Micron Audio opens its doors to an external artist for the first time, welcoming in @ctrls with a crucial new EP entitled Your Data. Across four tracks, the Danish producer unravels a dark and funky electro core, taking inspiration from the rapidly intertwining codependence between technology and society. As digital twins, metaverses or humanoid robots lodge themselves deeper into our surroundings, Ctrls unpicks the deepening complexity brought on by our pervasive digital lives.

Encouraged by Micron Audio boss Stingray to delve into the darker productions as a means of exploring a contemporary electro sound, Ctrls fixes a hypnotic heft with fresh industrial sound design, never resting as he navigates contorting track structures and twisting tones. The digital hum rages, as brain neurons fire from information overload, with a tsunami feeling and emotions in tow.

Remarkable is the combination of pounding rhythm, hauled in by a magnetic motion, with tones of digital disintegration, all flux and shift. This electro sound is a far cry from a clone of the genre's forebearers - no retro-specificity. Instead, Ctrls delivers a timely dose of accelerated culture - The Future is Now.

Your Data

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Ctrls - Concept7

https://soundcloud.com/emma-jane-g's https://soundcloud.com/woozydublin label continues apace with WZY2.5; a new compilation highlighting eight artists from Ireland and afar that embody the imprint’s obsession with low-end futurism.

Featuring two production debuts, WZY2.5 acts as an exciting snapshot of the talented global community surrounding the label and its founder. Woozy explains itself as a label dedicated to dub-heavy sounds, which is also to be heard on this third label release. Here we manoeuvre ourselves through throbbing wubs, dramatic breaks, d&b rollers and halftime gems, each track playful and fun on its own.

On our premiere pick, Amsterdam’s https://soundcloud.com/jasminhoek?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing takes things on a more sinister route delivering the technoid punk chug of Grumpy Cat, while holding on to her characteristic rippling rhythms. 

WZY2.5 will be out on August 12th. Order a copy via Bandcamp:
https://woozydublin.bandcamp.com/album/wzy25

WZY2.5

Premiere: Jasmín - Grumpy Cat

Rhyw comes through with some honey glazed goodies!

Written and produced by Alex Tsiridis
Mastered by Beau Thomas @ Ten Eight Seven
Distributed by Rubadub
Artwork and design by Sean Bell

Releases: 23/09/2022 (Digital) + October 2022 (Vinyl)

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b1 - Rhyw - Kirkhusa (VOAM010)

The Melbourne-based self-taught producer, live act and DJ @tangerine_tangerine releases her debut EP, titled First Breath. She unites two divergent approaches: her productions are just as chaotic as delicate, embracing the beauty of contradiction.

Find our full read here: www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-tangerine-first-breath

First Breath will be out on October 18th 2022. Order a copy via https://tangerineproductions.bandcamp.com.

Premiere: Tangerine - First Breath

Artist : Trois-Quarts Taxi System
Name : Turm
Format : Digital
Release date : 22/11/2022
Artwork : Samantha Corti - piaskorti.com

Mastering : hdn_mastering @a-sim1988

Tracklist :

- Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Feu
- Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Trace
- Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Huem
- Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Clef

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The Ctrls project was founded In 2012. From the first Token records release the presence of a highly individual sonic style was apparent and his fast paced and futuristic techno based sound has now been well established with a stream of respected music on labels such as Token Records, Earwiggle and Key Vinyl. A lifelong devotee of electronic dance music, DJ’ing and live performance are central for the project. This has resulted in many involved sets at globally notable venues such as Tresor, Fold, Berghain, Khidi, Fabric, Kit Kat, Fold and Club Drugstore in addition to a residency at Copenhagen’s purest electronic dance music venue: Ved Siden Af. The future heralds a wider scope as electro, breakbeats, noise and audio visual components are incorporated, as well as the physical Future Awkward and SafeCom event series.

www.instagram.com/_ctrls www.soundcloud.com/ctrls www.facebook.com/controeller
Booking: INDRE@ANOTHERNAME.EU

@ctrls @micron-audio @djstingrayofficial

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PREMIERE: Ctrls - Transfer [ Micron Audio ]

Over the past five years, Fever AM has given us a steady drip of exquisitely modern, genre-defying club music, from angular rhythm sculptures like Gacha Bakradze's "Daraji" to twisted party-rockers like Rhyw's "Biggest Bully."

To celebrate their fifth anniversary, label founders Mor Elian and Rhyw have put together a compilation that captures their strikingly fresh vision. "It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature" presents core Fever AM artists like Xen Chron and Ayesha alongside a few newcomers to the label, such as Pariah, MSJY, Peder Mannerfelt. Fans of the label know what to expect: soundsystem-tailored bangers with a surreal twist, for DJs that like to keep the crowd on their toes.

It's Not A Bug, It's A Feature

Rhyw - Caramel Core

Pre-order: https://giantswan.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy-food

@giantwwan return with their first new music in two years in the form of a brand new club-oriented 5-track EP, 'Fantasy Food', due to land in January via the pair's Keck Records imprint.

On the opening track, Giant Swan explore the line between noise-rock, techno, and high-NRG club with 'Sugar and Air', continuing their focus on fast-paced, hardcore dance music.

Fantasy Food

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Premiere: Giant Swan 'Sugar and Air'

Nerve Collect co-founder Gamma Intel follows up label partner Identified Patient's inaugural release with his thrilling E.M. EP. Across six club-ready cuts, the Dutchman explores the spaces where bass, techno, electro and acid all intersect. E.M. is available in digital and physical 12'' format.

On the A side 'Little Mirror Man' opens up with an elastic but thumping broken beat. A flurry of jungle drums rain down next to scratched metal stabs, bleep-techno melodies and all underpinned with heavy bass rumbles. 'Save Pair of Hands' doesn't let up, with knick-snapping hits and earth-shattering bass weight. As heavy as the groove might be, there is still plenty of room for deft synth designs to bring plenty of emotion. On '5AM-SBM' you are tugged in many directions at once - nimble drums dart about beneath prickly percussion and flaming hits that have a mind of their own. Although the low end is distorted, the details up top are well-defined and given plenty of space to make their mark.

The flipside takes off on turbocharged techno-electro fusion 'Sleep and Cry.' It's a devastating and visceral drum track that also packs an emotional punch as celestial chords suspend you at the doors of heaven. 'Panthera Leo' soundtracks the end of the world as acid lashes about amidst controlled but unrelenting drum chaos and finally, the drilling bass and frantic drum programming of 'Trust' is another all-powerful club track. Its dark energy sucks you in for a white-knuckle ride to remember.

This EP finds Gamma Intel pulling off plenty of unusual tricks and twists on his way to conquering the dance floor.

All tracks mixed and arranged by Gamma Intel
Artwork by Nina van der Berg
Graphic Design by Sander Molenaar
Mastering by Enisslab Studio

Dedicated to Eddie Moncef

Pre-orders https://nervecollect.bandcamp.com/

NC002 // Gamma Intel - E.M.

yet is a slippery word in English. Amorphous, these three letters in different contexts can define contrast or emphasis, set a place in time, show an expectation that something will occur or, paradoxically, that it is likely to stop. 

It is this mercurial nature that makes yet the perfect title for Tresor's latest compilation: the label follows on from the more explorative sections of 2021's landmark Tresor 30 boxed set with a compilation, featuring 13 artists making music that resists easy definition. 

Every track hints at and borrows from the familiar yet none follow the expected path: halfway through Deserto, Nandele &amp; A-Tweed dramatically reveal a very different sonic landscape that was initially suggested; DJ Sotofett collaborates with Sri Lankan artist Kavadi with results that are unlike anything in the Norwegian producer's catalogue as yet. 

Further invention can be found as Jean Redondo's Hypersonic moves across spaces inhabited by digital hardcore and hyperpop before swerving off-road and into a futuristic hip-hop section; on No Longer Human, Ireen Amnes takes a different path at the crossroads melding hyperpop, trance, and sci-fi soundtrack atmospherics, Significant Other heads towards UK Bass and Dubstep, and France's Willis Anne skims by the outskirts of footwork with a piece that is almost completely uncategorisable.

Yet more sonic experimentation comes from E-Saggila, Nadia Struiwigh, NVST, Solid Blake, and Viikatory who offer unique takes on the well-established electro blueprint, while Ryan James Ford, and Nit. both find ways to blend elements normally found in ambient pieces with those heard on a dancefloor.

The feel of the compilation is yet again reflected in the enigmatic artwork by Malik Arbab, where shapes and colours suggest animals and plants but in a world that appears to be transient and constantly evolving.

NVST - Heatstress (Tunnel Edition)

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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.

NVST - Heatstress (Tunnel Edition)

Tresor Records

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