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Frankfurt's celebrated producer, Philip Lauer returns to Especial, this time teaming up with Berlin based vocalist Dena for a special collaboration, covering Julie Stapleton's soulful House classic with a modern interpretation across a number of versions (vinyl and digital). 

After the success of the Hotel Lauer EP on Especial way back in 2016, Lauer has continued his ascendency with albums for Permanent Vacation and Running Back, as well as releasing a string of sure-fire, dancefloor friendly EPs for the likes of Cin Cin, Futureboogie and Skatebard's Digitalo Enterprises.

Born and raised in Bulgaria, before making the move the music mecca of Berlin, Denitza Todorova has a carved a path with her electronic, dance pop stylings across releases for the likes of K7 and Kitsune Music. First appearing on Make It Stay from Lauer's last album, it jumped out as the perfect partnership to bring the raw, soulful and uplifting sounds of the cult V4 Visions label up to date. Founded by Alex Palmer, the label was part of the UK's early 90s club sound, releasing street soul, deep house and more, in Where's Your Love Gone, Palmer and 18-year-old writer/vocalist Julie Stapleton hit on the perfect marriage of Lovers Rock and Street Soul yearning with the haunting sounds of US House. Presented as a new take on the classic, but with utmost respect, the EP starts with the Club Mix, a Larry Heard bassline joins a marimba melody, lifting Dena's vocals of youth's lost love and pain. This is followed by the Demo Mix, a warm, beautiful string laden original take that Lauer and the label felt had to be included. 

DJ Slyngshot is welcomed to provide a deep, tech remix. A name to watch via his releases on his YAPPIN label and recent EP for Workshop, his remix is an analogue twist of hypnotic, raw dub techno percussion and counter breaks builds as string and piano join. The EP ends in the Synthapella, as bongos, cowbell and whistle are added to create a drifting Balearic version for late summer nights and dawn that highlight Dena's vocals in a 'sunrise' light.

A1. Lauer & Dena - Where's Your Love Gone? (Club Mix)

Space – the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Shubostar starship. Her mission: To explore strange new music worlds. To seek out new beats and new melodies. To boldly go where no woman or man has gone before.

Remember those words from Star Trek? They do fit quite well for our latest signing, South Korea born Shubostar who presents her »Live At Robert Johnson« debut »Dolphin Dream«. Wait … did we just say dolphin? Well … who knows if there aren't dolphins in space too …

Let's begin with »Queen Millennia«, a melancholic but somehow hopeful piece of new cosmic disco music - a name which suits Shubostar's style of music quite good. She's using disco music as a basis, adding sprinkles of »cosmic sounds« plus a little touch of techno and thus creates her own soundscapes indeed rooted deep in space.

»Dolphin Dream« is up next and suddenly we're not deep in space but deep in the ocean with synthesizer arpeggios all over the place. But this dolphin's dream sounds a bit like as if he's following a starship that dove into the ice cold waters of the Atlantic on its search for Atlantis - beautiful!

»Siestar« is far from sounding like a siesta. It's a highly positive and uplifting tune which will put a big smile on everybody's face for sure when played out loud to an up and down jumping crowd in a club anywhere. It's vibrant, it's lively, it's fast, it has star qualities!

Shubostar changes the beat and the pace a bit for her last track »Éternité«. The tune sounds like a theme song of an 80ies science fiction movie situated in the Paris of 2099. Imagine a foggy and wet November evening with our leading actress, cigarette in her mouth, walking down an old but totally modernized boulevard ablaze with neon lights and you might get close to the feel of this wonderful tune. And aren't lyrics sung in French not just great? Mais oui, bien sûr!

Make sure you check out Shubostar's own label »uju Records« too.

3 - Shubostar - Siestar - Snippet

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Jepe & Vars - Mind Space Technology
label: Urge to Dance (https://soundcloud.com/urgetodance)
BUY LINK: https://www.beatport.com/release/mind-space-technology/4051943
https://soundcloud.com/jepejustjohn, https://soundcloud.com/varsmusic

The thirteenth delivery of Urge To Dance is a vibrant spring
collaboration of Mind Space Technology by Jepe and Vars. 5 beautiful
tracks through which the Portuguese Maestro Jepe and the German talent Vars showcase their craftsmanship.

Lusio continues the EP on the same note intertwining different spaces
and atmospheres. Energetic drums and bassline set lovely direction for
soft and cheerful soundscapes where dreamy progressions and intimate
synths gently invite you to have a morning dance on a frisky spring
morning.

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PREMIERE : Vars - Lusio (Original Mix)

In this series of endless remixes that we've been releasing on "MEXTAPE" by Ali X x Ximena, in which, the artists from a rap album with acid techno bases have been interpreting differently.
PVLOMO the heat is felt, and it feels heavy, hypnotic rhythms, modulations in all the elements, the repetition of this heat that exasperates us but we like it at the same time. This song is an experience, it takes us back to certain 90s house sounds but combined with certain tropical textures well rooted in central Mexico. HACE CALOR.
Pvlomo did it again.

Controlla expands your horizons, we present this fantasy raphouse.

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SC:
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https://soundcloud.com/pvlomo
https://soundcloud.com/alixxximena

IG:
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https://www.instagram.com/pvlomo.music/

PREMIERE: ALI X X XIMENA - CALOR (PVLOMO REMIX) [Controlla]

Exclusive: Achim Maerz - Far Out

Hamburg-based label Mireia Records, run by RSS Disco, readies its 23rd chapter of exquisite music with a four tracker from Achim Maerz, who showcases his deep side of House music. Going by the name of Outside Maerz's musically conglomerate starts with Far Out, a downtempo outer space odyssey with cosmic textures and dreamy sequences as well as alien-esque glitches all seemingly working towards the track's break(down), which gives the synth-line enough space to unfold and built up to sky-rocket the harmonic melodies. 

Buy the EP: https://mireiarecords.bandcamp.com/album/outside-ep

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Mireia Records: https://facebook.com/MireiaRec // @mireiarec // https://instagram.com/mireiarecords

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Lazy Snail’s Lucky Life EP was originally released in December 2022. Thereby the five-tracker explores the different sounds and esthetics of electronic music delivering valuable cuts with a downtempo note. Now, almost six months later, Lucky Life gets a second life as the EP is remixed by five different artist, each sprinkling their magic on the tracks. Angelo Battilani took on remix-duties for the former EP-opener Remercier, turning the original into a club-oriented stomper that tries out or rather fuses electronica with House music. Keeping the melodic momentum of the original Battilani understands to speed up the tempo to achieve a sound-sequence madness that explores the deepness of fulfillment as if beats in space finally sound.

Lazy Snail’s Lucky Life Remixed will be released on Flexi Cuts on May 9th, 2023.

Buy the EP: https://flexi-cuts.bandcamp.com/album/lucky-life-remixed

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Battilani: https://www.facebook.com/battilanifb // @battilani // https://instagram.com/b_a_t_t_i_l_a_n_i
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Remercier (Battilani Remix)

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Berlin based electronic music label Lossless proudly announces the 5th chapter of their highly anticipated V.A. series OUTBOUND. Outbound.5 is set to be released in three parts and features a carefully curated selection of exclusive tracks from some of the finest talents out there. Quality from start to finish.

Outbound 5.1 kicks things off with exclusive tracks from LOSSLESS head honcho Mathias Schober, Julian Stetter and our good friends from New York - Moon Patrol. Each artist brings their own trademark sound and style to the mixture, showcasing Lossless' commitment to cutting-edge sound design and production quality. Mathias Schober's "The World As It Is" is a stripped back, dark and brooding slow-techno cut while Julian Stetter takes us on one of his hypnotic and atmospheric journeys with "Bear”. ITSDELAYED founders Moon Patrol are closing the circle with "Woodland" a stunning state of the art slice of contemplative yet driving electronica.

Artwork by David Kochs
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Outbound 5.1

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Julian Stetter - Bear

Rolling up on Leipzig’s finest disco emporium, Riotvan, Mexican sensations https://soundcloud.com/kalexis-dj and https://soundcloud.com/paulor_thelord make their debut with a fresh four track selection on their ‘In Between’ EP.  Well, ok. Not strictly a debut. Our Mexico maestro, Paulor, did feature on the third instalment of our Familiar Faces series back in 2020, and now he’s back, as one half of our new cosmic couple. As resident DJ of the legendary Futuro Primitivo he has soundtracked the nights for so many and showcased his own music on Life And Death, DGTL, Kompakt and more. Partner-in-shine, Kalexis. A supreme selector. Deadly behind the decks and an artist who finally cut her production teeth with 2021’s ’Neptune Rising’, now readies her latest work…  Right here on Riotvan.  The pair ease us in with the beatless opener ‘Going Through The Void’, before hitting us square in the chest with the growling stomp of ‘Energy’. On the flip they entice with the electrified folk feels of ‘Lashes’, before the rotor-blade drone of ‘Magnetic’ closes the EP.

In Between

Magnetic

Kalexis & Paulor - Magnetic [Snippet]

This.Is.Sally - Centre of The Universe EP (UTD018)
BUY LINK: https://www.beatport.com/release/center-of-the-universe/4255470
Label: Urge To Dance (https://soundcloud.com/urgetodance)
https://www.instagram.com/urgetodance
This.Is.Sally (https://soundcloud.com/this-is-sally)

The 18th release of Urge To Dance is delivered by one of the main
drivers behind the Stockholm-based music collective 'Imprint',
This.Is.Sally. Center of The Universe EP is built like a night of different captions and moments. From dark intros to tribal, through peak time explosions and anthem-like closing track.

'Center of The Universe' is the title track of the EP, offering
captivating drums and percussions, coupled with dirty and hypnotizing
synths that lead to an emotional eruption towards the second part of the track.

PREMIERE : This.Is.Sally - Center Of The Universe

Twenty Year Weekend (Two Decades of Darkroom Dubs) is the twenty-anniversary label
compilation compiled and curated by Glasgow's Silicone Soul. Rather than take the retrospective
route, they mark twenty years since they launched one of the UK's most revered underground house
music labels with a new collection of music from a fresh global roll call who like it deep, dark and a little
twisted.
“Born in the 80s, raised by the 90s, lost in the 00s”, exclaims maverick techno-punk Pvlomo, immediately standing out with the
sci-fi robot-gargling and Godzilla-like bass on My Little Vampire, his strength lying in lethally audacious
twists and turns executed as the track powers mercilessly on into the darkness.

@darkroomdubs
@pvlomo

Twenty Year Weekend - Two Decades of Darkroom Dubs

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Pvlomo - My Little Vampire [Darkroom Dubs]

Torture the Artist - your source for contemporary electronic music

Torture the Artist is a webzine, or a magazine made for the internet, geared towards those with a passion for contemporary electronic music, with subgenres including Techno, Tech House, Deep House and Eletronica, as well as a small amount of Indie and Alternative. Founded in 2014 by Holger Breuer, a German native and lover of the arts, Torture the Artist now consists of five team members from all around the world.

In addition to publishing interviews, music reviews, DJ charts and track premieres, the webzine hosts out a  podcast series called 'art:casts'. This medium gives DJs and producers the artistic freedom to highlight their different musical styles while not being restricted by factors such as setting, and connecting them to a wider audience. 

Being in its ninth year, Torture the Artist has gained a strong and active online support group, including music enthusiasts to label managers and artists themselves, creating a cohesive community with music as their bond.

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