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Although based in Berlin for several years, Dustin Zahn has continued to exert influence over the fertile but steadfastly underground Minneapolis techno scene as part of the Intellephunk collective whilst cultivating a worldwide rep via releases for Blueprint, Token and his own Enemy Records. The ‘Gain of Function’ LP sees Zahn channelling the groove-fuelled techno of the late ’90s and early ’00s and shaping eight powerful but funky contemporary techno tracks that display the decades of experience under his belt. 

Forged from a series of live jams with two drum machines and two synths, the album is a refined collection of raw, purist techno brilliance. Across the A-side ‘Tell Me About Paradise’ brings shimmering staccato chops under bright and airy percussion before ‘Tangie Groove’ picks up the pace with floating pads, vocal slices, and a rumbling bassline. On ‘Lucid Dreams’, scattered percussion plays with hypnotic synth licks, while ‘Smoking in Silence’ sees off-kilter leads dancing between emotive vocals and evolving drum loops.

Opening the second disc is the deep and shuffling ‘Crimson Cheeks’, with trance-inducing samples nestled between sharp drum hits and rolling synthesis, and ‘Days Like These’ takes a darker turn as twinkling arps and droning pads carry the track. ‘Shark Rodeo’ featuring Jeremy Black mangles samples into a dense rolling affair, before closing number ‘Next Level Looseness’ drops the 4/4 pattern for a raucous club track, combining oddball sound sources and unruly production techniques for a trippy finish to the album. 

Since the late ’90s, Zahn’s hypnotic and driving techno has consistently caught the ears of top DJs and labels worldwide, with anyone catching his marathon sets at the likes of Berghain exposed to expansive sets. In addition to his techno-heavy catalogue and DJing prowess, Zahn has lent production and engineering skills to bands and singers, recently working with Poliça and on Carm’s Pitchfork approved eponymous album. Beyond this, his vital work with Intellephunk includes the nearly two decades long running Communion after-hours events, cementing his invaluable contributions to the scene.

Dustin Zahn

Next Level Looseness

Dustin Zahn - Next Level Looseness

Ken Ishii's seminal release in 2022 now comes back with new interpretations. This is Part 1 of 2 remix EPs which includes remixes by Uncertain, SUDO and Hiroyuki Arakawa.

Preview 
01. Ken Ishii - Liver Blow (SUDO Remix)
02. Ken Ishii - Liver Blow (Uncertain Remix)
03. Ken Ishii - Liver Blow (Hiroyuki Arakawa Remix 2)

Liver Blow Remixes Part 1

Liver Blow Remixes Part 1 Preview

mnkys - Devil Dance

Track: Merge Between Realities
Artist: Mikrotakt
Label: Mikrotakt
Catalog: MIKRO001
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Release Date: 11/07/2023
Mastering: Mikrotakt
Artwork: Mikrotakt

Tracklist: 
1. Merge Between Realities
2. Vivid Character
3. The Face of the Unknown
4. Team of Mules
5. Lost in Aberration
6. Speed of Manoeuvre
7. Glow of Awareness

Artist/Label links:
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/mikrotakt
Bandcamp: https://mikrotakt.bandcamp.com
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/mikrotakt/
Screen recordings: https://www.patreon.com/mikrotakt

The Face of the Unknown

Merge Between Realities

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Artist: Uncertain
EP Title: Repercussion
Label: AnalyticTrail
Catalogue: ANT157
Genre: #Techno
Format: Digital
Release Date: March 22nd 2024
Support here: lnkfi.re/Uncertain_Repercussion_ANT157

Markantonio's record label AnalyticTrail drops an exhilarating techno EP by Uncertain, which has analogue machine funk and fast grooves.

Uncertain is an Austrian artist who is also known for the music he has released under his classic alias of Boriqua Tribez. With a career spanning over two decades, Uncertain is known for his energetic style with jackin' percussion loops and rhythmic stabs.

He launched his Uncertain alias in 2018, and found instant success leading to releases on respected record labels such as Radio Slave's RSPX, Mark Broom's BeardMan and Truncate's self-titled imprint. This is Uncertain's second solo EP for AnalyticTrail, and it features four of his driving original tracks.

"Repercussion" opens the release with soulful vocal phrases layered with fizzing hi-hats, dubby synth stabs and swelling pads, while the raw percussion powers the groove. "Warp" has trippy synths and a rumbling bassline cut by a slamming kick drum to create a menacing vibe with uplifting undertones. "Decent" lets the percussion take control with its high-velocity rhythms that lay a foundation for the muffled tones of filtered synth stabs. "Evidence" closes the release with a hypnotic synth riff and sensual vocal textures that intertwine between the high-velocity rhythms of the juddering percussion.

Label Links

Soundcloud: @analytictrail-rec
Bandcamp: analytictrail.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/analytictrail_rec/

Artist Links

SoundCloud: @boriquatribez
Instagram: www.instagram.com/uncertain.techno.official/

Uncertain - Evidence

Track: Genetics
Artist: Mikrotakt
Label: PRTL WRX
Album: Mikrodose EP
Catalogue: PRTL010
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Release Date: 7/11/2023
Mastering: Mikrotakt
Artwork: Mikrotakt

Artist links:
BandCamp: https://mikrotakt.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mikrotakt
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikrotakt/

Label links:
BandCamp: https://prtlwrx.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/prtlwrx
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prtlwrx/

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PREMIERE I Mikrotakt - Genetics [PRTL010]

RWR003 - Dying In Beauty - In Praise Of Shadows

HATE exclusive premiere.
Full streaming of the EP soon on our HATE YouTube channel.

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Seattle artist IVVY lands on New York label Sheik ’N’ Beik Records with a bumper selection of cuts that come with remixes by Bergsonist

This most direct yet detailed EP explores plenty of fresh techno ground.

Artist: IVVY 
Title: YVVI (incl. Bergsonist remixes)
Label: Sheik N Beik Records
Catalogue: SNBV017
Format: Vinyl and Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: #Techno
Release date: February 2, 2024

Follow #IVVY here:
https://soundcloud.com/ivvyseattle
https://www.instagram.com/ivvyseattle/

Follow #SheikNBeikRecords here:
https://linktr.ee/sheiknbeik
https://soundcloud.com/sheiknbeik
https://www.instagram.com/sheiknbeik/

Tracklist:
1. Top Me
2. 2 Balloons for 15
3. On Sum ‘Rear Window’ Shit
4. It Only Takes One Brick
5. It Only Takes One Brick (Bergsonist’s Heavy Bricklayer Remix)
6. It Only Takes One Brick (Bergsonist’s No Future Bricks Remix)
7. Eric’s House 3AM
8. Gives Me Hope For Us
9. Witchcraft

IVVY, aka Madi Levine, makes music for heady dance floors. They layer in squelching synths to disfigured techno rhythms influenced by a youth spent at renegade warehouse parties in the Midwest. They have been on constant tour for a while now and left their mark everywhere, from Hot Mass (PGH) to On Earth (Toronto), while also teaching production and studio management workshops at events such as Kremfest 2019.

Madi also organises the experimental ambient music festival Ground Hum at home in Seattle and says the songs on this EP are a means of emotional processing. Violence, oppression, drugs, sex, growth, hope, and deep magic are explored through futurist techno tracks. "This EP represents a new era of healing for me, tracks created through a need to reflect on the way trauma has shaped my creative work. For me these tracks are musical building blocks to a better version of myself."

The compelling 'Top Me' opens up with pulsing deep techno drums, bass, and loopy vocal fragments that bring plenty of edge. '2 Balloons for 15' is more clanking and textured, with percussion ripping up the minimal rhythm and synths growing in intensity next to warped vocal mutterings. 'On Some ‘Rear Window’ Shit' is another deliciously dark and driving take on mutant techno with twisted metal and whirring machine sounds, and 'It Only Takes One Brick' is powered by distorted bass rumbles straight from a sleazy warehouse and peppered with twitchy stabs and menacing voices.

Remixer Bergsonist is Morocco-born but NYC-based. She explores notions of identity, memory, and social politics in her work. She is the founder of the community resource Pick Up The Flow and the Bizaarbazaar label, and hosts monthly shows on NTS Radio. Her first take on 'It Only Takes One Brick' is gloopy and off-balance - a perfectly heavyweight house cut with vast kicks and tripped-out details. The second one is just as thumping, but this time with a broken beat pattern and more sci-fi synth details.

A trio of digital-only cuts then closes out the EP - the stripped-back but booming techno-paranoia of 'Eric’s House 3AM', the glitchy and industrial textures of lineal banger 'Gives Me Hope For Us' and the spooky synths and eerie energy of the urgent 'Witchcraft.'

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YVVI

On Sum 'Rear Window' Shit

Premiere: IVVY - On Sum 'Rear Window' Shit [SNBV017]

Warrior

Enchanted Breaks

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Dynamic Forces:
SC - @dynamic-forces
IG - www.instagram.com/dynamic_forces/
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Vertigo EP

Buy/Stream

Dynamic Forces - Invert - Hardgroove

Alpha Key EP

Pathetic

We are very excited to present Havik's track "Unheard" upcoming on Syncopated Records' next release due out on the 11th April!

Support the artist:
@havik_irl

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/havik.__

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Bandcamp:
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Fast rising techno star, ANNĒ, returns to Soma with another astounding release - the Moon Lander EP. Marking her 3rd full release with the label, ANNĒ once again delves into deep, grooving techno with her now signature sound design. 

Title track Moon Lander opens with a serious intent. Playful stabs glides across carefully constructed percussive elements that keep the pace fast and sharp. Fieldstone hits with a more hypnotic, space like vibe but still retains ANNĒ’s unique drive. More clinical sound design is at the forefront of St. Strings with expertly controlled drums driving the rhythm as slowly evolving atmospheres and stabs deliver the attitude. The more jacking Rootstock is up next, pushing hard on the 909 workouts against dubbed out synths and trippy, intense synths elements. *bandcamp exclusive Magnets closes out the release with a more dirty, and abrasive sound. 

Mastered by Conor Dalton @ Glowcast Mastering. 

Follow ANNĒ
SoundCloud: @annemusicofficial
Instagram: www.instagram.com/anne__gr_
Facebook: www.facebook.com/anne.musicofficialpage
RA: ra.co/dj/anne
Bandcamp: bandcamp.com/annemusicofficial/following/genres

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Instagram: www.instagram.com/somarecords/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SomaRecords/
Twitter: twitter.com/SomaRecords

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Website: www.6amgroup.com
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Twitter: www.twitter.com/6amgroup
Instagram: www.instagram.com/6amgroup
SoundCloud: @6amgroup
YouTube: www.youtube.com/6amgroup

Moon Lander EP

Premiere: ANNĒ "St. Strings" - Soma Records

Phase Limit

Fast rising techno star, ANNĒ, returns to Soma with another astounding release - the Moon Lander EP. Marking her 3rd full release with the label, ANNĒ once again delves into deep,
grooving techno with her now signature sound design. Title track Moon Lander opens with a serious intent. Playful stabs glides across carefully constructed percussive elements that keep the pace fast and sharp. Fieldstone hits with a more hypnotic, space like vibe but still retains ANNĒ’s unique drive. More clinical sound design is at the forefront of St. Strings with expertly controlled drums driving the rhythm as slowly evolving atmospheres and stabs deliver the attitude. The more jacking Rootstock is up next, pushing hard on the 909 workouts against dubbed out synths and trippy, intense synths elements. *bandcamp exclusive Magnets closes out the release with a more dirty, and abrasive sound.

Mastered by Conor Dalton @ Glowcast Mastering.

Premiere: ANNĒ - Moon Lander [SOMA666D]

Buy/Stream: fanlink.tv/HGDIGI028

Hurdslenk:
SC - @hurdslenk
IG - instagram.com/hurdslenk/

Outside EP

Hurdslenk - Futures - Hardgroove

You're not dreaming: Oscar Mulero, Kaiser, CONCEPTUAL, Roll Dann, Vegim, Bøhm, Finalversion3, Irazu & Unkle Fon, and Atisbo & Schrzø all in the same Various Artists compilation in our GTX A TOTA VIROLLA Vol06 series.

We still don't know why... but some of the world's most talented producers have decided to participate in this V.A to create a robust, varied, powerful, dizzying, elegant, and far from passing fashion tracklist. Timeless techno with total devotion to the underground, to the dance floor, to clubbing, and to sensory experiences under the smoke and strobe lights.

In this compilation, you won't find a single filler track; each artist delivers impeccable production with an eye on the future of the genre, from the spatial abstraction of CONCEPTUAL to the hypnotic groove of Bøhm, the broken rhythms of Atisbo & Schrzø, the robotic synths of Finalversion3, the dystopian sequences of Irazu & Unkle Fon, the sobriety of Vegim, the luminous percussion of Roll Dann, and the dancefloor destroyer that maestro Oscar Mulero signs with that killer 909 and his sci-fi synth.

Artwork by @fausto.jpg 
Tracks by CONCEPTUAL, Vegim, Atisbo & Schrzø, BØHM and Roll Dann Mastered by Schrzø.
Tracks by Oscar Mulero and Finalversion3 Mastered by Carlos Koschitzky.
Track by Irazu & Unkle Fon Mastered by Lizzard Studios.

Tracklist: 
CONCEPTUAL - Don’t Ask Me Why
Vegim - Haptic Drift
Finalversion3 - Conoce a tu Verdugo en mis Ojos Reflejado
Atisbo & Schrzø - Blaps Gigas
Oscar Mulero - On A Metal Horse
BØHM - Binary
Kaiser - All Directions
Irazu & Unkle Fon - Escamas
Roll Dann - El Maldito Vicio

Buy Now

Oscar Mulero - On A Metal Horse [GTXVA06]

https://nonseries.bandcamp.com/album/ritmo-oscuro

Ritmo Oscuro

Sciahri & CONCEPTUAL - Ritmo Oscuro 2

Dno Duse by Pedja - Groove

New vinyl project of Piort Bejnar & Boyd Schidt called 2529 KM
https://www.deejay.de/Various_Artists_2529_Km_001_2529KM001_Vinyl__289266

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