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2022-2024 - 2

2023-24 - 3

Electro/recreation

Electro  - 2

Vlucht Naar Nachtschade

Always and Forever Down for Whatever

Fantasy Forever

Wanted U 2 Kno

Pre-order vinyl: 
https://needsnfp.bandcamp.com/album/needs-x-gvr-present-the-future-of-vinyl

Needs moves into the future of vinyl production partnering with Green Vinyl Records in Holland to produce a 100% recyclable record which uses 60% less energy cost compared to traditional vinyl production methods. This revolutionary step in vinyl history features the production skills of Saoirse, Reptant, Sansibar, Pugilist, LUXE and Hassan Abou Alam.

For Needs 009 we welcome another all-star lineup of producers, established and emerging, from around the world. Featuring room 1 ready techno from one of the scenes leading lights Saoirse; a bass heavy, electro-tech weapon from Melbourne's Pugilist; the cosmic electro baselines of the irrepressible Reptant; an otherworldly space excursion courtesy of Norway’s finest Sansibar; dancehall inflected acid trance from London-based up and comer LUXE; and to round things off some twisted breaky tech-house from Egypt’s latest export Hassan Abou Alam.

THE PROBLEM
With 4.3m vinyl sales in the UK last year (the 12th consecutive year of growth), it’s clear that vinyl is back in a BIG way. But the basic technological principles of record pressing have not changed for a century. While the vinyl boom has been a bright spot for physical media lovers and the record industry alike, pressing vinyl poses a more urgent environmental concern than it did in the format’s heyday. At times, the process can seem almost antithetical to green living. Records are made of PVC, which comes from refined oil and can take up to 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill. Traditional pressing machines are powered by steam boilers that require fossil fuels to generate heat and pressure; the water used is treated with anti-corrosive chemicals in order to prevent rusting, thus creating more wastewater. And that’s just the pressing procedure.

Consider, then, vinyl’s packaging and distribution. The ink that’s used to print cover art and liner notes is traditionally solvent-based, meaning it contains volatile organic compounds that can contribute to the production of ozone. Once the record is encased in a beautiful jacket, it’s then shrink-wrapped in plastic wrap before boarding a gas-burning, carbon-emitting truck to ship. Suddenly the choice to buy physical music shifts from an action that helps sustain an artist’s career, to one that potentially threatens broader sustainability.

THE SOLUTION
In 2019 Needs started conversations with Green Vinyl, a brand new pressing plant based in Holland, who have devised a revolutionary production method which uses injection moulding rather than steam energy, equalling 60% less energy cost than the traditional vinyl production. It also uses no PVC and is a 100% recyclable product, meaning you can dispose of it in your home recycling bin.

The other benefits are that the record sounds better (it has a wider frequency spectrum), it cannot warp, and it also has a longer play life.

The key features of a Green Vinyl produced record are:
- Injection Moulding instead of steam pressing
- 60% less energy cost 
- No PVC
 - 100% recyclable product
- Wider frequency spectrum - sound is equal or better than traditional vinyl pressing 
- Longer stamper life time - can be played more than 400 times (traditional vinyl starts to deteriorate after 100 plays)
- Rapid vinyl turnaround of 8 weeks (wait times are generally 12-16 weeks)
- No warping of records 
- No paper labels

Green Vinyl is currently the only pressing plant in the world with this technology and we are proud and honoured to be the first label to work with them and share this amazing new technology with you all.

Join us as we change the future of vinyl <3

B1. Sansibar - Sky Express (Needs 009)

LDI Records serves up a celebration of The Hague’s famous electro sound with native Cliff Dalton aka Sander Evers behind four originals and fellow West Coast legends Legowelt and Rude66 both remixing.

Cliff Dalton is a relatively new project from a long-time Dutch music great. Sander Evers is the drummer in psychedelic stoner rock band Monomyth and has played with other notable groups including 35007 and Gomer Pyle. Next to those projects, he has always had his ear tuned into the region’s enduring techno and electro scene and now offers up his own fresh take on it. The EP’s title refers to the fact that all these artists are bound by geography, but is also a nod to the fact that The Hague is the largest Dutch city by the sea.

The opener ‘We Are The Little Ones’ is about an evil robot factory in a futuristic dystopian city. It is a coruscated electro-funk workout with crisp analogue drums and nimble bass overlaid with withering sci-fi melodies. ‘We Don’t Need A Real World’ is a superbly cinematic eight-minute excursion with widescreen synth work taking you to the stars as you ride an elastic bassline. The majestic ‘City Under The Sea‘ then layers up neck-snapping snares with cosmic arps and plunging bass and ‘Cleopatra’s Matrix’ soundtracks an ancient Egyptian city with its mystic leads and eerie pads luring you into a late-night electro trance.

West Coast pin-up and hugely prolific electronic innovator Legowelt remixes ‘We Are the Little Ones‘. His version has plenty of his textbook intrigue, lo-fi texture and magical synth charm, and finally key Bunker Records associate Rude 66 flips ‘City Under The Sea’ into a snaking dub rhythm with hypnotic acid lines and seductive vocal whispers woven in deep.

The Blue City EP is a timeless package of West Coast electro direct from the source.

PREMIERE : Cliff Dalton - City Under The Sea

The Remixes, Pt. 2

Flash Flood (Function Remix)

Morphology - Distance
Obergman - Pomegranate Seeds
Israel Vines - Rage Afterever (Further Reductions Mix)
Photodementia - Pole
Claro Intelecto - Head Pollution
Simulant - Access Future Audio (Mix)
Carlo Gambino - BYO (Radioactive Man Remix)
Versalife - Shadow Union
Andrea Parker - The Swamp
Privacy - Dimensional Separation
J.T.C. - Black Oracle
The Hacker - Still
DVS NME - Exploitation
Kuldaboli - Vökuskóli
Shun - Digital Slave
XY0815 - All The Stars
Dynarec - In Your Hand (Voiski Remix)
Silicon Scally - The Love Inside

❤️🧡💛🤍

Binary

Moscow

PBX32: Star Gazing K1 / Dopplereffekt
Keith Tucker and Gerald Donald of Dopplereffekt did it……They finally got together two of the originators from the monumental Detroit electronic groups Aux88 and Drexciya. The combination of these two musicians has created a retro bombardment of funk as only Keith Tucker and Gerald Donald can bring. That unearthly eerie funk and strings from other worlds. This release gives a sense of a melding of Cybotron and Kraftwerk….That snappy intelligent funk that Detroit so heavily influenced and unleashed to the universe

1) "Star Gazing"- Is reminiscent of Cybotrons eclectic funk style with Tucker unmistakable electronic vocals and electronic beats slapping you in the face.

2) "Telescope Array"- Is an extension of Gerald Donald legendary aliases that give listeners that cold minimal drum and beautiful arps that hypnotize. Thumping bass line and …..bonus vocal interlude at the end of this interstellar track

Star Gazing K-1 / Dopplereffekt

Eight Billion Humans Can't Be Wrong

I Just Can't Let Go

Unconnected

It Looks Like Love (Original Mix Sept 1978)

Too Good To Be Strange - Two Sandwiches Short Of A Lunchbox

https://www.discogs.com/Lost-Trax-Life-Out-Of-Balance/release/8061486

It's You

Intimate Connection

Derek Carr - Off Grid

Angelnumber 8 - Club Lights

12" vinyl & digital out now: https://mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/no-moon-sirens-ep

Listen to the entire EP: soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/sets/no-moon-sirens-ep-mtron007

No Moon blends electro, breaks, acid and UK bass into a forward-thinking club EP for the 7th release on our main label.

Opening with 'Sirens', the A-side plunges straight into deep and breaky sub-domains, before sliding on to the brighter and melodic, but equally heavy workout, 'Bathtub Dub'.

On the flip, electro and UK bass come together on gloomy tool 'Where Am I', before 'Acid IX' finishes off the record with a blissful, distorted acid frenzy for the floor.

Select shop links below >>

Digital:
junodownload.com/products/no-moon-sirens-ep/3810024-02
beatport.com/release/sirens-ep/2300894
hardwax.com/79750/no-moon/sirens
clone.nl/digital/item3810024.html
boomkat.com/products/sirens-ep-d18d0bfc-bae1-4571-8d0b-ef1c67b6b5cf

Vinyl DE:
oye-records.com/releases/no-moon-sirens-ep
www.decks.de/track/no_moon-sirens_ep/cco-2f
hhv.de/shop/en/item/no-moon-sirens-ep-591401
deejay.de/No_Moon_Sirens_EP_MTRON007_Vinyl__316993
hardwax.com/79750/no-moon/sirens

Vinyl UK
phonicarecords.com/product/view/153020
juno.co.uk/products/no-moon-sirens-ep/690399-01/
redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/97584-mtron007-no-moon-sirens-ep

Vinyl NL:
clone.nl/item51299.html

Sirens EP

No Moon - Bathtub Dub [MTRON007]

That's What Love Does(Louis Benedetti's Club Vox)

I do not own the rights to this track, please message if it needs taking down.

City People - Brother James

The lighter shades of electronic music found a home in our very own Horoom for quite a while already. It’s time to bring our love for melodies and rhythms into an output: under the roof of Bassiani records we are proud to announce a new sublabel. HRM001 inaugurates the platform that will be home to the likes of virtuoso Francis Harris and the craft of Hamatsuki. They’ve contributed, A to B, to the first release on the new imprint and be sure to find tracks that are going to enchant you with both beauty and depth. Jazzy, elegant and yearning: no more words needed.

B2 Hamatsuki - Picnic Attack

Buy vinyl & digital > mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/gradients

Cestrian (aka Ali Renault) delivers the ‘Gradients’ EP for our 10th release, exploring different rims of the electro genre from the transporting melodic peripheries and weirder edges, to the raw core.

More tracks from the release:
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/cestrian-cat-strain-mtron010
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/cestrian-gradients-mtron010
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/cestrian-the-weir-mtron010
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/cestrian-speak-spell-mtron010
https://soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/cestrian-everything-mtron010

Buy vinyl:
Mechatronica - bit.ly/2Di0Zqh
HHV - bit.ly/2ECDQkj 
Decks - bit.ly/2Saa61j 
Deejay - bit.ly/2rNAiD2 
Hardwax - bit.ly/2Fy8CLy
Juno - bit.ly/2UVEhuS 
Unearthed - bit.ly/2LoGxX0
Redeye - bit.ly/2QGwXVz 
Clone - bit.ly/2BuVlid

Buy digital:
Mechatronica - bit.ly/2Di0Zqh
Junodownload - bit.ly/2ARI97D

Distribution:
triplevision.nl/release/MTRON010/
clonedistribution.com/release/53958

Cestrian - Gradients

Buy vinyl & digital

Cestrian - Rake & Pikel [MTRON010]

I Dont Feel Like Having A Golf Tournament On A Wednesday, While My Professor Is Giving A Lecture

Next up on https://soundcloud.com/eudemoniarecords is moroccan born and based Kosh. The 28-year-old who has previously released some highly acclaimed music on his home label Casa Voyager as well as on Mechatronica delivers a versatile and funky techno/electro EP with breakbeat and acid influences. Any profits will be donated to Musicians Without Borders.

SUPPORT: https://www.facebook.com/kosh212/

SOLD-OUT

HOTWAX // Kosh - Benefit Of The Doubt

Thug thx

Vampire Blues

Piero Umiliani - Flirt a Rio (1973)

Malta-born Keith Farrugia aka Sound Synthesis has been highly productive through a great amount of quality releases during the last two years. 
This time he joins eudemonia for his next strike. 
The record consists of three masterly crafted tracks which evidence his talent to produce wonderful melodic electro music. 
Each of them tell their own unique story, rounded up with a remix by Motor City mastermind Shawescape Renegade.

Sound Synthesis
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-synthesis-official
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoundSynthesisOfficial

Eudemonia
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/eudemoniarecords
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eudemoniarecords
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eudemonia_music/

Floating Away EP

PREMIERE: Sound Synthesis - Floating Away (Eudemonia)

Out now: Versalife - Shape Shifter EP - Delsin Records (dsr-e11)

https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6815
https://conforce.bandcamp.com/album/shape-shifter-ep

Derek Carr - Off Grid

Revoke