after releasing the highly praised 5 years of quanticman records, the romanian techno based returns with a 4 track various artists called persons of interest.1. adrianho , lukas & merlin , penga - tristesse. tristesse is the perfect mood setter.

with their cinematic music and john carpenters cover albums, we wondered when a real soundtrack by zombie zombie is going to be out? well, here it is now , the two zombies cosmic neman and etienne jaumet finally sign their first film music for the first feature film from director , narimane mari, loubia hamra (bloody beans), to be released in spring 2014. and we found them there, where we do not expect, because it s not a horror movie, but a free movie, a journey of a group of children from a district of algiers during the war of algeria, who becomes aware of life and death.director narimane mari talks about her experience with zombie zombie and creation of the soundtrack for her movie:-i really wanted the music to be as blood flow of images and that is what it is. sharp, dull, full of strange noises, inner or surging, harmonious or disturbed by noise disorder, which allows to read beyond the visual narrative. we are in the bowels of childhood and it shakes us up when we let our-selves be takeover by the living: the profusion. i didn’t want to make a movie where psychology and reason rule and dominate until our senses are weakened, but a movie that we experience with the body and it is them who made it possible, this total immersion.

vinyl only! joe babylons roundabout sounds hits double figures and continues to impress with rondenions vinyl only >2-5-1 ep< release.

eosophobia - a morbid fear of daylight. a title fitting of primary colours latest release by the australian duo, the echo inspectors. conceived on a dark autumn night, eosophobia is a creation of the strange and disturbed. entities materialize, delicate and shy, these beings thrive in the dark. their conviction becomes evident as the night sky turns a darker shade of black, a pulsating and heaving sub sonic landscape emerges for the creatures of the night. life is short lived as dark turns to light, they scampering in to the shadows. resoe, copenhagen s ruler of the deep and dub, takes control of this creation. forming and reconstructing it in to a more powerful, ravenous creature. a fear of light fuels this being to become menacing, unstable and unpredictable. vigour builds swiftly, seething as the cold autumn night goes on. confidence only grows stronger and stronger as the night feeds its hunger only to be destroyed with a sudden shard of light, withering to oblivion.

this is a special ltd release of only 200 – for those situations where no-one wants to see the dawn.

out of the ordinary is a celebration of strangeness. not the outer-worldly strange inventions of our minds, but the kind of strangeness we come across in our every day lives, hidden in the little details.

dark, dirty, raw and beautiful! amazing collection of aubreys best tunes. remastered!

for its first album project, shipwrec is to release a new full-length album from pioneering electronic producer dmx krew entitled shape shifting shaman with colourful artwork by doppeldenk.

heavyweight 180 gram double vinyl reissue in gatefold sleeve with download code. audio is remastered from the original 1972 analogue stereo master and cut at abbey road studios.

untzz drop an rsd bomb, now available to all. part 2.

first pressing limited to 500 copies on clear vinyl.sound houses is an album that sees walls exploring the sonic archive of the late daphne oram - composer, inventor and founder of the bbc radiophonic workshop

jiaolong011 sees daphni teaming up with composer/arranger owen pallett (final fantasy/arcade fire/beirut etc..) the a-side has been a staple in daphnis dj sets for the last year delivering bassweight worldwide. *that track is an enigma - when i listen to it at home it seems relatively innocuous but when i play it out all hell breaks loose*, says dan. the b-side is something even more strange and special - tiberius is perhaps the worlds first microtonal electroacoustic violin techno track.

2 years ago their hit *strange* plunged the deep house faithfuls into the limelight, gaining them support from across the boarder. adana twins were being praised by djs of all genres and receiving standing ovations in clubs. this resulted in a bunch of new remixes, massive press attention and a busy tour schedule all over the world, with an australia, america and brasil tour. aside from their hectic worldwide touring schedule, the duo remixed *schwarz dont crack* on kitsune. in march 2014, this entertaining duo will be releasing the fresh new single drive featuring khan (ex-captain comatose/playhouse/i m single) on exploited.

ltd 2014 repress
treat me bad ep is all about dry vodka and round the block house party.. a minimal funkster that will for sure dry out the bar.. as if this wouldn t be enough, monsieur cabanne has also put his hands in dirt, bringing us a marvelous remix of the flagship track.. yeah, treat us bad ! you gotta spin this deep impact groovy minimal trick.. nn

with its hq in rural germany - rockets & ponies is a coterie for the outsiders - those too strange for the normal business with an ethos that fosters freedom of expression, experimentation and an avant-garde approach. so who better to present a remix package of works by jazz luminary wolfgang haffner that includes ricardo villalobos & max loderbauer, nightmares on wax, and label padrone timo maas.

groove powered by strong bass

nice price deal !!! one sweaty hot week in july 2013, untold ripped into creating his new album, black light spiral, having discovered a land so full of jolts and thrills that the beats wrote themselves and the sounds just kept on coming. the final 40 minute, 8 track album, is as true to the furious and fiery journey untold (aka jack dunning) personally went on as you could hope for. it is unhindered, spontaneous and completely raw. as perfectly imperfect as a trip like this should be. and youwill be left gasping for air.

wolf + lamb & john camp are no strange bedfellows. in 2013 john contributed to tracks on wolf + lamb records, including his remix of soul claps need your lovin and his work on no regular plays birdfeathers making him a seminal part of the family.

after his amazing debut on non006 savas pascalidis is back on non series with an outstanding 3 tracker. hard hitting techno at its best.

for this release, miguel lobo from spain (8bit, cécille, brise records...) and psyko loco from paris (cadenza lab, limonada, minibar, malo…) delivers > scarlet fever<, a very nice groovy and hypnotizing house track, with some bottles percussions and strange summer voices. people will surely lost themselves in this tribal beat :)sucré salé (cocobeach, karat, paris) remix is a pure deep house remix with a nice distort atmo pad and crazy effect on original voices … lowris (concrete - paris) remix is perfect for after or minimal set with hypnotic textures. support by brothers vibe, loco dice, richie hawtin, timo maas, mirco violi, andre butano, chris carrier, cesar merveille, okain, kabale und liebe, sam paganini, fex, yaya, paco osuna, tripmastaz, toni rios, karotte, francisco allendes, nima gorji, jerome pacman...

the outstanding new album from birdy on 180 gram vinyl in gatefold sleeve, including download code.

kanzler & wischnewski are the dream team from bavaria and berlin. active since 2009 they provide us again with danceable beats accompanied with jazzy elements or sounds from folklore and exotic instruments. same way also in the new release with the strange title appearing floepete

second press of this classic splitlp from 2003. a period in borfts history that was very silent and strange. wicked, minimal, dark & funky electronic dance- stuff. the original press was a co-production together with te records

remixes of the 2011 ladytron album *gravity the seducer* on limited edition blue colored vinyl, including download code.

more extra-terrestrial, technoid vibrations from the iii river nucleus. this latest transmission delivered by the one and only hakim murphy, and received through biosynthesized artefacts planted on earth by the higher civilizations during the great experiment. reports of strange noises in the sky have been circulating since 2010, posing many questions as to their origin. secretly, iii rivers have been communicating with the space beings, securing their place in the interstellar shangri-la when at last we finally transcend the cosmos.

after the vocal treatments and acid lines of tallmen 001, moog feedback comes rumbling through as tallmen 002 kicks in. multi joins as a co-producer for d220 ghosts of guitar and synth lines weave in and out as it picks up momentum, the kick drum planted firmly in the chest plate and swirling high-hats complete this burner of a track. floating ground returns to acid but not as one would expect. a simple melody turns into a strange animal, flying at once into outer-space then landing squarely on the 1, this is not your average acid tune.

spike wolters quartet of self released lps which surfaced between 1981 - 84 have become the stuff of legend. an avant garde collection of solo tracks, combining guitar, drum machines, synths & vocals into spacious, fx laden compositions which stand firmly outside of the era in which they were created. its a lo-fi, but broad selection, taking in experimental pieces, alongside taut post-punk workouts, and more laidback steely dan moments. the sixteen cuts on orange cloud nine have been lovingly compiled from those four early 80s lps by golf channels phil south. its a limited single vinyl package, with custom artwork from perks & minis misha & individual download code.

a synthetic love life is an 8 track compilation of experimental tunes & sonic art in retrospect from 1996-2013. mathematics label boss/founder jamal moss releases some of his more challenging tunes on the mathematics plus side label. limited pressing, hand stamped with printed insert.

strange collaborative effort between florian kupfer and brooklyns 51717!

new label back to the balearics follow up the superb maricopa ep with a stunner from berlin based live music collective spleen. part one in their musical odyssey *fusionary* consists of live jams and instrumentation over computer-based syncopation, their music has a strange yet organic flow to it, which is both hypnotic and rhythmic. think kraut influenced, psychedelic dub funk with a touch of alt pop and you will be on the right road, but still miles away. music is better than words ... spleen prove that. limited edition vinyl with beautiful printed sleeves.

polymath james leyland kirby must surely have one of the most confounding cvs in the business: he spent years taking the piss out of the music industry with anthems rallying against the (vv)mcps, he notoriously fell out with various well known record labels for reasons you ll just have to google, goaded aphex twin with a series of tributes and channelled his love of everything from falco (rock me amadeus), chris de burgh, frankie goes to hollywood and stockport karaoke nights into a stream of increasingly bizzare 7 s back in the early noughties. but at the same time he was responsible for releasing some of the very earliest material from boards of canada (hell interface: 1997), made a ruck of frankly groundbreaking industrial electronic records, brought new beat to the worlds attention and, in 1999, made his first album as the caretaker, a project that would go on to release some of the most loved ambient/ lynchian albums of recent times.

review: with releases on a who s who list of labels that are pushing experimental, underground house and techno including l.i.e.s, creme organisation, echovolt and strange life, william burnett has been steadily putting out releases that have gained a lot of respect without having to shout too loud about it.

when irr track hound ada goes sniffing around the corners in cologne, she means business. one can imagine her happy panting when she learned that she just intercepted unbelievably huge and simultaniously unreleased material from matt karmil. here is the result of this strange event. matt karmil is letting us all inhale his scent.

ein neues ohrbooten-album steht in den startlöchern. alles für alle bis alles alle ist heißt es. was für ein motto! da wird aus den vollen geschöpft. die ohrbooten haben die erfahrungen und eindrücke der letzten bewegenden jahre fein säuberlich gesammelt und das gemacht, was sie am besten können: sie haben sie zu liedern verarbeitet. nach dem motto, keine wiederholung - was neues wird gemacht, haben sie schon immer gehandelt. und es ist erneut ein außerordentliches vergnügen, so eine volle ladung ohrbootenmusik zu tanken!

half speed remastered for optimum audiophile reproduction. pressed on virgin 180 gram heavyweight vinyl includes download code. includes an exclusive four tet cover version of jimi hendrix castles made of sand plus kieran hebdens hand picked favourite late night musical gems including madvillion, tortoise, koushik, fairport convention, terry riley, manfred man and many more

fine dj friendly techno with subtle, blue atmospheric ukg leaning twist

john foxx and jori hulkkonen have collaborated on a new ep, featuring 4 brand new songs, 2 remixes by film-director david lynch and a radio edit of the exquisite lead track evangeline. the other songs – strictly, something is coming down the avenues and can t see you anymore – are as dream-like and strange as anything in either artist s catalogue.

jessy lanza s debut album *pull my hair back*, co-written and co-produced with jeremy greenspan from junior boys, is a 2013 flagship for what electronic pop could sound like, stripped of bloated, behaviourist impulses that treat listeners like lab rats. it is graceful and erotic without the gratuitous close ups, icey and sensual, sweet without rotting your teeth, emotional but with enough blue glow to pull your heart strings. jessys voice flutters through the synths seductively, insistent without the over-singing and grating choruses that plague so much contemporary pop. jessy lanza has a background as a singer and skilled piano scholar, and the duo share a mutual love of collecting the old hardware synths and drum machines that grace this collection of songs. transecting r&b, house, disco and 80s studio rock, the production is immaculate, reminiscent of early junior boys, treading that fine line between cold futurism and the r&b that jessy and jeremy are infatuated with.

this is a piece of estonian underground musics history. more than 20 years ago, in estonia, hypnosaurus were pioneers of deep house and techno, the first ones to have gone with this new strange rhythmic music into the studio and into the dark basements of tallinn.the remix is by the strange and wonderful chicago producer hieroglyphic being. this is soul music of rusty funk-robots. for this remix he is said to have tried out new methods of dealing with sounds, switching them on and off.

after a year of waiting, here is the new, gorgeous, physic release from drummonds core artists. the path began with *letter a*, continues with this amazing release, made up of four tracks: *ego* by the drummers jewel man, electro jj is a warming up track, *fruits of the doom* and *missing ring* by kevin follet, fast & dark as his soul and, finally, *strange love* by marco novalis, hypnotic, a mental trip in his undiscovered brain. 200 vinyl copies, hand numbered by the artists, get your before it is too late...

since their debut late last year, land of light has cemented their rightful place as the makers of dreams. although their first release undoubtedly set a new bar among those who understand relentless craft, their quest for enlightenment diligently continues. during this pre-sophomore-album sabbatical, a chosen few have stepped up to the challenge that is remixing land of light. peaking lights dubs us into ether, tiago slides us into salsa, and the backwoods hug us tightly as we shed uncontrollable tears of joy... sounds pretty good, yeah

following on from deft earlier this year and the inaugural release for this label from placeholder in 2012, space hardware returns with a new ep from blacksmif. born yemi olagbaiye, he is a producer who has received hearty props from mary ann hobbs, fact mag and radio 1 for his strange and wonderful sounds on labels like blah blah blah, paradise club and tom middletons sounds of the cosmos. dutchman and klakson co-boss dexter also turns in a remix to complete this package.

special remarks: white label promo only
roman flügel. dat tape. techno.
eight miles high. never released.
recently found. strange. straight.
dark. heavy. loop. dub. techno. pressure. stamp. white. trax. klang. frankfurt. high speed ebm. industrial. tekkno

release number eight on london house maven george fitzgeralds manmakemusic label, the laszlo dancehall ep, connects two of the uks most exciting young producers: leon vynehall and christian piers. the sample driven crunch of vynehalls earlier productions on manmakemusic can be heard loud and clear complementing the canny but irresistible percussive and vocal shimmies of piers. aside track gave up, championed by george fitzgerald on his recent bbc essential mix for radio one, sets the pace and aims straight at the dancefloor with its strange sonic palette, at once euphoric and gritty. on the flip we get aint no time on which vynehall and piers give us their interpretation of classic house. the final track, manley harrison, is the strangest and arguably most original of the bunch and leaves the listener in no doubt as to why there is such a buzz about these two producers at the moment.

recorded in 1989, this is one of the rare and sought after recordings by larry heard.

the clock struck 5 a.m. when last summer your puzzled author could experience a pretty strange dancefloor-jamais vu in the very sense of the word.

mannequin has the dual and parallel aim to unearth hidden or unpublished gems, running along a road that starts from the period of reference for this kind of music (late 70s mid 80s) and comes to nowdays, with a vision deeply influence by factory records / 4ad labels.

enigmatic artists from eastern europe had a ace in their sleeve when they came out with the project of suburbs. they come up with the most mystical sound for their first ep on archipel under “plaeisii.” the strange classical texture swirl with a very lush rhythm that at first, appear to be extremely predictable but then, as you listen carefully, you get caught up on the most capturing pattern. the main song as well as amorf both are music for the soul and will be played in very special moment that will have people close their eyes to enjoy the shifting mood.

micro-scene main mans deconstructed-dance endevor takes his diagonal dub, mood mixin wonk wizardry to someplace strange & sideways. a style-sampler, approaching acid, teasing techno, & jumbling jazz.