2025 | NovaFuture Blog

[Track Premiere]: Nasdrowie – Overkill [Murder Records]

Artist:
Nasdrowie

Track:
“Overkill”

Label:
Murder Records

Related Release:
compilation “Never Enough”

Websites:
Nasdrowie
Nasdrowie @ Instagram
Murder Records

[Track Premiere]: Gotshell – Desbaratados (Ritzi Lee Remix) [KR Records]

Artist:
Gotshell

Track:
“Desbaratados (Ritzi Lee Remix)”

Label:
KR Records

Related Release:
EP “KR061”

Websites:
Gotshell
Gotshell @ Instagram
Ritzi Lee
KR Records
KR Records @ Instagram

out now: Björn Torwellen – Binary Fate EP [CLR]

Artist:
Björn Torwellen

Title:
Binary Fate EP

Label:
CLR

Cat#:
CLR124

Release Date:
31st January 2025

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Binary Fate

02.
Fear Of The Unknown

03.
Lost In Transmission

Press Info:
Björn Torwellen debuts on CLR with the ‘Binary Fate’ EP

It marks the first release of 2025 for Chris Liebing’s label.

Björn Torwellen’s ‘Binary Fate’ EP kickstarts CLR’s 2025 with three pounding Techno tracks 31st January 2025. From the razor-sharp percussion and raw bassline power in title track ‘Binary Fate’, to the cavernous dub hits and shadowy atmospheres of ‘Fear of the Unknown’, before closing on the mind-warping signals of ‘Lost in Transmission’ – Torwellen’s ‘Binary Fate’ is yet another supersized debut on the seminal CLR.

Following Björn Torwellen’s appearance on the CLR podcast in June 2024, the Cologne-based artist now definitively joins Chris Liebing’s label with the ‘Binary Fate’ three-tracker this January. With a career spanning over two decades, Björn is known for his discography on labels like De-Konstrukt, Nachtstrom Schallplatten, nonlinear systems, and now CLR.

Founded by influential techno lynchpin Chris Liebing in 1999 and reemerging in 2021 after a five-year hiatus, Create Learn Repeat (CLR) has hosted a range of artists like Shlomi Aber, Dubfire, Flug, Bjarki, DJ Dextro and more while also focusing on developing newer acts in the scene such as Risa Taniguchi, The Southern, and Klint.

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Special:
“CLR Podcast 384”

Recommendations:
“Hidden Source EP” by TWCOR on Blackrod
all featured releases on CLR

Buy Download:
CLR @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
Beatport
TraxSource
JunoDownload
iTunes
TraxSource
7Digital
more soon

Commercial Streaming Services:
Tidal
Qobuz
Anghami
Spotify
Apple Music
Deezer
Youtube Music

Websites:
Björn Torwellen
CLR

[Track Premiere]: Blaxad – Past Midnight [Diffuse Reality Records]

Artist:
Blaxad

Track:
“Past Midnight”

Label:
Diffuse Reality Records

Related Release:
EP “Hypocritical Way Of Living”

Websites:
Blaxad
Blaxad @ Instagram
Diffuse Reality Records

out now: JakoJako – Tết 41 [Mute]

Artist:
JakoJako

Title:
Tết 41

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM513

Release Date:
25th April 2025

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Xin Chào

02.
Kumquat

03.
Lì Xì

04.
Hoa Đào

05.
Ghi-Ta

06.
Đà Nẵng

07.
Dragon Bridge

08.
Chim Sẻ

09.
Gió

10.
Cảm Ơn

Press Info:
Berlin-based modular synthesist JakoJako (aka Sibel Koçer) has announced details of a new album, her first for Mute. Tết 41 is set for release on limited edition vinyl and digitally on 25 April 2025.

The album, recorded in Vietnam during the Tết Lunar New Year celebrations is, in many ways, a distillation of ideas Koçer has been exploring for many years. Tapping into a deep understanding of machine-based music and illuminated by references to her heritage, Tết 41 reflects on notions of rebirth, and the pursuit of a sonic core. The album was created with a minimal hardware set up, and from this simplicity emerges some of her most expansive, unworldly compositions to date.

Koçer explains, “I wanted to collect the atmospheres of Vietnam, and strip it back to my language – electronic music. I don’t have huge ties to the traditions of my Vietnamese family, so being able to experience them with my mother, and then bring the Lunar Celebration – the colourful flowers, food and customs – back to Europe through music has helped me realise how important this side of my heritage is.”

Tết 41 launches today, on Lunar New Year, with the first track from the album, ‘Lì xì’ (Vietnamese translation: “Lucky money”, usually referring the red envelopes gifted at Lunar New Year).

A big part of her production process lies in searching for spontaneity, which was heightened during the creation of this album – on just a Eurorack and a Waldorf Iridium Core. Whilst normally she would have a computer to mix and arrange the record, the effects and sequencers of the gear became her tools. She expands; “The more you play with a single machine the more you get to know it. You’ll get muscle memory and play it more like an actual instrument, instead of treating it as a tool.”

Opening and closing with field recordings taken during the Lunar New Year celebrations, she uses the space in between to cast new frameworks, allowing melodic cycles to flow autonomously. Rhythmic fragments weave between analogue processing and harmonic distillations, swirling in organic cycles of warehouse maximalism and sonic minutiae that speak to the somatic and spectral in equal measure.

Engaged in a constant dialogue around the use of hardware in music, JakoJako’s artistic output is informed by the tension and release of techno, but ultimately propelled by ever-expanding forms and structures that play with the contours of the genre. A producer, live artist and DJ who has held a residency at Berghain whilst touring some of the world’s most respected electronic music institutions, she delves into the mathematical patterns of arpeggios and loops, locating kinetic energies that convert into moments of dancefloor catharsis.

Infinitely curious about the threads that connect different genres, as opposed to the rigidity of genre itself, Tết 41 is driven by a desire to document the potentials of analogue and modular synthesis, and to consider new contexts within which these could exist. It’s also a bold and generous vision of new sonic worlds.

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