Techno News

Remora, an alias of Maroje T, one of the main forces in New York Electro, returns to Kraftjerkz with raw, distorted drums, deep filters, and a profound mood adapted to the dance floor.

Industrial Techno to Hard Techno Acid... Definitely dark ambiances, deep and dry...
A bunker ambiance. Hot stuff chasing the strobo dark dancefloor !

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Mental core hard kicker !

Once again CC Atom explores the extrem acid limits... Frequencies frontiers are Vinyl only possible...

Big mental (in)spirally tribe from Keja on the A side... Peacefull deepness...
The flip opens with more nervous item called Les Fondamentaux, the force of the Kick adding driving Harfloor.
Then comes 2 experimentals interludes... Mental electronica deeply good !!
Last tune is back to normal with a very good dancefloor feeling and structure !

Excellent Opus !

Utter presents The Jaffa Kid’s ‘Acid Raver’ on 2xLP housed in a smiley sleeve with bonus perforated acid tab sheet.

While The Jaffa Kid - real name Daniel Pringle - has been releasing music since the mid 2000’s, he has recently become a man possessed, relentlessly and unceremoniously uploading over 50 albums to Bandcamp since 2019. Prolific is an understatement.

‘Acid Raver’ was recorded in 2019 during what Pringle describes as a ‘two week acid bender’ and is part of an ongoing series of 303-based experiments. With BPMs varying from the 120s up to the 150s, the tracks collected here touch on a variety of acidic styles from the stripped-back and hypnotic to full-blooded jacking fist-pumpers, then on up to all-out squelching pandemonium. Aciiieeed!

Mastered and cut by Helmut Erler at D&M, Berlin in 2020.

Limited to 303 hand-numbered copies :)

Superb EP briging some Acid techno, electric sounds !
and banging acidcore bloody tunes.

Enjoy that NeverGiveUp hardfloor tune from Back2Kick

2022 Repress

The 7th edition of the 303 series compiles 4 highly functional acid cuts by 4 different anonymous artists.

Our usual creator of these texts and an eloquent storyteller Luge has asked me to step in for this one so here you go and buckle up ladies & gentlemen. To state the obvious the label will see its first split EP which will go by the name Meat Fools. The side A is created by Caprithy and side B by Denis Kostitsyn, who are two longtime friends and the residents of the project ABCD originating from the city Izhevsk. These hardworking focused producers brought this vinyl to life for you to immense in their world and connect for us altogether regardless where your body is based. The combustion of sounds within this wax piece is dark, moody and fits to the label’s ideology like the Cinderella’s shoe.

feat. Locked Club & Any Act

Russia’s RLGN is known for his previous releases on Private Persons, Tram Planet and Tripalium Corp among others.

With a love for extreme motifs he’s a perfect fit with Don’t and stands alongside contemporaries LOCKED CLUB and ANY ACT (who also collaborated) in ripping up the tired old rulebook and fiercely blazing their own trail, the music lurching between thunderous Techno, Industrial strength Broken beat and scalding Acid, all executed with a punk sensibility and a twist of dark humour that’s rare to find in the Techno of today.

UK Acid Techno Label Run By Benji303.

The end of the year seems a fitting juncture for this phase of the Utopian Dystopias trilogy to come to a close on Exalt Records. Paul Hierophant shares another selection of hardware made music drawing from scenes of far away and desolate planets in the cosmos. This is deep and emotional music resonating with tales of interplanetary life, the diaspora, broken dreams and most importantly a hope for the future.

The final part of the Utopian Dystopias triptych on Exalt Records also includes remixes from two of the finest names in contemporary Electro music – Plant 43 and Carl Finlow. Both have taken Paul Hierophant’s music and crafted fresh interpretations, fitting of the otherworldly double pack.

For our sixth release we welcome a young producer hailing from Bogota, Colombia. Buraye has been working on his sound for almost a decade now and he’s the co-founder of the From The Void Above label, having released great records from the like of Muten, Eliaz and Do Or Die. His Transcendence EP will be released on Griffé in september 2021. The record consists of four high-energy dance-floor oriented tracks with acid, trancey and electro elements. Hybrid productions bringing both analogue and digital components to create a fractal and entheogen mood.

A roundup of positive nostalgia from Fontaine SMC: two french artists and friends who share the same vision of electronic music. They have several project under other names, often axed on IDM/electro, but this time the joined the forces for a synthwave and punk flavor project.

I was a soldier EP is a social criticism/journey into human fears and hard relationships, synthetized into an 80s look, dusty and raw sounding.

A mix of punk dementia and the most intense dance music, the one that takes the joints and makes you move them well. A sound that seems to come from a white label from the start of 90s to mystery titillate the timpani of the contemporary listener, but it does so in a familiar way.

RAWAX proudly present the new series by Woody McBride aka DJ ESP!

You can expect some new, unreleased and classic re-issues on this platform form the Mastermind himself! Starting in May with the former Synewave #09 from 1995!

2022 Repress

Superb acidcore Killer !

2022 Repress

Acid aspects. Acid attacks. Acid mental techno and acidcore. Alive and kicking ! Notice a remix tune of from DarkForce 01 from Mono-Amine.

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Superb EP bringing a wicked melt of tribe, acid mental and rave tekno sound.
A pure freetekno 2.0 music !

Outfitted with anthemic romps, tongue-in-cheek pastiches, and percussions that pivot from rolling adventures to rain hitting the windowpane, Intimacy's 'Across the Bridge' marks the artist's fifth release on vinyl and first release on Bouquet.
A grab bag of fun, dancefloor-ready tracks written across 2019, the EP delivers his aesthetic of old computers, sci-fi movies, and science class educational videos configured into deep, spacey line-toting bedroom techno and melancholic house.

The title track features a catchy electroclash-esque (!!!) saw wave bassline, complete with emo Roland D50 strings and bells, all laid over a very beefy electro beat. It crossbreeds a Drexciya strain of low-end thump with a chewy, Eurotrash bassline evoking that time you lost your wallet at Tresor in '98. Strings and bells from the Roland D50 introduce the same euphoric high found in most of the products crawling out of Perdue's lab these days.

'Angelo's House' is a full-forced banger built around a well-traveled sample of Angelo Badalamenti's theme from Twin Peaks, recorded from an Intimacy live set early last year.

The flipside leads with the spiritual acid techno masterpiece 'Datalore 66'. Bubbling basslines hit a boiling point when placed in sequence with flutes showing genetic linkage to the Hartnoll family. Highly reactive material.

'Eternal September' opens a portal to the earliest hours of morning via synthesis of swirling pads and snapping drums. Closing the EP in introspective fashion, the track shows just how much emotional range Intimacy can pull out of decades-old disciplines.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Parks Perdue is a Memphis-born electronic musician. A culmination of internet research and home listening in the club-barren Tennessee city, his style draws from stoned out Dutch West Coast concept albums, video game soundtracks, and old-school midwest house and techno. Perdue made his vinyl debut under the alias Intimacy in 2016 on the short lived UK, DJ Haus-run label Vector Works. Perdue is now based in Los Angeles, California.

SJT and Aaty are still running street acid / rave project Teknobuskers.
After a long covid isolation, finally we came back on the street of Berlin.
Since last year, Robotron (Drums) and MCRD (Mic.) got a part of this project
We are now 4 people bringing up own gears on the street and playing them together to generate street acid music.

This acid improvisation was recorded directly to Tascam Portastudio 414 in front of S-Bahn Warschauerstrasse on 21.08.21.

It will be released on cassette tape w/ digi download code by end of October.

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Superb Keflat23 EP ! Acid chanting and mental... Regular 160 BPM.
This is a HOT Case !

Acid industrial mental sound of the A-Side is splendid...
Whule the flip offer 2 Massive dancefloor growers !

Another stellar release of tripped out dubby acid excursions by Projective Vision on the ever so tasteful Transmigration label.
Projective Vision open their archive for more tripping acid techno goodness. Originally released on Holistic Recordings in 1994, Close Encounter was the duo’s first record together, quickly becoming a favorite at legendary clubs like Frankfurt’s The Omen. Now faithfully restored and remastered for modern club use.

Parallax Unknown returns a year on from their last record with another 4 tracker EP from ES-Q, featuring Lobster Theremin regular and Four triangles boss ASOK. Casting patterns, Lunatic Fringe & Intuition sees more of ES-Q's synth-ed out drum machine sounds with the lead track getting a deep, yet uplifting broken beat rework from ASOK.

4E used to be Khan’s apartment number in New York City’s East Village back in the late 90’s. 4E became the trademark sound for his downbeat acid infused electro work. On his kitchen floor he produced a very unique brand of futuristic funk tracks with only a ROLAND TB-303, SH-101 and the Hip-Hop fundamental SP1200 drum sampler.

Besides a couple of 12”s for Force Inc. Music and the “Gentle Killer E.P.” on Freddy Fresh’s Socket imprint, 4E released the highly acclaimed downbeat electro album “4E4ME4YOU” on German glitch label Mille Plateaux.

Back in 1998 4E shared the now legendary 12” with I-F “Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass” on the “From Beyond Series” by Ectomorph’s Interdimensional Transmissions.

“Pills & Thrills” on Temple Traxx is four previously unreleased acid-electro stomper that are as funky and noisy as it can get on an East Village kitchen floor.

Jimi Tenor & Bizz O.D. met 1989 in a Helsinki club called Berlin. They decided to move to New York City in 1992 to start the band "Public Extacy" which never saw the light of day. A few years later, Jimi had already left NYC but was visiting so the two met to record "Bizz O.D. & Jimi Tenor's Traffic E.P.". Released in 1995 on OZON Records founded by nobody else but Jammin' Unit and Biochip C. Originally a 3 track e.p.but we at Temple Traxx thought that it was the right time to remaster and reissue this acid jewel and add an unreleased bonus track called "Girls" in this limited edited edition. This 4 track e.p. shows once more that the two artists are real inovators and pioneers of a sound that is hipper than ever in 2020.

Choose how you live and choose how you die... I-F choosing the Fetish Death! 4 classic I-F sounding tracks to accompany you bailing out in style and ecstasy... All tracks recorded @ IFMX on modular systems.

Written & produced by Jammin Unit & Kerosene

Massturbator was originally recorded 1995 in Bizz O.D.'s kitchen in Brooklyn, New York. This hardcore acid 12" went straight to number #1 of the CMJ techno charts back in the days and has not lost any of it's Acid-Punk power. The four tracks are somewhat of a blueprint for bands like Animal Collective's hyper-jazz or Sleaford Mods proto-punk. They mentioned Massturbator in interviews as an inspirational force. For most DJ's too fast, too hard, but thanks to modern technology you can always pitch down 30bpm to please some fat ass, old, Berghain crowd. Jack Off and hail mAssturbator!

Split release from Serbian-born, Macedonia-based Alavux on side A and The Hague's Gallus on side B, each with their own interpretation of the more harsh and heavy industrial machine-driven electro-robot alienation, perhaps of some modern hidden 'Deus ex Machina'?

Red Vinyl Repress

"The 3rd Vinyl Only Release from London Techno label Monnom Black sees 4 new original tracks from Dax J.

Acidic, rave, dance-floor weapons ready to do some damage. Released on limited edition red marbled vinyl with additional photocard insert. Highly Recommended!"

Aquaregia presents Acid Analects, a new VA series showcasing the many facets of acid. Volume 1 brings a club-oriented selection of four tracks, each masterfully produced by a global array of artists. Italian producer Nicola Dal Sacco opens the release with an old school squelching 303 workout in 'Calorica'. On the A2, Berlin-based Elad Magdasi presents 'Robotricks', a dark and hypnotic trip embellished with acid wisps. Introducing the B-side, the Canadian, 747, brings a fast and furious acidic bassline in his track 'Domain Expansion'. And to close the release, Australian mastermind, DJ Huntsman, finishes with an ultra speedy and euphoric psytrance heater in 'Planet Psygon'

There's a beautifully symmetrical aesthetic to the latest Lempuyang release that totally mirrors the impeccably positioned and delicately balanced sounds going on in the grooves. Two of the most consistent producers of the last few years - Altone and Gradient - produce creatively related tracks, the former named 'Day Drama' and the latter taking on 'Night Drama'. Then they hand their respective tracks over to each other for remixing duties and bingo, a pretty vital 12" is created, a gorgeous set of shimmering dubs on the A-side, and some heavyweight business for dark rainy nights on the flip. Both producers employ a modern day dub flavour to their minimal, moody techno, with it probably being fair to say that the influence of Maurizio and the Basic Channel label is fairly significant in the worlds of both. Altone's sound is a little grittier and seemingly fizzing with radioactivity, decaying and disintegrating as each offering proceeds, where there's something a bit more spartan and linear about Gradient's grooves, that seem to undulate and reverberate almost invisibly, propelling these exceptionally mixable, enjoyable DJ tools along almost under their own momentum. Nice work all round.