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Ute.Rec and Amniote Editions team up once again, for another collaborative fundraiser release. With 16 tracks, spanning from psychedelic and melodic scanditrance to trippy and tribal techno cuts.

All the proceeds for the compilation will be donated to Bridges over Borders. A community-based collective aiming to support BIPoC, LGBTQIA+, and other marginalised individuals fleeing the war in Ukraine.

Out October 25

Buy: https://amniotexute.bandcamp.com/album/amniote-x-ute-fundraiser-compilation-vol-ii

Artwork: Ross Paul McEwan
Mastering: Finnian Idris

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Intellagama - Ontogenesis [Presented By Hasvat Informant] (Amniote x Ute)

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/agartha_lp_dl

‘Where is Agartha? What is the specific region in which it lies? Along what road, through what civilizations, must one walk in order to reach it?.’ Saint-Yves d’Alveydre in 1886

Agartha, the debut full-length album by Japanese producer Wata Igarashi, is a mysterious, divine thing. Named for the mythical secret kingdom, understood as a complex maze of underground tunnels, perhaps designed by Martians who colonised the Earth tens of thousands of years ago, it’s a similarly mystical, perhaps even cosmic trip – but this time, exploring an inner, deeply personal cosmos. Beautifully detailed and bustling with rich incident, it takes Igarashi’s music to new places, which still retaining his unique sonic imprimatur; in this respect, it’s perfectly at home with Kompakt, a label that’s always encouraged artists to make the visionary music they need to create, to take risks and make sideways steps into uncharted territory.

An eloquent producer and DJ, Igarashi has been releasing techno for eleven years now, appearing on such imprints as The Bunker NY, Delsin, Midgar, and Time To Express; he has also self-released his productions via his WIP net label. Throughout, Igarashi has consistently explored his unique approach to techno and electronic music, one that’s eloquent and poised, even when it shifts into more psychedelic terrain; he’s a master at balancing the sensual and the functional, and he has an unerring ear for the right texture, the right tone, at the right time. He brings all of this into Agartha, his most thorough-going expression of self to date.

For Agartha, Igarashi had a strong concept he wanted to explore. Visualising specific scenes from an imaginary film based on the titular secret kingdom, he created soundtracks for those scenes, spending time during the pandemic in his studio, working away carefully at the ten tracks here. Given his background in creating music for television and advertisements, Igarashi is well-placed to explore the marriage of the sonic and the visual in such intimate ways, but freed from commercial concerns, he let his imagination run riot. He also drew on a rich palette of musical influences – techno is in there, of course, but you can also hear the smoky, improvised jazz of the likes of Miles Davis (to whom the album’s title is an indirect nod), and the minimalism and systems music of Steve Reich.

The latter is particularly pronounced on the gorgeous, beatless drift of “Floating Against Time”, where an arpeggiated sequence lingers, lovingly, around your ears for nine blissful minutes, coasting across swooning drones and waves of ambient noise. “Ceremony Of The Dead”, originally composed as part of a Sony 360 Reality Audio spatial sound concert, is a deep pass into systems composition, with various patterns overlaid and interlocking, before a wordless vocal rises from the depths, a gorgeous counterpoint to the swarming textures that gather across the track. On the other hand, tracks like “Burning” and “Subterranean Life” nudge toward Fourth World territory, painting deluxe dreamscapes of uncertain provenance; the title cut is an abstract drift-world, Igarashi painting an alien tableau dotted by shape-shifting creatures.

Agartha’s conceptual framework means that everything on the album sits perfectly together; listening to it in one sitting is a dizzying, lush experience. Its imaginings of inner landscapes recall, in some respects, the nautical, aqueous mythologies of the Drexciyan universe, though from different perspectives. But the result is Igarashi’s own creation, a deluxe, enchanting trip through the visionary Agartha of this unique producer’s cinematic mind’s-eye.

Agartha

Wata Igarashi - Darkness

Time

Support here: circuitbreaker.bandcamp.com/album/cbrk001

circuit|breaker showcases emerging and established local artists alongside international icons of the underground, channeling authentic soundscapes anchored in the dancefloor.
With foundations defined by artistic freedom and opportunity, the label represents a mutual appreciation for the digital and physical realms, with a debut VA presented on two slabs of glorious wax.
Our first VA installment opens with label co-founder ADMINISTRATOR’s erratic and brooding synth composition, ‘VER5e+01’. LSS kicks it up a gear with the soothing sensory zapper ‘Perch’. The B-side flips to Texas-based Decoder with the delirious hypnotic stomper, ‘Giggling’, followed by Lindsey Herbert’s dancefloor weapon straight out of L.A., ’Control’.
Co-founder Connor Wall opens the C-side with the rich and unrelenting grooves of ‘Setback’. Emerging Naarm sensation, Neo, pushes the pedal down with the face-melting ‘Suppressed Actions’. All followed by Lask’s no-nonsense, dimension transporting acidic roller ‘Deepbush’. Flip the record and flip out to Arthur Robert's thrilling 'Kepler 452b', closed out by Sweden-based Franz Jager’s lush techno heater ‘Kantine’, a superior rush of rhythm with flourishes of funk.
Catalog Number: CBRK001

Tracklist:
SIDE A – MELBOURNE / NAARM 
A1 - ADMINISTRATOR - VER5e+01
A2 - LSS - Perch

SIDE B – INTERNATIONAL
B1 - Decoder - Giggling
B2 - Lindsey Herbert - Control

SIDE C – MELBOURNE / NAARM
C1 - Connor Wall - Setback
C2 - Neo - Suppressed Actions
C3 - Lask - Deepbush

SIDE D - INTERNATIONAL
D1 - Arthur Robert - Kepler 452b
D2 - Franz Jäger - Kantine

Credits:
Email: circuitbreaker.naarm@gmail.com
Mastered By: Cirrus Audio (except D1, mastered by Arthur Robert)
Pressed By: Zenith Records
Distributed By: Inch by Inch Leipzig
Artwork By: LNY Studio 
Copyright circuit|breaker 2024 - all rights reserved

CBRK001: D2 Franz Jäger - Kantine [CBRK001]

Mix/Mastering by Sughameshi
Available on Bandcamp

Tongue Dance

"With You - Against Silence" is a fundraiser compilation that brings together 17 beautiful contributions from a variety of artists - sharing their music in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

All incomes of this project will go directly to the Jordan Hashemite Charity organisation which has recently been able to enter the country to provide urgent medical and humanitarian aid.

BANDCAMP

Straits [With You, Against Silence]

Coming from Tbilisi, Georgia, we are very happy to welcome Architect on the label. Combining powerful grooves with punchy bassline & rolling elements, it was an instant fit.

Here, 39th release by Architect.

Support the artist:
https://soundcloud.com/architectttt

Support the label:
@drawnerrecords
drawnerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/resurrections

Genre: Electronic 
Style: Techno
Catalogue: DR039
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Release date : 30.09.2025

Mastered by Arkan

Drawner Records ©

Resurrections

Architect | Resurrections | DR039

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Ignition Technician - Worq It

Faith Beat 01 - A2 - Snake Charmer - Ryan Elliott
W+P By Ryan Elliott

Release Date - July 19th.

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