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out now: Deano – Thyroid EP [Knowledge Imprint]

Artist:
Deano

Title:
Thyroid EP

Label:
Knowledge Imprint

Cat#:
K-I006

Release Date:
21st June 2019 (digital)
July 2019 (vinyl)

Format:
12″ & digital

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Seek

A2.
Thyroid

B1.
Thyroid
(Echologist Remix)

B2.
Fortify

Press Info:
Deano presents his next full solo release on the label since his inaugural Alternation EP. Going back to the sounds that initially inspired him, he contributes 3 original tracks that combine dance-floor functionality with hypnotic repetition. In addition, this is the first release where he enlists a remixer to give an interpretation of one of the originals.

The A-Side begins with ‘Seek’, a full-steam-ahead track that layers a simple sawtooth sequence over frenetic drums, fast-paced hats and a hard hitting low-end. Next is title-track ‘Thyroid’ which takes things in a similar direction but employs a more complex synth sequence that morphs patiently throughout the arrangement. To get the B-Side going, Echologist (aka Brendon Moeller) provides his remix of ‘Thyroid’. As one of South Africa’s most respected underground music exports, he shows just why he has built such a strong reputation. With a cavernous kick and signature analogue synths, this remix is built for the big-room! Closing out the EP is ‘Fortify’. With bleepy patterns and deeper textures, it employs an off-kilter kick drum with an undulating bassline and classic percussion to provide a respite from the straighter tracks before it.

Listen:

Full Track Streaming:
“Thyroid (Echologist Remix)”

Special:
“Live From Operator Radio Rotterdam – 26 April 2019”

Recommendations:
all stuff on Knowledge

Buy Vinyl:
Knowledge Imprint @ Bandcamp

Buy Digital:
Knowledge Imprint @ Bandcamp
Beatport Classic
TraxSource
more soon

Websites:
Deano
Knowledge Imprint

out now: Rikhter – RIK1 [R-Label Group]

Artist:
Rikhter

Title:
RIK1

Label:
R-Label Group

Cat#:
RIK1

Release Date:
07th June 2019

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
01.
R-23

02.
Phiom Enhah

03.
Defender

04.
Salt II

Info:
Hardwax: “Hard hitting, direct, exceptional Techno banger”

Full Track Streaming:

Video:
“Phiom Enhah”

Recommendations:
all stuff on R-Label Group

Buy Vinyl:
R-Label Group @ Bandcamp
Hardwax
Juno
more soon

Buy Digital:
R-Label Group @ Bandcamp
Hardwax
JunoDownload
Beatport Classic
more soon

Booking:
Urbanum

Websites:
Rikhter
R-Label Group

out now: Dax J & UVB – King of the Sewers EP [Monnom Black]

Artist:
Dax J & UVB

Title:
King Of The Sewers EP

Label:
Monnom Black

Cat#:
MONNOM019

Release Date:
12th July 2019

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
A1.
Murder Wave

A2.
Enrico (Don’t cry you can live)

B1.
Killer & Clutch

B2.
King Of The Sewers

Press Info:
Berlin’s Monnom Black is back again with the King of The Sewers EP; four cuts of pulsating techno from two of electronic music’s most uncompromising young figures, DAX J & UVB. Already well-known for its more fundamentally rugged take on modern electronics, the label’s 19th release is another intense transmission deep from the underworld.

The menacing tone of the EP hides the friendship that’s developed between these adopted Berliners, two young men who met in the city and discovered a shared passion for raw analogue audio and electronic sounds that marry starkness with depth. Although they began DJing at the same warehouses since 2014, the duo have waited until the right moment to bring together their mutual love of unique mechanised noisescapes and the high-end production values they’ve developed over years of experience and experimentation. The King of The Sewers is that record, a gritty soundtrack inspired by forgotten lives beneath eastern-bloc cities.

For Monnom Black this latest release continues a run of unmistakable techno records that challenge the mainstream with a non-conformist philosophy. The label’s ethos is to push boundary-testing music by artists who are unafraid to explore a chaotic, divided world in the belief that distinctive music can still create moments of grace and community. This is music for the deepest, darkest parts of the night, breaking beyond the dancefloor and into the liminal spaces where analogue and digital, body and mind meet. The King of The Sewers EP represents another step forward in the development of a record label pressing at the borders of what contemporary techno can be.

Full Track Streaming:

Special:
Dax J – “NovaFuture Blog Mix December 2016”

UVB – “TNDB-podcast no. 13”

Recommendations:
Dax J’s EP “Chaos Come To Conquer” on Monnom Black
Compilation “World of Monnom Black” with UVB track on Monnom Black
Dax J’s EP Redemption” on Monnom Black
Dax J’s album “Offending Public Morality” on Monnom Black
Dax J’s “Illusions Of Power EP” on Electric Deluxe

Buy Vinyl:
Monnom Black @ Bandcamp
Deejay
Decks
Juno
Red Eye Records
Hardwax
more soon

Buy Digital:
Monnom Black @ Bandcamp
more soon

Booking:
Elite Music Management for Dax J
Elite Music Management for UVB

Websites:
Dax J
UVB
Monnom Black

out now: David Morley – Boundary Travels EP [Futurepast]

Artist:
David Morley

Title:
Boundary Travels EP

Label:
Futurepast

Cat#:
FP003

Release Date:
04th June 2019

Format:
vinyl

Tracklist:
A1.
Boundary Travels

B1.
Limbo

B2.
Crushing Pressure

Press Info:
No one sculpts volts & frequencies into a story quite like David Morley.

For Futurepast’s third release, he has delivered a precise rendering of its vision to transcend temporal associations and perceptions.

In the title track Boundary Travels, he ascends quickly into a weighty melodic line that oscillates like the natural intonations of an inner monologue, built upon a foundation of tightly knit hits and bleeps.

Limbo travels; the story unfolds in the infinitesimal margin where intensity becomes softness, hesitation becomes resolution, and boundaries become intersections.

Sounds drift past, above, and below in Crushing Pressure as if a city, or its memory, was suddenly suspended in a black hole. Boundary Travels might be the closest we can get to such a horizon.

Text by DVK

Full Track Streaming:

Buy Vinyl:
Deejay
Crevette Records
Juno
Hardwax
Red Eye Records
Clone
Off The Grid
more soon

Websites:
David Morley
Futurepast

out now: Denise Rabe – The Tortoise And The Eagle [Rabe]

Artist:
Denise Rabe

Title:
The Tortoise And The Eagle

Label:
Rabe

Cat#:
RABE004

Release Date:
21st June 2019 (bandcamp)
28th June 2019 (all other stores)

Format:
vinyl & digital

Tracklist:
A1.
Sunfall
(Insolate Remix)

A2.
Drop It
(Kwartz Remix)

B1.
Sunfall
(Sstrom Remix)

B2.
Drop It
(Belief Defect Remix)

Press Info:
…in the moment of death: “I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?”

Aesop

Rabe drops it’s fourth release right before summer with a fresh combinations of sounds and artists that inspire Denise in one way or another. For this instalment she`s compiled remixes by Insolate, Kwartz, Sstrom and Belief Defect. The resulting EP „The Tortoise And The Eagle“, explores the spectrum between hallucination and function, industrial soundscape and dance floor drive.

Full Track Streaming: