>method to madness< kicks like a mule from second one with oldschool handclapping beats and rattling percussion and when those strings set in, the sensitive ones should better protect their behind, cause they announce the sledgehammer bassline - and all this is only the beginning of a crazy, twisting and turning wildpitch ride. for >paddy system< chris carrier is on the controls solo and will have you shake your money maker with a slightly latinesque b-boy style beat - somethin that you might expect from kenny dope - but then adds a these chugging, whipping synth chords for a good tech-house spank

this first release by dutch talent quinn delivers two real firecrackers for the dancefloors..track 1 combines a warm steady beat with slightly offbeat sample freak workout and track 2 gets out the maracas and takes the bear to the south.latin inspired dancefloor material.. time for a tequila !!

drain is build around a thick skankin, percussive riddim joined by a phletora of exotic chirping sounds, haunting chorus bits and dirty laughter resulting in a mystic, slightly scary atmosphere: a true voodoo funker. flip over for a deeper ride with hypnotizing cut-up vocals and thick chords that will push you along up to the grand finale were the beat picks up and intensifies. comatizing dope on wax for ya dj box

'body culture' is a low-slung house winner, with a deep, dubby bassline stabbing between tight beats, gritty analog play, sweeping textured synths, and a rhythmic vocal stab on the reverse, ethan, felli and buddy all team up on the remix, taking the track off into floor-working electro-house territory thanks to some stellar new analog elements, slightly more pumped up beats, and spacey effects..

another rough jam by omar s with handclapping boogie beats and a slightly melancholic classic loop !! very limited

kosovo floats in with a liquid, subtly swinging beat, bubbly bassline and gentle key chords creeping in slowly: first sounding sweet but later on changing on into a beautiful yet haunting and slightly sinister melody from a grinding musical box. the intense, slightly unsettling atmosphere - as in an italian 70s horror flick - is further enhanced by the permanently nagging acidline and horn lick synth pads. for more manic dancing check orange feels: totally insane chopped up beats and f*d up string loops challenge you for some advanced electronic boogie

hardcell & grindvik manage to combine full-on warm pumping kicks with hypnotizing synthesizers, metallic drum patterns and slightly aggresive stabs.

oliver mohnsame already known for multilpe fine releases as a part of the duo loversrock or mohnsame&harth gives his solo debut here, simply under the name mohnsame. polarte fascinates as usual with his inimitable salsa inclined techno grooves. mohnsames track marches straight ahead with hard slightly dirty beats pepperd with his own adlibs as well as additional backround adlibs by his charming lady and also label cooperater tanya. bittersweet euphoria!

south terminus gets you warmed up with a shuffle rhythm but a mean frizzling acidic synth line like a steel whip and a nervously knocking percussive sounds punch the rhythm more and more into a straighter pattern - when the tune finally falls into a 4/4 beat after the break and the acid line completely bubbles over its pure mayhem. 'clubbanger' on the b-side gets underneath your skin more subtely: headbangin tech-boogie with suspensefull, slightly claustrophobic string backings and robotic voice snippets. label head clement opts in his remix for a punk-funk slant with cool dangling bassline and snotty rhyhtm guitar wrapped up in foggy synth sounds

super raw sawtooth basslines, rough & pumping drums + rave action underneath the significantly kewl & slightly psychic vocals of tommie sunshine.. rock electro tekkno 80ies dancefloor lipstick killer with heavy support by dj hell, king unique, sharam jey and boris duglosch..

this time mr. huntemann himself serves two shocking tunes in his very special slightly dark, boogie-esque and still somehow 80ies melodic electro-insanity style! just as if that wasnt already enough cocoons new superstar oliver koletzki, whose mückenschwarm ep is definitely the tune of this summer, delivers an incredibly stompy & fresh remix!!! a sureshot for all original electro gangsters like hell, tiga or the hacker and of course sven väth

spacy euro disco affair with dramatic synth progression, exotic, slightly kitschy melodies, flamenco claps, girls humming away in the background and occassional drum burst that make this sound like a chicago edit of a lost max berlin gem.. overwhelmingly good !

a slightly delicious mix of tech house meets tribal with a techy but funked up tribalistic a side and an electro fused flipside

michael burian has fixed his position as a superstar in his homelands. he is without a doubt one of europe s most in demand djs….. a fat groove is coming in and is getting mixed up with some perfectly adapted spacious sounds - tech-house in circle-manner,definitely designated for the dancefloor! b1.: metro is a slightly minimal track. right from the start the basic approach of moving people is obvious. later on this track emerges as firm shaker with goose-skin creating harmonies

jack addicts (hussle, minimal) comes with uk breaks with a slice of audio bully stylerap over the beats slightly different for whoop but slamming and seeing support from the breaks djs !!

really? well we dont know. but leo cruz knows how to chop up some serious disco elements and melts them with button down dance punk funk flavours just as if his parents were donna summer and james murphy. slightly new vibes from the steady rocking saboteur camp. ill shit!

jacking and driving, the track also features the vocals of filip g whose yeah's have the effect of an additional instrument.'i cant get up' on the b-side is a slightly darker track that smells like old-school techno spirit. the manic synth-line balances on squeaking and clanking rhythm patterns. this one will definitely will find its way into your hips in a second

new label from eastern germany - miditonal, based in chemnitz starts of with a superb v/a 4-tracker... featuring: michael forshaw, c.rechenberger & recall 8, ndk and queaver & versis. wonky techno, quirky tunes and actually all you love to hear.

sweat (on the walls) is a slightly darker, powerful and minimal-acid-driven track. the spoken word give the track its special attitude - a sure shot for the dancefloor. steppaon b1 comes in a very reduced sound-outfit with abstract spoken word fragments and a slightly broken, cristal clear rhythm construction

martin buttrich = producer for timo maas & locodice. buttrich hits four:twenty with two slabs of sublimely produced deep house music. meeting dave dish is on a slightly lighter tip with a warm summery vibe whilst ?mr medicine man? takes on a darker groove with haunting vocals and a deep funky bassline.

a hybrid fusion of styles, combining detroit ish & funky breakbeats with an afghan mc and is strictly produced for the club– on the flip side shake_dub_shake takes a slightly more retro and electronic style

the main mix theres another subman version with stripped down vocal and slightly filtered and tweaked instrumental, the beautifully floating all-instrumental take plus a dub version by lil devious who infuses a more electronical sound plus that special magical french filter touch. big one that will make it easily to the next ibiza season!

the original version comes up with a a minimal raw, slightly clonky and chicago-esque feel plus a decent electro-breakdown thats accompanied by spooky vocals that are whispering from somewhere in the dark a true intense workout for damp nights,steamy bodies and highenergy clubbers !!!

the record has already been gaining support and props from djs as diverse as laurent garnier, ivan smagghe, jeff mills, riccardo villalobos, highfish, and many others. three tracks of slightly experimental dancefloor minimalism that defies genre. the first from a talented duo that we will all be hearing a lot about in the future.

a-sun amissa is a project formed out of leeds, uk in 2011 by members of glissando and the rustle of the stars. built on the foundations of the unknown, a project that encompasses minimalist drones, modern-classical movements and avant-garde tendencies. richard knox (glissando, the rustle of the stars, of thread & mist) & angela chan (glissando, the rustle of the stars, ten, tomorrow we sail) began forming the initial ideas in the autumn of 2011, moving away from the piano-led ambience of previous outputs. new album you stood up for victory, we stood up for less sees a-sun amissa moving in a more dense direction, the drones are heavier, the sound thicker and with the added bass-clarinet of gareth davis there a new slightly darker jazz element now to the music. the two tracks were conceived initially as two drone guitar pieces, following that, work was done on the composition and atmosphere of the tracks adding the bass-clarinet, viola, vocals, field recordings and piano. the finished works produce an unsettling but hypnotic listen with melodies moving in and out of the mix throughout these two pieces. you stood up for victory, we stood up for less is released a year on from a-sun amissas debut desperate in her heavy sleep (gizeh). the band will tour the uk and europe in february and also play a handful of uk dates with barn owl in april. recorded at cloud blunt moon and city 1, leeds in october & november 2012. mixed by richard knox. mastered by james plotkin. photography by frŽdŽric d. oberland. layout & design by richard knox

after the slightly more conceptual principe del norte-album, 5 takes two steps forward and one step back collecting a batch of tracks that was recorded right after it s preceder and in tandem with the recent square one-album with bjoern torske. a freedom-album of sorts, beyond the slightly misleading album opener here comes the band there s a variety in these tracks tracing inspiration from 35 years (unhealthy)obsession with all things good music played enthusiastically. 5 also marks the launch of my new label prins thomas musikk

on limited edition compact disc. generated instinctively in the moment from resampled chunks of previous output sandwiched between unheard waveforms from a distant future whilst underwritten by voltage controlled rumblings from actual synthesisers than can be seen and touched and wrecked by roadies. traversing known knowns and unknown knowns from drone to drone. harvesting new and slightly less new artefacts of the digitaux variety and crash landing in the ghetto of the lysergic jungles visited by g@ng5tas of yesteryear, all for your personal enjoyment. performed live at the red rattler in sydney, australia on the 16th of april 2017 for the strange signals / house of mince crews, the performance is slightly more than just the insane ejaculations of an unhinged mind, but a true insight into one of the internets least popular twitter accounts.

after recent releases on the save fabric album, alola & jack trax, mr.c has delved deep into his musical psyche to deliver an acid master-class that s influenced by ska, dub, electro, italo disco, acid house & tech house, bringing his roots up to date with this massive modern production. incidents is about things that can happen while clubbing. down-tempo tracks entry search, a civil dose & quick exit will dub you out. slightly quicker acid fever & stand up will completely groove you & dance tracks do it for me, disco rebellion, shape your dreams, raid, ripple effect & master of the universe will make you dance like no-ones watching. incidents is the complete electronic album that pulls all the punches, gives a nod to the past & yet has it s feet firmly embedded in the future. this is easily mr.cs best solo work to date & essential listening.

very limited stock release on atom tm + material objects no. label. by garry bradbury, ex member of the 80s band severed heads. no. return with a new addition to the abstract 300 series by one time member of the influential australian electronic project severed heads: garry bradbury. sydney based bradbury is known for his boundary bending audio collage and analogue synthesis outbursts and has a career spanning three decades and is still blazing well into the 21st century. here he presents his 5th solo album for no. yakovlevian torque might be the most diverse no. release to date combining audio sources such as traditional found sound tv samples to analogue and digital synthesis. always on the verge of being slightly humourous, silly or deadly serious, bradbury balances moods and emotions, making this album not just a journey into his own mind. yakovlevian torque is a 13 track work out worthy of your attention deficit disorder

>the evolution of afrobeat< - tony allen jungle by night drops their first full studio album on kindred spirits. hidden is the first full studio album from this group of dutch lads, who retain their youthful exuberance and innocent energy, and delve deeper into their own sound. moving slightly away from the afro-beat blueprint that characterized last years self-titled debut lp, the nine-piece have added gamelan tones and studio effects to their afro-funk template, as well as exploring other parts of africa like malis desert soul and djembe rhythms from senegal. after two years of playing, and having performed over 80 gigs last year, the group have settled in their own rhythm, and hidden sees them trying out new ideas and forms.

dave.i.d likes to think for himself. always has done. its the reason why his debut album didnt go quite according to his initial plan. he was going to make, to use his own words, >something pretty simple and straightforward<. but then he noticed lots of his friends were discovering new beliefs. some even tried to convert him. >im very open-minded to different beliefs, but i question and see things slightly differently,< he says. without necessarily wanting to, he found himself reflecting on existential questions. >the album is a record of the time that it was made, and thats what was going on in my life at the time. i didnt necessarily want to make the debut album like that. i felt i had to make it<. the cerebral inspiration catapulted him into musics outer rim. he beamed back a dark, dense sometimes confrontational sound, but ultimately compelling sound. but, in the end, it turned out to be a happy accident because the resulting record, called >response< appropriately enough, is mind-bendingly inventive, brilliantly off-kilter and constantly surprising. crucially, the tough sonics are paired with killer melodies: this is deep, heavy music you can hum. the records he was listening to while making >response< help make sense of his singular sound

pop ambient returns. kompakts beloved series. this is our other arena of bliss, always curated and carefully compiled by label co-owner wolfgang voigt (aka gas). somber times call for more introspective sound scapes - >pop ambient 2011< continues its mission to slowly persuade its signature sound introduced over a decade ago. this year we see the series leaning towards a slightly darker complexion than its predecessors.

arne weinberg aka onmutu mechanicks pres. his first album on echocord. being known for producing deep melodic techno, arnes alias onmutu mechanicks serves as a project for all things abstract and dub-influenced. >nocturne< combines dubtechno and the deep melodic techno that arne is known for. the result is a slightly different take on the genre, ranging from ambientesque soundscapes to dark reverberated and delayed sonic dancefloor affairs and rhythmical experiments in dub. >nocturne< is a statement of pure deepness.

three years after his groundbreaking album >the meaning< (playhouse, 2004) thomas melchior presents his new longplayer >no disco future<. skills and experiences thomas gained throughout the years are innumerous. to mention just a few: along with tim hutton he formed the duos vulva and yoni who were releasing on aphex twins label rephlex, on the us-label reflective, and for german electronica pioneers source records. with his mate peter ford he forms the duos sunpeople and soul capsule (and various others). the new album sounds less microhousy and more homogeneous. slightly spherical soundscapes perfectly unite with discreet vocals building very harmonical structures..