Synthetik Sounds, a brand-new techno record label, curated by 6AM Group, Synthetik Minds and Indonesian techno artist Ecilo, is back for its second installment with 'Rooted in Reality' EP by Stephen Disario. 

Featured: https://klubikon.com/2022/08/06/premiere-stephen-disario-time/ 

'Rooted in Reality' EP will be available after the 14th of August https://www.beatport.com/release/rooted-in-reality/3809071 

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Rooted in Reality

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PREMIERE: Stephen Disario - Time

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Angels [Amniote Editions x Mala Junta]

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Kalumet - Spiral Ride [FS011]

Written & produced by Kalumet
Mastering by Niklas Bühler at Klangstellwerk
Artwork by Frank Weidenfelder
Worldwide distribution by Triple Vision

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Soundcloud : https://www.soundcloud.com/kalumet
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/_kalumet/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/kalumetmusic

𝑭𝒖𝒓:𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔
Soundcloud : https://www.soundcloud.com/furthersessions
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/further_sessions
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/furthersessions
Bandcamp : https://furthersessions.bandcamp.com
Formaviva : https://formaviva.com/furthersessions

Giggling Hedgehogs EP

Spiral Ride

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𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Kalumet - Spiral Ride [FS011]

Datashader emerges from the shadows with a striking breaks- and bass-heavy debut release that challenges the fabric of our digital existence. Replete with a Dopplereffekt remix, it nods to the legacy of revered anonymous acts such as Scopex, Drexciya and Underground Resistance, pushing the boundaries of both electronic music exploration and its conceptual underpinnings. As a critique of the erosion of genuine human connection in the digital age, Datashader delivers a barrage of billowing subs, infectious electro, recontextualized jungle, and techno, serving as a poignant counterbalance to current dance floor-centric norms. It's a contemporary anti-soundtrack that offers a haunting mirror to the societal costs of technological convenience. 

In a world engulfed by the digital realm, where social media platforms thrive and dominate every aspect of our lives, the enigmatic project known as Datashader was founded to reflect on the pervasive erosion of authentic human connection through various virtual realities.

Artistically, Datashader seeks to critique the impact of technology on human identity and relationships, breaking with an archetype of digital conformity and expressing a profound disillusionment with the superficiality of online interactions through music. Genuine human connection and art cannot be quantified by likes, comments, or followers but rather thrives in the visceral realm of shared sonic experience and human emotion. This idea is at the core idea of Datashader, whose artistic expression ranges from avant-garde composition and electronic experimentations to art, installation, film and more.

Expressed within the varied contexts of diverse artistic mediums, Datashader explores the concept of "technological gentrification", which describes the gradual displacement of human interaction by technology. Just as gentrification alters the urban landscape, driving out communities and cultures, digital gentrification transforms the social landscape, replacing genuine connection with curated online personas. 

Musically, Datashader's practice confronts this dystopian reality, highlighting the alarming consequence of people becoming mere nodes in a network, reduced to a collection of data points. This is manifested sonically by a blistering assault of breaks, recontextualized IDM, abstract electronics and otherworldly synthscapes, conceived as the aesthetic counterbalance to much of contemporary electronic music's dancefloor focus. 

Datashader dives deep into genres and influences which stand for a form of sonic resistance: A contemporary anti- soundtrack &ndash; a sonic mirror of the price we pay for convenience and instant gratification. A self-image in constant flux. No false technological idols.

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Datashader - Breath Controller

Pre-order link: https://vladimihir.bandcamp.com/album/reign-of-poseidon
Artist: Vladimihir
Label: dZb Records
Catalog: DZB_733
Release date: 21 June
Format: Digital
Mastering: dZb Records
Artwork: dZb Records

Social media links:

Vladimihir: 
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vladimihir/ 
Linktree - https://linktr.ee/vladimihir 
Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/vladimihir 
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/3HfSR89zg76yVsoZtjBPjA?si=ICU5AwBeQiyd9UDR69FWLg 
Bandcamp - https://vladimihir.bandcamp.com/

dZb Records: 
Soundcloud - https://on.soundcloud.com/11LRSsmWBMc68VDx8 
Bandcamp - https://dzbrecordsmusic.bandcamp.com/ 
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dzbrecordsmusic
Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/label/dzb-records/25821

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PREMIERE: Vladimihir - Twilight Zone [DZB_733]

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blurer is a peripheral study exploring ways to perceive our surroundings beyond any focal point. The poetic text where the winds are coming from, invites contributing artists and musicians to collectively explore a world that has become unfamiliar yet again. Inspired by the moment Alice tumbles into Wonderland, it asks what it means to unlearn, relearn, and navigate within a world anew. Like Alice, this conceptual mixtape delves into places, things, and feelings that have been overlooked, ignored or seen as a backdrop. The text, tracks, and sounds of this compilation take us on an explorative journey—not to arrive somewhere, but to sense that what lies within the blur has always already been in the here:now.
(Lisa Walder, 2025)

Most music is used as a form of abstract translation. To unblur the personal, we abstract it and transform and transport it through familiar sounds. Through abstraction, the motives are essentialized to their core. In this, minimalism becomes a prioritisation. A blur can be more flexible. The reduction of elements could be optimistic or protective.
What this release does is observe the peripheral, to look for emotionality or personality within it, but also to create atmospheres that appear peripheral, yet are again included in the general blur.
When hearing the sounds of blurer, the focus of the compositions fluctuates and directs the listener’s perception to certain points within, not only to hear what seems essential but also to draw closer attention to the peripheral. Throughout the whole release, the procedures are very different. Some moments are vivid, almost narrative. There are deconstructed references to find, in both energetic and quiet forms. Occasionally, we pass by rearing, foggy drone walls or prancing, twirling, or scurrying melodies carried around, on synths or guitar strings. Blurer seems to harbor atmospheres of comfort in the cold, loops of spiraling memories or expressions of disorientation, that scamper around on the acoustic foundation created by the 19 artists.
(Elia Brülhart, 2025) 

Assembled by Periphery Serpentine
Commissioned Text by Lisa Walder
Mastered & Cut by Isabel Schröer
Artwork & Design by Dimitri Erhard

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Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure. Relax, chillout and enjoy.

DARK AMBIENT - SO COLD, SO COLD

Montreal

Drum Computer

Bandcamp: https://trau-ma.bandcamp.com/album/past-curfew
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/past-curfew/3141789

Jay York - Past Curfew (TRM157)

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.