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The first single of my next album “Quantum Love” is out now.

HANUMAN is a Hindu God, son of the Vayu Deva, wind's god. This track was composed in Goa, during my first tour in India. I was impressed by the culture and the colors of this country and I enjoyed one of the most beautiful sunsets of my life. In a windy afternoon, during a meditation on the shore, I visualized a little monkey sitting in the sun. After few days, a friend of mine suggested that maybe that monkey was Hanuman, and I went to research the interesting story about this divinity. It's funny, before this experience I always used to bring a little monkey lucky charm on stage with me, so it felt like a sign. Chilling in my hotel in Goa, with a fantastic view, I composed this little melody with a digital sitar, than I recorded a real sitar in Metrica studio in Ibiza and I finalized the arrangement for this track, adding 80's vibes and a groovy bass line.

Quantum Love

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Giorgia Angiuli - Hanuman (Original Mix)

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Vanillaz, Divolly & Markward - Ederlezi (Hugo Cantarra Remix)

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/universo

Italian duo Agents Of Time have been incredibly busy over the past few years, from releasing a string of classic singles – including their recent single for Afterlife, “The Mirage”, which earned more than five million views on Instagram – to remixing The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath”, which appeared on his recent Dawn FM (Alternative World). But the biggest news is here now – their second album, Universo, is ready. Elevating their trademark melodic techno with an exquisite pop-ness, Universo has found its ideal home with Kompakt, following their Music Made Paradise 2020 debut EP for the label. It’s a meeting of minds that makes perfect sense.

Andrea Di Ceglie and Luigi Tutolo, the two members of Agents Of Time, used their time during the pandemic to work on Universo, an album loosely conceptualised around their ‘personal universo’, a manifestation of the world Di Ceglie and Tutolo built both within and around their studio. This accounts for the sparkle and brightness of Universo – it’s full of personality, vim and vigour, the duo experimenting with their music, exploring its furthest corners. If you come to Universo expecting just another album of melodic techno, get ready to be pleasantly surprised – there’s a whole lot more going on here, and it’s all equally compelling.

After a typically poetic opening gesture – the swirling, synaesthetic, self-titled intro track – expectations are immediately blindsided with the two-step pop of “Fallin’”, sung with gentle clarity by guest Audrey Janssens, a dream of a song that harks back to the glory days of early ‘00s UK garage. “Interstellar Cowboy” is a confident, lithe, disco-fied strut; the gentle minor-key piano of “Liquid Fantasy” spirals into a gorgeously melancholy techno-pop epic, Vicky Who?’s voice rich with yearning. Janssens also reappears on the electro-swirl of “Poison”; “Dream Vision” revisits their single “The Mirage”, soft with sweeping strings, loaded with drama; “Part Of Life” sashays into view with a schaffel-stomp.

This rich variety throws the more dancefloor-focused tracks, like “Ciao”, into even starker relief – they’re more decisive, streamlined, yet rich with detail, chugging, Moroder-esque bass meeting strobe-lit synths that fire melodies out into the firmament. Universo feels texturally dense, but it still breathes, its sounds so tactile you want to reach out and grab them, its tunes so seductive you can’t get them out of your head. Universo is a fiercely beautiful album, brave in its spirit, a perfectly poised meeting-point of pop melody and stylish, lush techno: Agents Of Time in excelsis.

Universo

Agents Of Time - Vocal Ghost

Waiting On You

Waiting On You (with Niclas Ludin)

Einmusik - Tortuous

Stream/Download: https://artists.landr.com/055855608598

Storytale

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Matt Waro & Xero - Vodka (Ivan Martin)

Starix - I'll Be There

Shadowing/Motion

Shadowing (Original Mix)

Out Now: https://www.beatport.com/release/delta-ray/2542400

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Delta Ray

John Monkman - Delta Ray (Original Mix)[Last Night On Earth]

Buy/Stream: https://Anjunabeats.lnk.to/Vol14digiSo
Release Date: 31st May 2019
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Anjunabeats Volume 14 is the latest chapter in a story spanning many years, each mix an epochal statement piece rewarding those who listen closely with an incisive take on the sounds that will define Anjuna dancefloors this year.

Sketched on the road and in their London studio, the mix album coalesced in scarce periods of calm amidst a whirlwind of giddying career highs: the band’s 2018 album ‘Common Ground’ reached #3 in the Official Billboard Album chart while an accompanying tour saw the trio travel to every corner of the globe. Above & Beyond's two label imprints, Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep, continued to grow in stature and scale at a rate that continues to defy expectations.

Joining the dots between the intimate sound of Anjunadeep and the stadium-sized productions found on Anjunabeats, Volume 14 once sees Above & Beyond craft a mesmerising journey through forward-thinking electronic music. The two disc, 34-track mix includes exclusive selections from their ever expanding Anjuna family of artists as well as original contributions from the band themselves.

Anjunabeats Volume 14

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Above & Beyond feat. Zoë Johnston - Alchemy (i_o Remix)

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Release Date: 16th September 2019
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A highlight from their ‘Common Ground Companion EP’, Above & Beyond’s latest collaboration with Zoë Johnston ‘There’s Only You’ receives remixes from No Mana and Crystal Skies.

There's Only You (Remixes)

Above & Beyond feat. Zoë Johnston - There's Only You (No Mana Remix)

Buy/Stream: https://Anjunabeats.lnk.to/ABWSo
Release Date: 14th October 2019
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"Real dance music". The latest instrumental club cut from Above & Beyond is 'Waltz'. Debuted at ASOT900 in Utrecht earlier in 2019, this triple-metered beast been one of the group's most in-demand tracks all summer.

Waltz

Above & Beyond - Waltz

Buy/Stream: https://anjunabeats.ffm.to/abaa
Release Date: 22nd November 2019
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Debuted at Group Therapy Weekender 2019, Above & Beyond’s new bi-annual camping festival at The Gorge Amphitheatre outside of Seattle, this angel sounds far from heaven sent.

Another example of Above & Beyond’s recent attraction to tougher, tenebrous sounds this year (consider ‘Waltz’, ‘Distorted Truth’, ‘There’s Only You’ and the resurgent tech-trance sounds of Genix on Anjunabeats), ‘Another Angel’ is released worldwide on Friday, November 22.

Warping minds and dancefloors from New York to Prague, accompanied by a titanic visual that’s unnervingly similar to Dr Who’s most terrifying antagonist, ‘Another Angel’ samples the band’s own 2011 single ‘On My Way To Heaven’ from their acclaimed album ‘Group Therapy’.

The unmistakable and usually strident vocal work of Richard Bedford here sounds almost plaintive and cowed, surrounded on all sides by shuddering, cascading bass. Things culminate in a breathtaking drop that somehow manages to be quintessential Above & Beyond and something totally fresh at the same time.

Another Angel

Above & Beyond - Another Angel

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Release Date: 20th December 2019
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Featuring three records that have soundtracked Above & Beyond milestone Group Therapy celebrations over the decade, Jono, Paavo and Tony close 2019 with the ‘Out Of Time’ EP. 

A sought after fan favourite, debuted during ABGT100 live from Madison Square Garden, ‘Out Of Time’ was the final track finished for 2015’s ‘We Are All We Need’. While the club rework has percolated among A&B mixes over the last 5 years, the remastered extended mix and edit are now available for the first time.

Another record that has evolved throughout its life time, ‘Is It Love?’ first aired during ABGT200 in Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome as the instrumental ‘1001'. With Jono himself providing a 80’s indie-electronica vocal for the track's appearance on ‘Common Ground’, the ‘Is It Love?’ club mix has become a euphoric moment in the trio's sets since 2017. 

Completing the package is the return of an iconic Richard Bedford vocal, played first at Group Therapy 250 and then featuring on this year's Anjunabeats Volume 14 compilation, the Gorge Update of Above & Beyond ‘Alone Tonight’.

Out Of Time EP

Above & Beyond - Out Of Time (Above & Beyond Club Mix)

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Shadowing (Original Mix)

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