The waves thrashed and crashed against the shore. The rocks black and barely noticeable against the darkness of the deep night sky. The noise was incredible – echoing and reverberating in the midst of the storm.

Rushing into water, the land was almost greeting the waves with a hug for that was all it could do.

Watching from a lighthouse perched atop the hill, he looked down at the raging chaos before him and danced in the rain which relentlessly fell from the skies above.

It was going to be a long night…

Iconic tracks by the one and only Tolouse Low Trax reimagined and reinterpreted on a new compilation. Featuring versions from Joakim, Ido Plumes,  Simo Cell and more.

Essential stuff.

PREMIERE: Tolouse Low Trax - Rushing Into Water (Joakim's Elemental Edit) [Bureau B]

These new versions of nICo's tracks bring another dimension to the EP with a much more dub-oriented approach. The MR TC remix sounds like an ode to introspection and we are happy to premiere it on our channel.

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https://soundcloud.com/mrtcmusic
https://soundcloud.com/estuary-tapes

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NEW HIT: nICo - The Red Sun (MR TC Remix) [ESTUARY TAPES]

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Especial is delighted to welcome Odopt back to the label, this time teaming up with Sano for a club heavy global excursion and the vocal deep dive of Picha. A meeting of friends and collaborators across continents and years, finally presented in vocal and instrumental, as well the welcome return of label stalwart Jamie Paton with additional remix and dub to bite.

Long-time fans of Sebastian Hoyos aka Sano’s productions, seeing him release for Matias Aguayo’s Comeme and Munich’s Public Possession, Especial jumped at the chance to present Odopt’s reworkings of Sano’s oeuvre, taking vocalist’s Lolito
night-time exoticisms and offering a red lit basement, dark room anthem.

As with all good things, time let the music ferment. The 2016 outline became a 2019 demo, first presented to the label, and emphatically embraced. With Sano returning from Barcelona to his native Columbia, replacing the world of club culture with horticulture, Odopt found their new Paris base led them to finally hit the pocket, the tribal percussion propelled by the razor-sharp snare and perfectly, more cowbell.

Who better then to request remixes than the origin of Especial, it’s first artist, mainstay mixer and designer of each artwork since the label’s birth in late 2013, Jamie Paton. Having gone on to release for label peers and inspirations, ESP Institute and Multi Culti, this is a welcome return. Paton’s trademark deep dubwise is ever present, as is the exemplary programming, but now the twist of breaks in Remix form gives this EP widescreen dynamics.

The sound system stretching Dub mix rounds off, the vocals pulled back, the wobble and trembling bass, again highlight Especial’s mission, club music for the head and feet, mixing new wave with neu rave, beats with breaks, looking back but always, always moving forwards.

A1. Odopt & Sano - Picha

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Rising star Remotif returns to Especial with a full complement of his “trance fusion”, a modern-day ethnicity of breakbeat techno dance music. With releases on Coymix, and Space Lab, as well as soon appearing on the cult label Avidya, plus a burgeoning DJ career from Fabric to Berlin’s seminal Warning parties, his time and space is now.

A standout inclusion on the last Especial sampler “Comunion Especial” (EES040) was a prescient to a pure natural ability to create hypnotic grooves. Part of the burgeoning Bristol scene Joe “Remotif” Reddick has steadily built a series of releases and admirers, a psychedelic swirl of bouncing beats, oscillating rhythms and trippy vox that capture a moment of merging zeitgeist.

Starting with U 15, this is prime time, jacking Remotif, where melody, samples, and beats angelate, stretch and absorb, almost devotional, but always engaging the feet and mind, a blissful science, daring shanti awakenings.

Deep and dripping, the organic ooze of Glint's Pursuit follows. Tribal percussion, shimmery timbres, siren vocals, the sharpness created by slowing the bpms giving oxygen to our experience. Rising, rising.

The Elevated Place sums much of Remotif’s music. His personal highs (and lows) encompassed via sound design. Acidic, nocturnal, skywards, the unquantifiable stream of emotion is in there, a very genuine capturing of a personal journey wrought from machines, translating into a musical form. The lost chord, the funk electric. Whichever, the drop ethereal, the breaks supertight, the hope unrelenting. An apt EP title.

The end (for now) an inverse to Joe’s universe. The space between, the afters, the dub, the mantra, nodding to Bristol’s music history, The Sunken Place is a groove-led, break-neck, trip-not, head-swinging, deftly-made electronic micro-symphony. From the 90s to the 20’s, San Francisco to Stroom, Remotif rides the signal.

B2. Remotif - The Sunken Place

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Peer-reviewed electro theory by Obergman. Pentaquark is pure plug n’ play technology to bump in your UFO as you conquer the cosmos. Endless bouncing electro rhythms for those that want the power to control dancefloors. Feel the snap of those snares. Embrace the power of the atom! 
Releases October 14, 2024.

Written & produced by Obergman
Mastered by Marco @ Analogcut, Berlin
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Released by Craigie Knowes, Perth, Scotland
Design by Cutwerk

CKNOWEP63 | Obergman - Pentaquark EP

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Berlin-based imprint Thisbe Recordings line up a 6-track various artist compilation entitled ‘The Blue Hour‘ assembling a steady line up of producers, each delivering shadowy, machine-driven frequencies steeped in dark disco aesthetics and slow-burning grooves...Our pick is ‘Extase‘ by WWW (World Wild Web). Mastered by Cem Oral at Jammin Masters, the track surges like a sonic tempest, fusing puzzling EBM frequencies with driving post-punk rhythms. It feels like an interplanetary communion ignited by a cyber-fuelled euphoria of Arabesque synths and French dubbed-out poetry.

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The Blue Hour

Extase

WWW (World Wild Web) - Extase [Thisbe Recordings]

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Solar Flex draws inspiration from 90s club oriented dance music and sets moods from laid back outdoors to prime time club nights and after hours. On the A-side ‘Stepping Toward Zen’ prepares for the mental workout with shivering chants that gain consciousness to rhythmic tablas and spacious bleeps. Next, mysterious energies set free with ‘Entropica’ unfolding its wobbly dub baseline to the enigma of pitched cymbals and robo-rhythms aligned by the steady-state of a bouncing four-to-the-floor 909 kick. ‘Supernature’ pops the B-side with a more club-oriented electro-trance blended stomper soothed by watery pads that set a pause before straight breaks and alien leads ask for their sweaty tributes. Finishing off, ‘Tablagauze’ primes for after hours with a gnarly downtempo chugger speckled with overdriven analogue drums and hypnotic acid arpeggios.

Tracklist: 

A1 - Stepping toward Zen
A2 - Entropica
B1 - Supernature
B2 - Tablagauze

PREMIERE: DJ Gerhardt - Tablagauze [NRW NRG]

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Max Essa returns to Is It Balearic? for his 9th release on the label. ‘When I'm Homeward Bound' brings us that classic Essa sound with a hint of Tears For Fears for good measure! The pads are delightfully gooey and subtly uplifting over gently percussive and stuttering beats and the whole thing is rich in lazy poolside energy. Nathan Dawidowicz remixes the original into a hypnotic, percolating piece of deep and tribal disco, while Secret Soul Society brings out the early evening house grooves ready for those sunset sessions. The record finishes with the closing cut, 'Chasing Horses’,  a super sweet late night groove with heartfelt chords and instrumentation.

Tracklist: 

A1. When I’m Homeward Bound
A2. When I’m Homeward Bound (Nathan Dawidowicz remix)

B1. When I’m Homeward Bound"" (Secret Soul Society remix)
B2. Chasing Horses

PREMIERE: Max Essa - When I’m Homeward Bound (Nathan Dawidowicz Remix) [Is It Balearic? Recordings]

NRW NRG:

NRW NRG is a newly formed Berlin based label with Düsseldorfian roots. Shaped by sounds encountered in and around the Salon des Amateur Dunstkreis, NRW NRG seeks to push the spirit of the initiative based contemporary club scene. The label’s debut EP Solar Flex is a product of the members perspectives taken from DJ’s, producers and visual artists point of views. The release will open the space for artists from their own and other rows in the future.



DJ Gerhardt:

DJ Gerhardt is a Berlin based DJ and producer. After a feature on a V/A compilation on Super Utu, Solar Flex marks his debut EP, fusing his affection for 90’s energized dance music and contemporary club sounds. Next to productions, DJ Gerhardt hosts the show ‘RIPS in Peace’ on Malmö based Retreat Radio and takes part in the music collective Soilseek.



Solar Flex:

Solar Flex draws inspiration from 90s club oriented dance music and sets moods from laid back outdoors to prime time club nights and after hours. On the A-side ‘Stepping Toward Zen’ prepares for the mental workout with shivering chants that gain consciousness to rhythmic tablas and spacious bleeps. Next, mysterious energies set free with ‘Entropica’ unfolding its wobbly dub baseline to the enigma of pitched cymbals and robo-rhythms aligned by the steady-state of a bouncing four-to-the-floor 909 kick. ‘Supernature’ pops the B-side with a more club-oriented electro-trance blended stomper soothed by watery pads that set a pause before straight breaks and alien leads ask for their sweaty tributes. Finishing off, ‘Tablagauze’ primes for after hours with a gnarly downtempo chugger speckled with overdriven analogue drums and hypnotic acid arpeggios.

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PREMIERE : DJ Gerhardt - Supernature

Peer-reviewed electro theory by Obergman. Pentaquark is pure plug n’ play technology to bump in your UFO as you conquer the cosmos. Endless bouncing electro rhythms for those that want the power to control dancefloors. Feel the snap of those snares. Embrace the power of the atom!

https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com/album/pentaquark-ep

Obergman
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/obergmanmusik

Craigie Knowes
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Pentaquark EP

PREMIERE: Obergman - Cuspy Halo Problem (Craigie Knowes)

School Days 11 (Original Soundtrack)

The School Cellar

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The Why people dance question was asked for the first time in Lithuania back in 2013 but it gained a worldwide echo in its 8 years of existence. Run by @pauliuskamblevicius with the help of @experimentsserial and a network of collaborators, the online electronic music platform and label keeps its heart open for new friends and treasure finds but its filter tight and deep underground. Tune into WPD channels on Soundcloud, YouTube and Bandcamp.

PREMIERE: DJ Gerhardt - Tablagauze [NRW NRG]

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