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out now: Aert – Death Field EP [Märked]

Artist:
Aert

Title:
Death Field EP

Label:
Märked

Cat#:
MRKD015

Release Date:
16th July 2019

Format:
digital

Tracklist:
01.
Obliterated Homicide

02.
Deal With Your Problems

03.
Let The Body’s Hit The Floor

04.
Obliterated Homicide
(Ike Dusk Remix)

05.
Obliterated Homicide
(Chêne Remix)

Press Info:
Hard as nails techno coming from Rotterdam, a city that houses no surprises in that particular corner of tough electronic. Death Field EP is a cold one, and distortion the rule rather than the exception. After previously having made a remix for SDB, AERT returns to Märked with a swing around your ears and a kick in the nuts.

Start the EP with clattering breakbeat pounding, shrill horns and chunks of laser drops in Obliterated Homicide. A sense of industrial machines at work is present in each of AERT’s tracks.

Deal With Your Problems keeps the industrial character, but here four to the floor is introduced, rushing with charged low-mid bass notes playing in between the hits of the kick. The metal and tough snares add to the eerie atmosphere to make it sound like a sonic punishment.

Let The Body’s Hit The floor could be played as slowed-down hardcore, but with more control and space. Threatening synths from the start and flaming percussion is then later introduced.

Ready to burn stuff with Ike Dusk on the remix game. Underneath the kick there’s a nasty bass line clearly present, buried in heaps of sharpened percussion. Never a dull moment when Ike brings the shovels and spades.

Catching breath with Chêne’s remix of Obliterated Homicide as a perfect cool-down to the EP. Whereas the original version doesn’t necessarily have any melodic content but just straight on stabs and bleeps, Chêne introduces a catchy hypnotic, trance-inducing melody.

Listen:

Full Track Streaming:
“Let The Body’s Hit The Floor”

“Deal With Your Problems”

“Obliterated Homicide”

Video:
“Obliterated Homicide (Ike Dusk Remix)”

Special:
“Owt’s Podcast 143”

Recommendations:
Aert’s “Dyrocktion EP” on Instinkt
all stuff on Märked

Buy Digital:
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Booking:
Vaulted Music for Aert

Websites:
Aert
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out now: Sensive – The Millennial Mile EP [Märked]

Artist:
Sensive

Title:
The Millennial Mile EP

Label:
Märked

Cat#:
MRKD014

Release Date:
03rd June 2019

Format:
digital

Tracklist:
01.
The Millennial Mile

02.
Barricade

03.
Rinse And Defeat

04.
The Millennial Mile
(DJ Ibon Remix)

05.
Barricade
(SDB Remix)

Press Info:
According to our statistics, most of our listeners are millennials: the people born in between 1980 and 2000. Sensive – who also grew up in the 90s – walks the same road and has also experienced the evolution of technology at a high pace, much like an invasion.

Also reflected in the urgency of his music, the direction of Sensive’s second EP is paved by the function of power and groove. Even though the EP as a whole is quite abrasive, the bridge to accessibility is present by each track having an understandable rhythm and groove build with a lot of percussive elements.

Starting the EP with title track “The Millennial Mile”, a contagious funky bass line driven forward by multiple details of percussion. From the mid part onwards a synthesizer is used to have short stabs emphasize the synergy between the rhythm of the kick and bass.

In “Barricade” there is kick-pummeling and rolling sub-basses drowned in a whirlpool of a cold and rugged soundscape. Organic wooden percussion drives the groove forward at a clanking 136 beats per minute.

“Rinse And Defeat” has the most distortion going on but there’s also a lot of swing at play. Characterized by a churning bass-line this stomper is grounded in a timeless aesthetic with amplified screeches that would have a lot of warehouses’ sound systems turned inside out.

Known for his iconic tracks on Kulør and Ectotherm, also featured on the EP is an obscure remix by one of Copenhagen’s most interesting artists. Here DJ Ibon creates an enigmatic scenery and the outlining of a desolate atmosphere and vibe which makes for a perfect fit for the closing of a set.

Closing the EP with a SDB remix of “Barricade”. Next to his everlasting supply of funk, he is back on Märked with his signature sound by multiplying the sample of Sensive’s pad and remodeling it to something majestic we previously heard in his last release with us

Listen:

Full Track Streaming:
“Barricade”

“Rinse And Defeat”

“The Millennial Mile (DJ Ibon Remix)”

“Barricade (SDB Remix)”

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Video:
“Rinse And Defeat”

Special:
“Intercell With Tim Tama + Sensive”

Recommendations:
Dahlia’s “Shades Of Black EP” on Märked
SDB’s “Restrepo EP” on Märked
Dark Matter Space Assembly’s “Screams Of Hate EP” on Märked
Pier’s “Divided Attention EP” on Märked
Torgue’s “Barong EP” on Märked

Buy Digital:
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Websites:
Sensive
Märked

out now: Dahlia – Shades Of Black EP [Märked]

Artist:
Dahlia

Title:
Shades Of Black EP

Label:
Märked

Cat#:
MRKD013

Release Date:
23rd April 2019

Format:
digital

Tracklist:
01.
Enma

02.
Shinigami

03.
Nibbãna

04.
Nibbãna
(DJ Varsovie ‘Xenia Onatopp’ Remix)

Press Info:
Shades Of Black EP is a transcription of our soul’s darkness in a different manifestation. Seen as some kind of lucid dream in which there is no way out and where you must face your scariest unconscious facets. Here the key words of self-comprehension are only chaos and despair. Introspection, self-reassessment and courage to face yourself represent what this four-part journey is about. Don’t be afraid to meet yourself and jump into your shades of black.

Parisian Dahlia is breaking through the early morning mist of France with his debut-ep on Märked. Spewing 4 powerful tracks influenced by EBM and a taste of new age industrial techno. The EBM cult of muscularity is heard through strokes of a whip on the 2 and 4, a characteristic arpeggiated synth and an obscure female vocal in ‘Enma’. These ingredients talk strength and punishment on the dance floor.

‘Shinigami’ – although having a similar programmed EBM snare – here benefits from more uplifting notes. Shinigami literally translates as God Of Death, of which the perception of the contrasting hard kicks and percussion to the leaning towards peacefully designed pad sound would come across as a calm a funeral for your own peace of mind.

Apart from the tracks all being peak-time bangers, Nibbãna has a more nuanced approach. After starting off with relentless power this piece develops into a nostalgic trip down memory lane. The soothing and majestic notes of the synthesizer create a timeless space in which thoughtful is mixed with aggression.

The mysterious DJ Varsovie appears as a remixer with a massive industrial breakbeat sledgehammer. Reverberated warehouse sounds are alternated with multiple salvo’s of kickdrum gunfire. The introduction of the vocal after the break cuts your favorite dance floor in half. Use this weapon with caution – only for the trained ear.

Full Track Streaming:

Special:
“Selektor Podcast #50”

Recommendations:
Dahlia’s track “Apoptosis” as free download
Dahlia’s track “Les Papillons Noirs” as free download
SDB’s “Restrepo EP” on Märked
Dark Matter Space Assembly’s “Screams Of Hate EP” on Märked
Pier’s “Divided Attention EP” on Märked
Torgue’s “Barong EP” on Märked

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Websites:
Dahlia
Märked

out now: SDB – Restrepo EP [Märked]

Artist:
SDB

Title:
Restrepo EP

Label:
Märked

Cat#:
MRKD012

Release Date:
13th February 2019

Format:
digital

Tracklist:
01.
Combat

02.
Combat
(Aert Remix)

03.
Restrepo

04.
Restrepo
(Repro’s Full Throttle Mix)

05.
Symphony

Press Info:
No stranger to the label is SDB, who previously featured on our 10th release and as well played at our label night in Amsterdam in 2018. Residing in the vibrant Saarbrücken in southwest Germany – the city where he wrapped up a package of 3 works. Each track for a different moment in time somewhere in between sound systems and concrete walls. To spice things up we have Repro and AERT – coming from respectively Copenhagen and Rotterdam – bring remixes to the table. All pushing a sound that works really well in the club without compromise.

A feeling of exploring unknown territory strikes down in Combat. The ominous pad breathes caution and really draws a melancholic character. From the beginning the track is searching for the right moment to punch the listener with it’s full power, the moment after the small break that is.

Kick-the-nuts AERT gives Combat a small injection of EBM with a snare on the 2 and 4. A big and masculine stereo synth hoovers over the track while cleverly being driven forward by a fast and mean low pitched synthesizer groove.

Restrepo is characterized by hypnotic piano play going back and forth through the height of the notes. Playing with tension and release with a lot of energy build on a steady base of groove as the filter on the synth gradually opens up as the track progresses.

Repro gives Restrepo a Copenhagen touch with more speed and grit. An extra layer of fast noisy texture is added for more hysteria, living up to the Full Throttle title.

Probably one of the biggest kicks hitting our catalog, SDB’s Symphony closes the EP in full effect. A big majestic trance-influenced break grabs you by the throat after which you are slowly lead into a deep dive of power techno at its finest; moving, forceful, energetic.

Full Track Streaming:

Video:
“Symphony”

Special:
“Vast Perception 030”

Recommendations:
Dark Matter Space Assembly – Screams Of Hate EP” on Märked
Pier’s “Divided Attention EP” on Märked
Torgue’s “Barong EP” on Märked

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Märked @ Bandcamp
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Websites:
SDB
Märked

out now: Dark Matter Space Assembly – Screams Of Hate EP [Märked]

Artist:
Dark Matter Space Assembly

Title:
Screams Of Hate EP

Label:
Märked

Cat#:
MRKD011

Release Date:
09th January 2019

Format:
digital

Tracklist:
01.
Screams Of Hate

02.
That Kid Who Lost Himself To Gabber

03.
That Girl Who Lost Herself To Flakka

04.
That Girl Who Lost Herself To Flakka
(ArchivOne Remix)

05.
That Girl Who Lost Herself To Flakka
(Mickey Nox Remix)

Press Info:
Kicks layered with distortion without losing power, grinding, crunching – all in ‘Screams Of Hate’, the EP title track of Märked’s new signees Dark Matter Space Assembly. The duo crosses borders for their collaboration; Billy comes from Breda in the south of Holland and Bart lives just over the border in Belgium. Their aggressive approach to electronic music comes from their industrial hardcore background, which is prominently heard throughout the whole package which features additional remixes by ArchivOne and Mickey Nox.

Secondly ‘That Kid Who Lost Himself To Gabber’ pushes things more forward with more beats per minute, fast arpeggiated notes and rattles. A golden formula to set any dance floor on fire is aggression and groove, of which both this track has.

Next is as merciless as how ‘That Girl Who Lost Herself To Flakka’ sounds. Bold and nasty hits from the undead taking it to another level with ridiculous teeth-grinding synth action in the second part.

ArchivOne gives TGWLHTF a Birmingham touch, leaving only huge slabs of unrelentingly minimalism for optimal effectiveness.

To round things off Green Fetish Records’ main guy Mickey Nox goes half breakbeat and half techno on his remix of ‘That Girl Who Lost Herself To Flakka’, by building the tension as the breakbeat progresses to a hasty two-step techno drop.

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