Techno News

After appearing on the well received Chicago Bee Various artists EP Nill Minogue AKA Postelektrik delivers his debut EP on the same label.

This well crafted EP has a mature sound that crosses the boundaries from traditional acid and leans towards deep house and electronica.

Side A delivers what has been to be expected from Chicago Bee. But its the the flip side where Nill Minogue comes into his own. This side blends a shift towards a home listening vibe as well as being suited to a more discerning dance floor. The tracks The Green Strobe and Not Them are slow drifting builders and full of lush pads that float along endlessly. This combined with moody baselines and trademark Roland drums you surely have a well rounded winner.

Many supporting this EP so far including DeepChord, Placid (I Love Acid) , Damo B (Outer Limits radio show) Colin Dale, Jerome Hill , Rennie Foster and Type 303.

Three new uncompromising bangers by Sev Dah oozing of 90's techno nostalgia, but not because of some stylistic choice. Rather nostalgia as a form of dedication and belief.

CHIWAX proudly presents the new Roberet Armani Traxx Series!
Featuring new and old releases from the Chicago Master, starting
with the "Grind EP" which came out originally 1997 on Dance Mania!

Red Vinyl
In 9 records and 22 years Schmer has given you the same four dudes: Prototype 909, DJ RX-5 and bpmf. Now is the time to unleash a new generation of Schmers on an unprepared world and they are prepared to set the world on fire.

Coming out strong to whip us all into shape we've unleashed Isabella and she'll leave you "Spun Out". Isabella has done tracks for Jacktone, Embalming Lately, Borft, S1, Peder Mannerfelt Produktions. She uses hardware, live, to produce unhinged techno. Now she has done one for Schmer, which had already lost its hinges decades before.

Since 2015, Ciel's monthly radio show "Work In Progress" in Montreal has been highlighting the best and weirdest in underground electronic music produced by women. She has released tracks on Junted (Marshall Applewhite's new imprint), the benefit compilation Power Puerto Rico, and a three- track EP on Peach Discs which landed on numerous year-end lists from Fact Magazine, Mixmag, and Resident Advisor. She provides Schmer with the pristine sounds of "Bad Luck Comes in 3s".

Hiroko Yamamura is the Classic Chicago ride or die style DJ/producer influenced by The Warehouse, technology, and straight up techno, its no wonder she has been named one of Chicago's top 10 DJs by XLR8R magazine. Finally Schmer stops messing around with the Chicago sound and puts the real thing out with Hiroko's "Babyayez" track.

Experimental Housewife is Evelyn Malinowski, a longstanding DJ and maker of music.(Run The Length Of Your Wildness / Jacktone Records / Perfect Location / Juxtatextureall) Now based in San Francisco, she partakes in multiple open collaborations, like the one with the highly skilled DJ and producer Andrew Bowen aka Bilaga´ana. "Free Ends" was created, a track with grit yet full of innocent meandering. Its the cherry on top of our Schmerlicious cake.

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The 6th release on BLKMARKET MUSIC is a new collaboration between electro producer Gosub and label head Taimur.

On the A side, Gosub & Taimur go techno with two versions of their track ‘THE CONTROLLER.’ The A1 is a deeper 135bpm version that takes you into outer orbit. The A2 ‘THE CONTROLLER (DARK PATH MIX)’ focuses on a faster 145bpm darker and more tripped out version of A1.

The B side focuses on the after-hours side of things. On B1 they kick things off with ’SAFE,’ an electro track that turns into a druggy four on the floor tune, with haunting vocals that chant ‘You think you’re safe.’ On B2 their track ‘PHI’ is more on the techier side of things.

Concepts powered by dusty machines. Made in Florida.

Loco Dice's Desolat label serves up a huge package here from Russia's finest underground house and techno production and DJ export, Tripmastaz. His four track EP is a testament to his ability to cook up chunky club groves that cannot fail to make their mark. That is immediately proven with title track Wax Mania", a bulky techno roller with monstrous kicks, raved up synth stabs and knocking percussion that all invite you to stomp along to the groove before some jazzy chords enter the mix and funk things up. Taped Chrome' was written and recorded in one session, was recorded straight to tape and is an angst ridden, edgy peak time cut with coarse claps, loud, alarm-like synths and grumbling bass that will rattle the walls of any club. The perfectly dark and consuming Till Melted' has pinging rubber kicks swaying beneath all sorts of withering and whirring synth lines and is a perfect freak out tune. Full of mischief and intensity with lots of subtle effects all adding to the tension, it is one that will get fists pumping in any set. Finally, F What You Heard' is a deeper house cut with a synth line that rises and falls in loudness, sucking you in as it goes whilst blocky drums stomp out a thick groove. This is effective, solid dancing music that is also hugely fun from the Russian star. Enjoy.

Tableland is a new Techno-leaning project from an established name. Vinyl only. No more information right now.

777 returns with its second remix EP expanding the affairs from house to jungle by four special guests!

We welcome back Hiroaki Iizuka - one of the label's long time connections and one of Japan's finest techno producers - joining forces with Endlec on the remix tip! Absolute bangers - only for the headstrong!

Frank Bean aka "The Classic Mutha Fucka" first hit the decks in the early 90's and has since then built up his audience through his own parties and very memorable classic electro DJ sets at the world renowned Killekill parties in Berlin.

Detroit Techno has inspired him throughout the years and that is noticeable in his productions under the moniker "The Almost People" and his new project "The Classic MuthaFucka”. The likes of Funk, Hip Hop and early Detroit Techno have helped him train his ear. What to expect from a Classic Mutha Fucka set? The perfect marriage of sound scapes blended with electro and hip hop that mutate every so softly into a zone that scrapes the surface of sex and nerdism. His delivery is ever so subtle to the musical ear and that of the listener/party goer. You must expose yourself to a full Bean set in order to experience the Tension that builds ever so subtlety. The ears and feet will tremble as will the mind and soul.

Mr. Gene Hunt, Chicago house music legend, is back on LA Club Resource with the"After School" ep. Gene digs deep in his vast archives and unearths three hard hitting tracks for fans of old school house. Heard in the clubs and on mix shows back in the days, these tracks finally surface for the first time on wax. Limited to 300 copies and essential for the Chicago freaks.

Berlin-based producer, DJ, record store and label owner Cinthie has been garnering huge attention in recent times since stepping up her release schedule and launching her most recent venture 803 Crystalgrooves.

2019 marks 35 years since DJ Pierre started DJing and began laying the groundwork forwhat would become Acid House. His new, seven-part series of 35 remixes of Phuture’s ‘Acid Track’ is a celebration Pierre’s first monumental release and the spark for a new genre that changed dance music forever.
After a first volume staring the likes of KiNK, Bloody Mary and Paco Osuna comes part two, again on limited edition coloured vinyl, featuring heavyweight remixes from Carl Cox, Luciano, Anfisa Letyago, Lorenzo Cheng and Najel Monteiro.

Intec label boss, RESISTANCE Ibiza resident and long-time dance music titan Carl Cox is as in demand now as he ever was. His spin on ‘Acid Track’ is one that teases and pleases with big builds and hard hitting drums. The acid line is paired right back then grows throughout until taking over and blowing the roof off any club.

Swiss-Chilean minimal master Luciano brings the sort of elongated intrigue you would expect of the Cadenza founder. His dubby version builds the pressure with sci-fi pads swirling round the drums while a manic but soft-edged acid line freely evolves and takes you on a trip deep into the dead of night.

Siberian born, Napoli based fast rising star Anfisa Letyago has made her mark on Nervous this year and here offers a no nonsense, pounding acid techno banger with mind melting vocal riffs that loop you into a frenzy. Dutchman Lorenzo Cheng is another one on the rise and his contribution is a heavy hitting weapon with stomping drums and frantic acid blistering its way through the grooves, while last of all is Rotterdam new school talent Najel Monteiro with a fat, dubwise remix that allows the ripping 303 centre stage.

This is another fresh package that precedes later volumes featuring some of the biggest names from dance music past, present and future.

HIEROGLYPHIC BEING'S Volume 3 of 9 "A SYNTHETIC LOVE LIFE VOL 3" features more uptempo freeform electronic mosh pit sonics that were created a decade ago to cassette. Limited & stamped for MATHEMATICS PLUS

"Do you wanna faq me? I wanna faq you!" - It's starting like the last one ended. Toni M. is back on falling apart with his 2nd ghetto house, electro funk release and shinin' like never before. Better get your hands on that record before they all gone. For DJ use. ONLY VINYL!

9x7" Box Set...now for super offer !! be fast !!

World Wide limited number of 300 sets. 9 x 7" vinyl picture discs in a box

The history of Planets...

It has been 100 years since the British composer Gustav Holst introduced his most famous score «The Planets». An elegant musical tour to each one of our Planets in the Solar System, Holst brought forth imaginary visions of space that would survive many generations and decades after. As an important piece to the classical universe, 'The Planets' is regularly played throughout the World every year as it had been the most vivid translation of our cosmic neighborhood until now.

The Electronic Music artist and producer Jeff Mills, pays tribute to this century of incredible musical production. He embarks to compose a sonic journey to re-discover our neighboring planets in a 18 piece suite that explores the nine planets, including the portions of space in between the Planets, the nine regions Mills calls Loop Transits.

Deeply inhabited by science-fiction, Jeff Mills adopts its ideas, concepts, stories and esthetics from the outset. For him, Space is an obsession and his music almost becomes a musical science-fiction. Conquering space, his music embodies the future while both respecting the past and remaining well into the present. Mills takes the rotating principle of the solar system as aesthetics, concept and model for creativity. From the beginning, his first releases explore futuristic and science fiction topics and continue to do so to this day. For Jeff Mills, the future is a powerful creative drive which explains the artist's ceaseless activity.

Since its creation and like the intention of Holst, each track is musically imagined to invoke the psychological affect, emotions and ideas of each planet. But unlike in the year 1918, when the score was first publicly heard on the last week of World War I, 100 years later, we now have a more accurate knowledge about what each Planet is made of and what they look like. The piece should bring the audience closer to confronting each planet in ways that audiences in 1918 could only dream of.

With the French composer Sylvain Griotto, the arranger of Planets and Mills' previous work on the album and classical score about the NASA astronaut and doctor Mamoru Morhi's space journey in 1992 and 2000 from the album 'Where Light Ends', Mills has created an electronic music album that have been translated for symphonic and philharmonic orchestras and will accompany them in their live debut and all performances. Starting to conceptualize and produce music for it dating back to 2005, Mills constantly worked on the project over the years to bring it to fruition.

In July 2016 Jeff Mills has completed the last production stages of the Planets album at the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London. Recorded and will be released in 5.1 surround on the Blue Ray digital format, the soundtrack needed a particular high level of expertise that could only be attended to at hands of the renowned senior studio engineer Jonathan Allen. The expertise and quality associated with the legendary Abbey Road Studios is recognized globally and undeniably the most famous studio in the World. It is with acclaim from the Beatles, Pink Floyd, or more recently Radiohead before him, that Jeff Mills will bring Planets at this legendary music institution.

The mastering sessions occurred on August 2016 with the acclaimed Mastering engineer Darcy Proper in Holland.

limited repress !

D.J. TopCat returns on Dizzy Tunes 010. His former release on Dance Mania #165 from 1996 comes re-mastered to hit the dance floors again. Mastered at schatz.mastering.studio

Staying true to those bottom heavy US house vibes, the Freak is back with a release even chunkier than the first on this imprint.

The mysterious and self proclaimed creator of 'concrete funk' ensures that all four tracks of this release deserve serious floor space.

Side A is a perfect merger off a Chicago v Detroit sound, with jacking drums overlapping deep but never dull chords and stabs. With stabs of vocals reminding the room that you are seriously 'Mackin tha Heat'.

The B-side shows a completely different sound to the freak with chunky acid house sounds accompanied by a track that has a hypnotic techno style groove from start to end.

Len Faki takes on a couple of classics for 007 of his ongoing special edits series LFRMX, striking a perfect balance between the old and new. First up is a tweaked version of Steve Stoll's 1998 LP-excerpt Reciproheat, elegantly edged while carrying the proper weight to move. DJ Shufflemaster's booming Housedust release from the same year however has a wacky tack to its groove, it's mind-bending qualities yet amplified by Faki boiling down the tempo to more current confines. The flipside goes all deep, starring a rework of Valentino Mora's recent space odyssey. Building upon the original's lively tribal percussion, the prevailent mystical mood is spliced up, readying the track special moments in an otherwise up-tempo-environment. A gently pulsing edit of UBX127's Barabrus eventually puts a meditative and soothing finishing touch to the EP. As with all releases of LF RMX, the proceeds of this record will be forwarded to the Berlin organization Straßenkinder e.V. to be used in actions against child poverty.

Superb, diverse, driving DJ tool Techno set

Shall I Call You Bobby The Second Release On The Swedish Label Jack Trax On Wax.
On This Release Produced By Tsr And Joseph Garber We Have Five Versions Of The Track 'shall I Call You Bobby' And One Bonus Track Made With Some Help From The Swedish Synth Duo Engine One 'jack Bobby Jack!'. We Are Also Happy To Announce Two Remixes Made By Some Great Friends And Producers.

First Out We Have Dj Ze Migl From Portugal Turning The Track Into A Jackin Chicago Monster. The Track Is Already Proven To Be A Massive Floor Mangler. The Second One Is A Wicked Little Skacid Groove Made By Another Swedish Duo 'the Sampletons'.

a A1 | Shall I Call You Bobby (original)

Falcon Black Ops returns to UTTU with more groove based but hard hitting techno jams. Recalling a tribal sound, not heard since the late 90s, the aesthetic is updated with more modern production values. Relentless, and aimed purely at the floor, these cuts are essential for all phunk edged, tool based DJs.

HIEROGLYPHIC BEING'S Volume 2 of 9 "A SYNTHETIC LOVE LIFE VOL 2" features uptempo electronics & simmering circuit boards stamped with Chicago rhythm patterns. Limited & stamped for MATHEMATICS PLUS.

NOAH GIBSON from Sweden delivers some fresh killer Techno on his own imprint KRASCH!

"Christos Mavridis is a many of many guises. He's done an EP on - House is OK , some Tech House on Noir Music, Kindisch or Get Physical and right now he's preparing a tier-1 Techno career...For S4AW he delivers a dancefloor-heavy House Music EP showing off his wide sound horizon, influenced by tek-oriented House tracks like from Schatrax, XDB or Makam. - Black Pearls is that perfect, deep, technoid House Monster at 128bpm - deeper than deep. - Era Of Consciousnes surprises with some Disco sample slickness, in case you're looking for sunny summertime memories.Phillip Lauer & Gerd Janson alias - Tuff City Kids deliver a Ragga-influenced, rave-strikes back remix par excellance. It's their tribute to Groover Klein, DJ at the legendary MILK! Club in Mannheim in the early 90s.And finally there's another original Eddoh production, a hypnotic Tribal tune named - Down Low , blowing the air horn like it's 1992."

early support:
And.Id, Andrew Soul, Axel Boman, Dave DK, Filburt, Jacques Renault, Johannes Volk, Joseph Capriati, Kiko Navarro, Mathias Schaffhäuser, Melon, Mihai Popescu, Mirco Violi, Robert Owens, Roberto Rodriguez, Horse Meat Disco,...

Collecting orders for repress

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She's daffodils and morphine,
the tender cannonade of
lovesick napalm.
She's the trapeze wire
in a thunderstorm.
Enkindle me cruelly.
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Chicago's underground pioneer DJ Skull presents SolarOneMusic's Techno City Series Part 2. After Detroit's Scan 7 comes Ron Maney with 3 techno banger tracks. And last but not least one remix by the smart guy Albert van Abbe.

Dona is back with another EP of emo-jakkin Mediterranean style dark-side. He walks the fine line between hope and hate on this one, mood-swinging his way through various shades of azure and off white.

For the latest 12" on his self-titled label, Malin Genie teams up with Swedish producer Per Hammar for a sturdy four-tracker that shows off the duo's knack for crafty, rolling house music. "Lijnbaan Dubb" has a full spread of rich synthetics propelling it forward through a subtly dubbed landscape of nocturnal atmospherics, while "Fosie" needles in on crooked sound design for a playful, minimal trip-out. "Scania" has a more rattling, techno-minded framework to carry liquid shimmers of chords, and then Samuel Andre Madson comes on board for a remix that injects a little old-skool Chicago romanticism into "Scania."

Straight from the ghetto!

Dance Mania re-release from 1997 with a new hot Chicago House remix by South Side Underground in 2017.

Mastered at schatz.mastering.studio

Supported by DJ Deeon & DJ Krime

Don't returns with a brand new Various artists EP and the first in a new series that takes over where the 'Rumpus Room' records left off.. "Square Meal" is designed to present to you a nutritionally balanced Techno record, food for thought as well as for feet.. containing absolutely no artificial constituents but plenty of roughage and active ingredients !

The A side contains 2 heavy bangers, and the B side, 2 slices of amazingly quirky and rocking 'Wonky style' Techno. Man of the moment Joe Farr steps up and serves us a heavy one, Dense, big boned Techno music that manages to morph into Gabba and back out again. This one is causing a stir whenever it's played and fits perfectly with the Don't ethos of extreme idea implementation! Next up Cursor Miner returns to the label with a demented banger that has been road tested extensively during his live sets and comes with a health warning.. Flip the record over for 2 slices of beautifully freeform wonky Techno, the first coming from newcomer - Sane and the second from Don't veteran 'Edit'...

For their second birthday RAW CULTURE is proud to introduce its little sister: GHETTO CULTURE! Ghetto Culture is a series of releases inspired by ghetto house sound, techniques and feelings yet reinterpreted in a modern way. This first release is signed by GHETTO 25, the punk connexion between two mysterious french artist with only purpose of making unintelligent tracks for unintelligent people. Footwork, hard twerk and champions league are their only goals for next seasons. The EP includes a remix delivered directly from Chicago's ambassador of ghetto sound: PAUL JOHNSON! This series of releases will include a little fanzine with an exclusive interview with the master PJ, some exclusive artwork from the french duo and some other gems.

A Detroit ghettotech style of dancing is called the jit, which relies heavily on fast footwork combinations, drops, spins and improvisations. It originated from 'the Jitterbug,' a stateside dance style from the 40's that became a worldwide sensation by way of US soldiers spreading it during WW2, quickly getting banned by authorities on account of being rude, vulgar and against the interests of the war effort. The movements are characterized by a highly energetic and ecstatic movements, and the frenetic mixing style reflects the highly improvisational nature of the dance, and the DJ's who spin ghettotech wildly blend together chicago juke and footwork, jungle, miami bass, electro, hard techno. This is the first in a series of Jit compilations transmitted from planet Detroit and beamed directly into the ghetto of your mind. Elevated Jit is dedicated to the jitters and and to the loving memory of Andre 'Erotek' Brown. Jit the Planet !

Look out for volume 2, coming soon.

Distributed by Rubadub
Mastered by Will Web and Brendan Zacharias
Pressed at Intakt! Berlin

Schmer has tried to stop, we've all gone into therapy, but there's no hope, short of setting the world ablaze: we can't stop smoking! 2019 see's Schmer pressing TECHNO records in the EU and PRICED in Europe as a domestic release. As if the continent didn't already have enough problems, here we come with our latest COMPILATION!

First to drop a match is Amber Shoshona aka Bastet. She is a live electronic music performer and DJ based in Baltimore, MD USA. Her live set is coarse-grained and atmospheric, developing a slow-burning, hypnotic groove. In the studio she creates genre bending electronic experiments. For Schmer she made 'Torn', which sneaks right up to you and lights you up.

Delivering oil to the blaze from deep in the Russian arctic is Maxim Makarenko aka 777minus111. The unknown hero from the Russian Techno label he remains in the shade and keeps it real! He runs underground parties in Moscow and is a member of Vinyl Ambulance project in India. He keeps our compilation 'Getting Dirty Quick' with his Dan Bell inspired MINIMALISM.

On the flip the fires start with Vague Audio Tapes label head Dominic Martin aka Hero/Victim. Hero/Victim is a sonic attempt at translating unanswered and unheard emotions. Visceral and physical; so as to both, engage and purge the evolving dissonance. Never content. With sound as a context-sensitive metaphor, stories are heard. He also makes weird electronic music and then Schmers all over us with a 'New Stress'.

Schmerhead BPMF hides a track from another release in this inferno. Its super short as in it goes on FOREVER with a LOCKED GROOVE at the end. If you're gonna be an emcee, do it in a Wormhole on a LOCKED GROOVE so that the rock will never stop.

Liza Weinstein, Zach Vietze and Jason Szostek were Jack Move. In 1994 they may have made two tracks together, but this is the only one we found lying around in the basement floor. Long before the skinny jean hipsters were rocking beats deliberately designed to confuse the dance floor with their lack of flow, The Jack Movers were experimenting with cryptic funk... It was a Jack Move on their part and they immediately ran out of town to escape retribution, leaving behind their 'Krippy Shit'.

We Can't Stop Smoking so you'll always be able to find us because where there's smoke, there's fire... and where there's TECHNO there's SCHMER!

Enigmatic Berlin label MASK return in 2019 with a vinyl only release consisting of four eccentric cuts entitled 'Hunter'. The mysterious German label maintains its reputation of providing quality, esoteric music by anonymous artists with a focus on analogue sound design and modulated oddities. 'Hunter' is the result of the first take of a live recording coming from a duo who have been playing together for over a decade. The A1 kicks off with lo-fi drum programming, emphatic leads and stabbing bass shoots before the A2 throws down sharp 303 bleeps, angelic pads and resonating kicks creating a euphoric ambience throughout. On the flip uplifting synth work, shuffling percussion and crunchy oscillations take the focus until chugged out experimentation becomes ever present in the final track as it harmoniously balances sweeping elements, growling tones and sonic obscurities.