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Following the success of their first release, Leeds-based label On Rotation returns with a 4-track EP from Australian producer Solar Suite. Expanding on the contemporary style of his debut release on Echocentric Records, the Slingshot EP shows off his ability to inject groove and a sense of fun into a trippy, compelling framework. 

Joining him on the remix is fellow Aussie and Step Ball Chain label head Roza Terenzi, twisting the title track into a dark and brooding peak time stomper. 

“This EP was written throughout Melbourne's 2020 lockdown, what seems like an eternity ago...
In hindsight, it provided me with the perfect opportunity to grow and learn as a producer. 

Finding the motivation and drive to write and finish these tracks was a definite challenge, 
but overall something I am very proud of and ecstatic to have the opportunity to be working 
with Adam, Marlon, Chris and Katie to bring this to life.” - Solar Suite

This marks the second release for On Rotation, the party turned label headed by Chris I’Anson, Lisene & Adam Pits. “We’re hyped to have Solar Suite on the label for our second release and excited to share what we have in store for the future of the label. Once again the artwork has been done by the amazing Bristol based Illustrator Patch D Keyes.” - Chris

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Solar Suite - Slingshot

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Re-imagining vintage club sounds through a contemporary lens, Tifra is no stranger to stretching the electronic music template into new forms and ideas. His left-field house and old-school breaks have found their way onto Gestalt Records and Rough Recordings, and here the producer turns in three cuts of blissed-out electronica, hedonistic progressive and jungle-run club with its sights firmly fixated front left, complete with a wicked remix from one of modern dance music's most reliable names - Roza Terenzi.

‘Plastic Replicant’ is a vocal-laced electro-house roller that takes inspiration from the golden-era of 90s electronic music and fuses it with the organic, multi-genre blends of the current gen. The ravey continuum is laced with high-frequency vocal stabs and deep basslines designed for a heads-down approach on the dancefloor, before ‘Entomology’ captures the playful side of the club with its shape-shifting acid-lines, trance-licked melodies and kaleidoscopic blend of colour, feeling and mood.

Out of the club and onto the beach, ‘International Waters’ is a trip-hop inspired, downtempo dub that will delight ambient and laid-back electronic-revelers with its chirpsing birds and aqua-like aesthetic, before Roza keeps the dualism alive with a stripped-back jungle flip of the original; the perfect score for the perfect daydream.

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Original tracks by Tim Frankena
Remix by Katie Campbell
Mastered by Curved
Distribution by Inch by Inch 
Artwork by James Lacey

DUALITY3 - Tifra - Plastic Replicant EP (ft Roza Terenzi Remix)

Esteemed proponent of outré dancefloor manoeuvres, Superconscious Records co-founder Fantastic Man makes his Kalahari debut proper.

Having shown up for rework duties on a couple of occasions, we find the mutable oddball at his most trippy and esoteric. In fact, OYSTER42 is the handiwork of a producer who has his formula of balmy, lysergic dance music down to an exact science.

‘Alltogethernow’ gets on a swaggering cosmic tip, all sub-loaded and celestial as levitational arpeggios and funked-up groove dovetail to mesmeric effect. ‘Alpha’, on the other hand, takes a vision quest through enchanted jungle terrain. Initiating with a hypnotic ritual chant, it’s tunnelling and murkily psychedelic; occulted dancefloor rapture tailor-made for the wormhole interior.

As if it were some artefact from a distant ‘90s utopia, Bioxy’ evokes a time when warehouse parties littered the Melbourne landscape. Where its predecessor evokes ceremony and ritual, this is an anachronistic, dilated flashback to simpler times. FM kicks it languid and life-affirming on the closing number. Radiant synth lines flutter with a gentle headiness as ‘Trojan Force’ takes us full circle with a reprise of the rainforest FX.

Alltogethernow EP

𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐅𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 ➟ Fantastic Man - Alpha

The grind was relentless, the world moving at a pace so fast that the spin could hardly hope but keep up. As the clouds passed by slowly overhead, seemingly operating on their timeline, the people down below continued to rush and hurry bound by a constant state of hustle.

It was hard to put the pieces together behind the scenes, why had they all become this way? Bound by the constraints and ideologies which left society in a state of flux.

There was always something to be doing, something to be working towards and something else to be gained from the wicked world of work.

Reformed Society is set to appear on Basic Moves – a record which according to the record label has been a long time coming. As the label puts it ‘some things take time’.

The record is a reminiscent throwback to the best era of Tech House. Brilliant in the best sense…

PREMIERE: Reformed Society - Constant State Of Hustle [Basic Moves]

Private Privacy

DOUBLE VINYL + DIGITAL:
https://echocentricrecords.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-places-i-call-ed-home

Fourth R.A.N.D. Muzik x Echocentric Records collaboration release is an album by DC Salas. 

A1. - Regreso
DIGI ONLY: Joli rêve
A2. - Homesick
B1. - El Juego
B2. - DC Salas & Zaatar - Laminar Flow
C1. - Sol
C2. - A Precious Loss
C3. - DC Salas & Curses - Gallery's Endless Dreams
D1. - Movimientos
D2. - Au Revoir

DC Salas' second album, To The Places I Call(ed) Home, is a deeply personal exploration of memories, grief, and the concept of home, blending house, progressive, new beat, acid, goa, and trance.

Crafted over two years in his Brussels studio and on the road, the album served as a healing process following personal losses and reconnects Salas with his father's Peruvian roots. It features collaborations with Curses and Moroccan artist Zaatar, and each track reflects moments that shape his life while honoring fragments of his past.

Despite its themes of loss, the album radiates positivity with bright dancefloor moments and new beginnings

Written and Produced by Diego Cortez Salas
Mastered by Nik Kozub
Distributed by Inch by Inch
Pressed at R.A.N.D. Muzik
Designed by Marie Quataert

To The Places I Call(ed) Home

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DC Salas - To The Places I Call(ed) Home album - RMECR004

Cruising

AJ (ITA) - Never Grow Old

PREMIERE: Jamie McLeod - A Matter Of Time

B1. King Tide

I made this track for my good friends over at Planet Euphorique for their BLM-supporting compilation 'Tiny Planet vol. 2' a few months ago, decided to upload as it wasn't on SC :)

Make sure to check out the compilation if you haven't already - loads of incredible tracks and all for a good cause! 

@planeteuphorique

https://planeteuphorique.bandcamp.com/album/tiny-planet-vol-2

Lots of love, stay safe x

Resonance Advisor [Planet Euphorique]

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