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Remastered Reissue eines weiteren Klassikers aus Warp's legendärer 1990'er "Artificial Intelligence"-Serie: der UK Techno-Klassiker "Electro-Soma" (1993) von B12. Parallel erscheint "Electro-Soma II", eine Kollektion ultrararer Tracks diverser früher B12-Maxis, erschienen unter mysteriösen Pseudonymen wie Musicology, Redcell und Cmetric, ebenfalls remastered. 2CD im Digipak mit 32-seitigem Booklet mit ausführlichen Sleevenotes, Archivfotos und Memorabilia. 2LP "Electro-Soma" mit Poster & Download-Code im Gatefold.

Gebrüder Teichmann's third album, - Lost on Earth , merges transcultural collaborations and electronic music between 90 and 130bpm. The album was recorded in a multitude of cities and countries including Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Nigeria, Kenya & Germany and features guest artists Abe Duque (NYC), Mc Psychotek (Bulawayo), Wura Samba (Lagos), Santiago Rodrigues & Signal Deluxe (Mexico City), Sasha Perera (Berlin), Max Turner (Noland) or the Kibera based art collective Masai Mbili. Crafted by jams and recording sessions round the globe, Lost On Earth captures the essence of a rough, pure and direct mix highlighting club, hip-hop, African influenced and deep tracks.

Brothers Andi & Hannes Teichmann, aka Gebrüder Teichmann, are electronic musicians, DJs and cultural activists, rooted in Berlin's techno underground and DIY-culture since the late nineties. The duo have performed at Berlin's premiere clubs including Berghain/Panorama Bar, WMF, Watergate, Bar25 and have hosted regular nights at Suicide Circus Berlin since 2009.
Over the years the brothers have collaborated with numerous artists across a variety of genres. Collaborations have included hip hop, contemporary, traditional and experimental music with collaborators including Ensemble Modern, Decoder Ensemble, Embryo, Joachim Irmler & Gudrun Gut, Foremost Poets, rRoxymore, Teknotika, Jahcoozi & Modeselektor or their father, multi-instrumentalist Ulrich Teichmann.
Andi and Hannes have put together several projects in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute, like TEN- CITIES, BLNRB & SOUNDCAMPs in Sri Lanka, Pakistan & Mexico, and established the intercultural electro ensembles KARACHI FILES (Pakistan/Europe), BLNRB (Nairobi/Berlin) & MONDMASCHINE (Mexican/Central America/Europe). With their label NOLAND they are compressing this diversity.
Their musical activities from DJing, giving workshops and playing live sets have taken them to over 60 countries as far as Afghanistan, Honduras, Sibiria or Angola.
Home in Berlin they've been curating several festivals, such as the - From Inside To Way Out at HAU Hebbel Am Ufer, the African Music Convention 2014 or parts of the WORLDTRONIC Festival at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Melbourne’s Love Above Records debut release is a 4 track Various Artists 12”. Featured on the release are label directors ​Ryan Berkeley​ (Love Above Records, Houses In Motion) and ​Dawn Again​ (Love Above Records, Blind Jacks Journey, Rothmans, Porn Wax.. ) alongside fellow Melbourne natives ​DJ Heure​ (Distant Hawaii, All My Thoughts) and ​Norachi ​(Butter Sessions). Additional production by Ingrid Parry-Hayden. Mastering by Corey Kikos (Sleep D, Butter Sessions). Artwork by Galen Strachan.

On the A side we jump straight into Ryan Berkeley’s “Round The Ride”, a slab of club ready house music. A fantastic, earworm of a vocal is laid over a hypnotic groove that builds and builds until it all combines in a full-blown, hands-in-the-air, 3 am weapon. Norachi’s “Ffffred” takes a different approach. A woozy concoction that is reminiscent of 90’s tech house. It combines a kaleidoscopic array of elements that all whirl around each other to create a great afterhours trip. On the B-Side is DJ Heure’s “HUH”, an infectious cut of boom-bap influenced breakbeat house. Some gorgeous chords, set over a jumbling, throwback rhythmic groove. Think Andres meets Regelbau. And the final track is Dawn Again’s “Wuthering Heights”, a warm, fuzzy, chuggy deep house jam. An undeniably pumping bassline set amidst a bunch of jazzy chords and whispering, seductive vocals.

Deep vibes from the soul of Zûg to elevate the spirits. Part 3 for the “Algunos Sentimientos” series. Third episode contains: Gratitude, Security, Madness, Fury, Greatness, Fantasy, Ceremonial and Weirdness. Music from light beings transmitted by "Zûg".

Electro legend Gosub delivers an outstanding new album on Libertine... Not to be missed!

Hessle Audio welcome @laksauk to the label with three tracks of rowdy and forward-thinking dance music, following his last release on Timedance in September.

On the A-side, ‘Fire Kit’ sees the London-based producer and DJ approaching his sound from a different direction, with dancehall infused percussion offset by enveloping layers of sub-bass warmth at 95bpm. The B side jacks up the tempo with a raucous energy as the temperature drops to below freezing. Basslines rumble in ‘Belly Brocka’ and ‘T’s Tent’ like an approaching storm and snares lash through the mix like ice picks, with the broken rhythmic energy driving the dance forward in 2021 and beyond.

Running the club night and monthly NTS show ‘re:lax’ with re:ni, Laksa has been consistently pushing bass mutations since his early EPs on Beneath’s Mistry label. A Bristol bass bobbler at heart, his hybrid sound has found a home on many respected labels such as Timedance, Ilian Tape and Whities, cementing his place amongst the latest UK talent.

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The third release in the Dimensional Exploration series. This time four deep cuts with completely submerged underwater-vibes.
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New record from Mitro - a moniker of Natal Zaks. 6 experimental, downtempo, ambient, IDM-ish cuts.

Sometimes you produce a track with nothing but a dancefloor and a good sound system in mind. "Twelve Inch Jams" is offering you just that - strictly two A side tunes for the floor cut at 45 revolutions per minute. Jazz & Milk pays tribute to this classy release format with their new 12" vinyl series. Each record comes in a hand silk-screened printed and stamped sleeve!

The dreamteam of the highly successful first installment (JAMS001) teamed up again to share their love for raw and sample-based house music tunes produced on the MPC. Label artist Sam Irl and the man behind Jazz & Milk, Dusty never fail when it comes to layering colorful sample fragments and enriching them with raw beats and deep synthesizer chords.

"Broken Spell" starts off with a super moody atmosphere that slowly opens up until it reaches its energetic peak with bright synth stabs and a smooth bassline before colorful arpeggios are drifting the track into other spheres. "Love Prelude" has a rather dreamy vibe but its deep chord progressions and rough bass drums and claps create a truly unique contrast and a hypnotic atmosphere on top of it, while a later incoming bouncy bassline and dubby sample parts eventually pull you in cosmic dimensions!

A great early album from Belchior - much rootsier than some of his later work, with a groove that almost feels like samba soul at times! Arrangements and music are handled by Marcus Vinicius - who uses quick-stepping samba elements on some of the best tracks, mixed with more modern funky styles in this really great way - which creates even more magic with the hauntingly poetic structures of Belchior's lyrics! The songforms are great - very much in the concrete poetry format used on Caetano's Araca Azul album, but with a warmer vibe overall - on titles that include "Bebelo", "Mote E Glosa", "A Palo Seco", "Maquina", "Todo Sujo De Baton", "Rodagem", and "Cemiterio".

Different Fountains is the Brussels-based project of Bernardo Risquez and Michael Langeder. For a few years now, they have been at the center of what Brusssels has to offer in modern electronic music. Their sound hybridizes an impeccable knack for melody and atmosphere with an ever inquisitive mind-set that gives them an enviable and unique perspective in which influences float by naturally, touching base at will and evaporating exquisitely. 'Shrimp That Sleeps' is their first full length LP after having released a 7inch and a 12inch on their own Different Fountains Editions label. Its nine tracks (ten on the free bonus CD) touch upon subtle house music, post-rock, ambient and atmospheric pop. Through rhythmic diversity and a loop-like treatment of vocals (sampled or not), 'Shrimp That Sleeps' is an incredibly engaging, absorbing and beautiful record that works as one undeniable whole. There's diversity in moods, some tracks are danceable, some are contemplative and have an experimental feel to them. The Different Fountains universe is inviting yet not afraid to upset some conventions. This album is a highly convincing distillation of what makes music modern today and, in the process, adds to it through subtraction of what is not essential. 'Shrimp That Sleeps' is just that though, essential that is! LP contains free CD with bonus track & remix by Sagat!

After some years rather of cosmic and ragaesque music, we slowly began to explore some more experimental and noisy sonic expression. At the time, we only owned a few instruments and sound effects and, no drummer. We use to play long tracks in order to follow the trend of the alternative music of the period (please, remember, we are in 1975). The event was a total spectacle with an inventive light-show including a stroboscope and a frantic projection of strange abstract slides on a giant screen by Freddy Pourcel. Some incense was burnt time to time.
A 42 minute live set across across both lp sides. Recorded and mixed in March 1975.

With his album IN BETWEEN re:deep presents not only an impressive specimen of his musical spectrum. The artist also merges Deep House elements and experimental Folk as well as extremely minimized Indie Pop into a whole new sound concept. re:deep intensively bends the boundaries of the genres, delves deep into the soundscapes of different epochs and styles. Thereby warmly crackling field recordings blend into analogue basslines and sequencers as well as melancholic guitar drones meet sensitive vocals.
The always smoothly appearing and cocooning sound is the subtle recurring theme of the whole album, which develops a close intimacy and captivates by its analogue warmth, which you can't escape of. Tender strings float on vibrant drums and wafting surfaces. The album features the Japanese artist COKIYU, her voice in combination with the arrangement form a symbiotic relationship and evolve WEARING LIGHTS into a journey through slowly drifting Electronica landscapes.
The field recordings, which were made - inter alia - in Iceland's rough countryside, are particularly noticeable between the lines and infuse the soul of the album as well as the love to detail in general. A total of nine tracks are featured on the album, which convince not only by their sound density and close interconnectedness, but also by the shift in emotions. Music, that is enjoyable at your home as well as on the dancefloor and - after all -just touches your body and soul.

Mit dem Album IN BETWEEN präsentiert re:deep nicht nur eine beeindruckende Werkschau seines musikalischen Spektrums. Der Künstler fusioniert Deep House Avancen mit experimentellem Folk sowie bis aufs Mark reduziertem Indie Pop zu einem vollkommen neuen Soundkonzept. Genregrenzen lotet re:deep intensiv aus, und taucht tief in Klangwelten unterschiedlicher Epochen und Stilarten. Dabei treffen warm knisternde Field Recordings ebenso selbstverständlich auf analoge Basslines und Sequencer wie auch schwermütige Gitarren-Drones auf feinfühlige Vocals.
Der stets weich anmutende und umhüllende Sound zieht sich dabei fast unmerklich wie ein roter Faden durch das gesamte Album, dass durch seine analoge Wärme unweigerlich eine intime Nähe entwickelt und in den Bann zieht. Zarte Streicherarrangements gleiten auf IN BETWEEN über pulsierende Drums und dahinschwebende Flächen. Japanerin COKIYU ist als Featuregast vertreten und beflügelt mit Ihrer Stimme WEARING LIGHTS - Stimme und Arrangement gehen hier eine vollkommene Symbiose ein und avancieren den Track zu einer Reise in langsam dahingleitende Elektronika-Landschaften.
Zwischen den Zeilen machen sich vor allem die Field Recordings bemerkbar, die unter anderem in der schroffen Naturlandschaft Islands entstanden sind und die Seele des Albums ebenso erfüllen wie die Liebe zum Detail überhaupt. Die insgesamt neun Tracks überzeugen jedoch nicht nur durch die Klangdichte und tiefe Verwobenheit, sondern auch durch den Wechsel der Emotionen. Musik, die gleichermaßen im heimischen Wohnzimmer, sowie auf Tanzflächen ihren Platz findet und am Ende eines gemein hat - Körper und Seele zu berühren.

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Timeline is back with the ''Next Step 4wrd'' in the ever-evolving Hi Tech Jazz movement. ''Light My Fire'' features an enchanting female vocalist over a bed of choice chords laid by Timeline's Jon Dixon. ''Next Step 4wrd'' on Side B has been tried and tested here in Detroit as well as Europe! A favorite of Timelines well received performances.

In a trio of instrumental tracks, Alex from Tokyo and Willie Graff pay tribute to the places they love: New York City, Ibiza, and Berlin. Inspired by the unique soundscapes and club cultures of each city, the two DJ friends (who met while spinning records at NYC club Cielo in the mid-2000s) came together in late-night jam sessions at Darren Eboli’s studio in Tribeca to bring the soundscapes to life.

Dreamboy from Gothenburg begifts world with completely enchanting EP - four tracks ranging from look-ma-no-kick-drum club heaters to spirit-world ambience and some real Swedish reggae. Starting off with his Studio Barnhus debut, ishi vu is set to blow up 2017 with a string of releases on select world-renowned labels.

RECORD COMES IN TRANSLUCENT RED VINYL, FULL COLOUR SLEEVE AND PRINTED INNERSLEEVE. LIMITED EDITION

A SERIES OF SONGS WRITTEN AND DESTROYED . . . SELF-CANNIBALIZED PRODUCTIONS SPIT BACK OUT IN ABNORMAL SILHOUETTES . . . THE ORIGINALS SHREDDED APART INTO DISCREET MOTIFS— MINIATURE RHYTHMIC PATTERNS, COLLECTIONS OF MELODIC RUNS . . . SELECTED MOMENTS OF RECORDINGS FROM MAXWELL STERLING (DOUBLE BASS) AND PETER EVANS (TRUMPET) INTRODUCED AS 'PROBIOTICS' . . . FREEFORM IDEAS SET TO FEED OFF OF THE ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS LIKE BACTERIAL ORGANISMS . . . CREATING NEW 'GROWTHS' . . . MUTATING AND CONGEALING INTO FOREIGN FORMS.

Konstellaatio is another Mika Vainio masterpiece as his original alias Ø on the native label Sähkö Recordings that Mika co-founded in 1993.

Yahshu is seeking something he has never heard before, bringing influences into his work from a huge spectrum. Created using a combination of live strings, samples and synths, the three tracks on 'Somebody Else's Dream' invite the listener to witness a conversation of sound, as if one sound was asking a question and another answering it. What that conversation is, we'll let the listener decide. The EP was originally written 10 years ago but has since been developed and refined, finally coming to life through RYSUNKU.

Yahshu is also the founder of RYSUNKU. 'Somebody Else's Dream' is the first release on the label. RYSUNKU releases innovative sound work in very limited numbered vinyl editions.

'Somebody Else's Dream' artwork by artist Connie Prantera and design by renowned art collec- tive Tomato.

ohn Beltran was responsible for some of the greatest ambient techno records of the 1990s, and despite falling into near-obscurity for much of the 00s, his place in the canon has recently been secured thanks to reissues on Styrax and Millions of Moments.

Intense house/techno tracks with even a discofeel sometimes. Limited Green vinyl!

Intense house/techno tracks with even a discofeel sometimes. Limited Blue vinyl!

Side label for Millions Of Moments with deep chords and big dubby basslines and everlasting echo's getting lost in space. 4 tracks by Bvdub, SF100, Masafumi Eno and Shinsuke Matsumoto. Futuristic vintage techno on this fine label from Berlin.

* Following on from successfully funding her How To Make A Symphony Kickstarter project, Emika returns with a new four-track EP that sees her chart yet more new territory.

* Lead track Flashbacks is a typically haunting affair whose deeply personal lyrics are a heartening example of how art can turn feelings of trauma into something beautiful

* Her velvety voice belies the deep subject matter while the sounds gracefully tread the line between the brooding and the ethereal, with pulsing, filtered synth delays, low register piano bass octaves and a stuttering slo-mo beat produced with The Exaltics, building an engrossing atmosphere

* Restless Wings goes into more experimental territory - both in terms of composition and concept. 'It's about creating a new personality which lives in the internet - something we all know

* Total features the silver-toned soprano star of How To Make A Symphony, Michaela Srumova, and tackles the complicated relationship between a mother and her daughter

* French musician Franck Vigroux provides a stark, shuddering remix of Flashbacks to complete the EP, driven by gnarled blasts of wildly distorted synths and bass grunts, rising to an intense, mesmeric crescendo

* This EP brings together the classical and electronic extremes of the Emika sound, proving that her signature is like no other and continues to evolve.

We’re opening the new year with a homegrown white label, the first in a series strictly showcasing artists from Amsterdam. On A1 we have the talented guys of Windows with the epic “Could I Be Crazy?”.
Yes, but you’re not; this is definitely anthem material.

Next up it’s Match Box’s “Spaarndammerstraat”, a breaky, ravey ode to one of their favorite streets in the city. The B1 is a twisty take on classic deep house by Late Night Burners’ own Kurley and Roman Coskun, while for B2, veteran MOOR blends more than a decade of experience into a vibrating slice of broken beat.

Chicago's own Anthony Nicholson & Glenn Underground team up for this two track 12" of electronic dance fusion. Warm electronic sounds for club play and home listening. Two house music heavy weights together on one record.

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Much like its predecessor, In Decay, the 2014 compilation of unreleased, early Com Truise recordings, In Decay, Too unlocks a new set of rarities and unheard fragments from the past for the producer's legion of fans. To accomplish such a feat, the Com camp tapped the Internet's foremost Com Truise archivist, Polychora (formerly Comrade), whose YouTube channel has diligently documented Seth Haley's musical output since his earliest Komputer Cast (Haley's podcast mix series) days. Polychora's vault and input helped Haley and the team locate and curate the ultimate sequence of career-spanning off-album material, showcasing an artist in perpetual orbit of hazy machinist nostalgia. Haley's singular style of melodic beat music is the work of countless iterations; with In Decay, Too, his idiosyncratic exercises, experiments, and pivots pause for a rightful wave of appreciation. Following the smeared introductory tones of "Zeta," the album locks into its first robotic groove on "Compress_ Fuse," a trademark Truise treatment with cascading synth lines and deep, sinister low-end bass stabs. Further down is the suspiciously bright "False Ascendancy," which lures listeners through a labyrinth of drum patterns and siren-like keys, all colliding into "Constant Fracture." The track pushes to the point of stress, reaching the album's apex with a punishing series of blows before fading to relief, where the beatless and contemplative "Trajectory" awaits. In 2019, Com Truise left his previous sci-fi narratives behind for the visceral Persuasion System, a markedly more human record, which now makes In Decay, Too something like a bookend to an era. One last transmission from coordinates unknown; a culminating exhale ahead of what's still yet to come.

Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons have released their new track 'Feedback Loop'. This is the latest single to be taken from their forthcoming new album Heart of Sky, out on July 20th through Crosstown Rebels/BMG. Showcasing the warm textures of Jesse Appiah's soulful vocals and the Ancient Moons' top notch production, 'Feedback Loop' already sounds like a classic and is undoubtably one of the album's key moments. The song is about A.I., a conversation between man and machine, and rolls out of the speakers like a 21st Century update of Bristol's Wild Bunch sound system. Remixes for the dancefloor from Bedouin and Serge Devant, plus dubs from the legendary Mad Professor, follow on all formats next month.

Juicy Fruit is as succulent as the name suggests - a feast of flavour served up by Dutch masters Kraak & Smaak. Their fifth studio album is one that sees them sonically revisiting the roots of their first releases, producing an organic and warm electronic disco and funk album packed with hot property collaborators including Mayer Hawthorne, Eric Biddines of Golden Rules, Parcels, Gallowstreet and Cleopold to name a few.

Effortlessly flitting between outright dancefloor boogie and meditative mellow moments it's a record that captivates the listener from start to finish, blending the timeless appeal of disco and electro with the best in indie dance and electronica.

Furcula is a collective work by composer Asger Baden and recording artist & actor Peder. Peder and Asger Baden work as film composers on a daily basis at their townhouse studio in central Copenhagen. They have worked for 'Breaking Bad", 'Beastie Boys", 'Wolfpack' amongst others. Whenever they have some time, they work on Furcula. The music is based on the acoustic colours of two very different rooms: The Village (large orchestral studio in Copenhagen) and Vor Frue Kirke - the biggest church in Denmark which features a reverb of over 7 seconds. All sounds, instruments and samples are recorded in these two rooms and used as samples in the studio to create the music. The result is the depth and contrast between the huge reverb and very close textures that feel as though they're right next to you, scratching your skin. The result is ghostly, dark, cinematic and beautiful. Art by Rob Sato. - Debut album as a collective by filmcomposers Asger Baden & Peder who has had music featured in Breakin Bad. - Peder has 4 solo albums under the belt released by Ubiquity records, Wordandsound, Fake Diamond and allways featured in Radio Nova. Featured artists like Oh Land, Coco (Quadron) Jonas Bjerre from MEW amongst others. - Asger Baden solo debuted with a classical album 2015 recorded in Prague and The Crooked Spoke in 2008. - 2/4 of danish group Cours Lapin - As cinematic as it gets.

Rotterdam's mysterious studio-wizard strikes on the joyful label of Baltermore isle. Get alleviated and dream on!

Following Up On Last Year's Release, We Continue The Smoky Adventure With A Debut Ep By Our Brother Koldd And Another Sight At What Marseille Is Up To With A House Focused 4-tracker Composed Between The Beaches Of Tahiti And Marseille. Moorea Ep Is Exploring The Influences Of Koldd, Ranging From Ambient Tale To Abstract Downtempo, Through Banging House And Minimalistic Grooves, And Resulting In A Complete And Mature Ep For The Mid-20's Producer. It Comes In A 180g Heavy And Hand Stamped 12 Inch White Label, And Including A Special Insert Of Vava Dudu's Unique Drawing Style.

Europe By Night is the gripping and intoxicating debut album by Stockholm, Sweden based Metro Riders (real name Henrik Stelzer) and the first release on newly minted contemporary global imprint Possible Motive. Employing outdated software and now obsolete analogue recording equipment, Metro Riders conjures a suspenseful and gloomy, true to the era re-imagining of lost sounds. A real labor of love, Europe By Night encompasses a very niche palette, everything from the prophetic visions of John Carpenter, to the warbled world of Troma films, to Italian horror flicks, Euro-crime and the cybernetic sewers of The Skaters.

Few groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil, the partnership of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance. From album to album and phase to phase their recordings spelunk perplexing depths of esoteric industrial, occult electronics, and drugged poetry, both embodying and alienating parallel currents of their peers. The late 1990's in particular were a fertile era for the duo, embracing chance, chaos, and collaboration, enhanced by recent advancements in synthesis and sampling. Fittingly, at the summit of the decade's long, intoxicated arc, their divergent strains of interstitial ritual congealed into one of Coil's most celebrated and hallucinatory creations: Musick To Play In The Dark.

Convening at Balance and Christopherson's vast Victorian house / studio in the coastal town of Weston-super-Mare, they began a series of ambitious sessions aided by inner circle associates Thighpaulsandra and Drew McDowall. Although the creative process was admittedly “iterative” and “a bit of a drug blur,” the results are astoundingly inventive and well realized, winding through shades of divination dirge, wormhole kosmische, noir lounge, ominous humor, and black mass downtempo, guided by Balance's cryptic lunar muse, which he announces on the opening track: “This is moon musick / in the light of the moon.”

What's most remarkable about the album 20 years after its release is how brazen, insular, and unpredictable it still feels. The songs follow an allusive, altered state logic all their own, warping from microscopic ripples of glitch and breath to widescreen warlock psychedelia and back again, as much hyper-sensory as interdimensional. Even within a catalog as eclectic as Coil's, Musick is a mystifying collection, oneiric evocations of desire, decadence, dinner jazz, and dietary advice, far beyond the pale of whatever gothic industrial ambiguity birthed such a journey. The record closes with a slow, starlit shuffle, bathed in seething sweeps of spectral texture and high cathedral keys, like approaching the altar of some arcane temple. As the trance thickens Balance's voice rises, processed into an increasingly eerie, gaseous haze, but he resists these unseen forces, intent on delivering a final sermon: “Through hissy mists of history / the dreamer is still dreaming / the dreamer is still dreaming.”

In August 2016 Ultramarine created a photo film featuring photographs from Ian Cooper's Survey East website which focuses on a particular stretch of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.

The film (and accompanying soundtrack) was screened on rotation at the Caught By The River Thames festival at Fulham Palace in London.

For this original Blackwaterside audio/print project, Ultramarine created two new pieces of music inspired by their time working close to the estuary. Glasgow based printmaker/sculptor Bronwen Sleigh visited this remote corner of Essex to sketch and draw, using these visual references to create a lithograph, printed in three colours, which features on the cover of the book accompanying the 7" single.

The book features a series of Ian Cooper's original photographs, alongside poetry by the writer Philip Terry, inspired by the Essex coast, taken from his book Quennets.

- Originally released by publishing imprint Random Spectacular

- Re-released by Blackford Hill with obi strip

- 7" vinyl single

- 28-page booklet of photographs and poetry

- Wraparound cover by printmaker Bronwen Sleigh

- Digital download card (including an extra 16 minutes of bonus audio)

- Limited edition of 350 copies

- Played by Nick Luscombe on BBC Radio 3 'Late Junction'

- Played by Gideon Coe on BBC Radio 6

CoOp Presents an all-new double-album compilation entitled 'Plug One'. It features a plethora of global talent from in & around the world of bruk and beyond - some already well-established in the field, some very much on the come-up and some brand new artists - this compilation is an acknowledgment of a continually evolving sound from the label formed by IG Culture & Alex Phountzi a few years ago. 'Plug One' affirms this electric movement, with a deeply fluid current running throughout, with tracks ranging from the cosmic psych jazz of LCSM, to the classic UKG tweaks of Groove Chronicles, to the thought-provoking vibes of Reginald Omas Mamaode IV, to a veritable who's who of 2020 bruk talent including Xtra Brux, Sivey, EVM128, Cengiz, Wonky Logic & many more.

From its beginnings as a classic club night and label in the early 2000's, CoOp always carried an undefinable and potent creative energy. A sense of freedom and uninhibited exploration was positioned at the core of CoOp's sprawling community and consciousness, communicated via movement and sound. From this seed and throughout the years that followed, this same energy permeated the worldwide underground music ecosystem. As CoOp's legacy continued to influence new generations of music makers far and wide. The syncopated rhythms, soulful keys and infectious grooves synonymous with the broken beat sound, now known simply as Bruk, became entwined with new concepts and progressions, leading to new movements carrying on the essence of the bruk energy.

IG Culture and Alex Phountzi took the helm of their CoOp Presents label in 2018, with the vision of championing these new waves of emerging artists, continuing the all-important exchange of energy at the heart of the original CoOp movement, but also giving room for the music to be pushed into new and uncharted territories. With burgeoning producers from around the globe being drawn to the explorative and expressive nature of the project, an incubator was created, providing a space and platform for these ideals to take on new shapes and sounds. Just as every generation must rewrite its own history books, CoOp Presents was born from a combination of influences, ideas and personalities, and in turn is now encouraging the next generation to do some re-writing of its own.

'Plug One' will be released on vinyl & digital on CoOp Presents in November 2020.