Does anybody else go hard af on those the Age of Empires sounds or what

DJ Sotofett and LNS have teamed up with Tresor Records for Sputters. The double-vinyl album with 15 cuts spans a hybrid of warped electro and psychedelic hypnosis, all the while remaining fixed in an. unmistakable dance release. Recorded between 2017 – 2020, and bookmarked throughout by intros and interludes dug out from archival material, it's a deconstructed yet classic compound of techno-sonics. 

LNS from Calgary, Canada, is rooted in braindance, electro and acid. Releasing 12inches on both her self-titled imprint LNS and Sotofett’s Wania - LNS, whilst in the studio, has often pointed out “the lacking blend of dub and electro in dance music”. 

DJ Sotofett, hailing from Moss, Norway, is among a myriad of things commonly known for the extended work of his Sex Tags Mania and Wania labels, without forgetting his afro, dub and jazz releases on Honest Jon's London. 

Together both artists give space to a guest appearance by E-GZR, a fellow Wania artist, to open the Sputters journey. The sinus bending drum stutter of K.O. by E-GZR collisions flanging basses and chronic-inducing synth pads to blueprint the technoid atmosphere to come. LNS & DJ Sotofett take control with El Dubbing, evoking an effect-heavy demeanour, typical of the Sex Tags Mania soundworld that DJ Sotofett is responsible for, this time rubbing up against solid electrified rhythms. The hypnotic moods carry over to Dúnn Dubbing's deep delays, freely running over a surprisingly minimal skeleton retaining a solid direction. Crafting a warmly emotive end of Side-A with sparse rhythms to perfection. 

A meaner turn introduces Side-B. Hints of electro are scattered everywhere, fat basslines, ricocheting drums and synths that mourn and drift in and out of harmony. Vitri-Oil exposes a tumbling sound design, fog-lit chords of material fragility and nosedives - with an alive mix that wallows and grows in equal measures. The side closes with Shim, a classic drift between house and techno releasing sensual euphoria with the albums first big surprise – grand strings. 

“LNS wanted to sell her TR-606, while my reply was for us to make a track with the 606 sounding so fresh that she'd never even think about selling it again” Sotofett states. Side-C proves the artists to be some of the most singular producers around with album centrepiece The 606. Clocking in over 10 minutes, it kicks off as a driving techno banger, chugging bass and big chords. Midway through everything falls away, and out of the void enter scattered drums and improv piano lines emerge, while twisted dubs lead us back in an enduringly warm groove. 

Side-D sets the clock back to the original electroid foundation of the album, casting fires with alien vibrations. Synchronic Bass Blort is a hard-hitting electro track, steaming sonics and thrills, its melodic hook diving in subterranean motions. On Sputtering the duo raspily beams into outer space, with fizzy motives that disfigure and dazzle while the harmonies of the closing track is for yourself to experience. 

DJ Sotofett and LNS deliver an album inhabiting a world full of sci-fi sonics and fierce groove. Their sound is free and live, simultaneously wondrous and sharp.

@sophatmixes 
@lauransparrow

Buy on Tresor Bandcamp

PREMIERE: LNS & DJ Sotofett - El Dubbing

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/sunnysibar
Track: Fantasmas
Label: https://soundcloud.com/kalaharioystercult
Format: 2x12", Digital, LP
Release date: 03/12/21
YouTube: https://youtu.be/-XphiO9CNfc

Rushing us headlong into a vorticist maelstrom of hard-edged drum stutter and polychromatic synth fragmentation, Sansibar sophomore long-player for Kalahari Oyster Cult - “Sans Musique” - tackles the very essence of post-trance-y, breaks-loaded UK blends with unabashed joy to wreak havoc on his path. Throughout seven tracks oozing burnt kerosene and depleted uranium residue merged with a hint of sacred incense, Sansibar deploys his extra-wide vision for the present and future of dance music.
Here we choose the cranking the 2-step/garage power levels up a notch via “Fantasmas” which sends us spinning into orbit right away.

Sans Musique

PREMIERE | Sansibar - Fantasmas [Kalahari Oyster Cult] 2021

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Dreamsupport

Sport1000 - B Side: Dreamsupport

B2 from 'Destination Love' EP on @lobster-theremin

You Think? [LT047]

A2 track 'Monolith' off the latest Reptant record on @planeteuphorique.

Available digitally on Badncamp:
https://planeteuphorique.bandcamp.com/

Freq Accident

Reptant - Monolith [Planet Euphorique]

This tune is track 2 from our FIGS Compilation, out in full Nov. 1st. A new song from FIGS will be available via FT Bandcamp every weekday in October > https://futuretimes.bandcamp.com/album/figs-compilation

Beautiful Swimmers - Life

Available Now > https://futuretimes.bandcamp.com/track/life

Swimmers back in effect! After a long time runnin' around partyin' in strictly DJ mode, Beautiful Swimmers return to the studio for a galactic, uptempo mind eraser. New wave energy and bite, on a techno playground. “Music is my life / loop it the way I want to”

Produced by Ari G & Max D
Additional vocals courtesy of Babby
Recorded at FT Shop Studio, DC
Mixed with Mike Petillo at Tonal Park, MD

FIGS Compilation

Beautiful Swimmers - Life - FIGS - FT050

Mike 'Agent X' Clark is a true hero of the Detroit scene, dubbed an ambassador among the city’s underground music community. As a pioneer, he was pivotal in merging the fast growing Chicago style with the Euro-disco and progressive sound, becoming a major figure in the birth of the Detroit techno by the late 80’s.

El Prevost's No Speakers label has , and they've drafted in Clark for his killer jam "The Heat." Alongside the original, there is a strong cast of remixers on hand to serve up deadly variations. Newcomer Peter Rocket especially impresses with a crafty breaks version that cuts up the vocal of the original and transposes it onto a heavy, broken groove that floats in it’s own distinctive space, collapsing distinctions between retro and futuristic.

Just 23 years old, Peter Rocket released his debut track ‘C-Mo-Futur’ - under the name Mo Reece - in 2017 via South London institution World Unknown, displaying a deft touch for acid-bubbling electro-breaks. Since then things have got weirder and wilder.

 El Prevost and Ben Sims remixes are also available on the vinyl, coming Nov 11!

@no-speakers

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/mike-agent-x-clark-the-heat/729435-01/

juno preorder

*Premiere* Mike 'Agent X' Clark - The Heat (Peter Rocket Remix)

Forward thinking electro from Yorkshire via Berlin with an Adam Pits remix on the flip. So hyped to welcome No Moon back to X-Kalay!

Pre order:  https://bit.ly/2HxXb5p

Available 30th March 2020

@nomoontrax
@adampits

Buy 12"

XK020 | No Moon - Set Phasers to Stun

Out in June on Kalahari Oyster Cult.

Vinyl & digital: https://bit.ly/2ynBFj6
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Reptant-Phasic-Reflex/release/15240504

A1  Phasic Reflex [08:10 - 132 BPM]
A2 MS Plenty [05:00 - 132 BPM]
B1 A Realist's Realistic Reality [05:44 - 134 BPM]
B2 A Realist's Realistic Reality (Roza Terenzi's Realism Remix) [07:01 - 112 BPM]

Expert in trippy joints and knee-buckling bounce, OZ-based producer @reptant_the_lizard is back with a vengeance after an array of choice outings on the likes of Salt Mines, Planet Euphorique and Craigie Knowes. No warm-up lap needed, 'Phasic Reflex' may start as a tycho-esque daydream, what's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh. A pure adrenaline rush of vogue-ing 303, hi-voltage electro and intricate drum programming, this one has dancefloor ripper written all over it.

Keeping the tension up to hazardous levels, 'MS Plenty' zones out to a Detroit-style elixir of arpeggiated seesaws and pong-indebted, body-jacking pep. As its title suggests - or not, the B-side opener 'A Realist's Realistic Reality' clearly lies closer to a cyphered Dick-ian parallel world full of binary bleepin' and swirlin', post-kosmische infused riffs and tentacular Arpanet-style modularity, which @roza-terenzi alters into a lo-pressure dub expedition - better tasted at sunrise, feet buried deep in the sand and your hazy mind draped in the cosy folds of a cheerful seaside sloth with friends.

https://bit.ly/2ynBFj6

Reptant - Phasic Reflex 12" w/ Roza Terenzi Remix (OYSTER25 - Snippets)

War Child 4 sees the Craigie Knowes label continue the long-running War Child fundraiser series with a new 2x12" release featuring tracks from DJ Python, Stellar OM Source, Innershades, Eluize, No Moon, The Burrell Connection and more.

From ambient and downbeat through to techno and electro, the release spans the Craigie Knowes sound embraced by the label over the last 5 years. The fourth installment of the project also sees a completely new sleeve and center label design by Kyle Morrison.

We premiere No Moon's Wasp City - a typically whirring gritty number, which evolves into acidic clubland territories. All profits donated to War Child UK, a charity helping children in areas of conflict around the world.

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/nomoontrax
Label: https://soundcloud.com/craigie-knowes
Buy: https://tinyurl.com/CKNOW4-Red-Eye

PREMIERE: No Moon - Wasp City [Craigie Knowes]

Distribution -> distribution@rubadub.co.uk
Demos -> demos@xkalay.com
Direct Line -> hello@xkalay.com

XK020 | No Moon - Set Phasers to Stun

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