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"A wise dog, a nice dog is twice dog."
Latest offering on French label Last Embassy, courtesy of Antechamber (alias of Codex Empire).

Release date: April 1st, 2021

Pre-order via: https://lastembassy.bandcamp.com/music

https://soundcloud.com/lastembassy

Premiere: Antechamber - Foundation Myth [Last Embassy]

Tomorrow - EP

Tomorrow

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London-based DJ and producer Jay Duncan collaborates with saxophonist Ben Vince on her debut release for Phantasy, introducing two wildly imaginative compositions alongside a simmering remix from Ricardo Villalobos.

From the first notes of brass, quickly melting into a lucid shuffle, it’s clear that ‘In Limbo’ exists on it’s own terms. Vince's virtuoso playing, a feature of former collaborations with the likes of Joy Orbison and Mica Levi, is here gradually manipulated by Duncan into a hugely ambitious trip. This meditative and mysterious approach draws listeners deeper into a liminal, minimal space somewhere between the Fourth World as imagined by Jon Hassell and four AM on a dancefloor in South London.

Duncan deftly raises the tension for the title track’s more percussive and arguably club-ready sibling ‘Anti-Purgatorio’, drawing out almost impossibly taut and inventive rhythms constructed around wormholes from which spill Vince’s instrumentation, washed downstream amid slippery modulations and a distinctive analogue atmosphere.

Ricardo Villalobos adds to his own superlative history of remixes with a characteristically trippy take on ‘In Limbo’. Spanning nearly fifteen-minutes, the legendary Chilean-German innovator subtly reimaginines this ambitious record in form true to both his own musical heritage as well as Duncan’s futurism.

In Limbo

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In Limbo (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)

Track from NE83 Yttrandet – Yttrandet 2xCS

Victor died a day in September 2019. He died young, but he had used his life well. A life he from early age documented in music and texts with curiosity and humour, imagination and bravery, a life in the range between the present and the past, departure and return, loneliness and a sense of belonging, dissonance and harmony.

In the 2000’s Victor was a part of the bands Alexi Jungle, Figaro and Pale Corners, while he in the 2010’s mainly worked with his solo music project Koenigsfrost and as a DJ at several clubs and the festival Way Out West. Yttrandet – signifying both “judgment” and “testimony” – was his last music project.

In his music we can still hear his expressions, his soft irony and his accurate vision. The time we shared is not just a question of years and days, it is a continuous movement. We who live on remain with our memories and your legacy through your music.

In the texts he wrote, Victor often shows a touch of dreamlike surrealism as in this dream:

The sun is about to set. I am alone in the woods. The body aches and the worry escalates from grinding noise to a tide. I fall asleep and when I wake up everything is bright, and the worry has disappeared. Now I see the wall a couple of hundred metres in front of me. Black and shining as polished granite, cut in one piece, it reaches from the west to the east without interruption or opening. A wall. Two creatures, a giant and a dwarf, are standing in the shadow of the wall and they are doing something. I explain that I am in a hurry, that I must go forward. The dwarf says ”Forward?! There is no longer any forward. Forward ends here!” Now I can see that the giant is building an enormous ladder. My curiosity takes hold of me. ”Why is he building a ladder?” The dwarf looks at me, first suspiciously, but soon he exclaims ”My name is Gabriel!” ”But what is this ladder?” ”Ah, that one. The last one collapsed, it was too old, so Jacob here builds a new one.” I ask if they also need to get over the wall. ”Over the wall? No, no, we are going back up.” The dwarf points up at the sky and continues: ”You will not get over the wall. You have to wait until Jacob is finished, just like everybody else.”

Recorded by Victor Palm in Malmö, Copenhagen and Oslo 2017-2019.
Mastered by Noah Kin.

Yttrandet – Methylene Blue

Artist: 
Gnork

Tracklist:
A1 Krka Drive
A2 14.9 °C 
B1 Danca 18
B2 Izlaz

Info:

Hizou Deeply Rooted Music presents the 4th entry in their exciting Special Series with Gnork - Prizba EP....Enter 4 specially selected tracks each with their own personality ranging from percussive sunny House to lush techno and nourishing downtempo- all complimented with deep atmospheres, and dreamy arrangements; indeed, an essential EP for both the home or club entertainment. Includes lovely cover art for your playing view, and as always a high quality listening experience with Hizou!


Release date: 
2/2/2022

Avaliable here:

https://www.deejay.de/Gnork_Prizba_HZOS04_Vinyl__985149

https://www.discogs.com/es/release/22075234-Gnork-Prizba

HZOS04 # GNORK - Prizba Ep

Smallville LP 14 
Jacques Bon & Drux - A Long Way
Out July 1 2022

Tracklist
01/ A1 Distant Voices 
02/ A2 Celeste 
03/ B1 Mirage 
04/ B2 Space Ways 
05/ C1 Radiance 
06/ C2 Your Wings 
07/ D1 Elevate 
08/ D2 Sandstorm

Smallville LP 14 - Jacques Bon & Drux - A Long Way

Ukraine holds a special place in the heart of the Wex label.

We are excited to share this special compilation featuring twenty seven different artists, showcasing the various sides of electronic music. This compilation features some artists you may already know from the catalog along with some new names. We really hope you enjoy this eclectic selection of music.
We will donate directly to some of our friends in Kyiv who are constantly gathering supplies to help and protect those in need.

Full streaming and purchase via our bandcamp.

A special thank you to all the artist who participated in this compilation. 
You can follow and explore their sounds below:

• Artists from A-Z • 
AIDA • @aida-dj
Aspetuck • @aspetuck
Audio Research Council • @andersonmusik
Baenglund • @baenglund
Cheise • @cheise
Christopher Ledger • @christopher-ledger-1
Chuwee vs Mink • @chuwee @minkwho
Demo Fathrer • @demo-father
Emrah Ozhan @emrahozhan
ESB • @esb-trax
Ryan Crossan • 
inhmost • @inhmost
Italoboyz Vs Blind Minded @italoboyz (mastered by Ruben Mandolini)
JD Typo • @jdtypo
Lucho • @ luchoduboy
Mpeg • @mpegmusic
mr. projectile • @projectile
Exit 47 • @exit47
Reformed Society • @reformedsociety
Gloved Hands • @glovedhands
Sasha Nevolin • @sashanevolin
Ses • @spaceyses
Sider • @ssidermusic
Snad • @snad
Suade • @whoissuade
Watch Patrol @pakzad1
Yasin Hazim • @yasinyasinyasin

Wex Ukraine Relief Compilation (Various Artist)

Francis Harris’ Thresholds album dropped on his own Scissor and Thread, garnering rave reviews for an album steeped in atmospheres, drone textures and electro-acoustic explorations. 

It’s an album far removed from the dancefloor, but he’s also managed to curate a remix package from some of the most talented and boundary-pushing artists active on the fringes of the electronic music space. 

First up is Manchester resident Hidden Spheres’ remix of Earth Moves, which is flipped into a pulsating slice of electronica. 

Yu Su, the up-and-coming producer currently living in Canada, takes the same track on a different journey, resulting in a slinky, affecting piece of music that eventually falls into a deep groove.  

Speaker Music - the moniker of ‘rhythmanalyst’ DeForrest Brown, Jr., delivers two reworks of the albums title track Thresholds. The Rhythm Remix focuses on the original’s brass washes, and adds a thick, playful bass rhythm. The Studio Soul remix is more a freeform piece of audio manipulation and editing, resulting in a transportative piece of work that fully compliments the original track. 

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Francis Harris’ Thresholds album dropped on his own Scissor and Thread earlier this year, garnering rave reviews for an album steeped in atmospheres, drone textures and electro-acoustic explorations. 

It’s an album far removed from the dancefloor, but he’s also managed to curate a remix package from some of the most talented and boundary-pushing artists active on the fringes of the electronic music space. 

First up is Manchester resident Hidden Spheres’ remix of Earth Moves, which is flipped into a pulsating slice of electronica. 

Yu Su, the up-and-coming producer currently living in Canada, takes the same track on a different journey, resulting in a slinky, affecting piece of music that eventually falls into a deep groove.  

Speaker Music - the moniker of ‘rhythmanalyst’ DeForrest Brown, Jr., delivers two reworks of the albums title track Thresholds. The Rhythm Remix focuses on the original’s brass washes, and adds a thick, playful bass rhythm. The Studio Soul remix is more a freeform piece of audio manipulation and editing, resulting in a transportative piece of work that fully compliments the original track.

Earth Moves

Francis Harris - Earth Moves (Hidden Spheres Rемiх)

Tony Neptune continues the story of Yuri Gagarin, the fabled cosmonaut and explorer who tragically died in 1961. In the second of these odes to Gagarin we join our Hero at a point of catastrophe on the planet of Toierra. Two pieces of original music have been to accompany the painting on the cover as part of a wider soundtrack to complement the narrative of this remarkable yet troubled man. An insert detailing the story will supplement the narrative of each issue.

A 1  T H E N  E V E R Y T H I N G  C H A N G E D
B 1  A  R U D E  A W A K E N I N G

Many Millenia ago the Gods, the twelve spirit like creatures that fled from the void, changed the city of Toierra and the planet itself forever. It started with the last of the Twelve, Rem Katar, who made this planet, he made this city. In jealousy and spite the other Eleven sought to control his creation. A secret plan was set in motion to command the most influential Toierrans, who were at this point a thriving civilisation in their own right. They were craftsmen, thinkers, artists and warriors, but like all sentient beings they held a resolution to survive and were thus corruptible.

Gifts of power, riches and technology were given to the most prominent Toierrans, gifts that came with a caveat of fealty to the Eleven. Over time the wealthy in the city, with help from the Gods, augmented their bodies using cybernetics giving them a faster more agile minds as reward for tampering with their anatomy. From the outset, their new metal extremities scraped together with sharp ringing as they moved, leading the poor to call them, under their breaths, the Clinks.

The little Toierrans, those left with the unbeknown gifts of a mind that is pure and untampered with, were now a slave class confined to squalor at the base of the city. They were the metal workers, the builders and the disposal staff. They worked the forges night and day, they cleaned the city and they did so without complaint or the strength to fight back.

When the Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin landed on the planet many millennia after, he finds a city on the brink of upheaval. Enrolled in the Resistance Gagarin tours the streets with other Toierrans reeking petty havoc on the Clinks. Yuri is captured by a unit of patrolling guardsmen and dragged through the streets. Up step after step they cart him, never stopping, until whispers are heard. He hears the great creaking of enormous doors. He finds himself in a long and richly decorated gallery room bathed in light from a great glass ceiling. There is shouting, laughter and the general hubbub of a room in session. When curious eyes move towards Yuri the talk ceases and as the doors close behind him and the guards drag him forward he has never felt so alone..

Tony Neptune 
Title: The Long Gallery 
Cat: TC002 
Format: 12" with digital the following week 
Distributed by Rubadub
 Artwork by Sam Jefferies 
Release date: TBA
@tonyneptune68

Tony Neptune - The Long Gallery - Sound Clips

3420's submission "Lurkin" for the Six Star Records compilation album Heat & Pressure.

Follow @3420music for more genre bending goodness.

Album art: DR01D VISUALS

Heat & Pressure

Lurkin

3420 - Lurkin

hydroglyph's submission "Optimus Crime" for the Six Star Records compilation album Heat & Pressure.

Follow @hydroglyphwav

Album art: DR01D VISUALS

Optimus Crime

Hydroglyph - Optimus Crime

Dismal Harmony's submission "Cataclysm & Chill?" for the Six Star Records compilation album Heat & Pressure.

Follow @dismal_harmony on Soundcloud for more. 

Album art: DR01D VISUALS

Cataclysm & Chill?

Dismal Harmony - Cataclysm & Chill?

Dismal Harmony is a unique project featuring brothers StrykerSteele & Jagger Cole. Their track Ecleptic begins as a fast paced combination of guitar laid over a bouncy rhythm that develops with sunny sounds and warm frequencies.

Artist: @dismal_harmony

Push & Pull

Bandcamp

Dismal Harmony - Ecleptic

Abfahrt Hinwil - Sonic Surface

Dr1d

Track from NE81 Evigt Mörker - Enande måne EP
Out on EP and digital March 19th. Pre-orders on Bandcamp from March 5th.

'Enande måne' is Evigt Mörker's first release for Northern Electronics since his artful debut album, 'Krona.' The fizzy bliss of melancholia's brutal truths have rarely been explored this thoroughly by Evigt Mörker until now. Though often riding the torque of his caustic moments with a playful, ebbing refrain, these four tracks lead with the elation.

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome.
Artwork by Jonas Bard.

Evigt Mörker — Enande måne

Record Label based in Leeds, West Yorkshire
Run by Tony Neptune

Tony Neptune - The Long Gallery - Sound Clips

Twelve Comets