the college semester of techhhhhh

DJ/Producer Praveen Achary has developed into one of India's most recognizable electronic music figures. His list of achievements is quite staggering; from regular DJ gigs, organizing Juicebox Underground events, running his Juicebox Music imprint to hosting one of friskyRadio's most loved shows and an ever growing discography Praveen has made a huge impact on electronic music not only in India but worldwide. The 17th release on Nikko.Z's Dopamine Music imprint sees Praveen making his debut on the label with a new single entitled 'Suspended Animation' which includes remixes from: Luis Bondio and Taisuke Chiba.
The 'Suspended Animation' original gets underway with some tasteful beats and delicate electronics. Hazy bell-like accents, swirling synths and washed out vocal stabs work in combination for a fresh sounding harmonic theme which builds nicely towards the main break. The well crafted interlude creates some lovely tension. A foundation of pulsating hypnotic waves sets the stage as the break begins to take shape. As the atmosphere slowly builds alien-like electronics and glacial sounding swells provide the necessary dramatic resonance for a gorgeous conclusion that goes down as Praveen's best musical production to date. 
The first remix is supplied by one of electronic music's brightest and fastest rising stars. Luis Bondio has grown into one of Argentina's most recognizable progressive house producers. With appearances on Renaissance, Hope, DAR and Mesmeric combined with the continued support from international DJs like Nick Warren and Hernan Cattaneo Luis has become one of the genre's most loved artists. For his 'Suspended Animation' interpretation Luis has provided a superb complement to the original. Distinctive beats, grainy electronics and a much spacier atmospheric component all combine for what would have to be Luis' freshest and most unique sounding production to date. 
The second and final remix is provided by Taisuke Chiba who is making is first appearance on Dopamine. The Japanese producer has been a fixture of the DJ circuit in his home country since the mid nineties and he also runs the Laif Art Music imprint. A single on Hernan Cattaneo's Sudbeat Music in 2012 put Taisuke's name on the global scene and here he's delivered a superb rework of 'Suspended Animation' to close the release out. A much more tech house inspired framework has put an entirely new spin on Praveen's original. The deliberate groove and offset piano stabs and unique, powerful and create a dynamic presence throughout. Simple but incredibly effective rhythms get introduced during the main drop and once the piano hits come back in it proves to be the perfect prelude to a musically satisfying finish.

Mastered by Nikko.Z and Luis Bondio.
Artwork by Design Studio.gr
Text by Mitch Alexander.
Distributed by Proton Music. 
info[at]dopamine-music.com

Praveen Achary - Suspended Animation (Original Mix)

The 19th release on Nikko.Z's Dopamine Music sees Dale Middleton returning to the label for his third appearance. The UK producer helped launch Dopamine with a remix of the labels first release from Nikko Z in late 2012. Dale followed that up with an incredibly prolific 2013. As the year is drawing to a close Dale's discography now includes appearances on Sound Avenue, Perspectives, DAR and Afterglow. Dale's first single for Dopamine is entitled 'Daylight Darkness' and it comes with remixes form Progress Inn and Daneel.
Dale's UK house sound has become more and more refined this year and 'Daylight Darkness' might be the ultimate musical culmination of that. The UK producers pristinely polished beats seem to have an extra bounce here and the warm walls of sub bass create a wonderful harmonic underbelly. Angelic vocal pads and gleaming electronics accent the energetic groove as a larger atmospheric presence begins to enter the composition. These melodious synths cast a wonderful harmonic sheen which sees the piece reach a dynamic conclusion that goes down as one of Dale's best musical productions of the year. 
The first remix on the release is from the hugely up and coming Progress Inn. The Australia based duo have quite a unique thing going at the moment. Their 'Currents' EP (on 3rd Avenue) was one of the freshest sounding releases of the summer season and they continue to knock out impressive remix projects as 2013 comes to a close. For their 'Daylight Darkness' interpretation Progress Inn have provided a deep, dubby rework that complements the original perfectly. Delicate hypnotic themes and a warm funkiness combined with an effortless flow make this an ideal warm-up or back room tune.
The final remix on the release is provided by Daneel who is making his first appearance on Dopamine. The Argentinean producer has been a long time favourite of Hernan Cattaneo who has supported a long line of Daneel's bootleg productions in his live sets, radio shows and charts. For his 'Daylight Darkness' remix Daneel has crafted a spacey progressive interpretation. Trippy electronics and a deeply rooted funkiness combine with the understated themes from the original and carry the track to the main break. The drop showcases some subtle musicality which adds a marvellous touch of class. The bubbly bass textures, celestial vocal pads and panning effects are an absolute delight here and set up a strong melodic conclusion for the tracks second act. 

Mastered by Nikko.Z and Progress Inn.
Artwork by Design Studio.gr
Text by Mitch Alexander.
Distributed by Proton Music. 
info[at]dopamine-music.com

Beatport

Dale Middleton - Daylight Darkness (Daneel Remix)

Buson - The Club

pasta

At dawn (Original Mix) [Dopamine Music]

Drumcode live this week is an hour from Adam Beyer’s set at Yalta, Sofia. Expect to hear tracks from Marco Faraone, Hot Since 82 and Sidney Charles.

01. Clio - Think Of You - Truesoul
02. Kaiserdisco - Trinity - Tronic
03. Marco Faraone - Replace [No Chord Version]
04. Hot Since 82 - Damage - Truesoul
05. Montel - I Can’t Remember - Knee Deep In Sound
06. Wade - Showtime - Solid Grooves
07. Piers Crozier - TNT [Leftwing & Kody remix] - Resonance
08. Loco & Jam - Twisted Mind
09. Paride Saraceni - After Dark - Truesoul
10. Ambivalent - Daylights - Cocoon
11. Sidney Charles - Black Sun - Truesoul
12. Mark Broom - Box Set - Ginoid Audio
13. Pig&Dan Vs Monika Kruse - Oblivion
14. Cristoph - Exodus - Truesoul

DCR283 - Drumcode Radio Live - Adam Beyer live from Yalta, Sofia

These walls have made us the beings we are. 
They have listened and echoed, 
our words, our creed, our hate. 
These walls have tied down the souls of us; 
they made us insane, 
hysterics, in observing defenceless, 
uncredulous that there was not, 
any reaction.
We can only halt us, 
after having used up our nails, 
over these walls now rough because of our shouts, our burned hopes,
 by our passions damned; by our minds, dinned.
None could ever help us, because as slaves we feel and now we are, 
of these cursed walls and of these walls damned that, 
however
still give a sense, to our cold life.

- UTOPIAN SOUL - 

Ness - A Personal Voyage ( Evigt Mörker Remix)

Bjarki is from Iceland. Born and raised. Despite the fact that Bjarki is known for making extremely powerful dancefloor tracks he doesn’t seem to belong to any particular genre. Something this triptych of LPs demonstrate very well. His music is at times cinematic and there’s a story behind each track. Bjarki’s music always has something to do with him personally, but he’d rather the listener lose themselves in the music than pay much attention to the man behind them. Either on a record or to one of his ever evolving live sets.

Б | Lefhanded Fuqs | Æ will be released over the coming months and represent a snapshot of his archive, selected by Nina Kraviz for Trip. The tracks were produced months ago, years ago, or in the case of the last track just a couple of weeks ago. What began with 30 tracks is now 41. The three LPs aren’t albums in the traditional sense - the concept being to release the contents of his burgeoning hard drives. The music might together like an album, but Bjarki doesn’t see it that way. It’s essentially an archive that sounds like an album but none of the music was made with this in mind.

“Б ” [TRP007 |17th June] - consisting of more ravey, sample-based music, mostly tracks that Bjarki never had any intention of releasing. But since Nina has been playing many of them in her sets, releasing them has been given new meaning. In the rave culture of the 90s, that’s proved a strong influence on many of these tracks, what matters was actually “being there”. There was no immediate or alternate technological way to experience it otherwise. "Б" из “B” letter in cyrillic. It’s a word play. A missive for “being" in the moment, being present, being aware… B is for Bjarki.

Marsian Raver

A1 Bjarki - Marsian Raver

SUB001 | Acronym - River Red Gum (Original Mix)

Released Friday 2nd February (vinyl-only).
https://www.unearthedsounds.co.uk/products/busz-symmetry-pt-2-incl-rommek-kuba-sojka-dj-schwa-remixes

Earlier this year, we whet the world's appetite with BUSZ™'s first album sampler. Now, to wave goodbye to 2017, we're teasing you again via a 2nd sampler EP - a vinyl-only story of 'Dubai'. 

The original's moaning bassline, conversational synth lines and enslaving rhythm precedes 3 amazing remixes, spanning industrial techno, twisted acid and patient progression.

B2. BUSZ™ - Dubai (Kuba Sojka Remix) (BEEFEP017 Dubai - Symmetry pt.2 Album Sampler)

Defusion EP

Defusion

Alternative Hypothesis EP

Contamination Zone

The LA-based @AsceticLimited releases a V/A compilation featuring tracks from Aleja Sanchez, Cliche Morph, Greenbeam & Leon and @Fabrizio-Lapiana, whose track "Trastiber" is Monument's pick for the premiere. The release is out on August 30th.

MNMT Premiere: Fabrizio Lapiana – Trastiber

Dubspeeka are back on Odd Even with a subtle grooving dub layered 4 tracker. Perfect groovin and deep atmospheric, very ambitious up to totally beautiful tracks shows their fantastic skills. Amazing cover art and high quality pressed by Matter Of Fact.

Dubspeeka Social Media: 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dubspeeka/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dubspeeka808/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dubspeeka

ODD/EVEN Social Media:
FACEBOOK:www.facebook.com/oddevenofficial/
DECKS: www.decks.de/decks/workfloor/li…php?label=odd-even 
BANDCAMP: https://oddeven909.bandcamp.com
BEATPORT: www.beatport.com/label/odd-even/43372 
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/channel/UCO7UjwADC8sRPl_OOPup8hQ
INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/oddeven.official/

A2 - Dubspeeka - Kie

Label. International Day Off
Artists. Kuba Sojka
Title. Espiral
Format. Digital
Cat.Number. IDO 012
Release Date: September 28, 2020
Distribution. DBH
Domain. www.internationaldayoff.org / www.facebook.com/international.day.off
Artwork by Maciej Lustyk

Kuba Sojka - Espiral

Just trying to find the right bassline, that right groove. Find the god within <3<3

A1 Bjarki - Marsian Raver

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