He walked atop the padded floor across the gym, taking in the uncomfortable stares and awkward glares from onlookers. The machines rattled, raced and echoed as people pushed their bodies to the limit, testing their endurance and strength. The room was hot, the heat reverberated between dense writhing figures and soon too he would feel just as phased by the dizzying warmth. Now as he approached his station he began to move and sway, for his workout, his routine was a dance. 

Escape Artist is a producer we've kept a close eye on over the years, having released a number of tracks which have caught our ears. The Australian producers latest appearance is on a compilation by Truth, a sprawling affair which features cutting edge electronics and material for the dance.

PREMIERE: Escape Artist - Workout [Truth]

Starlight Boogie

Vintage Pastels-Electric Whisper [Mutant Rebels]

Flyn

Yo💕 Super excited to present @s-e-d-g-w-i-c-k to our mix series🙏 Co-founder and regular contributor of @potatoheadzlabel, Sedgwick has been quietly and diligently crafting his way onto dance floors in Melbourne and across the world🌏

Tracklist:
@dawn-again - Just When You Thought You’d Finally Won (Ambient Mix) [Enjoyment Division]
@tenbrains - Magpie [Houses In Motion]
George Michelle (@softbodyheartthrob)  - Can’t Live Without You [Burning Rose Records]
@pepullipulsumz (Mutually Feeling) - Distilled Existence [Potatoheadz Records]
@midnighttenderness - Dub Dreams [Butter Sessions]
Ausecuma Beats - Keleh (River Yarra’s Situationist Rework) [Music In Exile]
Vague Imaginaries - Deep In Blue [12th Isle]
@djlifee - Peia (Echocentric Records]
@escapeartistaus - Metamorphosis [Temporal Cast]
@reptant_the_lizard - First Contact [R.A.N.D Musik Recordings]
@s-e-d-g-w-i-c-k - Pleasuresque [Potatoheadz Records]
@hame_dj - Zoot [Kalahari Oyster Cult]
Lil Keke - Graped Up and Dripped Out (Jungle Edit) [EastDownToTheSouth]

Sedgwick

Luca Lozano spent the 2020 lockdown sharpening his tools, using the time off from traveling and DJing to re-center and re-vise. As the pace of life slowed, so did the BPMs and the Klasse Wrecks boss sought refuge in the distraction that the studio and the creative practice can offer. 'Lozano 2.0' may sound like the producer shifting down a gear, but probably only with the goal of preserving his energy until the world is ready to spin again.

Buy here

WRECKS032 - Luca Lozano - "Lozano 2.0: Music Man" EP

Yo! We're back with yet another truth mix😱 Stunned to welcome @pointguardtrax to our mix series🌵 100% aussie insect music and 100% own Point Guard productions🐜 Hear it🦻🏼Feel it🧘🏻‍♂️

Point Guard

DSP welcomes back the prolific one-man-machine from Malta… Keith Farrugia AKA Sound Synthesis for the first solo EP on the imprint. ‘Memory Sequence’ Depicts a cerebral journey into the depths of cognitive recall.

https://dddsssppp.bandcamp.com/

Sound Synthesis
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-synthesis-official
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoundSynthesisOfficial

Distorted Sensory Perception
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dddsssppp
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoundSynthesisOfficial/

PREMIERE: Sound Synthesis - A3B0L3 (Distorted Sensory Perception)

Artist: Featherstone
Title: Tunnel Vision 
Label: Ernest’s Way
Cat No: ERN002
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1. Tunnel Vision
A2. The Return
B1. Origins
B2. Moth

Australian label Ernest’s Way is back with their follow up to last year's debut.

Featherstone makes a return with his Tunnel Vision EP, a 4 track release that explores some of the early musical influences that shaped his sound.

Expect chopped up drum breaks, melodic acid lines, swelling JX pads and a few sneaky vocal cuts.

Featherstone - Tunnel Vision (ERN002)

Travelling through this underwater world he wondered whether he might ever reach the surface and see the daylight again. There was nothing but a deep radiant ocean of blue all around him and as he looked onwards as to where he would swim there was little sign that he might ever reach the shore. Bubbles and ripples moved all around him and as he swam across the ocean floor he stroked his fingers through the grains of sand which solidified the bottom of the sea. It was vast and ever present, the deep blue. 

MSRG features on a new split EP alongside Aquatronics for Analog Concept. The record features a stunning assortment of abstract electro and fast paced beats for pondering thought. It also comes with artwork designed by Detroit artist and UR affiliate Abdul Qadim Haqq.

PREMIERE: MSRG - Excursions [Analog Concept]

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https://www.juno.co.uk/products/djn4-tales-of-z/773010-01/

A new philosophy as time enters a radical history of our evolution. Being and nothingness in one, creatures of habit, the angels of nature, we can herald a new humanity.

DJN4 enters in homage. Optimus Yarnspinner. Edification through music bends, but does not break the untameable lost voices. This dissolution of ego, where culture exemplifies the principle of innovation through excess, the nocturnal brain sees only what it seeks. 

The order of time is more than a conspiracy of the people, this enforced interlude does not mean culture's end. Our culture, music's culture, acts as a genome, a graffiti of society. 

The psy, the rave, the sounds, the species, the food of the gods. Alpha Juno, Cyclon 303, mutable instruments and ideas collated, N4's modern mysticism to harness the Earth as a being of sound. This occult features an anarchism, offering us a collective immortality, allowing us, showing us, how to be more humane. 

Across eight tracks, our DJ weaves a journey to the inner and outer digi sphere, a two-year search, in to steppas, out of dub, evoking legitimate synthesis and sensibility. Look beyond Zamonia. The lost Chord. An alien dreamtime. Tales of Z.

B2. DJN4 - X Capsule

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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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