There was a jovial, jolly sort of atmosphere in the old rickety shack. The warehouse was packed with rogues and wrong'uns who'd come to spend the night dancing to the bang of drums and wild dub. Smoke filled the air and it was dark and smoggy. The warmth from outside had somehow found its way in and condensation hung from the ceiling as the crowd moved back and forth with the grace of the beat. This was not a warehouse rave, this was a warehouse rock. 

The Vendetta Suite is a moniker of Gary Irwin, an irish producer who has worked tirelessly over many years creating and producing music. Now he is set to release a new LP for Hell Yeah Recordings, a wonderful dubbed out balearic affair.

PREMIERE: The Vendetta Suite - Warehouse Rock [Hell Yeah Recordings]

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/velo303
Track: Mary's MVP
Label: Bandcamp Exclusive
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 23/9/21
Purchase: https://velo303.bandcamp.com/album/marys-mvep

Velo 303 is a new collaboration focussed on putting out dance floor tracks inspired by the warehouses and riverbanks of East London. The London-based duo (made up by Threads Radio & Fall UP resident Mad'Ouk and Bamily's Kudo Sol) is about to drop their first self released EP. Despite not much known about this new project, the music is already picking up the attention of international media outlets.
The Inspirations behind the music arise from free party culture in the UK - especially Cosmic Roots Festival. Floating through minimal, electro, breakbeat, wonky techno, and garage the sound of Velo 303 is as rumbling as the name might suggest. Fans of Overmono, Skee Mask, Objekt, Thoma Bulwer & N-Gynn will definitely dig this!

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PREMIERE | Velo 303 - Mary's MVP [Bandcamp Exclusive] 2021

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/surgeonsgirl
Track: Phased Concentrics
Label: https://soundcloud.com/insideoutrec
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 06/8/21
Purchase: https://surgeonsgirl1.bandcamp.com/album/the-empress-moss

Following her hugely successful EP on Livity Sound, Surgeons Girl joins Inside Out Records with four tracks of consciousness altering quality with “The Empress Moss”. Coupling classical music training with an incredible ability for sculpting mesmerising sounds on analog synths, Surgeons Girl, an audiovisual artist, weaves sonic journeys with remarkable introspective feel and sonic maturity. The incredible Curses takes “Dark Moss Night Terror” into the night fog enchanted forest raves of the Berlin outskirts with a mesmerising remix.

PREMIERE | Surgeons Girl - Phased Concentrics [Inside Out] 2021

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Time had slipped through his fingers, he could barely recollect a moment of the last 12 hours. He’d fallen into another world and left reality behind him, his mind lost in the spaces in-between. Now he had to piece the fragments back together and find a way back to normality.

For the next instalment on Jason Peters’ Roam Recordings, Italian producers Giorgio Giri and Marco Lentano unite under their Mushrooms Project alias for a dose of hypnotic, downtempo cuts. True to their name, psychedelia is the dish of the day, with the duo serving up four tracks that match mind expanding electronics and analog instrumentation.

PREMIERE: Mushrooms Project - Dirty Dune [Roam Recordings]

Lazy breaks meet arpeggiated synths on Lithuanian label @electric_shapes.

ReadMore & Buy: https://www.stampthewax.com/2021/08/22/premiere-far-east-flight-dreamster/
Listen on Youtube: https://bit.ly/FarEastFlight

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Far East Flight - Dreamster (STW Premiere)

Haruka Salt, Tongji - Everything We Love Will Fade in Time (Remixes)
BUY LINK: https://harukasalt.bandcamp.com/album/everything-we-love-will-fade-in-time-remixes-2
Release date: 7 September 2021
Label: toucan sounds (https://soundcloud.com/toucansounds)
https://soundcloud.com/harukanyc999 

Tony G, Drummy, and French Horn Rebellion reimagine Haruka Salt & Tongji’s ‘Everything We Love Will Fade in Time’ EP this September on toucan sounds.

Following Haruka Salt and Tongji’s original EP earlier this year, which picked up support from the likes of Carista, Elena Colombi, Cromby, Ciel, and more, Brooklyn imprint toucan sounds ready a heavy-hitting remix package featuring reinterpretations from French Horn Rebellion, Drummy, and Tony G.

Breathing new life into the original EP, toucan sounds team up with the Sorry Records crew to deliver a family affair featuring some of New Yorks most exciting talents. Leading the release, label boss French Horn Rebellion, via their singer Robert PM, turns in an emotive vocal performance over the original track, utilising dense reverbs to match the dynamic arrangement.

Following is Drummy’s take on ‘Never Satisfaction’, which sees the NYC-based DJ/producer flip the track into a tripped out breakbeat jam complete with flanging FX, dubbed-out vocal hits, and pumping low end. Rounding out the release, Sorry Records honcho Tony G turns in a banging house remix of ‘Scrabble’, reaching for snaking acid lines, snappy drum hits, and dense chords.

Everything We Love Will Fade in Time (Remixes)

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PREMIERE : Haruka Salt, Tongji - Scrabble (Tony G Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/behua-icara
🛒https://behuaicara.bandcamp.com/album/behua-icara-ritmos-para-sanar-vol-2
🔊https://youtu.be/CGinV8hjsVI

Behuá Icára - Ritmos para Sanar Vol.2 is our second compilation in order to support artists from the Amazonian ethnia Shipibo Konibo Xetebo in Ucayali, Perú. All profits will go directly to the Shipibo Konibo Xetebo artists that has participated in the compilation.

In some of the tracks there is a collaboration between Shipibo artists and a producer, like Peruvian producer Valicha, with Shipibo deceased maestra Panshin Beka also known as Olivia Arévalo “The last Meraya”, Shipibo Rapper Wihtner FaGo with Eomac from Ireland, Reshijabe also known as Olinda Silvano with Carmen Villain Norwegian Mexican as well with Ciel from Canada, from Colectivo Shipibas Muralistas Milka, Nimia, and Shipibo artist Rawa has collaborated with Peruvian producer Aristidez.

The artwork is based on Shipibo artist Lastenia Canayo aka Pecon Quena and his guardian "The Maquisapa Monkey", with the graphic designer Beto Prieto, and the Xao Kené pattern by the Shipibo artist Inin Bita.

Behua Icara - Ritmos para Sanar Vol​.​2

Tongue

PREMIERE: Nico - Tongue [Behuá Icára]

There hadn’t been a winter like this in decades; everything and everyone had ground to a complete halt. It was the kind of cold you could feel in your bones, the kind that took your breath away as soon as you stepped outside. People daren’t leave their houses in fear of losing fingers and toes to frostbite, or worse still, freezing over completely. It left the streets and shops eerily empty, as though some strange spirit had swept through and claimed all that was living for themselves.

The brainchild of producer and musician F.M., the Froid Dub project originally came to life during the first lockdown, but it wasn’t until it became a joint effort that it took its final form. Enlisting the help of fellow musician Fa_Fane, with whom he also runs the DELODIO imprint, the pair set about marrying synthetic and organic textures; the results of which make up their new release ‘DUBS & BEATS…’. The EP riffs off their debut EP, ‘An Iceberg Cruising the Jamaican Coastline’, collecting eight new dub versions and bonus beats that take the original icy cuts and rhythmic collages into new realms.

PREMIERE: Froid Dub - Frozen Dub Sandwitch [DELODIO]

My first release of a 3 album compilation on Diffuse Reality, this one with 7 Acid tracks of different genres. 

My first contact with acid music was on the early stage of my career, It has a huge impact in my influences and I catch myself not releasing my acid tracks, but now some of them are in this very special album!

Release date: 2nd of September 2025

Via: @diffusereality

on this album:
Break n' Bossa features Catib


Marta - Jus Jackin

While the German producer Martin Matiske averages a new release under his given name every few years, there was a long stretch of time in which sightings of his Blackploid alias were much more rare. After dropping an EP for Frustrated Funk in 2006, fans found further material hard to come by over the next decade or so. However, Matiske has reinvigorated Blackploid in recent times, with the project making a few compilation appearances and dropping a couple of EPs across 2020.
That run now culminates in Cosmic Traveler, a four-track affair which marks Matiske’s debut appearance on Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit. Given the long wait, it’s great just to see Blackploid back among the fray once again. But for the project’s CPU curtain-raiser to be an EP of such high-quality techno jams? Now that really is spoiling us.
Cosmic Traveler’s title nods towards the sort of stargazing aesthetics one finds in classic Detroit techno. However, while there are undoubtedly ties to the Motor City in this music, the record ultimately steers less towards spacious atmospherics and more towards the taut, lean machine-funk of seminal practitioners like Dopplereffekt.
Matiske sets his stall out from the off. Opener ‘Electric Engine’ begins with a run of stiff-necked 808 kicks before hissing hi-hats, a grizzly bassline and all manner of futuristic sounds enter to warp the tune into hyperspace. Following cut ‘Night Drive’ repeats the trick of ‘Electric Engine’ but adds a pleasingly dinky synth lead in order to nudge itself slightly towards bleep-techno territory.
The two cuts on Cosmic Traveler’s B-side are pure late-night goodness, a pair of mid-set heaters primed for dark basements. ‘Pleasure Activism’ delivers on the promise of its title and then some, pushing the Kraftwerk template to extremes by bringing a load of gnarly synth lines into play over a wobbling acidic chug. Finally, EP closer ‘The Race’ is reminiscent of both the twisted machine-funk of Gerald Donald’s Japanese Telecom project and the playful modern evolutions of artists like fellow CPU high-flyer Jensen Interceptor.
The resurgence of Martin Matiske’s Blackploid project continues with Cosmic Traveller, an EP of timeless electro-funk and techno.

Cosmic Traveler

PREMIERE : Blackploid - The Race

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