R$N Premieres January 2016

We need "Paradise", we need it now more than ever: an island some place, a drink in hand and the sweet chimes of music in the air. Lootbeg has provided it in audio form for us on the latest release from Blaq Numbers.

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PREMIERE: Lootbeg - Paradise - Blaq Numbers

Unshackled and unstrapped from their musical umbrage, the handclaps and snatched conversations of the beautiful people are what they demand right now.

PREMIERE: Gatos Negros - Chipotle (Inflagranti Remix) - Rotten City Files

The water ripples and shimmers as he swims into the sunlight: the trees cast shadows across the lake as his stroke quickens and he dives below the waves. He isn't entirely certain as to where he will swim, maybe the cliffs in the distance or the embankment beside the stepping stones, he smiles as he remembers it isn't about the conclusion of his dive but the motion of getting there... Ethyl & Flori have delivered a new three track EP of depth. It's immersive like the lake. 

PREMIERE: Ethyl & Flori - Swimming - E&F Records

Circling the sounds, the rhythms repeat as the triangles ting and coconuts are clopped. Chris & Jamie take turns to scratch & ratchet while Mr. Reich claps steadily, as The Head peers in curiously through the hallway and ponders poor Pickles' predicament...

PREMIERE: Ess O Ess - Cantillate - Not An Animal Records

The white island is a mythical place, a magical haven amidst the adriatic sea. Blue waves move above the sands as they slowly come and go with the tide. A school of fish swims beneath the water amidst corals and underneath the warm rays of the sun. 

Paul Twin has captured the essence of melancholy and euphoria on this release for Nous'klaer Audio.

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PREMIERE: Paul Twin - A White Island - Nous'klaer Audio

Phillip Lauer seems to be generating a vast amount of music at present. Every couple of weeks an email will drop into our busy inboxes with a new release or remix from the Tuff City Kids member. His album for Permanent Vacation last year caught our attention with it's zealous melodies and excitable percussion. It was a real feel good affair which can often go amiss. His sensibilities remain similar on his latest release for Futureboogie. It seemed an odd choice of release for both the label and artist, however, after a listen it begins to make perfect sense.

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PREMIERE: Lauer - Birsk - Futureboogie Recordings

Full of cyclical riffing, circulating clapping and rotating reverberation. A revolving, coiling, chaotic, corkscrewer of a rekkid. Wind it up.

PREMIERE: Benoit Gagnon & Massimiliano Pagliara - In Spirals - Correspondant

In a small circle, the chanting chief is enclosed by half-dozen followers, frenzied and fired as they hear his song. A creature, half-man/ half-porpoise and a tribal head who has been wronged.

PREMIERE: Carrot Green & Selvagem - Ossain (Disco Halal)

Bruised and battered he wandered through the snowy realms of the forest: he cries out loud but no sound falls from his tongue. He has no sense of direction, no sense of himself and no sense of what lies before him. He never thought it would come to this, a run in the bittersweet darkness between the trees. Silence echoes all around. In the distance a light glimmers, a flicker, a flame in the blackened murks of hell. He picks up his pace, he runs frantically, his feet a frozen stomp...

PREMIERE: Mattia Trani - Frozen Stomp (Pushmaster Discs)

The snow was finally beginning to melt as icy droplets leaked down the side of the mountainside. The fields would grow again and the people of the hill would soon be rewarded with green plains and flowers amidst the breeze. The winter had seen them live through troubled times: the battered huts sat huddled on the face of the mountain, dislodged and beaten by the elements. The sun however, had risen, and this was the begging of the new chapter, a new moment. 

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PREMIERE: Johannes Albert - Frentic Moment (Klamauk)

Memories are funny things. They often come and go in a blur, appear as an image or as a distant dream from times past. Fond or bitter they can carry a haunting presence, a wavering feeling or a sense of edge. In this Invisible City there was little to remind him of the past, all he had to base his surroundings on were those images of a sunkissed history...

PREMIERE: Invisible Cities Feat. Ali Love - Sunkissed Memory (Apiento & LX-Menace Dub) [Double Drop]

It's four o'clock in the morning and it's starting to get light. It's four o'clock in the morning and it's starting to get light. It's four o'clock in the morning and it's starting to get light... There is certainly a theme with this one, however it seems to have tapped into that trance like hypnotism which generally falls rather surprisingly around four AM. As the spells of a late night begin to wear off and the tiredness starts to kick in alongside a sense of melancholy euphoria it is quite simply time to go home, it's getting light. Leave on a high, leave high. 

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PREMIERE: Esther Silex - Oskar (Studio Barnhus)

"Did I say something wrong? Just tell me". Spellbound by the voice on the phone, disguised, mutated, hiding his real identity, she would feel uneasy answering and imparting the truth she held close.

PREMIERE: Theus Mago - Wrong Spell (Duro)

The court whispered nervously following the verdict. The deed was done. The monarchy were victorious as another bedraggled gentleman was ushered away to the gallows. The curtains close and a whirring chord echoes through the chamber, the noise piercing the ears of all present to hear in a show of power... 

Based in Dublin, Lerosa has been steadily releasing music for over ten years now for labels that include Ostgut Ton, HotMix and Ferox Records. His latest outing is on Slow Motion Records as he delivers a four track EP full of exotic synth layers, deep basslines and hearty drums. This one is good.

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PREMIERE: Lerosa - La Monarca [Slow Motion Records]

The wires in the laboratory were beggining to tighten as the sparks illuminated the darkened room. The experiment had been years in planning and many had struggled ferociously with their inner demons over the course of the project. The group of scientists had teetered on the edge of electronic breakdown so many times before but this was the closest that they had come to total catastophic failing. Would it work? 

Based in Brooklyn Chupacabras has found form on his tapes for Tutamen and his EP for Go Finger. He features on a split 12" with Brother Y and finds himself exploring elements of cosmic house.

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PREMIERE: Chupacabras - Electronic Breakdown [Tutamen]

A long morning had left Philippe scratching to connect the sum of the wired parts together, to string them into a semblance, a structure. Cables had been coupled, triggers synced, matrix mapped. He needed respite, some food, some wine, some space. 

PREMIERE: Offset - Moist (Morgan Hammer Remix) [Factor City]

The hum of a guitar can be heard blowing on the breeze between the trees of the Hubalub island. The crowd gathered around a trio of performers who found themselves dancing in the open space beside the beach house. The sun had begun to set and tribal drums clattered as they danced amongst the sand. A solitary bird flew by, it's shadow all that was visible, a black silhouette against the dying light of the shrinking sun. Rum was passed between revelers and the crowd rejoiced as a count was issued: "1, 2, 3, 4, UHH". The drums resumed. 
Bosconi Extra Virgin is an interesting label capturing the spread of a highly international sound. Listen to Riccio's take on dirty funk below as he captures an enthusiastic energy on "Uhh".

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PREMIERE: Riccio - Uhh [Bosconi Extra Virgin]

Radio waves that orbited in the dark spaces, secret frequencies that splintered the cosmos and rebounding beats that once snapped echoed into the infinite distance.

PREMIERE: Cannibal Ink - Sirius B (Timothy J. Fairplay Remix)[Melomana]

Cosmic blips and bleeps squeak as the moon glimmers. A pale beam of light glistens along the pier as the couple stroll towards the end, towards the water, those ocean waves calling out louder now in the moonlight than ever before. The tide brought them in and out. They gazed out towards the island which sat on the shimmering horizon, it was a silhoutte, an outline against the ocean expanse. Boats were leaving now and then, they would catch the next not knowing where it might take them, the risk was worth it all, they had heard the stories and it was time to leave. 

Simoncino is set to release a five track EP for Rowtag Records shortly. Here is "Il Sole Boogie".

PREMIERE: Nick Anthony Simoncino - Il Sole Boogie [Rowtag Records]

Recalling that his old friend Charlton knew the Roman emperors personally, Reagan called him up from the big red phone. "So, Ben, Nancy has been talking to some ol' Joanie at one of her First Lady engagements and she reckons that your ol' pal Caesar took advice from some of these astronomer guys".

PREMIERE: Chrissy - Presidential Astrologer (Savile Remix)[Freerange]

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