers Jauzas The Shining and Cycloplex go halves on the EP.

The French producer returns to Gladio with three cuts which possess his peculiar and characteristic rugged sound. The EP launches with "Business Machines” and “Isla De Encanto”, two powerful cuts with aggressive and noticeable basslines filled-up with dark textures. Jauzas gifts us a last cut titled “Equation”, a nod to the EBM sound, where he preserves the same darkness as in the previous cuts.

On side B we encounter the Spanish producer Francisco Aguado, who has recently released his first work under the "Cultivated Electronics" label under his new electro alias, Cycloplex. With two cuts titled “Intercepted” and “Acid Machine”, Cycloplex reveals his particular minimalist vision of electro sound in an abstract journey of excellent monotonous rhythms.

Jauzas The Shining - Isla De Encanta

TL Premiere #1204 (2023.04.04) : Cestrian - Lids [Dalmata Daniel]

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For this 69th Premiere of 2023, we have a track by the DJ, musician & Producer based in Margate (UK) "Cestrian" (aka Ali Renault) titled ‘Lids’ from his forthoming split EP with Roberto Auser (@RobertoAuser) "DDS07" on the Budapest-based record label : Dalmata Daniel.

▶︎ "Roberto Auser / Cestrian - DDS07" will be available from April 14, 2023 on Limited Edition 12" Vinyl (327 copies) + Digital on Bandcamp : https://dalmatadaniel.bandcamp.com/album/dds07

12" vinyl on black comes in black disco sleeve & lockable plastic bag with an A6 folded insert card (as a mini artwork/cover)

Some direct links for DDS07 at stores:
▶︎ Triple Vision (NL) : https://bit.ly/DDS07tvNL
▶︎ Decks (DE) : https://bit.ly/DDS07decksDE
▶︎ Red Eye Records (UK) : https://bit.ly/DDS07redeyeUK
▶︎ Deejay (DE) : https://bit.ly/DDS07deejayDE
▶︎ Juno (UK) : https://bit.ly/DDS07junoUK
▶︎ Suburban Trash (DE) : https://bit.ly/DDS07subtrashDE
▶︎ Horizons Music : https://bit.ly/DDS07hmUK
▶︎ Clone Records : https://bit.ly/DDS07cloneNL
▶︎ Laterna Records : https://bit.ly/DDS07laternaBG

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Release Info :

Roberto Auser / Cestrian - DDS07 [Dalmata Daniel // DDS07]

Snippets : soundcloud.com/dalmata-daniel/dds07-roberto-auser-cestrian-snippets

For the 7th installment of their split-series, Dalmata Daniel welcomes both Roberto Auser for his sophomore contribution to the label, as well as a fresh addition to the catalogue: Cestrian, aka. Ali Renault, the tireless Margate-based DJ and producer, well known for his frantic, dazzling and rough releases at labels like Bunker, Cyber Dance Records or Mechatronica.

Massive, thumping kickdrums and hypnotic whispers introduce the first tunes of side A, that is ‘Awakening’ – Auser’s take on slow, EBM-esque industrial vibrations as an eerie, industrial waltz. ‘Selvage’ drives effortlessly to disco- and retrofuturistic territories, arriving at the closing track of Auser’s side, ‘Long Night’. This third cut is his longest one, steadily building up harmonic layers of dark, intertwining melodies with the devoted beats of a minimalistic drummachine, full of echoes and shimmering high-ends.

Side B starts with the energetic, rolling bassline of ‘Satan’. Ideal title for such a fiery, blazing electro hit: if you ever find yourself in any sort of Inferno-situation trying to Shazam that heated banger you hear, it is likely that it's one of Cestrian’s intense tracks from this 12”. ‘Zoltan’ delivers a gentle rumbling of a dusty bass-synth. An atmospheric, chill sequence dominates the split’s penultimate track, with dreamy chords and smooth twists on a chaotic noise-source. Finishing off the split, Cestrian hits us with ‘Lids’ – an excited and raw vision of electro, full of hazy sparks and detuned, tense oscillations. The bass cuts into our minds like blades from a giallo-opus, leaving behind nothing but the unsolved mystery of ineffable horrors.

– Gabor Gyulai 

Tracklist :
1. A1. Roberto Auser - Awakening
2. A2. Roberto Auser - Selvage
3. A3. Roberto Auser - Long Night
4. B1. Cestrian - Satan
5. B2. Cestrian - Zoltan
6. B3. Cestrian - Lids

releases April 14, 2023

DDS07
A1 ‎– A2 ‎– A3 Written & Recorded by ‎– Roberto Auser in Arnhem, 2019-2021
B1 ‎– B2 ‎– B3 Written & Recorded by ‎– Cestrian in London & Margate, 2010-2020

Art Direction‎ – Daniel Jani (Studio Jetski)
www.instagram.com/studiojetski

Mastered by ‎– A.P (GS Mastering & Post)
www.ghostsounds.net

Dalmata Daniel: dalmatadaniel.com
Triple Vision Record Distribution: distribution.triplevision.nl

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Follow Cestrian (Ali Renault) :
Facebook : www.facebook.com/cestrianhearse
Instagram : www.instagram.com/ali_renault
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/ali-renault

Follow Dalmata Daniel :
Bandcamp : www.dalmatadaniel.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/DalmataDanielLabel
Instagram : www.instagram.com/dalmatadanielrecords
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/dalmata-daniel

DDS07

Lids

TL PREMIERE : Cestrian - Lids [Dalmata Daniel]

808 Dark Core

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PREMIERE: Mayo - Not Your Shadow [Fides]

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