‘Does Tina Still Live in Berlin?’ and the full SB001 release is available from: @second-born-recs Bandcamp: https://secondborn.bandcamp.com/album/prefrontal-asymmetry

Prefrontal Asymmetry liberates itself within the overstimulation which this generational change demands of us. By seldomly evoking traditional motifs and clichés of the dance-floor amongst fierce algorithmic noise and repurposed snippets of short-form digital media, Prefrontal Asymmetry provides an alternative and optimistic thesis on the perceived annihilatory Zeitgeist of Gen-Z Clubland:

“Nothing can be more freeing than resigning oneself to onslaught of stimulus, and rejecting the sincerity of such content in favour of heartfelt experimentation, cherished relationships and the joy of experience.”

TL;DR - This record is sort of TikTok Techno.

Prefrontal Asymmetry

Porter Brook - Does Tina Still Live in Berlin? [SB001]

𝗛𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 starts now. An ongoing collection of unofficial edits and other tools for sound explorers, crucial for long ventures. All free of charge.

Our first craftsman is Leipzig-based 𝗘𝘀𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗺 (@esgeem), reworking “Admit Defeat” by national treasure 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗽(@janloup) on Air Texture’s excellent Place: France compilation (@airtexture). From a grandiose halftime declamation to a rolling wave of fast-paced percussive power.

𝖥𝗋౿౿ 𝖣𝗈⍵𐓣ᥣ𝗈ɑᑯ : https://hypeddit.com/vt7bui

Artists : Jan Loup, Esgeem
Album : Hiking Equipment
Format : Digital
Cat# : VFREE

written & produced by @janloup
rework by @esgeem
mixed & mastered by Cédric Oléon at IFL3Studios
artwork by @fluidmatter
© 2024 Virtual Forest Records

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Jan Loup - Admit Defeat (Esgeem Rework) [Free Download]

BUY: https://faceae.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-quiet-of-the-shattered-ist-cke

Artist SC: https://soundcloud.com/aedon-adone
Label SC: https://soundcloud.com/face-ae
Artist Insta: https://www.instagram.com/aedon___
Label Insta: https://www.instagram.com/face_ae

𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Aedon - Butterload [FACE Æ - VA002]

Laureato

@seta_loto
@ghsttwn

https://ghosttownsoundmuc.bandcamp.com/album/gtva01

pi premiere: Seta Loto - Complete Walkthrough [Ghosttown]

Presenting a portfolio of twitchy techno tectonics with a sharp line in corporate acumen, LDS returns to the market with a double-dose of limber futurism for PM+.
 
Stuttgart shock broker Luca Daniel Schwarz has been firing and perspiring on all cylinders since he went public around 2016. Past form for the likes of Subwax BCN and Blue Hour have all shown a deadly instinct for modern variations on the techno tradition, and he keeps pushing at the form with a fine balance between playful disruption and poker-face propulsion.
 
'Business Influencer Theme' is a jagged bolt of hi-tech soul littered with crafty edits, luminescent synth strokes and a mid-section pep talk to get you match fit for the midnight power lunch. 'Portal Merge (Peak Mix)' leans towards the growling, subtly emotive brand of electro pioneered by the Weatherall-Tenniswood dream team, bolstered with modernist sound design flex and another canny helping of sliced-up word salad.
 
Forecasting at the intersection of social commentary and cutting-edge club clout with devastating clarity, LDS packs a lot into his wry, laser-focused motivational workouts. The outlook is weightier than a hedge fund manager's bloated bar tab.

Mastering by: Isle Audio
Artwork by: Håkan Ullberg

LDS - Portal Merge (Peak Mix)

https://soustraitance-sstr.bandcamp.com/album/catartsis-les-mati-res-errantes

Somewhere between memory sediment and subconscious drift, “Les matières errantes” marks the second solo expedition of the Sous Traitance timeline, this time led by Catarsis (aka Mathieu Bonnafous).

This new EP from the Parisian producer gathers four elusive productions, each one forged in a different temporal layer across a period of seven years. Oscillating between states, they reveal a raw urge to blur genre borders, where bass-heavy architectures bend into murky techno spirals, breakbeat fragments dissolve into dubstep low-frequency voids, and drum & bass pulses flirt with collapse. There’s no linear path here, only shifting zones and unstable rhythms, moving like tectonic plates beneath the surface of club logic.

A disjointed archive, a driftwork of forms—"Les matières errantes” doesn’t narrate a story so much as it exposes its own erosion. It’s a confrontation of industrial and natural environments for an unique, organic sound, making Catartsis a key figure in the renewal of the French Techno scene.

PREVIEWS : Catartsis - Les matières errantes [SSTR06]

@truglut on @evolvelabel

BUY:  https://evolv3events.bandcamp.com/album/evva002

Evolve was conceptualised out of a love for psychedelic electronic music. Genre-fluid and ever-shifting, EVVA002 presents a deeper, slower sonic palette that defines the label’s evolving identity. From goa-laced club tracks to warped breaks, leftfield IDM and dubbed-out prog and techno, each track adds its own twist to the psychedelic thread that runs through the heart of the label. 

Artist Insta: https://instagram.com/truglut 
Label Insta: https://instagram.com/evolve_label


𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Truglut - Tortuga [EV002]

Liminal Vortex

The Florence duo Abo Abo & TOMO's debut LP GEON bridges their worlds: club energy and sound research, intuition and structure, out via Alliance on July 25th.

Pre-order: https://allianceclub.bandcamp.com/album/geon
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@allianceclub
@tomo_sound

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Premiere: TOMO - Dawinush

Game Awareness

Peder Mannerfelt splits the difference between playful immediacy and daring experimentation. You’re as likely to find him premiering a live show at Berlin’s Atonal festival as pulling apart fabled techno meccas from Berghain to Fabric with synapse-frying precision. One minute he’s being asked to remix Björk, and the next he’s dropping EPs of non-conformist techno for Karenn’s Voam label. 

As a prolific collaborator throughout his career, Mannerfelt has veered from the orchestral tension of Roll The Dice (with Malcolm Pardon) to the anything-goes maximalism of Aasthma (with Pär Grindvik). As a producer, he’s worked on every one of Fever Ray’s acclaimed albums and live shows, as well as projects from alt music heavyweights such as Smerz, Blonde Redhead and Glasser. His Peder Mannerfelt Produktions label has become another outlet for his singular approach, presenting his work alongside similarly experimental operators like Sissel Wincent, Machine Woman, Klara Lewis and Hodge. 

More recently, his PM+ series celebrates the immediacy of club-focused tracks, and Mannerfelt thrives on the energy and community of contemporary club music. What makes him different is his response to that energy, as he pushes the music’s possibilities in wild, unpredictable directions.

LDS - Portal Merge (Peak Mix)

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