hot off a string of records released on coloring lessons, bliss point, people of earth, and off track recordings, malik hendricks returns to darker than wax with tessera - a fresh twelve of dancefloor cuts tinged with broken rhythms and funk-infused melodies.
marbled vinyl! groovin minimalism! ion ludwig and jay tripwire. 190g vinyl the other side is back again with a special release coming from tech house royalty that is jay tripwire, the ep showcases tripwires past and present weaving them together seamlessly. the ep is fully rounded off by dutch minimal master and perlon artist ion ludwig who delivered a darker late night dance floor heater.
new york city’s tape_hiss makes his debut on darker than wax with “a linear progression”, a deep and meditative dance record born out of the pandemic’s paradigm shift.
known for crafting infectious rhythms infused with an otherworldly strangeness, uk-based producer cain makes his debut on darker than wax with sarissa - a seven- tracker driven by his signature percussive style.
2022 repress
as days prolong darker, walls come seeping in for the solitary resident. a collection of early legowelt tracks, found on old dusty tapes assumed a long time gone. all tracks recorded between 1992-1997. first time ever on vinyl and fully remastered. 2016 repress
ant to be had proved his skill time and time again with a run of straight up excellence on knitebreed records. he has also slowly and surely walked towards the darker, and more jungle techno oriented sound. on the cinematography ep, he embraces that sound in full, with driving bass and deep atmospherics, all perfectly blended with his trademark crystal clean production and above all, dancefloor destroying beats….
mechatronica drops another forceful electro release, this time with a diverse collection of new and familiar faces in kosh, ocb, jauzas the shining and ersatz olfolks.
the moroccan casa voyager crew conducts the a-side in style, kosh carefully manufacturing an expanding, fat and spacey electro drive while ocb laces old school electro flavours with breaks, acid and devastating groove.
on the flip, harder and darker electro sounds evolve as decade-long french electro producer jauzas the shining drops a potent electro/acid track in “machine”, followed by the relentless energy of “stella” - a murky, ever-intensifying journey through electro, breaks and industrial soundscapes by french producer ersatz olfolks.
sync 24s cultivated electronics rounds off 2018 in style with the from the dark series. 3 x v/a lps showcasing some of the leading lights of modern electro alongside some solid newcomers. focussing on the spookier side of the genre ftd brings in the various shades of darker electro tones from across the globe. volume 1 kicks off the series with with some super dark selections from sync 24 & alienata, australias hottest electro exports of the moment jensen interceptor and assembler code, seattle electro veteran 214, ce newcomer rico casazza, radio matrix boss & tresor resident delta funktionen, caught london sleeping head honcho stratowerx, delsin & clone affiliate versalife and berlin based ce newcomer exterminador.
after labels debut in 2017, the second transmission is coming from life notes recordings. french producer life recorder is going further with his new motion process id shaping a way to present another side of his music maybe darker but always showing love for emotional pads and atmospheres and willing to share something behind the music. -outside the algorithm- presents 3 new deep techno tracks born from moods and feelings and here a reaction towards a music/art scene nowadays often ruled by social medias algorithms, image and egos. technology can help us on the way even sometimes building bridges with the offline world but we have to reflect and preserve ourselves from wrong feelings and frustrations built from the digital era.
the belfast based dj & producer, garry mccartney, otherwise known as ejeca, has been steadily and consistently building his sound and profile over time, through a series of impressive releases for aus music, unknown to the unknown, w&o street tracks, bpitch control and last night on earth, amongst others.
ejeca carves out an energetic slab of audacious party house on ‘unloving’, resplendent with rolling beats and stabby chords, and topped off with dramatic strings and vocal chops. elsewhere on the ep, ejeca unleashes some 303 bassline action and dark vocals on ‘standard acid house track’, which thankfully rises well above anything standard! and on ‘crystal maze’, ejeca harks back to the darker dance energies that were a staple of the late 1980s uk acid house boom. wrapping up the ep, ‘iswhatis’ gets ever so slightly twisted with an orbiting synth hook and weighty stabs over a spirited rhythm section.
soul dynamite pull no punches with the follow-up to their first release and go straight for the jugular with some vintage mr lif fire a 45 splitting mr lifs seven-and-a-half minute return of the b-boy into parts 1 and 2 one on each side. thats not quite as weird as it sounds for on lifs critically acclaimed debut full-length from 02, i, phantom, the el-p produced return of the b-boy features a fade and then a complete change of beat change for the epic third verse. the first half is dark, space-funky boom-bap while the second half is er even darker, and a bit faster, space-funky boom-bap. either side though, you’ll be able to revel in such a-grade lyrical excoriation of race relations in the states as, theyre defacing masterpieces, just to blast to pieces/ what’s dope and hope that wed accept a wacker thesis. jesus! black vinyl.
a musical partnership forged at the beginning of the millennium, ajit steyns and kate mcgill have developed a well defined and unmistakable sound as the untouchables. tribal rhythms drenched in dub, with characteristic nods to the breaks and rave stabs era of late 90’s dnb, their music has been an integral component of the darker half-time sound that has become more prevalent within dnb over the past 5 years. tempering the menace of their atmospherics with distinctive low-slung bass lines has made their music essential to dj’s championing this sound.
grey marbled double vinyl release.
a musical partnership forged at the beginning of the millennium, ajit steyns and kate mcgill have developed a well defined and unmistakable sound as the untouchables. tribal rhythms drenched in dub, with characteristic nods to the breaks and rave stabs era of late 90’s dnb, their music has been an integral component of the darker half-time sound that has become more prevalent within dnb over the past 5 years. tempering the menace of their atmospherics with distinctive low-slung bass lines has made their music essential to dj’s championing this sound.
black double vinyl release.
we are pleased to have a debut release on nomine sound from e3 breaks. this outfit consists of grime maverick as if kid and the one and only godfather of grime dj slimzee. this guise that these 2 have opted to go with seems to have given them the urge to explore the deeper and darker side of the 140 sound. get your bass bins ready!
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