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RJD2 - Ghostwriter

The new album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

EU order link: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP055
US order link: http://www.midheaven.com/item/spaces-by-frahm-nils-cd

9/10 Drowned In Sound · 9/10 Clash · 4.5/5 Fact · 4.5/5 Resident Advisor · 9/10 Popmatters · 9/10 The Line Of Best Fit · 8.5/10 Under The Radar · 8/10 Exclaim! ★★★★1/2 Music Omh · ★★★★ The Irish Times · ★★★★ Arts Desk

‘Frahm truly excels’ 9/10 Uncut 
‘Frahm works his magic’ ★★★★ Mojo
‘The infinite elasticity of sound’ 7.8 Pitchfork 
‘Improvisatory, wild, heartfelt’ Interview Magazine
‘A fantastic record’ The Guardian Album of the Week 
‘Frahm creates something mesmerising’ ★★★★ The Observer
‘My favourite new piece of music this year’ Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music

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Spaces

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Nils Frahm - Says

How to Adjust People

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Rival Consoles - Helios

K-X-P: History Of Techno Parts 1&2

Recondite - Levo

Etienne Jaumet is a true musician's musician, an audacious synth-wrangler, space-explorer and film-soundtracker, the sort of guy who can release a whole album of John Carpenter covers and make it work (as his band Zombie Zombie did in 2010), or who can call on Carl Craig to master his solo work (as he did for 2009's epic 'Night Music'). His new album 'La Visite' on Versatile is as shockingly accomplished as anything he's done before, featuring his own extemporised lyrics and sax lines along with his cosmos-spanning electronics, and we're happy to have this track from it. 

Etienne Jaumet "Metallik Cages" - Boiler Room Debuts

from 'Engtanz Depression' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den221
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/sanktotten]

The German instrumental duo SANKT OTTEN, founded in 1999, consists of Stephan Otten (drums, programming, synthesizer) and Oliver Klemm (guitar, synthesizer, piano), and has been releasing on Denovali Records since 2009. 

Their eighth album ENGTANZ DEPRESSION (engl.: CLOSE DANCE DEPRESSION) expresses a significant progression of their material on the preceding album trilogy (Gottes Synthesizer, Sequencer Liebe, Messias Maschine). New drum sounds and acoustic instruments such as harmonium and piano may be found, and some pieces emerged from free improvisations, which is a completely new approach taken by this band. 

The album starts with "Urlaub Unter Psalmen" which builds up slowly, piles up further, just to completely disintegrate in the end. Klemm’s typical E-bow guitar parts and the dubby baseline make this track a catchy tune. Next is "Beten, Tanzen, Küssen" which is the first Sankt Otten track ever where a harmonium appears. In combination with the minimal beat one could even think that this track is suitable for a club context, but the two musicians always manage to stay away just enough from the ordinary and remain slightly disturbing as ever. "Im Lichtorgelparadies" switches on the lights in paradise with a hypnotic synthesizer melody and the KRAFTWERK-like beat gives the track a floating ease. 

One of the album highlights is the 12-minute monster "Sing die Apokalypse", which is dominated by Otten’s powerful, but always minimalistic drumming. After about 10 minutes the listener might think that the apocalypse has aleady arrived, but Sankt Otten move on and manage to even increase this feeling. The track ends unexpectedly and with a winking bow to the influential American electronic protopunks SUICIDE. However, Sankt Otten also demonstrate that they can still master the meditative sounds. Tracks like "Der Himmel ist voll" or "Die tragische Nummer" are quite far apart from average electronica. 

The titles of the tracks appearing on the album are as always a unique mixture of aphorisms, sarcasm and puns. In spite of the new directions explored on this album, SANKT OTTEN maintain their characteristic Holy Trinity of krautrock, ambient, and 80ies electronica. Floating, meditative, dazing and catchy at times. 


Engtanz Depression

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Sankt Otten - Beten, Tanzen, Küssen

Hauntologists are Jay Ahern (Cheap & Deep), Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot) and their machines. This is their first album together. More info (in German): http://bit.ly/hntdstrm

05. Hauntologists - Hush

Androma

2016, we're three years old.
to celebrate, we share our very special club version of 'berberian wedding' (http://versatilerecords.com/news/music-video-acid-arab-berberian-wedding/)

Acid Arab 'Berberian Wedding Night'

FREE DOWNLOAD

Sordid Sound System - Ceres

Wald

Pole - Kaefer

26! Believe it or not: We've released 26 records in 2016! Eight brand-new releases and eighteen reissues. Our playlist gives you the chance to listen to one track from each release. And what's even better: You can download each song. For free. Now how cool is that? Enjoy!

The Steam Age

Sølyst – Tesla (from the album "The Steam Age")

Here we go again! Slightly past the anniversary of the first instalment, we're heavy excited to present the third Clyde Built compilation live and direct from glorious Glasgow.

As with the previous excursions, you can expect an amazing range of music by some of the most exciting and forward thinking producers, artists, projects and collaborations currently operating in Glasgow's happening underground scene. 

Once again the compilation is entirely FREE. 
The first two compilations are also still available here ~ https://goo.gl/7JhVeW 
& here ~ https://goo.gl/NqYrcQ

Much love and thanks to all involved; Alicia and Cassie, David, Pip, Cammy, Michael, Katie, Dave, Carol, Jim, Dan, Julia, Laurie, Anna, Tony, Sean, Brendon, Mark Max, Scott, Colin, Chris, Jens, Vickie, Conal, Murray, Helena and Thomas.

Photo credit: Ewan Stirling 
Special thanks to LANDR for mastering - www.landr.com

H+P: Clyde Built 3.0 Compilation (FREE)

Lo Kindre - Soray Dub

CAIN returns to HIGHLIFE!

'Sirin' is a big yin! It's been a secret weapon round these parts for a while now and we're finally pleased to be sharing it with you alongside the kicking 'Kaldi' and 'Tumbi', which serves as a summer sweetener.

CAIN - Tumbi

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BH040 Loud E - Prox

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The home for Neel’s latest release is quality techno imprint Token where we find things set deep into the dance - a place where Millsian loops hynoptise and perfectly weighted kicks underpin driving hats and glistening atmospherics.

Calcata

Neel - Bassiani [Token]

track #14 on After Dark 2 .  i wrote this song . dont be swindled

Mike Simonetti - The Magician

Piero Umiliani - Lady Magnolia (Kid Loco Remix)

Been blogging, music sharing, etc. for a while now (see blog under this name) & DJing since 1982. I like all kinds of music.

Most of my playlists are not organized & just hold songs I'm interested in, many of which I haven't listened to yet. The "freeform current listening" playlist is as it says & will be updated regularly. Many of my reposts were unintentional, they were just random tracks I was trying to add to a playlist using my phone & I've got clumsy fingers.

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