Listen to "SideQuest Nap (Maoupa Mazzocchetti Remix)" by Meli Mena taken from "POLYT001 "COUGH TWICE IF YOU CARE" fa:act / Meli Mena" out on August 29th via Polytope

Pre-order: https://polytopebxl.bandcamp.com/album/polyt001-cough-twice-if-you-care-fa-act-meli-mena

"Our first Polytope EP welcomes two wonder kids from the European bass music scene: the Brussels-based fa:act and Meli Mena from Paris. They have worked hard to deliver you a 6-track, club-ready opus, with a special collaboration and a remix by Maoupa Mazzochetti.

"COUGH TWICE IF YOU CARE" explores the depths of the hardcore continuum with a special twist from these two talented artists:

fa:act created two dancehall-inspired bangers with his iconic touch: "Wizard Bubble" and "Breeze and Riddim".

Meli Mena has produced two high-energy club gems with break influences and IDM resonances: "Hot Girls Get Sad" and "SideQuest Nap."

They both released the already famous 140 bpm club anthem "Dust Drip," which has destroyed many dancefloors all over the world.

All these tracks got the Maoupa Mazzocchetti special analog treatment; he also gifted us with a strong remix of "SideQuest Nap" from our dear Meli Mena."

Links:
Meli Mena
https://soundcloud.com/meli_mena
https://www.instagram.com/meli__mena
Maoupa Mazzocchetti 
https://soundcloud.com/maoupa-mazzocchetti
https://maoupamazzocchetti.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/maoupa_mazzocchetti
Polytope
https://soundcloud.com/polytopebxl
https://polytopebxl.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/polytope.bxl


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Meli Mena - SideQuest Nap (Maoupa Mazzocchetti Remix) (Polytope)

Es un viaje entre la precisión técnica y la intuición creativa. Su estilo, centrado en el techno groove, busca generar un pulso hipnótico que conecte directamente con el cuerpo y la pista de baile.

Insp - Crior Daquin (Original Mix)

release date (vinyl / cd / digital): 30th of October 2015

Take a look over Ashley Burchett’s back catalogue and you’ll find the Greater London resident has played an understated yet influential role in purporting British techno. Fifteen years ago Burchett’s prevailing Ø [Phase] project debuted on Sheree Rashit and Steve Bicknell’s Cosmic Recordings before providing Cosmic ID with its final record in 2002, and since 2007 Burchett's helped mould and define the sound of Token by becoming the label’s marquee artist.

In 2013 the Belgian imprint finally coaxed the debut album from Ø [Phase], Frames Of Reference, described in Tony Naylor’s 4/5 review for Resident Advisor as, “a techno album of real imagination and depth that, when it needs to be, is brutally functional.” Almost two years since its release Ø [Phase] is back with Alone In Time?, his second studio album which adds to the continuous slew of unrivalled long players Token has put out of late. Token spreads the 11-tracks on Alone In Time? across three heavy weight discs, and the music further demonstrates Burchett’s deft skill in linear arrangements shaped to fit the warehouse frame, while painting a colourful, Detroit influenced side to his productions yet to really be heard to this extent before.

This uncharted sound of Ø [Phase] can be found in tracks like “Remote”, the album’s homage to electro, to the jittery, alien grooves of “Spacialize”, “Mo_del” and “Nep-tune”. There’s big room domination on productions like “Orbitron” and “R-Mash”, while the album’s title-track is a journey through Burchett’s conceptual references to cosmology, time and isolation. Burchett explains, "it was always an intention to make another album and now just felt like the right time. Life moves on, we change and grow. As lessons get learned and ideas form, the desire to express them gradually manifests."

Furthermore, Burchett adds, “Frames Of Reference was about overcoming personal struggles and challenges, while Alone In Time? is more forward facing.” With an extensive back catalogue in his wake, Ø [Phase] has become a relied source for the discerning techno DJ and these new, expertly crafted club cuts add to his ever-expanding pool of productions for selectors to choose from, and it’s clear, if the bouncing rhythm of “Blind Eye” and orchestral epic of “The Maze” is anything to go by, Ø [Phase] isn’t only head strong, but standing tall.

TRACKLIST
A1 Spacialize
A2 Orbitron
B1 Increment
B2 Blind Eye
C1 Nep-tune
C2 Alone In Time?
D The Maze
E1 Remote
E2 Mo_del
F1 R-Mash
F2 Astryx

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Alone In Time?

Spacialize

Ø [Phase] - Spacialize

Release date (vinyl & digital format): 7th of October 2016

Ø [Phase]’s 2015 album ‘Alone in Time?’ was the second LP in a remarkable line of releases on Token since 2007. Token65 is a retrospective tribute to the record, offering remixes of two of its tracks.
 
The utilitarian discord of R-Mash is remixed by James Ruskin & Karl O’ Connor (Regis) under their recently-rekindled O/V/R collaboration. Their interpretation highlights the rattling percussion of the original and its juxtaposition with the tense and uneasy anti-harmony that emerges from its pulse.

On the other side, Ø [Phase] revisits the album’s title piece. ‘Alone in Time?’ originally appeared as a restless arrangement, driven by its fluttering melody and bolstered by a damp, staggering kick. In its reimagined form, the track is forged into a solid construction for the dancefloor, with its impatient theme re-appearing as a delirious climax. 

A. R-Mash (O/V/R Mix)
B. Alone In Time? (Floor Mix)

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TOKEN65 - Ø [Phase] - Alone In Time? Remixed

https://warmuprecordings.bandcamp.com/album/retina-ep-wu49

Release date 7/7/17

Alderaan
Retina EP
WU49
 
Vinyl
A1- Ancient Particles
A2- Parallax
B1- Retina - Oscar Mulero remix
B2- Retina
 
Digital
1- Ancient Particles
2- Parallax
3- Retina - Oscar Mulero remix
4- Retina
5- No Quarter

A new talent is added to our roster, this time the argentinian Alderaan, after several releases in labels such as Animal farm, Mindtrip, Planet Rhythm and our very own Aine.

He offers five slices of modern techno, heavy percussive based but whit a lot of intelligent elements inside. 

First cut is Ancient Particles, multiple drum layers, heavy reverberation and obsessive sequences as sound palette. 

Parallax follows in the same style but adding more drone action and bell like lines in a clever arrangement. 

Oscar Mulero remixes Retina getting rid of the textures and focusing in rhythm and repetition in a minimalistic remake.

Retina is a cosmic exercise, with galactic resonant bleeps, atmospheres and ambiental components in a dreamy structure.

No quarter returns to percussive territories, again with drones and atmospheres floating over the beat in an hypnotic travel thru deepness.

Timeless techno for the mind and for the body, soul as a weapon.

Preview - Alderaan - Retina EP - WU49

For The Nursery’s 20th release – an anniversary in itself – the Argentinian music machine Vladw makes his second appearance on Dynamic Reflection’s sub label. And quite an appearance it is. Even after putting out an insane amount of music since 2013, a stagnation in his productions is still nowhere to be found.

Exactly one year after his first contribution to the label, his ‘Lucid Minds EP’ hits the surface, and to say that it does its name justice would be an understatement. It floats from the acidic influences found in ‘Here, nobody surrenders’ and ‘The history will absolve me’, to the straight forward vibe on the second track, and the beautiful soundscape on the third. 

Even with this seemingly huge variety in styles, all of them are executed with equally high skill and ear for detail. This compelling composition of four very divergent tracks underlines Vladw’s talent and creativity, and to choose one favourite from it would be near impossible.

If the present is struggle, the future is ours

Vladw - If the present is struggle, the future is ours

MTD - Eisen [CRS021]

Arts Bandcamp: https://artsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/last-days-of-the-collapse
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him, Luis Flores joins the Arts Collective with a stunning record that exposes his modular and software skills in one single place. The artist is a well-rounded persona that knows very well what he does, and how he does it. One half of the "Belief Defect" with Drumcell, project that shocked all of us at the Atonal Festival as well as with his solo project this artist keeps shining on his own light and showing us various platforms where his spacey and futuristic sound can develop. Label Boss Emmanuel takes the responsibility to melt together all the 3 tracks, creating a 4th and a 5th dimension altogether.

A1. Luis Flores - The Collapse

Bifurcation

This expansive debut from Matt Hayes on @kombinat-london explores the tensions between the internal and external journeys we all have to take to find our place in the world. 

“Pursuit” uncoils through propulsive kicks and rising atmospherics into a snaking acid riff. “Domain” delivers the heartbeat of the EP with an epic melodic thump morphing into gyrating percussion and bells. “You Owe Me” reigns things in with its restrained looping groove. “Surrender” delivers the final exhale with a freely unfurling track that radiates the joy of arriving at your destination.

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SoundCloud: @matthayeslondon
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Domain

Premiere: Matt Hayes "You Owe Me" - Kombinat

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TOKEN65 - Ø [Phase] - Alone In Time? Remixed

Token Records