small great things is a new label from luca olivotto of endless music and its first release sees the berlin-based artist deliver an ep of modern takes on classic deep house sounds. the small great things ep kicks off with an eponymous cut with steadily unfurling pads leading to a breakdown of light, uplifting melodies while rooted to the floor with a jacking rhythm track and bottom end. sometime ibadan and b-pitch producer dos serves up a remix of -small great things- under his given name, francesco mami, where the italian producer turns in a warm but propellant version with loose, rattling rhythms and saturated stabs creating a nifty, rounded piece. on the b-side olivotto opens with -swipe out-, a gloriously detailed track that balances slick synths and gritty bass perfectly, allowing a beautiful vocal to shine through. we are treated to a stirring song on closing track -dont blame me-, where soaring detroit influenced synth pads and staccato melodies combine to create the perfect foil to the vocals. named to celebrate the little things in life, small great things is a label to firmly keep an eye on.

und das naechste -koelsch- bitte

super deep electro-ish idm and ambient soundscapes on this new london label

balearic space by max essa

ltd vinyl release

great deep house ep by volen sentir!

reissue of the 2014 lp from mr bop, aka dj damage of jazz liberatorz.

images by iconic french photographer jean-pierre leloir, 180 g vinyl, legendary jazz album, deluxe gatefold set, limited edition

the debut album from sampa the great on black double vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve with download code included.

a 1988 classic back on double vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve.

emotive house sounds from gloved hands.

limited edition white vinyl lp with 2 12” art prints included.

misfit melodies welcomes robert dietz on their new ep output

next theme from a great citie. be always open minded!

galactic good and fresh electro tunes with acid flavor

die künstler kommen aus allen ecken frankreichs um das projekt great raw 002 in die zweite runde zu schicken. 4 tracks, 4 artists, um sich unter dem banner der house musik zu versammeln.

totally fresh house tunes... lucas croon know also from his prev releases on themes for great cities, aiwo ...

pheaky acidic techno, mastered by dietrich schoenemann

each deluxe limited-edition numbered box set contains six 12- vinyl discs--mastered from the original tapes--including alternate mixes, 7- versions, live shows & more

one of the most eagerly anticipated albums of the year, alpha steppa meets nai-jah “the great elephant”. tge is the product of a year-long collaboration between renowned uk dub reggae producer alpha steppa and nige- rian-french singer / songwriter nai-jah. tge tells the story of nai-jah&#700,,,,,,s reality growing up in nigeria, the album paints a picture of corruption, greed, and suffering, a narrative each and everyone accross the globe can relate to. nai-jah points to strength through unity and provides great inspiration and hope through his thoughtful lyrics and sincere delivery. steppas records is overjoyed to present all 10 original vocal tracks plus the full dub album as one. a truly unique and powerful protest album sure to provoke, inspire and uplift.

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one of our humble imprint s closest allies and a longstanding pillar of philadelphia s electronic music community, billy werner has been a constant presence in the booth at parties throughout the northeast corridor since 1998. we debuted his m//r alias in 2014 with the gathering response data 12- . since he s been busy bringing the grit to points beyond the city of brotherly love, putting in work for the likes of detailssound, l.i.e.s. and jackdept. most recently, he turned out a remix of karen gwyer s -why does your father look so nervous- for the rembo remixes on don t be afraid, as well as another for chaperone s -grit neglect- on the aforementioned snapbackbalaclava ep. written, recorded, and mixed over a period of 15 months, among the methods is in no small part a reflection of the affinities and sensibilities billy holds as both selector and producer. referencing a variety of influences from jazz to dub to electro, the album s allure stems from his deft ability to recontextualize those genres disparate aspects into a familiar–yet fiercely idiosyncratic–musical context. the end result is at once wildly fractured and precision-focused as among the methods finds its own seductive rhythm within a matrix of dub echoes and modulated low-end. it s heady ground,to be sure,as well as the most declarative aesthetic statement fromm//r to date. presented without further comment. the music is the message

“great many arrows” is the 6th studio album from damien dubrovnik, the danish duo of loke rahbek and christian stadsgaard. it is also the 200th release on their posh isolation label, marking 8 years for both the label and project. the label’s inception came with damien dubrovnik’s debut album, and since then the two have been inseparable. without damien dubrovnik there would most likely have been no posh isolation, and vice versa.

incl. downloadcode ... unnatural, uneasy, unexpected. the great filter keeps you on your toes constantly, it makes your fingers tingle with anticipation and the hairs on your arms stand up from the tension. it is eerily calm and controlled, while it takes you to faraway places in the twilight, that dont actually exist. subdued, bright yellow light with no sun in sight. wide plains with an inherent structure that can only be illogical. unorganic sounds, alien voices, excited synths and sobering organs. reality is so mundane. the way we are now expecting it from krink, he does what is unexpected and stretches conventions somewhere around techno and deep house. the music is driven by imagery rather than song structure. the ep puts cutting rhythms over comfort and sound over beauty. like a focused dream, it is concrete and abstract. lets get found in the universe

the mar-keys is the first house band from the label stax records. during the 60’s they recorded many songs and with their first single “last night” they made it to the top of the us charts. years after this massive success they released the album “the great memphis sound”, with the support of artists like isaac hayes and booker t. jones. guitarist steve cropper shows his skills in the jazz and soul sound from the music on the album. the instrumental tracks including song classics like “the girl from ipanema”, “in the mood” and “philly dog”.
the group started in the late 50’s as the royal spades and became known as the band where a lot of musical talents marked their first step in the industry. as a backing band they worked together with artists like otis redding, wilson pickett and carla thomas.
pressing on 180 gram audiophile vinyl.

for over 4 years, david coccagna aka chaperone has been a constant part of great circles, as musician, art director, and muse. with snapback balaclava he once again fully embodies all of those roles, delivering three inspiring tracks, selecting his remixers with specific attention to their musical histories, and designing his cover art. across the a-side, chaperone scrapes away at the grit – personal grit, the grit of anxiety, and philly grit. these are meditations on loops, and loops on meditations. each one appears on the surface to be a brief quote, but time dilation takes over, and minutes later we discover that chaperone has welcomed us into and back out of his own healing moment. like chaperone s p o n d release grcr-009, the b-side of snapback balaclava is a great circles extended family affair with a trio of diverse remixes that expose and exploit fragments of the chaos chaperone so carefully contained. hitoshi kojima thrive reinterprets pulse feels swells beating with relentless syncopated rhythms and synth lines that hang like massive string drones. m//r lays down a signature percussion ensemble palette, zeroes in on otherwise peripheral elements of grit neglect, and then deftly navigates sea change with both. matt korvette and sean mcguinness of philly punk band pissed jeans open up the pit and finish the story, taking femur baseball bat to its literal and brutal potential with monstrous vocals and kicks.

we are living in precarious times. a senile, racist old man prone to temper tantrums has his tiny hands on the controls of the most powerful military machine the world has ever known. a handful of his (no less dangerous) international business associates and personal friends possess more collective wealth than the rest of us put together. the oceans and forests of the planet are dying slow deaths by asphyxiation, force fed 300 million tons of single use plastic garbage every year, and the temperature, both literal and rhetorical, rises the world over with each passing day.

next breakish electro sport 3000

various artists from the four corners of france, the project great raw 001 is the first vinyl release of the label grand cru paris.4 tracks , 4 artists, coming from differents horizons, gathering under the banner of house sampling.

300 copies: hand&#8208,,,stamped metallic silver ink on black labels / black sleeves / screen printed white jackets. after a not&#8208,,so&#8208,,unusual quiet period, we re back with our first proper full&#8208,,length lp. plasmas by prefix moniker is an experimental electronic release that sets the stage for future great circles releases oriented more toward home listening than the dancefloor. prefix moniker is comprised of great circles mainstay jason carr (_moonraker) and johnny deblase (bassist in zevious, sabbath assembly & desertion trio). the duo has a musical relationship that dates back almost 20 years. the remote composition of plasmas began in 2013 with carr residing in berkeley, ca at the time, and deblase in queens, ny. each piece consists of arrangements of csound instruments (deblase) with layered synthesizer (carr). the curious product of this collaboration suggested to carr and deblase the fourth state of matter, plasma. all of the track titles were then contributed by jason s physicist brother, dr. jerry carr. page1image18192 pre&#8208,,release response to plasmas from musicians and label friends has been overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic, page1image19360 including karen gwyer s inclusion of two tracks (inductively coupled and helicons) on her recent fact mix (fact mix 610).

a collection of 28 tracks from legendary chuck berry. 180 gram double vinyl in gatefold sleeve

not lost recordings from lucas croon.

stillgestanden, der kaiser ist zurück! mit dem österreichischen trio tritt der neue rock-adel an, veraltete traditionen mit seinem royalen kick-ass-sound gründlich von der platte zu fegen und auf moderne, frische art zu präsentieren.
die stilistische abstammung von kaiser franz josef lässt sich in direkter blutlinie auf große formationen aus fünf jahrzehnten musikgeschichte zurückverfolgen: rock ›n‹ roll, heavy rock, doom, ein wenig stoner rock und natürlich grunge – namentlich bands wie black sabbath, queens of the stone age, the hellacopters oder soundgarden, deren einflüsse die Österreicher auf »make rock great again« zu ihrem kaiserlichen high-energy-mix verbinden. »wir geben den älteren fans, was sie von rockmusik erwarten und der jungen generation, was sie noch nicht kennt«, erklärt frontman sham.
kaiser franz josef lassen die amps glühen und haben auf »make rock great again« die rohe liveenergie ihrer schweißtreibenden shows eingefangen. handgemacht, schnörkellos und ohne umschweife mitten ins gesicht.

two bassheavy tracks courtesy of the sport-camp, taking cues from jungle s sweaty basement-past, but dragging them down to berghain for a lil dance. - heavy baggage - has its militant techno-stomp interlaced with a selection of dusty breakbeats, while the slower -i am not beautiful- begins somewhat subdued with muffled breakbeats, before turning nasty with a 4/4 kick and a sub-bass of obviously malicious intent.

die re-issue von swans -the great annihilator- bietet ein komplettes remastering des albums sowie das komplette solo-album -drainland- von michael gira als bonus. beide werke entstanden in der gleichen schaffensperiode, so dass es sich anbietet diese inhaltlich zusammenzufassen. -the great annihilator- erschien ursprünglich1995, das remaster erscheint von den orginal-aufnahme-tapes. diese aufgabe übernahm mit viel detailarbeit doug henderson, sehr zur zufriedenheit von michael gira, der das ergebnis als -a revelation of great sonic effect- beschreibt. wer das majestätische -i am the sun- im neuen sound hört, weiß um die kraft der aufnahme.

sport 1000 debut release, its origins remaining in the murky shadows of anonymity for now. while drenched in sounds spanning back to early jungle and hardcore, these tunes are crafted with a sense for modern tastes, ready to flip the vibe in a brave dj s 4/4-set. -dream support- bopps along nicely with warm chords and a skippy breakbeat, until the bottom end opens up with a big reese-workout and suddenly you re down at the blue note in 1996, filtered mentasm-samples and all. -dawn queen- follows a similar path, it s chugging breakbeat slowly getting friskier with some tasty amen-cuts.

the great upheaval is an imaginary soundtrack for every moment in history ravaged by violence and superstition. a collection of pieces projecting landscapes dusted by seizures and turmoils.
these layered compositions are packed of electricity and analogue walls, acoustic textures, drone strings and cinematic looped-movements. a sonic cathedral illuminated only by the fire that remains after battle and precedes the cult. a sonic miasma for each end of cycle.

nested structure is the first great circles release from artists outside of philadelphia. thrive are tetsuya yoshida and hitoshi kojima. they both grew up in the north kanto area of japan. they first met at the club run by tetsuya yoshida called sound a base nest, which is known as having the best sound system in the north kanto area. in 2007, the duo started their dj / producing unit thrive. previous releases have included a split 12inch with keia yano for japanese label struct, and recent solo releases by hitoshi for always human tapes and for his own label ambivalent deviation. this record almost didnt happen! — tetsuya and hitoshi were picking up great circles records in japan and, having periodically communicated with each other about music, they sent us the struct 12inch to check out. while cleaning out the back of the car a few months later, the presumably empty record mailer was about to land in the recycle bin when we fortunately discovered a demo cd of unreleased thrive material inside. we drove around listening to it and week later we agreed to release a 12inch. the music on the nested structure 12inch is dark, foreboding, even outwardly threatening. its hypnotic, textural and rhythmically complex.

fifth release from the much sought after funk e s own imprint, featuring another debut release, by newcomer marvin gain.

for almost two decades dave paton has been dredging the recesses of his mind for electronic inspiration. the findings have been fantastical, freakish and formidable, all ways of describing his latest outing. -the great pretender- straddles electro and techno, staggers between ambient and idm and swaggers to its own bawdy beat. rasping rhythm patterns are rinsed in ragged roars, charcoal chords are conjured before being crunched as the wee djs has his fun across five tracks.

following a trio of stunning remixes for infinity ink, bob moses and michel de hey in recent weeks, joris voorn returns home to green with his second solo release of 2016 in the form of the great esquape. early support from bbc1 pete tong, eelke kleijn, hernan cattaneo, guy j, and kölsch amongst others.

for the first time ever caught on wax 2djur delivers four strikingly hypnotic tracks. primitive and raw yet gentle and loving, lo and behold the great beast.

originally released in 2014, lucianos ‘the great amael is an enchanting and endearing trip, a lo-fi bubbling groove and dusted hammond organs that hustle along whilst live percussion cuts through the oceanic atmospherics. two years on, and cadenza music call upon a brace of remixers to provide fresh and unique interpretations of this hidden gem in lucianos catalogue.

wolf dem is a live electronics duo from philadelphia, conceived in the fall of 2012 by two longtime djs who bonded over similar musical backgrounds and a mutual desire to explore the bleeding edges of electronic music. using drawing on a highly diverse range of influences, wolf dem grew from its original concept-what your dreams would sound like if you fell asleep in an old warehouse where someone had left a dancehall station playing on the radio- into a focused aesthetic, at once chaotic and hypnotic, sitting at the intersection of caribbean music, techno, noise, and field recordings. past releases include tracks for compilations on new low and great circles grcr-010, as well cassette releases for vague audio tapes and end result

fourth release from the much sought after funk e s own imprint, featuring a debut release from bhikkhu.

reissue of a timeless jazz classic, originally released in 1963.

swedish naan boys, aka jesper dahlback and nima khak, return with three track ep >the great wisdom of d< via parabel, a label proving to be one of the most vital coming out of sweden right now.