This is AMAZING!!  See it was posted awhile ago.   Guess I’m late to the party.  Although, its better to be late then never showing up at ❤️🕺🏻🕺🏻

These tracks are an experienfe in themselves. Lol. Great work

Depths #96

Release date (vinyl & digital): 10th of September

A1. FM-2030
A2. Extropy
B1. Transhuman
B2. Posthuman Being

ORBE arrives on the label with a brace of high energy, atmospheric dance floor cuts. Leaning tentatively towards a more booming, warehouse-ready finish, the four track EP channels funk, density and smart sound design in equal measure.

Tripping opener FM-2030 marries a bold, aquatic lead sequence with glassy pads set in the sonic periphery that serve to create a pleasing sense of suspension. Drum machine flourishes help guide the recording onwards, increasing intensity where required and exuberant synth hits wax and bend in support along the way, tying up a classy, rolling number. A-side follow up Extropy features booming, fathoms deep low end and that same sunk, introspective finish. Noisy percussive elements inject groove and dynamics to proceedings while a growling synth shifts in and out of view for added effect. The caustic Transhuman builds itself around a single warping lead, expertly tweaked and plied along its run time to generate a palpable hysteria. Buoyed by expertly centred kicks, it’s a powerful piece of off kilter dance floor material. Closing piece Posthuman Being drives the record home - an expertly executed slice of peak time Techno, complete with driving bassline and crisp atmospherics for added character.

TOKEN102 - ORBE - Transhuman EP

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Michael Mayer’s latest EP, Brainwave Technology, comes at you purposeful, stealthy and sly. It’s a glorious left turn for the redoubtable producer, one that sees his typically lean and lithe productions buffed to a metallic, futurist sheen. There’s a gleam in the eyes of tracks like “Brainwave Technology” and “Alpha” that speaks of serious fun, of the intersection of the pleasure zone and the frontal lobe.

“Brainwave Technology” itself is informed by Mayer’s deep dive into the thorny terrain of artificial intelligence, transhumanism and posthumanism. Inspired by reading German philosopher Richard David Precht, Mayer found himself heading down the “proverbial rabbit hole,” as he describes it, “watching hours of YouTube material by self-proclaimed prophets of these ‘inevitable’ changes to come.” Never one to be taken in by the egotist’s dance, Mayer’s cynicism about the whole endeavour is tempered, a little, by the deeper questions that these figures gesture towards: “Is it really an evolutionary step that man and machine become one? Or is it rather a marketing plot by Silicon Valley billionaires?”

On “Brainwave Technology”, Mayer plays the charlatans at their own game, turning their logic against them by exposing the fruitiness of their ‘visions’. “I chose irony as my sword with which I chopped off some quotes from some of those batshit crazy prophets and self-promoters,” he explains of the drooling psychobabble he drops in the track’s lacuna. There’s a sense of humour here – how could you not laugh at these hungover egotists? – but there’s levity too, a sense that Mayer’s using sound to expose the contradictions and double-speak at the heart of these half-formed ideas. It’s a Burroughsian tactic, to slice into the heart of the voice to see what hidden truths surface.

It was Burroughs, too, who once said that “when you cut into the past, the future leaks out”; Brainwave Technology cuts into the logic of the futurologist to leak out the messiness of modern reality. On “Alpha” and “Gamma”, Mayer seems to conjure up the stark, ominous music that’d soundtrack a science fiction reinterpretation – or preinterpretation – of our modern malaise, all funereal wreaths of electronic noise and clatterboxing beats. As the EP resolves with “Device For The Young At Heart”, Mayer’s questions are piling up: “Do we want to become immortal and live on as a download? Do we really give up on Earth and put all our effort into colonising Mars?” There are no answers, of course, but plenty of imaginings-to-be. Brainwave Technology soundtracks both dystopian and utopian possibilities of what could come next.

Michael Mayer - Gamma

Since 1991, Tresor has provided a home for artists to develop their ideas for advanced new sounds and broadcast them to the world. The pioneers that first traversed the Detroit-Berlin connection and were at the forefront of a new cultural movement gave to Tresor its original and continuing mission: community, resistance and reshaping the world to come.

The Tresor 30 compilation represents a major landmark in this continuing history of electronic music. This unique collection of music profiles some of the artists that gave the previous three decades of Tresor its sound and foundation, but it also casts its gaze forward. Writing new postcards from the future, this collection brings new artists who maintain a connection to that original mission to the fore, charting ways in which this ethos can continue to build bridges and break walls in the next 30 years.

Bringing together 52 essential tracks - both classics and exclusive commissions - each of the 12 records in this box-set charts a unique line of flight from those artists that helped define the shape of this new music to those who continue to pattern its landscape further.

The future is bright and it’s now.

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Berlin Disease

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Bicep & Ejeca - You (Original Mix)

Press Release

Label: Illegal Alien Records
Artist(s): Jonas Kopp, Orbe, Exos, Joton, Ricardo Garduno, Lakej, Quelza, CONCEPTUAL, Not A Headliner, Temudo
Remixer(s): N/A
Album/Single: Illegal Alien XV Part 3
Track(s): Less is More, Concave, Life Or Death, Twin Flames, Groove Bender, Exploited Symbolism, Frozen Silver, Covered in Pollen, Submitted for Grading, 20 Minute Challenge
Genre: Techno
Format: Cassette Tape / Digital WAV/AIFF/MP3
Catalogue Number: IARLTDCSTXV3
Release Date: August 8th of 2022


2022 is very special for Illegal Alien Records, the label turned 15 years old this year and we have a full schedule line up of incredible and very special releases with many great artists.

We are extremely happy and proud to present you the part number 3 of our first 15 Years anniversary project which will be edited on limited Cassette Tape edition and Digital format. This is a 6 part series celebrating the 15 Years of Illegal Alien Records and includes a total of 60 exclusive tracks. We immensely thank all the great artists involved in this project for joining us in this celebration and contributing with their music to make this release very special. Over the years, some of the artists in this Compilation have already been part of our history, but some of them are joining us for the first time to be part of new chapters in our journey.

For the third part, we count with incredible music from Jonas Kopp, Orbe, Exos, Joton, Ricardo Garduno, Lakej, Quelza, CONCEPTUAL, Not A Headliner and Temudo.


V.A. 'Illegal Alien XV Part 3' IARLTDCSTXV3

A1. Jonas Kopp - Less is More
A2. Orbe - Concave
A3. Exos - Life Or Death
A4. Joton - Twin Flames
A5. Ricardo Garduno - Groove Bender
B1. Lakej - Exploited Symbolism
B2. Quelza - Frozen Silver
B3. CONCEPTUAL - Covered in Pollen
B4. Not A Headliner - Submitted for Grading
B5. Temudo - 20 Minute Challenge


Written & Produced by Various Artists
Mastered by Fixon at Triode Studio, Playa Del carmen, Mexico
Artwork Design by Rommulo
Limited Copies

Illegal Alien Records 2022 | Published by Copyright Control

www.illegalalienrecs.com

Illegal Alien XV Part 3 - V.A.

New project from Oscar Mulero and Psyk.
Release date 7th October

Second Skin - Sense Of Purpose BP066

Uprising talent @dekeyden strikes back on AWRY with five driving, mesmerizing, and spaced-out cuts. Another tripped out ode to psychedelia and sci-fi from the Axis records artist, with a sinister, hypnotic and dizzying sound, spanning from spacey peak-time weapons to raw and harsh breakbeats.

photo: Louis De Belle
master: Tema Mastering

AWRY​-​BA020 - Dekeyden - Subconcious Choices

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Press Release

Label: Illegal Alien Records / Illegal Alien LTD
Artist(s): Quelza
Remixer(s): N/A
Album/Single: Salle Nocturne
Track(s): Levis, Trevor
Genre: Techno
Format: Vinyl 10' / Digital WAV/AIFF/MP3
Catalogue Number: IARLTDT008
Release Date: October 31st of 2022


Quelza 'Salle Nocturne' | IARLTDT008

A1 - Quelza - Levis (Original Mix)
B1 - Quelza - Trevor (Original Mix)


We are proud to present you our eight 10' Vinyl release on Illegal Alien Records and belongs to the mighty Quelza. 


Written & Produced by Quelza
Mastered by Dig-it at Fractal Sono Lab Mexico City
Limited Copies

Illegal Alien Records 2022 | Published by Copyright Control

www.illegalalienrecs.com

IARLTDT008 - Quelza - Salle Nocturne

KR3.009 

KR3 Records, 
is proud to welcome Hector Sandoval to its roster. 

Known for his work under many aliases (Komatssu, Selección Natural) and for being one half of Exium, with his solo project TENSAL the artist explores a more instinctive approach to sound arising from a modern vision of techno. 

Recorded entirely analogically, Forgiveness of Blood is the perfect demonstration of his vision; With an ambient intro to ease the listener into the experience, the EP moves through the raw and scratchy sounds that have always distinguished both KR3 and the artist himself. 

The reference to the 12” dynamic and rough rhythms is also clear in the artwork curated by Chianjna.
credits
releases February 8, 2023 

Written & Produced by Hector Sandoval 
Artwork by Chianjna 
Mastered & Vinyl Cutting by: 
Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering Berlin

Forgiveness of Blood

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KR3.009 | Tensal - Forgiveness of Blood EP

Written and Produced by Simone Scardino aka CONCEPTUAL, Berlin 2020/2022

Digital 
1- Ninna Nanna For Bad Children
 2- Me Medesimo 
3- Højer 
4- Not An Easy One
5- I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me

 
CONCEPTUAL is the musical journey of Berlin based producer Simone Scardino, a sci fi techno specialist well seasoned with releases on the best scientific labels out there. His approach on techno comes apart from trends and superficiality, it always has an underlying message and it’s made with detail and intelligence.
 
This extended EP is not for the faint hearted, it requires some knowledge about intrincated soundscapes and requires attention and long term vision to capture the feeling properly. It can be completely beatless and atmospheric as the open title Ninna Nanna For Bad Children or super rhythmic like Me Medesimo where broken and bass heavy beats combine with elaborated textures exquisitely sound designed to cause the required damage on the dancefloor.
 
Højer is traversing similar terrain, but this time based on a 4/4 beat, rugged and distorted, metallic and industrial, a no mercy weapon for the darkest sound spaces.
 
On the B side, Not An Easy One gives another ration of proper non conventional dancefloor action, again with a well balanced combination of groove and texture.
 
 I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me closes the release changing the approach completely going hypnotic instead of muscular, with a complex drum work spiced with super-treated synth lines in constant change.
 
The sound of the future experienced today, made by a visionary.

Preview: CONCEPTUAL "Not An Easy One" EP [PoleGroup067]

Artist: Oxygeno
Title: Ascending Into Oblivion
Format: 12"-Vinyl & Digital Format
Label: Nachtstrom Schallplatten
Cat.-No.: NST162
Releasedate: T.B.A.

[NST162] Oxygeno - Ascending Into Oblivion EP

Artist: Lidvall
Title: Animality 
Label: Faut Section				
Catalogue: FAUT051
Format:  Digital

1. Lidvall - Animality
2. Lidvall - Hunger
3. Lidvall - Mindset Crisi
4. Lidvall - Physical Law


Release date: 10 April 2023 

Lidvall das made his debut with us in last September. About half a year has passed and he's back. Since then he established his trademark in the scene. Developed his own personal style and has been imprinting it in every single release. This one is no exception. The dark, feral atmospheres and hallucinating rhythm are a constant and perfectly noteable throught all the EP. We're happy to have him on board once again.

Welcome back!

LidVall - Animality [FAUT051]_PREVIEW

Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald – the two indispensable protagonists of the Electric Garden – plug back into the wilderness. Transport – the new full length effort of the Borderland collaborative project – brings together a new set of studio-refined sequences aimed at colonizing some of the dark energy that pulsates through those areas that are thoroughly electrified, even if not ‘on the grid’. ‘Riod’ is the first streak to bolt through.

The Detroit-Berlin axis triangulates to a third point which, like the atomic particle that lives in two places at once, flickers between a form of techno-charged ambience and a futuristic club-jazz which cannot be broken down into constitutive parts. Borderland remains caught in a state of enraptured stillness, invisibly moving between every
imagined future for electronic sound making. The result: a font from which springs serene and exhilarating musical ideas that vibrate with refined energy for sixty seconds in every minute.

Transport will release on CD / 2LP, on April 22nd.
‘Riod’ will release on 12” on March 11th.

B. Borderland - Riod (Version)

Couldn't find it on soundcloud...this is me uploading it.

Theo Parrish - Lost Angel

Taken from the World Wide Window charity compilation in support of the Red Cross. 
Available now via Bandcamp alongside 55 other tracks from an incredible selection of electronic artists. Please visit https://enisslab.bandcamp.com/ and support.

Stay inside and stay safe x

TOKEN102 - ORBE - Transhuman EP

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