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DJ Koze exists both above and beyond club culture as we know it – his albums and remixes flying free from genre and trend – and symbiotically woven into its heart. Yes, he always abstracts and weirds out the principles of house, techno, hip hop, pop, psychedelia, exotica and so forth, but he does that because he understands them. And when it comes to club-demolishing tracks, he understands those principles as well as just about anybody on earth.

Thus he could create an enduring club tune like 2015's “XTC” that is strange, contemplative, even disturbing, bore little relation to anything around at the time, yet still got bodies moving and sweating better than way more obvious techno bangers. And thus the knock knock album, which melts a million genres and none into one another, can comfortably include “Seeing Aliens”.

“Seeing Aliens” unquestionably is a banger, its bass riff snaking around your body like a python, its high-drama strings, pianos and outbursts of noise designed for maximum crowd pressure release. But, again, it sounds like nothing else, and its dynamics and twists unfold over eight and a half minutes in ways that will mess with your head every time no matter how many times you hear it.

The exclusive b-side track, “Nein König Nein” (“No King No”!), meanwhile, is slightly gentler on the face of it: it's less about sonic pressure, more about hip-shaking syncopation. But it too tells strange fairytales in its peculiar and brain-tweaking accumulation of detail, and though you'll hear archetypal sounds from the heart of house and disco in it, every last one of them becomes new and otherworldly.

Pampa030

DJ Koze - Nein König Nein (Pampa030)

From the 'Paz & Amor’ 12'' (P023, May 25 2018)
Pre-orders: https://principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/paz-amor

Paz & Amor

DJ LILOCOX - Vozes Ricas

Artist: Jing
Title: Adularescence
Formats: 12” Vinyl/ Digital
Release Date: 08/02/2018
Cat No: 126D-01 / DS6D-01

10 It Used To Be A Dream Of Mine 2444 Master MMM

Broshuda’s infamous social vocabulary is filled with obscure terminology and coded cross references to the likes of “Ambient Punk”, “Glambient" and “Aquatic Romanticism”. These might come as bizarre attempts to define his peculiar and hard to pin down style of electronic music, while simultaneously mocking the need to market music through highfaluting press and academia- approved labels. This same skewed ambiguity informs much of the berlin-based producer’s creative attitude and the rest of his output, for his first release for Haunter Records generating pieces of apparent simplicity that gradually unravel to engage in complex emotional vignettes, drawing from a limited pool of sound sources while paying a great deal of attention to detail in the construction of sound and temporal structure. Subtly tweaking and rearranging the focus, he emphasizes the background’s definition while meditating on blurring and masquerading what should have been foreground into new forms and shapes, evoking a world of hallucinatory sonical flora steadily in flux, descending and ascending through thick layers of shifting motions and memories, touching upon multitude of non-places along the way. An array of tools and techniques on display akin to those of classic dub, contemporary sound design on obscure and random equipment and post-rave power ambient poems, coalescing with a pronounced melodic element, giving the release a profoundly introspective and earthy character.

Broshuda -  Goscha (w/ Vuptes) [FROM SPCTR009 - BROSHUDA - JEMI / OUT FEB 16, 2018]

Second Woman is the collaborative project featuring Turk Dietrich of Belong and Joshua Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv. 

Josh and Turk have been friends for over 17 years, having met in New Orleans in the late ’90s through mutual friend and future collaborator, Charlie Cooper. The duo have been working on music together on and off since that time.

The concept of Second Woman began with the idea of taking tropes from footwork, dub, house, and techno, and twisting these ideas into something kaleidoscopically liberated from the grid. 
Their work first materialized with two LP’s and an EP on John Elliott and Peter Rehberg’s Spectrum Spools. 

Second Woman tweak the perception of time and space within the audio field into something ASMR-inducing and ultimately satisfying to listen to. Both Josh and Turk experience ASMR in response to certain rhythms and sounds, and effort was made to incorporate these triggers into the music, hopefully for other people to experience as well. 

With Instant / Apart, Second Woman present their complete signature sound as well as a new, more measured dimension to their work.

Instant / Apart

Second Woman - Instant I

vinyl:   https://honestjons.com/shop/label/Mana      
digital: https://manarecs.bandcamp.com/album/de-leon     
info:     http://manarecords.com/004 

Gamelan and capoeira in dub. The collective behind this doesn’t like to talk much but their music is beautifully conversational. De Leon is the most organic and percussive of their shifting identities, developed on their Aught project in small-run, clear-shell cassette tape releases over the last few years.

They've appreciated a cult interest for their takes on outernational rhythm, field recording, and the tension and relief on the knife-edge of dance music; all delivered with an impressive commitment to anonymity and clarity of vision through cut-and-dried aesthetic minimalism.

These six pieces of music seem formed from wood, metal, air. Dramatic, balletic flourishes and tightly woven interlocking patterns are embedded in slowly changing and "live" atmospheres. The shadow of a hand over the mixing desk makes gradual adjustments to alter the pressure and dimension of the space.

A number of tracks first appeared on De Leon's set for Blowing Up The Workshop in February 2016.

Mastered and cut at D&M.
Distributed by Honest Jon's, London.

Art by Gustavo Eandi

De Leon

De Leon - B1

Sublime new track from Klichofer's debut LP on Marionette. 

Info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2018/02/premiere-hear-a-sublime-new-track-from-kilchhofers-debut-lp/

@kilchhofer
@marionettelabel

The Book Room

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Premiere: Kilchhofer - Leng

First track from the new Jon Hassell album 'Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)' - Out now:
http://smarturl.it/listeningtopictures

pen·ti·men·to / noun
Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.

Forty years since its creation, Jon Hassell's Fourth World aesthetic remains a powerful influence on modern electronic music. Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing, fragments of performance are sampled, looped, overdubbed and re-arranged into beguiling unexpected shapes. Hassell applies the painterly technique of ‘pentimento’ to the arrangements, teasing out texture by the overlaying of sound upon sound, or a carefully timed reveal of the delicate bones pinning the frame of a track together.

The release of this new album also sees the launch of Jon’s own label, Ndeya (pronounced “in-day-ya”), which will be a home for new work as well as well as selected archival releases, including re-presses of classic sides and some astonishing unreleased music.

FURTHER READING ON JON HASSELL:

Fourth World in the 21st century: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2984
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/09/jazz.urban
https://www.jonhassell.com/

Jon Hassell - Dreaming

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Bullet

Sarah Davachi - "Let Night Come On Bells End The Day" LP with CD (R45)
www.recitalprogram.com/let-night-come/
www.recitalprogram.com/purchase/

R45 Sarah Davachi - "Buhrstone" from Let Night Come On Bells End The Day  LP w/ CD

A1 track from the ZODIAC vinyl, Klasse recordings sublabel
digital here: 
https://klasserecordings.bandcamp.com/album/zcapri
previews here:
https://soundcloud.com/klasserecordings/zcapri-buttechno
search for vinyls in your local record store and in all online stores

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Taken from "A Parade, In The Place I Sit, The Floating World (& All Its Pleasures)," by the artist know Loidis aka Huerco S. aka Pendant aka The Royal Crown of Sweden. Forthcoming on anno May 2018.

Loidis - A Parade

Full stream of ZULI's gritty bass-heavy "Trigger Finger," the title track from his new EP on Haunter Records. 

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2018/04/premiere-hear-a-gritty-bass-cut-from-zuli/

@zulimusic
@haunter-records-1

Trigger Finger

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Premiere: ZULI - Trigger Finger

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Unfold 2LP is out now on The Death of Rave.

Watch video: https://youtu.be/aT3fvaqVAHI
Website: http://www.gaborlazar.com

Gábor Lázár mutates 2-step, grime and electro prisms with economic yet ravishing effect on Unfold, his solo début LP proper for The Death of Rave. Following an  acclaimed split LP with Mark Fell ( which was deployed to stunning effect in Aphex Twin’s live/DJ sets of 2017), the Hungarian artist has harnessed the scything contours and mentasmic vamps of his earlier releases into 8 inexorably funked up frameworks set to brilliantly mess with modern ‘floors. Big recommendation if yr into Errorsmith, SOPHIE, Jlin, AFX, Lorenzo Senni...

Kerning classic styles with devious ballistics according to a mutant syntax reflected in the LP’s bespoke sleeve art, Gábor galvanises his signature flux of zinging mentasms and hyper rhythms with a cyber-mongrel gnash in Unfold. Drawing from the deeply affective and rude ends of South Yorkshire, Detroit and South London technous for inspiration, Gábor consolidates their mutual aspects by trimming the excess and stressing the funkiest points of syncopation with razor sharp, inventive edits. Whilst instantly recognisable as Gábor’s work, his grooves are more pronounced, and this time unusually riddled with melodic gestures that lead to moments of unexpected emotive relief. 

In the contemporary field, Unfold firmly lives up to comparison with the sexy retro-futurism of Mark Fell’s Sensate Focus, the advanced playfulness of Errorsmith’s Superlative Fatigue, or the fluidly knotted syncopation of Jlin, but does so with a singular mesh of style and pattern that Gábor can patently declare his own. Heard in context of the album cover’s bespoke GL sigil designed by Dániel Kozma, Unfold becomes an ultimate gesamtkustwerk whose audio-visual play of sensual/cutting contours and elegant brutalism resonate as much with the work of his idol, Mark Fell (SND), as the ultramodernist vectors of SOPHIE, the lush technicality of Second Woman, or the ballistic proprioceptions of Jlin.

In other words, it’s one of the most forward dance music records you’ll hear in 2018.

Squeeze

‘Voids’, Martyn's [@3024world] first LP for Ostgut Ton, features no guest appearances or collaborations and at 9 tracks, is musically stripped down to the essentials. It’s a highly personal take on forging new paths forward in genres where the Berghain/Panorama Bar resident has long been known for his production wizardry and innovation: post-dubstep and UK garage.

The first single “Mind Rain” is a frenetic, free-floating post-dubstep and gqom hybrid.

Listen at
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/30evgoa5T3yCKk9w55lYRT?si=wbHUadPaTiiXbwDc9nkcjQ
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/album/mind-rain/1380694789?i=1380694804
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/de/album/62979852

Taken from the forthcoming Ostgut Ton album: Martyn | Voids [OSTGUTCD43/LP29], out June 22, 2018. All album info here: http://ostgut.de/label/record/216
Artwork: Jeroen Erosie, http://erosie.net | Layout: Yusuf Etiman

Catch Martyn on the road: http://ostgut.de/booking/artist/martyn/dates

Voids

Mind Rain

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Martyn | Mind Rain

@batuuk's @timedance is releasing its debut compilation 'Patina Echoes' this week, featuring tracks from old and new faces for the label, such as Bruce, Chekov, Cleyra, Simo Cell and rRoxymore. 

Ahead of the drop, we're premiering the album's closing cut from @deejayploy. '=O' ends the record on a beautiful note, submerging listeners in aqueous ambient textures and lightly strummed strings.

'Patina Echoes' is out May 25, pre-order it here: https://timedance.bandcamp.com/album/patina-echoes

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Premiere: Ploy '=O'

Taken from 'AMB1805'. Released 25/05/18
apollorecords.bandcamp.com/album/amb1805

Apollo proudly presents the return of SW, joined by partner SVN for a sublime 6 track EP.

SW's lush sound design and hypnotic arrangements of 2017’s ’The Album’ had hearts and minds swooning following it’s license from SUED to Apollo.
It’s balmy glory won over Pitchfork ('deeply expressive debut album’ 8/10), Rolling Stone (best electronic albums 2017) and XLR8R (Best releases 2017) amongst many others.

One year later, SW and SVN have gone into the studio, together; “to make some original music specifically for Apollo. The results are the 6 tracks on this EP,” they share in a typically taciturn statement.

Taking inspiration from the iconic house and techno of the mid / late 90s - SW and SVN combine dreamy melodies and mesmeric grooves with unfussy, focussed minimalism, their beguiling, modern take on classic sounds and rhythms remains thrillingly unique and elusive.

While SW and SVN are more comfortable out of the limelight, this 6 track EP for Apollo once again proves that they are rightly worthy of the hype that swirls around them.

AMB1805

SW:SVN - dx n-lip

Since his first record dropped in 2010, UK producer Blawan has been gradually rewriting the techno rulebook while making hardware mayhem as one half of Karenn and dropping solo releases on labels like Hessle Audio, Clone, R&S and his own Ternesc imprint. However, despite all that activity, he's somehow never released a full-length album – until now. The highly anticipated 'Wet Will Always Dry' LP is slated to arrive on June 18, but ahead of that we debuted the ominous sounds of "Stell" on First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

@ternesc
http://redbullradio.com/shows/first-floor-shawn-reynaldo
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

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