almost a year has passed since the ghost of serena butler made its appearance on the realms of eerie - techno oddball marco shuttle’s label. now s/he and other beings gave birth to a new continuum, bene tleilax, where serena’s second ep, “from the cloud to our bodies”, has been conceived.
dub visions and found sound sculptures float over a maelstrom of skeletal techno remains, together with delicate melodies and vocal swarms from a realm where nothing is so sacred that it cannot be reengineered and transformed. this is a release which seizes alienation as impetus to generate new worlds while remaining still counter-trend to certain dark souls in modern electronic music. another biomechanical effort which sounds like the perfect nexus of fluid hopes and unparalleled roles.

it’s been 3 years since the last basic soul unit ep on lab.our and the label co-head is back to top form! loose, melodic and funky, the toronto producer stretches his legs across 4 tracks in this kaleidoscopic gem of an ep. on a1 is ‘behavoural issue’, a frenetic, crunchy and off-kilter number that will have you contorted in distortion with all arms and legs on the dancefloor. ‘rising over the east’ marches in next, a deep jacking head trip to the orient opium den with its endless arpeggiators. on the b-side, the heavy broken club banger ‘propulses’ harkens back to the glory rave days without mimicry. a basic soul unit interpretation with his undeniable footprint in the mix. ‘my heart skips’ turns the dial down several notches into deeper house terrain. the soulful ride begins as an easy cruise before deftly lurching into an odd rhythmic fractal workout that the producer has become known for. sealing an untouchable reputation in the world of broken soulful lo-fi techno, basic soul unit casts an even wider net to captivate audiences with this must-have ep.

die uk legenden coldcut und adrian sherwood veröffentlichen gemeinsames dub album inklusive features von lee scratch perry, roots manuva, junior reid & vielen mehr!

available in an edition of 500, housed a in picture sleeve with a printed insert featuring the text reproduced in full, and download code.

gorongosa opens a portal through fumy-but-groovy rhodes piano-soundscapes to a parallel universe where animals & humans can exist in harmony and dance to the sound of two music heads from budapest with some remixed vibes by ouer. the price 4 the ride is only to be nice to animals.

delakeyz is swiss producer melodiesinfonieÆs moniker when taking a journey into more housey realms. on this voyage he explores his musical roots in three percussive-driven belters that still manage to maintain the subtle melodic textures that we all love from melodiesinfonies work. manchesters own contours (rhythm section int./ banoffee pies) picks up the more gentle tone of the original in his remix of walkingfree while moony mes (uncanny valley/ lagaffe tales) interpretation of our roots is a full-fledged club heater. early support by marcel vogel, harvey sutherland, s3a, chaos in the cbd, nachtbraker

(180 gr) mark barrott steps away from the balearic sound hes become synonymous with to take a journey back to the territory he first explored with bepu ngali. the pathways of our lives is a joyous, life affirming piece of 70s afro soul with amodern twist, continuing barrotts love affair with african polyrhythms and 70s philly strings.

after only 3 short years, my second album o u r w a l l s is out. it comes clad in vinyl, polycarbonate, bits and bytes and i’m very happy and relieved to finally let go of this one. the cores of its 10/11 (cd/2lp) tracks were developed on a loop pedal at home. lyrics spun here and there. almost all of them are trying to extract levels of meaning from an everchanging knot of emotions. they take their time - ranging between t h r e e m i n u t e s f o u r t y to t h i r t e e n m i n u t e s f i f t y s e v e n - to clinically isolate, examine and name the elementary building blocks constituting the knot. o u r w a l l s is about the ups and downs of your everyday-mercilessly-hopeless love relationship, about staying mild when things get rough, fabulous metaphors, childish selfdefence mechanisms, the burning space in b e t w e e n words and o u r very personal w a l l s that have so far always kept us safe..

returning from the italian excursion of vol. 13 before the u.k. pulls up the proverbial drawbridge, neil diablo delivers another to rack & ruin winner live and direct from the northern powerhouse. showing some love for the finer half of the county, neil presents the best the north east has to offer, enlisting our friends from the north yorkshire s craig bratley and newcastle s james hadfield to do the damage on this slick split 12inch.

berlin´s legendary techno icon, superstore, returns to neuhain with his new ultimate techno package titled - our love wich features a refreshed version of the timeless anthem placed alongside with two new cutting-edge productions, completing without doubt one of the year´s greatest releases. you have been warned.

an incredible, funked-out live show and production team with their own modern take on boogie, philly soul, and ny disco. xlr8r the possé are a new face to many people. the five piece run by andrew elston and ross ferraro is comprised of veterans from all over australia’s music scene. after a year of knuckling down in the studio and a string of sold out shows they’ve boiled down their favourite influences into an in-credible, raw, funked out live show and production team. watch out for the posse’s debut ep, our thing, featuring contributions from andrew elston (phy-sique/toni toni lee/catcall), ross ferraro & jarrol renaud (the goods), michael di francesco (touch sensitive/van she) and nz jazz keys prodigy andrew bruce.

!! 2017 repress !! dodgy white label number 1 from your favourite grumpy old shit sticks is a couple of low rent, don’t do much ass shakers from the vaults.
give me the was made in 2007 & let’s dj’s get on with what they love doing ….. mixing the hell out repetitive records.
our man though may, or may not, be heavily sliced out of something else & rearranged into dancer paradise from the shards left over.

un.t.o.’s fifth release comes from cosimo damiano who delivers a brooding four tracker that leans heavily upon synth melodies and hardcore stylings. the result is an essential experimental techno ep that works just as well at home as it does in the club.

only 200 copies! exciting new release from the one and only dont dj who opens new territories by delivering here percussive and noisey forms of primitive dance evolving in real time on the floor in the style of deleuze & guattari could describe with the ritornello principle.

we are very proud to welcome back one of our greatest artists and good friends scott monteith aka deadbeat. scott original comes from canada but now lives in berlin for some years. scott is mostly known for his own blkrtz label, but have been releasing on many other labels over the years. the track put on your red shoes and trance is a peak time bomb, dubby, deep, powerfull and melodic track. the b-side, just jackin around is techno bomb full of dubby chords and build-up-madness. 300 limited marbeld vinyls. when the coloured edition is sold out we only have black vinyl left.

the way that star creature is unearthing the japanese disco heat, some may wonder if they are connected? doubt it but one thing for sure, tropical echoes has blown up in the up-n-coming disco town of boston & theyre feeling the influence of beantown favs like saucy lady, kon & soul clap.

neuauflage des zweiten jose gonzalez albums aus 2007. inklusive seines genialen covers des massive attack-hits * teardrop*.

die legendären uk-elektro-pioniere & ninja tune-gründer coldcut sind mit einer grandiosen 5-track ep inklusive features von roots manuva & roses gabor auf ihrem label ahead of our time zurück! coldcut veröffentlichen einen neuen cocktail aus wörtern, musik und bildern, die black als -dissentertainment- beschreibt. die neue veröffentlichung ist außerdem auch die rückkehr von ahead of our time, dem label, das matt und jon als zuhause ihrer ersten veröffentlichungen wählten. coldcut wären nicht coldcut, wenn ihre musik nicht immer mit visuals und politik verknüpft wäre. das duo arbeitete für das artwork mit rca studenten und dem absolventen kim rugg zusammen, um kulturaktivismus in einem laufenden system aufzuzeigen. co-produziert von switch, enthält diese ep auch gastauftritte von ninja tunes roots manuva und roses gabor. fordernd, forschend und immer noch verspielt - nun mehr denn je: coldcut sind zurück!

first outing from french formation bcuc - their “incantations” in zulu, sotho and english and their funky modulations extend over twenty minutes in a whirlwind of sound reminiscent of fela’s afrobeat.

special edition re-issue of emeli sande’s 2012 debut album “our version of events”, featuring 5 bonus tracks. the double vinyl is housed in a gatefold sleeve with download code included.

gen next returns with his best ep to date - three lush detroit jams on big stricks 7 days ent label. highly recommended.

bogus order, die produzenten der legendären zen brakes vol.1, kehren knapp 26 jahre nach ihrer letzten veröffentlichung mit einer neuen 12inch auf ihrem label ahead of our time zurück. die exklusive 12inch mit neuem, bisher noch unveröffentlichtem material ist weltweit auf 500 einheiten limitiert und beinhaltet einen downloadcode mit einem bonustrack!

2016 repress incoming!
jay lumen needs no introduction as he has been important to the tech and techno scene for years now. after several releases on labels like drumcode, octopus, relief, suara, off etc. we are happy to have him back on noir music with this fantastic tech stomper our freedom that has a little bit of everything. the remixes comes from la fleur and traumer. both are among our favorite producers at the moment and we are happy to write that both did an excellent remix job making sure we got fantastic alternative versions here.

deep advanced techno by jp enfant! three seductive sultry tracks and as cherry on top a brilliant remix from mojuba s don williams full of tension and playful grooves. recommended!

4 heady techno explorations from toronto producer aberdeen.

fresh from live performances at bonobo’s outlier festival, the quietus stage at the great escape, and supporting max cooper, london-based production virtuoso guy andrews revisits his acclaimed debut album ‘our spaces’. informed by audience reactions at these shows, he takes two of the lp’s standout tracks and reconfigures them for the dancefloor, with devastating results. meanwhile two like-minded artists tackle the album’s lead single ‘in autumn arms’. max cooper crafts a formidable collage of idm textures, with staccato beats punctuating the lilting guitar riff, whilst dj mag’s former ‘best breakthrough producer’ ben pearce takes the track into the main room, turning in an elemental 4/4 floor-burner.

juan ramos lives on planet earth but channels voices from the aether. this is his first offering for the esp institute. on side a, last of the natives shows us just what we’re dealing with, a master manipulator of sound and consciousness. juan culls the toughest kick drums and thickest latex bass slaps from a deep burial in our psyche and peppers them with alien chants and fleeting electronic flutes—a combustible sense of spontaneity that may at first appear chaotic but after fully immersed in juan’s demented world, we find ourselves willfully under his control. on side b, enemy of enemy is friend also sets off from a disorienting place where a slow progression of acid, shakers and toms takes a good minute to allow us some footing around the groove. once settled into his sophisticated rhythm, juan opens the door to a glorious combination of chords, clanking guitars, shakers that scrub back and forth and the occasional smear of paranormal synth. we at the esp institute are enamored by juan’s seemingly infinite skill for crafting mood and extracting optimism from darkness, but seriously, what color speedotm should she wear this summer?

do you know that feeling when you are going home from a party and you grab a small slice of pizza on the way back and than when you have your first bite in it you feel like that you are in the center of the universe? we got you covered. this is our time - a 101% hungarian label run by your homies route 8 & soundbank aka the lathèquex boyz - presenting a special 10” from route 8 with 2 tracks to make your lonely pizza nights better.

torontos own maxwell church returns to lab.our with 3 stunning techno excursions.

houndstooth präsentiert das debütalbum des aufsehen erregenden jungtalents guy andrews. dieser ignoriert gängige dj-strukturen, tempi und mixdowns und erzeugt aus präziser percussion und schwankenden verzerrungen ein werk, das trotz - oder gerade wegen - des paradigmenwechsels der zeit stand hält. dabei erreicht die klangliche aggression der 12 tracks eine sensibilität und zielstrebigkeit, die dem album eine tiefe verleiht, die üblicherweise auf albumlänge schwierig durchzuhalten ist.
180 gramm doppel-vinyl im klappcover.

were not only kicking off the new year 2016 in some bootylicious fashion, but with a special release by the axis tokyo-chicago-berlin. both the japanese techno legend dj shufflemaster as well as his compatriot and partner-in-crime chester beatty will debut on bpitch. since their first joint ep from 1997 on robert armanis label cloned vinyl, the duo held a special connection to chicago, the origins of house music.

2nd release on the zyntax motorcity – imprint by anokie. the mini-lp includes six sci-fi-electrotracks on red wax. the stuff always set the stage for an epic story, yet remain accessible, fresh and funky, with an edgy experimental side. no download – vinyl only – 200 copies!

our forth release is coming from the ukrainian rising star kirik with three exceptional musical stories. 180g vinyl only.

• makaton makes his blueprint debut !
• underground and uncompromising to the core
• already great support from: jerome hill, dave clarke, jonas kopp, marcel dettmann, norman nodge, pangaea, progression, shifted, truss

the *belly of the beast ep* consists of four raw cuts coming from machines for the main room, with dramatic chords, obsessive sequences and recordings from *the san fermines*. gal aner (guitar) and chris gray (voice), join them in the track *human show*, fusing electronics with pure emotion.

jack cutter is a songwriter and guitarist based in the san francisco bay area in california. he started with a $5 banjo just after finishing high school. in university, during the late 60’s, he performed with bar bands in buffalo, new york. after completing university and a year as an aerospace engineer, he decided that attack helicopters were not really what the world needed and so he headed off to california in pursuit of music and mystic times. fast forward to fall 2014: jack is playing his quintessential tune, ‘gift of our fathers’ in the sf bart subway to an onslaught of morning commuters when he was spotted by 40 thieves. eureka! love at first sight and in the next few months, two of jack’s original acoustic pieces were given the 40 thieves treatment. enter david sanderson aka david harks, a singer, songwriter, producer and label curator from the east sussex region of the uk. ‘having fallen in love with the cosmic boogie (of 40 thieves classic ‘backward love’) i really felt i would love nothing more than to write a tune with them. layne got back in touch with a track he was working on entitled serpent strut with jack cutter and we worked via email over a few months to brew up that misty soul.’ deep, stony, psychedelic, drawing from the well of hawkwind, joni mitchell, david crosby, baffo banfi and tolkien-tinged acoustic led zep, the proof of concept is now complete and in the capable and loving hands of claremont 56.

since the turn of the decade token has by and large been an exclusive platform for the music of inigo kennedy, ¥ phase and ctrls. the belgian label has, however, remained on point by putting out formidable productions by rich oddie & ancient methods eschaton project, german powerhouse r¢dhåd and spanish heavy weights oscar mulero and christian wünsch as spherical coordinates, to some intercontinental fare by xhin and go hiyama. token, an iron clad operation continuously manufacturing unyielding techno, has always, deep within its impenetrable shell, had a soft spot for british techno. and following a reissue of mark brooms two, maintaining the glacial release rate of rodz-konez legend makaton, and welcoming surgeon to its fold with the thunderous fixed action pattern 12inch, the belgian label seeks out some fresh uk blood by inviting james shaw, aka sigha, to debut on the label with a stylistically sleek and suitably booming 12inch, our father / a better way of living.

lab.our 06 features offbeat, dancefloor techno from hermans. hermans (jerry riggs dick diamonds & maxwell church) already have releases out on labels such as run out run, klasse recordings, zodiac44 & extended play, among others. a1 is sweat box rock, an epic stormer that sounds like a techno jam session with alternating beat patterns and dirty keys. b1, dustin tombtones, is an uptempo acid workout destined to move dancefloors. b2 is a remix of sweat box rock by lab.our music bosses basic soul unit and j-ul.

nicole moudaber is a name we are used to hearing on the radar as a drumcode artist and she is showing us what she can do on the funkier side of the spectrum with her new ep now landing on truesoul. both tracks merge her signature techno sound into something that still contains stacks of class and character. the evolving sounds in both tracks build tension and energy to create after hour burners.

lab.our 05 showcases tracks by 4 different artists, displaying a diverse spectrum of deep sounds. lab.our music co-owner j-ul’s first ever release, tempest, is a moody, beat driven track with layered synths. maxwell church returns to the label with elastic ban, a rolling rhythmic journey with tense strings. newcomer, and toronto native, gabe rebong drops praise, a dancefloor burner with a barrage of beats and energetic vocal snippits. last but not least, veteran chicago skyway brings us vase mix 3, an atmospheric and melodic jackin’ track

recorded from rudys homemade studio in hampton virginia before he cut *searching for love* on harvest records around 1983, he did this wonderful modern synth winner. with rudy just having one pass on a reel of this song, we remastered it a little at the super disco hq to give it a brighter feel. sure its pretty lo-fi but the quality of the song writing playing and melodies are more than enough to let is see the joys of a turntable. this is once again a limited press.

german producer philipp priebe is set to release his latest work, our sins, on beirut based label fantôme de nuit.

ltd warehouse find, nothing concrete is known about the team behind this one-sided slab of peaktime upfront house - but our spies tell us this cheeky white label comes from a pair of djs/producers of some repute

with previous contributions to split releases on plastik people on his collar, marc cotterell now steps up with music is our mission, his full debut release for the label.

• 3rd release from positive centre on ocs
• 9 track lp of superb, dub inspired techno
after a pair of well-received eps and a string of immersive live shows over the past year, berlin based producer mike jefford prepares the release of his first long player under the positive centre moniker, entitled * in silent series*

the 2nd release here on ocs from this intriguing outfit. more loopy, disjointed rhythms and thundering bottom end on offer with a generally tougher line to their previous title. full support from the ocs / avian camp.

half speed mastered 180 gram vinyl + free album download code.
caribou aka dan snaith aka daphni forms a mixture of digital pop production, hip hop inspired beats, muted house basslines and a love of shuffling garage.