James Bong is back on Float Records with 2 brand new EP's: Hacked and Lou, released closed after each other. Both EP's contain James Bong his versatility without loosing his signature sound. Expect madness, experimentation, grooves, minimalism, a tear and joy.

James Bong - Lou [FLOAT063] (previews)

The newest installment on the Knowledge imprint is the "Cosmic Harmony" EP by FLAWS. Monument premieres a track "Code" from the release, which will be out on the 2nd of March.

Buylink: https://knowledgeimprint.bandcamp.com/

@flawsrepo
@deanoknowledge

Cosmic Harmony EP [K-I013]

MNMT Premiere: FLAWS - Code [Knowledge Imprint]

Track: iTiTi(Tuber Remix)
Artist(s): Polygonia / Tuber
Label: Phase Imprint
Catalog: PHASESNGL001
Format: Digital
Release Date: 18/04/2023

Support the artist:
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/polygonia
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_polygonia_/

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aitortuber
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tuber_____/

Support the label:
Bandcamp: phasecollective.bandcamp.com/music
Soundcloud: @phase_radio
Instagram: www.instagram.com/phase.ctv/

iTiTi

|PREMIERE| Polygonia - iTiTi (Tuber Remix)[PHASESNGL001]

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Hugo Mesi - ICON

This year we gathered 15 powerful versatile cuts - presented in 2 groups & creating a sonic landscape to explore the Warok Music catalog.
Discovering a new narrative of tones & harmonies.

Tracklist:

1.Biri & Yogg - Twist the Beans 
2.Motion Symmetry - Instability 
3.Müzmin - Slipp [WRK060]
4.CVRDWELL - Dub Talk
5.BENKHLIFA - Europa
6.Seigg - Sumerian System 
7.JC Laurent - Pressure Rate 

Mastered By Temudo at Tema Mastering

[WRK061] 7 years of Warok Part 2 • Preview

#A1# Eighteen months ago the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. 
#A2# It can only be attributable to human error. 
#B1# I'm not sure, what do you think? I've got a bad feeling about him.

https://soundcloud.com/3byk_wav

PREMIERE: 3BYK - C1 - 002 [3BYK]

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.

BANDCAMP

Datashader - Velocity

We're excited to welcome a debut on the label from one of our favourite post-millennium techno producers, Brian Gibbs, aka GUNJACK!!! A string of dynamite early releases on Birmingham's Sheep Records and his own Deafmosaic imprint, set this LA producer out from the crowd in the early to mid '00s, quickly amassing a long list of in-your-face EPs across a range of scene leading labels. His dark, percussive techno stylings coupled with a larger than life character made him one of the community's most colourful personalities, who we've always greatly appreciated. Renewing his deep connection with techno in recent times and following on from a run of high-pressure dub techno offerings via his new label and collective Dubwars, Gunjack supplies us with four crunching club tracks in "Purple Room Trax Volume 1". Here he employs spiraling FM leads on the a-side with “Arson ‘78” and “Plastic Horns” while alternating between the suspenseful sirens of “Stormbells” and swarming, looped up power of “Liquid Crystals” on the flip. Unlike many one take live techno recordings, Gunjack's meticulously tweaked style leaves no fat, with a dynamic force that'll send the dancefloor into pandemonium. For fans of early Downwards/Zet, Black Nation etc.

@https://soundcloud.com/gunjack

Pre-order: https://earwiggle.bandcamp.com/album/gunjack-purple-room-trax-volume-1

Artwork by Sonel
Mastering by Paul Mac 
Vinyl cut by Simon at The Exchange Vinyl

Catalogue: EAR035
Format: Digital / 12” Vinyl
Released: June 28th (digital & purple vinyl)

Pre-order

Gunjack - Stormbells

The next iteration of my mix series is here. Locked & Loaded V7: JUST. JUMP. UP! Plenty of old jump up classics and a hint if some new stuff sprinkled in. Mind your knee's, you're jumping high.

AKEY LOCKED AND LOADED VOL7: JUST. JUMP. UP!

Nevok, a rising newcomer with undeniable talent, delivers a standout rework of “Digital Lullaby” that commands attention from the very first moment. Opening with a gripping intro that sets a tense, cinematic tone, the track drops into a minimal Drum and Bass groove built around deep sound design and an immersive, atmospheric soundscape. It’s a bold and mature debut statement from an artist to watch.

Explore JAYSN: https://www.instagram.com/jaysn.neu/
Explore Nevok: https://www.instagram.com/nevok.wav/

Data Obscura Remixes

JAYSN - Digital Lullaby (Nevok Remix)

Digital Lullaby (Nevok Remix)

czech-minimix

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.