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Teklife Records are ready to drop their third release: New Start by Taso. The 7 track LP features collaborations with DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn, Gant-Man, DJ Tre, DJ Manny, DJ Taye and DJ Earl. New Start follows on from a highly coveted vinyl edition, critical acclaim and strong DJ Support for Open Your Eyes by DJ Earl. Once again, the spirit of collaboration is a key element: Teklife is a closely connected group of friends, working together harmoniously, and pushing each other to greater heights and depths through a shared love of footwork music. Smoke Dat Green, Taso's collaboration with DJ Earl, was featured on Open Your Eyes, and now Taso himself takes centre stage for the next instalment, presenting unreleased classics alongside brand new footwork sounds. An accomplished DJ and MC, Taso frequently appears alongside Spinn at Teklife showcases all over the world. But despite a busy touring schedule, Taso never stops making beats. A multi-instrumentalist with a degree in audio engineering, Taso fuses raw musical talent with technical expertise. Since January this year, he has released an impressive 8 volumes of the Cold Heat EP series, bringing together a whole range of musical styles and moods through his MPC at 160 BPM. This versatility and willingness to draw inspiration from different sources is evident throughout the New Start LP. The title track is sultry and soulful, with Rashad and Spinn's masterful influence clearly present. Don't Get Mad provides a stark contrast: a dancefloor-orientated hype track featuring an on point vocal by Gant-Man. Bussin featuring DJ Manny and DJ Tre sounds like a love letter from footwork to jungle music. Over on the flip side, we start off with AM Track: another beautifully crafted classic featuring DJ Rashad and Dj Spinn. In the Green Room featuring Dj Taye is a muscular, speaker-rattling West Coast jam, and Murda Bass takes its cue from golden era UK Dubstep. The heavily - filtered final notes of De Capo Al Coda featuring DJ Earl round off a diverse but consistently high quality outing from Taso and the Teklife family. Message from Taso: Thank you and much respect for supporting Teklife music. Without you there is no us. This record is dedicated to DJ Rashad and his family.'

Originally self-released in 1961 and later issued by Folkways, Tod Dockstader's Eight Electronic Pieces is a foundational document of American electronic music and a stunning first work from this revolutionary composer.

Refused access to the resources and funding of the academy and without any interest from the record industry, Dockstader assembled his debut album through three years of his own private labor - recording after-hours at the New York radio station where he worked. Dockstader's approach was informed by the laboratory experiments of his European contemporaries Edgar Varèse and Pierre Schaefer as well as by the aleatory compositional techniques and neo-dadaist aesthetics of John Cage.

While Dockstader famously described his music as "organized sound," Eight Electronic Pieces is not pure musique concrète. Oscillators pulse and clash with fragments of incidental tape music, leaving collages of sound as tuneful and memorable as they are otherworldly. A visionary debut that presages the abstract ambience of modern IDM and an essential addition to any collection of early electronic music.

The brainchild of visual artist Jordan Belson and electronics polymath Henry Jacobs, the Vortex Experiments ran from 1957 to 1960, first at San Francisco's Morrison Planetarium and later at the SF Museum of Art. The very name of these events announced their aim: a swirling totality of sensory experience. Around Belson's richly-colored visuals - making use of the planetarium's entire dome and featuring luminous, sharply geometric imagery projected through an array of devices - Jacobs ringed a system of roughly 40 multidirectional loudspeakers, each of which could be precisely controlled to produce, in the words of one reviewer, "a living theater of sound and light."

A landmark recording in the history of electronic tape music and an engrossing artifact of proto-psychedelia, Highlights Of Vortex gathers recordings designed for the Vortex system by Jacobs and collaborators David Talcott, William Loughborough and Gordon Longfellow. Source material including free improvisation, field recording, classical Indian instrumentation, West African polyrhythms and musique concrète is transmogrified through tape manipulation, atomizing swathes of reverb and delay, and other live and recorded effects, making dramatic use of the monumental Vortex soundsystem.

An unprecedented marriage of image and sound, Vortex Experiments exercised immeasurable impact on the imagination and practice of countless experimental visual and sonic artists so this album is a must for fans of such visionaries as Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad and Jack Smith.

'Heart' is visual artist Jesse Kanda's first musical release. 'OK, here is my humble attempt to try and put these songs in context .. to reflect and describe what they mean to me : 'Axolotl' is like a chant for giving it your best try. 'Womb' is maybe like the moment you're out and you hear the world unmuffled. 'Wings' is like a conversation .. maybe with yourself, maybe between two aspects of you, or with another spirit. 'Feline' is sensual like a courtship. 'Heart' is losing someone you love and your self. And on the sound of these melodies : My work might sometimes be coated with a layer of sharp pain like a blade to the eye or ears. But at the heart of it is always love, compassion, empathy. I think this coating is created to protect itself, like the walls of a womb, or armour. the same way that what's within us can protect itself and can be hard to crack. It's kinda in my nature to always try and turn this stuff inside out and expose it. Each of the songs on this EP have this quality. The melodies are treated to cut you like a serrated knife. But hopefully they are beautiful enough that you'd want to listen anyway. Thank you.'

Das britische Produzentenduo Letherette veröffentlicht sein lang erwartetes zweites Album auf Ninja Tune!
Das britische Produzentenduo Letherette veröffentlicht Ende November sein zweites Album "Last Night On The Planet" auf CD & Vinyl via Ninja Tune. Zehn Songs, die die volle Bandbreite zwischen Hip Hop, 80er R&B und straighten House bis hin zu deepen Downtempo-Momenten abdeckt. Neben Stones Throw's Pyramid Vritra finden sich auf dem Album auch Rap-Features von Rejjie Snow und Ubiquity Records' Jed & Luca.CD im Digipack, Die Erstauflage erscheint als gelbes 180g Vinyl inklusive - Downloadcode.

The second album for Anna von Hausswolff's label, Pomperipossa Records, by Mark Van Hoen & Mike Harding. Also featuring Anna von Hausswolff, Philip Jeck, Bethan Kellough, Charlie Campagna, Paul Haslinger, Marie Takahashi and Oleg Belyaev. Limited to 500 copies.

oleg belyaev - baroque 'cello charlie campagna - 'cello paul haslinger - piano phiip jeck - pulse bethan kellough - violin, viola marie takahashi - baroque viola anna von hausswolff - voices

baritone guitar & cymbals dulcimer & psaltery field recordings lorenz cipher machine 1877 henry willis organ (union chapel) short wave

Debut record from Group Zero (Cathal Cully - Girls Names). Using synthesizers and drum machines, 'Structures And Lights' glistens with subtle Euro sophistication - pairing cold-wave optimism alongside freaky and brutal tracks for the more open-minded DJs and dancefloors. Written, recorded and mixed intermittently over four years, the narrative of 'Structures And Light' is bound by a deepening connection with electronics, instrumentation, and the studio. With no imminent touring schedule or release deadlines, Cully built a modest home setup and began producing on his own again - It was as an exercise in my own development and it was fun. It brought the naivety and spontaneity back to making music'. Initially, it was for his personal consumption alone - selfishly indulgent. In fact, this first collection of Group Zero music - along with a library of other ideas and sketches - was thought to be eternally lost and all but forgotten until a chance conversation with Touch Sensitive led to the tracks being salvaged and subsequently restored. The genesis of this newly discovered musical freedom coincided with a viewing of 'Pyramid of Light' by Heinz Mack from the post-war Dusseldorf based Group Zero art movement which resonated deeply. It stirred up questions and emotions which I could not get from a book or a screen. It was the direct relation between me, the light and the physical object hanging on the wall. New moments of beauty locked in the memory. I was in awe.' Cully was also taking influence from a range of contemporary electronic producers - on labels such as LIES, Diagonal, Optimo Music, Blackest Ever Black, and PAN: These records felt as much in keeping with post-punk traditions and my own DIY background whilst tapping into the primitive ideas of masters such as Cluster, Suicide, Malaria! and the proto-techno of pre-club music.' Just as a structure obscures or reflects light furnishing us with new ways of seeing, the propulsive rhythms in 'Structures And Light' reveal subtle differences on each repeated cycle. This is music to go away from and travel to. Here's a record from a Belfast bedroom that sounds nothing like the city, past or present. It's made with synths and drum machines, and it glistens with subtle Euro sophistication. Day breaks: dig those fast linear movements and rhythms ('The Fantasist'). Then fall for the unexpected guitar line in 'Pursuit', a gentle kind of cold wave optimism. Night heals: there's 'pummelling repetition' here too, for the club freaks or shut-ins. Slow, industrial shocks that give way to 'Pyramid of Light's stark new-age burst. It's a record for the present - full of gorgeous themes that dream unwired.'

Few artists have the ability to totally seduce over a few spins like Italy's Herva. What may seem messy at first listen starts to fall into sharper definition and 'Hyper Flux' makes a very strong case for being his most seductive and mature record yet. The album has dismantled the broken beats of his early records and drifts, dives and shivers, its beats blended into the haze, everything approached from unusual angles with none of the music sounding entirely digital as it smudges between manipulated live instrumentation and field recordings coupled with synthesis and space - there's a warm heart at the centre of this music. Of making the album he says I challenged myself to play real instruments. I have a lot of guitars and weird acoustic instruments at my home and also my Dad's. He's primarily a guitarist and an inventor of instruments, so I have lots of those. Anyway I'm not a pro but I'm able to play drums quite well and I'm not that bad on guitars and bass too, but the weirdo instruments are the best, you are even more free to reinvent how to play them since no one else knows how to.' The deep ambience of the albums opener 'Esotic Energy' melts into the shivering 4/4 pulses of 'Jitter'. 'Nasty MF' pits a sludgy house beat against rough vocal samples whose aggression is disarmed by bell-like melodies, matching one earthiness for another. 'Rule The Sun' melts pattering drums and distorted chords with distant piano, while 'Multicone' takes things down with relaxing undulating chords and clicks and cuts. The centrepiece of the album is the space cruise of 'Lly Spirals' which sounds like early 80s boogie blasted into the stratosphere. Things start to get weird with 'Solar Xub's drifting jazz, punctuated with scratchy beats and noise. 'Cops Twerk' is a rattling piece of uptempo techno with flickering rave chords and a vocal that sounds like police radio whereas 'Peach' is a bristling piece of ambient house, all reverbed hits and reversed stabs over a scuttling broken drum kit. 'Dedicated' featuring the vocals of Mar G. balances loose chords and a reversed break against her plaintive, striking vocal. Hyper Flux finishes the way it started, with the distorted chords of 'Zykmed', echoing dust and hiss played out over a gentle nostalgic melody.

Swindle is a multi instrumentalist, producer and DJ from London. He has self released his music as far back as 2006, and featured in many projects between then and his debut album that came via Mala's Deep Medi in 2013. 'Long Live The Jazz' established Swindle on the global circuit as a DJ and Live Act. The follow up 'Peace Love & Music' in 2015 documented his global travel from London to LA, Cape Town to Tokyo and Shanghai to Glasgow. Featuring TC, Flowdan, Terri Walker and more, it landed with rave reviews, and the breakout track 'Mad Ting' feat JME became his most successful song to date. The spirit of this continues with Swindle's next project 'A Trilogy In Funk'. Three EPs, showing three sides to his tastes and talents. Part One is three tracks recorded while in Sao Paolo, Brazil with local musicians while on tour in September. Part Two is inspired by his roots in the London Grime scene, collaborating with veteran MCs D Double E and Ghetts. Part Three is something that his followers have long waited for, a straight up P-Funk project, recorded in LA. Across the three projects, they encompass styles that you normally couldn't pin to one artist, but Swindle's unmistakable energy powers through all of them. As always, he backs his musical depth with strong visuals, documenting the process of how these records came together, giving an insight into his process from the studio to the release. 2016 has seen him continue touring his live band across festivals like Glastonbury, Love Supreme, Boomtown and Shambala, while DJing alongside his Butterz label mates at their fabric residency in London and beyond.

Clark verschnürt auf "Death Peak" die verschiedenen Stränge seines bisherigen Outputs, wenn er die euphorischen Melodien und Rhythmen der Warehouse-Raves mit neuen Gesangs- und Chor-Arrangements verknüpft. "Death Peak" legt somit das Spannungsfeld offen, auf dem Clarks musikalisches Vokabular basiert: "Ich liebe es einfach, diesen Wendepunkt zu finden zwischen zwei Gegensätzen - die Stelle, an der es kippt. Meine Tracks sollen scharfe Zähne haben, aber man soll sie trotzdem auch noch streicheln wollen. Sie klingen klassisch, uralt, aber scheinen aus der Zukunft hierher gebeamt zu sein, sanft und doch zerstörerisch."

Nach den R&B-Talenten Kelela und Dawn Richard präsentiert uns der in L.A. ansässige Produzent und Fade To Mind-Labelbetreiber Kingdom nun sein eigenes Debütalbum. Auf "Tears In The Club" realisiert er anhand 11 schrägen Uptempo-Bangern, düster-atmosphärichen Instrumentals und erotisch-melancholischen Soundscapes seine Vision von Leftfield-Pop und Club-R&B. Mit Vocalfeatures von u.a. SZA, Sängerin der TDE Band, und Syd, Mitglied der Odd Future-Familie und der Neo-Soul-Band The Internet.

Kid Koala's "Music To Draw To: Satellite" is an uncharted musical 72- minutes journey for the legendary scratch DJ, producer, and composer. Kid Koala's fifth studio album is filled with vast ambient soundscapes and chilling ballads sung by Icelandic artist Emilíana Torrini and is his first longplayer for the Canadian label Arts & Crafts following four previous ones for UK's Ninja Tune.

Kid Koala's "Music To Draw To: Satellite" is an uncharted musical journey for the legendary scratch DJ, producer, and composer. Kid Koala's fifth studio album is filled with vast ambient soundscapes and chilling ballads sung by Icelandic artist milíana Torrini. Set in the gelid Montreal winter, its eighteen movements tell a tale of discovery and loss through the lens of lovers separated by a one-way journey to settle Mars. An album of many
firsts for Eric San, this inaugural volume in the "Music To Draw To" series features Kid Koala collaborating with a vocalist, writing lyrical poetry, and producing and performing all instruments. "Satellite" is the renowned audio-collagist's first non-sample-based record, instead using an array of synthesizers, keys, guitars, strings, turntables, noisemakers and San's
inventive recording techniques to lay out a heartrending musical story. The output is in stark, beautiful comparison an ambient masterpiece: over 72 atmospheric minutes of stardust settling over Kid Koala's trove of turntablesand sentiment.

- Asterix Music has collaborated with artist such as Planet Asia, Sadat X, M.C Eiht and Tray Dee - For the past few years Asterix has been at the forefront of the modern funk movement, his new offering 'Cupid's Arrow' has gained traction with the use acetates distributed to key DJ's worldwide - Music videos for both songs on this single to be released in conjunction with a web and print campaign - Video for 'Let Your body Show You How' features some of the world's best poppers (Kid Boogie, Popping John) - Plan on releasing a second 7' single in mid 2017 followed by a full length album titled '4130 Chromolly Way' Funk is a dish best served hot and these two modern funk anthems are bound to get your body temperature up.'Cupid's Arrow' recounts a tale of genuine love at first sight over an infectious synth funk groove, it's honest and true to life content make it very relate-table to anyone who has been awestruck by a woman's beauty. 'Let'Your Body Show you How' is an up-tempo modern funk tune that covers the story of a young man who conquers a high school crush after a chance meeting. The songs hypnotic bass line and hard-hitting drums are well complemented by Asterix Music's silky vocals.

As humans, we are aware of our inner beast and should therefore be able to control it. We understand our hard-wired primal urges and why they exist in an evolutional sense. We understand the relationship between mind and body. Highly evolved and intelligent, we should be able to recognize these genetic hangovers and control them as a means to act positively and move forward as a compassion-ate species. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Recent global events have proven this. The human race is consuming itself.World Eater, the new album by Benjamin John Power's Blanck Mass project, is a reaction to this. There is an underlying violence and anger throughout the record, even though some of these tracks are the closest Power has ever come to writing, in his words, actual love songs.' Maybe subconsciously this was some kind of countermeasure to restore some personal balance,' Power explains. On World Eater, Power further perfects the propulsive, engrossing electronic music he has created throughout his impressive decade-plus career, both under the Blanck Mass moniker and as one-half of Fuck Buttons, as he elaborates upon the sound of 2015's brilliant double album Dumb Flesh. As massive as the sonic world of the new record often feels, its greatest achievement is in its maximization of a limited set of tools, a restriction intentionally set by Power himself. As an exercise in better understanding myself musically, I found myself using an increasingly restricted palette during the World Eater creative process. Evoking these intense emotions using minimal components really put me outside of my comfort zone and was unlike the process I am used to. Feeling exposed shone a new light on this particular snapshot. I feel enriched for doing so.'

Next up on Deep Distance (following the sold-out-in-a-day Sula Bassana LP) is a fabulous newly expanded -first time on vinyl- double LP set of Colin Potter's seminal 1980 cassette only release The Ghost Office'.

The label is gradually working through Colin's revered back catalogue of cassette only releases, with previous titles The Scythe' and Two Nights' selling out instantly. His run of half of a dozen home recorded, DIY / minimal synth cassettes between 1980 and 1982 is rightly granted legendary status, influencing a slew of home produced DIY experimental electronic artists and all attaining high collectors' prices online for original copies. So these LP sets filled out with all manner of unreleased cuts, demos and excluded tracks truly are a treat.

The Ghost Office , was his first full release. It was recorded on 4 track tape at the very first location of IC Studio, in the small village of Sutton-on-the-Forest, north of York.

In Colin's own words: The cassette initially appeared on the Mirage label and this release has been remastered and edited to include all but one of the tracks, the missing piece being removed in the interests of health and safety. In addition there are extra tracks that appeared on compilations or taken from the vaults.'

Nowadays Colin is a longterm member of Nurse With Wound and has worked with Current 93, Ora, Organum and many others, and has run the esteemed ICR label for over 35 years now. The interest in all of Colin's work remains incredibly high and this welcome vinyl reissue is a must for longterm fans or newcomers.

This double LP, with artwork by Jonathan Coleclough (who did the original layout, all those years ago) is an edition of 400 copies and is expected to sell out quick....

Skint Records kündigt mit dem Album "The Invention Of Loneliness" von Sailor & I eine spannende Elektro-Dance-Pop-Veröffentlichung an. Der schwedische Sänger, Produzent und Multiinstrumentalist Alexander Sjödin stellt jedoch nicht den klassischen Archetypen eines Musikschaffenden in der elektronischen Musikwelt dar. Vielmehr begibt sich der Schwede unter dem Namen Sailor & I in das Territorium von Sigur Ros und Bon Iver, die für ihr anspruchsvolles, fein abgestimmtes und melancholisches Songwriting bekannt sind.

YZ - not to be confused with the rapper - sings Kaifa, a poem by Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi (circa 1710-1783). YZ's fine, melismatic style is underscored by hypnotic, arpeggiated synthesizer riffs, while the darker B side blends more sufi poetry with a stripped down hard beat. Additional arrangement, recorded and mixed by, d.trep, at Kilohertz Club, Brussels.

Housed in a picture sleeve designed by the artist, with an insert containing more artwork, lyrics and English translation. Mastered by Mike Grinser at D&M

Among Downwards' most recent wave of new flesh, Grebenstein emerged as one of the legendary label's most sullen mutants on a crushing, eponymous debut in 2014, and now
again with this highly stylish, unrepentant brace of drum 'n synth noise pressure. This one's a total killer, especially recommended if you're into HTRK, Raime or Fever Ray.
Depending what angle you survey it from, Strong Proud Stupid and Superior is either industrial techno trained by drill kids, neofolk drone, or the sound of machines coming to kill their human oppressors.
On the A-side Grebenstein harnesses the hollow-eyed, starkly detached vocals of Seefried in a signature, slow demonstration of detached Cold Wave, with a narrative arc that
encompasses intimate confession and paranoid internal impulses sounding something like like a petrified version of HTRK via Andrea Parker's classic Ballbreaker material.
The other two parts feature Joscha Bauer and are texturally more rich and aestehtically subdued, starting with the swelling drone discord of Grauer03, sounding like Cut Hands slowed down by 1000%, before inverting the aesthetic to a far more impending sort of stygian doom with the squashed bombast trudge of Grauer04.

With a path spent traversing between self-illumination and inner turmoil, Gypsy Mamba continues to persevere forward. He is one of California's most raw and uncompromising electronic artists and rips open new portals of energy during his live performances. Signing with Alpha Pup Records last year for the release of Da Feenux, Gypsy Mamba will soon launch out of the gates with his sophomore record Magnetic Syndromes. Gypsy Mamba has crafted his most dynamic and personal record to date. As the title suggests, Magnetic Syndromes is the sonic description of a life filled with unpredictable changes, carved out from the lens intensive view of Gypsy Mamba's life. It can also be seen outside of the artist, defining the inner conflicts many conquer in their lifetime. Gypsy Mamba finds a battleground between the darkness and the light in Magnetic Syndromes. A unique music environment where tracks fluctuate between the frenetic and the subdued. It's all pulled off with a wild array of colors and rhythms that can't be associated to any other artist. Looking at the new album in context of his career and Magnetic Syndromes can be broken down into a system of trial and error. A level of truth Gypsy Mamba accumulated as he interacted with the people helping to bring his music to the masses and the support that has followed thereafter. Following the release of Da Feenux last year, recordings for Magnetic Syndromes took place immediately at Gypsy Mamba's home studio. Makan of Bür Gür and Kelley Mak add vocal treatment, giving the record an undeniable transformation that his music has never seen before. The LP showcases a more complex side to Gypsy Mamba's usual approach, infusing Reason 8 and their built-in VST's that's a fresh take on the popular music technology. On a handful of the tracks, synth solo's flare well outside of the base and find home in a more lyrical terrain, projecting the soul of Gypsy Mamba in a way that takes the music to new worlds. The tracks move in and out of bass heavy club anthems to thought provoking ambient pop pieces. The energy is constantly morphing, retracting and expanding, much like the process Gypsy took on purging many areas of his life to find true happiness.

DJ Support: Pinch, Mumdance, Logos, Slimzee, Youngsta, Loefah and many more

* Combining forces once again, Pinch & Mumdance return to deadly form, this time alongside legendary grime MC, Riko Dan. A dangerous combination all round...

* 'Big Slug' hits hard, no doubt - definitely not for the faint hearted! Ice-cold atmospherics set the mood in the intro, with a racing hat line to keep pace. Riko calls the track in, ready for the drop... Bang - and - in comes a seriously weighty b-line, with Riko going full blaze on the mic, dropping his calling-card war lyrics, raging in full-on slaughter mode. The track builds and ebbs, laced with paranoid sci-fi sonics throughout and Riko holding court, on great form. Deep, dark and deadly 128bpm soundclash war rhythm.

* Flip then for the instrumental track 'Lucid Dreaming' by Pinch & Mumdance, taking the spirit of the rave into a new direction. Pounding 126bpm beats and distorting kick drums build and release as searing hi-hats charge overhead. A voice from another world chimes in to instruct and advice, taking you into a psychotic trance.

After the release of his third full length "Foray" (2015) and "Trails" (2016) SUBHEIM returns with his first cooperation release.

"Conviction" is the first collaboration of multifaceted electronic artists MONOLOG ("an impressively detailed assault on the senses" TEXTURA) and SUBHEIM ("Sometimes gloomy, and sometimes lush, but always sweeping and atmospheric" INTRO).

With "Conviction", Monolog and Subheim merge two worlds together by using the same creative triggers: Berlin's night sky, the urban scenery, faces and places, action and reaction, the calm before the storm as well as the storm itself. Monolog brings structure with with his unique, unforgiving drum rhythms and heavy basslines while Subheim contributes fragile melodic undertones and lush ambiences to the whole.

"Conviction" is intentionally imperfect. It symbolizes the acceptance of its creators' very human nature: sometimes relentless and sometimes serene, a calm force that thrusts them forward like sea waves in winter. It's dark and heavy yet full of light and hope, expressing the closing of important chapters and the beginning of new ones.

New solo LP from Kyiv, Ukraine-based sound designer Heinali. Crushing waves of distortion that bring to mind Ben Frost or Oneohtrix Point Never surround radiant sound-design in the mould of Jon Hopkins or Andy Stott. Pulsing, fluttering synth-worlds like those of Emeralds or Popol Vuh orbit through a galaxy of texture not unlike Clint Mansell's Moon score. Heinali - Oleg Shpudeiko - recently constructed the acclaimed soundtrack to PlayStation's 2016 videogame Bound. Much of his commercial and commissioned work for film, television and dance (dating back to 2009) evokes the string-orientated subtlety and tenderness of Ludovico Einaudi, Max Richter or film score great Hans Zimmer. In November 2016 his score - described as a stunning electronic soundscape' - for A Thread by choreographer Jean Abreu was performed at London's prestigious Southbank Centre. Anthem was mastered by Taylor Deupree of 12k Mastering. Second physical release for the newly-launched Injazero Records, run by two ex-FatCat staffers. A truly complete work, a story with a beginning, a middle and an end, and like all good stories, it leaves you with a sense of joy, the joy of knowing you have just experienced something unique and beautiful.' A Closer Listen Achingly, longingly beautiful.' Terrorizer
Its brilliance lies in its authority to get inside your heart and suspend you in awe.' Sea of Tranquility

Following Synkro AKA Joe McBride 2015's stellar debut album 'Changes', Apollo Recordings is proud to present a collection of his formative early works. Originally released on scene stalwart labels such as Smokin' Sessions, Blackout, Box Clever, Med School and Exit Records, these tracks displays the music that forged his career tracking his progression up to signing to Apollo. Despite having come up during the dubstep era McBride's music has always resisted easy classification - winding together such diverse influences as Boards Of Canada, dBridge, Burial and Oneohtrix Point Never, whilst still remaining utterly unique. The trademark warm sonics, and emotive melodies that were ever-present in 'Changes' are in strong evidence here - lush pads, ambient/balearic washes and soulful vocals, underpinned by a skeleton of tough, crisp beats. What is most surprising and captivating about 'Early Works' is just how consistent McBride's sonic vision remains - melancholic, cinematic, soothing yet vital - his is a strong and truly unique voice nearly a decade into his career.
(CD only release)

Electronic - Instrumental Hip Hop. Pressed on flamingo pink vinyl. Download includes bonus album Raw Light II. Botany has worked with Father John Misty, Mndsgn, Milo, Balmorhea and many others. ... alternatingly danceable and meditative psychedelia...carefully constructed and satisfying...' PITCHFORK // ...ominous, warm and absolutely thunderous...glorious synthesis of dusty hip-hop vibes and cosmic free jazz spirit.' GORILLA VS. BEAR // ...badass...a pretty epic journey all around.' FADER // Under the Botany moniker, Spencer Stephenson creates rich psychological and emotional experiences through audio. His music is a thoughtful attempt to convey the non-verbal through his particular mental prism, where sounds have potent symbolism in ways that are all but forgotten in the hermetic modern world. He explains, Sounds have archetypal connections to things in nature the same way visual symbols do. Low-end might be associated with thunder, or the sound of a mother's heartbeat as heard from inside the womb, or an approaching stampede, or earthquake. Low-end generally indicates something bigger and more powerful than you. Treble sounds indicate something deadly rattling through foliage or something vital like water flowing close by. Reverberation has a connection to the holy and transcendent, it implies spatial largeness. It's fun to hear these symbols coming out of ear-buds in a world where they aren't useful on a daily basis, but are still so subconsciously powerful." Though Stephenson sees these constituent signi­ers, he has a holistic vision of music "...functioning as a single pulsating thing, instead of a band with distinct parts," which parallels his idea of the universe as an ever emergent, single conscious entity-- a concept he ­nds spiritually gratifying, and one that's pervasive in his music. On Dimming Awe, the Light is Raw, the 28-year-old producer and composer continues dissolving the borders between his disparate-yet-beloved psych, hip hop, and ambient influences. Album standout "Au Revoir,' is a shimmering piece of sampler-psychedelia that bolsters verses by rapper Milo, and gracefully leads into the drum-less hum and crackle of Birthjays'. Matthewdavid—the high-priest of ambient bass himself—lends a rare vocal feature to the uplifting burner Glow-up" while the electro-inspired Bad CGI' stitches Bambaataa chants and sci-­ flutters to a shamanic pulse, then morphs into a late-night opiated channel-sur­ng montage, and the seams rarely appear. Unlike his previous album Lava Diviner (Truestory), which peaked and valley-ed through a narrative arc, Dimming Awe focuses on the artist's ever-unfolding, present state of mind. As a former jazz student, spiritual/free jazz philosophy regarding what he calls emergent' music has increasingly become a guiding light when he creates.

We're proud to reissue KR03, the debut LP of skewed electronica from Canterbury producer B£AMS. Brimming with warm washes of drone, Patches morphs through stoned hip-hop to gospel and highlife. Densely layered percussion, drunk synth, lost voices and temporal distortion flit in and out of earshot, inducing a joyful lostness. Riding this sea of colourful wooz, B£AMS channels Madlib, Delroy Edwards and Matthew Dear with stumbling ADHD enthusiasm.

Occupying a colder, unheimlich universe, the flip side sees B£AMS dredging sea caves for dense undulations of jazz-infused drone, while marshalling armies of static from somewhere above the clouds. Hypnotic mantras, eroded landscapes and encoded loops are run through analogue tape equipment, à la Matthew David or Leyland Kirby, as he collates the muttered instructions for some gestalt machine.

Limited edition vinyl LP + CD

In the summer of 2016 HOVE went to France for two weeks to start writing and recording his new EP «Portes du Soleil». Together with his girlfriend they spent two weeks at Le Pascalet, a house in the woods of the Cevennes, right outside the small village of St. Etienne Valle´e Franc¸aise. Equipped with a sampler, a drum-machine, some synths, effect pedals and a mic for feld- recordings, he built the foundation of the 4 Songs that would later become the EP «Portes du Soleil». All the songs started out as live-jams. The goal was to create different moods and patterns inspired by the surroundings of the forest, long walks, playing petanque and plenty of Pastis. The tracks were later fnalized back home at HOVE's studio in Zurich. Musically «Portes du Soleil» feels like the natural follow up to his debut EP «Journey to Arendal». HOVE's tracks are wavering between sozzled grooves and warm, woozy atmospheres. Field- recordings from their daily routine in and around the house were either used to enrich the ambiance, or as in «Calme Infni», they were transformed into a whole song. Even though «Portes du Soleil» was written during the summer, the record is not bound to any season - It is simply an excerpt of HOVE's life in 2016.

The second instalment of Sasha : Scene Delete Remixes sees Max Cooper and Matthew Dear provide club versions of two tracks from 'Scene Delete', Sasha's ambient/soundtrack project inspired by Nils Frahm, Max Richter and Steve Reich.

Multi-genre producer Max Cooper uses emotional dance floor experimentation to take album opener 'Channel Deq' towards deep melodic territory while 'Pontiac' is transformed beyond recognition by Matthew Dear (and Audion) into a warped techno freak out. 'Scene Delete' will be taken live in two sold out shows at London's Barbican Centre in May, with Sasha joined on stage by a small chamber ensemble performing the album as one brooding, undulating piece. The second half of the concert sees Sasha perform new interpretations of tracks from across his career. keeping the essence of what made those songs so distinct while twisting them into new shapes.

Seething, thrilling, hypnotic dance music, in the mighty tradition of Carl Craig's Bug In The Bass Bin. Two constantly shifting blends of Belfi's richly rhythmic snare-work with stately drones and shimmering electronica. Themes and traces constantly loom and recede, underpinned by a deep, pulsating bass drum, and tautened by a widescreen sense of drama (with Morricone in mind). ('Cera persa', in Italian, 'casa perdue', in French: 'lost-wax' or 'investment' casting, by which a sculpture is duplicated.)

Cassette (Pro-printed jelly red cassette housed in a clear double case w/ exclusive silkscreen printed cover-art + postcard with extra download code)Inspired by the famed diagrams and geometric theories of the eponymous Russian mathematician coming from the cold Russian Empire in mid-1800, Matteo Nobile and Luca Scarrone experience, through Voronoi, the changing relationship between sound, structure and space.
In a continuous metric and formal deconstruction, the duo literally 'debunks' and 're-assemble' the musical narrative following a kind of probabilistic calculation that balances sound and rhythm in a seemingly chaotic geometry. As for the Russian mathematician's theories (nowadays used in wireless wave propagation, geo- location systems, graphic modelling and research procedures used for commercials, indexes and cookies) the result is absolutely contemporary.With a track-list that sounds like a cataloguing of experiments, this debut EP by Voronoi opens with V2' in which disrupted synths arpeggios seem to seek refuge into rhythmic clusters that constantly build up and then collapse, bringing the track into different scenarios. An exhausting duel between scientific rigour and raw improvisation leads V3' up to the middle section , where the whole thing turns into a dense hazy down tempo groove that dilates and leads the listener into a more comfortable zone'. Free from preconfigured sequences and grids, follows V4' with its hybrid sounds and asymmetrical rhythms, the track, after a series of schizophrenic upheavals, reaches its climax towards the end where an anxious build-up definitely sets Voronoi's style into those hard to classify. V1' closes this series of musical experiments delivering a sense of unfinished, a vibrating mass full of perspective, as if to present the potential inertia of this project. Matteo Noble (1983) studied music at DAMS in Bologna where he approached the lively experimental local scene and began collaboration with BRTNY. After graduating in music production, he moved to Milan where he established audio / video project "Bellagio Bellagio" with artist Natalia TREJBALOVÁ (who is also responsible of Voronoi's cover-art).

Luca Scarrone (1978) is a trained musician with a double bass degree and a jazz education, finalist for the Jazz Junior Krakow. He grew interest in electronics and electro-acoustic music with projects "Urban Casbah" and "Lower, and consequently embarked on a journey of musical experimentation through the use of software such as Logic, Ableton Live, Max / MSP and Pure Data.

Pro-printed jelly red cassette housed in a clear double case w/ exclusive silkscreen printed cover-art + postcard with extra download code to send to a friend designed by artist Natalia TREJBALOVÁ, realized by Legno. Includes 2 free download codes. Limited Edition of 50.

Mirrors is the second album by endlessly influential South London producer Mala. It follows his 2012 Brownswood release where Gilles Peterson invited the producer to soak up Cuba's music and culture to turn the results into Mala In Cuba. But Mirrors is less Mala In Cuba Mk II and more the realisation of a creative method that works for this most understated and intuitive producer: digging deep into the roots of a culture, recording local musicians and sounds, and using the recordings as source material and storyboard for a record.

The product of repeated visits to dive into Peru's music, it revolves around tempo and flow, working local Afro-Peruvian percussionists, grassroots tap dancers and an Andean soprano into its fourteen tracks. Mala went there for a month, visiting Lima along with Cusco and the Sacred Valley just outside of the capital. I was introduced to music from the jungle, music from the mountains, Andean sounds, native sounds, Afro-Peruvian music,' says Mala. It all goes back to the roots and the rhythms and I related instantly. That primal rhythm is in all of us.'

Dancers bring another sound to Mirrors' palette. Colectivo Palenke are masters of Peru's stomping battle-dance, zapateo, and their feet-first percussion graces the track titled 'Sabateo'. On 'Sound of the River', meanwhile, you can hear field recordings of a stream running through the Sacred Valley and soprano-anthropologist Sylvia Falcon. It's a fragile and human performance that soothes and uplifts in equal measure, and it's a most subtle production.

Mirrors is a bridge joining Croydon and Lima. It creates a link between traditional instruments made from donkey jawbone and dried-out pumpkins and the contemporary box of tricks inside Mala's laptop. Like all bridges it links the past to the present, giving a clear view of where Mala has been - and where he's going next.

Distal has a nice bit of history already carved out for himself over the past 8 years. After his first release on Soul Jazz he followed things up by releasing on such known labels as Tectonic, Fabric, Om, and most recently Brodinski's Bromance imprint. Distal's collaborated with such greats as Chicago legend Dj Rashad (RIP!), Pinch and one of the godfathers of the dubstep movement 'Silkie'. Distal has successfully completed a couple tours throughout the globe including South America, Europe, Japan and Mexico. The thing about Distal releases is that you never really know what kind of styles you're gonna get, but it's alway's curated to perfection. Distal makes sure every track fits together perfectly regardless of style or emotive qualities. Each release is fine tuned like a neurotic painter and because of this is always very "colorful".

For the fourth release on Anarchostar Distal brings it with 'Psychomagic' a metaphysical cocktail of sub heavy and often emotive club tracks. Psychomagic shines a light on the strengths of every genre it delves into. Psychomagic includes everything from funky 2step, techno, Chicago Hard House, and even Juke. Played on RinseFM, SubFM, NTS & Radar. Dj Support and airplay from Machinedrum, Cooly G, Etch and DMC world champion Dj Shiftee.

No one flips it like A-Trak. His limited edition box set In The Loop: A Decade Of Remixes commemorates twelve of Trizzy's most notable remixes - from blog favorites to festival smashes - on six 7" colored vinyl singles in custom sleeves, all housed in a beautiful collector's box. The wax is accompanied by a 32 page booklet featuring original artwork and A-Trak's behind-the-scenes stories on each remix, making In The Loop a must have for any FG fan, #RealDJing enthusiast or forward-thinking music lover in your life. Pre-order it now & read an interview with A-Trak on Forbes.

Manuell gestempelte 12" White Label-Auflage des exklusiven Bonustracks der japanischen Pressung des "Syro" Albums, "MARCHCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96". Die B-Seite enthält eine neue Version des Albumtracks "XMAS_EVET10 (120)(thanaton3 mix)" sowie einen Alternativmix der A-Seite. Aphex Twin weiterhin in produktiver Hochform!

New 2-tracker by Inigo Kennedy! Moody, fragile electronix on the A-side and a fast-paced techno/dubstep cut on the B-side make sure this 12'' will suit both the collectors and the DJ's.

Jlin returns with the first fruits of her new work since last years 'Free Fall' EP. 'Dark Lotus' is a transition between 'Dark Energy', her debut album, and her forthcoming 'Black Origami' full-length. A-side 'The Return of the Blvck Rxbbit (ft. Avril Stormy Unger)' is the more traditional of the two tracks, starting off proceedings with a constantly switching rhythmic structure and a stop-start sweeping hoover stab panning between the speakers, descending bleeps and Avril's vocals cut into shapes and pushed through effects.

B-side 'Nyakinyua Rise' races headlong into uncharted territory, with a fierce barrage of djembe drums over pounding bass, punchy war cries and jubilant uluations that paint a tension between hot aggression and weightless ecstasy.

Age Coin's newest recording, 'Performance,' drenches industrial-infused techno in high definition details, divining a cracked bump & flex from the condensation of a joyride. With a handful of tapes on Posh Isolation, as well as an album on Luke Younger's Alter, Kristian Emdal and Simon Formann have developed a project whose momentum and reputation has steadily escalated, finding common ground between electro-acoustic methods and quantised club nights. Both Emdal and Formann are best known as members of Lower (RIP), and both have since continued to devote themselves to a series of projects in the band's wake. Emdal has lately pivoted his time around Marching Church, a band comprised of some of Copenhagen's finest, whilst Formann has been working under the guise of Yen Towers, releasing his debut 12" on Posh Isolation earlier this year. "Trespassing on intimate territory," says Emdal of their new recording, Age Coin "cuts a transparent path for everyone to come walking." "The album is ultimately a joint effort to process past as well as present experiences within father son relations. In order to make things tangible, scenes are drawn from memory and merged in a shared fictional collage." 'Performance' thrillingly presents Emdal and Formann in a new cryptically lush aspect. There is a sense that one is watching a slide show—familiarity motions like the tide in the form of acoustic instrumentation, and porous synthesized terrains are crossed with a feeling, not a map, nor a memory. As one watches, the creeping ambience comes to be less an invasive sensation and more of a gravitational pull through time itself. It's as effortless as it is disorientating, like being stalked by a relic. Propellants ascend in to the foreground from all directions. Rhythmic NO2 afterglow comes in waves in reverse. Weightlessness is induced, and rebound. "Take in the view or let yourself be part of the language. Let the engine run and dip in to the swampy collective intelligence. 'Performance' is a hybrid memorial for all domestic actions committed in the name of love."

!! Please note the LP version is 8 tracks and includes *** plus
The Confidence Man (The Emperor Machine Dub)
Ghosts Again (Scott Fraser Ghosts In The Piano Mix) !!
If 'Convenanza', released in February, was a distillation of all Andrew Weatherall's influences in one place then 'Consolamentum' takes that instinct a step further. Here he invites friends old and new to rework the tracks from Convenanza in their own style.On board are redoubtable musical architects such as David Holmes (under his new 'Unloved' guise), Justin Robertson (wearing his 'Deadstock 33s' hat) and the legendary Bernard Fevre of Black Devil Disco Club notoriety.
Leading the charge by the new guard are Heretic, Red Axes, Solar Bears and Vox Low whose tracks have twisted into existence a quiet storm on ALFOS nights.

Benoit B returns to Banlieue for the imprints third 12"! Scatter gun arpeggios ride on top of bolstered machine rhythms. Sitting somewhere between techno and experimental electro this EP is Benoit B's most accomplished material to date.