Release Date:
10th June 2025 (Beatport)
24th June 2025 (vinyl & other digital stores)
Format:
vinyl, download & streaming
Tracklist: 01. Flyby
02. Twister
03. Slider
Press Info:
Blank Code is a Detroit, USA techno outfit that have released music by artists like Bas Mooy, Mike Parker, Brian Sanhaji, DJ Hyperactive, Drumcell, and many more.
American born, now Germany-based, Bill Youngman joins the illustrious Blank Code ranks. An artist who has been working with live music since 1994, his release back catalogue includes labels like Tresor, Killekill, Snork Enterprises, TANSTAAFL, as well as collaborating with Neil Landstrumm and Janice.
“Flyby” opens with a stomping kick met with a throbbing bassline which is contrasted by captivating melody overtones that change mood to a dreamy and spacious, delicate journey of analogue emotion.
Second up, “Twister” has a thundering rhythm wrapped up in building tension and bouncing, modular textures that create an aggressive, heads down trip, with unrelenting techno power.
“Slider” closes the release with a more hypnotic approach, using static fuzz and quirky effects as its backdrop. A tight, swirling lead over a steady groove with skittering hi-hats add a sense of depth to this mind and body workout.
Release Date:
15th November 1998 (original release date)
later (digital re-release)
Format:
vinyl, CD, download & streaming
Tracklist Vinyl: A1. Insert Coin
A2. Extra Ball
B1. Hardfloor Will Survive [feat. Phuture 303] (Club Mix)
B2. Skill Shot
C1. Multiball Challenge
C2. Slammin’ Shit
D1. Jackin’ Track
D2. Tilt
Tracklist CD / Digital: 01. Insert Coin
02. Hardfloor Will Survive [feat. Phuture 303] (Club Mix)
03. Jackin’ Track
04. Multiball Challenge
05. Slammin’ Shit
06. Extra Ball
07. Skill Shot
08. Tilt
09. Hardfloor Will Survive [feat. Phuture 303]
Press Info:
Hardfloor, pioneer’s of Acid have returned to their roots with a new album entitled “All Targets Down”. This fat chunk of old school vibe, is a perfect example of why people fell in love with their sound six years ago. Hardfloor aka Ramon Zenker and Oliver Bondzio, had their first big break when they released the huge floor filler “Acperience”, an acid fuelled high energy stomper which at the time was instrumental in creating the German sound. From this point onwards came a succession of four to floor fillers and remixes, followed by experimentation in more downbeat territory. With the realease of this long awaited new album, Hardfloor are firmly back in the limelight. As a taster to the album there is a 12″ release entitled “Hardfloor Will Survive” feat Phuture 303. This is collaberation with Spanky & Professor Trax(phuture 303) who feature on vocal. Phuture 303 have also been responible for defining acid and are the perfect accompliment. Hardfloor are back with a vengeance, old school with a new vibe. So
watch this space Acid is the way ahead again in 98!
Press Info:
Second Edition of Recollections by Rezo Glonti
During the Soviet era, art often had to align with propaganda, seemingly fostering a symbiotic relationship between the state and its people. Consequently, in the realm of “Social Realism,” most forms of artistic experimentation were strongly discouraged and even punishable. With few exceptions, 20th-century Georgian classical/chamber music remained quite conservative; however, when faced with dysfunctional cultural phenomena, there will always be gaps in societal walls through which oppressed cultures can carry their historical heritage and unique paradigms.
In 2018, Glonti started collecting LPs of Soviet-era Georgian composers at Tbilisi’s “Dry Bridge” flea market.The records mostly consisted of classical and chamber music released on Melodiya, the singular, state owned record label of the USSR. It was through this process that the idea of Recollection was born, as Glonti aimed to create an album that would utilize samples from his growing collection.
Recollection I-II will be the first release in a series of 7’’ records, followed by three more releases. The artwork by Dmytro Nikolaienko of Day Night reflects the generic qualities of Soviet-era cover art.
Release Date:
02nd June 2025 (vinyl & some digital stores)
later in 2025 (other digital stores)
Format:
vinyl, download & streaming
Tracklist: A1. Kalipo My Heart Is A Hotel
A2. Lawrence Terazzo
B1. Alex.Do Beam
B2. Sylvie Maziarz One Last Time
C1. Inigo Kennedy Undercurrents
C2. Hagen Richter Stadtinsel
D1. Rodmin Lost Garden
D2. Ahu Hope
E1. Anja Zaube Falling
E2. Erik Jäähalli Reflections 245
F1. Irakli Customer Journey
F2. Fragent Make Contact
Press Info:
To mark the club’s 15th anniversary, the ://about blank label’s tenth vinyl release is finally out. Three 12-inch EPs feature 12 exclusive tracks from as many artists associated with ://about blank, immortalizing the club’s soundtrack.
EP I opens on the A-side with KALIPO’s electronically clapping vocal anthem to the Red Wagon, followed by a typically lowered LAWRENCE piece for dance-like dreaming on “Terrazzo.” On the B-side, ALEX.DO’s techno-trancey “Beam” and SYLVIE MARZIARZ’s shimmering, blasting rave track “One Last Time” battle.
On EP II‘s C-Side, INIGO KENNEDY slowly takes us into the electronic „Undercurrents“, while HAGEN RICHTER’s “Stadtinsel” emerges like a sublime lighthouse from the fog. D-Side follows RODMIN straight from the MDF into the paradisiacal, siren-like “Lost Garden,” only to find one thing above all else with AHU: a house built on “Hope.”
In slow motion, E-Side on EP III lures us into the hypnotic techno traps of ANJA ZAUBE’s “Falling,” before we wander through ERIK JÄÄHALLI’s mirror-like “Reflections,” following the morse code until a redeeming way out opens up. The final F-Side clatters, jangles, and rattles over the driving, subterranean beat of IRAKLI’s “Costumer Journey,” and then, on the closing track of FRAGEN, follows all the electronic signals that seemingly aimlessly buzz through the cosmos until one day we make contact with the unknown.
The tracks are pressed on colored vinyl. A sticker and a poster are included with the release.
Snippets:
Specials:
Rodmin – “Quartal. Podcast”
Anja Zaube – “STAUB #108”
Irakli – “Mutant Radio [21.05.25]”
Lawrence – “Refuge Worldwide”
Alex.Do – “Dualism Series #016”
Erik Jäähalli – “://Blank Friday, About Blank (March 24)”
Tracklist: 01. Another End (Oliver Rosemann Remix)
02. Evolve (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
03. Magnetic North
Press Info:
Terence Fixmer has shared a brand new remix by German techno powerhouse Marcel Dettmann, a reworking of ‘Evolve’, one of the stand out tracks from Fixmer’s recent album, THE PARADOX IN ME, out now on Mute / NovaMute.
‘Evolve (Marcel Dettmann Remix)’ will feature on a new EP, Magnetic North, set for release on 16 July. The three-track EP also includes a remix of ‘Another End’ by German techno producer / DJ, and founder of Recorded Things imprint, Oliver Rosemann and a new track, ‘Magnetic North’, which explains Fixmer, “serves as a bridge between THE PARADOX IN ME and the sound of my future album, which will be lean towards the club, and be more techno, and hypnotic with raw sounds.”
Talking about long-time friend and occasional collaborator Dettmann’s remix, Fixmer explains, “Marcel chose ‘Evolve’ to remix, he always likes tracks when I put my voice to it. I love the way it starts with a dubby direction, before developing into electronic club sequence and bringing on the voice. Marcel is so creative, it’s an honour to share this remix.”
The new EP arrives on 16 July along with an extended edition of THE PARADOX IN ME, Fixmer’s second album for Mute / NovaMute. The new edition features three new tracks, ‘In Synthesis (Vocal Mix)’, ‘Razor Sharp (Version Two)’ and ‘Close to You (Live Version)’.
On THE PARADOX IN ME Fixmer stretches the limits of dance music by interlacing evocative, cinematic electronics with pounding, peak-time 4/4 pulses. “There’s always a fight between directions,” he says. “This album represents all the sounds I have within me.”
Fixmer burst onto the scene in the late 1990s, establishing the Planete Rouge label in 1998, and releasing a slew of influential 12″s under a pseudonym before Muscle Machine, his acclaimed debut album which pioneered a new genre that merging the sounds of EBM and Techno.
Not long later, he achieved a personal milestone, collaborating with Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy for two albums as FixmerMcCarthy that bridged the gap between EBM and classic techno. And since then, he’s barely stopped for breath, remixing personal heroes like Front 242, Nitzer Ebb and Depeche Mode, as well as respected peers such as Ellen Allien, DJ Hell, Dave Clarke and Sven Väth, simultaneously building up a canon of work on CLR, Electric Deluxe, Ostgut-Ton and of course, Mute and NovaMute.
Fixmer’s passion for electronic music hums from every note and carefully engineered beat on the Magnetic North EP, and extended version of THE PARADOX IN ME, which plays almost like an autobiography, and assembles a world that’s tactile and strikingly visual, capturing the soul of the synthesizer in all its forms.
