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Recorded live at Abbey Road Studios, London Dec 2 2015. 

Everyday Is Kill is the first new material from Damon Baxter (aka Deadly Avenger) in 8 years. Having previously released records on the legendary D.C Recordings & Wall Of Sound imprints, we here at Death Waltz Originals are thrilled to be releasing this brand new LP. You will have heard Deadly Avenger even if you don't own any of his records - Over the last few years he has supplied music for trailers such as Ant Man, The Avengers & John Wick. He has created a neon-drenched nightmare of a record that can stand shoulder to shoulder alongside current synth wave heavyweights such as Le Matos, Carpenter Brut, Perturbator or composers such as Steve Moore and Cliff Martinez. It's an assured mix of speaker crunching synth bangers and more contemplative tracks.

14 × Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Colored
Box Set, Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition

*Super deluxe edition of Humanz.*

Presented across 14 individual pieces of 12' coloured vinyl (each one a different colour), packaged in individually art-worked sleeves. Each piece of vinyl features an album track, backed with an exclusive 'b-side' featuring alternate versions of Humanz album tracks plus further previously unreleased material.

Includes a 54-page, cloth-bound, foil-blocked, hardback book of Gorillaz artwork by Jamie Hewlett and a download card, all housed in a bespoke 12' vinyl case.

'We Are Vinyl' reissue - a 10 track double vinyl on 140 gm black vinyl with download code.

Oberst & Buchner are next up on Freeride Millenium and the two Bavaria born, Vienna based producers deliver an EP that offers their interpretation of what 'modern summer togetherness sounds like.' The talented pair started making music together aged 15 and aim to cook up emotionally driven jams. They do so on labels like Heimlich, Underyourskin Records, Schönbrunner Perlen, Lokd, and always get the juices going, as they do once again here. Beginning with the brilliant 'Greg' we dive into a breakbeat bath of summery chords as playful claves dance on the horizon. It is a melodically rich track with spiritual feelings that really bliss you out. On the moodier 'Emile' night time arrives and warm chords mix with jangling, organic glass and percussive tinkles that reflect rays of light. It's a perfectly jazzy and loose number that really suspends you in a rueful place. Last but not least, 'Embrace' is a fluid intergalactic convention with sparse drum kicks weighed down by sombre synths. A skittish, dubstep style groove then comes in and elevates the track with gentle guitar licks and slithering synths adding colour, and overall it has the same zoned out feel as a thousand-yard stare. This is a brilliant mood EP that mixes up the synthetic with the organic, creating some fascinating grooves as a result. The release once again features original artwork from the ever talented Daniel Rajcsanyi. Thanks for purchasing a real copy!

Midnight Dicers are a trio from Tel-Aviv. They comprise of Sabo aka Obas Nenor (Mahogani Music / Strictly Rhythm), Ariel Klachkin and Eliezer Perez. They are a steady fixture in the city's nightlife, as DJ's and owners of underground clubs/bars. The collaboration with Samy Birnbach aka Dj Morpheus came naturally as they are longtime fans of his work with Minimal Compact the legendary group from the 80´s and as Dj Morpheus A&R & Compiler (Freezone series) for SSR/Crammed Discs in Brussels and his weekly Radio show the Lysergic Factory. Also featuring on the track is berry sakharof, one of minimal compact's guitarist. Icing on the cake comes in form of a dub version plus remixes from Smagghe & Cross and head honcho Prins Thomas

Trapped in a bloody Cumbia remix or in a Casamence groove... Both sides brings a travel into music and this weapon will defenitly bring the fire on the dancefloor !

Trip Hop, Hip Hop and Ragga versions...

- 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
- GATEFOLD SLEEVE
- BRAND NEW ALBUM
- FEATURING THE HIT SINGLES HUMAN' AND MARILYN MONROE'
- NUMBER 1 IN US ELECTRONIC ITUNES CHART AND TOP 5 IN ELECTRONIC CHARTS AROUND THE GLOBE
- LIMITED EDITION OF 1.000 COPIES ON WHITE IVORY VINYL

ISON is the debut album of Iranian-born Dutch artist Sevdaliza. After releasing her latest Edison nominated visual masterpiece HUMAN, and her acclaimed short film The Formula', next to worldly known
3D experiences for That Other Girl' and Marilyn Monroe', Sevdaliza is defining art with her mystical audio-visual experiences.

So far Sevdaliza already amassed millions of plays on Youtube and Spotify. She recently collaborated with A$AP Ferg and was also featured on Parisian producer STWO's latest single Haunted'.

As much as ISON is about the human experience, it is mostly about Sevdaliza returning to her spirit guided by past lives. By following her intuition, her unconscious guided her on a path which one present form might never reproduce. All the knowledge that is not of the senses, not of the intellect, not of the heart but is the property that belongs to the deepest aspect of your being.' ISON is an experience of that being.

Sevdaliza's melancholic visceral voice floats over beds of thumping trip hop dubs, married with classical harmonies and cutting strings setting an enigma. Rhythmic tensions build slowly into chaotic climaxes. ISON has been described as genre- bending', drawing on various genres.

Her writing, influenced by intuition and experiences in past lives, has a philosophical questioning character, subjects like spirit diversification and perception of emotion are strongly present. Divine energies blend harmonically within. Sevdaliza plays with the simulation of lives that can hardly be distinguished from truth. Creating a reality where everything is possible. To Sevdaliza, expression comes forward in designing every detail in sound and imagery.

The moving artwork of ISON was sculptured by the incredible
Sarah Sitkin. The limited edition is pressed on White Ivory vinyl and will be individually numbered.

L One is a young Munich Hip Hop beat smith and a lover of drum computers. With only 24 years, he already has a considerable discography as producer. Including projects such as ATP's "C'est La Vie Or What" (2016 on Bumm Clack) as well as Weltuntergäng's "Dogmatikers Elfen" (2014 on Tieftonkultur). As a part of Akere and Manufaktur, he also ventured into new genres in the recent years and provided new approaches to TripHop and Dubstep.

RSD 2017 release. The Berlin based artist OFRIN from Israel released her wonderful album "Ore" on Albumlabel in 2016. Now, Albumlabel debuts with the 10" single vinyl format with three tracks that are linked to this working period. A1 contains a long and deep dubbing club remix of her song "Black Box" by Berlin/Canadian DEADBEAT. The original appeared on the album as outstanding special arrangement excluding any clear drumwork. But swimming on such a strong rythmic pattern out of chords and puls that leads into a clear hypnotic piece of music. OFRIN's majestic voice could not be crowned better by music. DEADBEAT is following this lead adding his unique touch of up to date club and dub productions. The B Side opens with a wide open minded ambient mix by Berlin producer PILOCKA KRACH. Her version of "Direction Eclipse" uses the song title as a map for music that tumbles in the direction eclipse. Finally, B2 is OFRIN's cover version of the song "Traume" that has been famous in the version by FRANCOISE HARDY in 1970. She already sung the song in a French German accent - untouchable, cool, destroying and charming. This feeling is now taken by OFRIN with a kinda different accent into 2017 and is strongly moving on co-producer Marco Haas aka T.RAUMSCHMIERE. His work is the perfect stage for OFRIN's, modern, now, analogue, digital.

This release is the first limited 10" by Albumlabel created for the record store day in April 2017.

Sweet groove, housy and trip hop.

On UKNOWYs latest release 'Homeless Soul Music' NEMOY delivers a trilogy of warm & unique house grooves further extending and developing UKNOWYs catalog of organic dance music. From the rolling and hard hitting banger 'We made it' to the percussive piece 'Particular Beat' to the laid back, bassline driven 'One for CKENZ' NEMOYs sophisticated blend of delicious synth- and samplework with additional remixes by Sam Irl & Chief makes for an overall exciting EP. Ranging from classic house cuts to afrobeat elements this crisp production will get into your head & legs!

Almost one year after his debut LP Feed The Tape, Orson Hentschel enters new musical terrain wearing old shoes. His second LP Electric Stutter, which is almost 55 minutes long, is only loosely connected to his debut. Whereas Feed The Tape was strongly shaped by Classical Minimal Music, Hentschel now incorporates influences of Trip-Hop and Electronic Pop Music. Since his childhood, he considers artists like Massive Attack, Portishead and Björk as some of his most important sources of inspiration. The influence of this kind of popular music is clearly audible. Hentschel's new tracks are shorter, more shaped and reduced in the density of their sound material. Pattern-oriented repetitions, which where in the focus of Feed The Tape, now fulfil the function of sophisticated sub-components of the overall composition and are subordinate to the melodic forms or merge with them. Also the amount of sample-based material has decreased in order to create space for synthetically produced sounds with melodic character. Electric Stutter is more complex and more detailed than Feed The Tape. At the same time the reduced density of sound material and the higher amount of melodies form a kind of music that is more easily accessible.

Whereas the Düsseldorf-based composer started off with classical piano, he by now concentrates on electronic and experimental music and film compositions. Even though Hentschel has experienced a classical education, his composition techniques are anything but traditional. His creative starting point is rarely rooted in musical ideas, but consists of finding appropriate sound material. His sources are diverse: sounds and samples like soundtracks, film sounds, music albums or internet findings encounter polyphonic vocal-music from the 14th century and composition techniques of Minimal Music such as Steve Reich. In his compositions Hentschel draws a cross-section through the history of music and its genres in order to form his own musical expression. Considering his studies of music science in Düsseldorf and previously in Vienna and Dresden, his musical time-jumps appear less surprising.

Describing Orson Hentschel only as a composer of contemporary music does not do him justice. In his self-conception as an audio-visual artist he creates his own live show, combining lights, visuals and fog to a stunning atmosphere, which cannot be eluded. Supported by live-drummer Lukas Baumgart, Hentschel delivers a sound, whose energy is physically palpable and electrifies the audience. A live-show generating an intense experience, going to the limit and erasing any sense of time. Orson Hentschel moves perceptions not merely through sheer volume, but with driving repetitions and extensive tension.

In 1997 the crew of Electro Bunker Cologne-released Wagon Christ's seminal chopped TripHop / IDM alltime classic - London Is A Country' as very limited 11' pressing.

Four years later, back in 2001, an unofficial and limited to 500 copies 12' pressing featuring two re-mixes by the likes of Link and Rei$$dorf Force and the original Wagon Christ track appeared via the Cologne-based label Hotel Lotte - and rumours had it that it was sold out immediately.

Now, 13 years after the initial release, a few lost and unplayed copies of this unofficial gem were discovered in the dust-covered boxes that make up the archives of this long gone label - bringing back the fascination of chopped intelligent breaks, heavy timestretching and Dub-heavy, super psychedelikk Dope Beats.

All mixes 33 RPM!

It's time for the Procurator! Hyperdub is happy to announce the first release from Edinburgh born and bred producer Proc Fiskal - otherwise known as Joe Powers. Like a Scottish relation to the recent faster Grime productions Lewisham MC Novelist has coined 'Ruff Sound', Proc Fiskal ups the energy of the stark cubist rhythms of the early Grime of Wiley and Ruff Sqwad by accelerating and retooling them to fit the faster 160bpm grid, engineering a delirious hybrid that also subtly makes explicit the relationship between Grime and Jungle and Happy Hardcore. The EP starts with '£', which is the most classically 'Grime' sounding of the tracks, with 8 bar switches, chord stabs, sino-motifs and a bassline that ripples underneath. 'Lamentation' combines airy swing, rolling percussion and chunky dubwise bouncing bass that recalls Digidub. 'Skulka' opens up the flipside with surreal whizzing, wheezing and gunshots, dropping into a rolling melodic bassline and caffeinated strings. 'Acidic Hoes' has a bassline that bubbles and warps with an airy melody whirling over the top and incidental coughs and sword clashes. Proc Fiskal's debut EP is joyfully aggressive and an energetic contrast to the slowing down of most contemporary Grime, plus it mixes into Footwork really well too.

Rising Melbourne-based producer Thrupence releases his latest creative piece, Ideas of Aesthesis, featuring track 'Rinse Repeat', guest feature from Wafia and his brother Edward Vanzet

Mondo are proud to present the soundtrack to Fight Club on Vinyl for the first time in over 15 Years. The Dust Brothers only film score to date, Fight Club is arguably one of the most enjoyable soundtrack albums to come out of the 90's and part of that has to do with the fact that it is one of the best sequenced scores of all time. Weaving all of the films cues from the film into 16 songs, the album winds up feeling like the best instrumental Trip-Hop album you've never heard. Buy it, or you will be incomplete. But be warned, this album is not beautiful, clean or perfect. It is not Mint, or even VG+. It is Fair at best. Just like you.

You are not your record collection.

Man haette die Platte auch >Melancholie der Seligen< nennen koennen, wenn der Titel nicht schon von Rainald Goetz besetzt waere. So finden wir hier zwei autarke Stuecke vor die gleichsam diabolischen Ursprungs sind und vielleicht die Frage beantworten können, ob ein Leben im Vakuum tatsaechlich moeglich ist oder ob das Reale einfach nur nicht mehr greifbar ist. Entscheidet selbst!

Cold Busted is the label based in downtown Los Angele releasing trip-hop, lo-fi, instrumental hip-hop, and other downtempo beats showcasing beatmakers from all over the place. Hailing from Austin - Texas, The Deli serves up old school vibes spread across 18 jazz inspired instrumentals.

With a career spanning two decades, five studio albums, over 16+ million records sold world-wide, and a plethora of accolades, Nelly Furtado is a proven chart-topping luminary.  Furtado is now readying her sixth studio album, The Ride, due out 31st March 2017 via her imprint, Nelstar Entertainment, through 10th St. Entertainment/Eleven Seven Music Group.

With a career spanning two decades, five studio albums, over 16+ million records sold world-wide, and a plethora of accolades, Nelly Furtado is a proven chart-topping luminary.  Furtado is now readying her sixth studio album, The Ride, due out 31st March 2017 via her imprint, Nelstar Entertainment, through 10th St. Entertainment/Eleven Seven Music Group.

Nostalgic, soulful and, of course, boogie-woogie.' That's how Belgian DJ producer Boogie Belgique (AKA Oswald Cromheecke) describes the enticing combination of styles and sources from different decades that make up his music. Taking vintage inspirations, most notably from swing and jazz eras, and merging them with contemporary beats and textures is the young producer's forte. This is pleasingly evident on Volta, the latest Boogie Belgique album for the Cold Busted label. Jungle Law' gives a glimpse into Boogie Belgique's sonic palette. Tough hip hop beats and funky live guitar follow an intro of jungle ambience as a trumpet presents the melody. Soon some swingy big band jazz enters the song in an almost ghostly manner, while the insistent beat keeps the dance floor moving. Album opener Go Slow' shows a different side to the coin giving the listener an uptempo broken beat rhythm, some bouncy bass guitar, snippets of string loops, and a lovely, forlorn vocal line that echoes the past. It's a beautiful concoction, and Boogie Belgique delivers on many aspects of this style throughout his eleven track album. Volta is a satisfying trip in an aural time machine.

Steffen Laschinski`s project Rising Sun, make a welcome return to Fauxpas Musik after the album Release "The Lamentations Of Rising Sun". Here we have the final single in the series of 3 including five brand new full-length Tracks from the EP Serie Trilogy. Vinyl tastes better...

[A] thinkin' about you baby

22 tracks mixed by Score 5. This mix is completely exclusive to the third CD.

Exploring the long lost archives of the former Cologne-based label Hotel Lotte we've discovered another stack of original pressings that were originally released by in 1999! On his second release on the label, also limited to 500 copies only, we see Wulfmanson provide a vibe pretty close to what once was filed under the flag of TripHop / Downtempo but comes up with a more muscular and pretty hefty beat foundation as well as drawing inspiration from genres like BigBeat and producers like Depth Charge. This is opium den music for those who know!

Steffen Laschinski`s project Rising Sun, which consists only of himself, was very productive since the release of the last album "
"The Lamentations Of Rising Sun". In the past two years the musician and dj was a real demon of work and he loves to work in different Genres and is he very diligent. His next EP series "TRILOGY" will be released in early October, comprising three vinyl's. Graphic designer and art director Andreas Haase from Hamburg took care of the design. Vinyl tastes better....

Milky Bomb Records are releasing the debut album from SLF&Co titled No Beats In Algebra.

SLF&Co - No Beats In Algebra is a collaboration of vocalists and musicians - also known as the lovely folk & friends from around the towns of blighty. The SLF&Co project came to light from a PC, in a flat, in Norwich. Clocks tick, tracks emerge, people lend an ear, a voice, some insight and the occasional slap.

Influenced and inspired by many different genres and production techniques with a few bits and bobs of rock, electronica, ambient, dance, hip/trip-hop, avant-garde and progressive music. No Beats In Algebra will fulfill all of your musical preferences in one nicely rounded package for the ears and mind to ponder.

Featured artists on No Beats In Algebra can also be found with their respective groups on the compilation release An Amalgamation of Sorts...Part Zero (2015) through Milky Bomb Records.

After the HUGE success of his critically acclaimed, debut album "Augmented 7th, Ash Walker is back with his 2nd studio album, entitled "Echo Chamber"

Support on the singles leading up to album has been nothing short of fantastic, hearing the likes of Don Letts, Gilles Peterson, Gideon Coe, Tom Ravenscroft (all BBC 6Music), Dom Servini (Wah Wah 45's), Lefto, Joe Kay (Soulection) & Zeb Samuels all spinning tunes on regular rotation.

The album continues a similar feel and energy of "Augmented 7th", but you can hear Walker has settled into his "sound" with confidence and that all important swagger.

As you would expect, Jazz sits at the very core of the album with Trip-Hop beats providing the tread that holds it all together.

The balance of instrumental tracks & featured vocals is a perfect mix. It focuses heavily on musicianship and instrumental recordings, but features a total of 4 tracks with vocals, all provided by close friends from Ash Walker, that will be names to keep an eye on for sure.

Ash Walker has been compared with the likes of Flying Lotus, Massive attack, U.N.K.L.E, DJ Shadow & Nightmares on Wax, to name some artists you might be familiar with.

Here is some information on some of the musicians Ash Walker has collaborated on for this album.

Marc Cyril, who has played Bass and electric guitar on several productions, has an impressive musical CV and provides some jaw dropping layers to Walker's music.

He has collaborated with the likes of Joss Stone, Dennis Bovell, Jr Walker and the All Stars and Faithless' Maxi Jazz, to name some highlights.

And for the lead single "Dark Hour", none other than Saxophonist Benjamin Barnet features, who has worked with some big names in the music business as well. Some highlights include: DJ Fresh, Paul Oakenfold & The Black Eyed Peas.

As a DJ, Ash has long performed in support of prestigious acts including The Specials, Lee Scratch Perry, and David Rodigan, but now signed to Deep Heads, his productions are receiving the increased attention they deserve. 'Augmented 7th', received staunch radio support from BBC 6 Music, with air time play from the likes of Gideon Coe, Gilles Peterson Don Letts and Tom Robinson whilst also receiving glowing praises from publications such as Clash Magazine, Okayplayer, XLR8R & Konbini.

After the success of his 'Backwards Light' EP Slackk returns to R&S with another 6 tracker of instrumental grime mutations.
A figurehead of the UK scene through the influential Boxed night he runs alongside Mr. Mitch, Logos and Oil Gang, Slackk aka Paul Lynch distils the Boxed sound into his own inimitable, richly melodic style. The six tracks on offer on this EP continue to blur the lines between genres as RA described in their glowing review of the Backwards Light EP. 'A producer whose music is moving beyond its origins in grime to something undiscovered.'
The tracks range from the opening moody club styles of 'Swan Filters' and twisted bass of Mumdance and Logos favourite 'Skeleton Crew' to the more reserved and delicate headphone moments of 'Replenish' and 'Pigeons'. 'Hundred Flute' returns a common Slackk inspiration source into the sampler, but the results on this one could be the best yet. 'Returning Geese' finishes the EP in what could be one of the producers last examples of the Japanese styles for a while. R&S and Boxed will be teaming up to host a stage at this years Bloc festival featuring Slackk, Lone, Logos, Lakker, Appleblim, Second Strorey & Mr. Mitch.

Warehouse find! Back in 1997 this 12 single by Brotherz In Armz, the collaborational project of Ingmar Koch a.k.a. Dr. Walker and Frank Heiss, marked the start of Cologne-based imprint Syncom Productionz. Three tracks featuring heavy analogue super bass, tripping sequences and BigBeat references, bouncy, experimental House minimalisms and quirky ElectroPhonk introduce the original flavour and state of the art of the Cologne underground scene built around legendary events like Electro Bunker Cologne in these days.

IRAH makes a particular brand of alternative pop inspired by everything from traditional ceremonial music to modern melodic songwriting. The three members find creative power in their spiritual awareness and their music have a truly unique ability to both create feelings of unity with the audience as well as a sense of being part of something bigger.
In the past year IRAH have performed select shows in Denmark, always to full houses and critical acclaim. Media has highlighted their unique and intense presence in the music on stage. Earlier this spring their first single also entitled Into Dimensions' was released and was described by The Line of Best Fit as "An incredible, epic debut single" and soon followed the song Mirroring' which has enjoyed airplay on several key stations around Europe.

Loop Diary is Brooklyn based beat maker and producer Marihito "MARI" Ayabe's solo project. This instrumental album was simply produced with vinyl, samplers and synthesizers similar to 1990's hip hop productions, recorded at his home studio in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, NY, 2014-2016. Tracks were chosen from over 50 rough sketches and he is currently compiling Vol.2

He is also a member of Chimp Beams and Helio Parallax

Minneapolis mentalist Paul Birken debuts on UK's premium wonk label, Don't Recordings. Four brand new tracks from the man who has been 'making mishaps & mistakes' for 25 years

#3 Live Act of 2013 at Resident Advisor, one of the most in demand remixers around, a total of 156 gigs in 2013, releases for Rush Hour, Ovum, Macro; booked out months in advance from Berghain to Ibiza to the main electronic festivals ... KiNK: Arguably the world of dance music has not witnessed anyone else rising so clearly from bottom to top just by the centrifugal force of sheer talent. Being based in Sofia, Bulgaria, without a support network, a campaign or any media hype, his music alone - live and in the studio - created a momentum whose end we have yet to see. Lenin said: 'Communism is Soviet power + electrification of the whole country.' Hardly did Lenin suspect what an inspired take on these words could do: post-socialist techno. A child of 80's late socialism, KiNK grew up on the home computers Bulgaria's IT scientists had created by backwards-engineering Western technology. Fueled by nuclear energy on the edge of desaster, a whole generation of kids was trained to hack. Dance music gradually dripping in through early dial-up internet connections, the acoustic fingerprints of distant parties put Eastern producers from KiNK to Nina Kraviz to Vakula under a spell. Yet KiNK spent years of backwards-engineering the sounds of Detroit, Chicago and early Warp.