a coherent but diverse 12ich with six tracks in the typical sololust style. dark and moody but also spacious and full of emotion. an eclectic electronic music mix with influences ranging from ebm to electro to old school house and ambient. perfect for early morning dancefloors and private afterparties. limited to 150 copies!

repress 2013 !! excellent deep / detroit house vinyl, incl. rick wade remix !!! dj support already from - dj wild, ray okpara, motorcitysoul, luna city express, dj t, system of survival, gerd, le loup, ekkohaus, osunlade, cottam, 6th borough project, tucillo, lewie day (tornado wallace), huxley & ethyl, nic fanciulli, lauhaus, waifs & strays, jimpster, wild kats, james johnston, willie graff. plus many more

a man that is always thinking outside of the box and constantly turning heads with his super deep, leftfield productions is cameron mclaren or in the world of electronic music consequence.

inspired in the past but rearranged in the future. this reference on drivecom is a tribute for all those sequential electronic music and synth pioneers mainly coming from the 70s. most of the tracks were recorded on the fly playing synths and keyboards in live mode specially for this production... and here we present aeon.

limited reissue of this incredible and highly sought-after futuristic 12 from 1981. released on west african music, a tiny label from the ivory coast, and finding a spiritual home on the italian eclectic cosmic scene, both tracks on this 12 are brilliantly innovative and exhibit a minimal techno-esque aesthetic way ahead of their time. side as closer is a chugging sinuous flow punctuated by jerking monotone vocals, horn stabs and synth arpeggios with a strong dancefloor sensibility. flip over for stunningly weird electronic percussion workout tam tam - a crazed sparse soundscape of strange falsetto tribal chants, funky hand claps and drums, synth wobbles, spasms and tweaks. mystery surrounds the identity of the elusive artist codek but evidence points to it being an offshoot project of french new wave producer john marieux.

the weird house music composers from brazil strike again with four slices of spaced-out dance floor sounds. psychedelic is just one of the adjectives that come to mind when hearing brazilian duo colors sound system. on their first single for lovemonk, sao paolo brothers jota wagner and wander a, who call themselves weird house music composers, continue on the path to a higher state of consciousness with four slices of mind-altering disco and house splashed with spacemen 3-like vocals and seventies prog guitars and organs. just listen to the almost eleven minutes of *ar* if you dont believe. or *1974*. or *poeira lunar*, for that matter. the beatless title track is the only one staying under the seven-minute limit, and it is also the last track on the ep, like a much-needed comedown. space is the place, as the great sun ra said.

azimuth ep showcases this producers fresh take on electronic music across a range of tempos. dmarc cantu remixes the eps most dancefloor-friendly track, azimuth, lending it a deeper and more brooding edge. alis is the new project from italo-bulgarian londoner, sabina plamenova (formerly subeena). this new pseudonym reflects a more personal and vocal-lead endeavour, in her own words, not just a music about music approach but also an outlet for her own personality. a big name for 2013 and beyond.

rekids have teamed up with detroits fit distribution and enlisted the services of motor city locals marcellus pittman and urban tribe to put the 313 sound on *working* and *taxi talk*. on the former, marcellus pittman lays down his trademark blend of mechanical yet jerky old-skool drum machine rhythms and disorientingly dissonant, tripped-out synth chords – creating a somewhat eerie atmosphere that evokes images of detroits manufacturing plants of yesteryear. on the flipside, urban tribe transform *taxi talk* into a big room monster, using rumbling synth bass, electronic bleeps and laser gun snares to transport us back in time to a dark and hazy 90s warehouse rave.

spencer parkers work them records reflects his uncluttered attitude to electronic music. regular vinyl shopping to unearth and delight in non-digital gems, energetic tracks from the deepest house to the most ardent techno, all focussed on one thing: the dancefloor. for its fifth release, he has captured one of his current favourites to bring their wide-ranging and organic sounds to the table: pittsburgh track authority.
the trios first and brilliant ep in 2013 follows twelves on argot and uzuri, and is a neat representation of the expansive borders of parkers own record box, taking in the spectrum from driving, bleepy techno to nervous, shuffling bass-driven house.

we are the ones with the courage to stand up and express our ideas. so many heroes have sold out, moved on, and turned their back on the detroit underground. if the true believers are waiting on the calvary then i guess cryovac will have to do. this is our fight whether we like it or not. we are a few like minds, not the alphas, never the favorites. we are the other guys, the ones nobody bets on, the least likely to survive a business. we know what the score will bring us, but there is an appointment and we mean to keep it. heroes must define themselves and then redefine themselves. each day that moves forward brings opportunities to tweak creations into what the now means. kieth kemp endures the elements and ailments of an ever changing electronic world. he is an original hero with a smooth technique that reflects an instinctual nderstanding of sound and soul. kieth represents a talent and spirit that does not falter no matter how strange a circumstance can get. he follows his own path to relavence. i am proud to welcome kieth to the cryovac machine.

daniel dexters reputation as party starter extraordinaire keeps on growing a result of his punishing touring schedule and consistently exceptional output of some of europes top electronic labels.

an original electronic disciple hailing from new york, sandwell districts david sumner a.k.a function presents his debut album *incubation* on ostgut ton. like the soundtrack to a suspenseful techno-thriller, or retro-futurist sci-fi tale, it is a modern sound journey heavy on imagery. over eight tracks we are guided through the varying moods and scenes of functions musical temperament. be it through writhing layered club tracks, soaring string-led atmospheres, or melodic pieces founded on classic electronic traditions, *incubation* marks a new level of maturity for the berlin-based producer.

many missed the great 3rd romb release with the secret weapon of serge and mark du mosh, the b2 track by pawel kobak (psssst! we didnt tell you this!) the 4rth romb release also comes with a clear focus on the dancefloor and received strong support from guys like cos/mes, mark e, james priestley, disco dromo and others. romb again takes a stance for musical diversity, presenting a snapshot of the stockholm electronic music scene. great production, with tracks stretching from acid to more minimal house and techno, combining classic sounds with new ideas. get a copy while you can - only 200 copies pressed!

ulrich schnauss has pulled in influential electronic artists / producers asc, tycho, arovane to remix track _i take comfort in your ignorance_ from his new album _a long way to fall_: tycho, san fransisco based artist/producer (ghostly international), asc aka john clemens (auxillary records) who schnauss recently collaborated with on the 77ep. german producer /artist arovane contributes two reworks here...

ascs brand new imprint, diode, kicks off with 3 techno tracks. full of vibrance and the usual production nuances we have come to expect from asc over the years. solenoid is the lead track and gets straight down to business with no messing about. heavy kicks, keys laden with fx, and snappy percussion make this a firm floor tune. on the flip, we have the moody and sinister release, which flirts with darkness, and backing it up is the essential carrier. 3 standout tunes from a name synonymous with quality electronic music.

no.19 music looks to canadian production talent clayton steele for its latest single featuring two slabs of electronic excellence and a standout remix from dj t…

in the realm of electronic music australia isnt down under anymore but rather up there: so many fresh new producers pop up now and bell towers - aka melbourne resident roman wafers and one half of the bamboo musik dj team - proves himself one of the most promising ambassadors with his debut on internasjonal.

nice price deal !!! lace curtain is james, david & mikey from total control, rat columns, rank/xerox, eddy current suppression ring et al, exploring an electronic world of pleasure, frustration and sadness. bedroom dancers, synthetic singers, basement kicks in a romantic void. influenced by the germans, the italians, pale british button pushers, glamorous alien pop futurists, mid-western sweat, nyc disco dreamers, undercover kings and queens escaping a dull grey world with rhythm and noise, sound and vision

2012 was a ground-breaking year for dissonant. with releases from tini, re-up and leix, we continued to push new and exciting sounds, whilst building our very own family of artists. having kicked of 2013 with a fantastic debut from chad andrew, we ready ourselves for the return of label chief marc antona, as the gallic groove purveyor delivers yet another brilliant brace of tracks..

following a string of successful solo eps in 2012 including joy and happiness, daniel steinberg returns with cant find my baby, the first single from his upcoming sophomore album treptow due in march. staying true to his ethos of producing infectious, personality-packed electronic music thats a world away from so much of the cookie cutter house and techno that exist throughout club land, steinberg has emerged with a record shimmering with real heart and feeling.

powerful 80s inspired electronic / disco

years after rumours of the mysterious usio first started spreading, studio barnhus are finally ready to release the projects debut outing, an lp called kuwa huru. this is emotional, intricate electronic blues for the modern dance floor, with 8 tracks ranging from afro-beat influenced house jams to starlight spangled techno compositions. the double vinyl pack includes a download coupon which gives access to the original album tracks + 5 bonus tracks.

embodying the spirit that has imbued apollo with a fresh lease of life since last years rebirth, jack lever aka bering strait channels a wealth of electronic influence on his debut ep, applying his own natural sense of rhythm and production talent to create purposeful and emotive music.

vae victis cant hide their love and passion for raw house and techno. on this 5th release there is another fine selection of hybrids between styles perfectly expressing their love for genre bending music. durant exsists out of a small collective of producers with main roles for steve murphy, die roh and lucretio. the dove ultimatum, a 4 tracks ep of punchy analogue electronic music! on the a-side lay general motors and at ten, 2 broken beat electro techno tracks a la drexciya showing the hardest and most experimental side of the project. while on the flip the trio bring things on a housier field, though staying loyal to the a-side vibe by delivering 2 dark and obsessive raw house tracks.

cashmere cat, very favorite norwegian of contemporary music, mixing electronic music, minimal and rnb, released his first ep *mirror maru* on pelican fly records in last october. in collaboration with pelican fly, ed banger records releases a new ep where you can find remixes of the tracks *mirror maru* and *kiss kiss*: four new versions of this two tracks by feadz&kito, g vump, canblaster, and busy-p. digital download code included.

steadily mining gold in an ever-evolving electronic landscape, the visionquest imprint gets set to unleash an incredibly special 6-track ep from clarian - one half of the supreme duo footprintz. collaborating with the always-innovative guy gerber on the opener, clarian voyages solo throughout the rest of the ep a collective of chemical gardens for a sonically re imagined blade runner kingdom.

notfromearth is not just a prologue project. notfromearth is massive passion for sound research with the strong desire to push cinematic sound in combination with electronic, ambient and techno. and that is exactly why we start in 2013 with notfromearth. the first contact ep shows the complete range of electronic music with massive pure electronic rhythms to deepest techno structures.

mule musiq now proudly presents eleven unreleased compositions by roedelius produced between 1990 and 2001. all of them are pearls of electronic deepness that show another side of the man that lives in the little lower austrian town baden. his famouse ultra sweet piano melodies can be heard – but they are not the centre of the productions. instead a more electronic side of his genius call the tune. with a minimalistic approach he let synth melodies highfly while some droney, melancholic atmospheres enlarge in the background.

killer cut by french newcomers club bizarre. comes with huge remixes by chloe (kill the dj), matt walsh (clouded vision) and label co-head catalepsia. expect electronic new wave, throbbing dark bass and hyphnotic pads. limited to 250 hand-stamped copies on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl.

the multicultural artist arash (with persian origins) made his first contact with electronic dance music in the mid 90s. mainly influenced by the classic house sound of the 90s and the german electronic music scene around frankfurt, he found his passion to house & techno music. as a teenager he started to spin vinyl and got deeper & deeper into the world of dance music and club culture. after a few years of loving & living he started to host & play on his own parties in the region with his own touch and view of electronic dance music. this was followed by appearances in various clubs and off locations. his dj sets are made of a danceable mixture of groovy deephouse and techhouse. 2011 arash started to take his passion on the next level with shaping his own sound. since then he released tracks on record labels like kiara records (barcelona), bla bla (amsterdam), be real (amsterdam) and night drive music (berlin). arash is definitely an artist to keep a close eye and ear on!

there has been much speculation about the significance of the mayan system of timekeeping. many researchers on the subject have verified that the mayan long count calendar, which is only one of several advanced timekeeping tools devised by the mayan people, comes to an end on december 21, 2012, with no real clear explanation as to what exactly that signifies. this musical offering is not meant to speculate on the meaning of this date. instead, it serves as a tribute to one of the most astronomically, mathematically and architecturally advanced civilizations in the history of planet earth. each track is a tribute to one of the many mayan spiritual sites known to date.

brighton based delayed audio kick started in october last year with a brilliant various artist ep featuring quality, deep electronic music. the ep generated a superb reaction with djs such as huxley, norm talley, iron curtis & james teej all getting behind it and mixmag describing delayed audio as a new label to watch. now the delayed audio team are ready to get the new year firing with the next chapter in the delayed ep series, featuring 3 original gems and a sterling remix.
support: dj t / diesel (x-press 2) / jacques renault / ethyl / flori / waifs & strays / james johnston / jimpster and more.

introducing fango!a virtuous perfectionist when it comes down to ethnic drums and percussions. test this on a proper system and judge for yourself.

upon the first listen, the work of fernando unfolds directly on your brain and leaves a long lasting feeling of drama. fernando pulichino is one those lucky guys who can pick up any instrument and write songs without breaking a sweat. he first caught my attention with a remake of the bauhaus classic kick in the eye released on redux in 2008. he then backed up this great start with releases and remixes for labels like international feel, under the shade, internasjonal and nang. he also very busy touring as part of the 2020 soundsystem band and he is also in silver city with julian sanza.
we decided to put together a long player to highlight the talents of our man in buenos aires. the construction of *float* reveals an astonishing wealth of musical ideas, brazen touches of new wave and icy modern disco sounds are evident throughout. low slung basses are also a theme that runs right through *float* whether it is the opening song *a place* which has a monster electronic bottom end or *from out there* which sits firmly on the punk funk dinner table, bass lines are clearly important to fernando.

the two brothers of gebrÜder teichmann have been regular guests at the early killekill events. that is because they have a very similar approach to electronic music as we do. first of all they are deeply in love with the music itself and not the fame, the money or whatever one might expect to get when making music, and second they have a wide musical horizon and interesting perspectives on it, because they are active on several levels, as djs, musicians, promoters etc. first of all though they got class and taste, and so we are happy to present their cooperation with one of our personla heroes and one of the very big names in early house music: johnny dangerous aka foremost poets.

on this release moerbeck combines his musical past with the sonorous present to a vigorous entity, that will set your sound system on fire.
4 rough techno tracks, intelligently crafted, merging influences like industrial, electro and groovy house to heavily dancefloor oriented soundscapes. every special track needs a special code. code is law!

after the successful debut by doppelklikk, dubi records presents the outdoor adventure ep by restless! the outdoor adventure ep transports the emotions of long summer nights directly to the speakers. the natural character of the songs gives the ep a open-air feeling

limited pressing of 300!! mysterious bufiman and the glorious tim schumacher on the label that fully dedicate itself to the underground house sound. bufiman delivers two magical tracks that blend analogue disco, fantastic house and heavy tribal voodoo rhythms to create something very special in electronic dancemusic - we call it obscure discohouse, he calls it monkey b-boy-style. tim schumacher is representing on this record his very own interpretation of chicago-house and brings us three driving tracks that are rooting deeply in the love for analogue sound production of the late 80ies, no matter if its house, disco or synth-pop, but always with a very personal approach to what house-music is all about: emotions. on the last track no less than dj jakob from terpsiton/vfmm is jamming together with tim and two other friends in a dadaistic session

time for homegrown talent, one of the godfathers of dutch techno and a true electronic music pioneer: maarten van der vleuten

alongside the endless boulevards and among the industrial turins countless blocks, in the heart of mirafiori, two steps away from the factory of the italian motor city, rills grows up with metal beats and, in a town in a non stopping musical turmoil, falls in love with the electronic melody we all know him from his great work on his last 2 eps he released on 8bit.

embossed sleeve-art & 180gr vinyl.
volume 4 sees detroit legend theo parrish twist and rework manzanera?s tough electronic jam ?impossible guitar? into a signature theo parrish dancefloor workout.

*it sounds like wood, metal and microchip.* – thats how italian producer lorenzo nada a.k.a. godblesscomputers describes his own music. with the follow up to his successful *swanism* ep, released in early 2012, *freedom is o.k.* is his debut release on equinox records from berlin and offers an amazing spectrum of organic electronic sounds and feelings.
code for free download of this release included.

pit spector comes back with a second solo ep on minibar. the first one is amazing, the second one is too. working for years on various musical projects (antislash, avas verden, cellule eat, radiozerozero), pit presents a really personal release witnessing his work in studio. the results are mental and dancy tracks mixing instruments and machines, space vocals and weird samples. completely involved in parisian electronic scene, pit switch between his work at zerozerobar and producing music.

puristic electronic drone ep.

limited to 300 - no barcode! interesting and hot new label from jena. very special organic sound, partly slowpaced partly with a definite eye on the floor but allways with dirt heavy bass and tantalising electronic extrafunk approach , some trks w. strong dark vocals reminding on alton m. ! sick…

steadfast is proud to present a collaborative project made up of speedy j and brendon moeller. neither of these artists need introduction. their contribution to electronic music and club culture is well documented.
these 4 tracks are the result of jam sessions in speedy js rotterdam studio in may 2012. inspired by their love of krautrock and techno, these tracks possess a spaced out psychedelic and experimental vibe but also maintain grooves that will adequately keep a dancefloor throbbing. music to immerse oneself in. enjoy!

sheffield based john shima joins the diametric. family. after a series of digital releases in the last years it is a tremendous pleasure to release the very first vinyl 12 inch of john on diametric. his music could be easily described as the logical progression of the legacy of famous uk acts such as b12, stasis or nuron, but that would be only half the story really. john mixes very emotional and deep techno with intrinsic and delicate rhythmic structures, in parts even harsh sounding bitcrushed percussions, and idm influences together to his very own special blend. now we can already hear the stupid comments from the haters saying that his music doesnt sound new and like the next big hype but the simple answer is: even if so, who gives a f#ck? it is great electronic music and diametric. certainly hopes you enjoy this record and are blown away like us.300 handnumbered limited vinyl copies only. no digital distribution.

bringin’, to ya…, your daily dose of deep house music, sweetwax is a new force to be reckoned with. despite being a young record label, sweetwax is operated by two old blokes who still love their music on vinyl. so expect deep sounds on sweet wax.
enter the universe of the new parisian duo and be conquered by their sexy rhythms. electronic funk riffs and explicit samples, the two djs heighten to a max your senses. get hot now, & let music make you high! the acces is sending you straight to the heaven. the parisian duo deep house the funk, it’,s a soul dance trek! 3 tracks of a mesmerizing blend of sweet and sexy sounds. for fans of hot creations, soulclap and just good classy music.

wraetlic is a tense, at-times terrifying look into the realm of electronic music that is rarely touched by the likes of techno producers. to hear the uncompromising sounds on this record makes one wonder what else is in store for alex smoke, a challenging album but truly a gem in its expansiveness. (mitch strashnov – urb)