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electronic trax (2020) part 4

From the depths of the Jackal’s den, Butter Sessions label bosses Sleep D emerge with two new techno leaning cuts. Sequenced, manufactured & hand-printed in the suburbs of Melbourne, this locally made 7 inch features Dub inspired basslines & space infused SFX to excite the heads and freaks alike.

Available now from:  buttersessions.com/shop/sleep-d-space-pillow-confusion-7/
Pressed at Zenith Records Brunswick
Mastered, designed and screen printed at BSR HQ

Sleep D - Space Pillow / Confusion (BSR10.5)

April 2020

Preorder: https://bit.ly/3cVeITx
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Cleveland-Gamma/release/14887533

A staple element of high-profile labels such as Hivern Discs and ESP Institute, Brussels-based producer Andrea Mancini alias Cleveland (@clevelandmusicpage) has built something of an impressive reputation over the last few years, establishing a sound signature both convincingly unique and daringly game-changing, as well as setting up a distinctly fresh musical grammar that invites the listener to see under the surface of the standstill techno/house dichotomy through more complex but just as effortlessly enjoyable architectonics.

Complete with a choice duo of remixes courtesy of Beta Librae (@blibrae) and  Piezo(@piezopz), Cleveland's debut EP for Kalahari Oyster Cult sits straight in line with the recreated organic lushness and widescreen vista of his previous installments. Seemingly a straightforward broken-beat affair at first glance, 'Gamma' seamlessly slides towards sun-dazed weirdo house terrains with its dripping honey-like melange of dubbed-out synth ripples, distorted machine talk, and foot-shuffling drum work.

A further Arpanet-friendly slab of shapeless electronics, 'Ora' levitates in a zone of its own, subtly oscillating betwixt chimey oneirism and crystal-like, arpeggiated brittleness. On the flip, 'Gamma' gets a double treat. Turning the track into a proper floor-ready weapon, Pezio alternates sequences of hypnotic melodic shimmer with a stealthily squelchy but dynamic percussive momentum. Adding her trademark playful get-up-and-go whilst retaining the original's textural quirk, Brooklyn's Beta Librae explores even further the cheeky vibrancy of Cleveland's non-formulaic audio semantics to brush a vividly trippy tableau of sorts.

Cleveland - Gamma 12" w/ Beta Librae & Piezo Remixes (OYSTER24 - Snippets)

My remix for @mbootyspoon is out now on Bandcamp via @modelfuture.
-> https://modelfuture.bandcamp.com/album/martyn-bootyspoon-no-1-crush-remixes

No. 1 Crush Remixes EP

Martyn Bootyspoon - No. 1 Crush (Chambray Remix)

Split release by Piper Spray and Lena Tsibizova — two musicians whose sound can be described as bedroom electronics or low-fi ambient. Lena and Piper Spray are also members of the Air Krew collective along with their third bandmate Sergey Podluzhny, who is on mastering duties for this record.

Following the first track’s title, the album begins with a nostalgic synthesizer melody which pours on the listener like rays of the midday sun, bringing forward recollections of a pleasant half-forgotten time. However, memory not only holds the serene and nostalgic — it can also evoke painful and anxious images or even mislead its carrier by synthesizing new details and meanings.

The album seems to be transforming in a similar pattern. Arrhythmic beats, glitchy effects and faint voices — like spores of the unconsciousness that break through shallow sleep and fill the gaps in memory — gradually come forward, taking over the melodic element. By the second half of the record, the naive nostalgia disintegrates into distant echoes and the sound takes the form of a collage which almost sounds like magnetic tape experiments.

Despite the difference in tone and techniques, the two tracks here are not antagonists. They complement each other, presenting memory mechanisms and the experience of acute reflection in different colors.

Music — Piper Spray, Lena Tsibizova
Mastering — Sergey Podluzhny
Artwork — Lena Tsibizova

Recorded in the wastelands of Kudrovo.

Buy: https://radiosygma.bandcamp.com/album/piper-spray-lena-tsibizova

Piper Spray / Lena Tsibizova

blackleggingsonblackstairs

sleepinginamiddaysun

Bandcamp Exclusive for charity! Proceeds of this album will be donated to the Rainforest Trust to help fight climate change and deforestation. More info can be found at www.rainforesttrust.org/about-us/

Release Date: May 22, 2020
Artist: @dxiv514
Label: @routineespresso
Bandcamp: routineespresso.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/675H1xyCn7VgLDUZvN2hLC?si=nYL2OH5xSQi5pOv5SCu-MA

Artwork by @yungcurtis find him on Instagram!

Bandcamp for Charity

514 - Your Perfect Imperfections [RERVA003]

Out in June on Kalahari Oyster Cult.

Vinyl & digital: https://bit.ly/2ynBFj6
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Reptant-Phasic-Reflex/release/15240504

A1  Phasic Reflex [08:10 - 132 BPM]
A2 MS Plenty [05:00 - 132 BPM]
B1 A Realist's Realistic Reality [05:44 - 134 BPM]
B2 A Realist's Realistic Reality (Roza Terenzi's Realism Remix) [07:01 - 112 BPM]

Expert in trippy joints and knee-buckling bounce, OZ-based producer @reptant_the_lizard is back with a vengeance after an array of choice outings on the likes of Salt Mines, Planet Euphorique and Craigie Knowes. No warm-up lap needed, 'Phasic Reflex' may start as a tycho-esque daydream, what's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh. A pure adrenaline rush of vogue-ing 303, hi-voltage electro and intricate drum programming, this one has dancefloor ripper written all over it.

Keeping the tension up to hazardous levels, 'MS Plenty' zones out to a Detroit-style elixir of arpeggiated seesaws and pong-indebted, body-jacking pep. As its title suggests - or not, the B-side opener 'A Realist's Realistic Reality' clearly lies closer to a cyphered Dick-ian parallel world full of binary bleepin' and swirlin', post-kosmische infused riffs and tentacular Arpanet-style modularity, which @roza-terenzi alters into a lo-pressure dub expedition - better tasted at sunrise, feet buried deep in the sand and your hazy mind draped in the cosy folds of a cheerful seaside sloth with friends.

https://bit.ly/2ynBFj6

Reptant - Phasic Reflex 12" w/ Roza Terenzi Remix (OYSTER25 - Snippets)

PREMIERE : SW. - TheENERGY Slow

Exclusive: RVDS - Moon Operator

After the forced pandemic break with most people falling into a valley of sorrows for many reasons, Dresden-based label Uncanny Valley finally returns with the next edition around their 50th release festivities. Simply called Purple and of course coming with a sleeve in the same color, the Florence on the Elbe-boys Albrecht, Conrad, Carl and Philipp invited label affiliates Chino, Johannes Albert, Lake People and RVDS to contribute a track to the EP. The latter is a Hamburg based DJ and producer operating from the infamous Pudel Club in Hanseatic city, where he already celebrated the release of his track Moon Operator with label heads Carl and Philipp before Purple had to be postponed. However, the final release of Moon Operator does not lessen the joy as the track has already been supported by artists such as Oskar Offermann. Moon Operator starts with deep and melo pads before a clap is introduced and accompanied by a backgroundish almost tripple bass beat. In this emotional construct that already soaks the listener deep into its virtue an Acid-line is implemented taking the tune on a whole new level, musically and emotionally, and just as both, the initially introduced pads and the Acid-line harmonize smoothly with each other, RVDS pushes even more forward adding a proper bass line taking you to the moon and back and making one long for those coopting club nights.

Uncanny Valley 50: Purple will be released on Uncanny Valley on May 11th, 2020.

Buy the EP
Bandcamp: uncannyvalleyrec.bandcamp.com/album/purple-chino-johannes-albert-lake-people-rvds

Artist & label information
RVDS: www.facebook.com/rvdsrvd // @rvds // www.instagram.com/richardv.d.schulenburg
Uncanny Valley: www.facebook.com/uncannyvalleyrecs // @uncanny-valley-dresden // www.instagram.com/uncannyvalley.de

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Uncanny Valley 50 PURPLE

Moon Operator

Buy here

EXCLUSIVE: RVDS - Moon Operator [Uncanny Valley]

Taken from the 21st edition of XLR8R+, a special edition curated by Answer Code Request and featuring tracks by Adlas, Ryan James Ford, and a sample pack and track from the man himself.

Get the package: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rplus_021

@answercoderequest

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XLR8R+021: Answer Code Request - Insist [Snippet]

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He is one of those producers who gets everyone to agree from the start. Saudade, a Parisian micro-house producer, has needed one single EP to be recognised by the peers of the genre such as Point G (with whom he’s been working in his studio), Varhat, Janeret, Lowris, Brawther...

More exclusive music

Premiere: Saudade 'O Samba'

The third release on the Oslo based event and label establishment, Det Gode Selskab, comes from the Bikini Waxx record dealer, Alexander Skancke. Some of Skancke's finest work to date recently
saw the light on his Quirk imprint, and this EP follows up with no exception. Alexander’s already deep relation with Det Gode Selskab shines strong here as he delivers his strongest release to date.

Premiere: Alexander Skancke 'Munn'

READ > inverted-audio.com/dj-これからの緊急災害-modular-ghost-system-jensen-interceptor-remix

Jupiter 4 enlist mysterious DJ これからの緊急災害, with man-of-the-moment Jensen Interceptor offering a remix of the lead track, 'Modular Ghost System', designed to turn a dancefloor into a frenzy state.

DJ これからの緊急災害 – Modular Ghost System (Jensen Interceptor Remix) [Jupiter 4]

Pre-order: https://smarturl.it/GaborLazarSource

@gaborlazar is releasing his new album 'Source' via @planetmurecords on June 26. The eight-track outing is primed for the club, with weighty sub-bass and frenetic synths running riot.

Premiere: Gábor Lázár 'Excite'

(013) Noise From Beyond OST by 
Jin Cromanyon, Kind Human Being

- Kind Human Being - Lets Talk / "Lyrics":

Lets talk about the trunk
Being in a blue funk
Сar drives to the grave
Waiting for a dead slave!

The label’s 013 release says about itself by its number, showing you an imaginary OST for an unreleased horror movie by the masters of the genre such as John Carpenter, Mario Bava, George A. Romero and Sam Raimi.

The authors of the music "Noise From Beyond" are: the Japanese composer Jin Cromanyon with his suspense numbers, known for his work with Macadam Mambo; and the Russian villain Kind Human Being (vinyl releases on New Flesh and Fundamental).

“Noise From Beyond" is a 6-track musical crossover that paves the way to nowhere through sinister forests, rivers and mountains; hiding with a car in a deep fog of the night, you will still meet the dawn on the other side of the afterlife...

All Mastered by Dark Crusader Studio 2020.
Only studio .WAVE 16/44 format / NO MP3!

https://mosaiquerecords.bandcamp.com/album/noise-from-beyond-ost

Noise From Beyond

[013] - Kind Human Being -  Lets Talk

Like the beginning of any dream, my subconscious fills in the gaps. “Where am I?”… I’m on the moon. “How did I get here?”… I’ve always been here. My dialogue subsides as an uncertain planet enters centre vision. A ‘chinese-whispers' Earth, with geographic features lost as rumour spreads through the cosmos. Though the solar path is obscured, I see no sign of darkness on the planet, only faint projections of unanswered questions and manifestations of doubt. As the projections focus, and words become more visceral, I turn away and walk towards the Sun.

With five years of releases under their belt, London’s DEXT Recordings are legendary curators of some of the most forward-thinking electronic music the UK has to offer. To celebrate the milestone, they’ve delivered 'eleVAte Vol. 1’, a 4-track compilation featuring some of their heaviest hitters. Track by track, the release is steeped in a dynamic spread of UK sounds, with plenty of bass weight and life-affirming synths added for good measure. Our pick, ’Eclipse’ by Pugilist is a skippy ode to the garage days of yonder, brimming with swing, bass and lush Rhodes stabs.

DEXTVA001

PREMIERE: Pugilist - Eclipse [DEXT Recordings]

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