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Mchawi Mungu' is UMEME's 'third EP and a collaboration with half japanese half Italian producer CKRONO. UMEME produces live dance music (techno, house and acid) with African influences. The beats in this genre mostly come from drumcomputers, where UMEME produces them live with drums and percussion in a unique setup of electronic and acoustic drums. The synths are entirely live and no computers are used.

Vinyl release on 339 Records in conjunction with the legendary TRAX records from Chicago

Lily presents Sul Tempo, the first and only album composed by Lorad group. A musical rendering of the contemporary work-day, jazzy, minimal, digital.

Limited vinyl release of 300 records, lovingly hand stamped and stencilled by the band - in black and white as standard but with super limited colour versions available.

REWIND is the latest release from enigmatic synth and drums duo Soccer96, comprised of Danalogue (Dan Leavers) and Betamax (Max Hallett), and follows their acclaimed 2016 album 'As Above So Below', which received plaudits from the likes of The Quietus, XLR8R, Thump, Clash, Boiler Room, NME, DJ Mag, Electronic Sound and many others. With a nod to the beat tape aesthetic, 'Rewind' is a collection of newly discovered reel to reel recordings, live mixed on a vintage 'Alice' mixing desk in the Soccer96 analogue lab.

Takashi Kokubo - A Dream Sails Out To Sea (get At The Wave) (lagrec003)
Recorded In 1987 As Promotion For A Luxury Air Conditioning Line, Takashi Kokubo's Balearic Gem A Dream Sails Out To Sea Gets First Ever Official Release From Lag Records, Complete With Previously Unheard Music.

Originally Only Available As A Sought-after Promo By The Name Of Get At The Wave, Takashi Kokubo's Mini-masterpiece Of Halcyon Mastery Finally Re-emerges For The First Time Since 1987 With A Remastered Vinyl Edition Courtesy Of Uk Label Lag Records.

A Dream Sails Out To Sea (get At The Wave) Comes Not Only With A New Title, But Also A Brand New B-side As Taken From Get At The Wave's Original Recording Sessions. Never-before Released, The Epic Ocean Breeze Makes The Perfect Companion For The Sonic World Kokubo Created With His Original Release, Imbued As It Is With The Same Serene Sense Of Understated Beauty.

The Original Story Of A Dream Sails Out To Sea Is As Interesting As Kokubo's Own Backstory As A Musician And Sound Artist. Originally Composed To 'soundtrack' A High-end Air Conditioning Line From Japanese Electronic Giant Sanyo, The Album Was Meant To Transport The Consumer Into A Paradise Far Away From The Heat And Hurry Of Urban Life. One Listen To Something As Splendorous As Underwater Dreaming, And It's Mission Accomplished.

Takashi Kokubo Meanwhile Is A Musician Whose Work, Without Many Knowing It, Has Perhaps Touched The Most Lives In Japan. Composer Of Environmental Music Such As Nationwide Phone Alerts To Warn Of Oncoming Earthquakes, And The Fruitful Jingle Of A Standard Contactless Payment, Kokubo's Oeuvre Also Includes Anime Soundtracks And Works In The Avant Garde Realm.

It Is With Kokubo's Blessing And Original Masters That The Lag Records Release Has Been Made Possible, With A Remastering Courtesy Of Jerome Schmitt At The Airlab. A Dream Sails Out To Sea (get At The Wave) Also Comes With New Artwork By Ella Mclean In A Standard Sleeve On Clear Blue Vinyl Lp.

Acid Hologram Is A Record That Travels Between Past, Present And Future. It Is A Real Mix Of Different Stiles, This Makes It Difficult To Define As A Genre. Analogue Incursions Typical Of Acid And Electro Fuse With The Melodic Immediacy Of Trance, Cohabit With Cruel Drum Breaks And Crazy Idm Interventions, Creating A Scenario Composed Of Different Styles And Nuances, Bizarre As Well As Emotional, Enveloped By An Idea Of Euphoria Typical Of The Underground Music Of The Early 90s, That Allowed Us To Rediscover A Personal Sound, Without Compromise. Produced Between The End Of 2013 And 2017, It Was Published As A Limited Edition And The First Cassette Release By Weme Records, The Idea Of The Format Justifies The Need To Publish Such A High Number Of Tracks, On An Alternative Medium That Is Able To Reflect The Identity Of An Equally Unconventional Sound. The Tracklist Titles Reveal Visual Suggestions That Recall The Years Of The Rave Scene Of The Early 90s And The Cyberpunk Imaginary In Which The Author Grew Up

After Years Of Appearances On Compilations And As A Group Member, Composer And Improvisor Jeff Snyder Has Released His Debut Album, Sunspots, On Carrier Records. Much Like The Actual Phenomena Of Sunspots
- Cyclical, Chaotic, And Powerful - Snyders Album Invokes The Sense That There Are Underlying Forces At Work Which Do Not Easily Conform To Human Expectation Or Yield To Human Analysis. This Is Pure Electronic Music, Meant For Loudspeakers. Drawing On His Love Of Great Synthesis Albums Of The 20th Century, Snyder Created Sunspots Using A 1970s Buchla Synthesizer At Elektronmusikstudion In Stockholm. He Improvised Each Of The Four 18- Minute Tracks, Controlling The Buchla With One Of His Own Creations, The Snyderphonics Jd-1 Keyboard/ Sequencer. Organic, Mysterious And Inscrutable, Sunspots Is Nonetheless Purely Human, As The Records Audible Honesty And Vulnerability Draw The Listener Closer. Sunspots
Is Available As A Digital Download In Both Stereo And Quadraphonic Mixes, And As A Stereo Vinyl Dual Lp. The Two Pieces On First Record Are A Patchwork Of Extures, Recalling Morton Subotniks Silver Apples Of The Moon (also Recorded
With A Buchla Synth) Or Bernard Parmegianis De Natura Sonorum, But Filtered Through Snyders Grittier Modern Language. The Second Disc Abandons This Frenetic Melange And Settles Into A Pair Of Static Drones, Alternately Punishing
And Ethereal, Merzbow Versus Radigue. Yet Throughout The Music Is At Ease: Perfectly Refined Timbres Given Fragile Placement In Time, At Once Focused Yet Depicting Large Spaces And Magnificent Structures. But Sunspots Exists As More Than An Album. Snyder Has Also Created A Website (http://sunspots.scattershot.org/) That Functions As An Immersive Virtual Installation, Combining Music With Arresting Visuals. Three Generative Web-art Pieces Allow The Listener To Virtually Travel Inside A Space Inspired By The Sonic World Of The Record. In The Installation, Fixed Forms Dont Apply - The Listener Creates Their Own Visual And Aural Trajectory In Collaboration With The Algorithms That Continuously Permutate The Material.

Sophie Hunger Returns With Her Brand New Album 'molecules'.

'she Makes President', The Album's First Offering, Was Written Before The Us Presidential Election, With Hunger Having Listened To A Radio Programme That Declared That The Female Voters Would Wield The Deciding Vote On Election Day Owing To Their Greater Numbers And Likelihood Of Voting. I Wrote That Song Trying To Portrait This Future Female Identity And Then Trump Got Elected,' She Says, Still Audibly Stunned. Knowing That Women Had It In Their Hands Not To Elect Trump, But They Proved To Be Yet Again Unreliable When It Came To Standing Up For Their Own Rights.'
'molecules' Is Hunger's First Full Album In English, And Is What She Describes As Minimal Electronic Folk'. Her Most Compelling Qualities - An Ingenue-like Delicacy And Contrasting Solitary Darkness - Haven't Changed. Familiar Trickles Of Funfair Weirdness Still Permeate The Music, Calling To Mind Beth Orton And Regina Spektor. Moreover, She's Still Enigmatic And Self-possessed To The Point Where It Feels Too Intrusive To Ask Certain Questions.

(a) A1. She Makes President
(b) A2. Silver Lane
(c) A3. There Is Still Pain Left
(d) A4. Tricks
(e) A5. Let If Come Down
(f) B1. I Opened A Bar
(g) B2. Oh Lord
(h) B3. The Actress
(i) B4. Electropolis
(j) B5. That Man
(k) B6. Coucou

Arctor has a way of making music for moments where the crowd has just melted in the palm of the dancefloor. His latest EP bursts with kaleidoscopic melodies and streamlined percussion, continuing his run of sophisticated electro euphoria.

‘Escape’ opens with a chilled groove, locking down a vocal hook with grounded kicks while cosmic synth arps peel away into space. And for anyone who loves a good stepper, they’ll find a load of synth-infused chugging acid keeping its cool on ‘Bad Blood.’

Exploding Head Syndrome drips a wistful synthline over lush pads, invoking 80s glitz and sunset drives before it plummets into a fierce, sleek drum pattern. Gritty vocals skitter over stabs and traces of acid: an adrenaline shot to the ears, but also full of soulful feeling.

Second on the B-side, ‘Heartless World’ serves up cross-beat chords and skipping snares at 152 bpm, resulting in a swift and suave electro number. Lastly, ‘United’ rekindles the carefree sweetness we heard back on Arctor’s Memory Gene EP, backed by a relaxed electro beat made for after-hours and morning sets.

Euphoria indeed. Rie Lambdoll and Mayuko are the two euphoric Synth Sisters, Osaka-based musicians who also comprise Crossbred. Euphoria' is the duo's long-awaited second release, following their 2014 debut. This release consists entirely of new Synth Sister recordings, featuring Mayuko's synthesizers, and Rie's electric piano and synthesizers as well as her celestial vocals. The euphoria on offer here features equal parts of angelic arpeggios, seraphic sequences, meditative melodies and transcendental timbres, masterfully mixed and mastered by Kabamix. The pieces here, all composed and produced by Rie Lambdoll, combine drifting drones with rhythmic elements sure to appeal to fans of Tangerine Dream, (Terry) Riley-esque meditations melding with psychedelic musings in blissful ease. Euphoria' is yours for the asking. (Cover art: Ginji Kimura)

Rie Lambdoll (synthesizers, electric piano, voice) Mayuko (synthesizers)
Composed by Rie Lamdboll Recorded and masterd by Kabamix at LMD Mixed by Kabamix and Rie Lambdoll
Cover art: Ginji Kimura

HIROSHIMA 45. CHERNOBYL 86. WINDOWS 95. Penelope's Fiance (La Beauté Du Négatif). Rawmance + Security (La Beauté Du Négatif / Knick Knack Yoda). Alessandro Adriani (Mannequin). Raw Ambassador (UN.T.O. Records / Mannequin).

Berlin based Japanese industrial synth duo group A make their debut on Mannequin Records with a killer 3-tracks self titled EP.
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Tommi Tokyo (synth, drum machine, vocals) and Sayaka Botanic (violin, tapes and sampler) released 2 studio albums and 1 live album in Tokyo, before to move in Berlin in 2016. With their mixture of dark minimal synth, avant-noise, striking visuals and performance art, the duo still carries on the very breath of early industrial pioneers such as Throbbing Gristle, Die Form, Klinik, Cabaret Voltaire.

The EP was recorded in Tommi's bedroom and later mixed together with Mannequin Records head Alessandro Adriani in his own studio in Berlin. The first two tracks of the EP, 'T.O.P.' and 'Ketabali' represents the duo personal reaction against the current economy, an up yours to capitalism, news and politics, all permeated by industrial rhytmic-noises and words with no meaning.
The B2 'Alibi' instead was inspired by an autobiography of Hi-Red Centre(Japanese avant-grade art group in the 60-70's) written by one of the members, Genpei Akasegawa. Tommi found the word "Alibi" in the book and she just started singing about the group. As she never wrote lyrics for that, during their live performances they are always improvised, so changing and mutating every time.

Mannequin Records presents a trilogy of reissues from the avantgarde Italian-born producer Doris Norton, "Nortoncomputerforpeace" (1983), "Personal Computer" (1984, originally released by Durium Records), "Artificial Intellingence" (1985).Apple's first music "endorsement" and Roland affiliate, Doris Norton is one of the most important women pioneer in the use of synths and in the early electro / computer music. Norton is the wife of Antonio Bartoccetti, progressive rock guitarist, and mother of the musician and techno producer Rexanthony. As a teenager, she was drawn to medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music, not to mention quantum physics, differential equations, organic chemistry, the experimentalism of John Cage and animated movie soundtracks. Her love for modules and circuits found expression through the waves of an old harmonium, the frequencies of a Minimoog, a Roland System 100M, a Roland System 700 and the ARP 2500/2600.

In 1980, Norton began her solo career by recording at Fontana Studio 7, the Milan studio of the composer and musician Tito Fontana, resulting in the electronic opera "Under Ground". Norton became more prolific, continuing her adventures in experimental electronics and computer music with Parapsycho (1981), Raptus (1981), Nortoncomputerforpeace (1983), PC (1984) - whose album cover prominently features Apple's colored logo - and Artificial Intelligence (1985).

While the beat-oriented style of Norton's music aligns her with such global fellow-travelers as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Kraftwerk, her championing of the personal computer as a tool for self-sufficient musical creativity also connects her to more artsy musicians such as Pietro Grossi, Laurie Spiegel, and the League of Automatic Music Composers. Norton's predilection for the bright, glossy timbres of early digital instruments also recalls Hubert Bognermayr and Harald Zuschrader's bizarre 1982 one-off Erdenklang.

Later, her talent and expertise attracted the attention of IBM, who in 1986 named her as an official consultant. Already the reigning queen of the Italian electronic scene, she recorded two CDs for IBM: Automatic Feeling and The Double Side Of The Science. Influenced by her son, the musician and producer Rexanthony, Norton brought her fascination with the early days of techno into the 1990s, when she released three volumes of Techno Shock on Italian trance/hardcore label Sound Of The Bomb.

While her music remains largely out of print and inaccessible, Norton's early records have recently begun to receive the inevitable rediscovery treatment.

"In the late sixties I had already conceived computers as personal.' I have always trusted in the benefits of solitude, (being) alone means freedom... What's better than a personal' computer for materializing ideas, by oneself" (Doris Norton)

Kagami is the duo of Jared Blum (Vision Heat, Gigante Sound) and Maxwell August Croy (En, Root Strata). Their eponymous debut, recorded between 2014 and 2017, finds the pair navigating a bracingly wide range of niches with aplomb and precision. Evoking summertime ambience, widescreen electronics, anthemic pop instrumentals and windswept romantic gestures, Kagami is a charming and dramatic record that at times recalls the soundtrack to some lost title from Nintendo's golden age or perhaps a spiritual successor to the miniatures of Yasuaki Shimizu's Music for Commercials.

Original cover art by Brenna Murphy, layout by Konrad Jandavs. Mastered by Helmut Erler, Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

Following hot on the heels of the fabulously well received, and instant selling out of the great recent Jonas Reinhardt LP, comes the next instalment of Deep Distance's ongoing love for- and toe dipping into the magical world of Dirk Jan Muller's incredible COSMIC GROUND.

Both artist and label are often asked about the chances of releasing the revered, self-titled debut LP from 2014, on vinyl. Sadly, due to track lengths it has proved nigh on impossible but mercifully, DD offer up perhaps the next best thing. 2 killer cuts from that CD and digital only release on wax for the first time ever, the magnificent LEGACY' (Dirk's first ever piece using the Cosmic Ground moniker) and a rawer, earlier mix (previously unreleased) of The Plague'. Both remastered by Dirk for this release in 2018.

Two incredible side long pieces, epic in ambition and breadth, which again showcase Dirk's mastery of the revered Berlin School groove, heavy on leanings to Schulze, Froese and Co. yet instantly and incessantly of it's time now. Incredible soundscapes which for our money, is bettered by nobody out there just now. Magical, sequencer heavy, electronic psych- hike up the volume to the max and off you go... But don't hang around as like all the CG catalogue, it all sells out in a heartbeat so get on it!

A pressing of 300 only, and preceding LPs up shortly from ZOFFF and (Wire guitarist) Matthew Simms' SLOWS project.

Polytechnic Youth enter the fray once again, continuing an already productive year (these new 45s are 4/5/6th releases in 2018 already!) with a trio of quite brilliant yet totally different 45s.

Alpár aka Hungarian Bálint Zalkai, is the co-founder of 'Farbwechsel', the Budapest based record label, and his own recordings of electronic compositions (often built upon random looping sequencers in a minimalist style) are key to the label's release output thus far. His goal as he sees it is to catch a random pattern, loop it and build up a piece with that randomly pulsing theme. Just let to flow the voltages and sound waves and try not to disturb them or change their basic behaviours'.

The two tracks here were recorded with this approach very much in mind. The atmosphere of 'Mejiro' is not unlike a bird observation. Attempting to find the right spot, getting closer and closer to the bird, which almost controls you and your movements as you attempt to near it'. Whereas 'Wakayama' is a more direct piece, and maybe the most melodic song Alpár ever recorded. While 'Mejiro' is a woozy, cautious piece, 'Wakayama' is like a tropical fruit or the ume, (the japanese apricot), colourful and full of flavour yet -with thanks to- the slowly humming theme in the background, an element of sourness grips you at the back of your tongue as it ends!

A beautiful pair of tracks released as a double A side 45 early March 2018. Pressing of 250 numbered copies....

Limited to just 60 copies on transparent orange vinyl with download/bonus remix EP

HUNTERS MOON is the debut album by All of Them Witches, a one-man operation run on the imagination and nightmares of Gary Dimes. He steps into the musical world of 70s and 80s horror cinema and stitches together musical motifs and Gothic melodies that wouldn't be out of place in stories told by Argento, Romero, Coscarelli, and Carpenter. 11 tracks blending synth driven ambient electronica and brooding dark tales.

The next collaborative release between Freeride Millenium and Pauls Musique is a terrific two-tracker from Manchester artist Joseph Louis Harland Manning under his new alias Los Angeles with the 7 vinyl release artwork designed by Daniel Rajcsanyi as part of his 'BABY' exhibition in Austria. Joseph Louis Harland Manning was the drummer of the band Wu Lyf and is involved in projects like Los Porcos, the Mancunian boyband Menage a Trois and Dream Lovers. Under his other aliases he released on Aficionado, Cracki, Ocean Records and Is It Balearic sub label Uber as well as having made music videos for Molly Nilsson. Here he is fine form across a pair of delicate and moving synth tracks. Opener 'L'amour' is a gentle cut that starts with celestial chords and wide-open expanses of synth before a buried deep groove slowly comes to the fore. Breathy vocals also add to the loved-up, dreamy feel and the whole thing carries you away in a majestic reverie that shifts from ambience to new age house. The track features the artists own field recordings from the streets of Berlin, twisting up sounds from the sidewalk into percussive notes that give an organic feel. The perfectly soothing second offering is 'I Wanna Go To Heaven' is a gorgeous synth piece that suspends you in a crystal clear blue sky on a warm summer's day. Chords are smeared and stretched whilst angelic, wordless vocals drift by. It is the sound of a blissful passage to the afterlife and will leave you feeling cleansed. This is a truly emotive package of music that marks another first rate release on this ever evolving label

Phono Ghosts (alias of producer Neil Scrivin - also behind Meatbingo) returns with his long-awaited second album released via brand new imprint Fonolith. Building upon the cassette-raiding, micro-sampling methodology and varied sound landscape of 2013's Chrome Position on Skam Records, Solar Dream Reel is a journey through summery funk, mangled radio jingles, evocative atmospheres and anthemic edit-stomp, all filtered via the shimmery analogue lens of the compact cassette. A sonic exploration of that borderland between the waking world and sleep - a place everyone has been to but few remember - Phono Ghosts comes back to reality with a selection of vivid Polaroids and cassette memories from his visits to the hypnagogic hinterland of the collective unconscious and presents these pure distilled documents for you on four beautiful sides of vinyl. Something may have come back with him...

Lullabies for Insomniacs brings you the debut release from the intoxicating Garland. A project which emerged years ago and subsequently developed and transformed through overseas exchanges. Influenced by popular media and musical practices the duo channels a resonating wonderland that echoes, calling for magic to ignite.

-Vinyl comes in black or clear colours.-LP includes download.
-Recorded and mixed at Decade Music Studios (Car Seat Headrest, Tortoise).

* Starting in 2014 as a collaboration between visual artist Heather Gabel and percussionist Seth Sher, the Chicago based industrial duo known simply as HIDE was formed. The following three years have seen HIDE crash through with a number of aggressively rendered singles and EP's while quietly collecting the shattered pieces that would form their debut full length album, Castration Anxiety.

* Those familiar with HIDE's provocative live performances will already be accustomed to the hypnotic low-end and sinister vocal delivery that has become the band's signature. The opening track, Fall Down, sets an eerie tone that permeates Castration Anxiety until the end. Throbbing pulses swirling around Gabel's death laden mantras succumb to themes harvesting power from desperation and hopelessness.

* The first single and video for Wildfire, keeps the same repetitive, dark emphasis but delves deeper into the ideas of the physical world rejecting its inhabitants. Harkening back to the slow, brooding industrial anthems from decades before, HIDE's treatment of this sound is notably unique as it is familiar.

* Tracks such as Fucked (I Found Heaven) and Bound/Severed ratchet up the tempo with a hedonistic dance floor séance. Each song ripping apart the ideas of empowerment and autonomy, throwing them back out to the audience in the form of Sher's addictive rhythms, shattered EBM-styled samples whipped at the end of a leash, held in check by Gabel's cathartic delivery.

* Wear Your Skin unveils HIDE in a disruptive personal state. Churning electronics stepping up to anthem-styled synth melodies, disrupted sparingly by incantations of Gabel's experiences about identity and obsession, blurring those themes into prophetic feedback.

* The past few years has seen HIDE touring nationally, playing alongside related acts such as ADULT., Ceremony and Champagne Mirrors, as well as providing main support for Marilyn Manson during The Pale Emperor tour.

* Dais Records presents HIDE Castration Anxiety' on March 23, 2018 in limited edition splatter and clear vinyl, as well as standard black vinyl and digital formats. Castration Anxiety was recorded and mixed by Adam Stilson at Decade Music Studios with additional recording at Valley Recording Co. by engineer Joe Cardamone, who contributed additional instrumentation and arrangements.

-Vinyl comes in black or clear colours.-LP includes download.
-Recorded and mixed at Decade Music Studios (Car Seat Headrest, Tortoise).

* Starting in 2014 as a collaboration between visual artist Heather Gabel and percussionist Seth Sher, the Chicago based industrial duo known simply as HIDE was formed. The following three years have seen HIDE crash through with a number of aggressively rendered singles and EP's while quietly collecting the shattered pieces that would form their debut full length album, Castration Anxiety.

* Those familiar with HIDE's provocative live performances will already be accustomed to the hypnotic low-end and sinister vocal delivery that has become the band's signature. The opening track, Fall Down, sets an eerie tone that permeates Castration Anxiety until the end. Throbbing pulses swirling around Gabel's death laden mantras succumb to themes harvesting power from desperation and hopelessness.

* The first single and video for Wildfire, keeps the same repetitive, dark emphasis but delves deeper into the ideas of the physical world rejecting its inhabitants. Harkening back to the slow, brooding industrial anthems from decades before, HIDE's treatment of this sound is notably unique as it is familiar.

* Tracks such as Fucked (I Found Heaven) and Bound/Severed ratchet up the tempo with a hedonistic dance floor séance. Each song ripping apart the ideas of empowerment and autonomy, throwing them back out to the audience in the form of Sher's addictive rhythms, shattered EBM-styled samples whipped at the end of a leash, held in check by Gabel's cathartic delivery.

* Wear Your Skin unveils HIDE in a disruptive personal state. Churning electronics stepping up to anthem-styled synth melodies, disrupted sparingly by incantations of Gabel's experiences about identity and obsession, blurring those themes into prophetic feedback.

* The past few years has seen HIDE touring nationally, playing alongside related acts such as ADULT., Ceremony and Champagne Mirrors, as well as providing main support for Marilyn Manson during The Pale Emperor tour.

* Dais Records presents HIDE Castration Anxiety' on March 23, 2018 in limited edition splatter and clear vinyl, as well as standard black vinyl and digital formats. Castration Anxiety was recorded and mixed by Adam Stilson at Decade Music Studios with additional recording at Valley Recording Co. by engineer Joe Cardamone, who contributed additional instrumentation and arrangements.

The first full length LP on KSE comes from the Belgium electronica mastermind Luc van Acker. Taking Snapshots is his first full-length album recorded in the early 80's in his own home. Witness Luc van Ackers enlightened musical spirit at the start of his career with this far-out experimental electronic release.

Having debuted with a fine EP by Job Sifre, Artificial Dance has returned to the source for release number two. The 12' pays tribute to one of the most influential figures of original DIY electronic music scene of Holland, Hanjo Erkamp.
During the first half of the 1980s, Erkamp had a hand in some of the most experimental and forward-thinking releases on the now legendary cassette label, Trumpett. Famously, he was a member of two of the label's key bands - industrial outfit Doxa Sinistra and new wave combo Ende Shneafliet - but during the period he also recorded a swathe of solo tracks as C. Stein, most of which only saw the light of day decades later.

La Bombe Plastique', a thrillingly spacey and futurist cut rich in proto-techno rhythms, intergalactic electronic motifs and drowsy choral vocals. For this timely reissue, the superb original version comes accompanied by a fresh re-edit created primarily for DJ use.

Respuesta Alternativa or the Alternative Response was the project of Spanish musician Jesus Mª Catalan, created with the help of Julián C. Pérez.
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As the title implies the music was generated in response to traditional music notions of the time, and reflects how Jesus Mª Catalan would challenge these traditional ideals using a fusion of styles and his unique vision. Jesus laid out his synths and drum machines, while other musicians played traditional instruments over the top. This unique approach worked to create atmospheric tracks capturing simple themes, with each influence being carefully thought of in the joint result. As he explains each instrument weaves independently throughout a passage in a curious game where the listener's attention goes from focusing on a keyboard, guitar to bass or percussion. Previously only released on a cassette album in Spain, Left Ear have polished 5 choice cuts for a 2018 12'.

Recorded in Miami in 1985 by a school teacher and originally released as a self-published single for educational purposes, copies of 'Do You Know Black History' did not circulate much further than Florida's public school libraries and the record has been shrouded in mystery up until now.

Dr Mary Sullivan Bain recorded the song to be used as an educational and motivational tool in the Miami-Dade public school system she taught in.

Produced with no label constraints, this cross-genre grail sits comfortably in many boxes... 808's, bass synths, deep chords, live percussion and effects dubbed into the mix. The production leans towards the electronic diy framework that informed the local sound on the Miami south side. Whilst the categories are blurred what's clear is that Bain was thinking outside of the box. Official 12' reissue from Backatcha Records.

His first solo EP, Barbie's Back, out on Gomma, is a huge success for the ghetto-disco wizkid and everyone starts falling in love for his sound: his first album, Hot Robot, is released in 2008 and Erol Alkan, Jori Hulkonnen, PrinsTomas, Digitalism, Shitrobot play his tracks all around the world. Thought, recorded and produced in his studio in Gracia, Barcelona, V.I.C.T.O.R features a number of collaborations: Julienne Dessagne (Sachienne), Yan Wagner, Fabrizio Mammarella, Moscoman, Guillaume Atlan, In Fields , Pajaro Sunrise

Idiology was originally released in 2001 and is now finally back on vinyl. This re-issue is pressed on white color vinyl and presented in a die cut jacket with artworked inner sleeve and free download card. From their beginnings in 1992, Cologne native Jan St. Werner and Dusseldorfer Andi Toma have consistently challenged electronic music"s paradigm in often surprising and always intriguing ways. Idiology is the duo"s seventh album and is no exception to this rule, as Mouse on Mars surround themselves with strings, woodwinds, brass and the band"s own heavily modified fleet of machines in the St. Martin"s Tonstudio. Fans should once again brace themselves for the inevitable shock of the new as Germany"s most irreverent audio renegades have created the perfect soundtrack for a highly sinister dance party. Kicking off with "Actionist Respoke", the album"s first single, Mouse on Mars officially declare their independence from glitchtronica"s shoegazing legions. Longtime collaborator Dodo Nkishi lends a uniquely warped vocal sensibility to the track which already features Mouse on Mars"s darkest grooves to date. The rest of the album continues to thicken the group"s sonic stew. Tracks such as "Presence" and "Catching Butterflies With Hands" have their populist intentions undermined by Werner and Toma"s meddling hands, while the duo reprise their flirtation with the orchestral as heard on the opening tracks from 2000"s Niun Niggung. At the other end of the spectrum, "Introduce" is a truly evil slice of twisted lympho-zoid hip-hop. Idiology takes no prisoners in its dual-pronged assault on the conventions of modern music. Only with the loungy closing number, "Fantastic Analysis" (a term Werner and Toma invented to describe their working process), do Mouse on Mars let the arrangements breathe a long sigh of relief, the calm after the storm. To enable these stylistic achievements Mouse on Mars enlist the help of partners in crime such as: Nkishi, the multi-talented Harald "Sack" Ziegler, house icon Matthew Herbert on piano, violinist Matty Arouse, in addition to fellow programming wizards Adam "Vert" Butler and F.X. Randomiz. The latter two toured with Mouse on Mars in 2000 as they successfully triumphed over audiences around the globe.

As one-third of Yellow Magic Orchestra and an Academy Award-winning composer for his work on the soundtrack for The Last Emperor, synth pop innovator Ryuichi Sakamoto is among the most groundbreaking artists to have emerged since the late 70s. A musician's musician, Ryuichi Sakamoto has created intriguing musical unions with artists such as David Sylvian, Iggy Pop, Tony Williams, Bootsy Collins, Jaques Morelenbaum and many others.

Following the massively successful release of the electronic masterpiece async in 2017, Ryuichi Sakamoto's first studio album in eight years, Milan is proud to announce the remix compilation async remodels: a dozen remixes of async's tracks by a who's-who of experimental giants - everyone from Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (Arrival, Sicario) to Oneohtrix Point Never (composer of Good Time) to Arca (producer of Björk's numerous releases) have gotten their hands dirty remixing Sakamoto's work. Even reworks by the Canadian synthpop duo Electric Youth and Austin-based synthwave legends S U R V I V E are included. With such a well of talent reinterpreting such a personal album, this is one release Sakamoto fans can't afford to miss.

Two spontaneous recordings made by Mystic Jungle and Rico Milord during an hot midsummer night at West Hill Studio (Camaldoli, Naples). Lo-fi reverbered analog cheap drums, fm synthesizer, electric bass and lazy guitar movements amplified in a vintage space echo.

Hailing from a H Class planet far across the cosmic highways, BÊNNÍ is "hi NRG New Age" music. A pivotal member of bands Wizzard Sleeve/Gary Wrong Group, Heavy Lids, Roman Gabriel Todd's BRUOOTS, 9th Ward Marching Band, and many more, BÊNNÍ was born from his personal need of new music to listen to while driving his spacecraft long distances.

Tired of listening to Van Halen's "5150" and Zebra's self-titled album on his journeys, he began creating sci-fi landscapes and ethereal soundtracks of his own. Often at times primitive, BÊNNÍ's music can go from Vangelis, to John Carpenter, to 80s dungeon electro band into vintage arcade game circuitry with the blink of an eye. With his first LP release, BÊNNÍ will be embarking on a Euro/Scandinavian tour in August.
New Orleans' enigmatic Quintron weighs in:
"The thing to me that has always kinda set the Memphis / New Orleans punk scenes apart from other places is that music and musicianship always outweighs high concept or the typical sneering "fuck you" attitude of other places. BÊNNÍ is a Musician with a capital M and it's no accident that within a year of his coming to New Orleans (from less than an hour up the Gulf), he began to influence the local landscape as much as any of us who had been here and doing it for decades. BÊNNÍ is special, especially for a young dude. He NEVER overplays, he always listens, he's funky as a church lady, and his memory for parts and complicated song structure is unmatched in anyone I have ever worked with....plus he's chill as fuck. There is a reason that he is in almost every good band in the entire city right now. So yea...if any of you Memphis bitches get funny ideas about stealing him away from us, there will be a straight up lazy drunken army riding up the river to forcibly take him back."

Brass Hearse will be available on limited edition single sided black vinyl, with screen printed image on the B side. Download card is included with 2 extra bonus tracks. Limited to only 250 worldwide.

The goth soaked electronic rock of Brass Hearse's debut album is here to take over your dark souls and have a ball!
They are black chrome'

BRASS HEARSE is made up of WOLFMEN OF MARS (L Liberty, J Clapp, N Merryweather) and the vocalist from ICE DRAGON

Sequenced and recorded in using synths like Roland 909, Roland Juno 106, Akai Cassette Deck GXC 325D, MFB 522, Doepfer Modular, Telefunken M15A...

This is a comp of Peter's work from the 80s and 90s with some material never released on vinyl.. More info soooon!

21 shades of freak from the illuminati of lost sides, Light Sounds Dark.

Don't expect pretty synthpop with bouncy rhythms, catchy melodies or cute Casio sounds. Vono's style is different. To say the least. It's unique. The album is full with short minimal purely electronic sounding sequences.

Music For Dreams is proud to announce the new album by Danish legend Dub Tractor. One of the founding fathers of electronica in Denmark in the early 90s, Anders Remmer has remained a reluc-tant beacon of Copenhagen's scene ever since, with his musical legacy still a work in progress. As well as being a member of Future 3, Remmer has released material under a number of different ali-ases, but his most frequent guise dating back to 1994 has been Dub Tractor. Under this name, he gently crafts complex yet warm and organic electronic music that flirts with ambient, dub and IDM.

With Hello Ambient Wash', the first Dub Tractor album since 2009, Remmer explores further the pos-sibilities of Dub Tractor after the more pop-oriented & shoegaze-flavoured approach of his last album "Sorry". In addition to new material, the second half of Hello Ambient Wash' presents a retrospective of hand-picked tracks from his first three albums on Flex Records (the label which Music For Dreams founder Kenneth Bager ran with Ole Mortensen from 1994 to 2007). Two "Discrete Recordings" tracks from 1994 highlight the atmospheric dub origins of Remmer's sound, while the two tracks from the 1996 album "An Evening With.." see Remmer at his most accessible and funky. The four cuts from his seminal 2000 album "Delay" still sound as vibrant and fresh today as they did then, and perfectly add weight to this unique collection.

Back on the new material, we see Remmer experimenting further with the style he has become syn- onymous with. On tracks like "Wow" and Flutter', he plays with elements of distortion and layers of sound to create an atmosphere of fragility and nostalgic haze. Loops trapped in reverse over the delicate but intense humming of lo-fi ambient noise create a sense that these tracks could fall apart at any given moment, but still push forward at a cautious pace. The melodic side of Dub Tractor shines through on the opening track "C8 90", the title track "Hello Ambient Wash", and "A7 94". Coming off as crackly old cassette recordings of some lost Southeast
Asian folk music filtered through the high-tech dub engines of Remmer, the sound of the new
Dub Tractor proves a heady stew of influences that still sound wholly their own.

Stay Home' echoes more the shoegaze direction Remmer took on "Sorry" with a melancholic sway which layers ghostlike vocals over muted lingering chords. While on tracks like "SIne Song" and "Ltl" Remmer truly gives cause to the name Dub Tractor, as he ploughs down tight rhythms over sub-bass frequencies and a myriad of trickling effects. Like walking through a dense rain forest of sound,drum clicks stick to your body like moist leaves - these tracks conjure the sensation of a cannabis high or an ASMR episode (google that if you don't know it). Remmer must have tapped into some masterful technology of sine wave manipulation to push the listener into these mind altered states.

Limited European edition of 50 copies numbered.

"The Portland based trio of Alexander Wolfe (Vocals), Wolfgang Williams (Guitar), and Tim Iserman (Synth/Programming) cater to all your death disco needs, as Ritual Veil are well versed in the pleasures of synth & sin.

There's some serious nods to Depeche Mode embedded in their DNA, especially in the blackened sex appeal of Wolfe's rich Gahan-sian vocal styling, all while the arrangement bristles with taut energy.
Favorite Toy' is pure sexbeat of the highest order, as Williams and Iserman lay a fitting bed of club ready goth pop for Wolfe to vocally gyrate over.

Ritual Veil know their way around a perfect pop gem, one that pulls from sultry mechanics and dancefloor urgency, while deploying such gothly weapons as an echoed beat, pulsing synths, and cooled vocal exuberance..." Screaming For Years

Visible Cloaks' Lex proposes a utopian dream language and its accompanying sound, a limitless, delicate space developed by fluid musical techniques and subconscious voices. The six pieces comprising Lex simulate a more peaceful future, their mysteries telling a new tale in an unknown but imaginable melodic language. Visible Cloaks are the Portland-based musicians Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile. Utilizing software-based composition rooted in randomization, MIDI-translation and chance operations, the duo has established an improbable humanist mode of music from esoteric processes. Following their self-titled debut album, Visible Cloaks offered Reassemblage, an album simultaneously honoring the post-Yellow Magic Orchestra school of avant musical adventure and diverging from it. Veering from the paths cleared by Japanese and Italian electronic pop and ambient artists of the mid-80s / early-90s, Reassemblage established Visible Cloaks' own camp in a forest of deep sound canopied by trees grown from synthetic seeds.The sound represented on Lex is webbed with sculptural arrangements and interpolated by the sounds of alien speech. These strange and serene utterances were created by Doran feeding a chain of multiple dialects and accents through a language translation software to create an auditory poetry of an evolved place and time.

Lex features both the final version of this process and earlier, simplified experiments with it ( Keys'). The idea - building on 'fourth world' or 'global village' type concepts - was to create a projected language that was a fusion of many,' Doran explains. The result was a very disorienting form of non-language that amplifies the lapses in meaning that occur with the inaccuracy of auto-translation software.'

Permutate Lex, a companion short film to Lex made by Visible Cloaks in collaboration with artist Brenna Murphy (who also created the artwork for Reassemblage and several virtualist videos for the album), is an integral counterpart, both visualizing an aesthetic alive with human form and guiding the sonic experience of the first five pieces: Wheel,' Frame,' Transient,' Keys,' and title track Lex.' World,' the longest piece presented on Lex, is redrawn from a generative composition originally produced for an installation Doran made with Murphy.

The original work incorporates LFOs and randomized MIDI-information, and was intended to variate indefinitely. In this 'fixed' version, World' provides a more conclusive view into the impossible musical environments Visible Cloaks make real. Longer than any track on
Reassemblage, World' expresses the deepening, patient intimations suggested by Lex.

Doran says the Lex attempts to communicate the essence of a world distant enough that it can't be captured or comprehended from the present, appearing only surreal and inscrutable.' The statement reveals a broader musical philosophy fueling this new moment, an awakened voice woven through complex melodic shapes and phrases establishes communication between listeners and the unknown, here presented by Visible Cloaks as sounds coloring the very edge of the envisionable.

Debut release from Dust Witch. A 5-piece synth outfit that recall the heyday of 70's prog rock. Their sound is tight, complex and densely layered - recalling Goblin at their most fluid, and Yes during their most wigged out moments. What sets them apart from their current synth wave contemporaries is not only their exceptional song writing skills but the addition of live drums & guitar which gives their dense sound an extra kick, and a very human element missing from most current synth acts operating today. This 7-Inch single, pressed on 140g vinyl features artwork by Daniel Danger.