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DJ Rubio delivers the latest Man Band 12. A masterful blend of deep broken cuts and raw ambient by the Helsinki resident.

Schlachthofbronx Celebrate 10 Years Of Their Existence With A New Record On Their Rave And Romance Imprint. On This Double Single, The Munich Based Duo Dives Into All That Interesting Vibes, Rhythms And Sounds They Have Come To Be Known For Over The Last Decade, Exploring The Hybrid Fields Between All Kinds Of Dub, Club And Soundsystem Music. And: They Even Allow Themselves To Get A Bit More Emotional To Fit The Special Occasion.

The A Side Ten Starts With A Bittersweet Synth Intro That Can Only Be Described As Epic Before Immersing In A Dubby Bassline World Full Of Layered Melodies Reminiscing About Club-romantic Stories Of Raves & Sunrises From The Past - While Always Keeping You Dancing To Waves Of Bass Tailored To Big Soundsystems, You Know The Drill.

The B Side Orion Takes You Far Away Into An Out-of-space Dub Universe Equal Parts Sultry & Fragile And Full Of The Highest Highs And The Lowest Lows. It's Deep.

It Will Be Available Digitally And On A Limited Edition Run Of 10" Vinyl (full Artwork Disco Sleeve) Via Rave And Romance Records. Distribution Via Unearthed Sounds (vinyl) And The Orchard (digital).

With This, Schlachthofbronx Will Follow Up Their 4 Previous Original Albums (2009s Schlachthofbronx, 2012s Dirty Dancing, 2014s Rave And Romance And 2017s Haul & Pull Up), Completed By Eps And Singles For Labels Like Zam Zam, Mixpak, Monkeytown, Mad Decent, Disko B And Man Recordings As Well As Production Work For Artists Like M.i.a., Snoop Dogg Or Bonde Do Role.

Mathimidori from Mule Musiq shows us his dub inspired roots incl. a fine balanced remix by Rhauder.

Returning After A Long-lasting Hiatus Is No Mean Feat - How To Stay Relevant, To Plug The Gap And Come Back As Strong As Where Things Were Left Off. A Man Called Adam's Return However, Is As Emphatic As It Is Endearing. Sally Rodgers And Steve Jones Are Back With A Brand New Album Of Melodic, Emotional, Pop-not-pop Tracks, Bringing Fresh Layers Of Feeling, From Warmth And Passion, To Sentimentality And Sorrow.

Displaying A Wealth Of Knowledge Gained Through Two Lifetimes Spent Immersed In Music, Farmarama Showcases A Myriad Of Styles And Richness In Arrangements. Moving From Soulful Slow Jams To Lo-fi Disco, Balearic House To Dub, Post-rock Electronica And Art-house Ambience, There Are Glistening Horizons And Windswept Beaches Conjured Up At Every Turn.

Take To The Likes Of 'mountains & Waterfalls', 'farmarama' And 'michael' And Hear Dancefloor, Disco Tinges That Marry Live Percussion, Sultry Rhodes And Hearty Basslines, Oozing Emotion. But Venture Deeper To Uncover A Pensive, Yet Equally Expressive Side To The Record Through Tracks Like 'higher Powers' And 'top Of The Lake'. Take The Later As An Example, A Neo-classical Slice Of Magical Ambience, That Wouldn't Be Out Of Place Soundtracking Sweeping Views Of Shimmering Scenery. Or 'spots Of Time', Beginning As A Frenetic, Glitched Out Piece Of Electronica, Before Opening Into A Brooding Breakbeat Journey.

Full Of Vintage Warmth, Analogue Synths And Intricate Textures, Rodgers, Jones And New Collaborator, Paul Smith, Combine Experimental Touches With An Undeniable Catchiness, Balancing Electronic Elements, With Acoustic Sparkles. In Harmony With This, The Contemplative, Poetic Verses, That Considers Life As A Hi-definition, Westworld-like Simulation, A Farmarama, And Disco As A Way Of Being, Meld And Morph A Conceptual Narrative That Tugs On The Heartstrings Of Life.

Farmarama, Then, Isn't Your Archetypal Album. It's An Emotionally Charged, Intelligent And Enlightening Body Of Work That's Balearic To The Bone.

'All around is invisible. Plan to be outside for some time...'

A diary of sonic cartography by long time friends, and neighbors K. Soublis aka Fluxion, and Savvas Ysatis.

Stemming from prior mutual respect, and interest for each other's work, it was not long after their first meeting at the turn of the millennium (when Ysatis was recording for Tresor, and Soublis for Chain Reaction) that a desire for a future collaboration was born.

...and a great many years later. Enter 'Soluce'.

A newly formed alias, and the vehicle under which to present the odyssey that is 'Birth' (LP).

An album conjuring images of alternate regions, exploratory from start to finish.

Dan Piu is releasing his first full Album with unreleased traxx since 1999. A collection of beautiful Chicago & Detroit sounding pieces that he created throughout the last centuries.

The brilliant DOMENIQUE DUMONT's second long player for Antinote Paris. TIP!
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August 2018: It's already been three years since Domenique Dumont made its entrance in the music world with a debut EP named Comme Ca. Despite a seemingly very quiet musical activity (the opening song to Antinote's compilation Five Years Of Loving Notes was the only song released by the band in 3 years) a few things have changed in-between these two summers: Domenique Dumont is no more the mysterious lone French producer we introduced last time but a Latvian duo, Arturs Liepins and Anete Stuce, which has been collaborating with 'an enigmatic French artist whose existence cannot be confirmed nor denied' (sorry, but it sounds like there's still some mystery in the air, and, again, we're just as clueless as you might be), the duo have been touring live and, most importantly, they kept on broadening their musical palette experimenting in a definitely pop field. Eight of these experiments are now tied together in Miniatures de Auto Rhythm.

The record probably begins where Comme Ca ended: frantic but light drum programing backbones a solar and slightly melancholic melody on Le Début De La Fin ('the beginning of the end'). However, the scope gets enlarged as soon as one reaches the second tune, Quasi Quasi, or Quand, on the flip side, perhaps the most overtly pop-rock oriented song on the record with its Mediterranean guitar and emotional bridge.

The road towards the apex of the record, Le Soleil Dans Le Monde, is a narrow and windy one, punctuated by toy instrumentals like Ono Mambo Haiku or the Donkey Kong Country-friendly Message Of The Diving Bird; however it never departs from its original tongue-in-cheek attitude. It's quite pleasant to imagine these eight 'miniatures' as field recordings from an enchanted world of pop music designed by some Pierre & Gilles' disciples - or are there
musical interpretations of half-mechanical, half-organic creations from a certain Otto Rhiesem (who might have inhabited the Locus Solus villa) There might be no definitive answers to this second set of riddles by Domenique Dumont.

It's 1977. There's A Chill In The Air, Like On A Usual December Evening. It's Cold, But The Night Is Fraught With A Strange Ferment, A Mysterious Energy That Seems To Announce A Revolution.

Four stunning remixes of Front De Cadeaux by our Fabrizio Mammarella. Comprising Hugo Sanchez from Rome and DJ Athome from Bruxelles, Front De Cadeux serve up three brand new tracks of 4/4 leaning crackling, static dance-mechanics that will fit straight in to your peak time selection. Touching on tribal house at points and the foggy basements of Berlin in others these remixes are joined by Mammarella's 'Pedé BPM' re-work - a gnarly slice of synthetic EBM that was previously only available digitally.

J:kenzo Is A Certified Don Of Contemporary Sound System Music, Whether Dubwise Or Otherwise, 140 To 160 And Beyond. Kenzo Is A Highly Respected Label Head (artikal Music Uk & Lion Charge Records), Heavyweight Producer, Master Disc Jockey And Host Of One Of The Most Passionately-followed Radio Shows In All Of Dubstep On Rinse.fm. Needless To Say We Are Thrilled To Build With Him Once Again. Absolute Control Over Sound Design, Timing, Tension And Dynamics Mark All Of Kenzo's Productions, And The Pair He Delivered For His Second Zamzam Are No Exception. Where His First Release Was A More Meditative Affair, kingston Hot' And concrete Jungle' Both Revel In A Harder, Darker Vibe.

"kingston Hot' Enters Rocking A Sleigh Bell Riddim And Builds Quickly Into A Stormer That Has Been Pummeling Crowds Worldwide On Dubplate With Support From The Likes Of J.sparrow, Mala, And Headland To Name Just A Few. At Once Spacey, Sultry, Heady, And Menacing It's Both Eyes-down And Hands-in-the-air Material, All Bass Weight And Reverb Space, With Every Flick Of The Wrist In The Mix Another Reason To Recognize That The Man's Stature In The World Of Bass Music Is Well-earned.

Concrete Jungle's Thinned Intro Kick, Spare Hand Drums, And Paranoid Minimalist Melody Set The Stage For A Hard 140 Stepper Composed Of A Sidewinding, Distorted Bassline, Smeared Snares And Panned Percussion That Drives Deep Into Primal Sound System Territory. Frequent Sparring Partner In The Live Arena Sun Of Selah Makes A Guest Appearance On The Mic With A Single Dread Declamation That Perfectly Captures The Tone Of The Tune, A Gritty Vibe That Feels Like Swaggering Through A Near-future Urban Wasteland On The Way To A Dance That May Not Be Much Safer Than The Streets.

Echocord sub-label Echo Echo continues this July with Orbite's 'Interstellar' EP, a threetracker from the Berlin- based producer. Orbite is a brand new project founded in Berlin, Germany with a nod towards the raw, dubby sounds often heard across the clubs in the city, and where better to inaugurate things than the recently launched sub-label of Copenhagen's Echocord, one of the leading imprints in the realms of Dub Techno, home to pioneering acts like Rod Modell/Deepchord, Pole and Fluxion who have paved the way for Orbite's own twist on the genre. The ethereal pad textures of 'Skylar' lead on the package, deftly evolving alongside bubbling synth tones, swelling chords and shuffled percussion to create a create dynamically unfolding six and a half minute cut. 'Moment' follows, edging things further into dubbed-out territories with heavily delayed dub echoes and mesmeric spoken word poetry intertwining to create a, hypnotic beatless soundscape. 'Organi' closes the record with emotive, billowing pads, warm bell like tones and vocal murmurs running alongside swinging shakers and stripped-back micro-house percussion.

Playfulness and elegance in harmony as youngster Ebende returns to Aniara with three fresh cuts.

Harrison BDP returns to Shall Not Fade sister label Lost Palms with the deep and dubby 'Yearning For Yesterday' EP.

Mystik dons the helmet and descends into the unknown, crafting sounds tailored for the denizens of sound system culture.

After The Initial Release From Transformations, The Collaboration Between Deepchord & Fluxion Continues With The Bona Fide Ep.the Urban Journey Remains, With The Duo Challenging The Audience With Another Colourful And Sonically Rich Release. The Duo Has Created Their Own Multi-layering Sound, A Wide Space Cinematic Environment.as Before, Two Really Engaging Recordings That Are Not Written With One Specific Environment In Mind.

we are pleased to announce the debut release of a young producer from St. Petersburg, HOAVI. His adventurous electronic sound is one we haven t heard in a while and excited us on first listen. While on one hand, his music has a traditional sound (early 90s UK), HOAVI does create a world of his own due to the versatility in his productions. It is this versatility that creates an exciting hybrid sound, therefore pushing the envelope and making it sound very current, future even. vinyl tastes better...

Almost exactly a year after his first EP on Byrd Out (the Kiyadub EP), the legendary Andrew Weatherall returns with new material for a second release. Andrew invited a mate round to his studio to try out a Les Paul his friend was looking to buy. As it turns out, his mate was Ride's (and Oasis') guitarist Andy Bell. Anyway, Andrew suggested he test the guitar out over a track he was working on, and 'Making Friends With The Invader' is the resulting track, which Andrew paired with the EP's title track 'Blue Bullet'. Both tracks plough the trippy, cosmic dub furrow, and come in at a weighty 8 and 9 minutes plus. 1000 vinyl only, and 200 cassettes. Grab them while you can! Mastered by Noel Summerville. Artwork by G.S-L Studio

Over The Last Few Years Parris Has Secured His Position As One Of The Most Forward Thinking Uk Techno Producers Along With Contemporaries Such As Batu And Livity Sound.

His Intricate, Minimalist Tracks Bristle With Experimentation Whilst Still Remaining Potent Dancefloor Material. On 'puro Rosaceaes' He Demonstrates This Skill Ably, Playing With Subtle Jungle Influences And House Frameworks.

Gunnar Wendel Has Been An Inspiration To Much Of The Current Uk School Of Techno, So It Is A Pleasure To Welcome Him To Idle Hands For A Remix Under His Kmos Alias. Here He Turns Parris' Track Into A More Broken And Reflective Cut.

Finishing Up The B Side Is 'soft Touch' A Mellow Track For The 100bpm Crew, With A Hip Hop Feel

A kind of intimate scrapbook of the startling collaboration between the techno maestro and this long-standing musical collective based in Bishkek, devoted to the roots music of Kyrgyzstan. Loose-leaved but balanced, lucid and intimate, it sets out from stunning a cappella and virtuosic komuz and kylak, mouth harp and traditional percussion: not field, but expert studio recordings, using marvellous vintage microphones, made over several days in Berlin. Further, a few of these are deftly treated by Moritz, using Reichian de-synced double-tracking, and discreet effects. Also two ten-minute dubs: a deadly, signature Berlin steppers, plus its version; and an echoing, mystical drum session, recorded live on stage in Bishkek. And a side-long, dream-like summation: the locomotive, oceanic, clangorous, dread Facets. Ravishing, rooted, searching music; beautifully presented.

A 4track EP from the Allergy Season boss Physical Therapy that will make you fly off from the love zone into a celestial and dreamy horizon. A cocktail of stirring drums and emotional synths.

Tallinn duo MAVA & NEBUKAT deliver four tranquil cuts on Estonia's LIITHELI, featuring remixes by Leleka founder VAKULA and 1212a alongside label boss ALI ASKER.
Mava and Nebukat have been an important part of the Estonian underground scene for some time, promoting parties and DJing in and around the capital. Their grafting has seen them join up with Green Village producer Ali Asker, who launched LIITHELI in 2016 to focus on local talent with early offerings from himself and fellow Estonian N1MA.
First up, 'Polymer' immediately grips us with rising tension - progressive synth-lines and fluttering percussion becomes the main focus here. 'Ambient Track' provides synthetic luscious melodies harmonising delightfully with the broken-beat drums.
1212a and Ali Asker's remix of 'Polymer' offers a captivating dubbed-out theme throughout, balancing delicate minimalism, with breezy atmospheres. Ukrainian producer Vakula presents a heavenly six-minute healer through precise, fluid pulsations and intriguing, melodic sound design.

Written by Mårten Attling, Jeff Virgo, Robert Folkesson
Produced by Mårten Attling

D3 Allstars premieres on underground Swedish label Machine Soul Records with a vinyl release that really stands out. Dub techno and electronica with an organic twist of live bass, djembe and jews harp. Music for your mind, your body and your soul - in Dub we trust!

Steve Bug Shows Us His Deeper Side Incl. 2 Dub Inspired Remixes By Rhauder & Marko Fürstenberg.

Yet more blissful listening comes your way courtesy of the impeccably talented Deepchord. As we prepare for the release Auratones, the Detroit native's 5th LP for Soma, Rod delivers the calming Northern Shores EP.

Epic aural formations are always at the forefront of Deepchord productions, every minute detail is constructed perfectly as each track gives off subtle nuances that nod to each aspect of Modell's sound designer skills. The crystalline sonic formations in Cirriforms blend together effortlessly allowing you to drift beyond while the ethereal pads of Sky Maps guide you through each unending swathe of reverb, each track bonded by subtle rhythms. Crystal Horizons sees Modell delve even deeper, working more with percussive elements as his quintessential synth work seems to sit just beyond perspective, gliding in gently to remind you of an ever reaching presence. Sand And Shore has Deepchord near strip the track of any clear rhythmic structure, with only faint sub bass allowing his uniquely processed field recordings and tranquil yet fluctuating synths to enhance the flow of the track.

A producer like no other, Deepchord creates new sonic realms with each release.

180g Vinyl - Vinyl Only Release

Bondage Music continues its 'Home (Remixes)' package this March with part four, the larst part comprising remixes from Guido Schneider & Daniel Dreier, Kike Mayor, Toygun and Muui.

Eat More House proudly presents Garbuge aka Jef K & Mikael Weill! Great vibes here on all four tracks of the "Grand Bazar"EP.

3rd chapter of ultra-heavyweight dub and UK steppers from the mighty King Earthquake.

Early January 2018 Bondage-Music return with a vinyl only Release, comprising four original compositions from Sascha Dive,
Tuccillo, NTFO and James Dexter.
Vinyl Only

RAAM continues his deep house exploration with EP 'Unfinished Diary'. The EP is packed with yearning pads and tender chord work that collides with dirty beats and deep basslines that creates that special melancholy but yet raw feeling.

A brace of strong bass excursions from the the huge talent they call, Ishio Dai! Jamming on the 808, 'Coco Dub' & 'BS' bounce around some proper system-testing bass weight!

Music Mania and Indica Dubs is proud to present the fourth release in their Mania Dub series. Following the classics 'Almighty Dub' (MD001), 'Rastafari' (MD002), 'Light Up Your Spliff' (MD003), comes another of the UK Dub scene's most popular producers; Vibronics, with two of their most popular anthems from the early 2000s: Red, Gold & Green / Terror. Both of these killers were previous released on different labels, and we have collated both songs into one giant release! Vibronics, the future sound of dub, have been vibrating the world with bass since 1997. Their music is at the forefront of the UK Dub scene, proven by over 60 releases on their own legendary SCOOPS label.

'Red, Gold and Green was the first time I worked with Horns - all played by Stevie Splitz - and now I've been working with him ever since... Terror was made with using the most basic equipment, set up in a temporary studio at home just to build some of raw exclusive dubplates that were never meant for release - they have gone on to be some true Vibronics anthems.'

The master tracks have been provided by Steve Vibronics for us to ensure the original heavyweight sound!

Mayak's resident Anton Kubikov returns with a new very moody, percussive and melodic house track on A-side. for remix duties we invite Dubtil, who makes a complete rework, dark, pushy, but still very groovy.

Hitoshi Murakami aka First Floor debuts on Local Talk.

Opening track 'You Dubn't Know' got a heavy bassline, deep chords and hypnotic textures and sounds like it was tailor-made for those dark and late after hours in the club. A righteous lesson in bumpin' deep House...

On the flip, 'Delight', shows a different side. A piano driven house track with a great sense of melody that just keeps on keeping on - and that's a good thing.

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We are living in precarious times. A senile, racist old man prone to temper tantrums has his tiny hands on the controls of the most powerful military machine the world has ever known. A handful of his (no less dangerous) international business associates and personal friends possess more collective wealth than the rest of us put together. The oceans and forests of the planet are dying slow deaths by asphyxiation, force fed 300 million tons of single use plastic garbage every year, and the temperature, both literal and rhetorical, rises the world over with each passing day. The formerly quaint ritual of rolling out of bed and reading the morning news over a cup of coffee is now an act reserved only for true sadists. To start each day being reminded that we have wilfully engineered a reality of such profound injustice and utter stupidity is enough to make the blood of even the most devote pacifist boil with rage. Rage in of itself however is the most dangerous of emotions. The burning torch of the riot and the mob. If the results of it's expression fail to provide at least the possibility of change for the better, then the rantings and ravings it fuels are worth little more than the breathe spent delivering them. Hope then, it seems, is the key to allowing us to carry on in the face of so much non-sense. On his latest studio album, we find Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat ruminating with hard earned wisdom and confidence upon this very notion.

The album began with the simple idea of asking friends from across the globe for messages of hope. No musical input was provided before hand, and each participant was free to interpret the request as they saw fit. Though some of the names involved will be familiar to electronic music listeners (Gudrun Gut, Thomas Fehlmann, Mike Shannon), the common thread linking all of them is their friendship with Monteith and the many hours he has spent enjoying their company over the years. As so often happens when good conversation is shared among good friends, the results are as surprising as they are inspiring, spanning original prose, dialectic word games, and timeless quotations in six languages. Each song on the album was then composed around the content received, and named after the people who did the speaking. Ranging from the overtly political to the tenderly inspirational and many points in between, Wax Poetic For This Our Great Resolve provides verbal expressions of hope as diverse and rich as the experiences of the people who so generously delivered them.

Musically the album sees Monteith taking his well honed sound design abilities and wide screen arrangements to new heights, and exploring a deep interest in traditional analog recording methods to mesmerizing effect. Every sound on the record, whether generated from his tried and tested array of software based tools, or from the enormous collection of guitars, organs, pianos, and percussion instruments found in the Berlin based studio he now calls home, was recorded via microphone. Even as the very first track slowly fades into existence, it's clear that the smoke filled atmosphere of the place has penetrated the recordings to their very core. Indeed, it is no understatement to suggest that without the physical confines of the magical studio Chez Cherie, and the countless late night conversations and musical contributions of all the other beautiful souls who occupy it (T. Raumschmiere, Ben Laubner, Tilman Hopf, PC Christensen, and of course Cherie herself), this latest Deadbeat album would have been an impossibility.

Though it may be his name alone on the cover, Wax Poetic For This Our Great Resolve is a document of collective action, and the power of community. If the resulting recordings are any indication, a great deal of hope it seems is still to be found in the simple act of getting together with good friends, and celebrating all that we share through words and music. At a time when the technological and political powers that be seem so dead set on seeking to divide us, this sense of common purpose is more important than ever.