Through it's first three releases, Andrew James Gustav's label Marginal Returns has prided itself on shifting underrated talent into the much-deserved limelight. Whilst the label head has achieved a similar effect by unearthing forgotten records from the past, his brainchild focuses on fresh music that's primed to be appreciated in the here and now.

With previous releases from Sohrab, Two Phase U and, Controlled Weirdness, Marginal Returns moves onto it's fourth release with Enrica Falqui's Plexus EP. Falqui sprung on the scene alongside Dea Dvornik with their Eris project, releasing two stunning EPs on DJ Masda's Cabaret Recordings. This time around, Falqui goes solo with scintillating results. [continue reading at...https://trommelmusic.com/music/premiere/premiere-b1-enrica-falqui-plexus-mr-04/]

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Mineral Cuts 04

T.E.W. – Superficiality © 1996 Habitat.
Sigma Tibet – Mantis Religiosa © 1992 Evolution Records.

2 tracks
45 RPM

Compiled by Rey Colino.
Mastered and Cut by Marco Pellegrino.
Design by AJAM.

V/A – MINERAL04 (Snippets - Out 04/03/2022)

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Pancratio: In the early 2000s, Korg invented, engineered and distributed four little instruments called Electribes. A drum machine, one analog modeling synthesizer, a sampler and a music workstation respectively called ER1, EA1, ES1 and EM1. Initially I always found it very difficult to use them in my studio, because they weren’t really fitting with the sound and the workflow. Between march and may 2020, I stopped worrying about trying to force the Electribes into the setup: i just put them together and started jamming, recording several tracks without using anything else apart from these little boxes and their own effects… eventually sampling a few things along the way with my headphones into the ES1.
The title, as well as the aesthetic of the project, are inspired by a future-retro approach to early electronics and 70s Italian product advertisement.

[PREMIERE] Korghettini Electronics #16 - Pancratio | Onetriptoavyon [2022]

[PROMO] Limbo - Pulse 2 | Not On Label [2022]

For our next premiere, Minimono produces a sensuous melodic tech house rhythm that glides swiftly across the milky way.

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exclusive | Venetia - The Night | Silias Records

With his music featured on labels such as Binary Sound, LDE Records, Flagrance Records or Senary French producer Venetia now makes his first outing on Silias Records’ second catalogue number, a four-track comprising various artist EP called Silias & Friends 001. Just like the first release the label delivers four well-chosen cuts that need to be spread and can either be enjoyed loudly at home or over a club’s sound-system. The B2, Venetia’s take The Night, is an Electro-banger par excellence combining the genre-typical creaking bassline with robotic vocals and a short almost balearic-seeming sequence with an e-guitar-influence make it sound as if Daft Punk returned for a minute to break up the floor and bring back those 90 Electro/House-vibes we’ve been craving for ever since we first heard them.

Silias & Friends 001 is out on Silias Records.

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Silias & Friends

The Night

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exclusive | Hypnofriends (Shaque vs. Tjizza) - Frobiq | Cupula

Mood Waves co-founders respectively affiliates Shaque and Tjizza team up again under their Hypnofriends for a massive take called Frobiq, which is out on Barcelona-based label Cupula and the labels' second outing, a V/A with five cuts from local as well as internationally renowned artists. The A1 from Hypnofriends basically does what the artist moniker suggest it comes in with spineless in trance setting chords, which are the perfect match or playground for the minimalistic seeming bass- and Acid-line, which is partly enriched with robotic and sophisticated vocals. Everything put together forms a unit so delightful and abstract it's basically meant to be played out on the floors.

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Cyperpunk

Frobiq

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exclusive | Richer - Move At Night | OPIA Records

Responsible for the thirteenth outing on OPIA Records is Argentinian artist Matias Richter, probably known by many under his artist moniker Richer and as the label-head of Calypso’s Dream. Coming in with four tracks on his Klub Control EP, which are musically connecting the dots between the 90s and the present, Richer produced a potpourri of catchy takes that bring together the club-vibe with beach-enthusiasm or in other words: Hello to the summer ’23. The A2 Move At Night does what the track title suggests, deep chords with trancey dreamy wefts float over a housey bassline with minimal-influences as if seawater were sprinkled on a hot body to kiss the day away and move through the night. 

Richer's Klub Control EP is out on OPIA Records.

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Klub Control EP

Move At Night

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exclusive | Dondolo - Les Evanouisseurs | Fluyo

Dondolo delivers the A1, Les Evanouisseurs, of the newly founded label Fluyo, which is run by Jorge Escribano and kicks off the label-history with a four tracker called Fragments From Finowstraße, a VA EP, which transports the best from various electronic music genres from the past into the present. Dondolo's comes in with those electro-feel-good-vibes one could've experienced in the early noughties. A wobbly bassline paired with pads and strings as well as a huge dose of millennial nostalgia do the rest to create a track, which is beyond beautiful but a spaced-out ear-worm and goes into the same direction as Dieter Schmidt's Morse Code From The Cold War - a classic from this period of time in the French (House) scene.

Fragments From Finowstraße is out on Fluyo.

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Fragments From Finowstraße

Les Evanouisseurs

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Avec ce nouvel EP, Blazers convie Deep House, Acid, Gospel et Funk pour un mariage audacieux.
Dans Chords Tool, des accords groovy et cadensés se répondent sur une basse chaleureuse et saturée, un morceau qui saura enflammer les dancefloors les plus enivrés.
Hometown est marqué par le contraste entre des nappes aérées et planantes et une basse acide progressive qui suit l'auditeur tout le long du morceau jusqu'au climax.
Construit autour d'un sample funk mémorable, Rite Now est un voyage plein de rebondissements, accentué par un orgue gospel entrainant et une basse marquée qui ne laissent pas indifférents.
Enfin, Shibuya Meltdown vient clôturer cet EP avec une énergie de haut vol, portée par une solide basse acide et des choeurs menant le morceau à son apogée.

Artist : @Blazers
Mastering : @WiKETT

Artwork : IchbinLeonie__ (Léonie Le Moigne)
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