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Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Space Trace)

Eric Os

The Wandering Mind

28,99 €*

Radiant Faults Nereid A Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In the end, we’re nothing more or less than traces of space. Let your mind wander deep, high and wide on a timeless journey through sound and back. This is the debut album of Eric OS.

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Coh

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Dais)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Radiant Faults Black Vinyl Edition

Coh

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Dais)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | CZ | Original (Take 5 Music)

DJ Markarian

Oasis Lounge Volume II

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / CZ – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Inner Tension)

Keen Distress

Overshadowed

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Beyond The Groove)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We walked the earliest edge of Sunday, winter dark; streets lined up with standstill cars,

silver, grey, and black, and white; while the ever-distant sun, then further still, was slowly breaking into shining. The town was quiet, gleaming; the rows of tenements - awash with sky.

And we rarely chanced upon a person, save the stocking-wrapped, shadows without bodies, and that nude and mouthless one. We turned into a narrow lane past the power station,

the mute red lights of chimneys looking down at us. We reached the concrete halfpipe of the dried-out canalside. And listened out for it. To disappear.

For that.

Text by Pawel Jankiewicz

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Supershy

Happy Music

33,24 €* 34,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Lexi Disques)

Accou

French Fried

6,49 €* 12,99 € -50%

Correct Me If I Am Incorrectly You

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Born a french, fried in Belgium, Accou recently delivered on stage ecstatic dancefloor sets for the techno enthusiast.

Back to he intimacy of his studio, Antoine lets himself go to layered dreamy electronics with a warm loving feeling covered under six feet of snow. On the other side of the record, that noisy guitar sound coming straight out of the early nineties instantly catches the ear to an intense and joyful travel in time.

Lexi Disques is a maverick label based in Brussels since 2008 that explores the rich possibilities of the 7-inch record single. A welcoming home for experimental and adventurous musicians of diverse backgrounds, from fresh and vibrant faces to underground heroes, dwelling between the misty fields of psych-pop to the straight (and not so straight) roads of electronics.

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Philipp Otterbach

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Offen Music)

Nachtmahr Red Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Berlin based Philipp Otterbach debuts on Offen with "Correct Me If I Am Incorrectly You". TIP!

Post-music phantasmagoria for the world in which the past became more unpredictable than the future. Remember Cowboy Bob, Salaryman and Gary Floyd in that opium den in Fischeln?

Deconstructed entertainment for hopeless romantics and testament to Otterbach's unique artistic language.

Supersound vinyl LP, full cover inside out print.

Written and produced by Philipp Otterbach Additional voices on B1 by Nadia D´Alo Drums on B3 by Freund Kern

Mastered by Enrico Mercaldi Artwork by Percy

Offen Music 2023

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Ivy Chalice

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Library Of The Occult)

25,49 €* 29,99 € -15%

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Artetetra)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ivy Chalice unveils their spellbinding album 'Nachtmahr'. Drawing inspiration from the duality of dreams and nightmares, Ivy Chalice crafts an auditory journey that beckons listeners to embrace the allure of the unknown.

The album's title itself is a nod to the intricate interplay of darkness and fascination that resides within our deepest thoughts. Just as there are dreams we yearn to awaken from, there are those we secretly long to fall back into, and 'Nachtmahr' embodies the latter, seamlessly blending retrodelic musical affinities with contemporary soundscapes, resulting in an experience that feels both nostalgic and cutting-edge.

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Reptilian Expo

Cunti

18,71 €* 23,99 € -22%

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Invisible, Inc)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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After years contributing to Italy’s heterogeneous and increasingly transnational music echosystem by curating his own dream & microsounds label Pampsychia, Reptilian Expo lands on Artetetra like an elegant jelly trainwreck hitting with a mix low-frequencies body-muzak filled with a cocktail of squeaks, wacky samples, manipulated vocal lines and a much-needed pinch of irony. Cunti is a collection of sonic short stories, fantastic journeys into an unconscious world of archetypes and personal myths. Dives, searches, clashes and encounters with metaphorical creatures are the background to a process in which internal and external come across and merge indefinitely through introspection and idleness. The nine tracks, while shaking your bones and scrambling your internal organs with every kick and drum hit, are paradoxically imbued in the oozy inertia of everyday phlegm and internet-infused attention deficiency. A sluggish, stoned journey into the self, if you will. Conceiving the album, RE bit and digested everything from future bass to sound collage and aquatic ambient muzak, dragging you into dangerous marine ambushes, ambiguous sirens and underwater monsters, tiny and silly shadows lurking from the dim lit corner of a bedroom. All and all, a bunch of ridiculous and mundane but life-affirming rites of passage. A ride brought to life by a clever and imaginative work of sampling laid down as a form of instinctive writing and a minutious use of digital tools united to his native Neapolitan language employed both as a voice-over and inner dialogue.

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V.A.

Mondo Organico

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Natural Sciences)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Invisible Inc is back with another remarkable release, this time diving even further into ambient, spiritual and folk-infused psychedelia.

“Mondo Organico”, as the name suggests, is a concept compilation that captures the “organic” side of Invisible Inc. The use of non-electronic instrumentation is a familiar theme explored by the label previously with the likes of Komodo Kolektif, Immaculate Rivombo and Peter Power...but this time the instruments and voices, tranquil and meditatively hypnotic in places, display an even deeper spirituality. Featuring the talents of Andi Otto and his fello (electronic cello), Anna vs June's ethereal vocals, Tyler Ov Gaia's zoned-out mantra rhythms, Pieter Kock's 8-minute bass and guitar psych odyssey, as well as label favourites Sordid Sound System and Puma & The Dolphin, the record is enthralling and mesmerizing from start to finish - and yet another notch in Invisible Inc's rather idiosyncratic belt.

This record was pressed on eco vinyl. Everything from the sleeve to the inks are recycled too, in an attempt to address some the environmental issues we face today, albeit fractionally. “Mondo Organico” is the future.

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Chaosy

Bad Magic

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Timedance)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Entombed between the approaching war machine, Berlin's squat metal underground and the corrosive electronics broadcast from the Hague's bunker network, Chaosy's "Bad Magic" marks his first on the label, with tracks pulled together from equipment left behind in Ukraine and resurrected in makeshift studios while on the road. Across the LP's eight tracks, the record dials into this modern day horror and occult activity from throughout the ages, flipping between cave dwelling techno, breakbeat, gnarled Ukrainian rap and wails found between the gaps in the machine. A full blown sonic assault into the belly of the beast.

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Metrist

Pollen Part 2

11,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Hands In The Dark)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Joseph Higgins is back on the label under his flagship moniker Metrist. Pollen Pt. I is the first part of a trilogy of records, showcasing Metrist's latest developments in twisted beat-science. The release combines four tracks of rudeboi electro swagger, offkilter vocal chops and imaginative grooves. Since his L.SAE record in 2015 Metrist has released on Where To Now?, Neighborhood and a LP Opal Tapes, here he refines his sound palette even further, striking a unique balance between the avant-garde and dancefloor. Artwork comes courtesy of Harry Butt.

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Saaad

A Crimson Shore

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Hands In The Dark)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A Crimson Shore is Saåad’s first studio album since Présence/Absente in 2018. In the interim, Toulouse-based composer and producer Romain Barbot has enriched his experience as an artist through multiple collaborations, the composition of soundtracks and commissioned pieces, as well his involvement with the bands Foudre! and Sables Noirs.

This new chapter in the artist’s discography reflects this artistic maturity, evoking the project’s finest ambient recordings while revealing a new, unfiltered and decisive personality. Saåad’s use of a more direct musical language (exclusively electronic on this album) is intended to lay bare the inner life of its creator: the tracks are structured in a cycle of loops, vibrations and drones which respond to and confront each other like the torments of existence, torn between the twilight of sombre music reduced to its purest function of catharsis and the dawn of a new, luminous narrative journey.

A Crimson Shore is a raw, all-encompassing album, shot through with the fear of death, of growing old, of accepting it, of grief —past, present, imagined and future— and the search for a transcendental refuge.

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Razen

Hier L'an 4000

18,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Nunorthern Soul)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Long after the year 4000, it's highly likely the sun will shine a different light. Equatorial rain belts may have turned into white-ash flotsam. Animal forms will have undergone a major metamorphosis, with only the memories of danger still archaically intact.

Razen tackle the theme of reincarnation hypnosis on Hier L'an 4000, their new album for Hands In The Dark, set for release September '23. Inspired by the writings of Donoso and Slauerhoff, by 1940s SF drawings, sky burials and a fantasy of future music where savagery and sophistication meet, Razen here channel a reverse mesozoic exotica. The music leans on sampled hand percussion (by grace of the legendary Algerian percussionist Abdelmajid Guemguem), augmented by Razen's trademark devotional approach on early music wind instruments and pre-digital keys and synths, each of the 4 tracks falling down its own rabbit hole of repetition and change. Trance-walking in a future of magenta night skies, toxic radiation and hostile flora, the Brussels-based ensemble has never sounded more extatic or disruptive.

Hier L'An 4000 features artwork by contemporary British painter Nicholas William Johnson, who previously collaborated with Razen for his science fiction short film They Regard Us As We Regard Them.

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Tambores En Benirras

Ondas Horizontales

At Zeenath Parallel Heavens

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A month after the release of his debut album as Tambores En Benirras, 2021’s fabulous Orbe Dotodo, Graham Newby’s life changed forever. After years living with a visual impairment, his sight had deteriorated so much that he was declared “registered blind”. For a man who had spent decades dividing his time between travelling, DJing, running clubs and lengthy sessions in his own studio, it was a genuinely life-changing moment.

It was against this backdrop, and the need to alter his working methods, that Ondas Horizontales, the second Tambores En Benirras album took shape. Inspired by a mixture of daydreaming, visualisation, immersion in other people’s music (escapism that provided mood enhancement, rather than a specific set of ideas) and long periods spent soaking up the sun in Ibiza, the album is the most vividly detailed, sonically colourful, and sun-soaked collection that Newby has released to date.

Newby’s declining sight forced him to stop spending long spells staring at a screen and undoubtedly slowed down the production process. Yet it also allowed him to reconnect with his emotions, appreciate the storytelling and mood-shifting potential of music, and mine mind’s eye memories of places and spaces that have meant much to him over the years.

The results are undeniably stunning. Designed with horizontal listening in mind, the set distils a range of musical and real-life inspirations –or, as he puts it, “ambient soundtracks, cosmic journeys, Balearic rhythms and poolside sessions” – into ten mesmerising and magical tracks; an undulating, slow-motion journey that’s as breath-taking as it is beguiling.

Newby sets the tone with ‘Mi Sueno Vibe En Reverb’, a swelling, slow-burn ambient masterpiece that tiptoes between hope and melancholia, before flitting between imaginary sunset soundtracks (‘Estrellas En Mastella’, where lilting pedal steel sounds, bubbling electronics and shuffling breakbeats catch the ear), kaleidoscopic sun-up beats (the gorgeous warmth of ‘Generadora De Reyos’), enveloping beatless soundscapes (‘Templos Del Sol’, a drowsy drift in becalmed waters under the heat of the mid-afternoon sun), and dubby, loved-up lusciousness (‘Mokono’).

As the album progresses, bobbing and weaving on an ocean of vibrant chords, pulsing melodies and heart-stopping melodies, there’s no sign of Newby’s inspiration waving. ‘Alma Hablando’ channels the spirit of mid-80s ‘worldbeat’ and douses it in layers of Balearic bliss, while ‘Extrensor Entragado’ recalls the head-nodding haziness of his best Gripper productions of old while combining them with the musical equivalent of a humid summer breeze. Then there’s the mood-enhancing joy of the album’s superb title track –a mission statement of sorts – and the life-affirming post trip-hop/Balearic fusion of ‘Un Placer Celestial (Reprise)’, where the influence of his old friend Aim is clearly evident.

A serious sonic step-up from its predecessor and a future Balearic classic in its’ own right, Ondas Horizontales marks the start of a new musical and personal journey for its creator. It is, in his words, not the end of an era, but the start of a new one.

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Black To Comm

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Thrill Jockey / Indigo)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Snaretrade)

Gols

Snaretrade005

8,79 €* 10,99 € -20%

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Next in line in the Snaretrade series is an EP by one of our favourite people: Gols.

He operates the Hoot label, has released with Ghent label/party Ojoo and has been crafting tracks low key for a long time.

We start out with dessert: In Au bain marie we’re given some elegant yet hard to follow instructions on how to make the perfect chocolate mousse. DJ and Knetterbar operator Yentl kindly lent her voice, not knowing the recording would be used as a final take. In Hundreds and Thousands, Gols weaves thick layers of percussion and synths, forming a dense and deep structure that pulls us in. In the midst of moving his music studio, this track was the last one to be recorded before pulling the plugs and boxing the gear up. On the flipside, Regrooved is a shuffling, sneaky and amusing bit of house that never really admits if it’s just arriving at the party, or just about to leave. After-hour fare for those who like something sweet after dinner.

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Joel Corry

Another Friday Night

20,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | Original (Squama)

Paul Brändle

Paul, Rick & River

23,99 €*

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Night Defined)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Paul, Rick and River" is a programmatic title for the new album from Munich-based Paul Brändle Trio, a Modern Jazz group led by the eponymous 31-year old guitar player and band leader. Playing together for years and across continents, this recording manifests the trio's current state of matter, focusing on a no-gimmicks approach and a classic, melodic style of musical world-building.

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Juergen Vonbank

The Blue Soul

21,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Blue Soul is Juergen Vonbank's second solo album after "Trial & Eros" from 2018. It deals with the relationship to the color blue, the conventional and individual-personal associations with it, as well as the diffuse feeling that this color is able to convey. Digital and analog experiments in electronics, club music and dream pop.

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Brian Eno

OST Top Boy

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ofnot)

KMRU

Dissolution Grip

39,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sonic Pieces)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The 1st release on Kmru's own Ofnot imprint is a project that emerged from his studies at Berlin's UDK. The Kenyan composer and sound artist is best known for his field recording work, and as he traveled, he made a point to snapshot each city. But the more he studied and the more he examined his practice, the more Kmru began to wonder what the purpose of these recordings were, and what bearing they might actually have on his self-expression. Simultaneously, he'd begun to dive more wholeheartedly into the world of synthesis. In a way, synthesis is the most basic form of sound, and Kmru started to wonder not just how he could harness these sounds but how he might be able to more dynamically combine them with field recordings.

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Erik K Skodvin

Nothing Left But Silence

43,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Recital)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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»Nothing left but silence« is Erik K Skodvin’s third solo album for Sonic Pieces and his most quiet to date. Subtitled »Musical improvisations and quiet collages from the subconscious«, Skodvin reduces his instruments to guitar, reverb and amp - and creates a skeleton of eight hypnotic ragas that meanders in an eternal loop between ephemeral and singular. Initially recorded at Funkhaus Berlin by Nils Frahm, the album has itself been subjected to silence as a forgotten relic, re-found and now released in a time where it might connect more with the contemporary state of mind. Welcome to the entrance to the periphery.

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Sydney Spann

Sending Up A Spiral Of

25,89 €* 36,99 € -30%

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Laaps)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The first vinyl release from American artist Sydney Spann well encapsulates Spann’s body of work thus far. On their music, which reacts to themes of family systems and care work, Sydney writes, ›people who have done care work —nannies, sex workers, therapists, nurses— may possess their own musical knowledge, developed over time through particular modes of voicing practiced to achieve a desired outcome in their labor. Attending intimately to these ways of voicing and listening and bringing them into a sound practice could be a way to legitimize a less recognized kind of musical knowledge‹.

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Tomas Knoflicek

Serendipity

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Upp)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tomáš Knoflíček is a musician, sound organizer, and curator based in the Czech Republic. His activities are mainly related to post-everything quartet Gurun Gurun (Home Normal, Buh records), in which he collaborated with a number of mainly Japanese musicians (e.g. Haco, Asuna, Aus, Cuushe, Moskitoo). Since 2004 he has been working at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music University of Ostrava, where he focuses mainly on interdisciplinarity in art, especially the relationship between image and sound. read on / listen

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Elegiac

Meet My Stalker

11,24 €* 14,99 € -25%

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Ted Milton and Graham Lewis return as Elegiac with their second release – a four track EP inch titled “Meet My Stalker”. The pair of idiosyncratic sonic stylists, bullish outsiders with a Dadaist's ear for unexpected rhythms and ear-catching turns of phrase return showcasing a new track – the title of the EP - along with three bass heavy dubbed out no wave versions of tracks from their self titled debut LP.

Ted Milton is a prolific poet, with several volumes under his belt, as well as an avant-garde puppeteer. Yet he's probably best known as vocalist/saxophonist with psycho-funk afro punk fake no-wave pogo jazz trio Blurt. Milton's group has produced an impressive string of albums, not to mention his numerous solo recordings.

Meanwhile, Edvard Graham Lewis has a history of strong solo releases, both under his own name and as He Said. And of course, as bassist, lyricist and sometime vocalist with post punk innovators Wire, he's been responsible for numerous landmark releases, from 1977's Pink Flag, to 2003's Send, to 2020's Mind Hive.

Arranged, like the album, by electronic composer and sound artist Sam Britton whose sure touch pieces all the elements together. Kicking off with a stripped down driving shortened version of “He Folds” with its eerie honking sax and kraut like pulsating bass the perfect complement to Milton’s chorus echoing throughout. “Boat” is another album track beefed up with Milton’s chants backed by layered percussive blasts and squawking sax. “Meet My Stalker” makes its first appearance here with its infectious snarling looped bassline and Milton’s refrain “It’s a wind up”. Closing out with another album highlight an elongated version of “Vancouver Slim” all synth bleeps and ricocheting grumbling sax and hypnotic vocals. Punchy, idiosyncratic, packed with melody and groove, this second release is the fascinating sound of an evolving Elegiac.

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Marja Ahti

Tender Membranes

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Mood Hut)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Black Truffle is pleased to announce Tender Membranes, the label’s first release from Swedish-Finnish sound artist and electro-acoustic composer Marja Ahti. Active for a decade in the Finnish underground music scene, in recent years Ahti has developed a distinctive approach to patiently unfolding electro-acoustic constructions, documented on a string of solo releases and collaborative projects with Judith Hamann and her husband Niko-Matti Ahti. Working with concrete and instrumental sounds, field recordings, and electronics, Ahti favours neither disjunctive collage nor monolithic consistency; rather, her work is composed of organically unfolding sequences of details and textures, which, as she says, ‘can stretch out or cut fast as long as they have a sense of inner stillness’, a sense that she connects to moments of heightened attention in everyday life. Tender Membranes consists of four lengthy pieces, partly inspired by the image of the senses and mind as membranes allowing for the passage between inner and outer spaces, sensation and its causes, creating a world. Ahti’s unhurried pacing encourages this sense of listening as an opening or surrender to sound, which can often create the impression that the listener is moving through a space zooming in on details. The opening Shrine (Aether) exemplifies this aspect of Ahti’s approach: a bell clears the air with a single long tone, followed by the ambience of outdoor spaces, crackling electronics, an archival recording of a horsefly on a windowpane. Dozens of these moments, varying in length, density, and intensity, move past the listener’s attention, momentarily brought into focus then slipping away. Like those of the masters of the French musique concrète tradition, Ahti’s sounds are not often recognisable, though they might suggest proximity or distance, open environments or closed spaces, the urban or rural, day or night. In Ahti’s work, we do not encounter spectacular metamorphoses à la Parmegiani but rather a state of ambiguity where the listener is often unsure what is organic and what is inorganic, where the careful productions of the synthesizer might end and sounds discovered in the environment begin. What Ahti calls her ‘poetic way of experiencing and organising the familiar and the unfamiliar’ is sustained throughout Tender Membranes, but each piece has its own character. On Dust / Light, human presence is more overt, as what appear to be whispers, singing, and distant speech thread between high frequencies, untraceable drips and pops, and metallic shimmers. In all this there is a melody that you can sing and to which you may dance makes more prominent use of musical instruments, gaining a sombre beauty from half-buried piano chords and organ tones. On the closing Oh Fragrant Witness, a delicate cloud of subtly bending pitches is repeatedly disrupted by a resounding, almost ominous mass of low tones, at once a strange detour from much of what has gone before and an almost classical finale. Arriving in a sleeve reproducing contemporary Finnish photographer Sini Pelkki’s fragmented visions of the everyday, Tender Membranes is a balm to reawaken tired ears.

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Knopha

Kwong

15,99 €*

Longform Visions For Earminded People

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Knopha steps out on Mood Hut Records with 'Kwong'. Ranging in tone from downtempo drum and bass to Herbert-like cut up house tunes, from esoteric pop to digital abstractions. After years of friendship, we're very proud to release Knopha's beautiful music. We hope you enjoy.

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V.A.

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Futura Resistenza)

16,99 €*

Lines Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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These sonic stories emerged from a gathering of artists concerned with alternative uses of everyday objects, subversive anti-aesthetics, sensual-absent poetry, moving optical discs, and echoes of activities occurring in the Earth's orbit. It was a performative celebration of entangled audio-visual events that enabled us to learn once again how to tune in to a place: with our eyes, with our ears, with our minds. While listening to the record, I remember what it sounded like in the space. I remember monologues of chairs that were given voice, phones eavesdropping and speaking back to us, cassettes falling on the floor (intentionally): some visions unfolding in front of our very eyes and others in our minds. Try to imagine all that these short pieces might still contain. As Peter Fengler exclaims in his chorus: it will all work out. Just choose a bicycle, low on emissions and also better for the tummy and the legs! (Lucija Gregov)

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Akusmi

LP | 2023 | Original (Tonal Union)

12" | 2023 | Original (Vessel)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Akusmi announces 'Lines', an exhilarating new collection of works born from the desire to take where the acclaimed debut album 'Fleeting Future' left off - in search of new forms.

" 'Secant', I must have listened to this tune 3 times in a row, this one soundtracked my night drive through the winding roads" - Benji B, BBC Radio 1

'Lines' is presented as a Limited edition clear vinyl (500 copies only worldwide), printed in heavy-weight reverse board sleeve with a hand-numbered edition sticker. The vinyl edition also features 'Oblique' (A2), an exclusive version for the vinyl format, plus the now revered 'Longing for Tomorrow' - (Brandt Brauer Frick Remix), previously unreleased physically and now pressed on vinyl format, ending side B. The cover artwork features another collaboration with Dutch visual artist Sigrid Calon and design by label founder Adam Heron.

Formed with a sense of urgency and a reductive approach 'Lines' is almost entirely comprised of alto saxophone, clarinet and piano with embellishments of ambience and minimal percussive elements. Recorded in full at his home studio in London, Pascal Bideau speaks about the process:

"I wanted to go a bit more a bit more horizontal and ambient, work with layers of lines, might they be dotted or straight, and leave them to unfold and see where they would take me."

Akusmi uniquely finds the spaces in between experimental jazz, crossover classical and ambient music.

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E Is Sky

In The Afternoon

14,99 €*

Noir Boy George Red Sleeve Edition

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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‘e is sky’ is a collective born out of these first collaborations between Melbourne based experimental composer CORIN, electronic-pop musician Sui Zhen and music producer Casey Hartnett.

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Noir Boy George

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Replica)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Sly & The Family Stone

Anthology

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Rvng Intl.)

Tristan Allen

Tin Iso And The Dawn

In Second Floor And Third Floor Story

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tin Iso and the Dawn is the debut album from New York based composer and puppeteer Tristan Allen. Their work employs the narrative power of instrumental music and puppetry to createimaginary worlds. With a background in piano, bass, electronic music, and marionette theater, Tristan applies an experimental mode of storytelling to create rich works of wordless fantasy.Formative exposures by way of travel through Asia, studies in Gamelan, a paper mache Christmas angel, and their dad's Bread and Puppet Theater artifacts formed a web of inspiration from...

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Middex

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Goods Outward)

18,04 €* 18,99 € -5%

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Astral Industries)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kevin Hendrick aka Middex is a musician and writer from London with a catalogue of cassettes, LPs and 7s dating back to 2015, including early releases on Polytechnic Youth and The Tapeworm.

Collaborations include a track with Malvern Brume for his Infant Tree label and with Marland Starkie, a soundtrack piece for a film work by artist Sop for the “Rooted Beings” exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London.

2021 saw the release of the landmark ‘Let the Engine-Loud Apocalypse Play Havoc with your Soul’ on his own Demotic Brick label, a concise and concentrated collection of sound and feeling.

More recently, ‘Perpetual Skip’ was a project in two parts seeing The Outer Reaches label release the LP version in 2022. This was predated by a booklet edition, published by Makina Books, a collection of eleven prose poems. This was subsequently selected for inclusion in the UK’s National Poetry Library.

Hendrick’s work has always given equal footing to his words alongside a stark sound palette consisting of bass and grain with bright shards of melody where necessary; structures built on a foundation of noise, digidub and sounds gathered from his daily life.

Middex never rests and beyond ‘In Second Floor and Third Floor Story’, there’s more on the horizon after Hendrick undertook a Britten-Pears Arts residency in March 2023 which is fuelling a future project work of sound and words entitled "Fugitive Dust".

Middex “In Second Floor and Third Floor Story” There is a wall missing on the second floor. We are exposed to the brilliant light, the pixilated heat, moving with the sandstorm. The grains appear greyscale. Looking closer, each is iridescent; with the potential to bloom (in spite of the agriculture). Follow the thread of shimmering bells, altering the air pressure. Up staircase. The denizens of this place, always just out of eye line. The Kleptomaniac, the Typical Male, the Wild Family. The Angels on a working breeze. The Been and the Gone. The Retching Birds. The Hyena up there. The Homophobic Neighbour. All leaving their impressions, heard but never seen. The third floor offers us shelter, though it is howling outside. Door after hall, after chamber, after corridor. Each cell filtering, through its own resonance to pure tones. The only way is onward, following the thread. Keeping a count as best you can....

Mastered by Amir Shoat.

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Rod Modell

Ghost Lights

32,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Lightweight Electronics)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A year on since the collaborative Mystic AM project in 2022, Rod Modell returns solo to Astral Industries with Ai-35. The album - entitled ‘Ghost Lights’ - comes as a gatefold 2x vinyl LP, showcasing the latest epoch of Modell’s signature soundscapes. Spread across four parts, ‘Ghost Lights’ draws out a wide, cinematic sound - with long arching contours, rippling textures and cavernous sound design. Woven with layer upon layer of hidden fragments and supernal transmissions, each chapter takes the listener successively deeper into the twilight zone. Harking to dramatic off-world topographies and interstellar spaces, the work glistens with opulent sound treatment and monumental grandeur. Dense pulsations move with oceanic force, marked by washes of celestial light and subterranean drones. Exercising another side to Rod Modell's typically atmospheric productions, this album comes with an ambitious framework and a more assertive sound. Featuring some of Modell’s most epic storytelling to date, ‘Ghost Lights’ delivers a powerful immersive experience.

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Ecxo

Birds Of Paradise

18,99 €* 19,99 € -5%

Emotion Blue & Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ecxo's latest music record serves as a beacon of solace, inviting listeners to step away from the noise and find relief in their sonic sanctuary. Birds of Paradise embodies the true essence of the ambient genre. Ecxo masterfully weaves intricate soundscapes that create an ethereal atmosphere. From the gentle rustle of leaves to the distant echoes of urban life, the artist embraces the duality of existence. So let the mesmerizing sounds of Ecxo's ambient melodies embrace you, provide you with the comfort you seek, and remind you that there is beauty to be found even amid the chaos.

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Surfing

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Small Black Deluxe Edition

Small Black

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

39,59 €* 43,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Degenerate Blood Splattered Vinyl Edition

Pictureplane

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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CBD Reiki Moonbeam Star Rift Yellow Vinyl Edition

Neggy Gemmy

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Synthetic Core 88 Colour Vinyl Edition

Equip

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Live In La Orange Vinyl Edition

Equip

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Cursebreaker X Blood Moon Colored Vinyl Edition

Equip

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Messe De E-102 Ep Red & Black Splattered Vinyl Edition

Death's Dynamic Shroud

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Live From Japan Hyperspace White Vinyl Edition

Death's Dynamic Shroud

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Zouenkeikaku)

Yaryu

Bongaku

52,99 €*

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Best Effort)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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An autoharp tone reminiscent of Laraaji and the elegance of Kuniyama Yamamoto. Psychedelic direct spirituality meets Asian physicality. The first album "Bongaku" by Noryu, a group of amorphous musicians, is now available on vinyl.

A fluid community for people to meet, weave sounds, and converse, formed in 2022 and currently led by Hyozo on keyboards/harp, Hajime Orikawa on Indian flute/harp, Shota Mizuno on bass, Kousuke Sasaki on koto/guitar, and Soma on piano/percussion/photography/engineering. As a session community, the group performs mainly in Tokyo and Chiba. Its activities include improvisation workshops with people who have no experience with instruments, session events, live performances at galleries, and the creation of ambient-based music.

In June 2023, he released a cassette tape of his first album "Bonraku" from Zoukei Project, an independent label organized by Obika, a rock band that continues to work with a force-world sensibility, which was instantly sold out.

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Rings Around Saturn

All Things Shining

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sonig)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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It would be insufficient to call Rory McPike “prolific”; it does a disservice to the depth and breadth of his oeuvre as Rings Around Saturn, Cactus Head, Bleekman, 2200, Dan White, and as one half of Turner St. Sound. His work can be broken into a litany of different genres, but at the heart of it all lies an endlessly explorative spirit with a restless desire for expression. This impulse spans his diverse body of work and all the different facets of his musical practice.

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Mouse On Mars

Bilk

23,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Holuzam)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In spring 1994 Mouse on Mars contributed an exclusive piece to Sähkö Recordings’ ambient radio project, a one-week public radio program that was aired citywide in Helsinki, Finland. Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner recorded sounds in and around their studio in Düsseldorf Bilk to construct one continuous composition that spanned the course of one neighborhood walk. Midi-controlled synths, samplers, analogue effects, tape delays, effect pedals, guitars and a jew’s harp were juxtaposed with recordings captured during the walk. An additional microphone that pointed out of the studio window was occasionally dubbed into the mix. The resulting collage was broadcast just a few months before the group’s debut album Vulvaland came out and never aired again. 30 years into the band’s existence Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner revise the duo’s history by producing three LPs that would place the band’s discography under a slightly different light. Bilk marks the beginning of that investigation: a free-flowing assemblage of everything that vibrates and can be caught on tape. A 30 year old recording with subtle new edits and additions.

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Hidden Horse

Incorporeal

20,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (We Are Busy Bodies)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Burnt down utopias and urban paranoia, Hidden Horse are back with their second album. “Incorporeal” is the follow-up to 2022’s “Opala” and the band’s first release on vinyl. Composed by João Kyron (keyboards/electronics) and Tony Watts (drums), long-time friends and collaborators on different projects, the most prominent one being the exotic and dreamy Beautify Junkyards (Ghost Box). As a duo they’re a totally different game.

Playing live regularly after the release of “Opala” offered them the possibility to explore a more freeform approach to their sound. Their live sets were often unpredictable, focused on the communication dynamic between the trio (Ana Farinha joins them on their performances) and where they could be led to, instead of reinterpreting the songs. “Incorporeal” embodies that attitude, it is a less confined album and it is not worried about being referential or even self-referential. They finally discovered how to expand the hauntology dynamics and free themselves from design restraints.

The album feels lighter, fluent, more optimistic. It remains thematically close to the eternal sci-fi discomfort, imagine Burial living in Lisbon, Portugal. João and Tony feel free from any doubts they might have had in the beginning of this project and are now more confident about how Hidden Horse sounds and unpreoccupied about the narrative: it is rock oriented but dressed as the electronic / dance music they would like to listen and dance to. Guest slots from Arianne Churchman (“The Tape Spool Within The Horse’s Mouth”) and Clothilde (“Espectros no Cctv”) offer a new range of feelings and confirms how Hidden Horse’s music evolves into new grounds when accepting new ideas and voices. “Opala” was a trojan horse to come out – of the pandemic? – and play. “Incorporeal” feels like the real deal.

“A startling step sideways from Beautify Junkyards’s sweetly spooky psychedelia, this parallel project brings the New Sonic Architecture of Eighties electronica into the 21st Century. Spacious and eerie, these glistening vistas bear comparison with Cabaret Voltaire, Chris & Cosey, and The Tear Garden, as well as the desolate moodscapes of Burial and Actress. Unmissable.”

- Simon Reynolds

"A journey through odd spaces and echoing caverns, powered along by angular rhythms and hypnotic sequencers. An electronic, motorik tapestry that feels both industrial and organic - like a dystopian Harmonia. Utterly beguiling!" - Jim Jupp (Ghost Box Records)

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Tengger

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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End Is Important Clear Vinyl Edtion

Odd Nosdam

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Where To Now)

13,99 €*

De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Odd Nosdam really doesn’t need an introduction, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 20 years then undoubtedly you’ll know what’s up, and what an absolute humbling pleasure it is to now introduce Nosdam to the Where To Now? catalogue with two new cuts that flow from ethereal, meditative contemplation through to downtown abstracted machine damage..

The record opens with ‘End is Important’, A looping, spiritual lament which forces observation, or resolution around the concept of ‘Endings.’ Passages from Tsunetomo Yamamoto’s ‘Hagakure’ seep in and out of the mix throughout, where spiraling and glistening arpeggios dance across a glorious choral mantra, intended to elevate minds towards some kind of plume of awakening. This is a heady and deep cut which finds Odd Nosdam in full introspection mode.

‘Here to Know’ recalls the work of Patrick Cowley in his best downtown ultra slow swinging funk suit, or the more obvious nods to John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 OST. However, this is far from a straight up ode to creeping machine funk - Nosdam’s injection of energetic, pulsing synth stabs move the piece into a more surreal territory, creating a masterful and experimental injection of life and colour into an otherwise smoked out landscape.

“Where I found myself when Where To Now? reached out - asking if I'd consider a vinyl release with the label - was over in Barcelona spending time with loved ones at my family's apartment in the district of Sant Gervasi.

After my initial contact with WTN?, I ventured north to Cadaqués to visit Salvador Dalí's house in Port Lligat, where Gala & Dalí spent some 50 summers. While inspired asf touring the glorious property, I captured recordings from a looping video screening in an open air theater. These recordings became the foundation of Here To Know.

Sometimes there’s a break in the road. End Is Important was realized after re-watching the Jim Jarmusch film, Ghost Dog. Stealthy and evanescent, a familiar voice carries this slow-diver with a message to the world warped cruiser in all of us.” - Odd Nosdam

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Troum & Raison De'etre

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cyclic Law)

34,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (All My Thoughts)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First time on Vinyl, presented in Gatefold Sleeve on Double LP. Originally released in 2015 and carefully forged between 2011 and 2014, "De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu" showcases a magically crafted alchemical wedding between these two titans of drone ambient. The 2LP features an exclusive bonus track. Troum navigates through cavernous, subterranean spaces where cyclical sounds reverberate towards impressive crescendos of icy noise, luminous drones and dramatic, guitar-driven ghostly melodies. Their truly unique soundscapes shine in a perfect symbiotic movement with the Swedish dark ambient maestro Peter Andersson. Engulfed in a hauntingly beautiful kaleidoscope of grey-ish melancholia, raison d’être comfortably walks deeply into Troum’s vast territory, delivering his very own trademark of eerie tones, ominous sacral ambience and crystal clear constructions. Airy lush enigmatic atmospheres live together with dark breathing, reverberant transformative drones. Rich and gorgeously layered. All sounds assembled and recorded by raison d'être (Peter Andersson) and Troum (Stefan Knappe, Martin Gitschel) between 2011-2014. All sounds processed, manipulated and structured by Peter Andersson 2011-2014. K-14 level mastering by Peter Andersson 2014. Artwork by Ritxi Ostáriz.

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Seb Wildblood

Separation Anxiety

29,99 €*

Shackleton / Waclaw Zimpel

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Producer, DJ, and composer Seb Wildblood returns tothe fold with third album "separation anxiety." Set for release via his own "all my thoughts" label, the prolific producer"s blissful electronics are on full display across the album"s 10 tracks, his most ambitious and fully realised offering yet. "The record largely explores coming to terms with abandonment, and what that looks like when starting to build a future of your own," explains Wildblood.

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In The Cell Of Dreams

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (7K!)

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Worldwide Unlimited)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following on from their critically acclaimed debut album, the second album from Shackleton / Zimpel represents the culmination of the ecstatic trance urge that has underlined both artists work since they embarked on their singular yet somehow parallel paths. The duo, consisting of electronic music maverick Sam Shackleton and visionary avant folk virtuoso Waclaw Zimpel, sees them link up with one of Indian Carnatic music"s greatest emerging young vocal talents, Siddhartha Belmannu, to bring an album which is equal parts both a meditative exercise and an urge to transcendence whilst thematising both the acceptance of our mortality and the joyous celebration of living.

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Bftt

Thp

11,19 €* 15,99 € -30%

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Principe)

DJs Di Guetto

31,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Good Morning Tapes)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This was it. This IS it. A true Big Bang for the scene as we know it today, materia prima out of which Príncipe came to be. “Vol. 1” was originally dropped in September of 2006 (first day of school) by Marfox, N.K., Jesse, Pausas, Fofuxo and Nervoso, then collectively known as DJs Di Guetto. With maximum respect for Nervoso’s previous (and fiery) path, this was the next level, introducing a new generation capable of improving upon standards and in turn inspiring a still younger generation famously represented by Piquenos DJs Do Guetto: Firmeza, Lilocox and Maboku. The original compilation included 37 tracks, but we feel this selection of 13 perfectly captures spirit, sound and fierceness, a leap forward from straight kuduro and other crystallized styles that fed neighbourhood parties. Testing ground as well as tested ground, sureshot killers.

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Ben Bondy

Camo

27,19 €* 31,99 € -15%

The Two Sides Of Mary Wells Translucent Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ben Bondy dives deep into the blissed aether on this latest full length for Good Morning Tapes, hooked around a chorus-pedal shimmer that sounds like how we’d imagine claire rousay if she were releasing on Chain Reaction; all smudged Dreampop vapours. Mining a similar vibe to Jake Muir’s Mana album, Bondy explores a late, late night mood on this one, obscuring delicate digital processes behind gossamer webs of static, windchimes and smeared guitar drifting into the mix. Over the space of half an hour breathy atmospheres blur into a pastel-hued paradise, feeding digitally distressed melodies into whirring machinery and swirling pads. On ‘Omni Field’ diffracted dub chords swirl around a rainstorm, before ‘Pool’ arranges a guitar arpeggio like some lost E2 E4 edit, and ‘conté’ evokes the meditative calm of Harold Budd or Roger Eno with its enigmatic, pastoral ambience. The pivotal point comes with ‘kanga’, a fuzzy dreamscape assembled from booming subs and psychoactive bells that sound more potent than a blotter under the tongue.

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Mary Wells

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

28,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Paradise Of Bachelors)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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180 gram audiophile vinyl / INCLUDES INTERPRETATIONS BY WELLS OF CLASSIC TRACKS AS ”SATISFACTION”, “IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR”, “MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU” AND “THE BOY FROM IPANEMA” / LIMITED EDITION ON TRANSLUCENT YELLOW COLOURED VINYL

The Two Sides of Mary Wells is the seventh studio album by soul singer Mary Wells, released in 1966. Wells’ career had drastically changed from just six years before when the then-teenage Wells first recorded songs for Motown. This album mixed traditional pop with more earthier and uptown soul songs. Wells released a modest hit with the Motown-esque “Dear Lover”, which hit the top ten of the R&B charts. It also includes some great interpretations by Wells of classic tracks as: “Satisfaction”, “In The Midnight Hour”, “My World Is Empty Without You” and “The Boy from Ipanema”. The Two Sides Of Mary Wells is available as a limited edition on translucent yellow coloured vinyl.

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Setting

Shone A Rainbow Light On

Esplendor Geometrico & V.A.

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Setting, befitting its name_which can be read as noun or verb, and simultaneously suggests the sun, orany star in the firmament from our earthbound perspective; a story and its surroundings, its scenic contextor mise en scène; or a psychedelic experience, as in the prescription to mind one's "set and setting"_aroseoutdoors, uncontained and unconstrained by architecture. The group's debut recordingShone a RainbowLight Ontraverses textural, phosphorescent topography with a certified organic folk-engine. Kosmischecorrespondences are inevitable and valid, but also somewhat deceptive, given this meditative music'sterrestrial rootedness in the familiar natural world, more in native humus and humidity than in outer space.Fueled by a vibratory hybrid of acoustic and electronic instrumentation, these four stately longform piecessound like a UFO slowly sinking into a peat bog (or, as we call it in North Carolina, a pocosin).An instrumental trio comprisingNathan Bowles(solo/trio,Pelt,Black Twig Pickers) on strings, keys,and percussion;Jaime Fennelly(Mind Over Mirrors,Peeesseye) on harmoniums, synthesizers, and pianozither; andJoe Westerlund(solo,Califone,Sylvan Esso,Jake Xerxes Fussell) on drums, percussion, andmetallophones, Setting established its own setting and found its footing in regularly scheduled improvisa-tional sessions outside Westerlund's home inDurham,North Carolina, beginning in 2021. The three playersbegan as two, in the context of occasional Bowles and Westerlund percussion duo performances dating backto 2018. Fennelly provided the initial impetus to gather and play together with intentionality and discipline,as well as an harmonic adhesive and thickening agent in the grain and gravity of his harmonium andsynthesizer. As always, Bowles's background as a pianist and drummer informs his approach to banjo,imparting a woodiness, a piney verticality and resinous tang. Westerlund's training withMilford Gravesisapp...

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Pulsión Plus

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Geometrik)

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Geometrik)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Special reissue, with a bonus LP!, of Pulsión: an album from Esplendor Geométrico originally released in 2009 and not available on vinyl for more than twelve years. Includes for the first time on vinyl the 5 exclusive tracks from the original CD version. Remastered in 2023. Limited to 600 numbered copies. New cover design by Juan Carlos Sastre, founding member of E.G., inspired by the original one. - Esplendor Geométrico style continues having a unique and unmistakable mark that distinguishes them from later bands they have had influence onto. At first sight, Pulsión is pure Industrial hypnosis based on the electronic manipulation of sounds together with irresistible rhythms, repetitive, machine-like, industrial, hypnotic, sometimes tribal, sometimes danceable, that mix up with voices and chants. Some of them are taken from traditional Arab and oriental music (Mongolia, China, Tibet_) to be later electronically manipulated, others are simply speech fragments, as the one of a leader of a radical political party in Japan, Che Guevara, or an anti-occidental harangue from an islamist leader. But the idea of EG is not to transmit any political or ideological message, the sources have been chosen for their strength and sonority.6 tracks originally released on LP (GR2115LP. Geometrik 2009), 5 bonus tracks originally released on CD only (GR2115CD. Geometrik 2009)plus one brand new extra track/remix.

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Esplendor Geometrico

Kosmos Kino

Local Visions & Yuka Nagase

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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'Kosmos Kino' (1988), Spanish Industrial classic album by Esplendor Geométrico, has been unavailable on vinyl for more than 12 years, now out on limited, numbered, and remastered 2023 edition! - Kosmos Kino is the third album of the influential Spanish Industrial cult band Esplendor Geométrico. Recorded and originally published in 1988 and unavailable on vinyl for many years, now available again in its original format. Remastered in 2023, this release reproduces the original cover but with a different exclusive artwork on the back cover. After a start in which the line of acute distortions and buzzy basses of their previous albums continues, it follows a surprising rhythmic viscerality, reaching its peak in the track "Trybuna Robotnicza", suitable for the most frantic dance and one of the greatest moments in their vast discography.ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO 1980-2022: Arturo Lanz (only active member since the beginning), Gabriel Riaza (until 1991), Juan Carlos Sastre (until 1982), Saverio Evangelista (since 1991). Andrés Noarbe is considered an E.G. member in the shadows since 1980, working as manager, advisor, designer, and editor (head of Discos E.G. from 1986 to 1990 and currently of Geometrik Records).[ENG]ESPLENDOR GEOMÉTRICO BIOBorn in 1980 as a trio, and currently a duo formed by Arturo Lanz (founding member) and Saverio Evangelista (member since 1991), Esplendor Geométrico is an influential and international cult band and also a rare case in the Spanish music scene, as they have developed their own independent path aside from tags, fashion, or trends, in spite of being often classified as industrial music. Their career during this four decades hasn't had interruptions. They haven't stopped composing, releasing albums or playing live (with more intensity since the nineties), and they have continued for the simple pleasure of making music. E.G. soon achieved a personal and distinct style that can be appreciated from their 80's albums, when they used analog synthesizers and pri...

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Oacl

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Local Visions & Kigensho)

23,39 €* 35,99 € -35%

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Row)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"oacl" is a collaborative album by "Local Visions," which questions new pop music after Vaporwave, and Yuka Nagase, who is active in both the two-dimensional (digital) and three-dimensional (physical) fields. A limited edition vinyl record (lp) will finally be released!! Nine artists with proven ability, such as Tsudio Studio, Aotq, and upusen, who are closely associated with Local Visions label, have come together to create a new album of nostalgic and contemporary pop music, which combines a pleasant floating sound with a wistful sentiment. This is a highly anticipated collaboration between these two label / artists, who continue to radiate their one-of-a-kind worldview!!

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Lekande

It Happens EP

13,99 €*

Favourite People Hazy Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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With this special release, Lekande presents another side of
the Row Records sound. His debut on the label focuses on
an interplay of spheres and textures - leaving room to
breathe and let go. Remixes by Lowtec and Kaep & Bhed use
their individual perspectives to reinforce this concept.

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Favourite People

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Selva)

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Selected Works II Black Vinyl Edition

Sarah Davachi

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Disciples / Late Msic)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Selected Works I Black Vinyl Edition

Sarah Davachi

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Disciples / Late Msic)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Stillness, Softness... Clear Vinyl Edition

Hinako Omori

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Houndstooth)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Stillness, Softness... Black Vinyl Edition

Hinako Omori

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Houndstooth)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mau5trap)

Kx5

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Soda Gong)

Atte Elias Kantonen

Path With A Name

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (South Of North)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Atte Elias Kantonen is a composer and sound designer based in Helsinki, Finland. “a path with a name” follows well-received releases on Mappa and Active Listeners Club, and finds Kantonen expanding the scope of his dynamic and idiosyncratic practice. Here, he places his listeners within an auditive diorama, affording them myriad views of the microscopic landscapes contained there within. An oneiric narrative is established from the opening track, in which a heavily treated voice proposes a dialogue and introduces us to the wonders of the soundscape. This speaker appears at various points throughout the record, functioning as guide, confidant, and friend. Those familiar with Kantonen’s prior output will immediately recognize the shapeshifting, 3D timbral constructions presented here, arrangements that are positively overflowing with glimmering, delicate, polyphonic detail. This is a record that invites and welcomes speculation about the nature of the quest that it sets its listeners out upon, with Kantonen offering up trail markings to provide (dis)orientation before turning them loose to explore the soil, moss, and tide pools.

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Kim David Bots

Oostwestkruisbest

12,59 €* 27,99 € -55%

2LP | 2017 | UK | Reissue (Invisible Hands)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Between 2009 and 2013 Kim recorded a bunch of music; in the old tramtransfer at the Kinkerstraat in Amsterdam (now de Foodhallen), in Berlin living in a biodynamic living community in Lichtenberg & in an apartment on the Hoofdweg in Amsterdam, that doubled as a grow-house.

The title ‘Oostwestkruisbest’ is a combination of the sayings ‘oost west thuis best’ and ‘ieder huisje heeft zijn kruistje’. The first translates as ‘home sweet home’, where the second means every home has its own troubles.

‘Infinity hours remaining’ was made during a prolonged period of sleepless nights. ‘Kopievankopie’ features, amongst other things, a guitar Kim borrowed from his sister. It directly translates as ‘copy of copy’. ‘Die Trommel, der Trum’ was made using a Casiotone 701 with a drummer boy in mind. The title is German for ‘the drum, the dream’. ‘Ongecontroleerde Dagrestanten’ was made with an elastic band (a broad one, that in the Netherlands were used by mailmen) and a clarinet without a mouthpiece. ‘Oostwestkruisbest’ features pots and pans from Kim’s kitchen.

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Tangerine Dream

Particles

Release: 2017 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Marc Romboy, Marlene Schuen, Dimitri Andreas

Metamorfosa

2LP | 2023 | Original (Hyperharmonic)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2021 | UK | Original (Peaky Beats)

Highrise & Peaky Beats

PBR005

13,99 €*

Absent Friends Volume III

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Not stamped white label copy is close to NM.

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Minor Science

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Balmat)

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Purl / Sinius White & Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Minor Science aka UK-born, Berlin-based musician Angus Finlayson pushes forward his vision of ambient music as neither static vista or merely mood-setting atmosphere, but rather a dynamic matrix of textures, sensations, and even rhythms. He makes his Balmat debut with Absent Friends Vol. III, the third installment in a shape-shifting series across a variety of formats and platforms. The first two Absent Friends--a 2014 set for Blowing Up the Workshop, and a 2017 cassette and web player for Whities (now AD93)--were hybrid affairs, part DJ mix and part collage, mostly featuring music made by other people. Then, in 2020-21, Finlayson developed the project into a live show of his own material. Armed with hundreds of bespoke stems created in his studio--idiosyncratic FX chains, feedback loops through cheap rack gear, heavily post-processed field recordings, found voices, etc.--he would improvise on four CDJs, mixer, FX, and live synths, extending techniques he learned as a club DJ into a live context, accompanied by visuals by Stockholm-based artist Paul Witherden. Absent Friends Vol. III is an album of studio versions of the music developed for the live show. But in Minor Science's world, even a category as simple as "studio versions" is slightly opaque. "Most of these tracks weren't 'composed' in the studio," Finlayson explains: "The sounds started out as stems and source material for the live show, and might not have been intended to go together--but then through performance, they settled into shapes that worked. I then recreated those performances in the studio." That organic process of ideation and realization might help explain the unusual coherence of the album, in which sounds and textures flow seamlessly from one to the next, sometimes seeming to stand still, and sometimes looping back. There are virtually no melodies, few recognizable motifs or riffs, yet the eight-track album nevertheless moves with a distinctive logic and a determined sense of purpose, from the frozen-in-time shimmer of the opening "Introduction" through the early cuts' studies of space and light; from the seemingly autobiographical "Summer Diary" through the rushing trance (yes, trance) arpeggios of "Contingency" and on to the dulcet denouement of the closing "Gather Your Party (Dispersed Mix)."

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Purl / Sinius

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Past Inside The Present)

34,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Daljit Kundi and Ludvig Cimbrelius have Indian and Swedish backgrounds but actually came together in the UK music scene and specifically ambient jungle. They set off to explore that world totters and did so with aplomb across several great albums and EPs. This new album was actually nearly done many years ago but was shelved owing to struggles with record labels. When Past Inside The Present heard it though they encouraged the album to be finished and so here it is. It's an emotional work which "attempts to represent a psychic darkness that is as deeply restful as it is ripe with creative potential." It's absorbing, beautiful ambient from a pair of real dons.

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Potreba Group

User Experience

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Out Of Your Head)

Jessica Pavone

Clamor

19,49 €* 25,99 € -25%

Chasing Stateless Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Clamor rethinks the notion of 'women's work' as a space for both collaboration and singular voice. Just as our ensemble is limited and enabled by the written score, so might be individual enunciations of how gender norms limit agency. Clamor utilizes a collective, improvisational vision that prioritizes an intentionally fluid style by employing indeterminacy, navigated by the performers via time-based scores. These principles are balanced with metered notation to shape the overall form of the pieces, reflecting circumventing obstructions to one's freedoms. The alternating music notation styles mirror these restraints and solutions. Through the open spaces, the musicians re-create the compositions together each time they perform, establishing a collaborative relationship between the individual musician and larger group performance.

Clamor's movements are titled after innovations made by women throughout history to circumvent obstructions to their freedoms. Neolttwigi utilizes rhythms representing the 17th-century Korean standing seesaw invented by women who could not freely go outdoors to provide a glimpse of the scenery beyond their property walls. Nu Shu honors the secret language created and used exclusively by Chinese women forbidden to go to school like their brothers. Nu Shu features the improvising soloist in dialogue with the ensemble.

Bloom is named after bloomers, which Amelia Bloom designed during the 1850s Victorian dress reform.

Nu Shu features bassoon soloist, Katherine Young, attending to her talent for improvising within a collaborative context. Young is a composer and sound artist who has developed a unique language for bassoon. The movements to feature her have built-in moments of gently structured spontaneity that attend to her original voice.

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Saint Abdullah & Eomac

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Planet Mu)

Mortal Sojourn Clear W/ Black & Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Saint Abdullah & Eomac is a long distance, ongoing collaboration between New York based Iranian-Canadian brothers Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani (Saint Abdullah) and Ian McDonnell a.k.a. Eomac, based in Wicklow in Ireland. They tested the waters with their first album on Nicolas Jaar's Other People label last year, but 'Chasing Stateless' is their fullest expression so far.

The creative mindset behind the album starts with bravery and eschews escapism. Says Saint Abdullah's Mohammad, "As a collective, we exist to test the revolutionary possibilities within sound and sonic storytelling. As a means to finding a vision of the future and for building cultural dialogue today. Our belief is that the expressiveness of this vision should be pushed to its utmost limits to reveal anew. I always felt that the intensity of the middle eastern soul needs to be revealed more potently. Ian and the Irish have it too. I suspect most historically oppressed cultures do."

The music on 'Chasing Stateless' avoids easy middle eastern tropes — "I think what we're proposing here is that you don't need to water down our culture, you don't need to take only the bits that fit your idea of who we are, what we are. You ought to take it in its entirety."

Musically, the album approaches established genres and re-orientates them towards middle eastern rhythm and melody with an iron soul. Songs are rough and intense. Rusty polyrhythms, daf drums wrapped in a thick coating of distortion or punchy kicks with micro-edited samples of middle eastern life spiralling across them. Mournful melodies are squeezed out until the music teeters on the edge of rhythmic collapse. 'Chasing Stateless' is rough and energetic but also tender and reflective too. It's a human sound, utilising technology but not about technology. Sample heavy with expressions of anger, sadness and hope present and deeply felt.

The album's title speaks to a loss of collective societal imagination; of 'chasing status'. As Moh says "This generation, man, we're really good at putting up walls, despite all our openness. But where does this all lead to? What exactly are we chasing? This is where I especially love the name 'Chasing Stateless,' because if all this continues, we indeed will end up stateless, society-less, community-less, neighbor-less. Just a bunch of same-sies, living in an imaginary bubble, where we all look / think / say / Chase the same things."

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Deadlife

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

42,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Faitiche)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Pulled straight down, deep beneath the twisted megastructures of the Lost, in search of an unreachable answer. To turn his back on everything, and pay the ultimate price.

Disappearing into a dimension of unknowable size where time ceased to exist, his mind fractured into pieces.

Embraced by reflections, old voices, memories and nightmares disguised as dreams, he vanished.

The Void takes many forms.

Who knows what you’ll witness, where souls come to bear their all.

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blackbody_radiation

Ultar-Materials

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Fake Four Inc.)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Faitiche welcomes Andrew Black aka blackbody_radiation. His debut album Ultra Materials gathers six ghostly drones, created with the help of sound masking.

Andrew Black, who hails from one of the UK's post industrial North West Milltowns has a sensitive feeling for space and its acoustics. Having trained as a designer and operated within the realms of architecture and public space, it was only natural to extend his interest to manipulating field recordings.

The six pieces collected on Ultra-Materials provide an insight into Black's highly sensitive minimalism: they stand for a subtly meandering mediation on room acoustics and place, which are manipulated with the help of sound masking, among other things - that is, the addition and superimposition of artificially generated frequencies to mask unwanted sounds.

Sometimes the pieces are reminiscent of warm engine noise, sometimes one thinks of carefully captured natural phenomena. Their strength lies in their elusiveness: free of concrete attributions or musical location, they can unfold their hypnotic pull without revealing anything about their origins. Harmonics at times shimmer, at times warble and at times coexist. It is an attempt to get in touch with our listening abilities.

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Dylan Owen

Take Care Of Yourself

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Phc Films)

Bullant

Late Life Circ

46,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Bie Records Meets Shika Shika

V.A.

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Shika Shika)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (n5MD)

PCM

Dreamland

26,09 €* 28,99 € -10%

Peter Broderick / Ensemble 0

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dreamland is the third album from Italian ambient band PCM. This time out, the trio of Francesco Perra (P), Matteo Cantaluppi (C), Matteo Milea (M) veer away from the inter-cellular themes of their previous collections to shed aural light on what humans spend most of their life doing: sleeping. Each track on Dreamland focuses on a phase of sleep from that ever-frustrating half-awake feeling to tranquil R.E.M. and from disaffect- ing nightmares to blissful dreaming. As a result, each of the album's works float by, some with a cloudiness that mirrors confused sleepy feelings and others that display the vividness of the most memorable of dreams.

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Give It To The Sky: Arthur Russell's Tower Of Meaning Expanded Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Peter Broderick / Ensemble 0

Give It To The Sky: Arthur Russell's Tower Of Meaning Expanded Clear Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

29,44 €* 30,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2022 | UK | Original (LuckyMe)

Jacques Greene

Relay

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Artificial Owl)

One Of Them

Exogitation

17,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (UIQ)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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After beeing featured on BBC 6 Radio and the Ambient Focus show, Artificial Owl Recordings announce its 4th release named Excogitation by One of Them.

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Corin

Lux Aeterna

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | Reissue (Horn Of Plenty)

Annelies Monsere

Mares

Before The Last Night Is Blown

Release: 2023 / Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Essential repress of this great LP of experimental Belgian folk music. Original pressing sold out within weeks and was listed at number 10 in the Quietus' best albums of the year so far. Horn of Plenty casts its gaze into the thriving contemporary Belgian underground with Annelies Monseré’s Mares, a remarkable body of experimental compositions that taps the deep well of raw, emotive expression rumbling below numerous traditions of European folk music.

As a member of Ghent’s experimental music scene, over the past two decades Annelies Monseré has slowly refined a singular approach to musicality, moving from the sparse, instrumental piano works from that defined her early career, toward increasingly complex arrangements of instrumentation that offer a central place to her own voice, issued by noteworthy imprints such as Morc Tapes, Stroom, and three:four. Like her work within the widely celebrated ensemble, Luster, as well as Distels, her duo with Steve Marreyt, Monseré’s solo efforts establish a strikingly beautiful and remarkably unique territory that elegantly balances between rigorous experimentalism, minimalism, drone, and folk.

Recorded between 2016 and 2022, Mares is arguably best approached through the song that marked its inception and conclusion, a rendition of Cyril Tawney’s Sally Free & Easy. Written in 1958 and popularised by Pentangle during the early 1970s, it has been approached by so many artists - Davy Graham, Trees, Tony Caro & John, Marianne Faithfull, Flying Saucer Attack, etc. - that it’s become a “standard” within the folk scenes of the last half century or so. Initially drawn to the melodic qualities of the tune, Monseré became fascinated with the lyrical content, which she points out are “ethically problematic: a sailor ‘slutshaming’ a woman because she left him.. blaming her for his (planned) suicide”. Refined from paired down beginnings over a six year period, a droning, feminist dirge slowly emerged from her hands, incorporating male backing vocals and harmonium as brooding counterpoint to her voice, that entirely recasts the song into a new and radically prescient form.

It is this sense of contrast - the elemental humanity and tension that runs below countless traditions of folk, reconceptualized within the forward thinking temperaments of contemporary experimental music - that defines Mares as such a distinct piece of work. A departure from her previous solo efforts, being the first to leave behind her main instruments, the guitar and piano, the album was conceived by Monseré as something akin to timbral painting; “adding similar layers upon each other with (slightly) different hues”. Taking the image of the sea and the ethical tensions within Sally Free & Easy as a conceptual departure point - weaving these themes like a thread through the record - amongst complex sets of harmonic relationships and varied durational structures that unfold within the remaining seven compositions, she intertwined her own childhood memories of the sea with interrogations of how “these memories are often arbitrarily fixed and tainted by the present, and more metaphorical (even biblical) connotations of the sea, hinting at toxic human relationships and intoxication in its multiple senses.”

Appearing with the immediacy and emotiveness of folk music, imbued with sense of adventure of experimentalism and bred with the restraint and elegance of minimalism, Mares’ is a deep body of sonority that draws upon the fundamental human need to express and commune through sound, projecting this ancient need into forward-thinking forms without sacrificing its roots. Profoundly beautiful, elegant, and poetic, these eight tracks offer immersion into the singular creative voice of one of the most unique artists currently working in the Belgian scene.

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Shedir

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (n5MD)