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NF's next switch includesAnew music by australian's native funk Inkswel. Presenting a side jungle adventure mini album entitled "Secret River". Including six new tracks diving between old and nu waves of hip hop, funk, boogie and brilliant alien house. Featuring deluxe guest vocals by John Robinson, Randolph and Danielsan. Dizziness guaranteed. Tip!

Debut solo release from Midnight Circuitry, showing a dark, polished amethyst with aromatic notes of white pepper, tobacco, and black currant; silky with a palate of dark plums, black raspberry, and hints of French vanilla. Closes with subtle tart black cherry and a lengthy, structural finish.

'Versus' flows from the innovative and inspiring collaborators that have run with the label's energy during our first two years out On the Corner. The A-side 'South of the River' is a diverse collection of versions that all riff loosely from Collocutor's 'Instead'. The flip gives 'the door to the cosmos' a firm knocking with experimental vibe and outer-national electronica. Radio Play has come from Radio 1 (Benji B), 6Music (Gilles Peterson), Radio 3 (Nick Luscomb) and hyped digital services such as KCRW, NTS, Radar, BCR, La Mellotron, Rinse and 22Tracks.

The 12" begins with The Expansions (London's primal funk 4-piece, gettin' up-and-into the time of 'Gozo', squaring it 'up' and pushing-on with a smoked groove. The psyche elements land it in the territories of Karl Hector's cinematic desert ambling.

If FYI Chris doesn't urge you to move with 'Loop Thriller' then go grab a Doctor.

Al Dobson Jr's, indica haze envelops the low-slung groove of 'Agama'. This beat has been lauded as an 'Underground Smash' and has garnered international support on scenes far and wide.

BodyMoves' stripped-back approach reveals the percussive textures behind 'Archaic Morning' and nimbly amplifies the hip rhythm with subtle ear-warping techno frequencies.

The FLIP continues with collaborations from our first two years whilst taking the sound further-out, across-borders and up-through the 'spheres.

Black Classical - this elusive internet otherkin is renowned for his epic spiritual jazz and Sun Ra radio shows makes a wax debut for OtC with 'Running the Voodoo Down', "a blistering percussive thunder cascades over heady carnival vibes to raise even the recently departed".

Petwo Evans take on the experimental Fiium Shaark's devastating 'Bogan Sunrise' and plunge the depths with their formaldehyde remix grinding out a subterranean boom.

Group As Salaam. 'L'burgh l'burgh' - a traditional Saharan folk number urging action by 'rolling up your sleeves'. Label Boss and curator Pete OntheCorner shared his Group as Salaam desert sessions with drummer/producer Rich Thair (Auntie Flo / Red Snapper) who is the first to vibe with this hypnotic desert band.

Emanative under the Antoine Abayomi guise provides a grime-laden tropical-bass banger that was the first remix from 'Instead' to be championed by Gilles Peterson. The Emanative, Collocutor and Earl Zinger combo that cast the label into being in 2013 have just warmed-up the earthly sprites that stepped-out to see the hyped Kamasi Washington in Berlin.c

Teklife Records are excited to announce their second release called : Open your Eyes by DJ Earl. From the opening notes of Smoke that Reggie and throughout the 8 track record, DJ Earl lays down expertly crafted footwork rhythms filled with wavey synths and killer vocal hooks. Every track on Open Your Eyes is a collaboration- as DJ Earl teams up with other Teklife members from his native Chicago and beyond. The cover art has been provided by Shepard Fairey, a long-time friend and mentor of Ashes57. It is an honour to have his iconic Obey artwork adorning a Teklife record. The limited edition vinyl is available to preorder now. Teklife's debut release, Afterlife, celebrated the life and music of the late, great DJ Rashad. Afterlife received widespread critical acclaim and DJ support from the likes of Gilles Peterson and Kode 9. The first press vinyl sold out in no time, and a second edition is on the way. For Teklife's follow up release, DJ Earl takes centre stage. A leading figure in the footwork movement, and long time collaborator with DJ Rashad, DJ Earl is a key member of the Teklife family. Open Your Eyes is a brutally strong EP filled with future classics. Moods range from the mellow-toned Smoke That Green feat Taso, to the high octane funk of Let's Work feat Moondoctor & OPN. It's hard to pick a stand out track, although Ratchet deserves a special mention for guaranteed dance floor destruction. A special shout out goes to OPN, who worked closely with Earl on this project. Message from Dj Earl: 'This record took 2 years to complete and a lot of hard work to get right. I hope it gets people excited about the music we are making and about Teklife Records.'

Head-turning debut from classically-trained, Boston-based Kaan Erbay a.k.a Insha featuring ten tracks of pure tension/relief informed by reconstituted club music and video game scores, highly recommended if you're into Arca, Burial, Actress, RabitEmerging from right under Type's nose, Dysplazia by Boston, MA's Insha debuts a remarkably absorbing push-and-pull narration of sci fi sonics and collapsed R&B haunted by the ghosts of British dance music; forming a mid-air collision of sawn-off soundtrack noumena and tumultuous grooves that diffuse Burial's worn down soul by way of Arca's lacerating dynamics with a unique sleight of hand. At an aerially severed yet intimately involving perspective, the founder of Boston's DRAW collective subsumes himself with cybernetic assimilation into the ten tracks of Dysplazia, offering an oneiric representation of the physical body simulated thru decontextualised rap samples and a twisted backbone of encrypted 2-step rhythms.In a synaesthetic, metaphorical sense reflected in Dysplazia's cover art - which uncannily recalls the analogue-to-digital phase shift of Cybotron's Enter sleeve design - this record is about transcending physical and virtual spaces; about locating and inhabiting the ambiguous interzones which lie between and outside of taxonomic conventions. It models these processes of transformation with a keen sense of narrative, navigating mutable circuit boards of grey goo with a beguiling sense of melancholy and elusive glimmers of hope.Panicked intercom chatter and hyperprismic harmonies light up the gravelly torque of Breaking Point at the album's turbulent intro, giving way to a captivatingly tortuous series of flashpoints and perilous junctures that flare up as quickly as they move back into the ever-looming murk, most memorably in the tangled 3D coordinates of Ima, Physique, and the woodblock 'n scimitar punctuated dynamics of Coming Down, which perhaps most undeniably nod to Burial and Arca, whilst the amorphous, melancholic ending of Reason leaves the session perfectly unresolved and open to a sequel.Dysplazia is a startlingly astute debut record from Insha, providing Type's freshest insight since Clams Casino's Instrumentals back in 2011.

Pale Calling presents the fruits of the first collaboration between Oren Ambarchi, Kassel Jaeger and James Rushford, recorded at GRM studios, Paris in 2014. Although drawing on aspects of each member's solo works, the trio mark out their own unique territory, a mysterious space of slowly cycling electronics, distracted vocal mumbles and often unidentifiable field recordings. These two side-long pieces are composed of distinct layers that gently rise up and recede, obeying a dream-logic that feels entirely disconnected from traditional electro-acoustic composition, forming surreal sonic images in which half-remembered fragments of everyday life mix with the quiet intensity of dreams haunted by natural forces.Over the course of the first side a slowly thudding electronic pulse eventually gives way to a distant organ, detouring through reverberated guitar shimmers, moments of Ashley-esque vocal automatism and waves of insects and bats. The second side utilises similar ingredients, this time layered over the top of what sounds like radically slowed down film music. As the field recorded and electronic spray slowly builds, the listener is left with the impression of hearing the last moments of a dying television abandoned in a field overrun with animals and insects.Francis Plagne

The second album from SHRUBBN!! (aka Schieres and T.Raumschmiere) displays a map of Europe on its cover, as might be expected from the title. And it is an old map, a real one, from a time before comprehensive digital measurement - brown, green, red, and somehow easy to place as a landscape. Unlike its predecessor Echos, which represented something rather hidden and gloomy, from black and white and light and shadow - musically speaking, EUROPA has also clearly changed direction, towards land and people.

The original Environments album was conceived and written back in 1993. It became one of the great lost albums by The Future Sound Of London before the guys took in back to the studio to complete and issue in 2008. Since then has come the success of further instalments and following additional studio work during a period of extreme creativity comes two further volumes. Released separately but simultaneously, Environment 6 and accompanying Environment 6.5, when combined, create two CDs of 46 tracks. Sweeping between luscious dreamscapes to delicately melodically compositions to intensely highly programmed electronics sculptures Environment 6 and Environment 6.5 continue the journey towards the boundaries of the future of sound.

The original Environments album was conceived and written back in 1993. It became one of the great lost albums by The Future Sound Of London before the guys took in back to the studio to complete and issue in 2008. Since then has come the success of further instalments and following additional studio work during a period of extreme creativity comes two further volumes. Released separately but simultaneously, Environment 6 and accompanying Environment 6.5, when combined, create a two CDs of 46 tracks. Sweeping between luscious dreamscapes to delicately melodically compositions to intensely highly programmed electronics sculptures Environment 6 and Environment 6.5 continue the journey towards the boundaries of the future of sound. Silent Around Them' exclusive to LP vinyl (no CD/digital)

Opalescent, the debut album from Mercury Music Prize and Ivor Novello award nominated artist Jon Hopkins has been remastered and reissued for the first time on vinyl for its 15 year Anniversary in a special edition 2 LP gatefold with liner notes .

Opalescent was originally released in 2001 when Jon was 20 and just signed to ambient label Just Music, yet today it still sounds so distinctive, musically and emotionally complex. It is in the contradictions between beauty and bass, gentleness and volume, ecstasy and elegy, that Opalescent derives its enduring otherness. Even 15 years on, it is never quite what you think it is.

Ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey made 35,000 recordings across Africa between the 1920s & 70s, in an epic bid to preserve the music of Africa for future generations. Sixty-five years later, artists are being allowed to access the archives of the International Library of African Music (ILAM) for the first time, with contemporary producers putting a fresh perspective on the never-heard-before sounds to help bring them to a new generation. Beating Heart is a music initiative which seeks to use sounds of the past to address problems of the present - money raised will go directly to help communities where the music was originally recorded.

Two long sides of doomed out distorted techno. Full improv on the machines with vocals and a shitload of attitude. Fallbeil have been making serious waves lately and we are happy they are back at NYH with some of their heaviest jams to date.

Out of sight of the Discogs radar. Originally printed in 1979, currently in the oblivion, again available soon through Galaxy.

DJ Marcelle is one of the most seasoned and widely respected DJ's in Europe. She's a true pioneer with her 'free', brave and creative way of mixing. Besides this she has always been following the latest developments in forward-thinking music and has therefore a keen ear for exciting new sounds. For the label Klangbad, owned by Hans-Joachim Irmler of krautrock band Faust, she has released four double vinyl albums, mainly dedicated to and comprising her three turntable composition/mix talents. The Munich based label JAHMONI is proud to release her first 2-track Club EP.In The Wrong Direction echoes what she does on stage: it's non-mainstream club music, and it's highly functional. Marcelle is on a life-long quest of proving that most music in club culture is quite boring but that's justified as having to be so because of functionality and audience expectation, while she claims that this is not true, it's just a lack of intelligence, courage and creativity on the part of most dj's. According to DJ Marcelle, you can make the most boring crowd dance to the most awkward music recording, it all depends on attitude, mixtalents and in which context you present it. And it's in this spirit, that the two tracks on this 10inch are both provocative and unusual, but at the same real club smashers - the stuff you play at prime time in your set.
Genre-wise we're speaking NL tribal techno, post dubstep, broken beats, glitch, eclecticism, but really, we're talking about attitude, roughness, freedom and - a raving dancefloor.

Synths Versus Me is a prolific duo formed by Vanessa Asbert and Nico Cabañas. They already put out a bunch of releases edited by Oráculo Records. Minimal Synth, EBM and Cold Wave from Lloret de Mar (Spain).

This 12' EP (ltd. 300 copies) includes two brand new tracks and two exclusive remixes. The original version of 1987' is an atomic bomb of pure vintage EBM in the vein of Signal Aout 42 and Front 242. The remix done by Dirk Da Davo from The Neon Judgement keeps the feeling of the track but adding some drums, guitar samplers and sequences trademarked by this Belgian legend. On the b-side there is the original mix of Aimless Device', an electro-pop tune with catchy melodies, analogic bass lines and female voices. The remix prepared for this track by the new american sensation Boy Harsher is a surefire dancefloor full of hypnotic beats and dark atmospheres. All tracks remastered by Eric Van Wonterghem at Prodam Studios (Berlin).

Limited release 10 track 12" on collectable Japanese label "Snaker" The GNOCCHI a.k.a. GNOC-THE-CHI a.k.a. DJ N- ZK is the label owner of oriental 10"oriented label as "I- I- P"and he is also known as a real hard digger soft drinker.
Leaving signature FM synthesis work Arcade Game, blends with soft reggae feelings, his programming make more minimalismic, polyrhythmic and even funky approach through eerie,vertiginous,glistering and ominous without long dramatic notes. This primary sound make us mad, it has something common to lo-fi feeling or raw house groove.

Dublin born A/V duo CLU release four track 'Mood' EP, set for release through Gobstopper Records on 18th November 2016. Dublin born musician Sean Cooley and visual artist Kevin Freeney formed CLU in 2011 as a way to play music and showcase artwork simultaneously to their friends in venues and galleries across the city. Growing up in the 1990s, they witnessed the birth of mass produced 3D computer animations and the conceptual god complexes that came with the Internet. These two very apparent influences made them immerse themselves in the ever intertwining mediums of sound and vision, giving CLU a very unique approach to their live AV shows. Influences of trance, R&B, videogame and film scores, grime and industrial permeate Cooley's productions, which bubble with multitudes of synths and maintain a focus on bass driven twists. Visually, Freeney engages in a surrealist depth that skips on the brink between digital film and generative animations. This connection between the two forms a symbiotic chemistry that aims to bridge the gap between the white cubed galleries of visual art and the dark basements of electronic music to create soaring galactic oddities.

Following on melancholic Ono-Sendai Cyberspace, Morkebla's latest outing is a 5-track EP titled A Field Of Secondary Craters. Opening with The Ground Under My Feet Became Water, an obscure and incantatory looped segment made entirely with found sounds and field recordings (a plaintive horn, metallic sounds, water), A Field Of Secondary Craters is due to be released september xxth 2016 on Edinburgh-based cassette label Czaszka.

The next tracks from A Field Of Secondary Craters pull away from the vaporous introductory loop-based process, not so far from Lee Gamble's Diversions 1994-1996, revealing a more luminous facet of his (by whom) work. Utilizing some analog drum machines (Alesis SR 16 and MFB 522), tape echoes, delay effects and a Roland Juno-106, Morkebla's new EP is a twenty minute long journey throughout synth-laden textures with moments of pure reverie.

While Snow Canvas is an ode to minimal composition, a celestial held chord accompanied with chugging beats, third track Infrared Ice Image is a one-minute synth bass loop in slow-motion, reminiscent of an early Boards of Canada interlude.

Disrupting the peacefulness that the ambience suggests, Astro:Dynamics'signee and Posh Isolation's remix contributor Quiltland delivers a remix for Snow Canvas emphasizing on the ambient chord intro and a progression that stirs the listener up from quietude through an incursion of more assertive snares and hi-hats, fnishing up with gradually built Autechre-esque synth harmonies.

To conclude Morkebla's A Field Of Secondary Craters, elegant eleven-minute long synth arpeggios entwine on Submerged Dunes with a simple hi-hat and strangled bell as rhythmic elements, leaving a unsettling feel as the synth fares slide across cut-off and filtered sounds. We are now literally sunk and submerged into another world. As we let go of the fear of uncertainty, A Field Of Secondary Craters plays a second time, starting all over again from the shamanistic introduction. The dunes, the ground, the water....

Yeah, we know. Every day is recordstore day.
But this year we deliver something special. Two old downbeat tracks from Spätes Frühstück. Remastered and on white marbled 7 inch. The record comes with recyceled an stamped innersleve and peripherally fullcover by paulizia. Limited to 100 copies.
Old Stuff from Old Dirty Dessau.

Mystery, poetry, a play of masks: artistic creation according to John Cravache. His collaboration with Versatile dates back to the beginning of the millennium. A childhood friend of I:Cube, he is 44 years old, lives in a Paris suburb, and is not a professional artist. Getting involved in writing, he has been boasting his artistic and economic independence and his crafty attitude outside of the industrial system. He gave himself time to invent a personal world, wild and funny, which eventually gave birth to the album "Cités Nomades". Even though his influences are quite varied and avant-garde (Magma, Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits), they did not really affect this unclassifiable project. Poetry and mystery come before all, because John Cravache is appearing masked.
John Cravache and Nicolas Chaix (I:Cube) have recorded radio creations since the early 90s, in particular for Chimère FM in Paris, as well as numerous long improvised music sessions. At the approach of the millennium, they embarked on the creation of an album that was not completed until sixteen (!) years later. John is a poet, accomplished pianist, and registered truck driver and Nicolas, a self-taught musician, have both made the realisation of "Cités nomades" possible.
This is not an ironic pop album, this album is simply all you want.
Listening will do you much good.

We're particularly proud to bring you this 2xLP based on unreleased tapes recorded in 1975, way before Marianni's first LP back in 1980! After 2 years remodeling the archives at Jeangérard's studio, they now deliver a brand new 75 minute album. Not only does the music remind such bands like Popol Vuh or any GRM act (where Marianni taught himself), but also modern artists like Massive Attack or Boards of Canada!

The duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes, Regression) and David Shettler (Viands, SSM) return with their highly-anticipated full-length follow-up to MEQ 2LP remixes, released by Midwich in 2015 (MW-001). Humanizer is sonically diverse featuring varied modes of production throughout. Humanizer jettisons with their live staple 'New British Blues', the 10-minute track recalling Shettler's long-form work in Viands (MW-003), putting synthesizers in space, as live drums invigorate the track with an earthbound brashness. 'Cycloid' is the album's most concise, bracing and dare-we-say catchy number--a real ear-worm. 'Sea Dust' is a blasting electronic collage also featuring live drums (we think). The title track 'Humanizer' is classic Moon Pool, creepy and menacing with an off-kilter bass thump. 'A Gray Glow' continues in classic mode with thumping bass and queasy synths. 'Hospital Quiet' features pleasing, sunward-facing ambience to reassure listeners that all is good. Moon Pool and Dead Band have been a Detroit cult techno favorite since Shettler and Young joined forces in 2011. Uninitiated listeners are caught off-guard by the funkiness of the group, shaking assumptions about the group's perceived roots. We've all heard bad noise-techno records--this isn't one of them. The danceable style is one that grows organically from the duo's life experience. Moon Pool and Dead Band approach the music with respect, knowledge and humor. Humanizer is a party-starter that could have only come from Detroit.

Ryan Hunn, auch bekannt als DJ und Produzent Illum Sphere, kehrt mit seinem zweiten Album "Glass" zu Ninja Tune zurück. Es ist passenderweise sein klarstes Statement bisher: Neun sowohl dynamische, als auch fokussierte Tracks, die Raum lassen, um sich in ein lebendiges, großes Ganzes zu verwandeln. Beim Hören fällt vor allem die klare Abgrenzung von Illum Spheres bisher gewohnten Sound auf. "I wanted to make an album very different to the first", sagt der Produzent, "one with a different palette, pace and energy." Eine Veränderung in "situation and style", wie Ryan das beschreibt, ersetzt die scharfen Wechsel und drastischen Übergänge seiner bisherigen Veröffentlichungen und erinnert mehr an seine "Spectre Vex" und "Second Sight" 12"es oder seine Mixe für fabriclive und Dekmantel. "Glass" ist versunken in mechanischer Tiefe und pulsierender Festigkeit, erinnert an die ZeitgenossInnen Helena Hauff und Kassem Mosse und wird Illum Sphere, dem bisher wohl bestgehütetsten Geheimnis der Szene, sehr wahrscheinlich zum Durchbruch verhelfen.
- CD im Softpack
- LP: auf 1.000 Einheiten limitiertes durchsichtiges 140g Vinyl in bedruckter Innenhülle inkl. Downloadcode

REPRESSED !!

So Bahnsteig is arrived! Paenzr style from the flanken. Next is Eastern bruder, Romania youth, Khidja.
Vibrations with wunderbar music on (Emotional) Especial and Forgotten Corners, they give us Balearic, Neu Wave and Kraut explosionens.4 edits is a taste of their opening. Infinita will make you bop in aisles. Stehen nur noch. Twist, schrie. Then geist, is Droll's House. Britisch indie for dunkel fun. Schleife de schleife. Utsici is the jam. Go. Woop. Verschossen for finale. The heimkehr. Can you tanz Was Auch Immer.

Silk Road Assassins release two of their most long sought-after tracks — 'Deadcell' and '3M Kunai'. 'Deadcell' — a bittersweet five minutes of abstract, trap euphoria — first emerged at the back end of 2014 and has since taken on mythical status online, with entire forum threads dedicated to rumours of its prospective release, while '3M Kunai' was the beat chosen by Chicago rapper Mikey Dollaz on early 2016 collaborative single, 'Commas'. Comprised of three producers, long-time Coyote signees Chemist and Tom E. Vercetti, and close friend Lovedr0id, Silk Road Assassins have taken cues from a shared appreciation of hip-hop beat-makers, Chicago drill and UK grime to create their own shadowy, cloaked, dystopian take on the music. Functional enough to work in or away from the club, their music has made Silk Road Assassins the defining artists in their field, with support from Kuedo, Om Unit, Commodo, Plastician and countless others suggesting that they are very much producers of the future.

The tracks for the Omegapavilion cassette are three improvisations played, recorded and edited by UnicaZürn specifically for this release across one weekend in March 2015. Instrumentation comprised an ARP Solina String Ensemble, EMS Synthi AKS, electric guitar, and two iPads. Artwork by Danielle Dax.

Joe Banks, writing about the group for The Quietus: "UnicaZürn is an ongoing collaboration between David Knight and Stephen Thrower, two musicians with some serious avant rock credentials - Knight was a key member of Shock Headed Peters and songwriting partner to the divine Danielle Dax, while Thrower was with Coil for eight years and is also one half of Cyclobe. The music they make together using a variety of vintage keys and reed instruments is a viscerally organic strain of proto-ambient, strongly influenced by the pre-sequencer Tangerine Dream of Zeit and Atem. We're firmly in drone territory here, but a long way away from throwing a few synth loops into GarageBand and hoping for the best."

NO MORE DREAMS NO MORE DREAMS NO MORE DREAMS NO MORE DREAMS NO MORE DREAMS NO MORE DREAMS...

Introducing Carbo Flex, aka Graeme Evans, from Sunderland UK - spotted by CPU amongst the sea of music on Soundcloud. Standing firmly in the genre of IDM where many have tried but failed to capture the necessary elements. Carbo Flex's first album and vinyl E.P. Trifolium is bursting with beautiful synth melodies and challenging but on point percussion reminiscent of early Autechre, Jega and Mu-ziq. An alien, addictive and essential addition to any IDM aficionado's collection.

Part of a limited binary catalogue series.

Hazel following the newcoming Blaník tradition with this piece of various ambient/experimental adventures.

Am 14.10.2016 erscheint mit "Beginning, Ending, Pretending" das Debütalbum von Junk Son via 37 Adventures. Aufgenommen in Eigenregie und produziert in seinem Süd-Londoner Studio, kommen die elf Songs des John Dunk aka Junk Son atmosphärisch stark daher. Elektronische Soul-Tracks mit vielschichtigen Synth-Sounds, pulsierenden Rhythmen und gedämpften Gesang.

Patrick Cowley is an electronic music trailblazer and a revolutionary in the canon of disco music. He created his an original brand of Hi-NRG dance music, "The San Francisco Sound." Born in Buffalo, NY Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 at the age of 21. He studied at the City College of San Francisco where he founded the Electronic Music Lab. During this time, Patrick, along with his classmates Maurice Tani and Art Adcock, would create electronic pieces using the school's equipment: first a Putney, then an E-MU System, and finally a Serge synthesizer. The Lab was interested in creating sounds that mimicked nature, like drops or birds, and also very unnatural sounds unattainable any other way. Patrick was a young alchemist discovering new elements all around him. He would layer experimental soundtracks by blending various types of music and adapting them to the synthesizer.

In 1972 Patrick was living in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood with some friends from back east. Through these roommates he met Candice Vadalla, a singer, actress and art student from Queens, NY. Candice would later take the stage name Candida Royalle becoming a pornographic film actress, a producer and director of feminist erotic films, and a sex educator actress before passing away on September 7, 2015. Candice was performing in shows with Cockettes splinter troupe The Angels of Light as well as performance projects Warped Floors and White Trash Boom Boom she formed with friends. Patrick arranged, embellished and recorded music pieces for these theatrical performances in his bedroom studio. Candice, meanwhile, played both musical muse and sex goddess to Patrick. Playfully enamored with each other, the pair became occasional lovers, the sexual energy fueling their musical collaborations and improvisations. In the collection of pieces compiled here, Candice's sweet, melodic and playful voice hints at the more public persona she would cultivate as Candida Royalle. Influenced by Tomita and Wendy Carlos, Patrick crafted his electronic sound from synthesizers (Serge modular, Electrocomp system, Arp 2600), percussion, modified guitars, and hand-built equipment. Candice's multi-octave range chirps, soars, and growls, going into operatic staccato runs a la Yma Sumac and 'Illuminations' era Buffy Sainte-Marie. The vocals add an organic, human element and at times lyrics can be deciphered such as in alchemic adaptation of the Latin hymn Tantum Ergo.' As a bonus included is the sultry, jazzy Tomato Song' that Candice sang a capella for the Angels of Light 'Kitsch-On Show' in 1973.

Featuring over 30 minutes of music recorded between 1973-75 found on tapes in Maurice Tani's attic. All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The jacket features an alluring photo of Candida seductively sprawled with a broken Virgin Mary statue around her head, originally commissioned by Jorge Socarras for an Indoor Life single, and shot by Arne Svenson. Each copy includes a 16-page booklet with never-seen-before photos, interviews and liner notes from Patrick and Candida's friends, roommates and musical collaborators. Released on the week of Patrick (Oct 19) and Candida's (Oct 15) 66th birthday, Candida Cosmica' presents a glimpse into the liberated, playful wonderland that San Francisco was at the time. These recordings shine a new light on the early experimental collaborations of a disco legend and of a feminist pioneer who were taken too soon.

Gamayun is back to the Udacha universe strictly from own cosmic dimension to invite you to a special music journey. No bad trip guaranteed.

A tracky, hardcore double-header, true Tessela-style.

Sorbet expertly cuts scraps of canonic singing into pounding warehouse rhythms.

Diving constructs a minimalist, propulsive, feel-good banger out of five different treatments of the break from Lynn Collins' Think.

Nach seinem spektakulärem Mixtape "Security" von Anfang 2016, das ihm gleich eine WIRE Coverstory (Juni 2016) und einen Warp-Vertrag einbrachte, folgt nun die erste EP des aus Brixton stammenden Künstlers GAIKA. Sein Sound ist ein Amalgam aus R&B, Dancehall, Grime, Trip-Hop und Prince, das die Fachpresse begeistert. Die 8-Track EP "SPAGHETTO" gibt bereits eine hervorragende Vorahnung, was uns 2017 mit seinem Debütalbum erwartet. Transparentes 12" Vinyl in bedruckten Außen- und Innentaschen inkl. Download-Code.

Despite now being 25 years into their career, Plaid duo Ed Handley and Andy Turner show no signs of showing up. If The Digging Remedy - their 11th studio set - is anything to go by, their instincts remain as sharp as ever. They've always been capable of creating magical music that contrasts experimental electronic rhythms with picturesque melodies and mood-enhancing sounds, and The Digging Remedy is full of the stuff. Intriguingly, many of the tracks seem deeper and more subdued than previous explorations, with clear ambient and neo-classical influences amongst the classic electro and IDM flavours you'll find on the album's more up-tempo moments.