Has Token ever released a bad track? Not to my knowledge. Nice work, Luke.

D2. @Ben-Klock x @EtappKyle - A Friend Of A Friend

‘Ostgut Ton | Fünfzehn + 1’ is a commemorative compilation celebrating 16 years of Ostgut Ton – and the first glimpses of light at the end of a long dark tunnel for parent club Berghain.

Originally planned for release in 2020, the music focuses on the interwoven nature of the label and the club in its multitude of different spaces and musical facets. Ostgut Ton artists and close affiliates worked together in pairs to make music dedicated to five different floors, each represented by a specific 12" vinyl. The result is a diverse selection of sometimes functional, other times more abstract sonic tributes; musical homages to spaces they have both influenced and been influenced by.

With the pandemic having forced the club to close temporarily, the collaborative nature of the 5x12" boxset represents an attempt to transcend varying degrees of isolation and to wrestle with memories of music and space that had been inaccessible. But certainly not forgotten.

More info + pre-order: https://ostgut.berlin/fuenfzehnpluseins

All Snippets: https://soundcloud.com/ostgutton-official/sets/ostgut-ton-fuenfzehn-plus-1

Tracklist:
A1. @MMM_berlin / @Fiedelone / @errorsmith - Rimba7
A2. @AvalonEmerson x @Roi_Perez - Champu Princess
B1. @Tama-Sumo x @Lakuti - An Ode To Audre
B2. @Peter-Kuschnereit x @Soundstream - Session 2

C1. @LenFaki feat. @HoneyDijon - Temple Of Love
C2. @JASS-29 x @SilentServant - Años Perros
D1.  @Luke-Slater x @Voltek - 9/8 Gumbo
D2. @Ben-Klock x @EtappKyle - A Friend Of A Friend
D3. @MarcelDettmann x @Norman-Nodge - The Call

E1. @user-909078246-312350518 - Untitled 15+1
E2. @OrenAmbarchi x @choose-records x @Efdemin - Ever Given
F1. @3024world x @DuvalTimothy - Reset Walking
F2. @Jessica-Ekomane x @ZoeMcPherson - Iteration
F3. @Atom_TM x @Tobias-Freund - One Final Thing (Not Zero)

G. @AnswerCodeRequest x Gerd Janson - B-Section
H1. @Ryan-Elliott x @Andre-Galluzzi - Fontane
H2. @Paramida x @MassimilianoPagliara - Ride Out The Wave

I1. @ndbaumecker x @Nick-Hoeppner - Labskaus
I2. @Terence-Fixmer x @PhaseFatale - Cigarette Glow
J. @Cormac & @Metro_bln - Remember The Future

Ostgut Ton | Fünfzehn + 1

A Friend Of A Friend

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Release date (3LP, cd & digital format): 3rd of November

TRACKLIST
1. Ø [Phase] - Insectoid
2. Lucy - Sana Sana Sana Cura Cura Cura
3. Ctrls - x.y
4. Rødhåd - Haumea
5. Planetary Assault Systems - The 808 Track (Parts 1 and 2)
6. James Ruskin - No Trace
7. Surgeon - Fixed Action Pattern
8. Inigo Kennedy - Arcing
9. Karenn - Pace Yourself

INFO
It was early 2007 when Inigo Kennedy inaugurated Token. Since that Identify Yourself 12” the Belgian label has gone from strength to strength, integrating both Kennedy and Ashley Burchett, aka Ø [Phase], into becoming integral cogs in the Token machine. In between releases by Grovskopa, Oscar Mulero and Go Hiyama, both Ø [Phase] and Inigo Kennedy dominated Token’s output, but it wasn’t until Burchett’s watershed Binary Opposition that Token received the shower of praise it deserved. Following this, label founder Kr!z issued three remix 12”s of that release which, including Token regulars, took in a profound cast of producers to reprocess “Binary Opposition” by the way of Sigha, Peter Van Hoesen, Planetary Assault Systems and Ben Klock. It was here Token stamped their authority on contemporary techno.

Since then Token has grown exponentially, bringing into their fold artists like Xhin, Mark Broom and Rødhåd, while Ctrls, formally one half of Northern Structures, has seen his solo career flourish on Token with the release of five records to date, and he joins Inigo Kennedy and Ø [Phase] as a label stalwart. Additionally this year, Orphx and Ancient Methods debuted their relentless Eschaton collaboration on Token, and Christian Wünsch’s Spherical Coordinates dalliance with Oscar Mulero has gained even more momentum with a second release called Kinematics Equations. Now, seven years after that debut Kennedy record, Token present Aphelion, a nine-track CD and triple vinyl grandstand of new and exclusive material from label regulars and like-minded artists whom Token founder Kr!z specifically commissioned for this milestone release.

The penultimate record before Aphelion was a second Token 12” by Rødhåd, another artist adding to the cultivation of the label’s sound and roster, and for this compilation the Berliner supplies his cosmically inspired “Haumea”. Joining the Dystopian founder on Aphelion are three of the UK’s most influential techno artists: Surgeon, James Ruskin and Luke Slater under his Planetary Assault Systems alias who provide Token with solo material for the first time after previously appearing on the imprint in remix form. Entirely new names to grace the label via Aphelion include Stroboscopic Artefacts founder Lucy, and Blawan and Pariah's Karenn project, while label faithfuls Inigo Kennedy,  Ø [Phase] and Ctrls naturally commit three Token defining productions.

Casting one’s eye over Token’s back catalogue and it’s clear to see the label is a staunch advocate of absolute techno, remaining steadfast in issuing quality material that remains true to classic strands of the genre regardless of its popularity flux. In that respect, Aphelion - a word used to describe the point in orbit when a planet or comet is farthest from the sun - provides a simple analogy that the magnetic force of Token, unfazed by the shadows cast by popular opinion, will proudly shine light on their artists and given styles. 

“We started in an era where our genre was very unpopular,” Kr!z explains. “And in the end that seemed a big advantage for us, because when everyone was giving up, we started our mission.” Regularly hosting label nights in prominent clubs around the world, Token has become a label supported by a wide-ranging body of artists like Âme and Ben Klock to Efdemin, Truss and Ancient Methods. With the label now branching out into album and compilation territory, Token’s duty to techno may not yet be accomplished, but it’s been a job well done.

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Aphelion

Planetary Assault Systems - The 808 Track (Parts 1 and 2)

Soolee - Si
Void Time Axis [MTL013 / More Than Less]

Produced by Soolee
Mastered by Soolee
Artwork by Song-Am (松岩)
Design by Soolee
Released by More Than Less from South Korea
Release Date : May 02nd. 2024

Korean producer Soolee's second full-length album, Void Time Axis, is a mix of arrangements designed for effective repetition and change, polyrhythmic grooves composed of various rhythms in parallel, earworm synths, and deeply refined ambient sounds.

The eight tracks are represented by letters with different meanings. 시(Si) 始 Start, 대(Dae) 對 treat, 감(Gam) 堪 Endure, 정(Jung) 正 right, 류(Ryu) 流 flow, 인(Inn) 忍 patience, 극(Geuk) 極 extreme, 공(Gong) 空 Void. And these letters are arranged to form a story.

Void Time Axis, completed as a single image by removing the time axis from the entire story, is an album of original sound expressed with the identity of a Korean techno producer.

Soolee (South Korea)
https://www.facebook.com/djsoolee
https://www.instagram.com/djsoolee

More Than Less
https://soundcloud.com/soolee
https://www.facebook.com/morethanlessrecords
https://www.instagram.com/morethanlessrecords
https://morethanless.bandcamp.com

Oslated.
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Void Time Axis

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Releasedate: 30-09-2016

Buy links:
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http://www.deejay.de/OBQ003_-_Deniro_-_Kairuku_Ep_-_12inch__240957
http://www.decks.de/t/deniro-kairuku_ep/c7y-km
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http://technique.co.jp/item/143119,OBQ003.html

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OBQ003 - Deniro - Kairuku EP - OUT NOW!

Taken from Patrick Siech's EP Our Exile on Parabel, out June 5.

More: https://www.orbmag.com/music/premiere/

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Premiere: Patrick Siech - Sektor 214

Ahead of their highly anticipated 'DRIFT SONGS' LP which is set to arrive this October, UK dance music giants Rick Smith and Karl Hyde aka Underworld have linked up once again with their friend Ø [Phase] to present 'Border Country'.

The track marks the final part of DRIFT Episode 4 as part of the group's ambitious DRIFT series - an ongoing, fifty-two-week experiment where they publish new material every week of the year.

'Border Country' is the second collaboration with Londoner and DRIFT community member Ø [Phase]. Lithe and restless, it edges and darts through unmapped spaces into a place where grimy nocturnal electronics are driven hard by fizzing hi-hats and multiple voices rebound in from the peripheries.

Premiere: Underworld & Ø [Phase] 'Border Country'

Taken from Peter Van Hoesen's EP Kelly Criterion on his own imprint Center 91, out July 15.

Pre-order: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/peter-van-hoesen-kelly-criterion/737596-01/

@petervanhoesen

Kelly Criterion

Orb Premieres

Premiere: Peter Van Hoesen - Trim The Facts

Tresor Records is glad to announce two releases by James Ruskin, coming in November 2019. The brand new Siklikal EP featuring four new productions, along with the remaster and reissue of Point 2 - Ruskin’s debut album on Tresor. 


First released in 2000, Point 2 marked a fine debut that entrenches the minimal sequences, utilitarian funk and eerie hypnosis found within Ruskin’s body of work. As Tresor’s relationship with the UK sound grew stronger across the course of the ’00s, it was Ruskin, the label owner of Blueprint Records, who played a critical part in this. Throughout the trio of LPs released over that decade, inspirations of the sci-fi minimal Detroit sound lie abundant, rendered through corporeal slammers typical of the UK vein.

Point 2 was the first of Ruskin’s trilogy for Tresor, and brought a direct and uncompromising vibrancy to the fore, from the aquatic symphony featured on ‘From Over The Edge’ to the pinpoint gaze of ‘Subject’. Gurning loops beat against alien samples, drained into refined abstractions of pure techno.

Newly remastered and featuring two tracks previously not cut onto vinyl, this upfront and bold classic is set to span dancefloors once again.


James Ruskin follows up with a bold new EP entitled Siklikal.

Right from the outset, Nepte draws in by vast sonics and laser focus, unruly synths distort over a skipping beat that hits hard in the right places. As the beat takes a backstep but no less rhythmic, Kn Te3 is one for adventurous DJs, recalling the minimal loops that Ruskin is known for, seeped in industrial melancholy that fizzes a granular decay.

On the b-side, Nocke brings the beat back to the forefront with a muscular UK techno sound, highly effective and pounding. Closing the EP is Kn Am3 which retains the industrial sinew of its near-namesake Kn Te3, exposing raw synth excursions over brutalist machinations. This EP symbolises Ruskin’s dynamic approach, pushing at boundaries yet never without a strong grip over the dancefloor.


Tresor.145 and Tresor.314 release November 1st and 8th on 180g. 2LP and 12" vinyl respectively.

James Ruskin - Detached (taken from "Point 2" - Tresor.145)

@Luke-Slater's track 'O-Ton Reassembled 3' will be released on 'Berghain Fünfzehn' through @Ostgutton-Official on April 17th. More Info: bit.ly/LukeSlaterMix

'O-Ton Reassembled 3' includes the following tracks:

Barker - Maximum Utility (BARKER001)
Steffi x Virginia - Internal Bleeding (o-ton122)
Planetary Assault Systems - Spell A (o-ton123)
Tobias. - The Wisdom Of No Escape (o-ton125)

Artwork: Yusuf Etiman

Planetary Assault Systems - The 808 Track (Parts 1 and 2)

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