Proud to announce the first vinyl-only release of Rythmē, the Turin queer party made with the effort of all of his lovers and dancers. The A-side opens with “Tomorrowasteland”, an unsolved question about the dancefloor of tomorrow – a dystopic stomper with ready-made and punk attitude. Hard Ton served a luscious waterfall of synths on their original take of Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo’s song while Matteo Coffetti “Kelakitun’s Pipe” explore an exotic imaginary with an Indian touch. Last but not least, an original track of Barabbah closes this heavyweight vinyl with a sunny and techy bumper. And yes, inside the sleeve there’s also a download code for a Rythmē exclusive and digital only edit…

Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo / ( r ) - The Side Effects of Self Indulgence (Hard Ton rmx)
is written by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo and performed with Daniele Pagliero. Recorded by Paul Beauchamp and mixed by Hard Ton

PREMIERE : Marco Pizzini - Tomorrowasteland

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]

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/sordid-sound-system
Track:  Beginning To See The Dub
Label: https://soundcloud.com/hoga-nord-rekords
Format: 7" Vinyl, Digital, EP
Release date: 30/8/21
Purchase: https://hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com/album/hnr041-escape-temps-au-revoir-beginning-to-see-the-dub

Stuart Evans, aka Sordid Sound System is one of the founders of The Green Door Studio, a not for profit, analogue recording studio in Glasgow which emerged from an increasing disillusionment with the modern ways of music production. His sound holds outsider qualities, being everything but generic and predictable, mixing dub with movie soundtracks in the tradition of Carpenter and Italian likes.
On this 7” released on Höga Nord Rekords, SSS deconstructs and rebuilds music in an imaginative style, pairing tribe-ritual “back to ape”-beats with synthesized cosmic harmonies. In a way, we are enjoying straight up dub here but this record is also a display of the vivid and creative Glasgow scene centred round “The Green Door Studio” and record labels like “Invisible, Inc.” where krautrock and 80’s/90’s electronic music is part of the foundation. Boundless joy for every girl and boy!

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PREMIERE | Sordid Sound System - Beginning To See The Dub [Höga Nord] 2021

Nothing could prepare him for the colossal amount of commitments and activities that lay ahead of him. The deadlines were many and the hours few, he had to get his priorities in order and sleep and health would not make the cut. But this wasn't his first rodeo, he was well trained in the art of ploughing through. He no longer needed his vitamins to get the job done.

Known for his hazy, off-kilter take on electronica, Tel Aviv-based producer and Age Of Self co-founder Autarkic has brought us some of our favourite leftfield dancefloor releases, for the likes of Bahnsteig 23, Höga Nord and Life and Death. For his new LP, a debut on Red Axes' Garzen Records, he goes back to his roots, leaving the club behind for songs sung in Hebrew over guitars, synths, samples and lo-fi atmospheres.

PREMIERE: Autarkic - Vitamin X [Garzen Records]

We have something special for our next release. Mickey Dagger, who previously released a track on our Spiral compilation, sent us a whole EP jam-packed with incredible remixes.

For his cover of the ‘80s kitsch track "I Want To Be A Cowboy,” he adds his signature dark and slightly sarcastic spin.
On the remix side, we have Antoni Maiovvi, who did a big room mix, Thomas Von Party, who made a breaky one, Ortrotasce, who contributed an old-school industrial/EBM version, and label head Facets, who was convinced by Mickey to provide his own take.

All the proceeds will be going to ISKWEU Project an indigenous women's shelter in Canada.

https://soundcloud.com/mickeydagger
https://soundcloud.com/facets-music
https://soundcloud.com/samorecords

PREMIERE⚡️Mickey Dagger - I Want To Be A Cowboy (Facets Mix) [Samo Records]

Her brow furrowed as she narrowed her eyes and studied the lines on his face. He surveyed the creases around his eyes, the way his mouth turned at the corners and his eyes glazed over. The face that had stared back at her for the last 30 years. She’d always been able to read his expression but things had changed - he’d changed. From one day to the next his temperament was different; at times she felt as though she no longer recognised him, as though he were a stranger in her home. 

It’s been a little while since Timothy Clerkin took centre stage on his own Insult To Injury imprint, one of our very own RSN sub-labels. A certified collection of club tackle, the four acid-driven tracks on ‘Plasticity’ are a firm reminder that dance floors are very much back in action. Kicking off with the morphing acidic title track, the EP then brings a tribute to Alice In Chains - a reinterpretation of classic anthem ‘Would?’ alongside Buran, of which proceeds from the single will be donated to Mind UK - before the stripped back 808-laced ‘Mercurial’ lands and the rave-indebted hardcore of ‘Order 66’ rounds off proceedings.

Plasticity EP

PREMIERE: Timothy Clerkin - Mercurial [Insult To Injury]

German electro producer Martin Matiske has recently breathed new life into his Blackploid alias. The project’s revival continues to bear fruit with the Strange Stars EP, Matiske’s third Blackploid release of 2021 and second for Central Processing Unit after issuing March’s Cosmic Traveler EP through the Sheffield label.
Blackploid’s two CPU drops have more in common than just stargazing titles. Those who enjoyed Cosmic Traveler will find plenty to like again in these four tracks, with Matiske serving up another quartet of snappy machine-funk joints this time around. However, while there is certainly a throughline between Cosmic Traveler and Strange Stars, this EP also finds Blackploid pushing the envelope at points by taking risks with his synth tones which thrill and enliven the record.
In keeping with the cosmic theme of Blackploid’s recent output, Strange Stars kicks off with ‘Star Patrol’. While this opening cut is full of the same needle-gun basslines and dinky synths that characterised Cosmic Traveler, the drum programming eschews the broken beats favoured by many in the scene for a straight house/techno snap. It makes for a very groovy jam, one with Drexciya, Computer World-era Kraftwerk and a pinch of Space Dimension Controller in its mix.
Indeed, the only track on Strange Stars which skips along on a broken beat is second entry ‘The Signal’. ‘The Signal’ also features some of Blackploid’s most impressive electronics programming to date, announcing itself with a brilliantly unusual synth that sounds like an old video game unit which has just gained sentience. When this alien tone is combined with another precision-engineered bassline the track invokes the grizzly bangers of the L.I.E.S. label, though the keyboard stabs which enter periodically also hint to the funkier electro of, say, Egyptian Lover.
‘The Unseen’, the first B-side of Strange Stars, finds Blackploid bringing together many of the things which made the two previous tunes such standouts. A steady four-on-the-floor and a slightly haunted feel to the synth choices casts back to ‘Star Patrol’, but much like ‘The Signal’ this joint also features some rather weird tones which are a hair’s breadth away from machine malfunction. It’s a feeling which runs through to closing cut ‘Light Corridor’, a number where melodies and anti-melodies zip around an array of gurgling electronic cells.
Martin Matiske’s fine run of Blackploid EPs continues with the intergalactic electro stylings of Strange Stars.

Strange Stars

PREMIERE : Blackploid - The Signal

https://soundcloud.com/99-letters
https://soundcloud.com/mote-records
🛒 https://moterecords.bandcamp.com/album/byakuya-ep
🔊 https://youtu.be/guN4R4PcCvk

99LETTERS aka. Takahiro Kinoshita, a Japanese artist who has been an active member of the local Japanese underground scene and has a knack to create deep and atmospheric soundscapes.

Early on he was producing chip-tunes using a Nintendo Gameboy, these experiments gravitated him towards a more raw and esoteric house and techno soundscapes.

Takahiro Kinoshita says BYAKUYA/MIDNIGHT SUN’ EP was composed by using various noise components and Tape-like sounds to take the listener on a fascinating and atmospheric voyage.

Tracklist:

1. Byakuya / 白夜
2. Hakai / 破壊
3. Inpei / 隠蔽

Byakuya / 白夜' EP

Inpei / 隠蔽

PREMIERE: 99LETTERS  - Inpei / 隠蔽 [MOTE Records]

SKYTEK - Little Voice

kickin

Enter the sanctum of resonance. HARMONIC COLLAPSE weaves a dystopian tapestry of metallic reverberations, tribal pulses, and trance‑laden arpeggios. This chapter of the Frequency Descent series is a ritual of sonic annihilation and rebirth.
#Trance #DarkTechno #IndustrialTechno #EBM #Apotheosis

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