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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Chapelle Xiv Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Le Motel and Bruce Wijn met at school, during a school art trip to Munich. They went separate ways for a long time.

Hailing from Brussels, Le Motel's world is a vortex of sight and sound that takes in the many and varied corners of the planet. As a music producer and film composer his versatility has taken him to festivals and clubs in every direction as naturally as he has ventured out to the less accessible areas of the globe as a field recordist. It's somewhere in between these spaces that Le Motel operates, gathering unique experiences and sounds to channel through his studio.

Bruce Wijn is a Brussels-based guitarist who played in several postrock kind projects such as Sound Film, 52 Commercial Road, or more shoegaze Lazy Sin. These collaborations gave him the opportunity to perform in various locations in Belgium, France, England, and the USA. As a musician, his focus has always been attracted by progressively built rhythmic melodies, which would eventually turn into long reverberated or distorted swells, or the otherway round.

All these experiences brought them both to the idea of scoring movies with different yet similar approaches.

That's how their first collaboration happened as Le Motel was working on the soundtrack of the movie Binti, and invited Bruce Wijn for the track Exode, in 2018. Since then, they've been working on other scoring projects, such as the feature film 'Aller Retour' more recently.

Alongside the movie scoring activities another audiovisual live project was born, in collaboration with Antoine de Schuyter and his mesmerizing images.

This one is more focusing on tape textures, field recordings and glitchy effects in order to build atmospheric tracks that they decided to bring together in a first E.P. 'maar'.

'maar' is elaborated as a soundtrack for an imaginary journey between cold seas and volcanoes explorations.

From the first echoing sounds of playing kids on the shoreside in the opening track 'La Perche' Le Motel & Bruce Wijn let you slide in a technicolor dreamworld, reverbing slowly innocent childhood memories into a chilled, out of range, future.

'maar' dives deep into a kaleidoscopic microcosmos watching Nautilus playing hide and seek with 'Captain Ahab' floating on sonic breaking waves, while seagulls gently spread their wings flying through the breezy and misty clouds of Blankenberge.

Lava vulcanica slowly melts in the sad euphorica of the cold North Sea, crystallizing sounds only Le Motel and Bruce Wijn can deliver.

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Auflassen

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Dualtone)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Auflassen is an organic album that blends live instruments with electronic beats, distilled from the decades of experience of Guillaume Coutu Dumont.

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Wilder Woods

Fever / Sky

25,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Relapse)

Troller

Drain

27,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Clearaudio)

Wolfgang Bernreuther

Still A Fool

86,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

Rich Aucoin

Synthetic Season 2

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Titrate)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"On Synthetic: Season 2, Halifax pop artist and composer Rich Aucoin continues his journey through the history of synthesizers. The second entry in his quadruple LP series once again features an armada of the world’s most rare, historic, and highly sought after electronic instruments. Gaining access to the collections of Calgary’s National Music Centre and LA’s Vintage Synthesizer Museum, Aucoin ran amok on machines to create four albums of thrilling, transporting instrumental music.

Each song on Synthetic: Season 2 conjures a world of its own, combining Aucoin’s melodic sensibilities with textural, genre-agnostic experimentation. The album swerves into action with the wiggling synths and thunderous drum breaks of “Wav” – recorded on the Hammond Novachord from 1939 and considered the very first analog, fully polyphonic synthesizer – stacking hooks like a cinematic training montage as it climbs toward the first of many transcendent conclusions. “Shift” changes course into eerie, frostbitten industrial territory with rubbery beats that bounce like pogo sticks, switching tempos unexpectedly and dissolving into skittering arrays of sound.

The squelching groove of “Pure” brings a touch of ’90s French House, like Daft Punk jet-setting around the world. Six minutes pass in a flash during this playful brain-dance. “Space” is a thumping banger built upon chiming, subaquatic beats that slice through thick drones and filter disco drops. Its passages of extraterrestrial techno tranquility will make you feel like an astronaut floating in the inky void, making shapes in zero gravity.

- Jesse Locke"

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Pagan Red

Materia

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Titrate)

Hems

Chaotic Affair

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Reiten Presents Enso 2020

2LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Reiten)

30,99 €*

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound)

Staub007

26,59 €* 27,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Alpengluhen)

Estrato Aurora

El Margen EP

13,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Affin)

Joachim Spieth

Terrain

19,79 €* 21,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (A Strangely Isolated Place)

Strie & Scanner

Struktura Revisited

39,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2023 | US | Original (Central Scientific)

Tvtm

A Number Of Northwests

19,99 €*

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Central Scientific)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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THE Valley AND THE Mountain (josh Dahlberg) drop this 4 track EP on Central Scientific with a mix of electronic tracks ranging from contemplative and mellow to more dancefloor driven--including a remix from DJ Aakmael (ndtal, Poker Flat). This EP documents an artist in transition; migrating from deep on Detroitâ€™s Westside to the furthest reaches of the Pacific Northwest, and represents a fresh start for Josh DAHLBERGâ€™s established Tvtm alias. The result is a range of interwoven styles across the four tracks, casting a hazy vibe with a healthy low-end workout throughout. Limited pressing.

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Tvtm & Jo Rad Silver

Immersion Obscura

9,09 €* 13,99 € -35%

TEll A ViSiON Crystal Glass Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The debut release on Central Scientific with THE Valley AND THE Mountain (josh Dahlberg) and Detroit based producer JO RAD Silver. The A side is an expansive soundscape imbibed with skin tingling modulation. On the B side JO RAD Silver routes a guitar into a synth, strumming a twangy line accompanied by sporadic and timely chords and noisy drones to create soothing, meditative atmospherics.

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TEll A ViSiON

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Duchess Box)

22,99 €*

CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Mylja)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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TEll A ViSiON releases her new self titled album via Duchess Box Records TEll A ViSiON is the moniker of Berlin artist Fee Kurten who recorded her album in East London. Having formally been part of a long term music project TEll A ViSiON became a new project in 2022 with a revitalized direction, a rebirth. The new demos caught the attention of Duchess Box Records who swiftly took the artist for a record deal and have been working to start the hype with the first singles gaining more and more attention with each one. Stop, the hype starts now. TEll A ViSiON has been playing shows all around Germany and recently toured in 2000 cap venues with Guano Apes. Fee Kurten started making music as a child in her hometown of Hamburg and was laying down rap tunes throughout her teenage years. TEll A ViSiON fuses a mix of influences from early hip hop, new wave, dub. trip hop and post punk. Mockumentary has a off world sound with its deep beats and slick synths which gives it a cosmic feeling.

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Cedric Vermue

Perpetua

14,99 €* 19,99 € -25%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall

Diagenesis

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Laaps)

25,99 €*

Aquapelagos Vol.1: Atlantico

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Craig Tattersall is a former member of Hood in the mid-to-late 90s, alongside The Remote Viewer and Famous Boyfriend bandmate Andrew Johnson, Tattersall's music can be found these days more often under his alias The Humble Bee; as a founding member of The Boats. Russell Burden's practice explores the relationships between scientific phenomena, artistic expression and existential sensibility.

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Lagoss & Banha Da Cobra

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Keroxen)

Alessandro Cortini of Nine Inch Nails

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Introducing the first volume on the »Aquapelagos« series - a collection of split LPs where selected artists offer their own take into water surrounded cultures and communities. After the initial release of the Anthology compilation, this first volume opens up the series with a sound journey inspired by the majestic and sometime furious Atlantic Ocean. The music was recorded throughout special artists residencies held during the Keroxen Festival in 2020 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where throughout a week each band recorded their own free vision of an aquapelagic Atlantic culture. Lagos is comprised of, Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Mladen Kurajica and Daniel García while, Banha da Cobra is Mestre André and Carlos Godinho.

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Forse 1

2LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Important)

41,99 €*

Born Again In The Voltage

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails/How To Destroy Angels) composed the Forse series using a Buchla Music Easel. Forse, meaning "maybe" In Italian, is a series of 3 double LP releases Cortini recorded for Imprec to release in 2013.

"All pieces were written and performed live on a Buchla Music Easel, in the span of one month. I found that the limited array of modules that the instrument offers sparked my creativity. Most pieces consist of a repeating chord progression, where the real change happens at a spectral/dynamic level, as opposed to the harmonic/chordal one. I believe that the former are just as effective as the latter, in the sense that the sonic presentation (distortion , filtering, wave shaping, etc) are just as expressive as a chord change or chord type, and often reinforce said chord progressions.

Of all the years with Nine Inch Nails the period spent writing and recording the instrumental record Ghosts I-iv is probably the one which changed my approach to music making the most. After that record I started getting more into instrumental composition, although I tried to approach it in a different way. While we had a vast array of tools and instruments at our disposal then, I decided to approach my pieces limiting myself to one instrument only, as I found myself being more decisive when faced with a limited creative environment."

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Caterina Barbieri

LP | 2018 | US | Reissue (Important)

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (XKatedral)

Release: 2018 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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»Born Again In The Voltage« (released in 2018), is an astonishing collection of electro-acoustic pieces for Buchla 200 system, cello, and voice composed and produced by Caterina Barbieri at Elektronmusikstudion (se) between 2014 and 2015. Cello by Antonello Manzo. Images by Giovanni Brunetto; Photography by Angelo Jaroszuk Bogasz; Layout by Important Records. Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi.

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Mats Erlandsson

Gyttjans Topografi

32,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Umor-Rex)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mats Erlandsson is a composer and musician, part of the vibrantly reemerging field of drone music in Stockholm, Sweden, associated with practices characterised by the extensive use of sustained sound. On »Gyttjans Topografi«, he is in a fictional room imagining a virtual chamber orchestra using zithers, tapes, double bass, harmonium, organ, and various synthesisers to draft a treatise on alternative tuning and non-normative harmonic structures. Transcendent material.

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Entidad Animada

Pruebas De Existencia

24,99 €*

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Arbitrary)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Marcos Díaz has been part of Buenos Aires underground for many years, being in projects like Bosques and making solo music under the pseudonym Entidad Animada (animated entity). Under this project, Marcos has explored sounds that involve a mix of feedback/distortion through synthesizers, guitars and drum machines that hint at the influence of Stereolab, Spacemen 3, and mid-nineties shoegaze. However, there are also ambient soundscapes with a slight rubbed of the ritualistic psychedelia of the Popol Vuh. The display of colours in his music comes together in the midst of a playful, relaxed and optimistic environment that is simultaneously melancholic. Because of the nature of those pieces, but also because in Entidad Animada there is also space for collage sounds that blend randomly with textures of a primitive analog sound, which inevitably causes a paradox between what is alive and what is inert. And it is because Entidad Animada is precisely that, a spectrum or a vision, a ghost. And these sounds are proof of his existence.

Pruebas de existencia (proofs of existence) is a collection of recordings that Marcos has made in recent years and that we have selected for this album, his first work on Umor Rex. A couple of these pieces were only released digitally, while the others have been on ltd cassette editions through Fuego Amigo Discos in Argentina. Pruebas de existencia is an Umor Rex compilation and remastered edition.

Guitar, sampler, synthesizer, organ, bass, drums & electronic beats, vocals, recording and mixing by Entidad Animada in Buenos Aires. Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY. Cover photography Natch Tablescape (1979) by Langdon Clay. Layout by Daniel Castrejón, Mexico City.

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Antoine Hubineau

Dissolvè / Scillions

10,99 €*

Hide Behind The Silence Ep 2

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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arbitrary presents Dissolvè / Scillions by Antoine Hubineau. Derived from the same series of compositions, Dissolvè and Scillions are drawn from modular synthesizer recordings which have been reworked, treated and composed in the computer.

Dissolvè is a mosaic which is in constant motion. The inner details are guided by an outer structure which act as a kind of rhythmic subtraction. It is destabilised to the point where it fractures, from the macro to the micro level; abstracting a filigree from the original rhythm.

Scillions breaks an initial path into several directions which create new paths. Directional blur in harmonic motion makes it difficult to predict the outcomes. Contrary movements, synchronisation and desynchronisation build and break the relations between these new paths. Finally, altered versions of these new directions give some familiarity, while adding to the ambient disorder.

Based in Latillé (France), Antoine Hubineau works in the electronic music field, as a composer, musician, teacher and co-founder of the Sillages residency. His practice is focused on sound synthesis, which become alternately pseudo-acoustic instruments, abstract matter and surreal spaces. In his compositions, he makes the most of the cracks between free pulsation and collateral rhythms, between harmonic stability and sound spectrum tearings.

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Vladislav Delay

10" | 2023 | EU | Original (Rajaton)

18,04 €* 18,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vladislav Delay presents the second EP in his "Hide Behind The Silence" series with five 10" releases coming throughout 2023. Intuitive and raw music, momentary and reflective, released on Ripatti's own label "Rajaton".

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Dancefloor Classics Volume 2

10" | 2023 | EU | Original (Rajaton)

18,04 €* 18,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sasu Ripatti presents the second volume in his "Dancefloor Classics" series with five 10" releases coming throughout 2023. Music for imaginary dancefloors, released on Ripatti's own label "Rajaton".

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Motown Collected 2 White Vinyl Edition

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

35,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Beatbude)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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180 gram audiophile vinyl
Includes insert
Collected part 2 with a selection of early recordings, hits and classic soul and r&b songs of the legendary Motown Records label founded by Berry Gordy Jr.
Featuring 30 classic Motown songs from The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Michael Jackson, Eddie Kendricks, The Commodores, Lionel Richie, The Dazz Band a.o.
Limited edition of 2000 individually numbered copies on white coloured vinyl

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Laff & Wow

18,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Full Dose)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Laff & Wow’s debut on Beatbude Records! Improvised sounds of different instruments converted into lyrics by an automatic speech recognition program and recited by international robo voices. All music performed and recorded by Andreas Haslacher and mastered by The Cologne Wizard. The LP includes a magazine with more informative artworks by Lutger Lonin! Limited to 275 copies.

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Brollachan

23 LP

16,79 €* 20,99 € -20%

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Positive Elevation)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Full Dose is back! Once again exporting their distinctive brand of mutated dub directly from Glasgow's Southside. The label's 13th release is the work of a new name: Brollachan - "a shapeless darkness that craves bodily form". As the name would suggest, the music itself evokes a certain eeriness. Brollachan fuses this with the metallic textures and airy rhythms commonly heard on Full Dose records. Tracks like "Hall" could well be written by a smoked-out mythical being, with deep subs and spring reverb-laden tones throughout. Quality stuff. This juxtaposition of influences continues throughout the release. "Graze" has a particular aquatic feel. Sonar-esque synths punch through the haze and sustained synth sounds keeps the track in midwest territory. Despite the obvious variety on show here, Brollachan of course keeps fans of the Full Dose sound on-side. "Mad Dawg" is a grimey take on this. General Midi style sounds appear throughout the intro. This is complimented by intricate drum programming and a growling bassline, to give us a track straight from the 22nd century. 13 releases in and the tight-knit crew behind Full Dose continue to promote a sound that is both unique and reliable - Brollachan is no exception!

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Coultrain

Phantasmagoria

29,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Udacha)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Coultrain’s Phantasmagoria is firmly embedded in the Soul tradition, built on muted keyboards and overlaid with his assured, smooth voice—but departs with re-worked percussion and fresh, electronic experimentation. The title refers to a sequence of images reminiscent of a dream, and captures the hazy state of mind that drove the process behind this album, as well as its dreamy effect. A.M. Frison, the poet-filmmaker-musician behind the one-man band Coultrain, explores his innermost self through these compositions, drawing from the wide variety of musical influences that have shaped his creative sensibility who he describes as “the illustrious composers of jazz, the soul singers who own 'soul' in itself, the funk that resonates in dark times.” Phantasmagoria, a masterful interpretation of Frison’s most influential genres and his own introspective reflection, is avant soul at its best.

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Kurvenschreiber

Licht Ausgang

20,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Veego)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Udacha label might have been away for a while but is now back with a vengeance. First up for this return is a new long player by the mighty fine Kurvenschreiber quarter, which is made up of Sergey Komarov, Vlad Dobrovolski, Ilya Sadovski and Alexey Grachev. These sound artists have been excelling in their field for some 10 years now and use synths as well as found sound objects to create their work. Magnetic tape loops, various instruments, pre-recorded loops, shortwave radios, transformers and much more give rise to this unique record which mixes up Boolean jazz, kurventronika and post-rock.

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Kukuraxa

Kukuraxa I

22,99 €*

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Mesma)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Rotterdam based duo Kukuraxa brings in mind the golden era of 4AD - Cocteau Twins.

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Munjebel

Demi-Monde

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Circus Company)

Brigitte Barbu

La Science Des Imbéciles

24,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mille Plateaux)

Cristian Vogel

Fase Montuno

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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OST Splatter Vinyl Edition

Zer0

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

18,89 €* 26,99 € -30%

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Soundscape Versions)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A familiar place that doesn’t exist, a soothing song from a distant nowhere. From Zer0 れい comes an enveloping slushwave experience where tangible reality meets the achingly ethereal. OST comes to vinyl, compact disc and cassette

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Healing Force Project

Primitivism Masks

12,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Discrepant)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Soundscape Versions pres. its fifth release from Italian producer Antonio Marini. The EP called "Primitivism Masks" leads a synergy between the electronic matrix and the darkest Dub textures. Irregular rhythms will be perceived, accompanied by various pulsating bass riff and frenetic percussions, of African derivation. King Tubby, Lee Perry, African Head Charge are some of the references of the release that will be heard. A "smoky" and introspective spiral, from the beginning to the end of the project.

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Marc Codsi

Songs From The Aftermath

22,99 €*

Eiko Ishibashi / Jim O'rourke

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Codsi continues his personal exploration of Arabic music codes, mainly investigating quarter tones scales in a fully electronic environment in order to create new harmonies and textures that still convey a feeling of familiarity whilst keeping a certain aura of strangeness and mystery. The album was recorded between during 2021 and 2022 and the music eventually comes as a very personal quest for transcendence. A sort of speculative answer to the world’s ongoing absurdity and what seems to be an incessant array of conflicts, disasters and tragedies.

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Lifetime Of A Flower

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Week-End)

32,99 €*

Junk Body Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For the exhibition “Flowers in 20th and 21st Century Art“, Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O‘Rourke had created the installation ”Lifetime of a Flower“ in which they set parameters but allowed the process itself to grow uncontrollably. Literally: in the garden of their Japanese house, they planted seeds and filmed the plant growing and thriving throughout the duration of the exhibition. Visitors were able to watch the stream in real time - and they heard a composition in which Ishibashi and O‘Rourke reflected the organic process in sound. The eponymous composition now available on LP, is an enigmatic and sophisticated layering of sounds, melodies and rhythms, noises from everyday life, all of which are repositories of associations, memories and expectations.

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LP | 2023 | CH | Original (Ish)

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Brainfeeder)

Release: 2023 / CH – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The body is a machine that is fried and delicate. It cycles and thinks and it is saturated by consciousness. It convulses and excels. It is present and alien to us at the same time. Music is the interior of its forces. Pulses are in the cycles of its processes and the pulses should be slow. If the pulses are slow, then its rhythms yield thinking and an ability for collective consciousness, social change, total action. The cosmos is the body. It is the depth of love on the planet. The body is woven over a void. It is a machine that is fried. Brilliant. Deep. Drones.

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Salami Rose Joe Louis

Akousmatikous

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Alexei Borisov / Sergey Kasich / Giovanni De / Donà / Gianluca Ghini

Moscou Aller-Retour

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Koo Editions)

32,99 €*

Improvisações Cristalizadas

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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An imaginary train journey between Bologna and Moscow. The original recording of the entire experimental electronic session performed at the audiovisual festival "Geometry of Now," Moscow (2017) curated by Mark Fell, reworked in Bologna (Italy) with custom analog equipment in 2022. Alexei Borisov, the Moscow underground legend who has spanned new wave, electronic noise and constructivist experimentation, measures up with artist and curator Sergey Kasich, a sound and media artist originally from Sevastopol, Crimea, founder and main curator of the Sa)) community for experimental sound artists from the post-Soviet regions (https://soundartist.ru), as well as the Sa))_gallery and Sa))_studio in Moscow. The deconstruction of that live performance is meant to underscore the evidence of the lie of the end of history and the inadequacy of theories produced by the relativist burden of postmodernity with its illusory recombinations, revivals and remixes, lead to the search for a misaligned and alt-modern subjectivity that concretely emerges from an imaginary journey into the era of the materialization of the unexpected, like the sudden concreteness of a window that no longer squeaks, but slams... The “Petroni apartment session” was recorded in Bologna, by also mixing concrete elements of environmental recording to emphasize the sudden impending immediacy of the real dimension.

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Nuno Rebelo

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Holuzam)

20,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Stroom)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Unreleased but perfectly formed "hidden" album, recorded in 1989-90 by Nuno Rebelo on the wake of his "Sagração Do Mês De Maio" double LP (composed in 1988 as soundtrack to the third Manobras de Maio fashion event in Lisbon). The tracks convey a sense of investigative curiosity regarding computer composition and they sound wonderfully artificial. Titles as "Moon OK", "Tiny Space Ships" or "Dança Das Creaturas Elásticas" ("Elastic Creatures Dance") embody this idea of otherworldness, a kind of music actually coming from another place, composed and played by elastic creatures. It displays the functional qualities of Library Music, illustrating playful as much as moody and dense moments. In this way the album comes across as a soundtrack for moving images, sure, but with unusual framing and sharp angles. A unique object in the Portuguese avantgarde, keeping its distance from Academia but also from contemporary independent releases ("Plux Quba" by Nuno Canavarro comes to mind). António Duarte's 2019 mastering enhances this collection of music liberated from the archives of one of the most brilliant, active and challenging musicians of his generation.

BIO: Nuno Rebelo was born in 1960, graduated in Architecture, founded Street Kids and Mler Ife Dada, played in the "transitional" line up of GNR in 1982. His creativity expanded into improvised music. Performances and recordings with other musicians multiplied. He composed music for theatre, dance, jingles and, on an almost contradictory scale to his underground credentials, soundtracks for the Expo 98 and Porto 2001 mega events.

“Improvisações Cristalizadas” by Nuno Rebelo: Short electronic pieces composed in 1989-90 using the Atari 1040st computer with Steinberg Pro24 Software, Two Yamaha Sound Modules (tx81zx and Tg55) and Ensoniq Mirage Sampler with keyboard. The composition method for each piece evolved from a short improvisation on the Mirage keyboard, recorded in Midi to the computer. Counterpoint permutations (inversion, reversion, inverted reversion, transpositions) were then applied through the software, distributing the variations of the initial improvisation by other timbres. No other musical material was used.

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Sergeant

24,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Rush Hour)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sergeant's debut lp is a 9 track trial & error effort. A collection of failed protest songs, dreamy and naive. Playfull & self relativating pop music trying to blow up itself.

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Tom Trago

Deco

20,99 €*

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Supernatural Cat)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tom Trago returns to Rush Hour after 10 years with a wonderfully accomplished mini-album, tip!

During the years he spent living in Amsterdam, when his DJ career seemed to become an unstoppable juggernaut, Tom Trago was a regular visitor to Deco Sauna, a local institution that helped him “decompress” and de-toxify his body. Eventually, a more extended period of “decompression” was needed, with Trago moving to the coast to reassess his priorities and spend more time with his young family.

‘Deco’, his sixth album and first for Rush Hour in a decade, was recorded following an extended absence from club dancefloors, as Trago cut back on DJ commitments to prioritise family life. When he returned to the studio, often with his daughter by his side, Trago initially struggled to get back into the groove. The desire to make dancefloor-focused music had – temporarily, at least – deserted him; instead, he found himself drawn towards a desire to create “electronic lullabies” and music that reflected his more pastoral environment (his home backs on to a patch of woodland in which he would walk every day).

Returning to his most familiar synthesisers – and specifically the first synthesiser he bought, on credit, as a young DJ and wannabe producer – Trago set about navigating different musical routes without the straight-jacket of club-focused dancefloors. Occasionally, old friends from Amsterdam would join him in the studio – Tracey and Maxi Mill, both of whom are part of his Voyage Direct label roster, contributed to tracks on the album – but for the most part the production process was a solo endeavour: musical therapy for an artist determined to do things differently after years spent making club hits and sweat-soaked peak-time workouts.

The results are rarely less than spellbinding. Trago sets his stall out with opener ‘Dark Oak’, a gorgeous, colourful, sun-bright scene-setter co-produced by Tracey that layers tumbling lead lines, chiming melodic motifs and kaleidoscopic chords atop the gentlest of bubbly beat patterns. Maxi Mill lends a hand on ‘Central Park’, a deep and hypnotic excursion marked out by rhythmic bleeps, minimalistic beats and layered melodies, and the summer sun-down rush of ‘Never Peace a Puzzle’, where kaleidoscopic synth sounds, meandering solos and looped electronic stabs rush towards a dancefloor of the mind.

Trago’s desire to create “electronic lullabies” for his young daughter comes to the fore on ‘To Be Left Unlocked’, a hypnotising fusion of spacey electronic motifs, Steve Reich style (synth) marimba melodies and slowly building musical intensity, while the echoing Fender Rhodes riffs, squelchy synth-bass, glistening guitar notes and sparse, snappy post hip-hop beats of ‘When The Sky Is Watching Us’ doff a cap to the producer’s roots as a bedroom beat-maker.

Given the project’s genesis, it’s perhaps fitting that Trago chose to conclude proceedings with ‘It Might Be Forever’ and the digital only ‘Blue Dope’, the album’s most rejuvenating, immersive, and vibrant moments. Both feature sustained chords painted with vivid aural brush strokes and come blessed with the merest hint of a rhythmic pulse – a thread that subtly runs throughout Trago’s most mature and musically rich album to date.

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The Mon

Eye

40,99 €*