the main idea for the luxxury edit series was to take overplayed and/or uncool songs and turn them into tracks that i myself would want to dj. initially the plan was to do this exclusively using the sounds from the original multi tracks, rather than the typical throw a new beat and some swooshes on it kind of re-edit.

after two strong releases on electronical reeds, the brussels based artist exon bacon inaugurates play label records with his latest ep, watching dogs. play label records is the extension of the collective play label that has become a key player in the music scene of brussels with more than hundreds of events to its credit. this first release sets up the artistic direction of this label that seeks to develop a real dancefloor approach and a strong party spirit.

monaco a go-go is singer/songwriter jobst miksche from hamburg/germany and persimmon lane ep is his debut release (for couldnt care more). with dance around yourself and machines it offers two slow intimate folk songs full of beauty and melancholia but also a certain easiness. on the b-side aera (who runs the aleph label) translates .dance around yourself. into an exotica infused cumbia acid mix that makes you feel quite the same than dj kozes adventures on. amygdala. do: dizzy, weird and sublime.

chesslo junior comes to kelpes drut recordings for his first ever vinyl release – a 6 track ep of house tempo jams and avant garde beat sculptures: long hum. with previous releases on wotnot as well as numerous self released hip hop bootlegs, chesslo becomes the first artist other than kelpe to release on his fledgeling label

we are proud to introduce you our brand new number five release, from no other than the hoax believers, this misterious combo deliver their first audio output in our label, and this make us happy.

one of these things is not like the others. put veteran producer and general madman eddie ruscha (aka secret circuit, laughing light of plenty, dadamunchamunky) in a studio with the spritely whipper-snapper diego herrera (aka suzanne kraft & 1/3 pharaohs) and your results will be nothing less than an epic jam. as the name blasé suggests, their laxadasical style and confident panache is abundant. the duo ease into their productions with a cool hand and an open mind, letting the moment take them somewhere foreign to bask in surreal surroundings, but not without documenting the trip.

hetem releases 20 minutes of raw, menacing, evolving 4x4 sound for new york based label grinch productions. this release is treating techno as more than just a style of dance music, for hetem this is a soundtrack for long, hot, humid summer spent in belgrade suburbs. this 3 track ep will immerse you into the melancholy filled streets of one of the biggest eastern european cities with a thriving electronic music and clubbing scene. birth of trust will engulf you with its pure analogue darkness, hypnotizing you until you move.

skylax 136 arrives in the form of a killer ep from none other than lady blacktronika. most will know her from her own imprint, sound black recordings, where she has served up some of the best deep house and slo-mo beatdown to come from the us since the labels inception in 2010. such a stellar output has led many to refer to her as the first lady of both the genres she frequents, and with this new offering of pure-grade deep house, she shows no sign of letting go of that title.

the the second release in the nrr series is here. this time two extraordinary mixes from zoe zoe & enoah ballard. on the a-side zoe zoe takes a classic donny hathaway cut, flips it into orbit and rinses it with innovation and experimentation. on the flip zoe zoe and enoah ballard rework george maple with deep pads and pulsing drums that really makes you love the track more and more each time you play it.

multi-faceted producer and dj ben westbeech has accomplished something that eludes most artists - after ten years in the industry he successfully stands with one foot in the underground, one in the commercial - and nowhere is this more apparent than on his first release on aus music as breach which sees ben digging deeper than ever before

red axes is niv arzi and dori sadovnik, two young men who have always lived in tel-aviv and have been making music together since the noughties. ballad of the ice is their debut album. their artistic travels have taken them from the rock scene to the dancefloors, and to creating an album. more than a summary, this lp is an invitation to discover a singular musical identity: a ballad of the ice, a song as light as love and cold as a tunnel, springy as a dance step and deep as nostalgia.

techno-legends oliver bondzio and ramon zenker aka hardfloor are back in style this season! with their beloved machine music that is free from seasonal flares, and artificial flavours. hardfloor are still true to the core of their 303 platine circuit boards. electronic music production is nothing less than a bare necessity to these pioneers of the acid groove. hailed and namedropped by many a young producer’s today, revamped or sampled... acid lines emerge anew in quite a few tracks. but when hardfloor put acid in their tank - it is sooo much more and way bigger than a marketable gimmick or the fuel to an otherwise exchangeable battery of loops. it is the motor, the lifeline and the heartbeat to a whole organism offering a whole world of expression and – first and foremost - emotions!

the 9th vinyl release is here and we re very glad that, after a long time, we finally have the noisemaker back on the label. and this time on wax. the noisemaker, new label / agency regular member, has putted all of his finesse in 4 new outstanding productions. this new ep is an experience with various feelings emerging from the different moods of the tracks. sometimes it goes on with broken beats, sometimes it is just straight and it always comes with hypnotic, tripping raw and acid synthetizers, entertaining rythmics, all wrapped in dark atmospheres. the ep is supported by a high quality remix from american techno legend paul birken that delivered a real cutting edge rework of the original track -processing-. more than a remix, we could call it a reinterpretation. paul s very own flow is immediately hitting with patterns running crazy and an intense energy which is raised by heavy bass drums and slashing percs.

bedlam isrc – asylum limbo, psychotic sock draw and raving halfway-house ... some truths – man as samovar, staunch somnambulist, man as memory…aural yves klein seas sluiced from a flotilla of ohm-loan bugbrand & electro-harmonix vessels ... a sound accrued by loitering long at skipjack tables & tape duplicating plants ... the joyous melancholy seeping from this lps patched folk o ertones has been a reassuring cloak for me since its porous ones & twos dripped into the mm inbox. an album you can wear whose universal backstory is told deftly via these gilt-edged electronic daubs without sugar-coating – there is none of this soundtrack to a film yet to be made clotting up the ear canals…a basking shark of an album that gently filters the ill from the krill. some truths are bigger than others.

fields of light is an ambitious compilation release containing 6 tracks by bnjmn, aroy dee, lerosa, metropolis, perseus traxx and tr one, that focuses on other qualities than the usual style-similarities

each ep adopts the work of an artist translated to musical form.
when you dream where does the light come from? there is a light that has clarity as great or greater than the daylight vision, and a lucidity of color that s beyond how we see color now ... i m interested in the point where this meets the imaginative vision that comes from seeing what we want to think of physical reality as outside, because it has a lot to do all which how we create reality. - james turell
within the walls, lighting(s), james turrell built spaces of solid material. the aim is not to also penetrate the foundations, passing through space, leading us to consider the immaterial, the mind. divergent ways first four compositions much like the four first light compositions, have sought to externalise the imaginative vision making it apparent.

at some point in 2013, friendly fires, andrew weatherall and timothy j fairplay (aka the asphodells), convened in an east london pub to discuss collaborating on new music together. the plan was to produce music that came from a place outside of their respective usual musical styles - a loose, open-ended process embarked upon for the pure joy of experimentation and collaboration rather than a specific end goal. the collaboration came on the back of two hugely successful friendly fires albums - 2008s debut friendly fires and 2011s follow up pala - and an acclaimed debut album from the asphodells in 2013s ruled by passion destroyed by lust, the latest in a long line of classic releases from andrew weatherall’s own rotters golf club label. the result is *before your eyes* and *velo* - two brand new tracks that take close to ten minutes each to reveal their full hypnotic glory. the tracks will be released as a aa-sided single on translucent, orange colored 12 inch vinyl and will be the inaugural release on friendly fires own telophase label.

breaking news!? luke solomun on gomma sublabel toy tonics!

the third album of depeche mode construction time again (1983) was the first one to include talented band member and arranger alan wilder to the mix. the album was recorded in john foxx s the garden studio in london and mixed in the famous hansa tonstudio in berlin, the latter being famous for its delivery of classic albums by artists like david bowie, iggy pop, nick cave and u2. experimenting with brand new instruments like the synclavier that allowed sampling to be manipulated musically, construction time again was a groundbreaking record that included industrial influences. these influences would come to full fruition on subsequent albums some great reward movlp940 and black celebration movlp947. songs like *pipeline*, *love in itself*, *shame* and *everything counts* turned out to become classic depeche material.
exclusively remastered, pressed on audiophile 180 gram vinyl and housed in gatefold sleeve.

dehnert has continued to steer his fachwerk label through the techno undergrowth and it has now amassed more than 25 releases in all. at the heart of the labels output has been dehnerts own increasingly experimental techno and this new album is testament to the producers continued exploration of the form. where framework was, in the words of mike himself, focussed on the heavy techno form, this album explores broken bass, swinging house and beatless electronic experimentalism amongst other things. i love to release music. i still enjoy the album writing process very much, says mike, before adding, i have noticed that sometimes the succe ss of a track depends on the light at club, which is why the album is called lichtbedingt, meaning depends on light! the album starts off with a suitably sombre intro that features cold, slowly shifting synths.

this time around is the long awaited follow-up to the succesful probe album by roswell return. the original is a mesmerizing piece of minimal electronic music, heavily inspired by composer steve reich. more than 10 minutes of pure synth bliss. on the b-side syncom data take it into deep techno territory with a shuffling and ridiculously low-end remix thats both warm and unsettling at the same time. deep basslines keep pushing everything forward, while the constantly rising church-like organ brings a nervous mayhem quality to it.

although delivering a mysterious & scantily clad 12 inch is hardly a novel concept these days, we must confess to being more than a little excited when we heard this one! it is undercover time again, and we’re sworn to secrecy, of course… what we do know, however is that this mighty release is an absolute dancefloor sureshot! made up of two long, pitched down and utterly mesmerising workouts kicking off with itaque putant, a mid-tempo, tripped out disco number that marries elements of techno, late 80s balearia and more than a nod towards classic red zone dubs. super low subs and bags of melodic atmosphere conspire to provide a perfect dancing under the stars moment. on the flip timento is a lysergic, tribalistic epic, stitching together a series of ethnic ingredients and overlaying some seriously transcendent modern synth candy. building into the soundtrack for a full blown shamanic vision! a serious platter then, and when the music is this good, who needs more?

for nearly a decade, tycho has been known as the musical alias of scott hansen, but with the release of awake – his second lp for ghostly international – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like hansen than drawing from his influences. this is, in many ways, the first true tycho record.
the vinyl lp comes with download code.

2 original tracks , vinyl release comes two weeks earlier than the digital... advantage vinyl

new years deal - sweating it out in a basement on saturday night, teaching primary school on monday morning. better to be a part time freak than not to freak at all.

re issue of 1996 classic house cut from mood ii swing featuring john ciafone. containing 4 tracks including the absolutely essential b side >slippery track<. taken from the original dats this has been fully re mastered for 2014 and will sound better than anything on discogs. no digital release planned until summer 2014. re issued in conjunction with groove on productions inc / george morel.

deep house bomb alert! deejaykul delivers two amazing reworks of an old classic, both versions on this 12 inch are a refreshing change of pace that reach a bit deeper than previous releases on gold fingers. trust us though, house doesnt get better than this. that is all we are going to say. now go ahead and have a listen!

deep house bomb alert! deejaykul delivers two amazing reworks of an old classic, both versions on this 12 inch are a refreshing change of pace that reach a bit deeper than previous releases on gold fingers. trust us though, house doesnt get better than this. that is all we are going to say. now go ahead and have a listen!

vent loves raw and unpretentious techno. the second love dose comes from no other than miss sunshine, who has distilled her intimate knowledge of techno dance floors worldwide for us into two driving tracks - one of which is remixed by zadig.

after an overwhelming start with the illustrious artist cuttlefish & asparagus, who did an immense job both on black suns homonym and ishs dont stop, kalakuta soul records come back with another deep set of disco gems, touched by the hand of one of the most respected heads of the genre.

when berlin meets bucharest, you get the real magic in electronic music.trin limited brings in front, with the first release, a harmonious and energetic blend of techno and house with a specific romanian air, that surrounds this electronic music time scene. our very first trin ltd release features two romanian up and coming producers, vinyl speed adjust - having already established themselves with vinyl releases on diferrent labels. with one original track: *not so sure* a hypnotic tech-house groove and a moody yet stunning remix done by none other than vera heindel (mara trax). on the flipside we have two trin regulars - diferit, stepping to the plate with *grey venues*, a dreamy, breaky affair and lumieux with his *luftrack*, a dramatic microhouse piece in which you will have the oportunity to stimulate your senses. vinyl only!

we are happy to welcome oscar barila as society 3.0 recordings artist - one of the most outstanding producers of the spanish electronic music scene with more than 70 releases on top labels such as trapez, kling klong, material series, suara, plastic city, acker, einmaleins, musik gewinnt freunde, parquet, bondage or king street. introducing his first release *moonlight ep*, a conceptual ep dedicated to the moon, including four tracks in totally different styles, from techy house to deeper elements. superbly worked ep that will surely be a feature in many sets, one to watch!

elektrax recordings is back, and not only is elektrax recordings back, its also the return of some legends. the big room ep, by nobody else than the maestro orlando voorn contains some tracks you are not likely to forget, and comes with remixes by the one and only comeback kid ortin cam and chris colburn.

following on from killawatts bring down the walls ep at the tail end of last year osiris music continues to expand their sonic boundaries as they move in 2014, with their first release of the year coming in the form of sleepers simulation theory ep. experimenting for the very first time with fm synthesis, the ep features seven tracks of thunderous production the majority of sounds for which sleeper drew from a mere four oscillators in a bid to recalibrate his production skills. the resulting record is far more than the sum of its component parts and, save for the skulking, static soaked tension of meth, moves with relentless force and purpose throughout.the simulation theory ep sees sleeper taking his already deft grasp of both dubstep and techno production and fusing them to a body of pummelling forward momentum perfectly suited to set osiris music off on what promises to be a bold and progressive year.

opener time warp 2014 by sven väth. douglas greed with a raw and dirty 4 tracker on his own vinyl imprint. there is nothing more to say than: this one will cause damage!

the label bond is the brainchild of swedish techno dj and producer petter b. the concept of the label is music by djs for djs. the label focuses on releasing tracks that enable the dj, rather than the producer, to be creative. it is based on that special bond which is created every time a dj combines tracks, loops and sounds live into something new and unique.

limited 500 copy pressing (no repress) in debossed house sleeve, individually hand numbered.
and so we drive down rain-slicked analogue motorways head first into our second ep series release following an ivvvo dispatch in september 2013. this time out ralph cumbers aka some truths aka bass clef is behind the wheels. this is techno how it was dreamed in belleville, re-imagined by a genius with a synth or three. in clef we trust, for all our magic and dreams.

smd are proud to present two tracks in collaboration with none other than roman flügel

killekill 017 by neil landstrumm is a three tracker with no less than three hits on it. the a-side is a dark slammer about someone trading his ass for drugs in a new acid / disco / synthwave / techno fusion style with an undisputed chicago flavour in it. what a hit!
this is the standard pressing on black vinyl.

limited edition of 270 handnumbered copies on red vinyl.
killekill 017 by neil landstrumm is a three tracker with no less than three hits on it. the a-side is a dark slammer about someone trading his ass for drugs in a new acid / disco / synthwave / techno fusion style with an undisputed chicago flavour in it. what a hit!

an imaginary country continues from the trajectory of tim heckers last album, the critically acclaimed harmony in ultraviolet, while also showing a few new tricks. tim has incorporated more pulses into this work and also works with a sound pallete including overdriven mellotron strings and synthesizer. at times this album is less overtly aggressive than previous works, but the notion that this is pastoral work would be dead wrong as there are plenty of the agitated crescendos that he is know for. this music backs off from the void of immensity in favor of a terrain of lushness and warmth.

blunted astronaut is proud to represent the uk once again with none other than the grand imperial cappo, aka iron condor, aka gusto grizwold. hailing from nottingham, cappo is a writer, performer and producer with experience spanning two decades. this, our 20th release, sees the iron condor take flight over some left-field beats by north london recluse and audiophile, dj drinks.
limited to 300 copies with superb packaging courtesy of illustrator snooze and design maverick mr. krum.

its all over town: mentys back! who could be more suitable for lucky number 13 than mr. techabilly himself? lucky 13 starts with the gamblers hymn all aces high, setting every saloon on fire. your pick could be the bunched remix, if you like it even more funny. flipside is tearing the dancefloor down with later penetrator, a rollin rocker! günther cools it down a bit, with a funky rhythm and a whistle along melody.

brand new album from legendary rapper eminem featuring the hit singles *berzerk*, *rap god* and *the monster* along with *survival* the official song of call of duty: ghosts. executive produced by dr. dre & rick rubin. comes as double 12 inch vinyl in gatefold sleeve.

played by richie hawtin, sasha, felix da housecat, hot since 82, john digweed, dj sneak, martin landsky, nick curly, gorge, benoit & sergio, johnny d! originally italian produces for longer than 15 years being a self-taught virtuoso of the electronic sound.tuccillo is one of the more prolific producers of the current music scene. down tempo, nu disco or chill out, and crossing all aspects of house music, no genre resists his talent, blends the electronic and analogical components to obtain his own unmistakable sound. after his huge success of the >city lights ep< in 2013 tuccillo returns to 8bit with his new dj toy.

tartelets latest comes from glenn astro. currently residing in essen, he has spent a bit more than half his life djing and producing, first in the realm of hip-hop and more recently with an ear toward dance music. after his first releases in this style in 2011 and 2012, glenn really went for it in 2013 with a trio of eps that showed hip-hops soul and house musics drive are in no way mutually exclusive. this 26-year-old may embrace the latter these days, but when you close your eyes and let his gritty low-end do its dirty work, you will hear plenty of the formers bump still kicking around in there.

double lp of shakatak live at the nakano sun plaza hall, tokyo on the 15th december 1983. previously only available in japan on vinyl.

chris hartwig - no lesser than the resident from the world-renowned club u60311 in frankfurt, and level6 in darmstadt, both in germany - is our first new artist in 2014 on stylerockets

somewhere along the line the true spirit of the ku was lost in a sea of buddha bar pish and the anaemic meanderings of anyone with a nine bar and a spanish guitar. thankfully, nado uncork their bottle of vintage san rafael dust and sprinkle it liberally over their seventh release to put the sun and fun back into the balearic discotheque. and who better to call upon for authentic 80s oddities than the irrepressible brenda ray, who has plunged into the naffi hq archive and plucked out four vivacious (& previously unreleased) gems, wholly deserving the full light of day.