Astrokid Frequencies Vol.4 - Retro-Futuristic Game Soundtracks

Neon Asteroids - Track 11

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id·i·ot  is a point of view i didt know about untill i made it up.

READ YOUR MIND

BSD-01

Grass Bath

The wall, ancient and crumbling underfoot, became their runway. They were a cat-walking anachronism, splitting time in two with their body's edges. Leather lacerated the skin they lived in. But as the flesh broke so did the battlements, their stiletto heels daggering and grinding the brick into beachy sand. A searchlight snapped onto their figure. They shone, starlike - then posed.

Following the charge of high profile electronic artists from Tel Aviv (Red Axes, Mor Elian, Autarkic et al.) comes PAG Records: a new collective forcing art, fashion, sound and identities to dangerous new territory. Their debut release is DRAMA QUEER: a compilation of spectacular, theatrical EBM, electro and industrial. Though cast from around the globe, its dramatis personae - including Silent Servant, Lokier and our selection from Cardopusher - share one voice, projecting a radical performance towards the Israeli capital. All the world’s a stage, but Yafo is the place where this queer melodrama will move the most.

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PREMIERE: Cardopusher - Lux Aeterna [PAG Records]

The computer screens flickered, omitting a bright glow that lit the small dark room. Shoulder to shoulder smartly dressed men sat hovered over the screens, intently watching the information that shot across the screen in a rapid bursts. Illegible code and indecipherable numbers; blink and you'd miss it. From the outside, little was known about the operations taking place in this building. Many speculated but all were too afraid to ask...

Under his Pleasure Model alias, Bristol born producer and film composer Antoni Maiovvi explores his love of wave, synth and Italo disco. Having previously released an EP and two albums for Budapest's Dalmata Daniel, he now makes a return to the label ahead of his new LP on 100% Silk, delivering a four tracker titled Update 2.1. Written during a period spent living in The Hague, the release is a batch of freaky Italo jams, complete with weighty drums and soaring synths.

PREMIERE: Pleasure Model - Minority Report [Dalmata Daniel]

Lo-fi, DIY electro-disco breakdance made with toys and cheap machines, crunching electro-industrial anthems, clever re-arrangements of insane acapellas into acid monsters, 80s-inspired electro-pop and hedonistic 'future disco' tunes, soulful vocoder ballads sung over Commodore 64 video-game music, new soundtracks for real or imagined anime movies… every Plastique De Rêve track is a different experiment with… something – a toy, a synth, a program, a vocal sample, an old drum machine, a computer glitch, a found sound, a field recording, a thumb on a jack – anything that generates new and interesting sounds, which are then playfully crafted and assembled together into unique little musical 'stories' - to electrify your mind and get your body movin' ! 
Swiss DJ and producer Plastique De Rêve hails from Geneva but lives in Berlin. After live EBM, rave collectives, art installations and performances across the 90s, Plastique became a pioneer of the Swiss electro scene with releases on top labels like Gigolo, Turbo or DFA in the 00s. Still active today as DJ, producer and sound designer, he is also half of cosmic disco duo NOO on Optimo Music.

PREMIERE : Plastique De Reve - Syntax Error

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A special undercover project debut from Templefeld (Kirk Degiorgio), with a remix by Anthony Child (Surgeon), sends a message of positivity. A curious Chimera of sounds presents itself out of the wild, from kinetic half-time drum and bass-heavy techno to shoegaze wall of sound to dreamy sunset islander vibes.

PREMIERE : Templefeld by Kirk Degiorgio - Titan

Not for the first time, we can present a lovely and special premiere from Scannoir (Uncanny Valley, Oràculo, Les Disques De La Mort and also on our own Layers Series).

After he caused quite a lot of attention with his releases as "*GOTT*" (together with Sneaker), he now joins the Frigio Family. The track "De Panaesher", a lovely Synth-Wave track, fits perfectly into the current time, in which we like to remember the past...

Frigio Allstars 3 comes from the murky underbelly of electronics, where the nights are long and the days are short. Ashen tones pricked with lighter shades, all smeared with attitude in this collection of underground tracks made for the underground.

Daniel Holt returns for this new instalment in the Allstars series. Diving deep into the darkness, Holt resurfaces with the nine minute industrial throb of “Vaccuous Transient.” A stomping beat pierces sci-fi score synthlines in a track brimming with menace. Staying in the US, Grey people debuts on Frigio with the grime smeared jack of “Bruxism.” The flip is all first timers to the Madrid label with Scannoir offering “De Panaesher.” Sitting somewhere between synth lament and uplifting wave, this track is a true modern classic from a member of the GOTT camp. Madrid’s very own Negocius man follows with “101 Wars” a winding worming work of glazed electronics to kill any dance floor and the amazing finale, “The Smile Of The Body” coming care of Bari’s talent based in Berlin under the moniker of Sons Of Traders.

https://soundcloud.com/scannoir
https://soundcloud.com/frigio-records

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PRÉMIÈRE: Scannoir - De Panaesher [Frigio Records]

Artist: Cole Baby, Break Mode
Title: Color Drink
Label: Bed Of Roses
Format: Digital
Release date: 09/10/20
Purchase: https://bedofrosesentertainment.bandcamp.com/album/color-drink

Cole Baby lands on planet Earth with a 9-track EP of hypercolor pop-techno, featuring remixes by fellow Portland-based heavenly voyagers Break Mode, Krycek, Etbonz and MagicPink. Acid dreams turn into cosmic synths, rays of sunshine bleed into your ears and it all comes together as rosewater spray hits under the disco lights. Unconventional in structure and style, Cole Baby invites you to take a sip of his special concoction, his Color Drink.

https://soundcloud.com/gumar
https://soundcloud.com/bed_of_roses-1

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PREMIERE #1233 | Cole Baby - Color Drink (Break Mode Remix) [Bed Of Roses] 2020

Words were failing him today; he kept stuttering and stumbling over each sentence, his brain a jumble of phrases and expressions that seemed to have no meaning. He whispered and mumbled his way through, addressing the faces before him who looked increasingly more perplexed than before he'd began. An hour of nonsense had exited his mouth, he wanted the earth to swallow him whole...

Viscera are transmitting down from the cosmos once again with another helping of interstellar goodness for your ears and your feet. Bringing together space travellers, both veterans and fresh faces, the compilation's 16 tracks traverse the realms of cosmic dance music. Like its predecessor Galactic Service Broadcasting Vol. 2's mission is to raise funds for vital humanitarian services and organisations; this time all profits will be going to Shelter, the leading charity for homelessness in the UK.

PREMIERE: The He-Men - Nonsense [Viscera]

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