6.- Andy Martin - Selva Lacandona

Donato Basile AKA DJ Plant Texture always wants his music to tell a story, and with his debut EP on Tresor Records, entitled Life, he’s now trying to tell the biggest story there is.

According to the artist, “Life is about the fear of growing up”; both the anxiety itself and acknowledging and moving past it.

This narrative seems to have struck a chord with those who have heard the track, “People want to reflect themselves in the music; something personal. Lots of people have been in touch after hearing it; I guess they feel something melancholic in it. Personally, I imagine the track is like the life of a person; going from being born through childhood and youth and onwards, so perhaps they hear this?”

Having used an MPC since the early 2000s, Basile feels an intuitive connection to the hardware he uses, and so the creative process is very spontaneous: “I know where everything is so the music is made immediately.  I make everything in the first ten minutes; after that if it’s not right then I just abandon it and start something else.”

This immediacy, and familiarity with his equipment is apparent on the A-side, where Basile’s previous life as a drummer comes to the fore and tracks like Cycles and Ripetivo display his native understanding of groove but also how to stir things up - the three A-side tracks find classic techno rhythms seemingly falling apart only to snap back into place even stronger.

The B-side finds Donato exploring more of his melodic side with WTT and the aforementioned title track showing Plant Texture’s love of breakbeat and classic techno.

The three digital bonus tracks continue this exploration of melody and syncopated beats - The EXP Days echos the wistful feeling of Life, as Basile meditates on the times spent at EXP, his record shop in Bari, which functioned as a meeting place for electronic producers in the area. 

Together the eight tracks show a breadth of knowledge and ability of an artist that has grown older and more experienced over time, and is ready to share his evolution.

Life

BANDCAMP

DJ Plant Texture - Miramare

DJ Plant Texture - The EXP Days

A Global VA in Support of Georgian Club Culture

In the face of adversity, music unites us. Sounds of Freedom is a global VA (various artists) release born out of solidarity with Georgian club culture, which has been profoundly impacted by the challenges our country is facing.

This compilation is more than music; it is a movement. Featuring a diverse range of artists from around the world, Sounds of Freedom encapsulates the resilience, creativity, and passion that define the electronic music community.

All proceeds from this release will go directly to Georgian clubs, helping them recover and continue their essential role in fostering connection and creativity. Every track is a testament to the power of music to heal, inspire, and rebuild.

Sounds of Freedom will be available exclusively on Bandcamp. Join us in celebrating the unyielding spirit of freedom through sound and in supporting a cause that keeps the music alive.

A symphony of gratitude to the amazing artists who breathed life into this compilation with their incredible tracks. Your contributions are the heartbeat of this project, and we are endlessly thankful for your creativity and passion.

We extend a special thank you to Paul Mac for his unparalleled mastering expertise and steadfast support throughout this project. His contribution has been instrumental in shaping both the sound and the soul of this release. The magic he’s worked is felt in every beat.

This compilation is more than music—it’s a collective effort, a labor of love, and a symbol of unity. Thank you for being part of this journey and helping us create something truly special.

PR By Out Of Sync in a tribute to the people of Georgia.

Release date: February 7 (Only Bandcamp)
Release date on all platforms: February 25
Photo @photomaker_d.k
Mastered at Hardgroove by Paul Mac; 

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1 Earwax - Upstairs Downstairs

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

"To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I've been involved with it for a really long time and there's a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked "what is techno to you?" but I can't answer that with words; this album is the answer."

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. 

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil's creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn't preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year's synthesiser expos.

"For me, it's an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I'm] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past."

This philosophy of 'time travel' is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

Surgeon - Fall

I am happy to announce the next release of mine on my label summerpup, called “Embers”. This release is two intimate tracks that showcase something different than my dancefloor oriented techno tracks. 

I originally made these just for myself as a means for reflection and catharsis, and as a form of journaling through writing music. However, after closing many sets with the track "Embers" last year and seeing how people connected with it deeply on dancefloors, wrote to me about it, and also found cathartic release or had a special moment to it, I decided that these should be shared with the public.

The second track, "As The Desert Exhales", is a solo guitar instrumental I wrote and recorded in Seattle in 2021 to mark a significant moment in my life. 

I hope you enjoy these tracks that are quite different but very personal to me, perhaps you can connect to them in a meaningful way like I have. 

x

BANDCAMP: https://summerpup.bandcamp.com/album/embers

All tracks written, produced, performed and recorded by D.Dan
Art Direction by Samantha Shin
Mastered by Joel Krozer at Six Bit Deep

D.Dan - Embers (PUP004)

After some time fostering the birth of Melbourne/Naarm’s Solace Bar & Club, circuit|breaker returns with the last offering in our initial run of three Various Artists releases: CBRK003. As always, our focus is razor sharp on cultivating connection, between our home and the global artistic domain. With our third release, we bring you five of the boldest talents, both emerging and established, that are sure to set the standard for forward-thinking electronic music. 
Tamara Radosevic, an artist with an ensuing legacy as one of Sydney’s most versatile DJs, opens up 003 with a brooding ambient number on ‘First Encounter’. For the A2, Berlin-based titan Metapattern collaborates with the local NOFCE on an exhilarating, barbed-wire-tinged track, as they present ‘Population III’. Taking the release interplanetary and to complete the A-side, BERGA commands intricate and weaving synth lines with ‘Idle’.
The B-side, as scheduled, moves onto two international behemoths. Casual Treatment goes into a mind-melting dimension, as ghostly samples pan left and right on ‘Power Plant’, while 1morning does what he does best, compressing the B2 into a gritty rage with ‘War Road’.

CBRK003

CBRK003 - VARIOUS ARTISTS (PREVIEWS)

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'Just Us Weirdos' is OUT NOW via Subhills!

This one's a funky, pulsating, hypnotic industrial techno production. 

enjoy
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Avraan - Just Us Weirdos (Original Mix) [SR045] ***OUT NOW***

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.

DJ Plant Texture - Miramare

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