french crew pardonnez-nous delivers again the good with a delicious slice of french boogie!

ambient atmospherics

original & dimitri from paris disco suite

larry levan remixes of this banging la compagnie creole track!

moody 6 track compilation from this excellent berlin based imprint.

another smasher from nous, this time courtesy of cofaxx, aka joseph magee and his boundlessly breathtaking pico vu ep, a seven tracker that manages to cover immense ground and knowledge within a compact narrative. and each track is a mandatory component of this cleverly assembled story with startling standouts such as dicey a deep detroity piece, layering into a sound signaturey space, while la s seasoned producer brown irvin closes side 1 with a bolshier bash at opening track tide pool s ambient, semi-conscious swirlings. over on the flip velvet is all golden era electronica stylings, early days warp and planet e on a lingering dinner date, while shape to fade in s smoky textures straddle irridescent sounds for a not-out-of-place jazzy backroom style builder.

ismael s addition to the nous camp is an impressively expansive account of contemporary electronic club music, with one foot firmly planted in a robust and ripe understanding of its roots in gritty us electro funk and proto house, alongside the industrial machine music exemplified by the first wave, while the other foot finds itself skating around a future reticulation, informed emphatically by the hardcore continuum and all of its awesome sonic artillery, while infused with the rhythm and grime of now.

tokyo sapphire slows makes her debut for the always impeccable nous imprint and their new series mundus, with four exquisitely delicate, abstract studies in synthetic science. opener the role of purity is a mesmirising 11 plus minutes that drifts around in its own somnolent, stuporific terrain, gently fusing ambient devices into a seamless soundtrack. the b side sees a brace of slightly bolshier offerings in the form of speculation and mallets & marbles in which sapphire slows allows her machines to feel more mutinous, all the while savouring the sophistication of their euphony. the ep comes to a close with silent escape translucently stalking the eerie cosmos of electronica, outwardly tender, inwardly ferocious.

following up from the #3 white lp compilation - #3 black feature 7 more exclusive track to celebrate nous s 3 yrs in business... tip!

over the course of five galvanic, techno-esque slabs of sound fetnat delineates his vision, paying exquisite attention to detail in the almost imperceptible smithereens of vocal noise on tracks like kaoti and closing out the ep with a magnificent curve ball in the shape of the relentless rotel, a dazzling, synthetic drama of ebb and flow.

ltd 50 % deal, o.xander is back on nous for another jaunt into textured techno rhythms all sewn together with a cheeky side eye on diverting off the obvious path and sustaining a reticence for anything too formal.ep opener snowspeeder blues is a glacial skitter around pitch perfect retro-techno territories, while thru our veins harnesses the eternal power of acid and a perfect balance takes a wry slo-mo lens to the synth-core sound.over on side b we are back in the acid zone for full spectrum, if a more mournful and disquieting rendition of that genre, with the junipers dub version squirming through a gauzy terra firma of dim lit detroit design.

for their first release of 2016 nous disques takes up where they last left off with another impeccably crafted release, courtesy of the l.a. based producer dreams, who serves up 5 tracks of gritty goodness on his off the grid ep.

nice price deal !!! osakas koshiro hino steps up to the plate for the next journeys by nous disques with an oblique experiment in syncopated, gritty-textured, deep-hued techno with a heroic dash of industrial malevolence.

in yet another powerfully persuasive incursion the berlin-based nous imprint have invited michigans recondite karen gwyer to handle business for their 8th mothership release, who in turn has obliged with the really rather glorious bouloman ep

beguilingly fizzy electro vibes kick off the debut effort from the latest addition to nous ever expanding plethora of talent.

nous #4 is here and is possibly the most resoundingly mercurial release to come out of the fledging stable thus far, featuring 5 moody, tracky cuts by berlins enigmatic spoiled drama. the show stealer comes courtesy of nys patricia who takes the lead tracks disembodied vocal sample and proceeds to intertwine it around an at once sinister yet beatific piece of atmospheric po-mo techno.

hot on the heels of their inaugural release, athens nous imprint dishes up a 2nd taste of what to expect from their lovingly assembled stable of talents, this time in the form of a musical odyssey from the moon b camp.

having stepped up for remix duties on nous002, budapests route 8 is given the chance to take the helm for nous003 and delivers an adroit assemblage of spacious, breath-able techno.

expansive, discordant, deep house from excellent new greek electronic imprint, nous. the labels name hints at what to expect from this stable, exploring its own cultural heritage (the word means mind in greek) whilst looking at a future in which commonality and harmony need to take centre stage.