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Playlist January 2023

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WL//WH - JANUARY 2023 // Electronic - Techno - Industrial - EBM - Ambient

January 23

PRE-ORDER: https://subwax.es/product/agt002/
DISCOGS: https://www.discogs.com/Mr-Barcode-Sounds-From-The-Sanitarium/release/18085870

We're back, just in time for Spring. Legend has it that the mysterious Hansel J. Tripwire was locked away at the abandoned Riverview Mental Hospital with nothing but a typewriter, a calculator and a Commodore 64 computer for company. ‘Sounds from the Sanitarium’ is the soundtrack to the party he had.

On the A, an urgent bassline propels the track forwards, balanced by glitchey samples that shoot around crisp percussion. The B is the funkier of the two, with a similarly chunky bassline providing the backdrop for shuffling high-hats and robotic synths to spiral above.

The EP is both menacing and playful, and is sure to cause some seriously wiggy peak-time and after-hours moments. AGT Records is rescuing this weapon from the vaults, all in good time.

Mr. Barcode - Sounds From The Sanitarium (AGT002)

LATIDO records has its origin in the Mordisco Club parties (Granada, South of Spain) hosted by Cobertizo (part of dj duo and producers Mordisco with releases in Atomnation, My Favorite Robots Records, Duro, Bedrocks, etc.). Artists such as John Talabot, Curses, Sascha Funke, Zombies in Miami, Red Axes or Jennifer Cardini among others have played at Mordisco Club. The Latido label is born from the characteristic sounds and influences of Mordisco Club

LATIDO celebrates its first anniversary with a compilation full of singularities. 16 tracks gathered in two volumes where the distinctive feature is the presence of multiple ingredients that are provided by the included artists.

After a successful volume 1, with volume 2 LATIDO culminates the celebration of its first anniversary in an unbeatable way. Some of the included artists are already part of the LATIDO family, having released music on the label during its first year of life (Agle, Eliezer, Ivan De la Rouch, JackWasFaster and Tiempo de Maldad). Other artists join LATIDO for the first time, offering their own particular point of view on electronic dance music (Andrea Tempo, Azaria, Disco Mortale and Julian Stetter).

Once again, very varied musical ingredients can be relished, and where lovers of sound cocktails that include techno, new wave, disco, EBM and house will enjoy it tremendously. Here the premiere of "No emotion, No devotion", a hit track from Italian artist Andrea Tempo.

PREMIERE : Andrea Tempo - No Emotion, No Devotion

When the Das Druid’s album landed in our inbox, we admittedly listened with skepticism. A whole album, a whole damn album!? But a few minutes in the skepticism turned into romanticism and we were immersed and in love with the Das Druid sound. I mean whats not to love when it sounds like a combination of three of your favourite bands - Primal Scream, The Stone Roses, and Happy Mondays.

A nod to Manchester, the Hacienda, rave culture, being ‘lost in the music’, and all music based upon groove the ‘Das Album’ is a retro-futurist approach to modern-day psychedelia. Pure bliss from start to finish Das Druid’s ‘Das Album’ is available April 22nd worldwide via Beats of No Nation.

PREMIERE : Das Druid - Anxious Oxygen

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⚡ Melodic & Deep House: https://spoti.fi/2JVCgJH
🌃 Mosaic: https://spoti.fi/2qMavuY
🍍 Organic House & Downtempo: https://spoti.fi/2K0w7vN
 👯‍♀️ Yoga Electronica: https://spoti.fi/2qJt0A9
💥 White Ocean (Burning Man): https://spoti.fi/2vrVN0W
🌌 AfrikaBurn: https://spoti.fi/2qMRUOy

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DEENARA - Arcanum [trndmsk]

Welcome to Oddity Radio - not a radio in the true sense of the word, more a collective hub curated by Alexis Le-Tan’s ear. A new loudspeaker for these independent labels, filled with artists and attitudes that we believe exemplify a creative spirit for the future.  A family brought (almost) all together for a dance & community vibe in Oddity Spaceship Paris. Biscuit and Elena Colombi doing the opening honors for our first Oddity Radio show on Rinse France. Turn on, tune in and don't drop out! ⁣⁣

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Oddity Radio avec Biscuit & Elena Colombi - 14 Avril 2022

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/emilestrunz
Track: Casual Violence
Label: https://soundcloud.com/sulkmagic
Format: Digital VA
Release date: 29/04/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/0tVulYOFPeY

One of our most favorite labels returns with their fourth various artists compilation, featuring a number of Sulk Magic's favourite artists, both established mainstays and young maestros.
Dig it.

PREMIERE | Emile Strunz - Casual Violence [Sulk Magic] 2022

Super Rhythm Trax is excited to welcome 303 enthusiast and incredible conceptual artist (check out his website) Yuri Suzuki to the label. Yuri serves up 4 acidic tracks that are perfect fit for the label, all of them giving you that little bit extra, burrowing deep into the groove whilst giving plenty of extra elements to push the listener that bit further ‘out there’.

Yuri has collaborated many times with DMX Krew and appeared on labels as diverse as Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Jnr, Jared Wilson’s 7777 and Chicago’s mighty Trax records.

https://superrhythmtrax.bandcamp.com/

Yuri Suzuki
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/yurisuzuki
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yurisuzukilondon/


Super Rhythm Trax
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeromehill
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superrhythmtrax
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superrhythmtrax/

PREMIERE: Yuri Suzuki - New Acid 3.2 (Super Rhythm Trax)

TASTE's new single SHAME GAME out now 
written + produced by Taste 
mastered by Sam Berdah at The Wall
© & (p) Taste 2022
buy on bandcamp : https://thebandtaste.bandcamp.com/track/shame-game

Shame Game

Before the year comes to an end, the respected Bolivia/France-based label HEARec found some time to add another solid release to their eclectic and rich catalogue: “Acid Jungle” is the new episode in the history of the skilled and promising duo Dos Locos. Hailing from Tel Aviv, their well-received previous works published on New Day Everyday, Ritual, and Maccabi House tell a lot about them: The lads do like acid!

Fusing elements from many a genre, mainly House, Techno, and Trance, their sonority is fully devoted to delivering an energetic and frenzied message to the dance floor through well-constructed and creative cuts.

The track we were solicited to review/premiere follows the successful recipe and presents itself wrapped with a mind-blowing peak-time coat and a Blade-like aura. The acid layer is simply insane and brings back good recollections from our rave time back in the day.

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label: https://hearec.bandcamp.com/

Follow @sjrdx1behmmh and @hearec, peeps!

PREMIERE424 // Dos Locos - Under Attack

BUY : https://lesyeuxorange.bandcamp.com/album/driving-blind-vol-3

LYO is back and ready to take your breath away with the third volume of their compilation series «Driving Blind». They follow up on their second exquisite offering with a selection of 23 tracks from captivating artists from all over the globe. Selected with care and love, it will bring you on an electronic journey pushing boundaries of style featuring only fresh new original music!

Driving Blind (Vol​​​.​​​3)

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Das Komplex - Chociaz Raz

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Artist: https://soundcloud.com/saunterdj
Track: Trust The Traffic
Label: https://soundcloud.com/citybowlwaxnetwork
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 04/01/23
YouTube: https://youtu.be/bjqMC_kBlN0

Next up on City Bowl Wax Network is Johannesburg born, Cape Town based producer and DJ, Saunter with a euphoric 5 tracker that features a slamming, old school remix from Biodive. Drawing inspiration from rave, proto-trance, progressive, and the golden days of tech house, Saunter creates transcendental dancefloor bombs with the right balance between groove, atmosphere, and melody - an ode to the glory of the late 90s and early 2000s.

PREMIERE | Saunter - Trust The Traffic [City Bowl Wax Network] 2022

Phonk D - Disco Goodies

Release: 03.01.2023

@phonk-d's Disco Goodies came out in 2018 on NDYD Records and contains four stellar tracks, each one with a unique twist. 
The EP quickly achieved international attention, Darlin' Playa was
licensed by Cafe del Mar and is still one of his most successful tracks.
Now available as a re-release on Footjob.

Buy on Bandcamp

Phonk D - Paradise Voyage

Title Track of Benedikt Frey's debut EP on Malka Tuti.
Record is released 17/01/2023

Recall

Benedikt Frey - Recall

"Affekt Unit is the new collaboration between Philoxenia Records founders Luigi Di Venere and Neu Verboten.Under this moniker they blend their musical obsessions, rooted in Italo house, Frankfurt EBM-house and trance.

We’re delighted to host this exciting and electrifying hybrid sound on their debut EP ‘Dust Off’ !

Diving deep into the excellent EBM sous acid vs downtempo trance trip offered by ‘The Struggle’ and ‘Dust Off’, it’s clear that both are in total control of their subject.

And it goes on with the more speedy-techno meets celestial trance ‘My Spirit’, a nod to Transcultural Shamanism "which is the true core of what raves, festivals and clubs are : moments of detachment from reality as well as places of sharing across cultures", as Luigi explains.

'Loon In Moon' is the super trippy and catchy tune of the EP, where once again Luigi's voice can be heard, whispering’ My Thumb instead of an onion’, words taken from a poem by the late American poet & novelist Sylvia Plath.

Throughout the whole experience offered by Affekt Unit, we dig into their common influences, and take pleasure in finding lots of clever ideas & elements added into the mix. The true force of these 4 tracks is that they never derail from the main goal, keeping an infectious groove going on and on and on."



Affekt Unit
https://soundcloud.com/neuverboten https://soundcloud.com/luigidivenere 


Dischi Autunno
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dischiautunno
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dischiautunno/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dischiautunno/

PREMIERE: Affekt Unit - Dust Off (Dischi Autunno)

"It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure."  — Frederick Sanger

Dazion
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thedazion
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedazion/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dazion__/

Electric Shapes
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/electric_shapes
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EleShapes
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electric.shapes/

Unreleased Territory vol. 4

PREMIERE: Dazion - Alpine Action (Electric Shapes)

Atom™'s new EP »Nacht« includes four tracks, two of which are previously unreleased titles from the »Neuer Mensch« album: »Nacht« and »Geometrische Einheit.« The other two tracks, »Sprechender Raum« and »Selbst,« also appear on the »Neuer Mensch« album but are presented here in alternate versions.
This selection of tracks was created with the growing meta-techno dancefloor in mind and will be available on 12 inch vinyl or digitally through the raster platform.

Nacht

Atom™ »Nacht« taken from »Nacht«

Midi Magic, DJ Normal 4, founding member and co-creator of Aiwo rec., Warning Berlin, Mana Abundance.

With high praised releases for respected Berlin label 'Klasse Wrecks' and stars of 2016, 'BrothersFromDifferentMothers' from Lyon, his sound has captured a geist that led to killer remixes on 'Dekmantel', 'Especial' and more.

This time on a Lithuanian label, Electric Shapes' VA which is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

• www.electricshapes.bandcamp.com

@djnormal4
@electric_shapes

PREMIERE : DJ Normal 4 - Who Am I [ES020]

The dulcet sounds drifted in through the window, carried by a soft breeze from the west of the town. Every morning it provided an organic wake up call; a sweet soundtrack to life in this quaint little place. Its source remained unknown - even if if you followed the path towards it, soon it evaporated as if it were emitting from the air itself. There were theories and speculations; some said it was the ghost of a mythical siren sent to lure in sailors from their ships, others maintained that it was simply the way the wind echoed off the cliff face. But ultimately there was no explanation needed, they counted themselves lucky to wake to these sweet sonics each and every day.

Under his Tolouse Low Trax moniker, Paris-based producer Detlef Weinrich has become revered for his psychedelic compositions, often stretched into unfurling opuses. For his fifth album Leave Me Alone - which is set for release on his regular haunt, Hamburg's Bureau B - he experiments with a more playful sound, matching dub and hip hop influences with raw, tribalistic electronica. Amongst the LP's 13 tracks is 'Ossia', a collaboration with Rome-based singer and producer Eva Geist who layers a political spoken passage from Italian poet Pier Paolo Pasolini over Detlef's lumbering electronics.

PREMIERE: Tolouse Low Trax feat. Eva Geist - Ossia [Bureau B]

More or less Symmetry

beda in the house! https://soundcloud.com/bedaaa

tracklist:

klopferbande - ritual
flastic maria huana
King Kong - He Was A Friend
arabic trance
thomas romain rmx
Carlos Perón - Espace Ouvert
relax - radio hörn
B2_Swed
Strahlenzentrum - olympia VII
Depeche Mode - Flies on the windscreen edit 00 demo edit
kosmische radio
kluentah - der wüstensohn
men with secrets wit master rack
Kevin Lazar – Dark Heart Cabaret
Mantronix - We Control The Dice
Curt Cress - Power Vein
dark side of the mon
dsor DNE - centro D´`erezione
Slob shoip - so nah
russn edit
Taulard (Olta Karawane Edit)
cusp - venusian atmosphere
Chrisma - Thank You

Rat Life Radio 10 with studio guest Beda (LYL March 15th 2019)

Caravan Clang

25 years COMPOST RECORDS label anniversary - 10x12" box set
PRE-ORDER LINK : https://CompostRecords.lnk.to/25CompostRecords
Release date : 24 May 2019

25 years https://soundcloud.com/compost Records. Wow! For many people, the record label is rated among the best German independent labels for club music, and it specifically belongs to the leading labels for house, future jazz and downbeat.

This box-set serves as proof of that achievement: Dozens of producers, DJs, label owners and companions sent us their thoughts, dedications and quotes.

In fact, Compost is known worldwide for being the pioneer of the future jazz genre. The very successful and highly acclaimed compilation-series like "Future Sounds Of Jazz", "Glücklich", "Elaste" or "Party Keller" are still timeless highlights.

For the 20 years anniversary we published a book - five years later, we put the music into focus even more again: The idea was to ask esteemed artists to reinterpret their favorite Compost tunes. So we are excited about getting both talented young artists and many of our all-time favorite producers involved in this project. Alongside the remixes and sold out vinyl label-classics, there are a few exclusive tracks in this strongly limited, hand numbered 10x12'' box. In addition, you can explore the impressive label history and background stories in the liner notes written by Michael Reinboth himself. On top of this, the anniversary box includes some Compost-gimmicks, a download code (for all vinyl tracks and some bonus ones) and a mixtape by each Michael Reinboth and Thomas Herb.

25 Compost Records - RECORD 6

LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

PREMIERE : Marsmobil - Sometimes I Don't Regret (Die Orangen Remix)

Taken of Remix Pack One, now available on Malka Tuti's Bandcamp:

Xen & Yovav - Shavit (Tolouse Low Trax White Smoke Remix)

Various: Zwischenfall - A New Decade Vol. 01 2010 RVOU 005

Half A Twin - Arbeitstitel (Zwischenfall BO. Club Sampler) 2010 (RVOU 005)

art:cast °95 | Ivan Smagghe

It’s a sunny autumn day in London and French born DJ/Producer/label-head, musical genius of all trades, Ivan Smagghe just finished curating 59 minutes of handpicked eclectic tunes for Torture the Artist, and is up for a quick chat.  Besides yielding some iconic tracks over the years as Ivan Smagghe or as part of accomplished collaborations - Smagghe & Cross, It’s a Fine Line, RMVN, Black Strobe, to name a few, Smagghe has made a name for himself as a very fine digger and innovative selector, setting a wide spectrum of moods in venues worldwide.  For the 95th edition of TTA’s art:cast series, Ivan takes listeners far out on a trippy ride with seductive beats, industrial groove and electro genre-bending  - a ticket to a no frills warehouse rave (of your dreams) at ungodly hours. Here are some words with Ivan, for the full Smagghe experience.

Read the interview here:
https://torturetheartist.net/2020/09/30/artcast-95-interview-ivan-smagghe

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Ivan Smagghe: https://facebook.com/ivansmagghe // @colonelgatito // https://instagram.com/ivan_smggh_jmm

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art:cast #95 by Ivan Smagghe

Interview

art:cast °95 | Ivan Smagghe

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