Techno News

Related releases its first vinyl, a trip into deep and minimal sound with 4 powerful tracks
by Dhaze, Silat Beksi, Petar Cvetkovic, Jerome C, Enzo Leep and more.
Each track had a unique sound and style, for sure a must have record!

The 5th release from Caph comes from our good friend DCP. We hope you love it as much as we do.

After a sabbatical period, Roberto Auser makes a comeback with his analogical machinery with the exquisite mini-album called “Chaos Never Dies”. In this record he explores a broad range of sounds from minimal-electro to acid with a touch of improvisation from his particular perspective based in roughness, rhythm and immediacy. Limited to 300 copies.

Limited to 200 copies wordwide. Early support from Rolando, Garnier, Josh Wink, Mano le Tough, Truncate, Zadig, Slam, Shinedoe etc.



The eighth disc in Indigo area’s ÆX series is another excellent showcase of diverse techno flavours combined in one disc. Familiar faces to the series Bas Amro, Tetelepta and Taupe return with their very own signature techno sound, from minimal stripped down hypnotizations to the deeper and warm dub grooves. Label curators Jasper Wolff and Maarten Mittendorff, who recently launched their new Indigo aera production alias, jump in with a true ‘90 inspired floor track where the new mysterious Anton Biotica completes the package with a tribally fun and playful tool.

A new project from two anonymous Aussie Veterans. Melbourne's smouldering underground turns up two untitled cuts from BAD CHANNEL, named for the faulty mixing console they were produced on, with a cheeky nod to Mark and Moritz. Organic late night tracks, soulful and dub wise. They passed Bradley Zero's litmus test, so now they come to you cut deep on Rhythm Section's twilight sister imprint INTERNATIONAL BLACK.

The A-side keeps it spacious, a relentless stepper for the early hours.
Side B is music for autobahns, starlight soul for the post-club cruisers.

Limited 500 copies on crystal clear 10" including the instrumental version of DJ Sneak's "3d Print" and another outstanding remix by Arnorac aka Ricardo Villalobos and Einzelkind. Don't sleep on this!

Next stunning Terminal M release from the Italian born top producer Luca Morris.
With "Party Tradition" he presents 4 more strong tracks which are used to be played from
top Dj's like Marco Carola, Dubfire, Loco Dice, Monika Kruse and many more...
First track "party tradition" is a stomping dark party anthem to the clubs. On AA with a
mysterious voice and a wiring sound comes "Small Planet". Third track
"Isabella" continues with his dark flow and basslines. last but not least "Arrange" comes
with a bit more brighter melody, but still not losing his touch of great groove and
deepness...

the new remixes of this old soft cell classic !!

Just some weeks after the release of Volume 1, this new Great Stuff series delivers Volume Two. Again no needless bonus tracks or B-sides, only great tunes from great artists.

New imprint Bogen Konzept Recordings first release comes from Todd Sines under his Cron alias.
Two previously released cuts from 1994 and two immaculate productions from 2017 coded and compiled by this well known artist.

Bogen Konzept Recordings is run by the namesake Bogen Konzept Store based in Kassel, Germany and is very excited and proud to announce the opening of his new own label.

After many years of parties, clubbing and researching we decided to move another step up the ladder with this addition ... or addiction.

Following up his appearance on Part 4 of our Strength In Numbers compilation, we are ecstatic to present some fresh material from no other than DJ Slip. A name that has been on the tongue of anyone entrenched in the US techno scene since the early 90's, DJ Slip has entranced audiences for years with his brilliantly bizarre take on sonics. Remix duties this time around come from Berghain resident DJ and all around musical powerhouse, Answer Code Request.

Planting the listener on some foreign stratospheres has always been DJ Slip's expertise, and 'Highland' comes as no exception. Echoed synth stabs detune into the dark while a barrage of claps and clangs provide an onslaught of percussive cleverness that is a signature of the Slip sound. 'Aerial' comes at you like a plane colliding with the earth, a kamikaze of dissonance spiraling downwards and then
in reverse. It's driving tempo, surreal drones, and thudding toms cascade into an intense peak time experience. Answer Code Request provides the perfect counter as a remix, smoothing out the edges into a refined, psychedelic expedition that breathes and shifts as it tunnels deeper. All three tracks together create a diverse and gripping package with something suitable for all times of the night.

DMT aka Dorian Paic, Markus Fix and Tobi Neumann dig a little deeper on their next offering. 'Ride" does exactly what it says on the tin, taking you on a nine-minute journey that starts with an extended build-up, offering a tantalising glimpse of what's to come. From then on, House chords and dub elements abound, complemented throughout by beguiling melodic lines, hypnotic vocal samples, effects and some smooth filter action. This co-production from three Tech House specialists harmonises perfectly, creating a well-rounded, homogeneous track that leaves you craving for more!

Born in Berlin but 'living the life' in Mannheim, Fabe is the next insider tip on Cocoon worth keeping an eye on. Already shaking up clubs around the world, he's also part of the Cocoon Ibiza line up this year! However he's not only turning heads as a DJ, his productions also work on an extremely high level featuring a unique sound signature. His Cocoon Recordings track "Last Shot For Bob" creaks, growls, clatters, squeaks and knocks in all directions creating an incredibly cool and, above all, groovy sound. It's electronic noise-funk served up in the best techno and house fashion, that drags you onto the dance floor and drenches you in pleasure.

Moment is happy to present you soon MMNT005 which comes from Petre Vali aka Lizz.
"From Inside" is an amazing double vinyl release!

After Alexander Aurel's very successful first Terminal M appearance on the Cookies EP Vol. 1 earlier this year, Monika Kruse had no doubt to release a proper EP with this talented dj from Frankfurt. Additionally the two duos Pele & Shawnecy and Paul C & Paolo Martini commissioned fantastic versions of the title track. Enjoy Your Night.

Tolga Top's subsequential follow up, after releasing a 12" in 2017 on his very own Understate:ment imprint, marks a reinvention of one's signature sound. Lifting off with 'The Turning EP', you can expect chunky, rhythmic & detroit electro influenced Tech House tracks par excellence.

Barker & Baumecker take Turns from techno, bass, breaks, and experimental terrain with their second album on Ostgut Ton.
Sam Barker and Andreas Baumecker's lives have always revolved around different kinds of music. That's partly why their productions as Barker & Baumecker are more unpredictable, harder to pin down than what you might expect from a label borne out of a techno club. And while their music is clearly built for dancing, listening to it reveals a deep love and respect for many forms of electronic music - bonding over more experimental dance forms is what brought them together in the first place. Imagining their music at any decent club, but disrupting the flow on the floor is what brings us to their second album Turns. An amalgamation of their unique musical minds, transcending electronic music genres and styles, while further developing and refining the Barker & Baumecker sound aesthetic.
Barker & Baumecker first met via their day jobs back in 2008, when the former was a booking agent and the latter was the booker for Berghain. Baumecker was instrumental in encouraging Barker and his colleagues at LittleBig booking agency to start Leisure System - first a party and now also a record label championing irregular dance music. Shortly after, their friendship - sparked by a kinship in musical curiosity - became a partnership in production. Now, with two EPs, an album, and almost 20 remixes under their belts, Barker & Baumecker continue to steadily explore and reshape their shared electronic musical interests, especially in techno, bass, breaks, and experimental terrain.
Baumecker's been a clubber pretty much from day one in his hometown of Frankfurt am Main. As he recalls, 'Frankfurt has a really good history in club music. There was a party series called Techno Club at the No Name venue, which began in 1984. It was an American gay club, basically. It was super tiny, but really happening. I went there for the first time in '86 when I was 18.' As the DJ nd_baumecker, he cut his teeth in the '90s playing house at Wild Pitch Club - an early party thrown by Playhouse/Robert Johnson founder Ata and Heiko MSO - and left-field techno, electro, and Warp-influenced sounds in Mannheim with Move D and D-Man. A regular guest at Berghain's predecessor club, Ostgut, he moved to Berlin in 2004 after an invitation to become a resident at the newly opened Panorama Bar inside Berghain. 12 years later, he's still a resident there, as well as a frequent DJ flyer worldwide.
Barker started out as a producer in Brighton's tight-knit experimental community, where, as he explains, 'it was an open-minded scene. Music as a platform for self-expression and originality were really the only judgment markers. Authenticity is Barker & Baumecker take Turns from techno, bass, breaks, and experimental terrain with their second album on Ostgut Ton.
Sam Barker and Andreas Baumecker's lives have always revolved around different kinds of music. That's partly why their productions as Barker & Baumecker are more unpredictable, harder to pin down than what you might expect from a label borne out of a techno club. And while their music is clearly built for dancing, listening to it reveals a deep love and respect for many forms of electronic music - bonding over more experimental dance forms is what brought them together in the first place. Imagining their music at any decent club, but disrupting the flow on the floor is what brings us to their second album Turns. An amalgamation of their unique musical minds, transcending electronic music genres and styles, while further developing and refining the Barker & Baumecker sound aesthetic.
Barker & Baumecker first met via their day jobs back in 2008, when the former was a booking agent and the latter was the booker for Berghain. Baumecker was instrumental in encouraging Barker and his colleagues at LittleBig booking agency to start Leisure System - first a party and now also a record label championing irregular dance music. Shortly after, their friendship - sparked by a kinship in musical curiosity - became a partnership in production. Now, with two EPs, an album, and almost 20 remixes under their belts, Barker & Baumecker continue to steadily explore and reshape their shared electronic musical interests, especially in techno, bass, breaks, and experimental terrain.
Baumecker's been a clubber pretty much from day one in his hometown of Frankfurt am Main. As he recalls, "Frankfurt has a really good history in club music. There was a party series called Techno Club at the No Name venue, which began in 1984. It was an American gay club, basically. It was super tiny, but really happening. I went there for the first time in '86 when I was 18." As the DJ nd_baumecker, he cut his teeth in the '90s playing house at Wild Pitch Club - an early party thrown by Playhouse/Robert Johnson founder Ata and Heiko MSO - and left-field techno, electro, and Warp-influenced sounds in Mannheim with Move D and D-Man. A regular guest at Berghain's predecessor club, Ostgut, he moved to Berlin in 2004 after an invitation to become a resident at the newly opened Panorama Bar inside Berghain. 12 years later, he's still a resident there, as well as a frequent DJ flyer worldwide.
Barker started out as a producer in Brighton's tight-knit experimental community, where, as he explains, "it was an open-minded scene. Music as a platform for self-expression and originality were really the only judgment markers. Authenticity is what we were looking for in those parties." But his move to Berlin in 2007, as part of the LittleBig team, and his subsequent exploration of DJ culture offered a new dimension to his musical philosophy: "The skill of DJing was something I had a lot of pleasure learning about. I was trainspotting DJs for the first few years. Music as a more communicative tool, this kind of, 'hey, let's all find a common ground,' - as opposed to, 'you can understand me or not, I don't care,' - didn't really make sense to me before Berlin."
While Baumecker had always thought of himself as a DJ, it was right around the time he met Barker that he bought his first synth from then-Ostgut Ton label manager Nick Höppner. "But then it went really fast," he explains, I bought a lot of stuff in a really short amount of time." With Baumecker having caught the bug, Barker readily admits that they're both hardware lovers heavily into technology and machinery. But while they own some classics, "most of the studio is under five years old." As Andreas reveals, they "want to create a new sound, and with the old machines it's been done." If you peek into the small studio they share with Höppner, there's a huge collection of synths, drum machines and all manner of gear. While Baumecker now has an impressive collection of Moog effects boxes, Barker has brought in several racks of modular synths.
While their usual aim is only to have fun and escape from "real life," they will admit to a theme or two. Talking about the title of the album, Barker explains, "the two of us have had quite a lot of ups and downs since the last record, and when you're in a collaboration where you only work together in real-time, in person, both people need to be in the right frame of mind." Baumecker adds, "Turns also had something to do with the tracks - almost every one turns towards the middle." The album also turns on the middle track of seven, a short interlude called "Technogate". "It's actually (the sound) of the gate right by our studio," Barker divulges.
But "Technogate" wasn't the only inspiration for Turns. "The title "Turnhalle" is German for a gymnasium or a sports hall," Barker explains about the album's fifth track. "And we are referring to Berghain," Baumecker notes wryly. Barker continues: "We checked every track out in the club, but "Turnhalle" we recorded playing back through the Berghain soundsystem. During the first two minutes, we tried to recreate the effect of ascending the staircase into the club." And while none of the tracks on Turns are merely functional, Barker & Baumecker do, of course, envision them in the club. "It's what I wish people would play at a certain time on Mornday morning, or sometime in the afternoon on Sunday," Baumecker explains. "There are certain periods in Berghain where I think it's really necessary to bring people down again and not keep them on the same vibe for six hours. I think something like this would interrupt that, and you can move on from there again." Tracks that mark a turn in a set, then.
There's nothing typical about any of these tracks, but they each share a clean aesthetic and sound palette with a sense of depth and compositional purpose. The ambient intro of album opener "Senden" morphs into a Reichian flow. "Encipher & Decipher"'s low-end drums weigh down dreamily melodic synths. "Club Entropicana" reduces rhythm and sound to machine signals, akin to Raster-Noton's starkness. Both "Turnhalle" and "Nocturnal" incorporate trance euphoria with breakbeats but in different ways, while closer "Statik" has a deliciously slippery garage pulse guiding it through a journey towards house bliss. You never know where they'll draw from next, but Turns feels like Barker & Baumecker are expanding and refining their own musical dialect. Like most of the music they're both drawn to, it's thoughtful, rich, and ever evolving - but always and completely committed to the club.

Len Faki strikes back with his recent update on two timeworn classics, inhaling them with new life. First up is one of Matthew Jonson?s finest deep space explorations. Polishing out the fine electronics and giving it even more room to breathe, this one now sounds as fresh as ever. Same goes for Zimmermann?s Flusenstaub, a wacky track for special treatments on a crazed-out floor. Here Faki retains the original?s weird vibe while providing it some extra oomph and rolling power to get the extra mileage.

As usual with LFRMX releases, the proceeds of this record will be forwarded entirely to charity organization Straßenkinder e.V., who are working to offer help to the children living on the streets of Berlin.

Heavy "mixed live to tape" bomb of hard rocking techno covering the whole of side one.Side two sharply delivers an introspective ambient journey, with two compositions that balance intensity and beauty as with a memorable cocktail on a special morning.

Next up on Curtea Veche’s Limited Series we welcome TIJN. Three superb originals and and a beautiful remix by the on fire Viceversa to finish off the package. Supported by Sepp, Nu zau, Guy from Downstairs.

After a succesful first release of the mysterious Label Disjoint

The Artist Yakine returns with 3 amazing tracks on his part 2.

Vinyl Only!

We kick off with our own Souledit, delivering a original and modern EP, rich with club tools, ranging from darkness to the light. Written and produced by Mârza Mihai Alexandru. Artwork by Mârza Mihai Alexandru.

Vandalism Black Series 002 is here, a great dance floor tool. Vinyl Only

With this second release Caim continues to push their layered and soothing groovy dance-floor palette to the next level. Constantly playing with the elements that are slipping in and out of focus, haunting yet hopeful, their sound galvanizes heads in the club. This is for that late-night dreamy state of mind while dancing into the early morning hours.

Gilesku Records is proud to welcome aboard another talented artist to our spaceship, delivering first out of two gems full of Adriatic energy that will take us all to another dimension.

Midland's Graded sub-label returns with a four-track various artists EP spanning techno, minimal and deep house. Otik's contribution, on the other hand, skews towards UK bass.

Oculus is one of the titans of the Icelandic techno scene and has been one of its key foundations for over a decade. His live shows have captivated the audience with his exemplarary mixture of deep, innovative and hypnotic techno. His productions skills are unquestionable and we're excited to bring you four techno anthems ready to conquer the late night dancefloors. ae Recordings LTD is a brand-new offshot from its legendary Thule Records motherhub - under the strict control of veteran Thule members: Ohm & Octal Industries. The offshot will ensure quality techno for the mind and soul from Thule members and friends - wherever they might be.

New Label Meld with his first release

Straight from the East, druzhba001 presents three original tracks by the Bucharest based talent Triptil. The release also includes a groovy remix courtesy of the Berlin resident Patrice Meiner. Limited to 300 copies. Tip!

Communication is key. Every machine communicates with you in a different way. All you need is a room, machines, electricity and a vision of subtle movement. Some say nothing really changes, but it does. Every so seemingly small element plays a vital part in the whole process. So don't be fooled. It moves - in every direction - constantly.

Only vinyl. Dedicated to my Family my Supporters and all the Music Lovers. The fourth chapter come from the duo Weightless composed by Lapucci & Sukaz. As the name say, weightless without any weight, following this philosophy the two guys delivered three original tracks ranging in between dance floor groove and space melody how we like it. Henry Hyde (bad ass Harry McCanna's alter ego) made a perfect UK garage, break style rework of the B1 to complete the EP.

The OFFPATH journey continues after the hugely successful sell out of OP03. For our 4th edition we turn to 4 new up and coming artists who each bring their unique flavour. Another well rounded EP that offers a wider range of sounds to cover almost any occasion!

So many people trying to catch the latest trend, we focus on the essence of house and techno. A future classic from Implosive Inc. with SIT on remix duty.

Fourth installment for the Orbitr vinyl series.

Tamango Records' fifth release delivers a pure Italian-heat collaboration between label boss Yaya and Alex Ground (Desolat / Kina Music). The fellow Turin based producers and longtime friends Yaya and Alex join forces for 'Rough Side', a 4 tracker EP enriched by a remix from Inkal honcho Ben Rau.

The opening track is called 'Rough Side' and has been a stable weapon in Yaya's sets since its first appearance at the Desolat boat party during WMC in Miami last year. As the title suggests, it's a peak-time roller with a shaking bassline that flows under rattling hits and toms. Some old tape vocals and drum fill find their place into the break, just before an unexpected 'party-starting' old school synth marks this track as one of the summer anthems to get any dance floor moving.

Remix duties are handled to Fuse London regular Ben Rau who has recently launched his own 'Inkal' and sister-label 'Meta', storming the charts release after release.

The B side kicks off with 'You Know The Unknown' where the boys go deeper and deeper, creating a majestic tech house groove with sharp and rubbery hi-hats, raw percussions and fluttering snares all rolling into one. The result is an intense and introspective trip full of light pads and dense synths, all together for another club gem.

Closing the EP is 'Night Wings', seven deep and warm minutes of the finest house music. Again, the title itself perfectly describes the track, where subtle and spaced synths and shuffling drums turn this one into a hypnotic warm-up mood.

Two well crafted space adventures from two long time collaborators.

Label boss Michael McLardy joins forces with Newcastle based Moonlit Vision (What's Nxt/Tough Luck) to present 14 minutes of blissed out house on the A side of their collaborative 'Third Mind EP'. An ideal soundtrack to end the Summer months.

The B side sees the duo provide a remix of Michael's original track 'Pilot', delivered in their trademark sound. Released on vinyl only.

Debut Of Jasmin M (le Chocalat Noir, Disco Panonia) As Fiume. .intense Dark Minimal Tracks That Remind Of Alan Vega And Suicide. Heavy Post-production By Guy Tavares.

Here the first release of Coordinate records, a new Italian label based in Turin. Limited press.