ST025 - Ivory - Love Letters

Out Now: https://lnk.to/ELL078

Belgian artist Melawati steps up to Ellum Audio with an arresting debut album, Artimia. Produced with an array of modified machines and modular synths, it is a testament to finding beauty in chaos.

Martijn Ravesloot aka Melawati makes music out of mistakes. He comes from an indie background but has always admired Aphex Twin while playing in bands such as The Subs and working in theatre. He has a love of experimenting with soundwaves that gives rise to his complex, experimental and improvised sounds. He first met Maceo Plex while jamming and that session turned into the track 'Daliah' which dropped on Ellum Audio and was remixed by Tale of Us.

After that, Melawati wrote this most absorbing and beautiful album during the pandemic in a dark studio attic in the heart of Brussels. He set about recording live experiments on analog synths and then deconstructed and reconstructed them into the tracks presented here. The angelic tones of guest vocalist Lisa Jane feature on two tracks though the pair have never met, and Melawati is now set to take his impressive live show to Tomorrowland. His life has changed since writing the album, he now has two children and lives on a farm, but the power of this music where organic and alien worlds intersect remains utterly compelling.

Opener 'I Just Want To Go Walking' pairs a heavenly vocal with celestial chords and a bustling broken beat that strikes a powerful emotional note right from the off. The excellent 'Riddles' showcases more majestic synth work and molten melodies that suspend you in mid-air while 'Slow Pulse' is an intense layering of drones and heavy drum tumbles that again offsets light and dark, tension and release.

'Red Herring' rests with beautifully pensive synth patterns that twinkle, warp and melt before your very ears and 'You And I' takes off on a rubbery groove overlaid with heart-aching keys and shimmering, wordless vocals. 'Somebody' is brain-soothing synth bliss with lush patterns and icy drums that gently unfold to get you in a trance and the gorgeous 'Radiate' then offers a widescreen and cosmic ambient interlude. The heartbroken synths of 'Let Your Love Wash Over Me' speak of the end of a cosmic love affair and 'Violent Thoughts' rebuilds on smooth arps and smeared pads over downtempo drums. The final trio of tracks offers rousing breakbeats on 'New White Noise', uplifting synth catharsis on 'Pain And Pressure' and a melancholic lullaby on 'Stellar'.

Artimia is a beautiful mix of harmony and dissonance, of real emotional power and improvised musical elegance.
 
Tracklist:
01 I Just Want To Go Walking 
02 Riddles
03 Slow Pulse
04 Red Herring
05 You And I
06 Somebody
07 Radiate
08 Let Your Love Wash Over Me 
09 Violent Thought
10 New White Noise 
11 Pain And Pressure 
12 Stellar

Aritmia

Somebody

Melawati - Somebody

https://fanlink.to/HighHopesEP


Artist: Konrad Ritter & NEPH
Title: High Hopes EP
Label: Unreel Records
Style: house, electronica, indie dance Format: Digital / Stream
Release: September 23, 2022


Tracks:
1. Trip City
2. You Are Doing Well
3. You Are Doing Well (Robag‘s Tassilaq Morbus Rehand)


Info:
Fresh off their April 2022-released debut single on Unreel, German duo Konrad Ritter & NEPH are back at it with "High Hopes", a three-track hike across solar house territories beautifully complemented by a choice remix from Kompakt stalwart Robag Wruhme. True to the pair's ever vivid and colourful approach, a lush palette of summery flavours and organic suavity exudes from this fresher-than-fresh second effort.
The blissed-out, disco-hued opener "Trip City" treats us to a smorgasbord of layered pad swashes, framing our minds in a warm cocoon of sound that spins in and out of focus to the jacking rhythm of early Chicago house drums. Folding out sequences of melodic sublimation and honey-like textural unctuosity thru and thru, a different shade of feelgood-ism innervates "You Are Doing Well", where Ritter and NEPH blend in elements of polyrhythmic Caribbean music with heavily processed vocals and a left-of-centre sense of deep-house escapology.
Rounding off the package on a luminous, typically empowering note, German maestro Robag Wruhme repurposes "You Are Doing Well" into a proper clear-watered slice of shoegaze-y, dreamy elation - perfect for transitional states both on and off the dance- floor, then slowly but surely (and elegantly) cranking up the tempo up a notch until its bass-powered engines take us off up the highest layers of the dance-o-sphere.
Photo: Madlen Krippendorf
Artwork/Design: Björn Hinze
Mastering Track 1: Henning Riez / Tracks 2+3: Deinklang Promo Contact: Felix@silent-shout-communications.com

Hope EP

Konrad Ritter & NEPH - You Are Doing Well (Robag‘s Tassilaq Morbus Rehand) D3

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/speicher_123

There's no 123 without 4 in our beloved Speicher series. Robag Wruhme is back with two intense, low-slung monster tunes in his unique masterful fashion. "Glut" is destined to set your peak time dancefloor on fire with its killer bassline and trippy sequences. "Un-spok-en" is equally relentless and unfathomable, garnished with a haunting vocal snippet.

Speicher 123

Robag Wruhme - Un-spoke-en

GUSTAV - WE SHALL OVER COME - ROBAG WRUHME RMX-EDIT.22
https://tulpaovi.lnk.to/RemixesPt1EP

First in line, Gustav "We Shall Overcome" - originally issued in 2006 as part of the Wighnomy Brothers / Gustav split "Okkasion EP" on Freude Am Tanzen, is given a new lease of life. Stripped back of its deep house-oriented opulence to embrace a more pared-down textural approach, this new version of the track offers a chameleonic take on the matrix, best underlining the vocals' punk-ish nature and track's overall timelessness.

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T.O.R. 005 GUSTAV - WE SHALL OVER COME (ROBAG WRUHME RMX)

"I Wan't Ya" is the closing track of the EP featuring a funky rhythm monster loaded with different parameters that keep a nervous energy throughout the track that keeps your feet in motion. The most minimalist track of this EP for sure.

Garnee "ImPerfection" (Traum V281)is availaible in high audio quality on your favorite sales and streaming platforms: https://geni.us/traumv281

See more at TRAUM webpage:
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ImPerfection

I Wan't Ya

Garnee - I Wan't Ya (Traum V281)

To call "Morning Dance" a true 303 track could be misleading. The funky 303 baseline delivers a key element but there is more to this track as it progresses. The sense of deepness is expressed here as well and becomes a core subject of the track. "Morning Dance" is a perfect monotone hypnotic sunset track, steady going with a small intermezzi.

Garnee "ImPerfection" (Traum V281)is availaible in high audio quality on your favorite sales and streaming platforms:
https://geni.us/traumv281

See more at TRAUM webpage:
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Morning Dance

Garnee - Morning Dance (Traum V281)

The EP kicks off with the track "ImPerfection". A track that celebrates the deepest chords on earth and needless to say you can find here fantastic spacious reverbs that expend time and create a perfect comfort zone in a bubble. Definitely an easy one to loose yourself in. Deep rooted house music at its best.

Garnee "ImPerfection" (Traum V281)is availaible in high audio quality on your favorite sales and streaming platforms:
https://geni.us/traumv281

See more at TRAUM webpage:
https://www.traumschallplatten.de/traum/v281.html

Garnee - ImPerfection (Traum V281)

Grauspecht

Dominik Eulberg - Grauspecht (Acid Pauli Remix)

Label: Moiss Music
Artist: Miguel Ante (@miguel-ante-music)
Title: 3AM
Traxsource Promo: 17/05/2024
Official Release Date: 31/05/2024

Traxsource

Miguel Ante - Something Going On (Original Mix)

After last year's lauded 3-track EP "TOPINAMBUR" we're more than happy to announce @robag_fm's return to SPEICHER. On the A-side, Robag delivers a deep hypnotic chugger that goes by the simple but ultimately affirmative name "YES". In all its simplicity, it's one of those tracks that gently tosses you down the famous rabbit hole. The flip side "CALMA CALMA" is pure summer festival bliss, resurrecting the spine-tingling a cappella from C'Hantal's proto techno classic "The Realm" for the 2020's. Both tracks are 100% Robag... highly emotive, über sexy and yet somehow hazardous.

Robag Wruhme - Yes

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