The Dark Side

Knarz - Tanzmaschine

Stanislav Tolkachev - Yes, Today


Release date (3LP, cd & digital format): 3rd of November

TRACKLIST
1. Ø [Phase] - Insectoid
2. Lucy - Sana Sana Sana Cura Cura Cura
3. Ctrls - x.y
4. Rødhåd - Haumea
5. Planetary Assault Systems - The 808 Track (Parts 1 and 2)
6. James Ruskin - No Trace
7. Surgeon - Fixed Action Pattern
8. Inigo Kennedy - Arcing
9. Karenn - Pace Yourself

INFO
It was early 2007 when Inigo Kennedy inaugurated Token. Since that Identify Yourself 12” the Belgian label has gone from strength to strength, integrating both Kennedy and Ashley Burchett, aka Ø [Phase], into becoming integral cogs in the Token machine. In between releases by Grovskopa, Oscar Mulero and Go Hiyama, both Ø [Phase] and Inigo Kennedy dominated Token’s output, but it wasn’t until Burchett’s watershed Binary Opposition that Token received the shower of praise it deserved. Following this, label founder Kr!z issued three remix 12”s of that release which, including Token regulars, took in a profound cast of producers to reprocess “Binary Opposition” by the way of Sigha, Peter Van Hoesen, Planetary Assault Systems and Ben Klock. It was here Token stamped their authority on contemporary techno.

Since then Token has grown exponentially, bringing into their fold artists like Xhin, Mark Broom and Rødhåd, while Ctrls, formally one half of Northern Structures, has seen his solo career flourish on Token with the release of five records to date, and he joins Inigo Kennedy and Ø [Phase] as a label stalwart. Additionally this year, Orphx and Ancient Methods debuted their relentless Eschaton collaboration on Token, and Christian Wünsch’s Spherical Coordinates dalliance with Oscar Mulero has gained even more momentum with a second release called Kinematics Equations. Now, seven years after that debut Kennedy record, Token present Aphelion, a nine-track CD and triple vinyl grandstand of new and exclusive material from label regulars and like-minded artists whom Token founder Kr!z specifically commissioned for this milestone release.

The penultimate record before Aphelion was a second Token 12” by Rødhåd, another artist adding to the cultivation of the label’s sound and roster, and for this compilation the Berliner supplies his cosmically inspired “Haumea”. Joining the Dystopian founder on Aphelion are three of the UK’s most influential techno artists: Surgeon, James Ruskin and Luke Slater under his Planetary Assault Systems alias who provide Token with solo material for the first time after previously appearing on the imprint in remix form. Entirely new names to grace the label via Aphelion include Stroboscopic Artefacts founder Lucy, and Blawan and Pariah's Karenn project, while label faithfuls Inigo Kennedy,  Ø [Phase] and Ctrls naturally commit three Token defining productions.

Casting one’s eye over Token’s back catalogue and it’s clear to see the label is a staunch advocate of absolute techno, remaining steadfast in issuing quality material that remains true to classic strands of the genre regardless of its popularity flux. In that respect, Aphelion - a word used to describe the point in orbit when a planet or comet is farthest from the sun - provides a simple analogy that the magnetic force of Token, unfazed by the shadows cast by popular opinion, will proudly shine light on their artists and given styles. 

“We started in an era where our genre was very unpopular,” Kr!z explains. “And in the end that seemed a big advantage for us, because when everyone was giving up, we started our mission.” Regularly hosting label nights in prominent clubs around the world, Token has become a label supported by a wide-ranging body of artists like Âme and Ben Klock to Efdemin, Truss and Ancient Methods. With the label now branching out into album and compilation territory, Token’s duty to techno may not yet be accomplished, but it’s been a job well done.

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Aphelion

Inigo Kennedy - Arcing

Back at our mammoth Stay True Scotland broadcast earlier this month, one track came real close to bringing The Caves' roof down during Nina Kraviz's powerhouse headline set. "I Wanna Go Bang" very nearly executed its titular statement – well, if the song was more about wrecking balls and less about...oh, never mind.

The vocals that stalk the track, so wholly devoid of humanity, rub up against razor-sharp claps and serious bounce in the subs. It's weighty warehouse techno of the highest order, set to devastate dark basements and big tents alike throughout the year. Simply put: Icelandic producer Bjarki has delivered a bomb.

Grip the physical via трип from July 15th onwards.

Bjarki "I Wanna Go Bang" - Boiler Room Debuts

Awesome We Are Genius debut release from Kid Mistik. Keep an eye out for many wicked future releases with us!

Huge support from Bigger Than Jesus, Dubfire, Eddie Haliwell, Roman Gertz, Loco & Jam, Slam, Anderson Noise, Matador, Echo Vacio to name a few!!

Kid Mistik enters the forbidden land of the dark, and brings us back two deep and disturbing techno beasts!!

Kid Mistik originates from Iceland and resides in Amsterdam, a lethal cocktail of influences klang together to create wild frequency's from the mind of this 19 year old producer.....

A name soon to be on everybody's lips Kid Mistik a one to watch!

Out Now on Beatport 

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/231152/The%20One%20That%20Will%20Not%20Be%20Named%20EP

Kid Mistik - 'The One That Will Not Be Named'  We Are Genius Recordings

Dax J - Escape The System Remixes 
Catalogue Number : ARTSCOLLECTIVE011

Dax J back in the game with a special Remix Pack to celebrate this sublime record. Par Grindivik delivers a total floor-filler, while Echoplex take it to another level, B side duties to the Soma owners, Slam. We added also a revisited Dub Mix of the record, and a very helpful Accappella. You judge.

Buy the 12" Worldwide or in this online-shops all over the wold:

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A1 - Dax J - Escape The System (Par Grindvik  I'm Going In Rework)

Download full tracks at: http://rinse.it/q-lHU4 // The owl is wise because it can see what others can't.

Beyond Evident represents a collection of techno tracks holding a special significance. Hopefully you will find it.

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Additional release info: 
LABEL: Different Is Different Records
ARTIST: Various Artists
TITLE: Beyond Evident
GENRES: Techno
CAT: DIDREC107
RELEASE DATE: 2016-10-10
TRACKS: 16

Check out other tracks on this release:
1.) Re Dupre - Mad Monkey (Kid Mistik 'Extinct' Remix)
2.) Possibly Infected - Desperate Hopes (Virulent Dub)
3.) Folker Zwart - Perron Nul (Mike Wall 'Extinct' Remix)
4.) Michel Lauriola - Spiral (Original Mix)
5.) Energun - Ghostly Light (Original Mix)
6.) Tunnel - Be The Change (Original Mix)
7.) Sascha Zastiral - Propaganda (Original Mix)
8.) Daniel Mehes - Direction (Owen Sands Remix)
9.) Greencross - The Children Of The Python (Angel's 'Snake Jack' Rebuild)
10.) Greencross - Convergent Waves (2015 Edit)
11.) Miss Electric - Invisibility (Original Mix)
12.) Skober - Introvert (Original Mix)
13.) Steve Lorenz - Tegmeni (Original Mix)
14.) Sime - U (Original Mix)
15.) V1L - Blastwave (Original Mix)
16.) Leo Fernandez - Nubeluz (Version 2)

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Re Dupre - Mad Monkey (Kid Mistik 'Extinct' Remix)

Taken from Bjarki’s expansive archive of unreleased tracks, Kraviz has brought together four tracks of mangled percussion, soaring synths and intense melodies to make for an idiosyncratic release.

‘This 5321’ is straight out of the school of hard knocks, a belting monster of a track that will hammer it’s way into the hearts of seasoned ravers.

This 5321

More exclusive music

Premiere: Bjarki 'This 5321'

Bjarki leads a pack of international artists who in the past few years have taken a hauntological approach to re-moulding the scents of breakbeat, rave, jungle, trance and IDM into sounds that are entirely their own. Already this year he began his own label bbbbbb with artistic sparring partner Johnny Chrome Silver, released under new alias Cucumb45, performed his new live show at clubs and festivals from Mutek ES and Peacock to Printworks, and recently announced a US tour for July.

TRP015 finds Bjarki in typical, monstrous, floor slaying form with four trance leaning tracks that have proved an inspiration for Nina Kraviz’s DJ sets over the past year. Bjarki takes key aspects of trance and takes it for a headspin into the unknown - mangled percussion, disorienting voices, unravelling textural layers, sub aquatic bass frequencies and intense melodies. All make for a uniquely irreverent take on a much maligned genre that most of us secretly adore..

A1. Bjarki - Thodn med skit a master

taken from Konkurs - Object Of Subversion 12" [a+w XXII] 
out: October 2017

Object Of Subversion

Konkurs - Plasma [a+w XXII]

More Info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/09/premiere-hear-a-brooding-techno-cut-from-shlomo/

Hardwave EP

More Info

Premiere: Shlømo - Parhelion

Subjected is back with the 2nd part of the Selected Works. His focus is on functionality. these 4 cuts are extremely functional for any situation. giving the user the choice between a different palette of sounds very meticulously selected for you. 
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Buy the 12" Worldwide or in these online shops: 
Vinyl: https://fanlink.to/D6s - #ARTSRECORDS
Digital: Always 1 week after the vinyl release. 02/03/18

B2. Subjected - Tropfmeise

Над чем мы смеялись все детство?

Preorder :https://special-request.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-looking-glass

When Paul Woolford adopted his Special Request alias again last year for the 'Belief System' album, we kind of lost our shit. The LP was one of our favourites of 2018 and once again cemented Woolford as a certified master of the scene.

At the end of the year we crowned Nina Kraviz as our DJ of the Year and ultimately it was an easy decision to make. Her sets are electric, her label, трип, is one of the most forward-thinking and genre-bending imprints in the world and her parties buck the formulaic trend that most follow.

When we found out that Nina was remixing 'Curtain Twitcher' by Special Request, we jumped at the chance to listen. When we realised she'd done not one but two remixes, well we were sold.

Here is the premiere of Kraviz's Alice Was Here remix and it's more of the brilliant same. A true meeting of magical minds.

Catch Nina at her трип party in Barcelona next week. Info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1578558852236702/

Premiere: Special Request 'Curtain Twitcher' (Nina Kraviz Alice Was Here Remix)

The 20th release from Nina Kraviz’s seminal трип imprint is an homage to some of the most uncompromising manifestations of electronic music imaginable. Tracing sub-cultures from the 90s to the present day, трип 20 interrogates the boundaries of tempo and form via hardcore, gabber, acid techno and ambient. A mix of unreleased material and essential gems, the ten-track compilation visits трип regulars, esoteric masters and relative newcomers on a voyage to the extremities of a global underground. 

трип 20 continues the tradition of gatefold double EPs as a conceptual album. All of the tracks are selected around a particular story, a trip, and presented as a continuous sonic landscape. All of the tracks are structured in a way that they can be mixed one with another an endless amount of times making a continuous loop, a trip, that needs only end when the party stops. Kraviz works without release dates or deadlines, enabling her to achieve a certain sound bank to shape the story, unmasking the thoughts and unravelling like a dream. 

A1. Biogen – Hexagraphic 

An essential track from one of Iceland’s true underground pioneers, ‘Hexagraphic’ uses frenzied percussion to map out angular geometric oddities. Rhythmic patterns drift in and out whilst an arppeggiated low end and abstract melody interact with each other at high speed. 

A2. PTU – Castor and Pollux 

Animated malfunctions and freeform effects take the lead on this marching workout from Russian duo PTU, first heard on their Boiler Room in Moscow last year and now ready to be unleashed. 

A3. DEKA – Pearl (Nikita Zabelin edit) 

Equal parts gabber and acid, Moscow based Nikita Zabelin’s edit of DEKA’s ‘Pearl’ takes no prisoners with a booming kick and relentless analogue lead. 

B1. Exos – Grasshunter 

Opening up the B side, prolific Icelandic producer Exos administers a dose of uncanny, groove driven 90s techno on this unapologetically minimal, strangely addictive roller. 

B2. Bjarki – 3-1 tap lush 

A distinctive highlight track from Nina’s sets over the past few months - mistuned bells and distressed vocals flurry around cold stabs on a disorienting journey from Icelandic shapeshifter Bjarki. 

C1. Marc Acardipane a.k.a. Pilldriver – Pitch Hiker 

Stripped back, unrelenting hardcore from a 90s legend using raw elements and cavernous acoustics to devastating effect. Marc Acardipane aka Pilldriver aka Mover epitomises the sound of a movement. 

C2. Shadowax – I want to be a stewardess 

Looping vocals welcome you on board for this unfurling trip of multiple guises. What starts as a bare-bone techno sketch evolves into a fucked up mass of breaks, jungle and hardcore from Shadowax, also known as Russian producer and live act Ishome. 

D1. Universal Indicator – 15 c7 

As a sub project from the legendary Rephlex Records, Universal Indicator (aka Aphex Twin) released a series of mostly untitled acid techno with nothing but associated colours from the UI spectrum as reference points. On this merciless cut, reactive chemicals are placed inside a pressure cooker. 

D2. Roma Zuckerman – Zero 

Трип mainstay Roma Zuckerman takes an unexpected turn on this blissful ambient wandering. Cinematic soundscapes contrast natural beauty with computerised glitches, held together by warm, dubbed out synths. Nestled amongst a compilation full of force, ‘Zero’ takes us on a different kind of trip. 

D3. Nina Kraviz - Opa 

Closing off the compilation, Nina delivers an obscure beast of cross-rhythmic machine funk. Shifting rapidly in and out of tempo, ‘Opa’ won’t wait for you to catch up.

Don't You Mess With Cupid, 'Cause Cupid Ain't Stupid.

Pre-order

Deka - Pearl (Nikita Zabelin Edit)

Bjarki returns to трип with another EP brandishing five restructured doses of IDM from another galaxy. Using marching kick drums as a basis, oli gumm takes references from techno, gabber and trance and morphs them into something far less easy to categorise. 

‘oli gumm 2-2’ switches frantically between glistening synth cascades and bouncing kicks. ‘fork2-2’ is a subdued excursion through ominous, trance-inducing strings and skeletal percussion. 

Opening the B side, ‘7 filakaramellur lion bar’ spirals through warped vocals and acoustic contortions, followed by ‘hatann satann’, a high speed voyage through a demonic parallel universe. Closing off the EP, ‘sleikjó’ uses rolling drums to circle around a pit of sparse sonic oddities.

Oli Gumm

Bjarki - Fork 2-2

𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰 | 
Farrago created a name for himself in this short time taking back the real roots of techno and rave and putting them in a new context... we said new, not different. This is his 3rd record on the label, and this time he goes beyond the idea of reminiscing the past, “Hard Light” shows how the rave can be alive in everyone of us, and absolutely not changing the formula he gives us this beautiful feeling of being back in the past, while you dig in a record shop and you find something that hits you, in our past was that record that gave us memories. In this case the work of this record is almost double, the record itself reminisces the past, but gives good hope for the future of genuine rave music without compromises. Streaming: https://bit.ly/2OGNC68
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Buy the 12" Worldwide or in these online shops: 
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Digital: https://bit.ly/2NzHSPn

Written & produced By Farrago
P+C 2018 Arts Ltd
® all rights reserved ＡＲＴＳ.
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A1. Farrago - Hard Light

We're very happy to welcome our brothers AnD for our seventh TNDB-podcast. AnD really don't need any introduction. After 15 years, Andrew & Dimitri are deeply rooted in the scene. One of the biggest technoacts alive, label owners of @innersurfacemusic and their own imprint, releases on various big labels like Electric Deluxe, it's impossible to overlook AnD. 

AnD started their longstanding career being influenced by the more harder techno, industrial and uncompromising. The years after they broadened their musical spectrum. Their hard, fast and industrial EP's like AnD002, made room for their album "Cosmic Microwave Background" (2014) on Speedy J's label Electric Deluxe. With this album AnD made it known that other sounds like drum & bass, drone and ambient aren't unfamiliar territories.

Their last album "Social Decay" (2017), also on Electric Deluxe, showed even more that the guys are willing to overcome boundaries in electronic music. They are able to produce tracks that are not solely 4x4 bangers, but also tracks that captivate and force you to broaden your taste in electronic music. Their interests extend even further than techno, as the pair produce art, scores and more.

One of the biggest techno acts with two of the biggest hearts we know, we are very humbled to welcome our friends AnD for our seventh podcast. 

Enjoy this banging podcast and expect to be blown away. Don't forget to follow our Soundcloud for more!

@andmusik references:
https://soundcloud.com/innersurfacemusic
https://soundcloud.com/electric-deluxe/sets/edlx055lp-and-social-decay-1
https://soundcloud.com/electric-deluxe/sets/edlx038-and-cosmic-microwave-background

The Dark Side

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