Dust of Life, our 5 years compilation in double vinyl, by 20 artists from 17 countries that have left their mark in our history these past 5 years.


Creative offspring of Tushen Rai and Cornelius Doctor's musical fantasies, Hard Fist has been a non-profit project encompassing producers, graphic designers, djs and dreamy party worshippers since its inception in 2017.

“We would never have thought that this collective story would bring us this far, that it would take such a place in our lives and that it would bring us so many beautiful encounters. It was only possible to celebrate our 5th anniversary with the unreasonable idea of making something out of the ordinary.
So we thought big, a digger's dream: a double vinyl in limited edition with 20 artists from 17 countries gathered around exceptional collaborations: producers who have marked the history of the label these last 5 years, friends, but also peers, people who inspired us and gave us the desire to create Hard Fist.
In this Unidentified Noisy Object (U.N.O), you can expect borderless music flirting with Nu-Rave and No Wave, Cosmic Dub and Post-Punk, a slice of Psychedelic Electronica, a lot of Acid and a bit of Slow Goa Trance. As well as some beats of Krautrock played with an Afrobeat groove and a few Darkwave's synths. But not only that. It's never only that. But what is it then? Just a label without label, to dance and to explore.”

Various - Dust of Life (5 years double compilation)

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PREMIERE : Tushen Rai & Juan MacLean - Vanity Dub (Skank Mix)

For the first premiere of 2023, we welcome Adventure Society who drifts us across the Milky Way with Native State. Out 11th February 2023 on Electric Shapes.

https://electricshapes.bandcamp.com/album/unreleased-territory-vol-4

Artwork by Alicia Carrera

'It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

— Frederick Sanger'

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Unreleased Territory vol. 4

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PREMIERE | Adventure Society - Native State [Electric Shapes]

Following the success of Mexican sensation Iñigo Vontier’s “Dune Dune” EP, which Optimo Music released in early 2021, exactly two years later we are delighted to release a follow up EP by him. "Setsi" has been thoroughly road tested these last few months and comes with an Optimo Music dancefloor guarantee. We asked Iñigo to tell us a little about this release -


"Setsi" is an EP that comes from experimentation with samples and the idea of keeping things simple but memorable. The track "Setsi" starts the EP and is groovy and loopy keeping a mood all through while weird synths and cowbells come in to add flavour to the journey. Next we have "Weirdo" which takes the synths to a next level while still keeping the groove smooth. "Mental Letal" keeps those weird synths going and makes for a mental progressive anthem for the dancefloor. To finish, the EP we have "Oh Yeah" with a funky deep bass, hypnotic synths and vocals that recall Yello in a way.

Out on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce on January 20th 2023.

Setsi

OMDD 47 - Iñigo Vontier - Setsi EP

https://soundcloud.com/redasa
https://soundcloud.com/humanendeavourrecs
🛒 https://redasaiarh.bandcamp.com/album/comfort-zone
🔊 https://youtu.be/M8p5Yuhkzms

Human Endeavour Records, an offshoot of Ransom Note Records, has announced its third release, ‘Comfort Zone’, from Geneva-based producer Reda Saiarh.

Having appeared on the label’s inaugural Various Artists release, ‘Trains Of Thought’, Reda now steps up to the plate for his first solo EP on the imprint, which showcases his fresh, forward-thinking take on Belgian New Beat.

Originally born in Brussels, and now residing in Geneva where he co-runs music and cultural bar Canal 54, Reda's music draws influence from his Belgo-Moroccan heritage and formative moments spent digging through his father’s record collection, which was heavily saturated with the iconic 80s Belgian sound.

On ‘Comfort Zone’, he approaches the traditions of the genre with a completely new twist that weaves elements of progressive trance, jackin’ 90s house and Italo disco into the mix, alongside his trusty bank of signature New Beat samples.

‘Keyboard Warriors’ gets things going. As Reda rightly reminds us, “they are terrible”, though this track is anything but. Exploring the impact social media can have on our relationships, a theme which rears its head several times across the EP, the opener throws all sorts of samples into the mix, from sports announcers to stuttering vocals and ghostly whispers, which ride an off-beat bass line, warm keys and a punchy kick.

Lead single ‘Ego Slaves’ follows, wasting no time charging out of the gate. Eerie vocals wash over fat, rumbling low end, gated drums and a twitching snare, accented by Reda’s trademark New Beat stabs.

At the halfway point Reda takes us down a more psychedelic path, but those stabs still stand their ground. Underpinned by a slap bass and soft, thudding drums, ‘Hunters’ is his soundtrack to your nocturnal quest, where you’re certain to meet howling wolves and unearthly figures along the way. ‘Tele Music’ continues on that same trance-inducing journey. It’s a deep subaquatic trip through amphibious sounds, haunting, whirring samples and plinking chords that suck you in and pull you under. 

‘I’m Not Your Friend’ rounds things off on a guttural note, literally. Reda cheekily samples a burp, which is used as a percussive guide alongside tinkling bells and tittering hats, while the track's title rings out over hopeful pads, a soaring metallic synth line and deep bass groove.

Reda Saiarh: “Comfort Zone is my space of creation, no words, only feelings and apprehensions. Each track explains a piece of my environment and experiences. I also focused on the impact of social media on today's relationship. I feel free to think, produce and share music. All combined, you get a part of myself which transmits deep interpretations. Welcome to my comfort zone, feel safe and enjoy!”

Tracklist: 

1. Keyboard Warriors  
2. Ego Slave 
 3. Hunters  
4. Tele Music  
5. I’m Not Your Friend

PREMIERE: Reda Saiarh - Hunters [Human Endeavour Records]

Full stream of Chez de Milo's "So It Goes," taken from his So It Goes EP on Ransom Note, out March 8.

Pre-order: https://www.junodownload.com/products/chez-de-milo-so-it-goes-ep/5972819-02/
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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So It Goes

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Premiere: Chez de Milo - So It Goes

https://strapontin.bandcamp.com/album/acid-straps-vol-2-ep

Strapontin & Zillas on Acid - Acid Straps vol 2 EP 

1 Dial Up
2 Reading The Comments 
3 Another Job
4 In Your Mind

Strapontin and Zillas On Acid are back with a second red hot collaborative EP. Let them tell you all about it….

After completing Acid Straps Vol. I, we knew we had to delve ever deeper into the shared Strapontin-Zillas (Strapozillas?) universe–harder, weirder, wilder. Work commenced as before, with music volleyed across the Atlantic via the information superhighway. Particular yet universal themes emerged with “Dial Up” (modern [mis]communication), “Another Job” (the perils of labor), “Reading Comments” (distraction and the social mediated life), and “In Your Mind” (quick fix platitudes via the self-help industrial complex). 

A chance planetary alignment brought the three of us together IRL in Brussels this past summer to put the finishing touches on the EP while we were all incarnated–TOGETHER–in the same physical space. It’s this raw PHYSICALITY that informs the more focused final release, which we hope will translate to you, the listener, as you carefully experience… Acid Straps Vol. II.

Out on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce on March 3rd 2023.

Dial Up

OMDD 48 - Strapontin & Zillas On Acid - Acid Straps Vol II  EP

Born in Milan to a Cameroonian father and a Polish/Lithuanian mother, Dawidowicz's moved to Jerusalem at age six. They have spent their childhood in a Jewish ultra-orthodox environment, playing the piano within the context of religious ceremonies and dreaming of becoming a fashion designer and musician. After waking up from the reality they were raised in, they moved to Venice and started to explore the world outside of the mental barriers of religion. While completing their fashion design degree back in Milan, music was their medicine, and they quickly started developing the practice of storytelling through the medium of sound, serendipitously pursuing their father's path as a disk jockey in the vibrancy of the Eighties and Nineties cosmopolitan Milanese nightlife. Their search for home and their devotion to music brought them quickly to Berlin, where they currently create, live, and love.

Sanctuary of Ideas is a very personal and optimistic journey by Nathan Dawidowicz. A spiritual path, as cosmic and adventurous as Nathan’s trajectory, with beautiful twists and psychedelic twirls into their personal rabbit hole. A record full of memories and positive affirmations, filled with jazzy yet psychedelic Cosmic and Krautrock elements. A fusion of inspiration and a perfect reflection of Dawidowicz's heritage.

Idea`s Eve is a stargate to our ancestral power. The source of our inspiration is connected to our past - to the spirits of our ancient memories. Dawidowicz leaves a lot of space to breathe in this magical opener. Enchanting melodies and bubbling sounds surround the listener while his voice keeps repeating a mantra of an ancient love spell. A track where you feel your DNA spiraling up the ladder of evolution. Yet so natural and healing.

Full Moon Dance is the spiritual continuation of the first track. A swirl of magical melodies, yet jazzy but truly cosmic walking up the ladder to another dimension, where warm moon rays and fluffy clouds surround love. The synth lines represent the playful and smooth moon rays reflected on a rhythmical heart-beating ground where tears can be joyfully spent to honor the emotions we usually oppress.

To close the EP, Nathan Dawidowicz worked a half a year to finalize the last track in full detail. 23 Minutes and 18 Seconds long is the Capricorn Rising Over Jerusalemite Temple. This story is where the listener is brought to a higher level of consciousness. Against the rules of our consumerist world, Nathan Dawidowicz focuses on a dramaturgy full of patience for our own lifetime. Acidic lines come and go, powerful synth solos trigger unknown brain parts, and an epic melody accompanies the listener and lets dark emotions melt in a brass-filled part where a voice tells us that time is on our side. The song ends with an epic twist and promises a new start, where our most lovely memories stay in a vortex of light. Beam me up Nathan

PREMIERE : Nathan Dawidowicz - Full Moon Dance

The long awaited Khidja LP is finally here.

MTLP0012 'Transmissions' will be divided into two separate releases - Part 1 and Part 2.

Part 1, presented here, will be released on June 2nd, while Part 2 will be released in the 2nd half of September 2023.

The album was written and produced by Khidja over the last several years.
It was mastered by Enrico Mercaldi and distributed world wide by One Eye Witness, with freshy fresh artwork by Angus Plunkett & Morey Talmor @ &talmor

Part 1 consists of 5 gems showcasing the diversity in the Romanian duo's production - from shuffle to slow mow, to 'chugging' to new age 4th world...

Bine Khidja <3

https://soundcloud.com/poor-relatives
https://soundcloud.com/malka-tuti

PREMIERE⚡️Khidja - M&M [Malka Tuti]

Everyone is an observer at some point in time. Everybody is watching, observing, researching something in own life.

Whether it is the old Hindu looking forward to the time when his body will be carried in a shroud to the last journey to the Ganges by the scent of flowers and then he has been liberated from the cycle of samsara, or when the cataphract is finally done with its struggle and freed from its armour somewhere in the midst of the steppes of Eurasia.

Whether it is the blind man who enters his inner garden of silence and explores there the images that none of the rest of us can see.

Whether it is the viewer who floats in a difficult to grasp triptych.

What is "there" behind that observation? Something modest, or something that changes our lives?

After more than two years Martin Kuška returns with his project Goodbye Mirage with a new EP "Turning Point Observer". A hypnotic dreamy-progressive five track and five remixes EP, in whose tracks you can constantly search for something new - the endless faith or doubt, the loneliness of days or the shining energy of social moments yet to come, body to body.

When you hear it on the dance floor, you can dance and smile, or dance and feel deep sentiment. It's up to you. The possibilities are endless as the vast ocean - let yourself go and become an observer of... who knows... perhaps a turning point in your life.

https://soundcloud.com/goodbyemirage
https://soundcloud.com/eshu-est
https://soundcloud.com/electric_shapes

Premiere : Goodbye Mirage - Taken To Varanasi (Tassilo Vanhöfen Pleasure Of Tension Remix)

Khidja's contribution to the Tanzers Eins Compilation.
https://malkatuti.bandcamp.com/album/tanzers-eins

La Frutta

Khidja - La Frutta (feat. Tamir Hassan Chen)

Embark on a rhythmic odyssey with Aldo Miles Muller as he merges the vibrant flavors of Afro Beat, the infectious grooves of Reggaeton, and the pulsating energy of House Music in his latest single, "RUN TO THE MOON." This electrifying fusion transports listeners to a euphoric realm where cultural influences collide, creating a sonic tapestry that is both exhilarating and irresistibly danceable.

From the outset, "RUN TO THE MOON" captivates the senses with its infectious rhythm and dynamic melodies. Aldo's expertly crafted blend of Afro Beat rhythms infuses the track with a hypnotic energy that pulses through every beat, setting the stage for an exhilarating musical journey.

As the song progresses, Aldo seamlessly integrates the infectious grooves of Reggaeton, infusing the music with an undeniable sense of movement and vitality. The syncopated rhythms and pulsating basslines of this genre add depth and dimension to the composition, inviting listeners to lose themselves in the infectious beat.

But it's the unmistakable energy of House Music that truly propels "RUN TO THE MOON" to new heights. Aldo's mastery of this genre is evident in the track's driving basslines, soaring synths, and infectious vocal hooks, which come together to create a euphoric atmosphere that is impossible to resist.

Throughout "RUN TO THE MOON," Aldo Miles Muller demonstrates his unparalleled ability to blend diverse musical influences into a cohesive and captivating whole. This single is a testament to his creativity, innovation, and passion for pushing the boundaries of electronic music, and is sure to leave audiences around the world craving more of his infectious beats and undeniable talent.

So lace up your dancing shoes, surrender to the rhythm, and let "RUN TO THE MOON" take you on a journey to the heart of the dance floor. With its irresistible blend of Afro Beat, Reggaeton, and House Music, this electrifying track is destined to become a staple of clubs and festivals everywhere.

RUN TO THE MOON

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PREMIERE | Adventure Society - Native State [Electric Shapes]

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