Techno News

2023 Repress

A new spring, a new label, a new direction. NOWHERE is closely linked to the Utrecht-bunch of Something Happening Somewhere. They kick off with the acid tingled Substance EP by Human Space Machine. Part of the Amsterdam techno collective De Lichting, Human Space Machine is driven by Mike Jungerius . Although he does sprinkle some techno-DNA over his spacious productions, his machines often take you much deeper into the realm. The title track alone is a truly hypnotising affair. Close your eyes and soon all that matters is releasing those hips while forgetting where you are. Onwards with Dong, which will remind some Dutch techno heads of early Steve Rachmad productions. Futuristic funk in optima forma. 30803 is a word play on two very important instruments in dance music, when acid house was a big thing and the world around you was still simple. Closer Track003 is equally vintage, nodding back to the days when The Black Dog and As One were considered the new techno gods. UK beauty with a crystal-clear Amsterdam twist. If NOWHERE means getting lost in the machine, we gladly tag along.

RAWAX presents John Selway - Real. His most wanded release from 1996, originally released on Gyroscopic Recordings will be soon available on black gold again. Don't miss!

Once again, Perm has turned just the right knobs to give you the perfect soundtrack for your personal journey into Techno wonderland. The Leipzig based wizard simply knows how to leave dancers both dizzy and beatific. When those strings in "03-VIII" come together to its climax you're more than ready to embrace the night. The focus in "03-IV" is more heavy on the drum work with just the right amount of subtle tripping hazards. "03-III" builds and builds without ever bubbling over while the mighty "03-VIII" comes with a Boom-Tschak-Electro feel to it. The artwork comes courtesy of Carl-Johannes Schulze.

Jeigo dropped a thrilling debut album Cerulean back at the end of 2022, worked in a tune with Elkka for her DJ-Kicks mix and also remixed Bicep not long ago.

Now he follows all that up with a firing four-track EP on Tread Records that again collides different club sounds, great samples and hooky melodies. 'Hatchet's Cave' is hands-in-the-air house euphoria with blistering drums and warped pads, then 'Move X' is a gritty tech bouncer and 'Compulsions' is a bubbly one with crisp hits.

Nervous Horizons label boss Anunaku remixes the title track into a bass-heavy banger and four locked grooves feature on this 12" for adventurous DJs to play with.

Trym Søvdsnes is a relative newcomer to the scene, but he’s been putting in work in and around Bergen for years, scoring a residency at the infamous Café Opera, where he snagged the attention of local house legend Bjørn Torske. Soon, the duo were DJing, producing and performing together, eventually running the monthly radio show Pigs in Space where they would go head-to-head for six hours at a time, plumbing the depths of their immense record collections.

It’s this lust for bottom-of-the-crate oddities that guides Søvdsnes’ self-titled debut album, a concoction of dub techno, hard-swung house and percussive club music that positions itself a few paces away from any conventional modes. Basically, a perfect fit for Le Jazz Non.

‘Gølles Dans’ opens with a filtered acid bassline and bone dry kick that’s like some psychedelic, slower variant of Basic Channel’s ‘Enforcement’, slicing into the groove with gristly acoustic percussion that drags it up from the basement. The producer leans into asymmetry on ‘Døgnrytmen’, wrangling 303 squelches with booming Berghain kicks and tight snares, enhancing the psychedelic potential by layering ticking percussion into loopy spirals. If you’ve ever caught an extended Dozzy set, this is the kind of ruff-edged gear he would likely play an hour before sunrise. ‘Ordnings Mix’ is weirder still, slopping chirpy bleep/rave stabs into a jazzy hybrid that sounds like a bossa meltdown.

Søvdsnes saves his most cosmic mettle for last, on ‘Cowboy Acid (Solstikk Dub)’ he strips the kickdrum to a faint knock, before building up into a sort of screwed Metro Area mirrorball that sounds brilliantly out of time.

Vinyl only. Fine exercises in minimal house from Katie Drover, label-head of Dokutoku Records and long-time resident at Melbourne's Revolver club, now living in Berlin. For Bluetrain, Stephan G or early
Force Tracks and Telegraph releases fans.

It's the one you've all been waiting for! Reflex Blue joins Craigie Knowes for his monstrous debut EP 'Gotham'. It's an A-grade fusion of club-ready trax on an EP overflowing with frequencies primed to help you freq. Strap yourself in!

Almost 23 minutes of voyage inside the techno abyss.!
CLTD002 is the second vinyl release- the original track bares the signature of Donato Dozzy and Neel, as Voices from the Lake. 531KHz, is without a doubt, a techno track conceived for the dancefloor, but with the dark settings and mental shades that characterize and make unique the work of Donato and Neel. Very few variations, a wall of bass, and an energy that engages mind and spirit.
On the B-side, Kab and Minilogue give us a remix that is a true masterpiece, not many artists are able to deliver their own personal vision without changing the nature of the original project.

second blueten release by the label heads Gimenö and Stefan Helmke with three "dub house /techno' tracks !

Loose Records is proud to present a new talented guy Luigi Madonna, that delivers us a 3 tracks ep. plus a big remix from the well known Uto Karem this releases put's together a series of funky tech tunes ideal for shaking all type of dancefloors, be sure to don't miss it!!

Great Stuff, Kling Klong, Mutekki, BluFin, My Best Friend...Oliver Klein had them all. Now he teams up with Kolombo (Turbo, BluFin, Giant Wheel) to bring a real smasher down to the floors. TechHouse at its best completed by 3 nice remixes ranging from House to Progressive.

Mayells first Solo EP

4 x Genre jumping weapons right here. From stripped back haunting broken techno, to booty electro. Flip it over for a 135 BPM hypnotic rolling techno with a jungle twist, finishing the EP with some bass heavy breakbeats.

The fourth physical release on the Bristol based imprint sees Out of Sorts join forces with Hekkla for his debut vinyl EP, joined by rising Bristol star Manami with a spellbinding remix of the title-track.

After rising to prominence as a graduate of Martyn's revered mentoring programme, contributing a killer track to the 3-part It Was Always There compilation on 3024, the Eindhoven-based artist has been busy at work in the studio, putting together his debut vinyl release. Reverse Groove combines Hekkla’s own formative clubbing influences with the UK-infused sound that he feels most at home with, to form a set of percussive explorations which feel at home in both Bristol and Eindhoven.

On the A-side, Going In sets the tone with a slice of grime-adjacent UK inspired broken techno, followed up by the title-track Reverse Groove, a melodically-charged techno excursion which balances dancefloor functionality with the broken UK formula.

The B-side sees Hekkla’s broken club sound in full effect on Hardcore Memories, a dubbed-out roller which combines eerie synths with tough drums, whilst Manami morphs the title track into a peak-time trance-licked banger which is guaranteed to blow the lid off any function.

Diego Krause’s Unison Wax return this June with a new four-tracker from the man
himself, coming in the shape of ‘Bring The Noise’.
Berlin’s Diego Krause launched the Unison Wax imprint in 2014 as a platform for his
own material, the Beste Modus co-founder has since gone on to release an impressive
back catalogue of music on the likes of Berg Audio, Apollonia, Pleasure Zone and
Sukhumvit amongst others, a testament to the quality embodied in his output. Here
though, Diego makes a welcome return to his own Unison Wax, again showcasing his
slick and percussive-led take on contemporary house.
Opening the package is ‘Bring The Noise’ with billowing chords, filter-swept vocal
murmurs and Diego’s signature swinging drums. ‘Phenomena’ follows and tips the
focus over to loosely flowing natural percussion, rounded low-end pulsations and
sporadic dub stabs to create a heads down, hypnotic groove.
‘The Company You Keep’ opens the B-Side, taking a more stripped-back approach with
shuffled, crunchy drums and murky bass stabs before ‘Lost Tribe’ completes the
package, fusing spellbinding percussive modulations and fluttering synth swells with a
sturdy, organic rhythm to keep things moving.

Three years after Reno Wurzbacher’s entry into the series, Cook Strummer now offers up his own Berlin Gets Physical, a collection of all-new and exclusive tracks.

Berlin-based, Belgium-born Strummer has been a Get Physical associate for several years. He has dropped various singles including the standout 'Rising' which also featured on the Words Don't Come Easy series, and always crafts the perfect mix of rhythm and melody with plenty of hints of his homeland's famous cold wave sound. He often uses his own voice, drum machines, synths and guitars in his music, and since his debut album in 2018 on LOK Recordings, he has had high profile support from the likes of Laurent Garnier, Adam Port and Ame. This summer, he dropped 'Atmosphere' on Obsolet Records which proved another successful outing and now Berlin Gets Physical finds him digging deep into the famous city's freshest and most essential house sounds across 15 well-sequenced tracks.

His own new offering 'For Berlin' kicks off with a dark and edgy vibe, gothic vocals and tense drums. Glitchy hits and blurting synths add to the prickly atmosphere and immediately lock you in while Los Cabra & Manuel Sahagun's 'Italian Groove' then takes off on waves of serrated dark disco synths and Freudenthal feat. Nowhere People continue that macho disco vibe with the rugged chug and cosmic rays of 'Cipher.'

The twinkling 'Bad Karma' by Marvin Jam & Le Mythe then allows you to catch your breath with a slower, more spacious dub disco sound and the twanging bass riffs and exotic effects of Daniel Jaeger & Valenti's 'Quarantine Cowboys' rebuilds the atmosphere with some innovative house blues. The mid-section brings brain-frying synth work on 'Out Of The Blue', bubbling dub house and disco courtesy of dramasquad's sprawling 'ziggy' and percussive deep house looseness from 'Abayomi.'

After KEENE's rubbery and rolling Afro sounds comes more cosmic house richness from Dan Buri and Max Joni & MUKKIMIAU, the driving tech of Red Pig Flower & Lulla and heady sounds of Mike Book. There is a raw house heaviness to FreedomB's 'State of Shock' and things shut down with Electronic Elephant's tightly coiled minimal drum funk on 'Ask Yourself'.

This on point collection is an authentic snapshot of the contemporary underground sound of the Berlin.

300 units, hand-stamped.

Long-awaited album by the German deep house legend.

For this release, Killekill have a very special cooperation to show off with: CASSEGRAIN & TIN MAN !

CASSEGRAIN are Greek-British producer Alex Tsiridis and Berlin/Vienna based composer and producer Hüseyin Evirgen. With a well developped sensitiveness the duo designs futuristic and dark techno sound- scapes with a strong experimental touch. red vinyl pressing

It is with a singular pleasure that we welcome Marc Romboy to the ever growing stable of live artists at ASW!

Marc Romboy is an artist renowned within the electronic scene for his eclectic, boundary-pushing approach and decades worth of experience working both behind the scenes and behind the decks.

In recent years he has embraced performing live as another creative outlet and, indeed, creative challenge. As an artist and performer, Marc has always pushed the boundaries of his creativity and this, Marc’s first studio album in 6 years is a true masterwork of techno from one of the masters of the genre.

Growing up in the West of Germany close to the borders of both The Netherlands and Belgium, Marc was always instinctively drawn to music. He would attend the acid house parties prevalent in the area, with an epiphany of sorts on the dancefloor of Front club in Hamburg in 1987. An avid record collector, he would listen to Krautrock, breaks, Italo disco, Chicago house and more, and experienced some of the first all house and techno clubs in Europe; the legendary Roxy club in Amsterdam and Dorian Grey in Frankfurt. Learning to DJ, and later on produce, was a natural step.

He founded the ’Le Petit Prince’ imprint in 1993 as a platform for the music of friends he was playing out, which went on to be named Label Of The Year by various German electronic music publications the following year. Its reputation led Marc into collaborating with other DJs to manage their labels too.

Meanwhile, Marc went on to notch up an impressive discography of EPs, tracks and collaborations, carving his own sound; emotive, versatile, and featuring distinctive basslines.
2004 was a landmark year for the artist, with the beginning of his own, completely self-run label Systematic. Since It's birth, the label has provided a home for productions from the likes of Robert Hood, Kenny Larkin, Omar-S, Terrence Parker, Timo Maas, kINK and many more. It also provided the platform for Marc’s first album, ‘Gemini’ in 2005, followed by four further LPs; 2008’s ‘Contrast’, 2009’s ‘6 Monde’ with Stephan Bodzin (which birthed the pair’s now-legendary track ‘Atlas’), 2013’s ‘Taiyo’ with Ken Ishii, and 2014’s three-disc retrospective compilation ‘Shades’. And his collaborative orchestral LP ‘Voyage de la Planète’, Marc’s forward-thinking last album. Pushing the boundaries between classical and electronic music, it makes for a moving , atmospheric outing for the producer - “I feel like there are still a couple of beautiful sounds to create”.

Marc’s output has been exemplary and with his inspiration rising for performing live he now brings us the wonderful “Music Made for Aliens”. A work of true electronic inspiration. Marc will be performing live at ASW events coming up soon.

Wirski’s debut on MISBHV Recordings offers a nuanced narrative operating in its own genre of Eastern European rough-edged club melancholy.

MISBHV004 opens with Inside The Dark Echo – a claustrophobic, stifling, relentless, sensual dance with desire. Darkroom complexity with heavy surface tension built on an EBM undercurrent flirt with subtle psychedelia and traces of acid that slowly firm up their multi-layered grip through its running time of six and a half minutes.

Warszawa paints a stripped-back, tantalizing picture. Opening with a brutalist, militant drum programming and surprisingly spacious, warm bassline, its rigid rhythm, tightened up by a repetitive, cold breath mantra eventually opens up to bright, shimmering synth flickers evoking olibanum – the sacred scent of altar candles. Warszawa is looking at the multilayered melody of its landscape – from eerie Soc-realist blockhouses, through neon-lit, seedy strip clubs of the 90s to opulent sacral architecture.

Warm Waters Of Eternity subtly weave a cinematic, Carpenteresque soundscape with a sense of overpowering, ecstatic innocent euphoria that invokes a dream of an early 1990s rave deep in the dark woods of Poland.

Metamorfoze EP Part 1 comes with two massive tracks from Julian, based inBucharest.Early support by Raresh, Rhadoo and many more.

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180 gram/vinyl only. The MOi imprint present their second vinyl.

Jay Tripwire has popped up a lot recently, which is always going to be good news for fans of those freaky late-night tech sounds that he is so well known and loved for. He kicks off Serenity's fifth release here alongside Jehr on 'Magic Man', a deep cut underlapping drum funk and lots of whirring machine sounds.

Parisian space techno talent Cyberduck then takes care of both tunes on the flip - firstly 'Arzach', a deep and dynamic cut that hurriedly scans a vast cosmic world with silvery drums and lush melodies. Then 'Cerclon' gets a little more edgy, with dark and nagging baselines moving up through the mix as the crisp, well-swung tech drums power along.

Very limited!

Second edition in the CLIKNO classics series presenting the two Dr.Nojoke tracks Emimi and Desertas in new mixes and remastered versions and for the first time on viny.

repressed now !!!!

Mentalics debut EP on his own imprint after his great Desperado EP on Microtonal which was remixed by Gabriel Ananda & Dominik Eulberg. Trippy and freaky techno with neverending build-up´s and some great glitching beats. Early support by Gabriel Ananda, Konrad Black, Xpansul, Jennifer Cardini, Mark Henning, Alland Byallo, Oliver Ho, Frankie, Perc, Jeff Samuel, Jamie Stevens, Terje Bakke, stephan bodzin, ...!!

By now, Roman Flügel needs no introduction. Neither the man, nor the music. We will try to describe the latter anyway. Precursory to his new LP Eating Darkness, Anima emblazes the manifoldness and elegancy of his sound. Starting off with D.I.S.C.O., Flügel links the unredeemed promise and euphoria of last year’s Garden Party to the present (including a dub version for the right balance of happiness.

As the man himself so eloquently put it: „I’ve tried to create a track that reflects the past from a slightly melancholic but still enthusiastic state of mind. The past 30 years of my life have been highly influenced by DJing, traveling and producing club music of many sorts. That life is at least temporarily on hold and it might not be the same after the pandemic. The music is also trying to reflect the colourfulness, happiness, beauty and drama that is part of nightlife. The track uses tiny bits and riffs from an endless pool of Disco tracks. The production sounds rather clean and synthetic, as if a Robot is the one who remembers everything that was. “
Consequently, working as an epilogue as well as the prologue to the aforementioned album, are Anima and Eating Darkness. Both follow their counterpart’s boldness with enchanting sobriety, rigorous sound design and minimalist beauty - one on and the other off the dance floor.To cut a long story short: listen to a mastermind at work.

Short Info: New EP by Roman Flügel on Running Back. Prolonging 2020s Garden Party euphoria, D.I.S.C.O. is available in full glory and as a dub version, while Anima and Eating Darkness foreshadow his up and coming long player. Following boldness with enchanting sobriety, rigorous sound design and minimalist beauty, one works on and the other off the dance floor. To cut a long story short: listen to a mastermind at work.

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split ep mit sehr schöne deepen housetracks !!!

RAWAX welcomes EWAX boss SY to the family! We are very happy to release "Fusion EP" which will be out end of september - stay tuned for this great record!

limited edition - reissue, remastered - remix by Ricardo Villalobos 12" deluxe sleeve with 3mm spine, custom inner-sleeve, ink stamp application, A3 poster, 180g Vinyl. Artwork: Art Direction by Plusyes Graphic Design by Plusyes Illustration by Luca Zamoc

The first release of #secondhand series on Autum Records: vinyl reissues of iconic tracks from the past, brought back to life through contemporary remixes signed by the most influential artists of the electronic scene. Ricardo lends a hand for the first one.

Celo Rec is back with a new hot new release that has proved to defy the challenging lockdown times, giving birth to this exquisite EP composed of 4 tracks produced by the label head honcho, Marcelo Cura , including two fine collaborations with Australian talents Lucca Tan, Liam Waller and Johan.

Celosophy 002 takes you on a trip of minimal percussive grooves blended with some deep, dreamy and organic vibes.
Enjoy The Trip !

a megaphat new minimal techno release by nico purman !!