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Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The album includes the now iconic and seminal track Weightless together with 5 more tracks, the latter derived from the ideas of the former, simply entitled Part 1 – Part 6. The tracks are minimal, combining warm drones and drifting sounds with occasional sparse rhythms. The inspiration for the album came after the band were commissioned to collaborate with a sound therapist from the British Academy of Sound Therapy and write a piece of relaxing music, the first "Weightless" track. When scientifically tested for its effectiveness scientists reported that their research indicated that the music slowed the heart rate, reduced blood pressure and decreased levels of cortisol, a steroid hormone that is released in response to stress. When the research was made public there was an instant and intense media reaction which continues to this day.

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Volume 3 Clear Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (PC Music)

34,99 €*

Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth / Rapid Eye Movements

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Personal Computer Music for the Third Millennium. A compilation of hits from 2018-2021 alongside upcoming, unreleased and unreleasable music.

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Operating Theatre

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Allchival)

28,99 €*

12" | 2015 | UK | Original (Mörk)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Allchival present their second look at the music of Roger Doyle and Operating Theatre (a little known proto synth-pop act and experimental theatre group that he led.)

In reverse chronological order the second disc contains music from the United Dairies release of 1979 – ‘Rapid Eye Movements’. Experimental tape work heavily influenced by the French school of music concretists and recorded at various points during the 70s in Finland, Holland and Ireland, although it is most certainly a Roger Doyle solo record the label ran by Nurses With Wounds John Fothergill decided to release it under the group name for reasons now lost to the fog of time.

After this a volte-face towards a more accessible sound, coming via his friendship with future Hollywood actress Olwen Fouéré and her connection to the theatre. It also featured the vocals of a young Spanish immigrant Elena López- bucking the 80’s trend by moving to rather than from Dublin. With Fouéré adding the theatrical element to the group (an almost essential part of any early 80s synth act) alongside pulsing synths, brass, a vocoder and the electro acoustic production talents of Doyle himself, it was the first time a Fairlight sampler was used in an Irish studio setting and gives a prescient but alternative take on the new wave sound that came to dominate the charts soon after. Doyle’s work on the newly released Fairlight sampler had brought him to the attention of U2’s Bono who had seen a feature about his sampling experimentations and reached out to him for piano lessons. This led to a deal on the bands embryonic Mother records for what Doyle calls his first “popular song” - Queen of No Heart - which alongside “Spring is Coming” made up the backbone of the EP which was released some years later (1986) on the Mother Records label. Established by U2 in 1984 and initially intended to launch Irish bands, many of the acts – including this one – were subsequently unhappy about the label’s haphazard approach to releases and lack of promotion. The record was released as a die cut 7 inch with the two main tracks and a 12 inch EP with additional tracks – ‘Part of My Make-Up’ / ‘Atlantean’ / ‘Satanasa’. The Mother experience was for Doyle and the rest of the group a frustrating one with no promotional plan and no tour. After that Operating Theatre as a quasi pop project ‘just kind of fizzled out’ says Doyle.

Doyle, the musical maverick at the heart of the act, continues to produce to this day and has released 30 albums. A frequent collaborator we round out the record with a remix from another Irish outsider - Morgan Buckley of the Wah Wah Wino fame.

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1800HaightStreet

Heldled

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ad 93)

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

close to NM

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Dylan Henner

You Will Always Be

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Lith Dolina)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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You Always Will Be is the new album by artist Dylan Henner.

The follow up to 2020's well received 'The Invention of the Human', the new record touches on themes of nostalgia & longing for times passed; innocence yielding hardships and vice versa; ageing; the soul; life changes; parents and children; loss; love.

Dylan says:

"The piece tells the story of a single life, from birth to death. I've been thinking about the passage of life a lot recently as I lost all four of my grandparents but celebrated the birth of my daughter all within a short period of time. The brevity and preciousness of being really hit me."

The vinyl release consists of a ~ 40 min piece split across two sides, while the digital release features extended versions of the music in that piece, making up 10 individual tracks.

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Bot1500

Surreal

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Fat Possum)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hearing like when half asleep is a bit weird and beautiful.

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Syl Johnson

Diamond In The Rough

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Planet Mu)

µ-Ziq

Hello

22,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Planet Mu owner Mike Paradinas (a.k.a. µ-Ziq) wraps up 2022 with his 3rd release of new material this year. ‘Hello’ is the mirror image of the ‘Goodbye EP’. The intensity is heightened, the breaks more manic and melodies inhabit every corner. The material is the final chapter of the ‘Magic Pony Ride’ material and even includes another version of that track. 'Iggy’s Song’ has a slowed down sample of Mike’s son screaming, ‘Ávila’ is an ode to his father’s hometown in Spain and ‘Green Chaos’ even includes a nod to RP Boo. On Side B things get more interesting. ‘Pyramidal Mind Dispersion’ slows things down while amping up the tension, Modulating Angel is at drum & bass tempo but with a choir of angels from hell in the background, while the final two tracks recall the experimentation and melodies of Lunatic Harness.

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12" | 2014 | DE | Original (Love Pain Sunshine & Rain)

Connect Four

Release: 2014 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

The Golden Age Of Apocalypse Black Friday Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Thundercat

LP | 2011 | UK | Reissue (Brainfeeder)

Release: 2011 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited edition for Black Friday Record Store Day 2021!

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12" | 2013 | DE | Original (Code Is Law)

Movies For The Blind

Release: 2013 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Osàre! Editions)

Free Range

Camry Horses

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Free Range are back with their second outing for Osàre editions. ‘Camry Horses’ is a mesmerising dive into the brutal pop-tinged electronics of the duo, taking the mutant surrealism of their first release on the label a step further. Deliciously droning, Matt Weiner and Ernestas Sadau warp melancholic synth over a stomping-techno pulse in ‘Jet Lag is Calling.’ ‘Thunder God’ predicts transmogrifying weather patterns, while ‘Liquid Latex’ casts a touch of dominatrix energy, all powered by hypnotic dancefloor occultism.

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First Wave - Drift Ambient Compilation

2LP | 2020 | CA | Original (Drift)

35,99 €*

The Unexplained Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First Wave is the very first compilation and physical release on Drift, the sub ambient label of Inner Ocean Records. We've gathered together some of the best emerging ambient artists, alongside artists who have been music creators for decades. The result is a very special and diverse collection of music, melding together a myriad of genres into a cohesive body of work to stand the test of time; a true work of art.

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Ataraxia (Mort Garson)

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Sacred Bones)

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Time Capsule)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The pioneering electronic composer Mort Garson (Mother Earth's Plantasia) takes on supernatural phenomena with lush synth grooves on The Unexplained, his only release under the name Ataraxia. Subtitled Electronic Musical Impressions of the Occult, the album explores tarot, astral projection, seances, and more with Garson's signature Moog synthesizer serving as the listener's tour guide to the paranormal. The exploratory, whimsical spirit of its creator is evident throughout the release, but it also takes its subject matter seriously, making it essential for anyone interested in musical conjurations of the occult. This remastered edition marks the first official reissue of the album since its initial 1975 release, and it includes all the original liner notes. About Mort Garson: Morton S. "Mort" Garson was a Canadian-born composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s that were among the first to feature Moog synthesizers. His best-known album is Mother Earth's Plantasia, a 1976 Moog album designed to be played "for plants and the people who love them." Sacred Bones Records has undertaken the project of giving official, licensed reissues to key releases from Mort Garson's catalog, with the intention of bringing these bold masterpieces to a 21st century audience.

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Gigi

Illuminated Audio

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (The Helen Scarsdale Agency)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The third release of Kay Suzuki's Time Capsule imprint rejuvenates Bill Laswell's dub reinterpretations of Ethiopian singer Gigi. Following reissues of Japanese fusionist Yuji Toriyama and Italian new age visionary Il Guardiano Del Faro, the third Time Capsule is a body of dub reinterpretations by celebrated producer Bill Laswell of Ethiopian singer Gigi. Curated by Tokyo record collector, music researcher and seasoned reissue supervisor Ken Hidaka, it is the first time Illuminated Audio is pressed to vinyl after its CD release in 2003.

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Ekin Fil

Coda

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2015 | US | Original (White Material)

Alvin Aronson

City EP

11,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Generic

12" | 2020 | UK | Original (Warp)

Squarepusher

Lamental EP

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Scissor And Thread)

Hidden Spheres

1985

12" | 2015 | DE | Original (Dystopian)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hidden Spheres is the alter ego of Manchester’s Tom Harris, who first made his mark on the underground circuit with his release ‘The Bloos’ on Moods & Grooves, before following it up with the much in demand ‘Waiting’ on Lobster Theremin offshoot Distant Hawaii. Here, Tom joins the Scissor & Thread family, the Brooklyn label founded by Francis Harris, and home to music that traverses a number of boundaries. Hidden Spheres fits right in - the five track 1985 EP blends house, broken beat, ambient, jazz and other elements into a heady brew. ‘King Tut’ starts proceedings, a laid back jazzy groove, rich in textures and soulful flourishes. ‘My Names’ touches on the UK broken beat legacy of 4 Hero and Bugz in the Attic - an off kilter groove layered with sweet jazz and house inflected licks. ‘Karl’ is a much more direct dancefloor track, albeit with the deepness that we expect from Hidden Spheres.The penultimate track ‘1985′ steps into the unconventional house vibes of Detroit’s third wave. ‘Soon We’ll’ finishes up the EP - a supremely jazzy piece built around the sax, piano and washes of strings and ambient elements - a superb closer for a deep and heartfelt release.

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Rødhåd

Söhne Der Erde EP

Release: 2015 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Boulevard (The Complete Series)

St Germain

2LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (F Communications)

12" | 2015 | EU | Original (Dystopian)

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Dogeared cover but close to NM.

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Stone Edge

Edges EP

4,99 €*

10" | 2012 | EU | Original (Odd Socks)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: G+

Tear / sticker residue on the cover front!

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James Creed

Top Pocket EP

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

12" | 2013 | EU | Original (Odd Socks)

Trips & Trinkets

10,99 €*

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

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Moon (Iron Curtis & Johannes Albert)

Industrie & Zärtlichkeit

2LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Frank Music)

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

12" | 2012 | EU | Original (Echovolt)

JT Stewart

Ophelia EP

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mario Basanov & Vidis Ft. Barbarossa

Re: Stacks

12" | 2012 | LT | Original (Silence Music)

5,99 €*

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani

Release: 2012 / LT – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

White label copy. Writing on label sticker.

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Frkwys Vol. 13 - Sunergy Expanded

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

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Limited Blue Vinyl Edition.
Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover as new with a dented corner.
Includes original insert.

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12" | 2013 | DE | Original (Code Is Law)

Wolves

Release: 2013 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Claremont 56)

Claremont Editions Three

12" | 2013 | UK | Original (Tabernacle)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Limited Edition. No. 429/600.
Cover as new with a dented corner.
Includes original inner sleeves.
Small light scuff on side B.

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Paul Mitchell

Dichotomy Pt.1

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Generic

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Plant43)

Plant43

Silver Streams

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG, Cover: Near Mint

Transparent Orange Vinyl Edition.

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Summvs

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Noton)

2LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Noton)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Small light scuff on side C.
Records are close to VG+
Minor sticker stain on back cover.

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Alva Noto

Hybr:Id II

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: Near Mint

Limited Edition.
Includes booklet.
Small light scuff on sides A & C.

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New German Ethnic Music - Immigrant's Songs From Germany Electronically Reworked

12" | 2013 | EU | Original (Karaoke Kalk)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

12" | 2012 | DE | Original (Even Drones)

Even Drones

One

Release: 2012 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2011 | UK | Original (Don't Be Afraid)

Mr Beatnick

Synthetes

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Maple Death)

Porta D'Oro

Cosi Dentro Come Fuori

The After Taste Magenta Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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From abstract dub, to post-punk rumblings and bedroom classics Giacomo Stefanini, Porta D’Oro, (also member of Kobra, Ondakeiki and the Milan Sentiero Futuro collective) has been slowly building his own world of meditative punk, ethereal dub, tape ballads, ambient noise and spiritual stanzas. “Così Dentro Come Fuori”, his proper debut, co-released by Maple Death & Legno , is one of the most unique and singular releases in both labels’ catalogues.

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Kenya Grace

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Warner Bros.)

33,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Warp)

Seefeel

Everything Sqared

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2024 | Original (Moving Furniture)

Aidan Baker

Cast Down & Hunted

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Taevas)

Taevalaotus

Ringlus EP

23,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Kraak)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Taevalaotus delivers his second long player >Ringlus< which is the second release on the Estonian based Taevas Records, comprising five originals plus a remix from Octal Industries. Heavyweight special-effect vinyl pressing (three colors, marbled).

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Maibaum

Sumer Is Icumen In

Jerry Ropero, Denis The Menace, Sabor

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sumer Is Icumen In is Quentin Thirionet's (Dhavali Giri, Pairi Daeza) debut album. Still, his musical escapades are vast and varied, based almost entirely on improvisation and live recordings, of which he occasionally distributes tapes without further information. Elusive to categorization and identification, unwilling to fix his musical activity under a stable pseudonym, his projects have ranged from gypsy jazz guitar swings, French traditional songs from Auvergne, and various experimental collaborations. Increasingly closer to electronic instrumentation, he crafted what Belgian label Kraak presents here as Maibaum, his first ever solo output. As the title goes, this may be a maypole on which his multicolored sonic visions spring about.

Former rope access worker and currently a farmer of organic greens, Thirionet lives up to these lines of work as a musician. He assembles precisely what seems like a subtle balance between high manmade structures and soft fertilized soils; a high voltage pylon placed in a biotic landscape. It's all an even blend, spontaneous and steady, but this contraption comes from profound considerations. "I chose these tracks among many others," says Quentin, "because I heard the melodies all the time in my mind, and because I cried while playing them without really understanding why." Armed with nothing more than a blackbox, a sequencer, a freeze pedal, and a tape player, Thirionet orchestrates a vivid rite of polished futures. At times reminiscent of Hans-Joachim Roedelius' enveloping arrangements, Maibaum's ambiances rely on mild repetitive patterns subsequently textured by prickling sprouts, mechanic dislocations and revamps that stoke and brighten the stirring motions. Jim O'Rourke's I'm Happy and I'm Singing comes to mind in terms of its detailed and prismatic nature, but Sumer Is Incumen In has its particular narrative. It's a tale of regeneration, of spring's delicate procedures and allure, a celebration of gracious and fortunate junctions between nature and machinery.

The album unfolds like a massive engine being made flesh to drift along the ether of a sultry land. The terrain turns pleasant and fertile in the title track; the colors and melodies of May start to unravel. Chromatic columns rise and define the scenery's depth of field breeding a synesthetic stream between crystal lights and warbling organisms. Grande Albero Buono Magico Uoma's brisk kaleidoscopic arpeggios sound like scanning a tree's litmus foliage. Then Ciguri takes us back to the foggy swamp of the beginning but is suddenly lit by an insect’s labyrinthine roundabout. The Jeweled Grid is a poem Quanta Qualia's lustrous metallic voice recites as a report of the album's phenomena. "Shiny revelations jump out. Pearls of thought flicker about." Images from within that distill to swirl around among us. The thicket dissolves as the album concludes calmly in Le Concept De Chien N'aboie Pas. Swaying under sieved solar light, leaves and branches tingle until the winds grow weak. All the warm creatures gathered along the way, and all those who danced around the maypole's splendid equilibrium now withdraw, folding up small to foster rebirth once again.

José Badía Berner

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Coracao Black Vinyl Edition

12" | 2024 | Original (Blanco Y Negro)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (15 Love)

Ml Buch

Suntub

30,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Relaxin)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Suntub’ is the second full length album from ML Buch, a double record of 15 pieces by the Danish composer and producer, entering further into the realm of electric guitars and layered vocals along with exploring new instrumental expressions.

With an offset in open tunings on a 7-string Stratocaster, slide and fretless tablet guitars and deep-sampled virtual guitars, the album draws up narratives and locations in a distant time. Props like puddles, well buckets, bone barrels and flesh rags live in these scenes, suspended in air, drifting about, climbing stairs and ladders, all given life through guitar sensibilities and visceral vocals.

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Lolina

Unrecognisable

12" | 2023 | Original (Blanco Y Negro)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Unrecognisable” is a story about a city where buildings are used as weapons in a war between the government and the people. The initial chapter, “Eiffel Shard”, was published as an online graphic novel with an interactive soundtrack. It depicts a phone call between Paris Hell and Geneva Heat, two members of the resistance group Unrecognisable. During the call, Paris informs Geneva that a deadly building, The Shard, is now under the authorities’ control. What’s worse — the government also got hold of a secret building transformation plan developed by the resistance. Paris tells Geneva that the Unrecognisables decided to abandon the plan due to the number of civilian casualties it would inevitably cause. A series of intricate explosions would force the building’s glass surface to rip through the surrounding areas, destroying everything in its path and leaving only a pointed metal structure standing: an Eiffel Shard.

The second chapter, “Paris’ Dream”, was performed by Lolina as an improvised gig. Samples from the soundtrack to chapter one accompanied a video showing the protagonist sneaking into The Shard at night. The narrative continues with Paris’ anxiety dream of her time working on the Eiffel Shard project alongside another Unrecognisables member who she fears has betrayed them by handing over their dangerous plan to the government.

The third chapter is now being released as an album of new music. In a declining city, Paris and Geneva are tour guides to be followed at your own risk. Lies and petty crimes, mistrust, betrayal and, inevitably, war are the setting in which they seek to devise a plan for resistance. As members of a secret group, they hide their identities and meet after dark. Under dim lights of city streets and closed-down clubs, it’s hard to tell a dodgy detective from an eager philosophy student, friends are enemies in disguise, and it’s advised to park your car sideways for a fast getaway.

On this concept album, Lolina performs the role of both characters, her own voice often made unrecognisable by pitch-shifts and distortion. It was recorded almost exclusively on a Casio Sk-200 sampling keyboard boasting 1.62 seconds total sampling time. No beat preset (total of 20) is left untouched, unchopped or unlooped. Not one of the 49 mini keys is idle. Retains samples when turned off.

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Silver Pozzoli

Around My Dream

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Music From Memory)

Gaussian Curve

Winter Sun / Fever Dream

23,99 €*

Boiling Wells (Demos '10 - '22)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The return of Gaussian Curve - Gigi Masin, Jonny Nash and Marco Sterk’s much-loved trio are back for the first time since their 2016 sophomore album 'The Distance', presenting two new tracks entitled 'Winter Sun' and 'Fever Dream'.

Both tracks originate from recording sessions that took place in Amsterdam in 2016 for 'The Distance'. Despite not finding a place on the final album and being left as unfinished sketches for six years, the tracks represent an important part of the Gaussian Curve story which the band felt compelled to complete. Coinciding with the decision to perform a handful of live shows in 2022, they finally revisited the sketches, mixing and arranging them with the goal of giving them the full release that they deserve.

The trio’s trademark sound hits from first moments of 'Winter Sun'; a lush slow builder with all the classic GC ingredients; Nash’s airy and spacious guitar lines interplay with Masin’s warm rhodes, underpinned by Sterk’s subtle use of electronics and the minimal rhythm of a Cr-78 drum machine.

On 'Fever Dream', the trio subtly expand their palette; a gently building 303 bass line and 808 rhythm form the foundations of the piece, with Masin’s vocals adding to a slow-burning intensity. Arguably a fuller sound hinting at new areas of exploration for the trio, but unmistakably Gaussian Curve.

Graphic art by Qiu Yang, design by Steele Bonus,

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Jabu

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Six Of Swords)

This Boot Is Made For Fonk

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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‘Demos/sketches/interludes from the hinterland between records. Drum machines and single take vocal sketches tied together with downtime synth experiments and recordings of local disappearing areas.’ True as it is, Jabu’s strap-line is a somewhat understated take on what also proved to be a transformative experience for them. The follow-up record to their 2020 sophomore LP ‘Sweet Company’ (and the ensuing ‘Versions’), ‘Boiling Wells’ weaves a smudged, group -mind spell. Originally released earlier this year without fanfare as a digital-only release, it now receives the proper release attention it deserves, issued in a neatly packaged vinyl edition of 300 copies. Dreamlike, woozy, raw and in dub, the album documents a blossoming process, and encapsulates a fragment in time - holed up in the country, soaking up the atmosphere in collective isolation, creatively embracing the limitations of a small recording set-up, and finding a new way to work as a band. “My mum had gone away so we’d decided to take the mixing desk and a couple of drum machines out to her house and set it up in the front room. We did it a couple of times to get the bulk of the tunes on 'Boiling Wells' done, one in summer and one boozy one around Christmas. I think we all immediately enjoyed working that way, sat around all together, more of an immediate thing. Jas started to play a lot more guitar, her and Al would write lyrics on the fly or be programming a drum beat in or something. We were all switching around and getting ideas down really quickly, not worrying too much if they were good or not. The music was limited by the stuff we had there, I didn’t bring a big desk so we only had six channels or so, and everything was basically just recorded in as a stereo take so we were more or less stuck with it after we’d laid it down - which was nice too. I don’t think we would’ve changed them anyway; it was the sound of the room and of us doing it together in the moment that was really important.” There has always been a collaborative heart to Jabu, though its nature has shifted and morphed over time. In their earliest incarnation, in after-school jams, Alex Rendall would rap over Amos Childs’ beats, but by the time they began releasing music in 2012, Al had found his singing voice – a sweet, soulful counterpoint to Amos’ increasingly dub-wise, experimental backing. Both are founder members of Bristol’s Young Echo, a collective of friends and musicians first operating loosely together on radio shows, artistic collaborations and events, and later on, running a record label. As expansive as their original remit was, Young Echo has steadily evolved since featuring in The Wire’s 2013 cover feature on Bristol’s new school of post-dubstep bass music. Of late, Seb (aka Vessel) has been working with violinist Rakhi Singh on string arrangements for Jabu, and the upcoming residency at Bermondsey’s MOT will showcase relative newcomers Birthmark and Intel Mercenary alongside the regular crew. Jabu’s debut album proper, ‘Sleep Heavy’, arrived in 2017 courtesy of Blackest Ever Black. A sublime, focused meditation on grief and loss written largely by Amos and Al, it marked the debut of Jasmine Butt (aka Guest), adding a further layer of vocal texture to their palette. ‘Sweet Company’, their first album written as a trio (released via their own do you have peace? label), drifted into lighter, more ethereal introspection. Featuring guest appearances by Sunun and Daniela Dyson, remixes by Equiknoxx’s Time Cow and Young Echo ‘s Ossia teased out the inherent pop and dub sensibilities respectively. Recent times have also seen remixes by kindred spirits Seekers International and Jay Glass Dubs, and a collaboration with the renowned T.S. Eliot Prize-winning dub Poet and musician Roger Robinson on a pair of plaintive, aching 7” singles. Jabu’s broad raft of inspirations can be experienced first -hand on their monthly NTS Radio show ‘Music 4 Lovers’, co -hosted by long-time friend and soul afficionado Andy Payback. A celebration of the endless tapestry of interrelated musical connections, it runs parallel to Jabu’s own reinterpretation of their influences. For ‘Boiling Wells’, Amos remembers a diet of “A.R. Kane, Cocteau Twins, DJ Screw, Southern/Memphis rap mixtapes, early 90’s jungle, Karen Dalton, Sybille Baier, Vashti Bunyan, Svitlana Nianio, a lot of soul, Armand Hammer & Alchemist, Grouper, Bobby Caldwell. Jazz was a constant, Japanese, Polish, Latin, American…”. And from those diverse strands, something new and singular has formed, to line up alongside them. ‘Boiling Wells (Demos ‘19-’22)’ is released by UK newcomer Six of Swords in a limited vinyl edition of 300 copies, pressed on black vinyl housed in full colour 270 gsm matt varnish sleeve and black paper inner, with full download coupon

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Bootsy's Rubber Band

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

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Downwards)

Samuel Kerridge

The Silence Between Us

11,99 €*

The Future Sound Of London

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

Sam Kerridge launches a major rethink of his style with the high-velocity tempos and razor-toothed bite of The Silence Between Us.Toiling somewhere between Ueno Masaaki’s Vortices for Raster-Noton, the pitching pelt of La Peste for Hangars Liquides, and the machine convulsions of Somatic Responses, he goes balls-to-the-wall with the breakneck momentum of Possession/Control, harnessing reverse-edited kicks, helter-skelter EBM bass and spectrographic noise ghouls in a surge of searing rave energy.Flipside, those knotty, strobing pulses keen thru empty stomach inversions and bursts of tangled EBM synths on Ascension, which is effectively a snappier edit of the A-side, whilst Radical Possibilities of Pleasure sounds like a field recording from a french hardtek invaded by dildo dibble in choppers and riot gear railing lasers against any unlucky dancers.

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Life In Moments

2LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Fsol Digital)

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This album originates from 2015 and was only issues on an extremely limited edition (only 250 copies) and now highly sought after CD. For Record Store Day 2023 the album is being issued one more time, the first time on vinyl only and limited to 1000 individually numbered pressings. "Life in Moments" is classic melodic weirdness from the minds of Fsol - this release contains an additional track "Sonata Andantino" not on the original CD.

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Sure Thing)

Mist006

12,99 €*

Links Berge Rechts Seen Deluxe Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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My Own Mirror To Stay is a brand new and first-ever compilation from the Sure Thing label. It finds them carefully curating six new artists and welcome them to the family, each with their own personal reflections of the dance floor. Lukas Urban kicks off with supple, seductive and stripped back techno while Soreab layers up prickly percussive layers and Sanguine sinks you into a dream state with his lush ambient pads and skeletal rhythms. The flip side features three more elegantly designed and meticulous bits of techno sound sculpture. The always exceptional Neel has mastered this one too.

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Abfahrt Hinwil

2LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Lapsus)

33,99 €*

LP | 2014 | US | Reissue (Temporary Residence)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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From its creation in the late 90s until its closure in 2009, the Toytronic label witnessed a digital revolution that transformed the record industry, turning glitch into a production tool for a whole generation heir to the of bleep 'n' bass sound. Thanks to their impeccable A&R credentials, its head honchos, Martin Haidinger and Chris Cunningham, created an incredible IDM label catalogue, as well as producing their own material under pseudonym Abfahrt Hinwil. Their only album to date 'Links Berge Rechts Seen' [Toytronic, 2002] was released as a compilation featuring tracks from their brief career that over the years has become a benchmark for the Toytronic sound. This album included their first -and only- three releases signed to Expending Records and Toytronic, and also included two previously unreleased songs: 'Planquadrat' and a hidden track at the end of the CD version. Lapsus proudly presents 'Links Berge Rechts Seen', which will be released on vinyl for the first time as part of its'Perennial Series'. The collector's format marbled 2LP is accompanied by a double-sided lithographic print, which includes a unique and exclusive interview from Martin and Chris, talking to prestigious electronic music journalist Philip Sherburne.

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William Basinski

Melancholia

33,99 €*

Fabrice Pascal Quagliotti

Release: 2014 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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- Limited Edition of 2,000 copies- First time ever on vinyl- Remastered from original recordingsOriginally released a year after the increasingly iconic The Disintegration Loops, a decade later Melancholia still stands as William Basinski's second most beloved album. To commemorate its 10-year anniversary, we are honored to present the first-ever vinyl edition of this otherworldly piece of music. Remastered from the original recordings and pressed onto audiophile-quality 100% pure virgin vinyl, this limited-edition vinyl reissue is packaged in a stunning gatefold jacket featuring all-new artwork. It is truly a sight and sound to behold. Like many of Basinski's most soul-stirring works, Melancholia began as a series of short tape loops captured in the early 1980s. Basinski then stored them away for decades, revisiting them at a different time in his life, at which point they took on a stunning new sound all their own - one that many consider to be among the finest of the past decade. "Melancholia is probably the best of Basinski's records until now, even if this is hard for me to say given my love for each one of his releases. This music is so beautifully delicate and sad in its auto-reflective moods, it stands right there with everything ranging from the usual suspects in the 'ambient' field, to a distorted damp ghost of Claude Debussy or Maurice Ravel put into a time machine." - Touching Extremes

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Undo

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Intermezzo)

37,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Cave 4b-50 Clicks Northwest

Porn Sword Tobacco

12" | 2013 | SE | Original (Aniara)

Release: 2013 / SE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | Original (Arjunamusic)

Samuel Rohrer

Codes Of Nature

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (!K7)

Tosca

Going Going Going

30,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Shackleton

The Majestic Yes

13,99 €*

Advanced Myth Limited Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Killer EP. Next-level Shackleton.

Taking off from Beaugars Seck’s foundational sabar drum rhythms — recorded by Sam in Dakar in February 2020 — Shackleton has constructed a trio of intricately layered, luminous, enchanted, epic excursions. The second is more dazzled and meandering, with jellied bass, insectile detail, and discombobulated jabbering; the third is more liquid, fleet of foot, and psychedelic, with a grooving b-line and funky keyboard stabs, scrambled eastern strings and hypnotic vocalese.

The harmonium in The Overwhelming Yes sounds like Nico blowing in chillily from up the desert shore. The overall mood is wondrous, twinkling with light, onwards-and-upwards; an uncanny, dubwise mix of the ancient and the futuristic. Mark Ernestus’ Version is stripped, trepidatious, mystical, and stranger still, with just a snatch of the original melody, extra distortion and delay, and crystal-clear drum sound.

Twenty minutes of startlingly original music, with Shackleton the maestro at the top of his game, and a characteristically evilous dub by Mark Ernestus. Mastered by Rashad Becker; handsomely sleeved.

Sick to the nth. Love 4 Ever.

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Dialect

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rvng Intl.)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Umeboshi)

James Devane

Beauty Is Useless

23,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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OST A Life In Waves Clear Vinyl Edition

Suzanne Ciani

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Earth Libraries)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Candomble)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sonically, Midnight Garden has explored older sounds to create something new, breathing new life into old keyboards and machines to create an uncharted, otherworldly atmosphere, while trying to anchor the listener in something familiar, with pop influenced rhythms and lyrical themes.

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Das Wettbüro

Gewinnt Immer

The Future Sound Of London

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Get inside the gambling den. Das Wettbüro is the new music on candomblé that will make you want to never stop playing. Toggling between love infested disco and droner Krautrock, leaning into Kosmische and Late 80s House - it is a pleasure to be surprised as their vision unfolds. These men don’t play for free. And they always win. Now bet your Money on this record

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Rituals (Environment Volume 7.1) Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Fsol Digital)

43,99 €*

LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Black Truffle)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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Oren Ambarchi

Sagittarian Domain

Microtronics Volumes 1 & 2 Remastered Edition

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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10th anniversary reissue of this rhythmically churning one-man-band monster of an album, recorded in a single inspired studio session & originally released in 2012 on Editions Mego.

From the original Editions Mego press release:

“For anyone who still associates Oren Ambarchi exclusively with the clipped, bass-heavy tones of solo electric guitar works such as Suspension, this rhythmically churning one-man-band monster of an album-length piece might seem to come out of nowhere. However, listeners who have followed the breadth of his work for the last few years (solo and in projects with collaborators from Jim O’Rourke to Stephen O’Malley and Keith Rowe to Keiji Haino) will have noted how Ambarchi has allowed increasingly clear traces of his enthusiasms as a music listener (for classic rock, minimal techno and 70’s fusion, among other areas) to surface in his performances and recordings, all the time filtering them through his signature long-form structures and psychoacoustic sonics.

Recorded in a single inspired studio session, Sagittarian Domain displaces Ambarchi’s trademark guitar sound from the centre of the mix, its presence felt only as an occasional ghostly reverberated shimmer. Endlessly pulsating guitar and bass lines sit alongside electronic percussion and thundering motorik drumming (familiar from his work with Keiji Haino) at the core of the piece, locking into a voodoo groove like Faust covering a 70’s cop show theme. The work is founded on hypnotic almost-repetition, the accents of the drum hits and interlocking bass and guitar lines shifting almost imperceptibly back and forwards over the beat as they undergo gradual transformations of timbre. Cut-up and phase-shifted strings enter around the half-way mark like an abstracted memory of the eastern-tinged fusion of the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s classic Visions of the Emerald Beyond, before returning for an extended, stark yet affecting come-down coda, equal parts Gavin Bryars and Purple Rain.

While Sagittarian Domain contains traces of a diversity of influences, it mines all of them to uncover something that is clearly an extension of Ambarchi’s own investigations up to this point, exhibiting the same care for micro-detail and surrender to the physicality of sound that are present in all of his work, extending them in new ways to repetition, pulse and rhythm”.

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Broadcast

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Warp)

25,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2015 | US | Original (Avenue 66)

Lowtec

Man On Wire

6,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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DJ Stingray & Skee Mask Remixes

Keleketla!

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Ahead Of Our Time)

13,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Raster)

Franck Vigroux

Ballades Sur Lac Gele

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We met Franck Vigroux for the first time years ago at Berlin’s Berghain during a soundcheck. At that time he performed with Mika Vainio, with whom Vigroux often worked together. The first track on “Ballades sur lac gelé” dates back to that time. It was created under the impression of this collaboration and friendship with Mika Vainio. This album is dedicated to him. Vainio’s oeuvre is also significant in connection with the history of raster, so it was only logical and our wish to release this album by Franck Vigroux. With the beginning of the corona pandemic, Franck Vigroux took up this early material again, he continued to formulate it and completed the present album “Ballades sur lac gelé”. The title already defines the theme of the ballad, a “song/poem with very minimal structures” (quote Vigroux). “Ballade” is also a play on words with the French word “balade”, in this sense a ramble, a ramble over a frozen lake. The reduced, cool structures reflect this. But at the same time, under the surface, the often distorted sound carpets steadily increase to immense power. Like ice that grows and tectonic forces that have to erupt, glacier-like. Vigroux is very skilled at creating music in this minimalist setting. The intertwining of very few musical elements creates a kind of soundtrack that is multi-layered and at the same time universally intelligible. The official worldwide release date for the CD and vinyl of “Ballades sur lac gelé” will be the 30th of October 2020.

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Rafael Toral

Aeriola Frequency

2x12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Nous'klaer Audio)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Black Truffle is proud to announce the first vinyl reissue of Rafael Toral’s Aeriola Frequency, originally released by Perdition Plastics in 1998. Toral made his name in the world of mid-90’s experimental electronics with two releases, Sound Mind Sound Body (1994) and Wave Field (1995), both now recognised as classics and reissued on vinyl by Drag City, which saw him exploring the potential of electric guitar and pedals to immerse the listener in seemingly endless waves of sustained tones. On Wave Field, inspired by the striking resonance effects he experienced during a Buzzcocks gig with bad acoustics, he achieved a synthesis—often imitated but never bettered—of rock guitar, Ambient, and the acoustic exploration of Alvin Lucier, a kind of "liquid, abstract flux of rock sound".

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Koraal

La Casa Del Volcan

22,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Pingipung)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Nous'klaer Audio is proud to present the new concept album by Koraal: La Casa del Volcan. A voyage of nine tracks echoing the spectacular landscape of Lanzarote, from damp, fathomless caves to deserted planes of volcanic rock, from a solitary palm tree to a fertile oasis. Intense, spacial atmospheres and reverberating drums combined with dark textures and dubby rhythms. All written and produced in chronological order in November 2019 by Oriol Riverola, in a three-night session on the island. The album cover comes in eight different versions with pictures taken by Oriol during his stay there. Heavy weight sleeve and vinyl.

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M.Rux

Vermonische Melodien

LP | 2014 | EU | Reissue (Running Back)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vermonische Melodien is a collection of compositions by DJ-producer M.RUX, made with old VERMONA machines from Eastern Germany. The nine Electronica tracks can’t conceal their influences from Exotica records of the 1960s as well as their fondness for vintage music technology. We hear voices singing lullabies (“Magische Time”), mumbling chopped up syllables (“Seelnatrax”) or reciting a Shakespeare quote (“Bakelit”) - are they real? Yes! But they are mostly generated by the world’s first speech synthesis hardware, the IBM 704 from 1954, and processed into off-key melodic beauty with vocoders. "I’ve always been curious about musical visions from the 1970s", says M.RUX about his inspiration for Vermonische Melodien. "Those nifty Vermona machines can today be seen as future machines from the 1970s. They seem almost mystical to me. Like relics from an epoch long ago… and I wanted to find out how music from that time could have sounded." On the album M.RUX uses, above all, equipment by Vermona, a brand from Eastern Germany manufacturing electronic musical instruments until 1990. The drum machine VERMONA ER-9 (1976) was the first instrument M.RUX ever possessed. It forms the rhythmical backbone of his studio on this record. The melodies on the other hand have mainly been played on a Vermona Formation-1, a suitcase synthesizer from 1980. Although these two machines are joined by countless other instruments and effect units, their particular soft sound is present in every single moment of this soothing album. "I also take a deep bow to the late Reinhard ‘Lacky’ Lakomy", M.RUX adds. "His releases were the first electronic instrumental records on the Amiga label which has been a huge influence for my work in general and this record in particular." M.RUX has appeared as a solo producer with his “In the Hold“ EP (2016) on his own YNFND imprint. Before that he had become famous for his edits which gently transform songs by Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Zé and many more into slow, dancefloor-ready gems. Pingipung is proud to present this first full-length album by M.RUX. He is not only a talented multiinstrumentalist and original producer but also a skillful remixer - as he has shown twice to the Pingipung audience in the last two years with his touches on Umeko Ando’s Ainu folklore songs.

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Suzanne Kraft

Missum

15,99 €*

12" | 2015 | UK | Original (Tempa)

Release: 2014 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2020 repress.

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Alex Coulton

Recall / Wiretap

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Kikimora Tapes)

Unfollow

Blader Hater

1,99 €* 8,99 € -77%

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Wah Wah)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For the first vinyl release from Toronto-based experimental techno label Kikimora Tapes, Unfollow presents a three track 12” mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. The A-side kicks things off with Unfollow & Mitchell Akiyama’s (Raster Noton) "Blader Hater" a lo-fi peak time banger that divides its impact between pure pummelling ecstasy and implied harmonics before dropping off into broken beats drowned in sheets of white noise. On the flip, MDD (Measure Divide & Dolgener) pull the original goth house vibes of "Numb's The Word" out by the roots and replants them in a corroded industrial brown field. When the nascent melody does manage to break thru the rusty gravel it emerges with two heads in full toxic bloom. Measure Divide is Fahad Ahmad’s main project, Fahad runs the Format party series in Toronto and Martin Dolgener co-runs the label The Cast Project. Strahinja Arbutina is a Croatian artist who has previously debuted on Entro Senestre's Bank Records NYC label and is also behind the Low Income Squad label. His remix turns the original upside down and empties its pockets as hissy guitar loops, lighters, slamming kicks, and spare change spill out on the operating room floor.

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Didier Bocquet

Voyage Cerebral

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"1979 follow-up to his Eclipse debut, Voyage Cerebral was the second effort by french synthetist Didier Bocquet. Like the first album, it was recorded on his own private studio and self-released, this time via legendary french custom label FVLM ("Faites Le Vous-Même", meaning "Do It Yourself"). Inspired by the first wave of german kosmische sound-travellers (Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream and the whole Berlin School spring inmediately to mind) but retaining that typical french urgency that places it close to Heldon / Pinhas, Lard Free or even Besombes / Rizet territory. In-your-face sequenced electronic music that sounds both spacy and violent at the same time whilst keeping a certain lo-fi, self produced vibe. Recommended to fans of all things “kosmische” and synth music in general."

Raül G. Pratginestós (Fauni Gena)

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12" | 2010 | DE | Original (Dial)

2010

5,99 €*

Release: 2010 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Central Processing Unit)

Noumen

White Silence

4,99 €* 10,99 € -54%

Kiasmos (Olafur Arnalds & Janus Rasmussen)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We first spotted Noumen in 2012 and alongside Cygnus was one of the first to be asked to join CPU. Over 4 years later he finally delivers an EP and LP that is a true labour of love. Abstract electronics of the highest quality. It's IDM, but with that essential hip hop influence making it immeasurably more addictive and pleasing. With plenty of melody and swing layered over intricate rhythm programming, it leaves listeners stunned.
White Silence is taken from the forthcoming album Apeiron. Remaining 3 tracks are exclusive to this EP.

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Swept

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Moritz Von Oswald Trio

Horizontal Structures

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Horizontal Structures is palpably a more open, more expressive album than the previous studio recording, Vertical Ascent. There is more contrast, more light and shade. St Hilaire and Muellbauer add fresh drama and swing to the intimate tonal and rhythmic interactions of the core grouping.

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12" | 2015 | DE | Original (Bass Maessage)

Bass Maessage Volume 1

Release: 2015 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2015 | BE | Original (Vlek)

Lawrence Le Doux

Pollution

Audiolust & Higherlove Limited Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / BE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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SG Lewis

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (EMI)

40,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Latency)

Tlf Trio

New Songs & Variations

17,99 €*

Caput (Lp,Ltd,Heavy 350gsm Sleeve,Sticker)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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TLF Trio New Songs & Variations

Ltnc024 12" £8.50

March-like, Wild (Moritz von Oswald Variation) Chrome Purple Foyer (Moritz von Oswald Variation)

"Following the resonating success of their initial collaboration, the TLF Trio—comprising Danish cellist Cæcilie Trier (ctm), pianist Jakob Littauer, and guitarist Mads Kristian Frøslev—reunites on Latency with electronic music legend Moritz von Oswald for the follow-up to their debut album, 'Sweet Harmony.'

TLF Trio, along with Moritz von Oswald, once again delves into the realm of chamber music, this time with two new songs further exploring the intricate acoustic dynamics of their instruments with electronics. As the second instalment in this musical journey, 'New Songs & Variations' builds upon the minimalistic, sculptural, and narrative qualities of its predecessor, weaving a tapestry of expressive and plural voices.

Moritz von Oswald, a central figure in the electronic music scene since the early '90s, brings his wealth of experience to the project, reinterpreting two of TLF Trio's previous works. From his early days as a classical percussionist to groundbreaking collaborations in the techno sphere, von Oswald's influence has left an indelible mark. His role in co-founding Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound and contributions to the Berlin-Detroit-Chicago axis have defined various strains of modern music.

'New Songs & Variations' not only captures the rich history and influence of Moritz von Oswald but also showcases his ongoing exploration into classical, experimental, and improvisational contexts. From recomposing Ravel and Mussorgsky’s music for Deutsche Grammophon to acclaimed collaborations with jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær, composer Laurel Halo, or Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen, von Oswald's versatility continues to evolve.

TLF Trio and Moritz von Oswald invite listeners to embark on a sonic journey that bridges the past and the present, mirroring the transformative essence of Louise Lawler's distorted image, which graces its cover—a testament to the delicate fluidity and shape-shifting nature of the music contained within.

Compossed by Moritz von Oswald, Cæcilie Trier, Claus Haxholm (beat on Chrome), Jakob Littauer and Mads Kristian Frøslev. Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Louise Lawler. Formica (adjusted to fit, distorted for the times, slippery slope 2), 2011/2012/2015/2017. Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers. As adjusted for Latency.

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Danny Scott Lane

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (WRWTFWW)

Invisible Lands Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Genre: Ambient, Chillout, Cool Jazz, Minimalism, Downtempo

LP: Limited Edition of 500, Heavy 350gsm Sleeve, Sticker

Tracklisting LP
A1. 21st Street
A2. Mike’s Kitchen
A3. Too Much Time
A4. Each Day Is Every day
A5. Be Outside Talking
A6. Closing In 5 Minutes, Customers
B1. 10’Clock Ride
B2. Not Home
B3. Spring Street
B4. Late Love Walk
B5. Metal From Out A Window
B6. Her Coming In

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WRWTFWW Records is continuing its fruitful and blissful collaboration with New York ambient / jazz / downtempo musician Danny Scott Lane with the first ever vinyl release for his 2021 cassette album Caput. The 12-track beauty is available as a limited edition LP (500 copies worldwide) housed in a marvelously designed heavy 350gsm sleeve. The album is also available digitally.

Originally released on cassette only, Caput is desert music inspired by the city, a serene and cozy soundtrack of contemplative synth, mini pleasure-grooves, and botanical ambient jazz, sure to gently pacify the emotionally conflicted and make small moments the best moments. Scott Lane’s smooth downtempo is like a cushiony bubble of simple life, protecting the mind from noise and stress. It’s the comforting hand on the shoulder, the blanket that keeps warm, the easy Sunday morning breakfast - caring chillout music to escape from the brouhaha.

Caput follows the adorable, so comfy, and beloved soundscapes Home Decor and Shower, both available on WRWTFWW Records, and thus marks the third Danny Scott Lane release on the label…and surely not the last! Complete the collection now and feel the joy of being alive.

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For fans of ambient jazz, cool jazz, downtempo, lofi, bedroom tapes, cassettes becoming vinyl records, the simple good life, easy mornings and cozy nights, finding solace in this world of madness.

Super limited imited edition vinyl for Danny Scott Lane’s 2021 cult cassette release Caput.

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Milio

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Atomnation)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (RecordJet)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Milio is back on Atomnation with his third full-length Invisible Lands in September 2024. It is the glorious result of an artistic journey in which the Dutchman has discovered new production skills and techniques so he can translate the rich fantasy world of his childhood into a musical form using only analogue sound.

Milio has always been a synth magician who paints with sound. His house music has always been steeped in colour, emotion and great craft, and is often created on-the-fly using analog hardware. In recent times he has impressed with his immersive live show, launched his own label VIAVIA and joined a new group A# with French II, Alberta Balsam and Bastian Benjamin in order to further explore improvised live experiments.

VITAL SALES POINTS:

- Clear Vinyl
- Third full length album
- Your Army DJ + Radio Promo
- Invisible Lands comes with original artwork from Koen Taselaar, an accomplished multi-media artist who has held solo exhibitions at Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and incorporates puns, wit and psychedelia into his abstract yet colourful work across canvas, ceramics and print.

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Luca Musto

Old Habits Die Hard

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2024 | Original (Be With)

Steve Moore

Cursed Objects

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (On Rotation)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Steve Moore returns to the library music fold and it's a total doozy: Cursed Objects is truly sensational prog-synth-wave. Featuring epic electronic explorations with chamber music and symphonic flourishes, it's our favourite thing Steve has ever done. In keeping with the horror heat of the music contained within, this vinyl release is frighteningly limited, with just 500 pressed for the world.

New York-based multi-instrumentalist/producer/film composer Steve Moore is probably best known for his synthesizer and bass guitar work as Zombi, together with Anthony Paterra. But he is also part of Miracle and Titan as well as being a prolific solo artist releasing music as Gianni Rossi, Lovelock and under his own name. Steve’s music has found a home across hallowed labels like Future Times, Mexican Summer, LIES, Static Caravan, Kompakt, Death Waltz, Ghost Box and, of course, Be With Records.

Steve released Cursed Objects for fresh library label Fold. Run by ex-KPM head Paul Sandell, it's a library with values we can all get behind. It's the first production music platform working exclusively with independent labels, publishers and artists to create a truly authentic artist-led sound, at production music rates. Here's what Steve had to say: "I had worked with Paul before, at KPM. After he left, he mentioned that he had started a new library - Fold - and I was very interested in being a part. And I happened to be working on a bunch of music at the time that I thought could fit." So here we are!

The LP opens by letting in "The Uninvited One". Calm and relaxed arpeggiated synths build around sweeping strings and plucked harp to create a mystical and hopeful feel. The title track sees dark synths merge and swell with a piano, string and harp melody that is dark, mysterious and brooding. "Evolutionary Steps" is an electro synthwave track that builds with epic strings and beats, offering an expansive and dreamy approach with a mystical and driving rhythm. Next up, "The Icarus Feather" is daring, pulsing and cinematic synthwave that builds with arpeggiated synths to a hopeful end. "Daily Affirmations" offers calm and meditative ambient synths with plucked harp and strings for a reflective, peaceful, daydreamy feel.

“Mesmer's Bauble” ushers in side two, its dark synth backing builds with plucked harp and strings building with a sense of unknown and dread; it's introspective and heartfelt. "Quiet Springs" is all mystical synths, harps and strings, building to an epic panoramic scope with a hopeful and poignant atmosphere. "Festival Of Samhain" presents a dark and brooding piano melody which builds with synths and strings to create a slow and desolate feel. "The Icarus Feather (Revisited)" is epic building synthwave with arpeggiated synths and strings and a driving rhythm - the beat builds with the strings entering a forceful and marching mood. To close, "Shard Of Medusa" rides a serious and dark piano melody and, in concert with harp and strings, it creates a suspenseful and solemn atmosphere.

Steve recorded Cursed Objects, as always, at his home studio in Albany, NY. For synths, he mostly used his trusty Prophet 6, as well as his Moog Minitaur and lots of Korg Polysix too. But he also utilised a lot of virtual instruments - he doesn't have the budget for a full string section, or a harpist, alas.

The album’s cover was designed by Chris Stevenson. The artwork is a nod to first wave cyberpunk and in particular Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and the idea of mind viruses and cursed data. Mastering for this vinyl edition was overseen by Be With regular Simon Francis, and it was cut by the esteemed Cicely Balston at AIR Studios to be pressed in the Netherlands by Record Industry. Far from being cursed, this is another future classic library LP.

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Lisene

Science Friction

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (WRWTFWW)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following a string of releases on a who’s who of top labels such as Planet Euphorique, Salt Mines, Haws and Craigie Knowes, prog-trance pioneer Lisene drops a full-length LP on his On Rotation imprint. With 8 hyper-detailed tracks ranging from club-focused techno, progressive and electro to slo-mo downtempo, Lisene brings his A-game to an album sure to cement his place as one of the most exciting producers and DJs in the UK’s underground music scene.

Created over several years with a perfectionist’s attention to detail, “Science Friction” flits between moods and sonic environments with ease while retaining the cohesion of Lisene’s inimitable production style. Despite being an album, this is still very much a record for the DJs, featuring heads-down club tracks and bass-heavy electro crafted with precision and a cinematic sense of scale. For the home listeners, expansive slo-mo soundscapes and cerebral synth odysseys float high above the clouds, with widescreen details revealing themselves ever further with each re-play.

“This album has been 15 years in the making and represents a culmination of everything I’ve worked towards in defining my own sound and style without letting myself be pigeonholed. I’m immensely proud of each track - it really reflects where I was at musically while making this, while giving a glimpse into my future sound. This is a record that deserves to be played on the finest sound systems and hi-fis, and I couldn’t be more happy with how it’s turned out. Dive in and enjoy!”

Combining influences from across the spectrum of dance music with a cinematic sense of psychedelia and his own inimitable production skills, “Science Friction” is sure to see a lot of airtime across the festivals, after-parties and living rooms of the world this summer and beyond.

On Rotation is a Leeds based label, event & mix series run by Chris I’Anson, Lisene & Adam Pits. Artwork illustrated and designed by Patch D Keyes.

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Albinos

Bamboo Night

Echoes Of The Night (The Adrian Sherwood Remixes) Green Eco-Mix Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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WRWTFWW Records is hot and sweaty as it announces the release of Bamboo Night, the steamy new album from French producer, Astral Soda Records owner, and illustrator, Albinos. The 8-song ambient house/cool jazz/deep chill electronic intimate marvel is available as a limited edition LP housed in a heavy 350gsm sleeve.

Originally self-released on cassette (25 copies only!), Bamboo Night, now polished and refreshed, is fully out and about on collector’s vinyl, offering a large display of chillout options for a sexy late summer and private moments of pure unadulterated bliss.

The sun-soaked album freely spreads its wings and glides from bedroom deep house to ambient groove and every beautiful thing in between, including but not limited to cool jazz to restore the soul, long-slow-deep breath downtempo, sweet eye gazing lofi pop, and an unexpected but mandatory ode to the Honda Civic. Albinos’ second album, following Santa Barbara (2016), is a welcome detour on stress-free seashores, a heartwarming reminder that small pleasures and cozy moments mean everything. Enjoy music, cherish life.

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Pitch Black

10" | 2024 | UK | Original (Dubmission)

17,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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They say you should never meet your heroes, but for Mike, meeting the legendary Adrian Sherwood has been a transformative experience, leading to creative collaborations that have benefited both of them.

Nearly 30 years after first being mesmerized by OnU Sound’s releases, a cheeky bit of radio ripping serendipitously led to Mike helping Pats Dokter, the label’s official archivist, with his work restoring master tapes, and eventually to him creating visual content for Adrian’s live shows.

A while after this collaboration began, Adrian offered to remix some of Mike’s music, either by his solo project @misledconvoy or our tunes, and it’s four cuts by us that grace this heavyweight platter.

From the dreamy dub of Transient Transmission to the rolling rhythms of A Doubtful Sound, our originals have been re-arranged and dubbed to $%># in Adrian’s signature style, with fluid melodies, pounding basslines and vocal samples awash in a wall of effects.

Trumpets by David “Ital Horns” Fullwood bookend the release, haunting in the first track and celebratory in the last, while Doug Wimbish (Tackhead) added an extra bassline to the heaving version of 1000 Mile Drift, which also features the voice of the iconic Lee “Scratch” Perry.

Reflecting on the collaboration, Mike says, “the whole experience has been slightly unreal, from working on Adrian’s videos to being in the OnU studio and watching him dub-mixing the tracks I’ve made, something I could never have imagined happening!”

Mike isn’t the only OnU fan, as a pivotal moment for Paddy was “watching Adrian mixing Tack>head at the Powerstation in 1995 and seeing the cause-and-effect of what he was doing and hearing the unbelievable sounds coming out of the speakers. It was the first time I’d ever seen somebody dub mix like that.”

The cover of Echoes of the Night is based upon an original artwork by Hamish Macaulay, while the vinyl has been pressed using a 100% recycled compound known as eco-mix, making each record totally unique as the colours subtly change across the pressing run.

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Neptune Discs)

Neptune Discs Volume 9

13,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We're excited to unveil our inaugural vinyl release, introducing the first Neptune ‘Disc’ to the world. Trance-inducing progressive genres, which dive into the magnetic allure of '90s progressive sounds with a distinct tilt towards the club scene. Four tracks resonating through the depths of a festival ambiance, enveloped in an enigmatic mist and bathed under shimmering purple strobes.

A1 introduces Cybernet, an emerging force hailing from the vibrant scene of Aus. Delving beyond the sounds of the '90s Cybernet brings forth a distinctive sonic narrative, intertwining intricate vocal hooks before unleashing the pulsating acid-line. An instant classic unfolds, resonating with the essence of the dance-floor.

Glen S swiftly becomes a Neptune Disc regular with "Uh!" on A2. Tailored for the club, he infuses his signature alien scattered pulses and a rolling bassline. With a deft touch, he creates a surge of energy by cutting off all elements on the drop, leaving only the bass and kicks. Expertly crafted.
Aiden's "Fanks" on the B-side boasts a mesmerising appeal, again reminiscent of the 90s-2000s era, with its pulsating bassline and entrancing soundscape. It delves into the realm of trance, offering a hypnotic journey that echoes the allure of that bygone era. With its captivating blend of trippy elements, the track creates a nostalgic yet timeless vortex of sound, drawing listeners into an otherworldly experience that resonates with the spirit of classic electronic music.

B2 showcases Tourman's prowess as a versatile producer, seamlessly delving into different genres. Overflowing with progressive energy and adorned with scattered UFO sounds, this track stands as a testament to Tourman's evolving artistry—a dynamic force ready to command diverse sonic landscapes. An ideal opener for peak-time set.

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Léo Dupleix

Resonant Trees

David Douglas & Applescal

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Black Truffle is pleased to announce Resonant Trees, the first vinyl release from French composer-performer Léo Dupleix. An active member of the international community of younger musicians working with just intonation, Dupleix has composed works for solo instrumentalists and ensembles in Europe and Japan, as well as performing extensively on harpsichord, piano and electronics. His music is distinguished by a formal clarity and elegance of surface, gently shaping pure intervals into delicate melodic patterns and shimmering harmonic planes. Resonant Trees presents two side-long pieces for harpsichord and ensemble, both setting slowly repeating patterns played on harpsichord and guitar within an environment of sustained tones. Dupleix performs on a French double manual harpsichord (tuned to a just intonation scheme of his own devising) and Prophet synthesizer, joined by Juliette Adam (bass clarinet), Johanna Bartz (traverso flute), Cyprien Busolini (viola), Fredrik Rasten (6- and 12-string guitars), and Mara Winter (traverso flute). The harpsichord begins Resonant Tree I alone, slowly sounding out a series of arpeggiated chords that emphasise the unique (and for unaccustomed listeners, sometimes unsettling) harmonic and timbral qualities of justly tuned intervals. Long tones from synthesiser, bass clarinet, viola and Baroque traverso flutes slowly creep into the spaces between the arpeggiated chords, joined after several minutes by delicate patterns of harmonics played by Rasten on acoustic guitars. On Resonant Tree II, a similar structure and ensemble (without the flutes) are used with quite different results. We again hear only the harpsichord at first, but this time playing a series of flowing melodic lines, each of which is repeated several times. Joined again by long tones from the ensemble, here the viola is particularly prominent and its interplay with the harpsichord creates fascinating acoustic effects. In both pieces, repetition gives the music a static, stable quality while, at the same time, the exact shape of the repeating patterns remains difficult to grasp. As Dupleix writes, these pieces dream of music as ‘space and a sound that one could grasp in one’s hand.’ As the near-static quality of the repetitions and long tones with little incident make these two stretches of musical time feel like spaces for the listener to inhabit, the small variations on a narrow range of related material act like a three-dimensional object whose each facet is examined in turn. At once austere and seductive, Resonant Trees takes its place beside the work of contemporaries like Catherine Lamb, while also calling up the languorous melodic world of Mamoru Fujieda, the dignified melancholy of Satoshi Ashikawa’s classic Still Way and the espaliered chamber atmospherics of the Obscure catalogue.

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Démarrage

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Atomnation)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rosten)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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David Douglas and Applescal both share a deep passion for the road. In the summer of 2023, they decided to come together to write a track. Full of inspiration and atmospheric ideas, this evolved from a rough concept into a collection of tracks. What initially began as an idea for a single track quickly grew into the full-fledged electronic album 'Démarrage'.

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