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Who Is Arcadia
@whoisarcadia

Who Is Arcadia is a Newcastle local who favours sounds characterised by broken beats, booming drum machines and acid lines, all of which feature in this mix he has put together for Selfness. He has held residencies at NoFrills, Palace, Tunnel Vision and 404, and has just put out his second release, a double single titled ‘Channel 2’ and has more music in the works.

This Novocastrian has been pushing boundaries with his impressive productivity and personal track releases, with our new favourite 'Curiosity Track' capturing an energy and intensity he also brings to his mixing. With recent residencies at Palace (@palaceunderground) and 404 (@404crew) events over March, Who Is Arcadia is quickly becoming an important figure in our local scene, with this mix of atmospheric breaks, enthralling basslines and hearty electro, showcasing the strength of Newy artists.

Personal track releases can also be found over on bandcamp https://whoisarcadia.bandcamp.com/

015 | Who is Arcadia

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Full stream of an upcoming VA 12" from La Beauté Du Négatif featuring tracks from Neel, J.Alvarez, and Rawmance.

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@neel
@214_electro (J.Alvarez)

Rawmance - United Banlieues

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7 crunchy bangers - stripped down and straight to the point.

Deep house, electronica, euphoric hands-in-the-air piano lunacy and a techno roller

97 - 132bpms

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96.69 Beau Wanzer - Shitty Cough 14

To be released June 21st 2017.

The Brooklyn Sessions bring together old and new Pinkman friends. Annanan returns, this time with Maroje T, for three pieces of NY darkness. Acid tainted torment opens the 12”, pain and rejection catalogued in the barren “Confrontations in Terms of Sexuality.” “I Saw You” maintains that cold edge. Militaristic percussion is dipped in industrial grease, lost samples circling in a haze of distortion. The pair explore reduction with tracks being boiled down to leave only distilled dread behind. The breathy vocals of “I Am” close, drum patterns looped into machine groan and the aching abyss.

PNKMN20 - Annanan & Maroje T. - The Brooklyn Sessions (Out Now)

To feel the future is to feel the fall into time.

Like a kind of transcendental whiplash, the past leans in to furnish the present with a set of concrete forms and withering terms, whilst the halo of possibility on the crown of the moment makes speculation a speed-test for computing what comes next. As a vessel for abstract dynamics, the human organism knows what it is to be dizzy, to feel vertigo as a matter of being contained by our experience of space and time.

For the fourth instalment in Tresor's 'Kern' mix series, DJ Stingray presents a device for decoding time in all directions, a sonic prism that refracts our senses into auxiliary components of a total future-rush.

With a far-reaching selection that has been worked into his own unique form, DJ Stingray wraps our vertigo around a gritty pneumatic bump with high-velocity swing. His mixing style, prepared for hostile engagements as it is, throttles techno into counter-gravity forces. Wading through a specialised cross-section of Detroit's own dance-floor contagions as well as the contaminated feedback signals from across the global aqua plains, the mix can be summed up in just one word: hectic.

Raw, caustic, synthetic rhythm-code pumps frenzy itself through a cascading geothermal fog. Never giving away the cryptographic keys, DJ Stingray works you harder than your heart, adapting your biology to a fractal timeline of viscous systems.

Discovery, or uncovering, has to do with what already exists actually or virtually; it is therefore certain to happen sooner or later with enough sweat in the club. And as Kern Volume 4 attests to, DJ Stingray has the access codes and the stealth sense to make a place of a space, and to let it fall into time.

Accompanying the mix is a set of two records. The leading manoeuvre comes from the collaborative efforts of DJ Stingray and Heinrich Mueller under the name NRSB-11. Seven more pieces of the covert assault make up the release.

TRACKLIST CD

1. Dopplereffekt - Scientist
2. Alex Cortex - We Run Your Life
3. Kris Wadsworth - Infiltrator
4. Christopher Joseph - Mind At Sea
5. Silent Servant - Dissociation
6. Adam Jay - Lexic
7. Herva - Slam The Laptop
8. Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X
9. Professor X - Professor X (Saga)
10. NRSB-11 - Nationalised
11. Luke Eargoggle - I Belong To The Past
12. Drexciya - Lost Vessel
13. Dynarec - Moving Corridors
14. Syncom Data - Musik Politik
15. Creepy Autograph - Night Stalker
16. Drexciya - Aquabahn
17. Faceless Mind - Ocean Movers (Vcs2600 Science Remix)
18. 065 DJ Dijital - Bang
19. Drexciya - Running Out Of Space
20. Illektrolab - Overdrive
21. Anna Meredith - VapourIsED (LoneLady Remix)
22. Drexciya - Dr. Blowfins' Black Storm Stabilizing Spheres
23. DJ Di'jital - Mind of the Master
24. Morphology - Vector Plant
25. Luke Eargoggle & Kan3da - Night Smoker
26. AFX - Serge Fenix Rendered 2
27. Drexciya - Cascading Celestial Giants

TRACKLIST LP
A1. NRSB-11 - Nationalised
A2. Dynarec - Moving Corridors	
B1. Professor X - Professor X		
B2. Herva - Slam The Laptop		
C1. AFX - Serge Fenix Rendered 2
C2. Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X		
D1. Anna Meredith - VapourIsED (LoneLady Remix)
D2. Syncom Data - Musik Politik

Kern Vol. 4 mixed by DJ Stingray

A2. Dynarec - Moving Corridors (preview)

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ReLeasedate 18:th of November 2017
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Shedbug returns to Of Paradise with 'Going Back', a rolling slice of stripped back electronics from our second label VA.

Shedbug: https://soundcloud.com/shedbug

Of Paradise Vol. 2

Shedbug - Going Back

Artist: DJ Life
Title: Neural Oscillations EP
Track Title: Hierophant
Label: Echocentric Records
Cat #: ECR001
Release date: 11.10.2019
Format: 12"/Digital

@djlifee
@echocentricrecords

A contemporary blend of lush dreamy synth washes, occasional acidic 303 meows & heavy hitting syncopated beats. Skilfully crafted playful arrangements work equally well both on peak time dance floors and on concentrated headphone listening. Australian DJ Life brings his esoteric ambiance on Finnish label, Echocentric Records after impressive string of releases on Gnork’s Blorp Label and Gestalt Records. This 4-track ep is sure to cement his place as a young producer to watch.

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Shite Premiere | DJ Life - Hierophant

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Willy - Don't Fall

[Digital: May 1st / Vinyl: May 15th]
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Returning to Earwiggle for the first time since one of our early hits (his Midwest Whippersnappers EP with Paul Birken), the inimitable Freddy Fresh provides some choice material from the year 1996, remastered and ready for modern consumption.

We start with the tunnelling acid tour-de-force of "Abraxas", that first appeared on Freddy's "Analog Space Funk" album on Analog, followed by a similarly spaced out (yet previously unreleased) track of the same period, "Aerial". 

Originally released on Cari Lekebusch's Hybrid label, "Logical Grooves 1" is prototype supernatural techno on an almost morbid tip, while "Barogue" is a classic Freddy Fresh cut to wrap up (fittingly taken from his "Accidentally Classic" album on Harthouse), where weighty Mr. Fingers style chords play over an epic and deep-building exotic soundscape. "1996" marks a special snapshot in time - when Freddy Fresh did 'out there' techno in a way that no-one else did, techno that we believe will always stand the test of time. 

Also included is a special A4 poster of a young Freddy patching in the studio, giving a small glimpse of the Minneapolis great at his weird and wonderful work.

Remastered by Paul Mac 
Design: Unthink

Freddy Fresh - 1996 (previews)

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Our fifth compilation on the Viral Syndicate series has been a while in the making. Oozing with electro, acid, breaks and everything in between; this one’s a must for the 2-step heads among us.

As always, we will be funding the artists involved directly from the compilations sales, so please support if you can.

Thank you,

Haŵs.

Cassettes For Kids - Alfax

Irish DJ and producer R.Kitt keeping the ball rolling in the second mix of the series.

https://www.instagram.com/rkitt4eva/

@rkitt

Call 002 - R.Kitt

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With a heatwave of 18 tracks and a roster that spans as far wide around the globe as the genre diversity in the tracks, TR4R returns with Rough Cuts Vol. 2. Bringing in some familiar suspects, the compilation flexes some of the untapped corners of techno, breaks and pumping electro.

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Mastered by Oakfield Mastering
Distro : Inch By Inch Distribution

Premiere: Shelter On Wax - Lost My Key In Another Dimension

At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future. 

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit. 

Tresor Records was founded in the same year and began to serve as a platform for exporting the new sounds associated with Tresor all around the world. Emergent musicians from Michigan, such as Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and Drexciya, were pivotal in shaping these early years. Their visits to Berlin would kick-start dialogue between the youth movement in Europe and these musicians. This story is one of friendship and community-building, inextricably linked with cities like Detroit, Birmingham or Edinburgh, where like-minded friends built something truly special, where revelatory rhythms soundtrack decaying industry in corrupted metropoles. 

Tresor Records has been the fertile soil for dozens upon dozens of creative minds, from the very luminaries of the scene who developed electronic music over the last three decades through to contemporary protagonists who are currently defining the sound of the future -  A more than 300 strong catalogue displays an unmistakable identity - the Tresor spirit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

A2. Dynarec - Moving Corridors (preview)

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