Techno News

The sophomore release from Ali Wells' new specialty imprint Submit, Feral Grind (SUBMIT002) collects tracks from a wide swath of producers who operate at the intersection of techno, drone and DIY electronics. Curated by Wells and music journalist Justin Farrar, the compilation features a balanced assortment of well-established innovators and under-the-radar sound explorers.

The names Pete Swanson, Prostitutes, Burial Hex, Profligate, Bleaching Agent, Hive Mind and Indignant Senility will certainly be familiar to those who keep abreast of the latest developments in cutting-edge electronic music. Over the last several years, these musicians have exerted considerable impact on everything from 'technoise' to 21st-century industrial. In the process, they've released music on labels as diverse as Spectrum Spools, Type, Diagonal, Not Not Fun, Digitalis, Opal Tapes and Wells' own Perc Trax.

Feral Grind also spotlights numerous artists not widely known outside of underground-noise circles. Their inclusion is proof of just how extensive and far-reaching the interface between techno and noise has become in recent years: Housefire, from North Carolina, unleashes a multi-layered din of crunchy distortion and shattered groove exploration. Going by the all too appropriate moniker Trogpite, Nick Painter vomits-up cough syrup-drenched horror lurch and caveman groans reminiscent of Dread-era Wolf Eyes. Speaking of which, Wolf Eyes' very own John Olson specializes in harsh-beat deconstruction under his alias Henry & Hazel Slaughter. Equally blown-out is the relentlessly pulsating work of Philadelphia's Mincemeat or Tenspeed. Then there's The David Russell Snake, whose whiplash-inducing productions are a direct reflection of the Cleveland musician's deep roots in harsh noise and power electronics.

Second Skirt 12" on Semantica. Featuring remixes by Inigo Kennedy and Ancient Methods.

Massive limited re-release / repress for this historical 12" by Daniele Baldelli, originally released in 2009.

3 tracks : " Galaxia" , Alkemio " & " Sakso rava "

Veto presents a run of re-releases from Kero's label Detroit Underground::

Here we have a worthy re-rub for this fun yet superbly challenging Detroit Underground split release compilation from a while back that was presented as a collaboration with America's superb Schematic Music Company. There's 20 remixed tracks on offer here from some brilliant and very cutting artists from the more extreme corners of electronic music...

The office highlight comes from the amazing smutty tech of Soft Pink Truth's remix of 'Whip Me Down' - one for the ladies indeed!

A really great price for this 20 track CD re-release remix package that comes in a full colour jewel case

11 track CD Digipack features 4 page, full colour booklet
The sophomore release from Ali Wells' new speciality imprint - Submit
A healthy stack of press & promo support

Ventress (Avian) hard hitting Typhon gets the remix treatment from Svreca (Semantica) and Adbulla Rashim (Prologue, Studio Barnhaus).

2 tracks recorded by copeland and John T. Gast in Stroomi Rand, summer 2013. Available on 12 inch 180g limited edition vinyl. TIP

Elbodrop - One Man EPThe next adventure of Truth Tracks brings you 2 fresh guys from Glasgow, UKwith their dark stomping tech tunes. After their releases and remixes on Das Ohr, Tracer and Reloading,they come back with their second release on Truth Tracks. Incredible Remixes by Waveform, Robin Hirte and Dee-Noizermakes this release to a must have in techno record bags these days!

Token sticks to its guns: Inigo Kennedy delivers a big new 12" with a double a-side, early support comes from Blawan, Dave Clarke, Chris Liebing, Xhin, Jonas Kopp & more

Resilience are proud to present the first release on the label from esoteric operators Montalk.

Montalk have been experimenting in underground bunkers and laboratories for years, looking at the correlation between frequencies and how they affect the human body and mind. Their music encompasses dark rhythmic structures, grainy textural tones, atmospheric melodies with chakra opening frequency ranges. Montalk and Resilience invite you into their sonic underworld of mysterious alien landscapes, mutant architecture and consciousness for a transcendental and celestial experience. Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering // Artwork by Ajna Design

For our third release, we welcome back the collaborative efforts of our three family members Mia Dora, HaHaHa & Raksha. Joining forces once again, they depart from the awkward rhythms and stuttered arrangements of their first joint outing and instead offer up a slab of relentless, dance floor shattering techno. From the opening, an almost hypnotic drum pattern comprised of both live and synthesised sounds fills the track with atmosphere and instills a real sense of urgency in the listener. The moment the bassline is introduced, however, the purpose of Ill-defined becomes clear - to bring your warehouse party crashing to it's knees one drop at a time. On the flip, the ever adept Dam Mantle has take time to offer up what must be described as a re-edit in the truest sense of the word. Extending and re-imagining the track in his own unique way, he opens by somehow adding an extra sense of menace to the already unnerving original. As it grows, things move in a completely different direction and the final sexed up, key driven crescendo leaves you wondering how you got there in the end. DJ & radio support from BBC Radio 1, Kiss FM, Sinden, Sei A, Clouds, Jackmaster, Mary Anne Hobbs, Joe Goddard, Eats Everything, Dubbel Dutch, Toddla T, Tomb Crew, MJ Cole, Hannah Holland, Optimo, Sonic Router, Mash, All Caps, Greenmoney, Lone and more.

As a label manager a lot of music reaches you ears. Some you get especially attached to. This release is one of those. The two Italian producers Massprod and Herva (Bosconi, Delsin) has together produced some music that feels very unique and different. The EP that goes under the wonderful title Technology Fail as a Birth Control for Unnecessary Recordings, contains a set of songs that blend distorted funk, lo-fi tape recordings, noise and ultra minimal electronica. Titles like Mike vs Speak and Overdub as a Weapon Against Modern Laptop Wanking and Fourth Dimension Opens Up to Show Invisible Boogie Maze might even open up for new horizons for our label, the label with no set goals. We hope you like this one. We do.

Avowed Nate Young fiends Demdike Stare have trapped the Wolf Eyes lynchpin's stunning 3rd 'Regression' volume for a necessary vinyl edition on their eponymous label. 'Other Days' represents the Wolf Eyes lynchpin's most labyrinthine incursion to the nether zone between waking life and 'marish, cryptographic
noise.

Bratha is the studio project of No Mad Ronin, Marieu and Lucretio. These 4 gems of contemporary techno have been recorded during the past months at the Restoration Headquarters with the ssistance of a bunch of transistors delights carried by No Mad Ronin to Neukölln. All the music has been produced on hardware devices and record on ferromagnetic tape during frantic aftertea sessions. This is a first selection of their works, for the sake of techno. On B1 the Bratha trio has been joined by Arthur Cayzer (SheWorksTheLongNights). Only 300 copies have been pressed on blacklabels and no further repress is planned at the moment.

Apparent Horizon Burst on to the Berlin Scene with a impresive Hera EP. 4 Tracks from Bule and Hunab - a member of sowing paranoia-. Roots Classy, late '90s-styled Techno dub also infected with the new virus of avant techno.

* LISTEN: http://www.a-wave.com/label/zips/AAGWCD004.zip
* This unique and powerful collaboration with Japanese rock band Rovo presents another side of System 7 with Steve Hillage's lead guitar fully to the fore.
* Rovo are a popular Japanese psychedelic progressive rock/jam band. They feature two drummers, funky bass and innovative keyboards and are fronted by guitarist Seichi Yamamoto (formerly with The Boredoms) and masterful electric violinist Yuji Katsui.
* System 7 is the dance music project of Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, presenting a unique combination of tech-house beats and live musicianship, and who have had a strong influence on the development of psychedelic ambient and electronica.
* Phoenix Rising is the combination of System 7 and Rovo playing together, sometimes using the techno beats as the rhythmic basic and sometimes using the live drums, seamlessly morphing from one to the other.
* The full Phoenix Rising studio album is set for UK release on September 23rd 2013, featuring original collaborations from System 7 and ROVO. It also includes a new arrangement of Meeting of the Spirits by the Mahavishnu Orchestra - a perfect showcase for the album's outstanding blend of guitar and electric violin.
* Fans of System 7's Steve Hillage can be assured that in the format of Phoenix Rising his masterful electric guitar style is fully unleashed, with extensive soloing and duets with the electric violin of Rovo's Yuji Katsui.
* Rovo and System 7 are performing a Phoenix Rising tour in March 2014. Confirmed dates are Manchester The Ritz (March 7th), London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire (March 8th) and Amsterdam Melkweg (March 13th). More dates to be added.
* In addition System 7 will be extensively promoting the album around the time of release, including two special live guest spots on The Orb's 25th Anniversary tour at Manchester Academy (Oct 12th) and London The Forum (Oct 19th)
* Youtube link for one track:- http://youtu.be/4y4iU4cbNBU
* TRACKLIST: 1: Hinotori (Album Version) 2: Love for the Phoenix 3: Meeting of the Spirits 4: Cisco (Phoenix Rising Version) 5: Unbroken 6: Sino Dub (Phoenix Rising Version) 7: Unseen Onsen

Jason Potratz's debut album 'Transfer', released on Phthalo Records in 2001, was a work of experimental acid
techno well ahead of its time. The release heralded much of the ensuing popularity of SH-101, MC-202, and TB-303-
inspired electronics. Over a decade later, just as it seems that acid is once again on the rise in electronic music
culture, the shadowy and mysterious Potratz returns on Halocyan with a killer single entitled 'Absent Center'. The
philosophical concept of the 'absent center' revolves around paralysis or evaporation through planning and thought.
In kind, this track is a forceful, paranoid rush of lacerating, rich and twitchy sound design-- all frenzied, furious
movement, exploding and collapsing inward upon itself. Potratz's expert programming and sound design are very
deliberate flirtations with ways of grounding the groundless in a techno framework. On the B-side, NHK RMX, aka
NHK / Kouhei Matsunaga (whose prolific and experimental body of work has been released on labels such as Pan,
Raster-Noton, and Mille Plateaux), whips 'Absent Center' into an absolutely relentless cyclone of whirring bleeps,
renegade high-hats and and a consistent, ingrained glitch. Cut by Stefan Betke (aka Pole) at 45 RPM for optimum
loudness, limited to 200 copies.

Haswell's improvised modular synth recordings are given the radical remix treatment.

Fellow Midlander, REGIS, delivers a beat driven techno noise mulch classic, then, the legendary WHITEHOUSE founding member, and
more recently CUT HANDS, William Bennett, has spatialized the original mono source into a stereo head fucking, brain floss session. The
entire B side of this EP is given over to Chicago's experimental music master, Kevin Drumm, who expands the chosen track into
a striking 8 minute noise/ambient conundrum.

The long awaited return of Syncom Data on their own label. Four excellent spaced out, dubby techno-electro hybrid tracks. Titletrack Supercell takes a halftempo shufflebeat as a grooving foundation for a constant changing, vibrating and pulsating dub-techno excursion. The Supercell Dub takes the original into a more though techno direction in the best The Hague tradition. On the b-side Syncom Data start with Lullaby: a soothing melody, a shuffled beat and some deep bass kicks create a seemingly sweet electro-dubby song. Final track Cruise To Sunflower is a beatless deep space synth trip of more than 8 minutes. Great comeback of these Dutch masters of spacetechno.

130 BPM 4/4 dub tunes... Fat and demoniac, fresh and aerial, dark and sober. Pfiou.... This is GOOOD night music. A Base ! Well expensive UK imports... sorry.

Ultralimited white label

Three years after his highly acclaimed 4th album 'Humatron' Alex Krüger aka Tigerskin has returned to his dubbier Dub Taylor moniker, now he is also back on Opossum to deliver down and dirty grooves. Supported by Gel Abril, Adultnapper, Sasch BBC, Marquez Ill, DJ T., Roberto Rodriguez, Sven Kerkhoff, Alland Byallo, Simon Wish, Horatio, Danilo Schneider, Show-b, Dan Drastic, P.Toile, Mathias Schaffhaeuser, Sweet N Candy, Raresh, Martin Landsky and many more.

big support from dj hell, adam beyer, marcel dettmann, luke slater, james ruskin and many moore...
'Motor: Nighttime World 3' is widely regarded as one of the best albums of last year. We're proud to present you the third single 'Black Technician' on Music Man. It includes remixes from the Underground Resistance crew. There are two different versions for you to check out. The 'UR Mad Mike Remix' features founding UR member Mike Banks with edits by Skurge & Ray 7. On the 'DirtTech UR Remix' Mad Mike collaborated with Waajeed, who previously worked together with Slum Village, Roy Ayers and Radiohead. For the people that couldn't get a hold of the 'Nighttime World' 3LP too, the original is included as well and gets a full side.


FEEDBACK
early support from:

dj hell: mike is still the boss
adam beyer: wow, not an everyday promo. really like the main remix, timeless, classy and very playable. all my red planet records are flashing by in memory. this reminds me of why i once got in to this shit. thank u.
Marcel Dettmann: great thanks!!!
Scuba: Good stuff, thanks
Luke Slater: Mad Mikes mix,very nice.Love it
James Ruskin: The Whole 12 is a classic! Absolutely love both remixes Thank you!!!!
Steve Rachmad: Mike Banks mix is cool
Dj Deep: This feels like a dream becomes reality, Mad Mike mixes are great! Thanks so much.
Claude Young: Absolutely Amazing!!!! Both mixes! Will play!!!!
dvs1: mad mike mix!!
Marcel Fengler: Massive Original and Remixes .. Thanx!
2562 / A Made Up Sound: DirtTech UR remix sounds fresh!
Joel Mull: UR Mad Mike Remix. Liking the bleepy funky beat. Also the Strings and the harmony makes the track more epic. But the Beat is what makes the track. Really nice.
Sven Väth (Assistant): Mad Mike's Remix is really cool!othing for me.
Norman Nodge: Dirt Tech Rmx is something special.
Marc Romboy: Totally in love with the Mad Mike remix! Sounds a bit like Ralf Hütter and Mad Mike in the studio together! Good idea btw...
Ø (Phase): Brilliant. Thanks
Speedy J: Thanks, will test.
Philip Sherburne: Awesome. All three tracks sound great.
Adam X: Really like these UR remixes...and already been a fan of the original.
Sven von Thülen (debug): Massive original. And a great Mad Mike Remix. What more could you ask for .... and those Strings .... sublime.
Heiko Hoffmann (groove mag): sounds good
ripperton: Thanks i like the made mike trip a lot :)

Modularz label head Developer continues with his fourth release on his solo project Developer Archive.
This release features 5 strong and very functional tracks that stay within the ranges of his more stripped down
darker approach to techno. This is a limited vinyl release that continues to shed even more light on a consistent
and effective producer that has been part of the re-surfacing and growing rise of American techno. "

Brood Audio power house Techno duo are back at it again with a devastating 3 track EP. The follow up to
their highly successful single 'Stones' earlier this year, Erphun and Subfractal collaborate once more with
a similar but even harder and more driving Techno sound.

Not only we're extremely hyped about this new EP from Erphun & Subfractal, but also like to celebrate our
second vinyl release on the label with you as well.

In just under a year in the making, we're extremely proud to bring you our second installment of the Brood
Remixes. As we did in the first release, we've put together a special breed of underground talent to remix
our artist, Yan Cook.

Fantastic and forward thinking artists such as Xhin, Subjected, Tom Laws, Measure Divide and a digital
bonus only remix by Dubspeeka (aka known as Kosheen DJs) deliver solid interpretations of Yan Cook's
trademark tracks previously released on Brood.

Brace yourself and indulge in some real dark techno! Enjoy!

Stroboscopic Artefacts man Markus Suckut remixes UK Techno legend Mark Broom for side A and on the B side is an orginal production from him. Support from Speed J, Pfirter & Dettmann amongst others.

Part One of Subjecteds LP on Vault Series. Welcome to world of VAULT!

Part Two of Subjecteds LP on Vault Series. Welcome to world of VAULT!

new smash project by Blawan and Surgeon.

Techno 2013 - mixed by DJ Arcane & Heckmän:
Der Name sagt schon alles... Tiefer, groovender,pr treibender
Techno mit den besten Tracks, die das Jahr 2013 bieten
wird. Mit dabei sind Chris Liebing, Green Velvet, Dustin
Zahn, Alex Bau, Stigmata, Klaudia Gawlas, Space DJz, Sven
Wittekind und viele mehr. Techno 2013 - richtiger Techno
ohne Kompromisse!
2CD compilation, Laufzeit ca. 138 Min.

TRACKLIST
CD1 (mixed by DJ Arcane)

















CD2 (mixed by Heckmän)













14. Hanz Loop feat. Rosenwasser - Loreley - Sven Wittekind Remix
15. Angy Kore - It's War - Original Mix

Sweat, also known as perspiration, transpiration or diaphoresis, is a product of mixing H2O with various solid chemicals such as chlorides and is mainly produced by glands located in the skin of mammals. It consists further of chemicals such as 2-methylphenol (o-cresol) and 4-methylphenol (p-cresol), as well as a small amount of urea. The sweat works as a thermoregulating mechanism, cooling the body from dangerous overheating, wich could result in body malfunction. It has also been reported that components inside the male perspiration would aslo work as a so called "chick-magnet". Sweat can be found in a wide variety of mammals, all though it is shown that only humans and horses produce large amounts of this chemical soup as a part of its cooling system and primarly by glands under the armpits.

Studies has shown that men start their perspiration faster than women when exercising under the same relative intensity. If this proves the theory that men use their sweat as a tool for luring women into their bedrooms is yet to be shown. Speaking against the theory, would be the fact that most sweaty men smells bad. When sweat occurs, the bacteria residing on the skin, feeds of the chemicals and as a biproduct, a smelly odor is produced. Keeping in mind that sweat also is produced during states of nervousness, it is implied that sweaty dancing men fearing an embarrasing defeat after a displaying their shortcommings as part of the mating rituals, still enjoys a better chance of intercourse if the target female is exposed to the sweat odor. No study showed if the same case stands true for homosexuals.

Samuel L Session: hard to pick a fav here, they are all good. bring it on!

Tony Rohr: Smutstvätt is slutty as fuck. It's like being at some tripped out carnival where all the booths are ran by the stuffed animals and you are trying to get that damn ring around the milk bottle so you can win a human. Me likey.

Patrick Bateman (Tic Tac Toe): Oh yeah, the Cari funk!... All 4 tracks got something special to them. Full support!

Vicky Montefusco: Lekebusch destructive as always...Slajdmedel my favourite !!!

Gustav Bagge: Mumma för öronen! Allihopa!

Samuli Kemppi: Toppen!

Butch: very cool

Dub Dummies: Wow we love this sound... high class release

SLAM: loving Cari's productions - loving these thanx

Sasha Carassi: Top realase,love them all!

Dustin Zahn: Svettiga Pattar and Slajdmedel for me. This is the kind of funk that only Cari can produce

Nima Khak: Svettigt! Amazing release! Cari func when it is at it's best! Will play and chart!

Nihad Tule: I like em all, even though I'd prefer a bit more of those cari lekebusch trademark old school dist and flanger on the master stuff. Smutstvätt is my pick here :) TJUUUU!

Tobias Von Hofsten: Svitt som fan! Bounce dat!

Patrick Siech (DCBNSOCTKNT): aah great tracks!!! and i've been waiting for a revival of the classic stockholm-techno-tracknames! slajdmedel must be one of the best titles ever :)

Par Grindvik: svettig platta! svårt att välja en favorit men "svettiga pattar" och "smutstvätt" blir det nog för mig. vill ha vinyl

Kimono: Svettlukt! I LOVE THE SMELL OF THIS ONE!

Mike Dehnert with a new 4 tracker....

For our third release, we are joining forces with bristol stalwart - Kowton - finding the link between two genres that are very close to our hearts - grime & techno. Built as an ode to ruff sqwad's 'raw 2 da core', Kowton is able to build up and take down the rough and rugged aesthetic that is found within both genres in just over 5 minutes.

On the flip, taking on the original is Blawan and Pariahs collaborative project - Karenn (SheWorksTheLongNights). Keeping true to the spirit of UK techno, they manage to translate the raw and grimey quality of the original through a heap of analogue gear, all in one take.

Feedback:

Ben UFO (Hessle Audio / Rinse FM) " fucking rough. this sound has so much going for it. ridiculous. "
Boddika (Swamp 81 / SunkLo) "nasty shit :) "
Pearson Sound - (Hessle Audio/Rinse FM) - "Ridiculous stuff from Kowton. Full support"
Bill Kouligas (PAN) "great release !!"
Spencer (Numbers) "amazing release, well done troops"
Pangaea - (Hessle Audio/Rinse FM) - "Without question one of Kowton's heaviest productions. All Caps starting as they mean to go on in 2013"

Every place, in which the human being lives, imposes you to choose. We are continually bombed by voices that try to check us and more our mind digs in the depth of own heart, more we hear the necessity to go over the barriers that are built. This way we are and so we will stay. We walk in a crowd of voices and we are continually looking for a something that can maintain us hungry and rebellious against our bossy Ego.The instinct sometimes helps us and brings out. Human beings and the emotions belong to ourselves. We sometimes need the silence to really understand what we want and in which we obviously believe. Imagine you, as in a metaphor of the life, to find you in front of the choice among two doors: one left half open and the other wide open. From the left half open one a thread of light that emanates safety goes out, essential element for the human being.That wide open is dark, it transmits insecurity and not for this it arouses less curiosity. The curious man is the man of the myth of the cavern of Plato; man that puts in danger his own certainties to follow his own instinct and to seek that element new main point for his mental growth. This man will always choose the dark room and what he will find inside, it will always be distinguished according to the emotional state in which is found.The EP of Dubit and Scalameriya contains this meaning, music as metaphor of the life contained in the antithesis between safety and curiosity.Words by Lorenzo Salmi

The label's inaugural release comes in the form of 3 tracks from Point Break, the DJ collaboration between the New York label head Arthur Kimskii and Cory James. The A side Sidewalks is a dance floor workout that has subtle and not so subtle nods to the Detroit sound. On the B side you have Wendes and Late for Lunch. On the B Side we have Wednes; a kick heavy crunchy techno tool followed by Late for Lunch, a steady building percussive, textural composition.

Miles has been releasing material on Modern Love for a decade, first as one half of Pendle Coven, then on his own as MLZ, and eventually pairing up with Sean Canty to record as Demdike Stare. In between he's also pursued more experimental terrain under the Suum Cuique moniker, produced Jungle for the HATE project and (together with Andy Stott) taken on the occasional release as Millie & Andrea for Modern Love sublabel Daphne. He is also an admired, exhilarating DJ, his sets have been known to span a broad spectrum of electronic music, from the obscure UK techno of labels like Radioactive Lamb and Irdial, to classic Chicago House, Detroit Techno and - most importantly - early 90's jungle and breakbeat, feeding into his love of the most uncompromising end of the Italian experimental movement, Musique Concrète, Synthwave and contemporary Noise. After more than 10 years of producing, "Faint Hearted" is his debut solo album. 'Faint Hearted' is an exposition of Miles' love of electronic music in all its shapes, harnessing his fidgety production style into one expansive, restless set of tracks. The album opens with the filtered and looped Jungle mutation of 'Lebensform', through to the minimal, barely-noticeable bass-shifts of 'Irreligious', the classic Plastikman-infused looped ruffage of 'Status Narcissism' and the padded bliss of "Sense Data", coming across like a lost Move D production from the classic Studio Pankow era. The second half opens with 'Rejoice', a slowly-unfurling 4/4 variant that sounds like a more technofied and electric take on his work with Demdike Stare, while "Archaic Thought Pattern 1" invades a sequence of strings and bass notes with blasts of white noise, sounding like something off Aphex Twin's 'Donkey Rhubarb' EP rebuilt by Mika Vainio. The set ends with the evocative field- recorded sequence 'Queuing' and the ambient futurism of 'Loran Dreams', in some respects the straightest, most affecting 9 minute stretch yet from a producer who is seemingly unable to settle or stand still.