Loud Neighbor is the collaborative guise of Christina Steel aka STEEL5000, notably known for her Loving The Alien series, and sound engineer Martín García Blaya. The pair met on the dance floor of Madrid’s infamous Coppelia 101 club while Christina was in the country studying abroad for her third year at The School Of Art Institute Chicago, Martín had already been in the country for three years advancing his engineering career within the film industry. Now following a string of musical endeavors together, bouncing around different hemispheres and continents, the duo have their feet firmly on the ground with their Loud Neighbor project, delivering infectious, intricate and elegant sounds which flirt in the fields of dub, house, electro and techno. Road testing the pieces in underground warehouse events in Buenos Aires (Martín’s home turf), as well as Spain, Portugal, New York, Berlin and the Caribbean.

‘Escape Control’ as a whole sees the duo experiment with their live set-up, built around an amalgamation of analogue synthesizers, drum machines and digital tools. Classics such as the Korg Polysix, Roland SH-101 and the Yamaha CS20-M are prevalent in the compositions, while newcomers such as Dave Smith’s Tetra, Mopho and the MFB-522, add contemporary grit to brilliantly contrast the old and the new. Title track ‘Escape Control’ kicks things off, showcasing in style the prominent theme of the album, this being throbbing techno bass tones, STEEL5000’s sassy vocal styling’s, melancholic harmonies and raw synth lines. ‘Spineless’ and ‘Constant’ employ a more ethereal atmospheric approach, delving into dreamy synths and hypnotizing vocals, while ‘George’ and ‘Sandfly’ showcase the more direct and insistent side of the duo’s productions with their glitchy electronic synth hooks, raw rhythms and ever evolving dynamic.

Further highlights come in the shape of ‘The Fellonship’ with its smooth, airy ambience and classical inspired strings compositions. While ‘Black Clouds’ and ‘Train Daddy’ showcase the quirkier, tripped out aspects of the duo with dub touches, acid-tinged synths, menacing background atmospherics and a general spellbinding aesthetic. In conclusion Loud Neighbor deliver a stunning body of work here with ‘Escape Control’, they tell us ‘‘Each individual track has it's own back story, but they all have the same root. We draw inspiration from every day life and translate it through our gear into music; people and relationships in today’s modern world influenced ‘Escape Control’. Playing with the names of the computer keys, the title refers to the place technology has in our lives today and the side effects of such an intimate relationship. We live controlled by our digital devices, our status, our emotions, our jobs, and society not to mention the government. With our album we invite you to put down your phone, log off, forget about everything, and be in the present, close your eyes, listen, dance and escape control.’’


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Escape Control is the debut album from the Brooklyn based techno band, Loud Neighbor. Last year the album was released as a 6 part vinyl series, A side = LN originals, B sides = remixes. A wide variety of international artists, from techno and house legends like Octave One and Woody to young talent such as Joop Junior and Layton Giordani, took the Loud Neighbor stems to create their own masterpieces. Each producer had his own approach, many incorporating even more hardware into the production. Some of the producers, such as Alexi Delano and Tony Rohr, strip it down to the bare elements, while others, such as Alixander III, Xpansul and Marcos In Dub, maximize the track, incorporating almost all the original elements to the nth degree and then some. Overall, everybody respected the essence of the original album, but injected their own flavor to create a collection of eclectic techno and house tracks. Together the remixes create a new story that is very dance floor oriented, yet still pushing the core concept to escape control.

w0rkt34m is happy to announce that all those hot remixes are now coming out in 0's and 1's later this week in digital stores world wide (web)!

*If you are vinyl lover, get 'em while supplies last! w0rkt34m.com


04 Español - Marcos In Dub Remix Snippet

02 Constant - Alexi Delano Remix Snippet

01 Escape Control - Xpansul Remix Snippet

For our 9th release we bring you 4NYØN3, a new techno project emerging from anywhere.  This installment will be released on a 3 track vinyl and a 5 track digital EP. 4NYØN3 takes w0rkt34m to darker and rougher territories, but keeps that raw, analog sound we love so much, with a high dosage of funk. 

Track 1 and Side A of the vinyl is UTILA, a very energetic techno track. It starts with an asymmetric synth sequence, soon followed by a playful riff and the full beat blast. The sounds are rough and fat and the whole track has a tape like compression that makes it very organic and natural. The structure is simple and effective; with evolving synths, all the elements in the track play with each other effortlessly.

Track 2, and Side B1 on the vinyl, is MADONNA. Probably the funkiest of the pack, Madonna has a dubby like vibe with a subtle build up of drums & bass. A very playful synth sequence breaks in to lead the track. Menacing pads add tension throughout while the percussive elements come and go in a very elegant way.

Track 3, and Side B2 on the vinyl, is ATOCHA. Just like a train, this track is solid, unstoppable and metallic. It starts with a rough funky beat and a distorted whistle like sound.  The slow build breaks with aggressive stabs and some 909 frenetic patterns that remind us of 90’s percussive techno, keeping the tension at a very high level.

Track 4, digital only, is CAVE. As the name suggests, it's dark as hell.  It starts with a solid and dark drum & bass section, topped by spooky industrial pads and synths. Noises and metallic pads keep adding tension when the full drum beat explodes. Layers of dark synth sequences play with each other as the drums grow and the atmosphere becomes more and more dense in this trip below the ground. 

Track 5, digital only, is SWING. Built as a classic track tool for djs, Swing is pure funky techno. Rough, playful and very fat, this track is perfect to add some extra dirt and funk to your set. Dj friendly, dance floor oriented and really nasty. 

Five techno tracks to be played funking loud!

SWING (digital bonus)

CAVE (digital bonus)

For our 11th release we have a young artist from Bosnia Herzegovina currently based in Austria: KVEST aka Amir Maglajlija, who although not new to the production world is using this new moniker for his techno output. 

On this EP he brings us 5 tracks, which are very representative of his sound: funky, hypnotic, jazzy, playful, and atmospheric.

Five techno tracks to be played funking loud!

Allar E.P.

Surit

Meiron

Barqa

Allar

For our 10th release we have one of our in-house artists, XPANSUL, delivering his first solo release on vinyl in a long time. Three tracks completed by two “digital only” bonus tracks.

On BENTHOS, Xpansul takes his distinctive Techno sound to the next level, exploring new ways whilst digging deep into his roots, resulting in an exciting and mature sound.

Five techno tracks to be played funking loud!

Benthos - WT010

Oxygen Toxicity (Heliox Mix) - Digital Exclusive

The Bends - Digital Exclusive

Blackout

Oxygen Toxicity

Blue Vertigo

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