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techno 2024

CONSTANTE

Full stream of Maelstrom's "Fixed Based Operator," taken from Expression Directe EP on Cultivated Electronics, out April 19.

More: www.orbmag.com/music/

@cultivated-electronics
@maelstrom

Expression Directe

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Premiere: Maelstrom - Fixed Based Operator

Taken from Kerrie's EP We Continue Part 1 on Cultivated Electronics Ltd, out July 19.

More: www.orbmag.com/music/

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@cultivated-electronics

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Premiere:  Kerrie - They Can't Stop Us

TL Premiere #772 (2021.11.29) : Lake Haze - Adamastor [Cultivated Electronics LTD]

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For this 322th Premiere of 2021, we have a track by Portuguese electronic musician from Lisbon "Lake Haze" titled ‘Adamastor’ from his forthoming EP "Osmosis" on the London-based Electro label headed up by Sync 24 : Cultivated Electronics LTD.

"Lake Haze - Osmosis" will be available from December 13, 2021 on vinyl only.

▶︎ Pre-order through Clone : https://clone.nl//item67081.html

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Lake Haze - Osmosis [Cultivated Electronics Ltd - CELTD08]

Following on from Kerrie’s two-part series, ‘We Continue’, CE’s vinyl-only Cultivated Electronics Ltd enlists Lake Haze to make his debut for the label with ‘Osmosis’.

Electro-heads will already be very familiar with this electronic DJ and producer from Lisbon in Portugal.  His unfailing musical skills have found their way onto labels like Crème Organization, Unknown To The Unknown, Shall Not Fade and many more.  Not forgetting his new vinyl label, Atlantic Thunder launched earlier this year.

Here he delivers four rugged Electro cuts geared up for the world’s opening dance floors.

Tracklist : 
A1. Osmosis
A2. Sawshark
B1. Atlantic Modulation
B2. Adamastor

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Follow Lake Haze :
Bandcamp : www.lakehaze.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/artist/3374019-Lake-Haze
Facebook : www.facebook.com/lakehaze
Instagram : www.instagram.com/lake_haze
SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/lakehaze
YouTube : www.youtube.com/user/lakehazemusic

Follow Cultivated Electronics LTD :
Bandcamp : www.cultivatedelectronics.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/label/99223-Cultivated-Electronics
Facebook : www.facebook.com/CultivatedElectronics
Instagram : www.instagram.com/cultivated_electronics
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/cultivated-electronics

Osmosis

Adamastor

TL PREMIERE : Lake Haze - Adamastor [Cultivated Electronics LTD]

AFTERMATH - V/A (IA016)
Incl.tracks by Quelza, Eric Fetcher, Oscar Mulero and Divide.
Mastered by Conor Dalton at Glowcast Audio Mastering, Berlin, in March 2022.
Released by Immaterial.Archives in June 2022.
Limited vinyl edition 140 Gr.

Divide - Nemesi [Artaphine Premiere]

Techno.





All tracks written & produced by Ben Klock & Fadi Mohem
Cat. No. KW34 – All rights reserved
℗ & © 2022 Klockworks
https://klockworks.de/

A1. Ben Klock & Fadi Mohem - Prefix (KW34)

The newest installment on the "Sungate" imprint is a collaboration between Estrato Aurora & Siarem. Monument premieres track "Zeta II" from the "The Passengers" EP, which will be out on the 1st of July.

Artwork: Abel Fdez
Buylink: https://sungaterec.bandcamp.com/

@sungate-records
@lovebas
@diabo-dj

MNMT Premiere:  Estrato Aurora & Siarem - Zeta II Reticuli

Release date (vinyl & digital): 8th of July 2022

TRACKLISTING:
A1 Mangled
A2 Light In The Darkness
B1 S.O.
B2 Solidify

INFO:
Gracing Token with a 12” of reliable effect, Sterac (a.k.a. Steve Rachmad) offers 4 titles that go beyond the club - balancing raw Detroit influences and contemporary depth. With a reputation built on years of developing his scene through important record releases and local as well as international activity, ‘Light in the Darkness’ confirms Rachmad’s artistic relevance in a quickly developing scene. With a tone-setting introduction for the EP, Rachmad immediately grips the listener’s attention with the pragmatic yet nostalgic ‘Mangled’. Chord stabs inch away from a brutal on-beat drum sequence, a technique responsible for many hits in the genre, this time tastefully repolished through spreaded wooden percussion in direct support. ‘Mangled’ boasts what A1’s should - a worthy first impression - before luring us into what can be considered the apex of the EP. ‘Light in the Darkness’ claims the project title with a gradual exploration through celestial bodies. A minimal opening with a simple acid bassline shows a great deal of attitude before the listener gets caught in an unexpected tide of cosmic pads, dimensionalizing an initially linear record . With slow waves of rich synth work enveloping the only anchor to time that is rhythm, the result is a closed-eyed dance floor experience to be selected in prime conditions. Thick pads are immediately offered again, this time more orchestral than mental. The softness of this primary sound design is expertly dissected by a razor sharp resonant top synth and an upward drum construction, completing the spectrum of sound and unveiling a record with a size fit for warehouse capacities. Rachmad adds almost cinematic suspense to the EP with ‘S.O.’ - certainly not to be underestimated. This leads us to the project’s closer ‘Solidify’, a delirious club groover. With a sound as bent and confronting as a house of mirrors, Rachmad leaves us with a final chapter to keep the heart racing past the end.

TOKEN109 -  Sterac - Light In The Darkness

VOLTAGE Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast series, broadcasting both upcoming and well-established artists within the techno scene. Every episode features a lengthy set surrounded by a spoken in- & outro. The full story, including an in-depth interview and handwritten tracklist by each artist, can be found on our website: voltageimprint.com/en/podcast

Bursting onto the scene with their unmistakable sound, Schwefelgelb's take on techno makes for raw, heavy records that have been employed by the world’s greatest artists of the genre. Their grip on the underground electronic music scene since the early 2000’s has hardly loosened, backed by a string of powerful releases.
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Interview & Tracklist

VOLTAGE Podcast 36 - Schwefelgelb

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PAN TONE 071
by EX-MONO

Soundcloud: @ex-mono
Co-Founder of @meeronautenmusik

Cayenne
15 - 11 - 2023
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PAN TONE 071 | by EX-MONO

Mal Hombre makes his debut on Pfirter's MindTrip and he does it his way, focused on your mental hypnosis while keeping the dance floor in the spotlight. 

Featured: https://klubikon.com/2023/11/22/premiere-mal-hombre-star-fixation 

'Star Fixation' EP will be available after the 1st of December https://mindtriprec.bandcamp.com 

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Star Fixation

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PREMIERE: Mal Hombre - Star Fixation

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Dave Pad, Spieltape - Space Chants (M.O.S. Remix) [Snippet]

Finishing 2023 on another stratospheric high, GMJ & Matter return to their ever-rising imprint with a twin-track EP of rare quality as they end the year with “Stellaris / Idtritah”. 

Over a year that saw a collection of releases cement their reputation in the rarefied atmosphere of the Progressive House movement’s leading lights, GMJ & Matter have seen music featured on Cid Inc.’s Replug, Hernan Cattaneo’s Sudbeat Music and Alex O’Rion’s newly minted Solis Records throughout 2023. Add to that a set of performances across their native Australia, Europe, and culminating in a spell-binding sold-out label showcase at Amsterdam’s Akhnaton as ADE hit the city for the dance industry’s annual shindig, and it’s not difficult to understand why the Melbourne-based duo are such hot properties. 

As label bosses, the duo have overseen the meteoric rise of their Meanwhile imprint since its debut in early 2020. A regular fixture in the Beatport Progressive House Top 10 charts, Meanwhile has been the purveyor of outstanding underground dance music with a roster of artists including Jamie Stevens, Alex O’Rion and Simos Tagias. Now returning to their label with another pair of original offerings, “Stellaris” is a gorgeous free-flowing offering that immediately hits its stride with powerful beat, percussive intrigue and hallmark hi-hat urgency. Full of depth and delight, a sub-bassline hypnotises before an immaculately cadenced synth motif is woven into the rhythmic foundation with the precision of a master seamstress. A flowing and atmospheric new melody adds depth at the breakdown and continues into the head-shaking third movement accompanied by an array of white-noise risers. The result is another instant GMJ & Matter classic. 

Continuing the deep, driving narrative of its partner track, “Idtritah” mesmerises with an immaculately constructed groove of rolling top-line hats and percussion, while a staccato bassline adds further gravitas. A cascading combination of melodies trip across each other with ease as a warm blanket of melodic flow and smooth delays envelops the listener, culminating a beautifully textured and ethereal mid-point break. A new plucked phrasing enters the fray in the second half to magical effect with the addition of subtle vocal textures and exquisitely placed effects creating another superb track that sits perfectly within the GMJ & Matter canon. 

Ending the year as they began, GMJ & Matter shoot for the stars once more with “Stellaris / Idtritah”.

GMJ & Matter - Stellaris

Not all first times are really great, but my first time playing at Acid Bogen in @kater_blau a couple weeks ago really really surpassed what I had envisioned and could have wished for the occasion. Initially, I was supposed to play B2B once again with my dear friend @janoma, but unfortunately he couldn't be present on that day. Luckily, the slot was perfect for me alone as well - early Saturday morning, sunrise time.

I absolutely love to play sunrise (and sunset 😉) sets, as they are perfect for dwelling between light and darkness. In those early hours, when tiredness kicks in, but the longing to connect and to dance is stronger, the atmosphere tends to be very inviting for warmth, charm, depth, dreaminess and intimacy. And so it was, in the so called here's and now's which took place then. I think I had never seen Acid Bogen so full at that time of the morning as in the last hour of my set (: More important than that, I had the right people by my side supporting me, which makes all the difference!! All of this together simply created such an amazing vibe for the brand new day that just started. A day which I don't want to ever forget ❤️ so much gratitude to all the dancers who danced their souls out, especially to my long-term listeners and those closer ones which I carry dearly in my heart 🙏 

Artwork found on https://playgroundai.com

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Kater Blau, Dez 2023 | Die Sonne geht auf über dem Acid Bogen

01/01 - 101 - New day, new week, new month, new year!

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https://www.instagram.com/feliks_ll/

Mischpauke #101 - Feliks

Artist: Oprofessionell
Release: Omni [Part 1]
Label: Blue Hour Music
Catalog: BLUEHOUR10YRS

Tracklist:
1. Blue Hour - Afterglow
2. Parallax Deep - Secrets
3. Dold - Warning
4. Steffi - Volley 5
5. D.Dan - Pursuit
6. Alpha Tracks - Kaleidoscope Face
7. Vel - Tunnel
8. Eyerate - Sprawl
9. LDS - ere audio
10. Oprofessionell - Liquid Reality

Mastered by Sugar @ Soundstuff Studio
Artwork by Jonathan Castro Alejos

Follow Oprofessionell:
@oprofessionell

Follow Blue Hour Music:
@bluehour909
https://www.instagram.com/bluehour909
https://bluehourmusic.bandcamp.com/

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Omni [Part 1]

CV Premiere I Oprofessionell - Liquid Reality

From the 'Hunters' VA

𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: May 23rd, 2024
Copyright © – Fast Dogs Records

Artists @rawdon_music | www.instagram.com/rawdon.dj

Label @fastdogsrecords | www.instagram.com/fastdogs_

DISCLAIMER:
Stay responsible and support the artists by purchasing their songs.

Hunters VA

AN PREMIERE 280 | Rawdon - Mi Toxica Favorita [FASTDOGS]

From the 'Modo da Margem' EP

𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: June 7th, 2024
Copyright © – Duplicity Records

Artists @john_wick93 | www.instagram.com/john_wick_jp

Label @duplicityedinburgh | www.instagram.com/duplicityrecords

DISCLAIMER:
Stay responsible and support the artists by purchasing their songs.

Modo Do Magrem

AN PREMIERE 282 | John Wick - Fonte [DUPLICITY]

Astral travel with Cybotron into the meta-narrative of the Parallel Shift, a new sonic fiction that raises many questions about military science of the near-future and the possibility of other worlds. 

Descending backward through the rhythms of time, the Skynet module retracts from the hyper-structural society of 2100, edging toward the mid-century modern age teetering on the brink of what was then the frontier of “the future”. The system boots the Infiniti process, morphing into a cosmotechnic vessel coursing the superhighway of burgeoning general intelligence, seeking data from just before “the overshoot and collapse.” 

R&D methods, rhythmanalytically applied, dissect the aftermath of an industrial society that burst through the ecological capacity of Spaceship Earth. Fractal visions of war and innovation spike and recede from and into the surfaces of reality being bent and guiding the eyes, ears, touch towards a laboratory in the year 1961. A nuclear expert, Don Lewis, receives orders to decrypt the mysterious black dodecagonal disc known as Fortec and the extraterrestrial biology unearthed in Roswell. He joins a team disassembling Fortec and studying the recurrent dodecahedral patterns linked to the human nervous system. 

Through dismantling and probing, the team cycles through a saecular search devoid of finite conclusions, limited by Earth’s intellectual and technological prowess. One 1960s night, Lewis, while meddling with Fortec’s cyborganic innards, accidentally electrifies himself. His cyclotron and missile experience guides him to circuit-bend Fortec, stirring the entity from a mechanical slumber. Lewis and Fortec communicate in resonances, until it drifts back into a tranquil stasis. 

The US Defense and contractors, unbeknownst to them, observe this breakthrough. They later permit Lewis to exit military service as the Air Force forms the Foreign Technology Division. Concurrently, MJ12 evolves into CY12, delving into second-order cybernetics. Lewis clandestinely keeps working on Fortec fragments, transitioning from military engineer to musician, pioneering the LEO module, a fusion of Fortec’s essence and audio engineering. 

He shares his insights with Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi, aiding the creation of the iconic TR-808. Meanwhile, Fortec branches out, coining “Cyberspace” – a collective illusion of liberty unshackled by physical, political, or spiritual bounds, anchored in the equitable distribution of The Golden Ratio across realities. Yet “Cyberspace” morphs into a chaotic truth reservoir, spilling over into deception. 

The Parallel Shift manifests in the perpetual “Now,” a collapsed event horizon where past and future are ensnared in a relentless present, unfurling along a dissolving timeline, overseen by a monolithic simulation under ceaseless watch… 

— The Rhythmanalyst aka DeForrest Brown, Jr.

BANDCAMP

Cybotron - Parallel Shift

Der Rest Der Nacht

Wie Viel Haut

Schwefelgelb - Wie Viel Haut

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.