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The inaugural release from the new Love International X Test Pressing imprint comes from Fantastic Man, the Berlin based Australian whose music has been played by everyone from Aphex Twin to Bicep to Gerd Janson and many more.
  
Love International make good times happen in far flung places, whilst Test Pressing make good times happen physically and in the digital sphere, a meeting of like minds and shared tastes, all bases covered here.  Together this collaboration has been releasing compilation album from the likes of Gatto Fritto, Beautiful Swimmers and Shanti Celeste, and this new label project unites recording artists and designers in a meeting of music and art.

On the ‘Cloud Management’ release, Fantastic Man teams up with Alexander Papoli-Barawati, a German/Filipino/Iranian graphic designer and art director living in Berlin.  The striking and playful graphic design is in tandem with the music, which runs from the beautiful piano–led Balearic sounds of ‘Cloud Manager’ to the floating breaks in ‘Lounge Wizard’, the warped chug tempo in ‘Psychic Monthly’ and the beautiful acid bubbles of release finale, ‘Time Apprentice’.

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Fantastic Man - Lounge Wizard (LIXTP001) [clip]

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Fashion Queens–	Music Is My Life (Phantom Power Freestyle) © 1993 Midas Records*
Memphis - Deep Core © 1992 Memphis Records.

2 tracks.
45 RPM.
Remaster & Loud Cut.

Compiled by Rey Colino.
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino.
Design by AJAM.

V/A  – MINERAL03 (Snippets)

Pre-Order - https://holdinghandsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/who-would-you-have-been-ep

Vinyl Release: 28th January 
Digital Release: 25th February 

When Fred sent me the demos for his first release I remember being compelled to shut off all the lights and listen to them in complete darkness at full volume. I’m not sure why his music makes me want to do that but when he sent me this next batch I found myself needing to repeat the same process.

Who You Would Have Been goes down in history as the track that I have listened to the most out of any song on the labels. I am impelled over and over to return to this track, turn the volume up in my headphones, close my eyes and tuck into the experience. I think it is because it manages to accomplish something which I so rarely hear done effectively in dance floor music and that is to imbue it with a real sense of emotion. I know you always read interviews where producers talk about how their latest album was inspired by their latest break up or parent’s divorce but to be honest I can almost never hear that in the music. That could be just my own way of listening for sure but one thing I can say for certain is that I personally can very much hear the feeling in this track and I just love it because of that.

I’m not going to write an entire essay on each track as I doubt anyone is interested in that. I will just say that my love for this EP stretches far beyond the first track. There is wide breadth of sound and feeling explored throughout and it is an EP that will be loved and adored not only on the dance floor but also when listening on your own.

OK enough of my blather. Go and listen to the damn things yourself and decide if you like them, rather than trying to work it out from reading a bloody press release you weirdos. 

All four tracks are produced and sculpted for the club. They want big sound systems and dark rooms. 

Close your eyes, hold hands and experience transcendental space flight...

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HHSUB005 - Fred Quest - Who Would You Have Been EP (clips)

Artist: Kenneth Graham
Title: Meditation
Label: Eufonic
Cat No: EFNC002
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1. Meditation
A2. Mystique
B. Mind Games

Eufonic Records are happy to announce the reissue of a timeless classic.

Kenneth Graham - Meditation (Reissue) (EFNC002)

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Basic Moves welcomes Chicago-born artist Dana Kuehr onto its roster this October with Basic Moves 18, comprised of six original compositions to make up her debut release dubbed the WTRTMPL 2x12’’ EP.

Originally hailing from the south of Chicago before venturing further afield to New York, Oakland and eventually Belgium’s Brussels, Dana Kuehr has been gradually forming her own unique vision of electronic music over the years. As a DJ, Kuehr’s sets on Brussels’ Kiosk Radio traverse through everything from jungle to hip hop, IDM, ambient, House, Techno and much more. Here though, Dana marks the beginning of a new chapter with her debut release coming via the Basic Moves imprint, helmed by producer and DJ, Walrus, out of the Belgian capital. BM18, known internally as the WTRTMPL 2x12’’ project, is Dana's homage to a beautiful lake of pure, clear water. Dan Piu (Moto Music, Cartulis, Childhood Intelligence) delivered warm and punchy mixdown work from his Zurich studio for the release.

Opening the release is ‘How Do We Continue’, a hazy journey through ethereal synth pads, throbbing bass, crisp percussion, and bubbling arpeggios before ‘Almagest Slide’ shifts focus over to bumpy breaks and dreamy atmospherics alongside intricately processed samples and gritty bass stabs. ‘Cloud B’ follows next and edges back into deeper realms courtesy of woozy, haunting pad lines, robust drums, and subtly nuanced delays throughout.

‘Great Lakes Empty Branches’ then kicks off the C-Side of the double pack, embracing an electro leaning aesthetic courtesy of crunchy claps, sturdy drums, a chuggy arpeggio bass hook and dynamic, resonant leads though. ‘Realm 8’ follows, exploring some jungle and hip hop influence with heavy doses of sub bass, choppy broken rhythms, and hazy Moog like synth melodies. ‘BECAUSE’ rounds out the release next with euphoric vocals and textural atmospherics gliding above swinging percussion and mesmeric, circling synth lines to complete the package.

Dana Kuehr - Basic Moves 18 [WTRTMPL 2x12'']

PREMIERE: Dana Kuehr - How Do We Continue

Artist: Basic Mind
Track Title: Closed Gateway
Album Title: RM12019
Label: R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings
Cat#: RM12019
Release date: 25.11.2022
Format: vinyl, digital

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R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings welcomes an old friend to the label, Basic Mind from Perth, Australia - an Artist that has always taught us that groove, feeling and precise production is often more important than maximalism.

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Premiere | Basic Mind - Closed Gateway (RM12019)

Artist: Sarayu
Title: Intelligent Jump Rope Music
Track Title: Intelligent Jump Rope Music (Locked Groove Remix)
Label: Boiled Wonderland Records
Cat #: BOILD03
Release date: 16.02.2023
Format: vinyl, digital

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@sarayudj
@lockedgrooves

Though shifting styles the four track EP ‘Intelligent Jump Rope Music’ presents Sarayu in his element, the record is craft of high quality and club ready dance music from start to finish. On the A side, Sarayu opens the EP with the ‘The Bag’, a myriad of infused warm synths and driving hats placing the listener solidly on the club floor. ‘E30 Track’ (A2) then follows with a much moodier bass filled aura, fluidly moving the listeners onwards with a set of sizzling synths and well crafted drums. On the B side the Album title ‘Intelligent Jump Rope Music’ drops the tempo to 120 bpm with acid tinged synths and dynamic snares. B2 then brings in Locked Groove, driving the tempo back to 136 bpm with an ecstatic club finish, intertwining floating sets of emotional synths and grooving hits together to tremendous result.

Premiere | Sarayu - Intelligent Jump Rope Music (Locked Groove Remix) (BOILD03)

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The Space Between Us celebrate their inaugural release with a mini
compilation of music exclusively from their HQ base in Brisbane. With all contributing producers hailing from either Brisbane or the Gold Coast, the Lacuna EP shines a light on the diverse spectrum of electronic music that is coming out of this corner of Australia. TSBU looks to put a new breed of artists on display.

From - Covered

Artist: Various
Title: Planetary Highways
Label: Emotions Electric
Cat No: EE0009
Format: 2LP Gatefold

Tracklist: 
A1. Mystic Future - Cosmos
A2. Mark Ambrose - Electrical Dream
B1. Cignol - Machine Dependance
B2. Dawl - Gamma
C1. S.O.N.S & Pyramid Of Knowledge - Infinite Oceans
D1. Kosh - Special Delivery
D2. Die Gestalten - Eismond Europa

Emotions Electric pres. Planetary Highways! A deep journey thru Interplanetary sounds in a beautiful Gatefold sleeve with artwork from the legendary Detroit visual artist Abdul Haqq.

Various - Planetary Highways - 2x12" (EE0009)

Record label working on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people, curated by Hannah D @hld 

Cover art by Gabriella Brown, Soft Edges / @gbrevlon

From - Covered

the space between us

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