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As if he were in a strange recurring dream, each night he awoke at the same time, disturbed by the crashing waves below his lodgings. No matter the season, as soon as night fell the sea seemed to have a mind of its own; murky black depths that threatened to drag you beneath. But it wasn't just the water that stirred a fear deep inside him, something else strange was at play here...

Rinse France resident Clad launches his new label, GRID Records, into the world, with a compilation called 'Improvisations'. Like the name suggests, he brings on board friends and affiliates, including E-Unity, Realitycheck, Troy Gunner, C.Coiffure and Théo Muller, to deliver tracks that explore new sonic paths and divert from their normal output. Like the concept itself, Clad took an instinctive approach to putting the compilation together, not overthinking or over-polishing its final format, instead appreciating the contributions as they are: "beautifully human".

Improvisations

PREMIERE: Théo Muller - Sea Spirits Calling [GRID Records]

Further on the trail of 90s sonic specters, Die Orakel releases @ikezwanikken‘s Stone Diviner EP, an affiliate with Index Records. The titular track amalgamates the momentum of sparse yet heavy weight breakbeats with the warmth of lush pads, and literally reverberating 90s trance or IDM elements along granular rave signals. The beauty of its subsequent tracks lies in their well-tempered, fresh exploration of past sonic phenomenons, devoid of today’s retromania. 

A1: Inter
A2: Petale
B1: Stone Diviner
B2: Fight Day
B3: Isobutyl

Written and produced: Ike Zwanikken
Mastering: Lopazz
Lacquer cut: Daniel Krieger at SST
Artwork: Orakel Studio
Cover photo: Neven Allgeier
Words: Patrick Raddatz

Label: Die Orakel
Catalog: ORKL-17
Format: 12" vinyl, digital
Distribution: One Eye Witness
Release: Fri 13 August 2021

Stone Diviner

Ike – Stone Diviner

Like trudging through viscous air, I Lost All My Data is a blissed-out barrage of sub-bass that nods to a long-lasting passion for sound system culture.

Uploading turbo-charged wubs with molten glass melodies, the debut EP of Giovanni Bonelli (aka @notteinfinita) is a welcomed update for UK style broken-techno conventions. Booting-up with its title track, the record quadrisects the fabric of digital music, each cut a sonic reprogramming of its predecessor. ‘Slippery Tuff’ references off-kilter club, while on the flip, ‘Ecstatic Dub (Roller Mix)’ climaxes in an ultra-sensory faux-organic whorl. Unplugging the whole thang, ‘Oxygen’ manipulates post-dubstep textures, into a data-roused jungle tunnel.

Deciphering glitched-out signal processing and harmonic warps, I Lost All My Data is the software upgrade that every system needs – do not choose Later; Install Now.

Tracklist:
A1. I Lost All My Data 
A2. Slippery Tuff 
B1. Ecstatic Dub (Roller Mix)
B2. Oxygen

Release date: 
07 September 2021

Format: 
Limited edition 12” vinyl with full colour sleeve; digital

Pre-order: indexrecords.bandcamp.com
Worldwide distribution by Rubadub

Credits: 

Written & produced by Giovanni Bonelli in Berlin (2020 – 2021)
Mixed by Giovanni Bonelli and Jordan Juras
Mastered & cut by Beau Thomas @ Ten Eight Seven
Sleeve design by Amos Turner, using samples from Hannah Davis-Gray @ Dangerous Goods Jewellery in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Centre label design by Amos Turner & Maximillian Holzer

I Lost All My Data

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Notte Infinita – I Lost All My Data [INDEX009 Previews]

2021 Summer Sampler incoming! Officially our 50th (!) release, and couldn’t be more happy than to celebrate it with this great group of artists. A double vinyl with eight tracks: Label regulars Konduku, Oceanic and Pugilist. A first track of Djoser, Panda Lassow and RAFF on the label, and it’s an honour to release the debuts of Kia and Floid. Special thanks to Woody92 for the shining artwork. 

A1 - Djoser - Faded Red
A2 - Pugilist - Contagion
B1 - Raff - Yeye
B2 - Floid - PJEE
C1 - Panda Lassow - Trip
C2 - Oceanic - Sulphur Streams
D1 - Konduku - Extrakt
D2 - Kia - Blue Rain

Pre-orders up everywhere, releasedate is August 23rd!

Bandcamp

V/A - Nous'klaer Audio Summer Sampler 2021 (previews)

Phillip Jondo - Little Princess EP - Dekmantel - DKMNTL089

a1. Phillip Jondo & Maxwell Sterling - Dunkelziffer I
a2. Phillip Jondo & Maxwell Sterling - Dunkelziffer II
b1. Phillip Jondo & Dj Plead - Whowhuwho
b2. Phillip Jondo & Dj Plead - Whowhuwho (Moa Pillar Remix)

https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/phillip-jondo-little-princess-ep
https://phillipjondo.bandcamp.com/album/little-princess-ep

And here we are, after all is said and done, right at the dawn of club music’s reconstruction era. Granted, listening to dance music these days comes with a weird, two-faced sense of longing: a) for careless times before the world shut down, and b) for a (hopefully) near & ecstatic future, that’s, however, in desperate need of new ideas, sounds, and rave ethics.

In this sense, the Little Princess EP on Dekmantel by Cologne-based producer and DJ Jondo feels especially of the time. Each track draws elements from the hardcore club trajectory, but reassembles them in song-like arrangements that work just as fine in any headphone or home listening scenario, without ever falling for the self-serving traps that people mean when they talk of “deconstructed”.

Of course, none of this was intended. The tracks on this EP were created between pre-pandemic London, Berlin and Cologne in April 2019 and January 2020.
The A-side has Jondo team up with Maxwell Sterling, double bass player, producer, and master of dense soundscapes. Both had been fans of each other’s releases for some time, when they eventually caught up and locked down in a London flat, packed with a Digitakt, a bunch of VSTS, an autotune pedal and Maxwell's double bass. For Jondo, the real-life aspect of their collaboration has been key, as those tracks present a process of consolidation between two musical minds who tackle their craft from entirely different angles. The results are two sprawling, dynamic pieces, grimly titled “Dunkelziffer I” and “Dunkelziffer II” (the German term for “dark figure” has been ubiquitous all year, describing the looming undertow of a much higher number of infections).

The opener’s dimly lit, RPG-like atmospheres remain drumless all the way, giving a nod to the expansive compositions of Maxwell’s long-time collaborator James Ferraro. "Dunkelziffer II”, on the other hand, is a full-on club affair, whose complex grooves and muffled drums get disrupted midway through the track by a set of icy synths, only to break open and trade every bit of rave energy for a comforting ambient variation on the lead melody.

The B-side “Whowhuwho" sees Jondo create a powerful piece of instrumental-grime-turned-quasi-jungle alongside DJ Plead, an Australian producer with Lebanese roots, based in Berlin.
The track is a perfect canvas for their shared love of intensely percussive jams, as glimpses of Diwali-style handclaps, dubby delays and classic breaks drive the track forward.
On his remix, Russian techno prodigy Moa Pillar warps the already minimalist lead synth into an even more sparse yet effective dancefloor weapon.

Jondo curated and finished all these team efforts with the same care and curiosity that inform his DJ sets, as well as his A&R process at Spa, the label he runs with Friday Dunard and DJ Brom. (Given the chemistry between these 4 tracks and the people involved, it comes as no surprise that Spa has put out releases by everyone featured on this record.) Just as in his sets, the Little Princess EP proudly exhibits all of Jondo’s musical roots – but instead of sticking with one style, tempo or formula, he innately trusts the music to let it take us into unexpected territories, time and time again. Buckle up and enjoy the trip.

DKMNTL089 // Phillip Jondo - Little Princess EP

If you read this, we have made contact.

You are not alone.

Life is present beyond your physical realm and senses.

Our quantum settings are incompatible with yours. 
Our physical form cannot be expressed in your dimension. 

By abducting a Human, and reshaping his senses to ours, we are able to reach Earth lifeforms and beyond.

 His name is Androne.

The following transmissions are made in the 5th Dimension to be deployed in Earth Realm (Dimension Z-67).

A1 - Contact
A2 - Abducted By Aliens
B1 - Abducted By Aliens (A Strange Wedding Hypergravity Remix)
B2 - Signs Of Life

Written and mixed by Jerome Boutin
Mastered at Enisslab by Neel
Artwork by Andria
Print by Gros Oeuvre

Signs Of Life

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WORST010 - Androne - Signs of Life (previews)

@loiflan
@purespacefm

Naarm's LOIF explores a deep IDM-tinged bass driven tek world with his track "In Flux" for the Pure Space PROXIMITY II compilation 

PROXIMITY II is out January 20th on Pure Space 
Pre-order ~~~~> https://bit.ly/3IhmrtY

pi pi pi premiere: LOIF - In Flux (Pure Space)

Years have passed.
Several lifeforms digested and built symbiosis relationship with the Freefloat.

Landscape have changed.
Through adaptation and mutation, the life-swarm erased the scars at the surface of the Earth.

Climax has been reached.

Eternal love to the artists who accepted and took part in this adventure.
Aa Sudd, BZMC, Glass, Jan Loup, Jonnnah, Jonquera, Katatonic Silentio, Myako, Plants Army Revolver, Space Drums Meditation, Varuna, Yushh.
They broadened the stylistic borders of the initial material and pushed further the ideas and what we expected for Freefloat to be.

Mastered by Guillaume Lespinasse
Artwork by Fauxbits999
Print by Gros:Oeuvre

Freefloat Remixes

C. Coiffure - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Yushh Remix)

https://digitalmusiconly.bandcamp.com/album/replicator

12 Live Recordings via CD + Digital
Out 25th March 2022

Mastered - OTHER JOE @josephbuchan
ARTWORK - www.luciadominguez.co
DMO - @morganwright

DMO - Bleekman's Replicator

Bleekman - Unknown : Untaught [DMO]

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Sequoia Affinis - First Epoque

Sangre Voss brings a heavy dose of brooding, lysergic chug to International Extraterrestrial Music.

'Konon' is out May 12th on International Extraterrestrial Music.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3F8Rx6W

@sangrevoss

Konon EP

Premiere: Sangre Voss - Ramen Whispers [International Extraterrestrial Music]

Artist: Jan Loup 
Track: Tribalglitch with Incitation
Release: Looking for MTH 
Cat: SSTR/VA02 
Label: Sous Traitance 
Release date: 25 JAN 2023 
Format: 1x CD Various Artists 
Pre-order: https://soustraitance-sstr.bandcamp.com/album/looking-for-mth

Looking For MTH (SSTR/VA02)

DT PREMIERE: Jan Loup  - Tribalglitch With Incitation [Sous Traitance] (2023)

ABBASSN-36

Even a historical pandemic couldn't take summer hits away from our hearts. Exceptional circumstances means extraordinary compilation.

Worst Records' hall of fame welcomes new faces around the pool for a 13-stages enlightened drama. You'll meet again with the top 3 podium made of A Strange Wedding, Jacques Satre and Christian Coiffure, all rensponsible for our first three releases, building up a mesmerizing, out of season mental workout. Extending the dimension of trance towards Saint-Etienne, Del.Duc brings on a curious yet serene astral travel, and we can also count on the distant reinforcements from the Toulouse Gouffre Club crew with Jan Loup and her glitch spangled hazy dub from far futures and the new trance comer from Bordeaux, Lazuli.
Special friends are also gathering here, as Myako is sewing on thin fabric a vaporous dub in shades of grey, the one-and-only master touki Théo Muller delivers a cinematic remedy to confinement.
Liberation through hearing, it is, as borders explode with the presence of many : Yin Yang Audio in a transatlantic IDM/break jump, Forest on Stasys (aka Mental Resonance) and his tough shamanic dance, Clemens Friedrich slowing down all senses at once and JEANS, boss of Oracle Bones, speeding us up in the hyperloop.
Finally, as teamwork means a lot, we have given the pleasure to open this compilation to the four-headed Lausanne/Freiberg hydra 4POTR and their cryptic transdimensional message, and the honor of closing this pool party to the 404 trio gem from Candoblé with a fine piece of wonder.

Not exactly your usual summer compilation, nor the hits you could imagine, but surely the music you'll need under the hot sun of 2020.

Free download on Bandcamp : bit.ly/2YJz0e1 🌀

Design by Elie Pesqué
Words by Alexandre Richet
 Mastered by Jules Payen
Selection by Les Fils de Jacob

Download on Bandcamp

Christian Coiffure - Prince Of Pilat

@dddaze
@bizarro-recs

Daze 'Complaints Department' 
Bizarro Records BZR004
2 x 12" Gatefold Sleeve, Yellow Vinyl, Full Album, LP

Pre-Order digital and vinyl here: www.bizarro.store

A1: War Room
A2: Two Minds

B1: Melodronin Syndrome
B2: Manipulation Condition

C1: Whiplash
C2: Complaints Department

D1: Pocket Watch Acid
D2: Coma Scale

Artwork by Underprose, Milano
Written by: Daze
Mastered by: Corey Kikos @buttersessions studios

All Rights Reserved
P and C Bizarro Records, 2020

We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Daze // Complaints Department LP // Previews

Out 05/02/2021 - 300 x 12" vinyl & digital
https://fanlink.to/kzh05_ulv  
Mastering Neel @ Enisslab 

"Two of the finest french shamans unite around the @ultralowvelocity project.

@a_strange_wedding & @antoinnnnnnnne have contributed to give Saint Etienne a taste of psychedelia and freedom thanks to the Positive Education Festival and their label : @worst_rec

It's about transe, fractals & spirituality."

A STRANGE WEDDING & ANTOINE PRES. ULTRA LOW VELOCITY EP [KZH05]

Ransom Note is an online music, arts and culture magazine. We provide a home for readers and writers with boundless enthusiasm, esoteric knowledge, fierce opinions and impeccable taste.

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.

Alongside this we offer musings on film, books, life, and art, generating some context and controversy as an antidote to the reheated PR that clogs up the internet. Our office is fuelled by Tunnock’s Bars, cat memes, hangovers and a ridiculous, never ending love for our culture.

We're always interested in getting new writers on board – feel free to get in touch if you’ve got a story to tell.

With love until the grave.

genres only exist to address the human need to quantify the omnipresent lack thereof.

PREMIERE: Théo Muller - Sea Spirits Calling [GRID Records]

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