after a killer 2015 for heist that brought with it 12inches from (a.o.) brame & hamo, fouk and new recruit m.ono, and a great frits wentink release to kick off 2016, were happy to bring you this bright and vibrant package courtesy of..ourselves. 2015 has been such an amazing and busy year for us, with loads of work on a new version of our live show with a new dam swindle member on the keys well as countless other shows and records on heist and freerange). pressing on 180 gram vinyl.

lago is an lp recording created in dialogue with the photobook (of the same title) by american photographer ron jude, published by mack (uk).

us-singer/songwriter jeb loy nichols, ex-mitglied der fellow travellers und compiler der kultserie country got soul, veröffentlicht mit mitgliedern von dub syndicate und roots radics ein reggae-album auf on-u sound, produziert von adrian sherwood. das album erschien bereits 2010 in limitierter auflage in japan, wurde aber jetzt komplett neu abgemischt. die cd-auflage enthält zudem 11 bonustracks bzw. versionen, die auf der lp als download-code beigefügt sind. nashville meets kingston oder lee hazlewood meets the wailers oder johnny cash meets horace andy. the high priest fo country cool. rolliing stone

returning to their home label circus recordings with their second full ep, long time friends of yousef acid monday s provide an electric new ep. opening with blazelnuts, a thunderous club banger certain to grip dancefloors the world over. with bold percussion and low-slung bassline, the track stampedes with a furious attack. next up, interstellar cake leads with a dark spoken vocal, paired with an unmistakable groove that s set to cause major damage. with remixes from both richy ahmed and subb-an, two well known facilitators of underground club culture, the package possesses everything from acid to soul and is aimed solely at the dancer

vinyl release celbrating five years of claap. music by gummihz, nikola gala and kindimmer. the opening track by gummihz, titled paraphonic state, explores the beauty of paraphony. produced solely by using a drum machine and a paraphonic synthesizer, the arrangement focuses on the bare essentials of a monster of a track!

taking a purely scorched-earth approach to production, longhorn finds daze on typically reverent but ever-more pounding form. pushing the limits of acceptable lo-fi techno and crushing everything underfoot into one bass-addled debris-strewn mush. title track longhorn bends and contorts metal, steadily melting surfaces at 2000°c heat, cooking and roasting against a background of charred industrial drones. tool is the roller, stuck somewhere between the warehouses of detroit and berlin and harnessing probably the most rubber kick drum known to man. dusting off the cerebral pounding is oil rig . a muffled, dissonant chime reflecting on our pillaging of the earth, our unrelenting ambition for natural destruction, forming a breakneck dystopian chant for the new world.

coloured vinyl, part 1/2... constantly searching, not wishing an end, prefer a surprise, not everything planned, so you will always be in the new age of earth

coloured vinyl , part 2/2... constantly searching, not wishing an end, prefer a surprise, not everything planned, so you will always be in the new age of earth

180 gr, vinyl only, adrian niculae aka priku
if you ever had been struck by the feeling of letting everything go away, right in the middle of the dance floor and you couldnt explain what was happening to you, then you have to listen to adrian niculae’s atipic 001. side a delivers nine minutes of carefully crafted momentum, adding layer over layer of tension. side b connected at an almost imperceptible level with the first track cuts deep within our electronic souls injecting us waves of rolling techno wearing adrian s obsession for subtle details.

madrid-based producer main hope has been recording music for over a decade, but only now decided to release some of it, kicking off the brand new turbocapitalism imprint. blending heavy influences from the original techno and house masters, the electronic music pioneers of the 70s, the work of laurie spiegel, the sound of the buchla synths, main hope is about complex harmonies and rhythms.

let present you our next piece of jewelry, the womb ep . neverm!nd appeared for the first time on wirsindeins recordswith a remix of iori wakasa his track take u antarctica and now they are present with their own ep. the womb shadows and mobiers three tracks full of nicely matched percussions, tight baselines and greatful pads. everything your heart desiresand the demands of your mind of course. higuchi, our first family member launched its 2 track ep in 2013 on our label and now he is supporting this huge release with a brute and yet beautiful ...

lenzman is back on metalheadz with his first original work since his debut album looking at the stars. the ep is everything you would expect from lenzman, soulful and well produced.

norse projekt 2 welcomes giash all the way from hungary with his signature sound that encompasses everything about this talented artist.giash has appeared on the fabriclive series with his work chosen by joris voorn.mastering by jean-patrice remillard & artwork by marcelo de almeida

italian? yes. underground? damn yeah! vinyl maniacs? almost sick about it! blue mondays are starting their own imprint - tunes from blue mondays - to deliver their most individual stuff: neither rules nor stereotypes. just music. the way they like it. it could be techno, house, disco, peaktime tracks, soulful moments. you will find out everything about it on tfbm, as long as it is tasty ...

christian b and lavvy levan s friday fox recordings release the first instalment of their -sounds from the den-. the vinyl 4 tracker showcasing more underground talent from around the world and hidden gems from the friday fox vault. including tracks from christian b and lavvy levan themselves, rudi botha and miggza (south afirca), fatty mombassa (uk) and romi buns (canada) there s something to set every dancefloor on fire.

having recently played an eight hour set to a sold-out crowd at london’s oval space, the prolific dusky drop a trio of moody club tool tracks on 17 steps as they continue their european autumn/winter tour. a club tool in the most effective sense, lead track ’lydia’ is dark, nagging acid groover that builds and builds throughout its 6 hypnotic minutes. with all the melodic material based around the lydian scale, ‘lydia’ was originally inspired by a bizarre, trippy dream alfie had in which everything was all based on the lydian scale. a homage to classic techno, ‘bitter lake’ is a hard-hitting surge of looping, percussive energy and detroit-nodding rave stabs that build to a hoover-fuelled breakdown release. rounding off the trio, the brilliantly titled and uniquely composed ‘infinite libido’ again explores dusky’s more percussive tendencies and has been a regular feature in their dj sets for the past year.

one of the rarest gems of the italo disco genre starting the la discoteca sub label. here we find disco, r&b, italo, and electro all inside one track in the traditional vocal and instrumental version. everything is based on synth and bass lines with a stunning sexy female vocal from jo jo ! reissued thanks to the help of massimo monti and il messia claudio pisani d.j.

twice and blend it! records are back with the 8th release of the black aroma edits. expect the trademark sounds that made this series in demand and sought after: side a is sure to hit the jazz - funk heads, whilst side b is a treat for 80’s boogie and soul lovers. grab hold of a copy quick, these don’t last long!

seth troxler continues to shed light on the frontiers of his musical interest and offers up the next record on soft touch - his imprint specialising in the more celestial strains of indie, rock, electronica and everything in between. this third instalment comes from a fresh nomadic trio: aou who align their esoteric set up and a wide range of influences to present their ‘gordo laika’ ep.

vintage house freaks and soul kids: rhode & brown from munich come back on toy tonics with a great, funk driven, instrumental ep. featuring a remix by upcoming producer hodini. rhode & brown come from the growing young, new house scene of munich. since 3 years the kids host their own night at munichs kong club and doing music. after a few remixes (check the one for brooklyn based label good company records) the boys release their first ep of 2015 on toy tonics. the sound? they proudly call it weißwursthouse produced on a stradivari-build mpc 1000 in their beautiful studio in the heart of munich. influenced by old soul records, detroit legends theo parrish and moodymann, as well as new experimental house from the scandinavian labels around studio barnhus. everything with their own unmistakable rhode & brown touch.

so there he sits in the dub basket, vintage desk overloading, space echo waiting for a waveform from tuff scout to dub. out there by the river amidst the ballardian wastelands producing some beat fascilitating the sons of kemet or roisin murphy, mixing micachu or maybe hes just having a nap. a bag of outboard lies at the back, put down from a last away trip with the matthew herbert live expedition. up on the wall in the vinyl rack lies a track back into pre history, remixes, japan, names, places, styles, beats, bands, cages silence and herzog on herzog all the way back to new york mid 80s making tea for krs-1 and learning a trade.

studio is benny’s 5th studio album. not just casually called by its name. no, there is something else happening here. the word ‘studio’ originates from the latin word ‘studium’, which stands for ‘studying’. the studio is the place where painters, artists and musicians learn, study and create. it’s the place where benny is most comfortable. benny’s amsterdam based studio has an amazing view of the canals. studio is an ode to this place, which he built 4 years ago, and everything it has brought him. because it brought him more than just the music he produced there. it gave him his place in the world and with it so many other things. all of which is to be heard on his new album. you find him exposing true love, follow his search for a home, he opens up about settling down and he speaks of breaking through old patterns in which he found himself being stuck for years.

essential repress action from the monkey bar records, hinode & patrice scotts the hustlers ep from 2013 will get a limited transparent red vinyl repress, dont snooze... the first release of the label will be provided by hinode & patrice scott. mario and matteo are a talented italian duo based in berlin since a year. lovers of everything analog, their productions combine both the old and todays sounds but with the dancefloor as a common denominator. ranging between detroit and chicago, the release remains true to the monkey bars identity whos been highlighted in barcelona by being faithful to these roots. patrice scott doesn t need presentation, the detroit-based producer closes the ep with a beautiful track that reminds of early sistrum. smooth and deep detroit house for the lovers of ps. limited to 250 copies, vinyl only

repress! neovinyl recordings proudly presents the next work from his homeboy maik yells. a masterpiece released in vinyl only, that moves forward his sound to make a brutally simplistic approach to a beat techno. this ep is composed by two tracks driven by heavy sounds balanced with beautiful catchy pads, but remember… everything mixed with a heavy emphasis on the groove. this is maik yells. direct from barcelona we have the spanish upcoming duo signal’ on the remix for the track asmodea, making clear that they how they can build a gem out of a repetitive backbone.

juan rico, a.k.a. reeko and a handful of other aliases, is a consistent and reliable ambassador of a spanish techno scene that has brought us everything from oscar mulero to tadeo. in his architectural guise (which is also the name of his personal releasing imprint), rico has developed a penchant for perfectly interlocking sonic elements and for a structural sensibility that delivers on the promises of advanced engineering implied by his artists pseudonym. the first result of his new alliance with the wolfskuil label is a full lp that dispenses with the formalities of introducing listeners to the artist, and simply dives straight in to depths of his active mind.

sold out! what happens when scales and patterns of contradicting emotional imprints combine? when light and darkness, bitter and sweet, frost and blaze collide? those are the questions that johannes heil chooses to address on his upcoming album, opening up a vast grey-scaled area for the listener to traverse with techno as a blindfold. <black light> sees the german techno mainstay return to the album format for an intimate ten track odyssey of close-curtained introspection. heil chooses the words of fellow futurist nikola tesla to set the stage of the black light story: >black is the true face of light, only we do not see this<. track names are dropped in favor of a chronology of scenes, better adapted to the seemingly polar opposition of the forces that the figure and cocoon regular conjures throughout the album. everything that we perceive is processed and set into relation with past memories, digested emotions and iron-branded impressions. battling the current, johannes heil chooses to challenge certitudes by forcing us out of our comfort zones into the absence of light. if the pictures painted on >black light< are dark, they are also far from monochromatic. the machine-driven sonic prism acts both as the heavy cloud and the burst of light that shoots through to guide us. its the aggressor and the victim, the clenched teeth and the jubilant, the paranoia and the sanity of the mind. its pure heads-down driving techno with volumes of grandiose. provoking our senses, extending his art onto our personal canvases, the exile boss gives the listener the freedom to interpret the emotional context of each piece, to write the scripts of the individual scenes. the impression that >black light< leaves upon first listen testifies that 20 years down the road, johannes heil shows no sign of slowing down.

barotti is a musician and contemporary multimedia artist based in berlin. after years of working on urban sound installations, performing arts and experimental music, he is now releasing his debut album. a soundtrack for fantastic futuristic fairytales. epic and symphonic - with a deep electronic base. armed with iconic analog gear of the 1970s and 1980s, a hand-picked group of high level classical string and horn players and the whole imaginary world of his absurd fantasies, barotti is opening up a new dimension in the vast field between contemporary classical and electronic music.

dka starts the fire with his endless no hope. a track that has exactly the right amount of everything. jens bond whispers the lovingly crafted insae, it could mean madness but why does it sound so good rafaele castiglione & praah musique are 10.000 km afar from each other and teamed up to create the mind boggling ayahuasca ceed. debuts here and brings us the perfect soundtrack to get lost in. endnight is light and darkness at the same time, a stroboscope of emotions.

repress !! everything started back in early 2014 when i came across the first tracks of junktion on outplay, remembers dairmount with a smile on the face. heavy on the bacon & coconuts are already supported & played by dam swindle, session victim, medlar, axel boman, jimpster, wolf music, lay far, kito jempere, art of tones, crazy p, late nite tuff guy, henry wu, max graef, roberto rodriguez & more

while jamming and improvising, their way of working invented itself: programming and playing everything live while recording directly to 5 minute audio tapes. the whole post process of mixing and editing is cut out and the results are vivid snapshots of improvised live tracks organised into little stories. combining these stories results in an electronic trip through a galaxy of sound, experienced from the front seat of an old russian spaceship with a view to kill.

after a very promising debut almost an year ago with their *super quartet ep*, nas1 are back on bosconi extra virgin with another 6 tracker of modern detroit influenced house. the record starts with the wobbling shuffles of 2 bass heavy cuts, the robotic melancholy of *head on* and the funkier-ecstatic *bravo cafe&#769,,,*, while on the closing cut of a side appears the stomping garage beat of *la tosse*.
the talented duo from bologna then shows its great technical skills within creating unique grooves: nastier vibes those look like coming from a dirty and dark basement open b side with the dusty, dubby and whirling jam of *rabbit backbone*, while with the following *seemed* track they keep the mood in the same hypno-delic direction just making everything sweeter and smoother in order to end in a proper way this vinyl with the soulful and joyful downbeat of *seduta*. italian docg modern soul!

schuko ep is the second release from the lyon (france) based label aiia recordings, which without surprise is still speaking about techno. the release is signed by the german duo schutzkontakt, with one member from dualit, who uses violent and reverbering kicks on konter and latenz, completed by a deep and sweet melody on frage, whether by different layers of indus samples. the most relevant feeling by listening this four-track ep is that it brings you between hard and soft moments, but still in a mighty state of mind, thanks to the intensity put by schutzkontakt in schuko ep. even if everything slacken when zyllinder comes with its more groovy and acid rhythms after the two precedent techno-indus tracks.

after their contribution to far & beyond compilation, owen jay & melchior sultana get back to deep explorer finally with a full ep, where they combine different styles in just 4 tracks. deep instrumental, vocals and even electro vibes.everything under the smooth shield of the batti batti team. the circle is completed by the remix of make me feel (the track that opened the doors of deep explorer to the batti batti family) by the legendary mike grant (moods & grooves)

strut follow up their hugely successful marshall allen-curated *in the orbit of ra* compilation with a newly curated set from the immense 125 lp back catalogue of jazz maverick, diy philosopher and self-professed member of an angel race, sun ra. to those of earth ... and other worlds is a hand- picked selection from bbc 6 music dj gilles peterson.

the debut album from french producer j-zen as 12 inch vinyl lp plus download code.

tyler friedman returns to kontra-musik with a series of immersive wax maelstroms, adorned with the mind-melting artwork of rafaela drazic. every track on ccc: bb: bbb: jj is a controlled experiment in lysergic dance music, an examination of how far you can warp the constitutive elements of techno without loosing it s essential spine. the result is four evolutionary techno suites full of movement and life that make your brain move just as vigorously as your body. as the personal work of a composer creating soundtracks for artist projects - most notably as a long-term collaborator of the otolith group, the filmmaker collective spearheaded by pioneering afrofuturist theorist kodwo eshun - ccc: bb: bbb: jj sums up everything kontra-musik is about: dancefloor celebrations challenging the boundaries of expectation and genre.

strictly limited to 500! the 3rd in tee mangos tribute p&#8203,,,roject, inspired by the much referenced theo parrish q&#8203,,,uote: love of the music should be the driving force of any producer, performer or dj. everything else stems from that core, that love. with that love, sampling can become a tribute, an expansion on ideas long forgotten, reconstruction, collage.&#8203,,,

the second ultimate hits instalment is from max mcferren. four tracks covering everything from dan bell inspired house to uk influenced rhythm tracks for the floor. strictly limited to 300 copies w/ hand printed sleeves.

matt edwards (radio slave) returns to his rekids label under the guise of b.a.d.s (berlin amateur dramatics society) - a new project cooked up with spencer parker and francesco de nittis aka mr ties, in order to release this track he made especially for an appearance at de nittis homopatik party at berlin s about blank last year. since debuting the track it has gone on to become not only an anthem for the part itself (the a capella has become a regular a favourite mr ties opener for homopatik sets), but a goto crowdpleaser for the handful djs such as nina kraviz who have drawn for its infections energy over the past year. imbued with the with all the infamous mischief of homopatik and the historical clubbing lineage the party is rooted within within, hous-o-matik hom-o-patik does everything you would expect it to: it gets the party started. b.a.d.s will return later in the year with spencer parker and mr ties own versions of the track

the 2nd album from atcq, originally released in 1991, back on double 12 inch.

beautifully designed lp on 180g vinyl! just waking up and everything sounding slower. holes in the wall. the unknown in the familiar. the shock of the new. just-turned rubble. thick clouds of recall. muted high-life, de-centered hip-hop, and disparate conversation. heavy, sinking jazz and dissected infomercials. too much chewing gum? not quite anything, or half of something. reminds me of. smells like? turkson side is africanus okokons first album. it is almost entirely sample-based, made largely within a simple, custom-made playback software with each track recorded in one take with very little editing

opener equilibrium two from buitendijk is a perfectly streamlined and serene bit of spaced out, hypnotic techno. gentle synth pulses roam about the airwaves, left and right, up and down, as ethereal pads glow behind. it s heady dancing music, whilst liem s contact is also perfectly aimed at both head and heel. it is full of lick synth pulses that bubble and boil as watery droplets and ticking hits also colour the most subliminal groove. closer this is all you need is a more textured, frazzled cut with frosty lines and rickety pads working you into a trance. rich drums and clever bass filtration add dynamics and tension and so like everything else here the end result is hugely captivating.

prime time action on resopal label. russian hottest export lord vakabular launches his new ogo ogo ep with four smokin tracks. grooves, structure and beats combine with a high club-factor. all tunes exalt the floor, so be careful with this 12

its been a long summer without the infectious draw of the triple-s voodoo guiding you towards the dance. when any sane individual should be nestling into furs and sheltering from the climatic downturn, we return with an urgent need for everyone to throw everything to the floor and make out with the music like the sun still beats down on your skull.

with proud and extreme enthusiasm l atelier & ghetto chords are sharing their dream. their own amsterdam based record label just edits. the first just edits release is brought to you by one of the founders of this label, ghetto chords. on this 4 tracker you can find the true signature sampled house sound of ghetto chords complimented by a driving, more b-boy ghetto tech oriented remix of kid sublime. everything today, basically, is just an edit.

the fourth studio album „in the beginning“ by the critically acclaimed live band marbert rocel from leipzig. a place far away from everything, yet right around the corner. a vision close enough to touch, yet so far away. surrounded by keys, hatches, pots and small fragmented parts, marbert rocel lie down, discuss and dance through the winter of 2015. in this environment, in their studio in leipzig, the band ties together the songs, which first saw the light of day in a small spot enclosed by woods in the summer of 2014. ?each decision goes through every head, each chord is listened to a hundred times, from font to back and in reverse, each compromise: a triumph for the common cause. not pompoous string arrangements fuel this album with grandeur, but rather the notion of a consensual nod, which has evolved within marbert rocel over the years. ?“in the beginning” is the fourth album by marbert rocel, a living utopia and a tart kiss for every purist genre lover. nothing is hewn raw on here, rather sculptured delicately. percussion is tickling from synth pads like dew, and the songs welcome you like good friends. like tinkerbell, spunks voice guides through this strange familiar world, moving past big feelings and small gestures, to finally lead to where it all started: “in the beginning”.

already moving forward towards the 5th addition to their catalog within barely one year of existence. the rotterdam-based self reflektion imprint continues to expand their crew presenting a four-track sampler with music from the likes of logotech (manifesto/it), hiroaki iizuka (them/jp), remco beekwilder (self reflektion/nl) and lenson (paling trax/nl) - each showing their own perspective in techno music. from the trippy hypnotic *the 6th door* to the overwhelming *the circle* on the a-side, and from the straight banging *fraud* to the destroy everything attitude on *envy cross*, this release is just a small example of what is yet to come from this young label.
early support by dave clarke, tripeo, marcel dettmann, cleric, truss, truncate, mtd, zadig, dax j, stranger, len faki, nx1 among others.

stix records is a sub-division of favorite recordings, recently launched with a first official single by taggy matcher birdy & nixon (stix033), who pleased us with two reggae-rocksteady renditions of the famous black keys. precisely specialized in the exercise of producing covers with a reggae twist, the new label presents his first album entitled *disco reggae*. many artists faithful to the stable of favorite recordings and its various sub-labels are invited for the occasion: the dynamics, blundetto, grandmagneto, 7 samurai, john milk or taggy matcher. all came and brought their respective touch to this first compilation, with among other things some of the rarest titles from their big single records’ years, but also 4 new and exclusive productions. each of them delivers a great disco-reggae version of classic hits by some artists as diverse as madonna, herbie hancock, justin timberlake, the commodores, the o jays, curtis mayfield, harry nilsson or sugarhill gang. whatever the genre or the period, nothing can resist their inventiveness and creativity, to the point sometimes we confuse between originals and covers. everything is remastered and cut at carvery records (uk), known for their expertise in caribbean and disco music. the vinyl lp comes in a deluxe version, housed in an old-school tip-on jacket.

the dance is the result of a long lasting musical love affair between kontra-musik s ulf eriksson and sebastian mullaert (aka minilogue). as most love affairs, it started off as an exciting experiment: ulf would play records and sebastian would bring out his music gear and play a live set. as they were touring with this live concept, their sounds started to really integrate, and after one especially fine night at trouw, amsterdam, ulf and sebastian decided it was time to conceive the dance. once the decision was taken, everything else came naturally. the dance was to be recorded live, in one take, at kontra-musik s home field inkonst, malmo, sweden.