experimental techno with industrial flavour.
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from the on_ series where unconventional, hard edged, experimental and archival club cuts get s re-presented, remixed and highlighted. laton outs russian newcomer ectro usic with a slamming, gritty & heavy duty electro/techno full side. flip carries dj sotofett s broken but strobicly steady club mix of – austrian inventor & synth specialist – a.burger s -device c- which in original suit has been released by craft records (1996) and laton (1999). a proper zone out.

lp + cd with live recordings by icelandic ghostigital & finnbogi pétursson from reykjavik’s legendary bar sirkus & gallery i8, as well as danube festival, krems/austria plus an exclusive radio hit. all tracks are recorded from extremely loud concerts with on-site ultra low frequency installations. sonically this is classic – avant garde – electronic improvised noise & experimental music.

daniel savio - the swede who coined the term “skwee” back in 2006 when the first odd-sounding electro-funked and tempo-twirling 7inches came about from finland and sweden. his 6-track record for laton consists of true-to-the-game skwee sounds and rhythms incl. oriental-like melodies that has been penetrating the genre for years. harmonic in melody, diverse in tempo from the originator. laton presents some of the proprietors of skwee & the phenomenon of this fennoscandian sound with three different 12inches and a lp compilation. “holtiton” was originally released in 2012, limited and is back on demand.

mesak, one of the proprietors of skwee, from turku finland with holtiton - his 6 track laton contribution. crafted productions with the classic broken-step, whiney synths & odd stabs known from the upfront-underworld of skwee. but on the 6-cut and very bass heavy plate theres also banging & head-nodding tracks directed towards the sonics of 8-bit chip sound. one of mesaks most quality-compiling releases to date. laton presents some of the proprietors of skwee & the phenomenon of this fennoscandian sound with three different 12inches and a lp compilation. valiant was originally released in 2012, limited and is back on demand

surplus ships is sort of an odd - beat based - vinyl version of pomassls spare parts album (raster noton 2009). with hints from his excellent skeleton material released by sabotage/laton/sex tags mania (1996-2007) his new mini-lp takes fragments of dubstep, techno, skwee, even oriental atonal melodies and merges it with pomassls signature industrial attitude and avant sense of compositions. enter the quality sonic world of pomassl.

latons new 12 inch series on (this being on_1) with zebra monos >zona< on the a - a weirdly pad-based technoid track sounding as up to date as vintage - dug out from the massive laton archives. on the b a harsh acidic ultra raw version of auralbinos >tangg ant< from 97, remixed by sex tags manias dj sotofett with help by fit detroit (featured on fxhes january release tonite). 45rpm uk style cut.

obscure electro funk groove raw and not clean at all from the pioneer of skweee !

initial an idea of hœbert n—i, inspired by icelandic/canadian astronaut bjarni tryggvason describings of time in space, n—i and howie b. created between 1998-2002 a real time soundtrack for take off, roundtrip in earths orbit and landing with a space viechle. excellent post millenuim cd release, a definitive ambient quality mark.

deeply rooted & slowly explosive, estonian andres lõo slides from loud guitar skanks to rumbling toms, all capturing periods of dub, jazz, folk music and the drama of an orchestrated band surrounding the estonian seto peoples musical background. b-side carries a generously beautiful xylophone, played, recorded and manipulated gently. both sides highly polarizing his debut album skeletons on rock (laton, 2009).

das schweizer label mental groove hat sich mit dem dj duo jess & crabbe zusammengetan, um diese einzigartige compilation, die sich dem echten sound des kuduro ueber die laenge von zwei cds widmet, zu praesentieren. die musikrichtung kuduro entstand anfang der 80er in angola, als elektronische musik aus europa und amerika den afrikanischen kontinent erreichte. die musik ist schnell, energiegeladen und tanzbar und erreicht besonders in laendern wie portugal, cape verde, frankreich und brasilien zunehmend an popularitaet. das duo praesentiert auf 2 cds insgesamt 27 tracks, die den sound des kuduro umfangreich und authentisch portraetieren.

incl dj sotofett remix

daniel savio has previous releases on permanent vacation, romb, laton. imagine it’s already been five releases since daniel savio was sworn into the house of wisdom, now extending his tenure into how005, the melek taus era. drum drops and pads soaring from a distance, questioning power distribution schemes and perceived impurities. dance music which values static as intended feature, a loved one on the noise floor. undying support from friends axel boman, baba stiltz, kornél kovács, samo dj, pedrodollar, mika snickars, kajsa haidl and your planet is next.

12 inch with 1 new quehenberger original (uffuff) and a trio of near remixes from his latest album hazard (released as laton 047 in 2009). patrick pulsinger tackles new beat, in his unique future funk sound. a welcome return of elin (who hasnt been on a mego record since 1995, check mego 003). he slurps out a version of hey gert, making it into an slamming slowed down twister of a track. this leaves the pumping excess of altroys (minimal sould) keep talking remix.