Next up on summerpup is the debut release and full-length album from Berlin-based artist xupid. Tripped out diverse techno-bass hybrids, cuts and grooves. 

xupid and I first met in Berlin in 2013 and have been exchanging tracks ever since, many of which have been my secret dj weapons over the years. I'm really happy to share these with you now, as xupid's first full release. 

The album is released on 2x12" Vinyl with a beautiful printed sleeve. The silver pieces depicting 'xupid' on the cover and inner labels are individual pieces of silver jewelry metalwork, each designed, handcrafted and photographed by NYC-based artist Sam Shin. 

Release Date: Nov.17.2023

Credits:
All tracks written and produced by xupid 
Mastered by Joel Krozer at Six Bit Deep 
Artwork, design, photography and silver metalwork by Samantha Shin

@xupidx
hardwax.com/26221/xupid/trust-me/ 
www.triplevision.nl/release/PUP002/

Trust Me

xupid - Trust Me (PUP002)

"Voyage" Title track from my upcoming EP.

A1. Voyage
A2. Stygious Night
B1. Venus Ballroom
B2. Psychosphere

Release date (vinyl & digital): 24th of January
Pre-order : https://tokenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/voyage-ep

Premiere : Altinbas - Voyage [TOKEN131]

To speak to Luca Daniel Schwarz aka LDS about his music is to be enthusiastically guided into a complex world of his own creation: clean and powerful techno which pulses with life from the textured patterns and drum sequences that have fills and accents that would make anyone who's picked up a set of drumsticks envious.

Yet this ecosystem of noise is deceptive; Schwarz's process for making music is very different to how a live drummer would create the same subtlety of performance. Forever researching new technology, Luca got deeply interested in different programming languages, and created a series of probability based music tools for manoeuvring sounds and sequencing.

Manipulating those probabilities takes a skillful alchemy, needing understanding of both musical structure and how the tools he devised work. To return to the drummer analogy, if the drummer is focussed and intentional in the moment of playing, then the method used in LDS tracks is almost diametrically opposed, with all of the intention coming in the assembly of the instruments, potential paths, and gateways; once play is pressed the music flows, following all the rules that were set in advance, not unlike a domino run or Rube Goldberg machine.

And like a domino run, the results are fascinating and, ultimately, fun: staccato vocals pop in and out in 'zipp prompt'; laser-like synths pulse; background noises sweep across the aural plane of the dub techno of 'diff, blockmix' and 'pow' adding texture that brings vitality all-too-easily missed out when complex mathematical processes become entwined with music creation. The high sensitivity to texture and rhythmic detail in Stadion Progg is multiplied further on Jean Redondo's remix - whose track, Hypersonic, was the backbone of 2023's 'yet' compilation on Tresor.

The balance between technology and a sense of fun might also come from the maker; it's not easy to overstate Schwarz's passion for what is now his favourite way to make music, "it never gets boring. There's always a moment of anticipation to see what actually emerges." And the true "power of 2" comes into play when the resulting music can be fed back through the system again and again, potentiating the music in exponential ways.

BANDCAMP

PREMIERE: LDS - diff, block mix

SAD.DANIC | SPICY JUNGLE | TOILET SESSION

The resistance continues! Sev Dah returns to PROLETARIJAT013 with a four-track weapon forged in the fires of relentless, old-school hypnotic techno spirit. Paljba and Juriš - names that echo the battle cries of past uprisings - unleashing raw, driving rhythms, spiraling loops, and relentless tensions straight to the frontlines.

No compromise. No surrender!

Release date: 09.05.2025
Distribution: N.E.W.S. Distribution
Mastering: Mattias Fridell

A1 Sev Dah - Paljba 1 
A2 Sev Dah - Paljba 2
B1 Sev Dah - Juriš 1
B2 Sev Dah - Juriš 2

Booking:
leonie@nonibookings.com

Death to fascism!

PROLETARIJAT013 Sev Dah

"They Made It Their Own" emerges from the memory of a school takeover, a desire to carve out a liminal space where time could stand still, allowing for complete detachment from the outside world. Within this self-contained realm, the tribe created its own rituals, playing machines in empty classrooms and corridors, reshaping the void into a playground of sound.

In his second full-length effort, Plastique01 expands his dense, pulsating sound with a broader spectrum of textures and colors. Built on obsessive rhythms and hypnotic structures, They Made It Their Own is a testament to both freedom and determination. Yet, while it often drives forward with relentless motion and exuberance, the album also carves out moments for reflection.
Take Glass Gym Club, for example, a brief, two-minute ambient interlude that acts as a palate cleanser, splitting the album in half. Bookending the record are two striking outliers: Climb, a cut-up spoken-word piece that sets the album’s thematic tone, and Love Buzz, an airy, haunted finale that evokes a dissonant symphony of strange, fluttering insects.
The album also boasts two key guest appearances: Ukrainian techno esotericist Stanislav Tolkachev, who injects a sense of doom and tension into the galloping Grooveboxes, and Lady Starlight, whose presence adds a sparkling energy to the vivid, bouncy Octagon Song.

They Made It Their Own is an immersive sonic journey, where hypnotic rhythms and fleeting respites intertwine, shaping a world that unfolds with every listen.

Mastered by Dekeyden 
Artwork by Diego Emiliano Maranghi  
Designed by Enrico Caldini

Support the Label:
 Instagram: @de__rio - https://www.instagram.com/de__rio/ 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/derioflorence 
Bandcamp: https://derioflorence.bandcamp.com/
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Support the Artist: 
Instagram: @plastique01 - https://www.instagram.com/plastique01/ 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/plastique01 
Bandcamp: https://plastique01.bandcamp.com/ 

BCCO Premiere: Plastique01 - They Made It Their Own [DR012]

Support the label, buy it here:
primal-instinct.net/releases/native-call

Native Call explores the roots of ancient Latin America, weaving five hypnotic tracks inspired by the myths and mysticism of the Maya civilisation. Each piece is a fragment of Maōh’s universe; a world where past and present collide, evoking sacred rituals, celestial beliefs, and the hidden lore of a lost era.

Artist: Maōh
Title: Native Call
Label: Primal Instinct Rec.
Catalogue: PI07
Format: 12" Vinyl
Genre: Electronic
Style: #Techno
Release date: May 16, 2025

Mastering by Charles Accarisi
Artwork based on an idea by Cardle Design
made by Robert Radziejewski

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@maohtikal
www.instagram.com/maoh.tikal/

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@primalinstinctrecords
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Tracklist:
A1. - Red Sun
A2. - Cold Mother
B1. - Acāt
B2. - Exorcismo
B3. - Caiman Ritual

Maōh - Cold Mother [PI07]

New premiere and single now online. 

Driving the Wreck - Trismus’ first outing on Hayes - navigates through shattered grooves and seismic low end. Seven sonic experiments that embrace tension, weight, and controlled chaos.

releases April 25, 2025

Written, mixed and produced by Tom Glevar
Mastered by João Rodrigues at Tema Mastering
Artwork by João Frederico
Release description by Artur Moreira & João Rodrigues
Released by Hayes Collective, Portugal
Release Date Digital: 25th of April, 2025
Catalog Reference: HYSEP60
Format: Digital

Trismus - Weird Looking Fellah | HYSEP60

Support Album: https://phtm.bandcamp.com/album/angel-science-rust-dominion-lp-incl-freeman-713-remix

Support the artist: @angelscience

Label [PHTM]:
@phtmmusic
https://phtm.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/phtm.music
ra.co/labels/21077
ra.co/promoters/93288
linktr.ee/phtmmusic

Artwork: Yuliya Lyeskova
Album Mastering: @symbolismtec

Support

Angel Science - Repeating Caribou [PHTM023]

Shungite (Old Track)

Heavy Synthalating gruv with a euphoric approach

LAWLOR - LUV

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.