Downbeat | Electronica | Leftfield 3972 Items

Release: 2022 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Harmless Youth)

Vision Of 1994

Defragmented Dream

20,89 €* 21,99 € -5%

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Morphine)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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‘Defragmented Dream’ is the second half of Vision of 1994’s double album dedicated to his raising in middle class 90’s and early 00’s Czechia, and of his personal transformation in more recent years.

The first album ‘Concrete Memories’ was indebted to his childhood among the ‘pre-fab’ soviet tombstone tower blocks; growing up in the disillusioned socialist urban environments of the Eastern Bloc, of graffiti, parties, and running riot. ‘Defragmented Dream’ is his self-reflection, set in the here and now, on the inescapable demands of maturity and the troubled fulfilment of hand-me-down dreams of prior generations; the kid, the family, the house and car.

Vision pulls back the veils of youthful expectation. Reeling out of wild adolescence and on to the barren fruitlessness of adulthood proper, the fabric of the Dream is in sampling: repurposed memories painting dour false negatives of life.

Defragmented Dream may have its roots in the cold ground, but its upper reaches bathe in the sun. The good with the bad; bright days in gardens and long nights in basements. Keeping the darkness at bay with piecemeal happiness; smiling grim as we walk through the rain.

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Mazen Kerbaj

Sampler / Sampled

30,39 €* 31,99 € -5%

Districts Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Featuring: Deena Abdelwahed, Rabih Beaini, Fari Bradley, Dieb 13, DJ Sniff, Gavsborg (Equiknoxx), Electric Indigo, Donzilla Lion (Nyege Nyege), Marina Rosenfeld, Microhm, Muqata’a, Bob Ostertag, Rrose

Project presentation:

Sampler / Sampled is an album made of two interdependent parts rather than a double-album.

The first part of the project, Sampler, is a trumpet solo album that catalogues the unique sounds and extended techniques that Mazen Kerbaj developed for the instrument in the past 25 years; it consists of 318 pieces ranging from less than a second to forty seconds each, and presenting different sonic materials. This catalogue of sounds works on various levels: first and foremost, it is a trumpet solo that could be played in its original order, or in random mode to create different pieces of music. But it is also a collection of samples that could be used for various applications (ringtones, phone sound effects, cinema…) and, of course, to create new pieces of music based on sampling.

The second part of the project is the composition Sampled for a musician working with loops and/or samples. The composition has one instruction: create a piece of music using solely tracks from Sampler as your sound source (with the possibility to use all kind of effects or treatment). Each interpreter/musician becomes thus a co-composer who appropriates the piece and makes it their own. In this regard, the musicians that were commissioned to play Sampled were chosen from different geographical origins and musical genres to create highly different and personal pieces of music.

One important output of this project is putting in practice the overused idea of music as a universal language. This idea is very present in “free improvised music” where musicians from different origins can meet for the first time and make music together without the need to adapt to different musical traditions. But here, the collective part of creating music in real time is not involved. It is rather the contrary: it starts with one middle-eastern musician creating a new language/vocabulary for his western instrument, to be later used by other musicians from around the globe who will appropriate this vocabulary and use it with their own language/grammar. The final output of this double faceted album that was recorded during the Covid lockdown proved to be a very efficient new way to collaborate from a distance in times of world isolation, and ultimately put in practice the universality of music by breaking the boundaries of genres that are the most difficult to break.

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Division Street

LP | 2022 | US | Reissue (Stratford Ct.)

29,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2x12" | 2022 | UK | Reissue (Hell Yeah)

Calm

Before

Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo

Release: 2022 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following a CD-only release in Japan in 2021, legendary downtempo producer Calm finally releases his “Before” album on vinyl and digital courtesy of Hell Yeah. The 10-track record is a slow-burning Balearic beauty.

Calm aka Kiyotaka Fukagawa has never been to the White Isle, but he sure knows how to capture its musical essence. He has done so over a long and storied career that has taken in 17 albums and some 35 EPs on many labels including this one over the last 20-plus years. His unique blend of ambient, jazz and leftfield was last showcased on this label in 2018 with his By Your Side album, and now he does it again with another timeless and escapist offering.

The record was written, arranged, mixed and produced by Calm, but with gorgeous musical embellishments, trumpets, flutes, saxophones, violins, bass and keys played by friends and guests like Shiba, Sinsuke Fujieda, Fumiko Takeshita, Tomokazu Sugimoto, Yuichiro Kato and Toshitaka Shibata. Tracks from it have already had support from Cosmo Coleen Murphy on Worldwide FM, while Phil Mison says it is "100% reminiscent of an old Café Del Mar or José Padilla record." He is not wrong.

As soon as the opening chords of 'Beauty on Earth' wash over you there is no escaping the naturalistic charm and beauty of this record. 'Long Summer Dream' layers mystic wind sounds and gentle percussive patterns into suspensory bliss, 'Blue in Void' is a plaintive moment of sombre sax and pensive piano, then 'Liminal Moment' awakens the soul with its gorgeous flute lines and looping arps.

There is perfect horizontal sunset house on 'I Love You,' 'Feel It' picks up the pace with seductive saxophone motifs and psychedelic synth loops and 'Before Sunrise Blue' is crushing downtempo melancholia. 'Kunpoo' reawakens you with leggy bass and expansive synths that reach for the heavens, while 'Freedom Sunset' is an epic 10-minute journey out to sea. Lastly, 'Let's Make Harmony' is super slow motion jazz-funk that swells the heart. Before is a superb album that is well-deserving of this double vinyl pressing and is sure to become a Balearic classic.

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Charlottenburg

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cloud 9)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Big Legal Mess)

Herman Hitson

Let The Gods Sing

23,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Volume 5: Mad World / Run Wild

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A State Of Trance Year Mix 2021

Armin van Buuren

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cloud 9)

32,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Satan In Love-Rare Finnish Synth-Pop & Disco 197

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Svart)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Terapia)

Cimafunk

El Alimento

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Anette)

Team Delphin

Rotwein Zum Frühstück

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Tumult)

Meute

Taumel

33,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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I Think I'll Do Some Stepping On My Own Remixes

Sandy Barber

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (BBE)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Radicalis)

Kappa Mountain

Echo Pool

20,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Volume 2: Countdown / Encoded

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Volume 4: Young Again / Follow Me

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Volume 3: Dare You / Never Say Goodbye

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Volume 1: How We Do / Cobra

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cloud 9)

Ibiza Lounge

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2022 | Original (Re:Warm)

Home Vol.1

33,99 €*

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Higgs Boson (With Slightly Damaged Cover)

Gammelsæter & Marhaug

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ideologic Organ)

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Fixt)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Runhild Gammelsæter and Lasse Marhaug are two Norwegian musicians/sound artists. Both started in the early 1990s music underground and have worked in many constellations with a wide range of collaborators. Despite knowing each other for a long time, Gammelsæter and Marhaug’s first collaborative work was the “Quantum Entanglement” LP in 2014. The album ignited a collective spark that both wanted to pursue further. Still, other commitments got in the way, and the project lay dormant until Stephen O’Malley, and Greg Anderson invited them to open for Sunn O))) for a special gig in the St. James Church of Culture in Oslo in the autumn of 2019. The two gathered for a long series of rehearsals, and after the successful performance, it was clear that it was time to start working on new compositions and recordings. That process initiated in late 2019 and continued to early 2021, encompassing before and after the world went through the lockdown. The result of this long development to be heard accumulated upon their new album “Higgs Boson” on Ideologic Organ Music.

Throughout the profound process of creating “Higgs Boson”, Gammelsæter and Marhaug drew inspiration from various subjects and artists. For Marhaug, it was concepts informed by the structuralist experimental cinema of Japanese directors Takashi Ito and Toshio Matsumoto, futurist worlds of French comic book artists Philippe Druillet and Jean Moebius Giraud, landscape photography of Fay Godwin, Kåre Kivijärvi, and Tamiko Nishimura, amongst others.

It became a metaphysical juxtaposition involving Gammelsaeter’s research and lyrical ideas based on several seemingly unrelated principles. A process of association inspired by “the Glass Bead Game” by Herman Hesse. The discovery of the Higgs Boson as a confirmation of the physical universe. The work of Ernst Schrödinger on the uncertainty principle. The four forces of physics. The Force. Helplessness under armed forces - as the war sailors in World War II. The influence of magic as expressed in tarot. Gammelsæter experiments with a boundary involving the thresholds amongst various states of focus and legibility by forensic experimentation with techniques such as exclusive expression of consonants, syllabic repetition, retrograde text vocalisations and multi-lingual layering. Her vocal inspirational sources include Sidsel Endresen, Diamanda Galas, Natacha Atlas, the choral works of Rachmaninov, and the bands Carcass and Grave.

Two worlds coming together, making the music special. Mixing hard facts with science fiction helps create a kaleidoscopic cross point between the complex realities of the past and a possible future. “Quantum Entanglement” featured two long-form pieces centred around a prepared piano and layered voice, while “Higgs Boson” developed a much more elaborate and ambitious compositional work. Across eight parts, the two artists brought a broad palette of instrumentation and sound. Electronic and acoustic, objects and field recordings, and pipe organ define the structures of which the centre is Gammelsæter’s magnificent voice. She has become known for her legendary voice, with her vast and unique range of inflective techniques and affective colour through her 30 years creating music. In the mix, Lasse approached the instrumental elements like landscapes, then Runhild’s vocals as characters that inhabit those worlds. Often, Gammelsæter multiple characters fused with the landscape. Make them occupy space, sometimes blend into it, sometimes dominate it. Constructing and setting visual guidelines helps set focus and open possibilities.

As an album, “Higgs Boson” is direct and focused, drawing on song structures. Within these tracks are vast strata of sound, an immersive multi-dimensional depth of music. Creating a feeling of depth while working with a flat two-channel stereo format - and how dimensions of texture and distortion can help develop the illusion of a space. The album structure is a storylike arc, a malleable subjective path, set as the album traverses oblique and suggestive areas, opening the concepts for the listener to unpack as they like.

– exclusive consultation with Gammelsæter & Marhaug, edited by Stephen O’Malley, June 2022

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Freqgen

Future 1990s

14,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

Joell Ortiz

Autograph

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

A.Billi & The Lasso Free

Holy Body Roll

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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20.000 Meilen Unter Dem Meer Black Vinyl Edition

U96

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Motor Entertainment)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | Original (Lex)

Belief

29,99 €*

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Affable With Pointed Teeth

Yungmorpheus & Eyedress

LP | 2022 | Original (Lex)

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lovers Lake Marbled Vinyl Edition

Lovers Lake

LP | 2022 | US | Reissue (New Retro Wave)

32,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Indigo Marbled Vinyl Edition

Indigo

LP | 2022 | US | Reissue (New Retro Wave)

32,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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B.Santa Anapushing Too Hard

Nick Waterhouse

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Innovative Leisure)

14,24 €* 14,99 € -5%

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lucky Mulberry Tree Green Vinyl Edition

Kink Gong

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wv Sorcerer Productions)

21,99 €*

Lucky Mulberry Tree Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This album is to celebrate the music I was involved in while living in Dali, Yunnan, China between 2006 and 2012. As usual with Kink Gong compositions, they contain all kinds of field recordings, mostly in Southern China, Laos, and Cambodia; local instruments that I play and electronic to melt them together, resulting in experimental soundscapes. Each element of the composition relates to this period with people (the dramatic voices of Hani or Yao singers) and spaces (park, jungle) and the long hours of creative enjoyment in our house by the Ear lake (Erhai) to put those elements together, using my neighbour (Li Daiguo)'s skill on pipa or new electronic toys I got around that time.

Our son was born in Dali in 2008 and this LP is called Ji Sang (literally translated as Lucky Mulberry Tree) after his name.

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Kink Gong

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wv Sorcerer Productions)

17,59 €* 21,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2022 | Original (Demon)

Disco Floorfillers

27,99 €*

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | Original (Always The Sound)

Kormac

Equivalent Exchange

18,99 €*

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Omn Label Services)

Bluthund

Gefahrliches Halbdissen

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | Original (Nettwerk)

Anomalie

Galerie

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | Original (Nettwerk)

Hermitude

Mirror Mountain

18,99 €*

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Jukka Herva

Kultainen Nauha

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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F.Ampism

The Radical Stop

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Euphotic

Conjugate Regions

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Takehiro Mukai

Dogu

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Workshop)

Lowtec

Old Economy

11,99 €* 15,99 € -25%

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Hold Your Ground)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Captivating, cinematic, side-long Electronica & leftfield House extravaganza

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Rampue

Tragweite

40,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | Original (Studio Barnhus)

Sjaelen

Spirit High

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Padre Himalaya)

Patricia Brito

Phmix003

9,99 €*

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Shango)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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New quickstrike mixtape from Silvestre's Padre Himalaya label This time is Porto deejay Patricia Brito serving up Jungle, IDM, shoegaze and more.

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The Oddness

Perseus EP

16,99 €*

Loros Locos Sinfonías Destrozadas en Tenerife

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" EP By Australian producer The Oddness. 2 Downtempo/Organic-House tracks dedicated to the Perseus Greek myth

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Hannibal Chew IV

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

12,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ever/Never)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tenerife, 2054: The parrots of a local zoo inexplicably go mad, spreading a deadly virus that only affects humans. Unable to contain the disease, authorities were forced to isolate the island completely, sealing its fate in a perpetual quarantine.

Over time, the island transformed into a sanctuary for wildlife that now roams freely across its territories. Orcas and dolphins claimed the surrounding waters, while gorillas found their home in the mountains around Teide, once a popular tourist destination. The population of parrots and birds multiplied, filling the air with a cacophony of colours and sounds.

The remaining humans on the island adapted to their new reality, living in isolated communities and learning to survive in a world where they are the minority. Meanwhile, the virus continues its advance in the outside world, pushing humanity to the brink of extinction.

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Rider/Horse

Feed 'Em Salt

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Euthanasia...Removed From Self

K-The-I???

10" | 2022 | EU | Original (Hinterland)

16,49 €* 29,99 € -45%

Time For Changes Coloured Vinyl

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" limited to 100 handnumbered copies

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Faxe

12" | 2022 | EU | Reissue (ZYX Music)

16,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Realicide / Deathbomb Arc)

Bomb20

Gods

29,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Locked Groove & Gacha Bakradze

3 Variations Sur Un Theme Deniro Remix

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Locked Groove)

14,99 €*

Carcascara II 2023 Repress

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lgr015 sees Locked Groove teaming up with Gacha Bakradze for “3 Variations Sur Un Thème”. After linking up online in 2020, Gacha and Tim decided to join forces and make something they believe is truly special. Gacha Bakradze hails from Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. He has deservedly earned plaudits after releases on Apollo, Cin Cin, Die Orakel, Fever AM and Lapsus. Gacha regularly redefines his musical ideology; always bestowing it with mood based authenticity and excitement through rhythms and harmonies. Just like Locked Groove, his musical output is diverse and always evolving, which makes them great collaborators. Like the EP title suggests, the 3 tracks are loosely based on the same theme but explore different sonic landscapes. Variation 1 opens the EP with skittish percussion and melodies weaving in and out. Variation 2 pushes the tempo to 150+ BPM with synth sounds reminiscing of rave years gone by. Variation 3 dials things back and provides a more subdued yet euphoric addition to the EP. For the remix they’ve enlisted Deniro. The Dutch producer, known for his precise use of melody and rhythm delivers a soulful and timeless rendition of Variation 1. The EP is due 10 June on all digital platforms and will also be available on vinyl from 20th May. Artwork by Ollie George with photos by Locked Groove.

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Carcascara

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Hegoa Diskak)

28,49 €* 29,99 € -5%

Diggers Dozen-12 Nippon Gems Selected By DJ Muro

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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"Applying elements of minimalism or electronic music to their compositions, Carcascara's second studio album is deeply rooted in folk, blues or jazz. Borrowing from American primitivism, this acoustic guitar trio based half way between London and Zumaia, stretch the boundaries of tradition with a fluid and developed command of the string instrument. Coming out 14 years after their self-titled debut, highly recommended for fans of Robbie Basho, Steve Reich or John Fahey."

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DJ Muro

2CD | 2022 | EU | Original (BBE)

33,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Thee Physical Deluxe Holographic Foil 10 Year Anniversary Edition

Pictureplane

LP | 2022 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

48,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Independent Project)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Pictureplane has made his name circling the outer limits of pop culture in several mediums. The Brooklyn-based artist's gallery works, shown both in the U.S. and abroad, collide familiar with fringe and hard lines with visceral spatter. His Alien Body clothing line serves up a stylized study of symbology, the occult, and societal decay. And his music—beautiful yet heavy, swirling wild strains of industrial dance, gothic hip-hop, and emotive New Age—treats electronics not as artificial, but as extensions of our analog selves. After a decade thrashing the status quo, Egedy is not only kin to makers of lovely dark music everywhere, but a vital player in the global DIY community. He is a proud outsider, yes, but his tribe is legion and ever-growing.

In 2011, Pictureplane's Thee Physical arrived, marking a major leap forward. Egedy's voice was suddenly dripping sex at the forefront of a lush synthscape, while cuts like "Trancegender" and "Breath Work" explored the human body with gender-dissolving aplomb. He moved to Brooklyn in 2012 in order to stoke alt-rave culture from a more powerful vantage before teaming up with fabled indie-rap imprint Anticon for Technomancer (2015), an LP about the blurring line between ourselves and our machines. Along the way, Egedy's toured with everyone from Crystal Castles and Major Lazer to the Faint and Gang of Four. He has remixed Lil B; been remixed by Grimes; collaborated with bands (Prayers) and SoundCloud stars (Goth Boi Clique)

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Exploratorium

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Favourite People Hazy Red Vinyl Edition

Favourite People

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Selva)

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Kashual Plastik)

Field Of Progress

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (LuckyMe)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Wind and cars hum in harmony. Ancestors croon in the factories of the future. Hippos in swimming pools, dancing on mechanical milker rhythms. Cows rehash in the melodic air of church bells. A melodeon sobs in a vague radio broadcast. Someone warps a present, while a data processor calculates his own death. Can frogs talk to the machine? Sacred chants sang about their conversation. That night when the jungle cried. That night when whales hummed waves of sadness. A klaxon symphony on tribal grooves, street talks in Brics countries. Someone flushes the gig economy, while the dishwasher gently weeps. Kashual Plastik been in the fields, bringing home the true fake, that surrounds us every day, everywhere, hidden in the sounds of many. A phonography compilation, that comes in two chapters: Document 1 and Document 2. Nothing authentic, yet genuinely realistic. Recorded in the global economy grasslands. On the fly and thoroughly planned. Netted by mindful observers, who respire the ambient noise for a better tomorrow, that might never come. Snow reaches out to the Tuatara, while in Berlin Spandau trains plow through the afternoon. Somebody comes home from a walk, engines squeal, tailpipes buzz in distance. Let’s fill up a glass of rum and toast on organ harmonics, sitting on a random platform at Tokyo’s Chōfu railway station, seduced by train announcements. Does a quiescent room breed noise? Analogue living in old towns, down there, where working on Sunday is the new Monday. At London’s Kingsland High Street religious rhythms cut the street noise. Nearby, in a local pub, a beer concert cheers millions. A Method To Exist, Malvern Brume, Susannah Stark, Jamie Burke, Laura Not, ML, Nika Son, Felix Kubin, or Red Brut, they all listened and absorbed. And many more too. How does the ambient sound to you? Never asked yourself this question? “Field Of Progress” hands out 28 ethnomusicological answers. They can polish the senses. For the fables of the environment. For the folklore of atmosphere. Bio music for data bodies. Wind and cars hum in harmony …

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Jacques Greene

Relay

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | DE | Original (Bad Boy Jesus Tape Club)

Dialog Mit Der Jugend

Manual

20,99 €*

LP | 2022 | DE | Original (Bad Boy Jesus Tape Club)

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Words: Mitko Mitkov

Music: Museum of No Art (1–8) Ubaldo (9) Jonas Hinnerkort (10–16) Philomena Lauprecht (17–23) Manual is a guide of nonsense; a set of rules impossible to follow; a number of instructions not to be fulfilled; a bridge between processes that take place beyond consciousness; a conspiracy that has a beginning and an end.

Manual was created as a collaborative piece with a concept and words by Mitko Mitkov and music contributions by Museum of No Art, Ubaldo, Jonas Hinnerkort and Philomena Lauprecht. Every piece of music on this album is an interpretation, a reaction and in a way a subversive soundtrack to a set of texts providing instructions on how to deal with a world falling apart. The piece was originally released on a Telegram channel between the 1st and 31st of August 2022.

* Dialog MIT DER Jugend is a sound based project by Mitko Mitkov. All tracks are written, performed, recorded and mixed by Christoph Lohse. Acoustic Drums and Percussions performed by Manuel Chittka. Mastered by Fabian Tormin (Plätlin Mastering). / Dialog mit der Jugend Scenes from a Window

Score and Text: Mitko Mitkov Music: Jonas Hinnerkort, Hye-Eun Kim and Sebastian Kokus Voice: Rui Hernan Campos

Mastering: René Huthwelker Design: Stefan Fuchs

Recorded in Hamburg between July and August 2021.

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Dialog Mit Der Jugend

Scenes From A Window

20,99 €*

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Masterworks)

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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All tracks are written, performed, recorded and mixed by Christoph Lohse. Acoustic Drums and Percussions performed by Manuel Chittka. Mastered by Fabian Tormin (Plätlin Mastering). / Dialog mit der Jugend Scenes from a Window

Score and Text: Mitko Mitkov Music: Jonas Hinnerkort, Hye-Eun Kim and Sebastian Kokus Voice: Rui Hernan Campos

Mastering: René Huthwelker Design: Stefan Fuchs

Recorded in Hamburg between July and August 2021.

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Dardust

Duality

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Nous Klaer Audio)

Meetsysteem

Cr:Go Remixes

11,99 €*

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Anjunadeep)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Meetsysteem's 2020 album Cr:GO remixed. Rotterdam techno veteran Speedy J transformed 'Noch de Sterren van de Hemel'; a masterclass of synth wizardry, noise and fluctuating patterns, creating a fictional universe on its own that could be both heaven and hell. Mary Lake is back on Nous'klaer with a powerful, driving four to floor remix of 'Fkg Hoofd'. Konduku takes a deep dive with 'Sidda' and turned it into a 90 BPM dub version. To finish it off, Speedy J and Meetsysteem made collaborative remix, perfect for after hour ambient floors.

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Nils Hoffmann

A Radiant Sign

32,29 €* 33,99 € -5%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Panegyric)

Robert Fripp

Washington Square Church

34,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Slowed Midnight Blue Vinyl Edition

Cape Coral

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

39,99 €*

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Let's! White Vinyl Edition

Mecha Maiko

LP | 2022 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

31,99 €*

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Palto Flats)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Now on NRW! Mecha Maiko is back to blow you away with her most dance-oriented record to date. For Let’s! she has drawn inspiration from her favourite upbeat 90s dance and freestyle jams to create a sound that is uniquely hers. Aimed at a more DJ-friendly approach, these tracks will find a happy home on the dance floor.

Mecha Maiko has taken a stylized, deliberate approach to the writing process with hardware accompaniments that expand on the stylistic framework laid out in Okiya, released earlier this year. This record draws on the anxiety felt in a late-stage capitalist society and seeks to agitate that uncomfortable energy within us to shake us from our collective paralysis of shock. Inspiring, uplifting and motivating, these songs are unmistakably laser-lit dirges of the dystopia.

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Yasuaki Shimizu

Kiren

14,99 €*

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Midnight Shift)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Acclaimed saxophonist, producer and composer Yasuaki Shimizu will release Kiren, his unreleased album from 1984, on the Palto Flats record label on February 25, 2022. Liner notes by music historian Chee Shimizu, and credits in both Japanese and English.

By the early 1980s Yasuaki Shimizu had established himself on the Japanese new wave scene, producing many important experimental pop records and releasing several albums as the bandleader of Mariah. Following the release of his widely regarded solo classic Kakashi, from 1982, and the otherworldly Utakata No Hibi, by Mariah in 1983, he went into the studio the following year with frequent collaborators, producer Aki Ikuta and Morio Watanabe (bassist of Mariah), to record a mystifying collection of experimental dance music. Utilizing cutting-edge technology and studio trickery, Kiren showcases Shimizu's trademark playfulness, marrying richly layered production techniques to off-kilter, sometimes traditional sounding rhythms and melodies. Portending his work with the Saxophonettes as well as forecasting trends in techno, new wave, and futuristic rhythmic music, this formerly lost album represents an important period of Shimizu's artistic expression, an artist at his peak, while successfully exploring the intersections of fusion, synthpop, new wave, and jazz.

As Chee Shimizu (no relation) writes in the liner notes, Kiren, and his concurrent release Latin were “born out of a free environment of collaboration that existed between Yasuaki and Aki Ikuta ... (exemplifying) his most energetic works.” In listening to Kiren, we might share with Yasuaki Shimizu the joy and excitement of experimentalism and movement that went into the making of this album, now released for the first time many years later.

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Cocktail Party Effect

Oscilloscope Detachments

13,99 €*

Contact Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Bringing his signature heavy freak crunch to the label, Cocktail Party Effect's "Oscilloscope Detachments" is the latest addition to the Midnight Shift catalogue.

Instructions: Follow the oscilloscope to jack into the EP's pulse from start to end.

Headliner A1 '77' dazzles in melodic glory paired with glitchy underfoot and a high-voltage wire running hot. Next, '88' lets it all loose with classic breaks twisted on its head and with its core intestines spilling out. Unexpected turns in this effect-heavy club composition recalls the phrase that "you've gotta know the rules to break the rules" and CPE is undoubtedly a master of that. '99' takes it further down South London style for the heads, while ambient closer '111' visualises the previously underscored oscilloscope in full spectrum.

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Stilz & Castroe

LP | 2022 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

23,19 €* 28,99 € -20%

Smithereens Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Red vinyl w Black smoke effect in limited 180 copies. ‣ Printed on 1 180g RED vinyl w Black Smoke Effect with sleek finishing. ‣ Audio mastered for vinyl. ‣ High duty jacket with spine ‣ Vinyl will be shipped inside protective wrapping and padded with bubble wrap. ‣ Contact Limited Edition Sentient Vinyll is available for Wholesale orders at a discounted price. All accounts/ purchasers must provide a valid tax id number, business name, address and wholesale license number. Max of 4 vinyls can be bought per wholesale customer. ‣ EU VAT + extra shipping costs may apply to all orders going into Europe. These extra fees are not covered in this order.

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Joji

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Bros.)

38,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Lovers & Lollipops)

Angelica Salvi

Habitat

28,79 €* 31,99 € -10%

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Titrate)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Angélica Salvi is a Spanish harpist who works in multiple projects, both solo and in collaborations in the fields of cinema, dance, theatre, photography and music.

She released her first album, entitled “Phantone”, in 2019 and now presents her second “Habitat”, where she continues to deepen the sonic exploration she suggested in her previous work. It consists of a series of 8 songs, with the harp at the centre, supported by the use of real-time audio signal processing tools.

This time, Angélica moves away from the past, from the ethereal and synesthetic ghost of “Phantone” and presents herself in a more explicit way, more down to earth, in the present moment. Angélica is inspired by her own Habitat, and the way in which she relates to it in her daily life. Each of the songs is a sensory memory that can be relived over and over again with small nuances. A set of moments of interaction with the elements that are or have been part of her routine, in this case, other habitats, which are transformed or modified with her actions. Memories captured and reproduced infinitely through labyrinthine patterns and sound textures, ambiguous melodies and flourishing harmonies that fluctuate, coexist and interact with other beings or elements in their universe of minimal language.

That doesn’t mean that the listener gets lost. There’s always a guiding light. The choice for a more direct approach on this recording proves how clear, enlightened, and focused Angélica Salvi’s sounds is. There’s no tricks. Just something that sounds real, profound, where you can listen to Angélica’s hands moving and touching the strings. And be completely mesmerized as she continues to pursue melodies that guide the listener to the most beautiful of places.

The album was created and recorded in her home studio, with the aim of being fully possible to reproduce and process the sound in real time, in a context of live music. On the album there is almost no post-production. All sounds that appear on it come out of the harp and the affiliated pedals.

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Hems

Chaotic Affair

Release: 2022 / 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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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rumi Sounds)

Anil Eraslan

Dream Works / Rüya Isler

31,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sub Rosa)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Berlin based cellist, composer and improviser An?l Eraslan brings together 11 musicians from Istanbul. The dreams of these musicians are composed and improvised for this album. Dream Works offer an extended musical experience that is surrounded by traditional and experimental approaches. Limited 250 Copy

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Phil Maggi

The Encrimsoned

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Heels & Souls)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sound architect and filmmaker from Liège, Belgium Phil Maggi is known as the lead singer of heavy-rock combo Ultraphallus. He has shared the bill with Jerusalem In My Heart, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, Tuxedomoon, Sote, Thisquietarmy, and many others. The Encrimsoned is the second part of his diptych inspired by Henry Corbin's writings, which started with his previous album Animalwrath. Ranging from free-jazz to ambient-electronic contemporary art sound, this adventurous second and final chapter is an homage to Hardy Fox, pioneer and primary composer for The Residents.

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Pilgrims Of The Mind

What's Your Shrine?

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Hypnus)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Heels & Souls Recordings’ fifth reissue sees them reach across the Atlantic to Vancouver, pressing up Pilgrims Of The Mind’s 'What’s Your Shrine?' for the first time ever on vinyl, 25 years since its CD-only release on Map Music. A departure from the label’s previous releases, the LP is a beautiful smorgasbord of styles - progressive house, downtempo, ambient, tech house and trance all nestle together, a wiggling journey of sonic delight from the mind of Stéphane Novak.

Turn the dial back to ‘97 and Vancouver's underground had a distinctive buzz to its rumblings, an amalgamation of scenes and styles gave rise to a cohort of producers that were unconstrained by genre, offering up a heady mix of sounds to expand the mind. ‘Welcome To Lotus Land’ the key 1996 compilation on Robert Shea’s seminal Map Music, championed much of this output including two cuts from POTM. Stéphane then released his first and only full-length album, ‘What’s Your Shrine?’ on the same label the following year.

Picking out choice moments from an album as considered and complete as this is tough. Those horizontally inclined will be drawn to the ambient dwellings of ‘Sandcastle’ & ‘Following the Sofuto Kuriimo’, tracks like ‘Nothing Can Pull Us Apart’ and ‘L’Amour? Encore?!’ are perfectly suited to warming up limbs on the dancefloor, ‘My Baby Likes Rum’ and ‘Loosejaw’ prime for one in full swing. Yet to pick individual tracks misses the stunning sum of its parts that this 70+ minute cruise is, surely one of the finest albums from the American West Coast during its halcyon days of the ‘90s.

Digging deep in his vaults, Stéphane managed to uncover the original unmastered DATs that have been given a fresh mastering by Justin Drake at the Bakehouse Studios. This beautiful, double-disc gatefold comes complete with liner notes from Ciel, words from Stéphane himself, plus never-before-seen photography - the complete package this music always deserved.

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Feral

Crossroads

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Eric Wubbels / Charmaine Lee / Weston Olencki

Field Of Action / Contraposition

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Out Of Your Head)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Modern Obscure Music)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited 12" (200 printed) of Eric Wubbels / Charmaine Lee / Weston Olencki - Field of Action / contraposition (ooyh 013) on black vinyl (180g), featuring original artwork by TJ Huff

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Pedro Vian & Mana

Cascades

23,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Veego)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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On 9th December Modern Obscure Music presents Cascades, the new album from Pedro Vian & Mana, which premiered during their immersive live set at the most recent Sonar Festival in Barcelona. Cascades was recorded over a three-day studio session in Turin during the winter months, which is reflected in the musical narrative, as the eleven tracks flow gently like an icy river, filled with a mixture of hazy melancholy, uncanny dream-states and euphoria. Various recording techniques and instrumentation was utilised, including the Lyra-8 organismic analogue synthesiser, which takes principles from living organisms to produce sounds resembling a conversation between nature and technology. The result is a spellbinding ambient odyssey that features a luminous synthesis of neo-classical strings and orchestral drones, together with strange voices, and abstract passages designed to evoke Dante’s Inferno, which represent the soul’s journey. Pedro Vian is a renowned Catalan artist who has released three solo albums (Beautiful Things You Left Us For Memories, Pedro Vian and Ibillorca) and a collection of singles on his Modern Obscure Music imprint – a multi-disciplinary platform based on deep listening and music research. The ‘prsnt’ compilation, which Pedro curated in 2021 and featured Laurie Spiegel, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Visible Cloaks, received support from Pitchfork, Crack, Brooklyn Vegan, The Quietus, The Wire and Metal. Pedro has been remixed by Inga Copeland and Pye Corner Audio, and has recorded mixes for of Bleep, Self-Titled and Juno Daily. As part of a new generation of Italian electronic music artists, Piedmont born composer and producer Mana has released two full length albums (Seven Steps Behind and Asa Nisi Masa) on Kode 9's Hyperdub imprint, plus an EP on Nicolas Jaar's Other People label under his Vaghe Stelle alias. Earlier in his musical journey, Mana supported Laurent Garnier, James Holden and Skream across the Torino club scene, and in 2011 teamed up with Italian friends Lorenzo Senni and A:RA to form the experimental group One Circle. Pedro Vian & Mana’s previous work as solo producers has pushed the limits of electronic music, and together they’ve garnered critical acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork, The Quietus, The Vinyl Factory, Resident Advisor and more. They now join forces to traverse new sonic territories between electronica, ambient, drone, and trance-inducing soundscapes.

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Kukuraxa

Kukuraxa I

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (100 Limousines)

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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Dunn

It Don't Exist

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Yellow Electric)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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100 Limousines expands their off-the-beaten-track catalogue with this deep sound exploration from Detroit.

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Raum

Daughter

50,99 €*

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Muscut)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Double-LP gatefold version of new album by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Liz Harris on black vinyl; side D blank/mirror finish; handmade insert. Daughter is a record that took great patience to make. It captures a strange time spent in the desert, later added to, edited and finally made sense of after we lost the friend we'd been there with. There are fragments of beginnings and a deep sense of loss. A requiem, a lullaby, goodbye. Most of the material was generated in Marfa at a residency we did with Paul Clipson in 2016. We both felt confident that someday the shape of our hours of recordings would reveal itself but at the time it felt impossible to revisit. A lot happened that week. The desert was an anxious landscape, and each of us were in our own fevered headspaces. We met several times to work on finishing these recordings over the years, but a big piece of the record only made sense after sitting with the loss of Paul. The recordings took on a special resonance. They are a document of the last time the three of us were in the same physical place. His film projector sound is embedded there. The sound of our long walks in the desert scrub. Sounds of birds screaming in the mornings. Heat, calm, companionship, and grief; all moving very slowly -- across years, across a remembered landscape."

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Nikolajevtitle

Transplant Rejection

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (The Trilogy Tapes)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Transplant Rejection’ is the second in a trilogy of cassette albums released via Muscut in the latter half of 2022. The work of Estonian artist and IDA Radio co-founder Robert Nikolajev, this collection of seven ‘almost’ dark ambient tracks embody the melancholy of autumn whilst hinting at the forthcoming eternal winter. A man with many hats, Nikolajev operates on the fringes of the leftfield house underground for labels such as Incienso, Collect-Call and Sad Fun as well as being one half of the sporadic Dima Disk act with Ragnar Rahouja. Eschewing the more rhythmic side of his productions for this Muscut tape, Nikolajev taps into the fictional soundtrack atmospheres the label is known for and brings his own brand of wistful, introspective world-building by way of machine harmony to the now Tallinn based imprint. There’s a lo-fi, grainy quality running throughout the collection, a kind of sepia-toned nostalgia that envelops the listener and disorientates any perception of time or place. Buried vocal fragments sit in the mix on ‘Stifled’ alongside decaying synthesiser drones whilst ‘ddm’ channels an edgy post-rock dirge with its use of sagged bass guitar. Overall, an inspired look into the more ‘at home’ side of this increasingly prolific Estonian artist.

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CS + Kreme

Orange

33,29 €* 36,99 € -10%

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Anjunadeep)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Snoopy is hard to follow up. The same brilliant musicality is lavished on Orange — a combination of unmistakably original, skittering drum programming, startlingly fresh instrumental interjections, creepily invocatory voices, and dubwise treatments — giddily imbued with the dark arts of ritual and seance. But Orange is more gripping, focussed and urgent, more intense and ambitious. Next level.

Its first quarter presents a trio of forays in suspense.
Bassline squares up like an epic psych-funk grinder, with a moody guitar line traversed by ticking drum patterns and faint electric crackle. In no time the guitar is staggering and stammering under the duress of echo and distortion, and over-run with percussive electronics and the first of the voices massing in the music’s head. The mood has quickly become more trepidatious. We're deeper underground; it’s gloomier, wetter.
Shred propulsively ratchets up the tension and menace. Glazily tentative xylophone is played against slashing, nervy cello. The voices are more strangulated and sick now. Flutes and chimes evoke the same kind of beautiful, contaminated efflorescence which is pictured on the LP’s front cover.
Voice Of The Spider makes easier progress across this cavernous, shadowy, dripping terrain, with funky pads and Nasty, eighties, No Wave electric bass; woozy chimes, non-plussed keys, singing-in-tongues.

Pink Mist marks an arrival, or unbottling, with annunciatory church-organ and choral voices from the off, and a newly relaxed, head-nodding kosmische rhythm.

Mandarin is a short, beat-less and voice-free interlude for piano and bass. It's reflective and nostalgic, ambivalent and inconclusive, with a lovely snatch of melody. A bridge half-way.

Would You Like A Vampire is a triumphant, mesmerizing go at New Folk, with strummed acoustic guitar, descant song, and jazzily restless drum programming (including a tasty bass-bin trembler). Amazingly, Conrad Standish is joined at the mic by none other than Bridget St John. Together they sing 'Earth is Paradise’ so repeatedly and tremulously — and the song is cut off so abruptly at the end — it seems as if the verb is teetering on the past tense, and hymn fading into valediction and catastrophe.

Similarly Storm Rips Banana Tree begins idyllically enough, with a CS-&-Kreme-style raga… before something like an immense, obliterative drill starts up. Harpsichord and organ — by James Rushford — and flutes, and clapping, distant chanting and insectile percussion steadily leaven the dread, till finally all that is left is lapping water.
It’s an epic, deeply immersive, compelling, thought-provoking, twenty-minute finale… the coup de grâce.

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Cubicolor

Sometime Not Now

37,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Cybernetic Defiance And Orgasm 2: Other Sides Of Henry Kawahara

Henry Kawahara

3CD | 2022 | JP | Original (EM)

39,99 €*

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This anthology is the second compilation from EM Records of the works of the late Henry Kawahara, a media artist and electronic music producer who was particularly active in the Japanese cyber-occult underground of the 1990s, a scene linked with technologies such as 3D (binaural) recordings, brain machines, sound chairs, computer graphics and compact discs. These tracks, produced 1990-95, include a series of recordings described as “Parallel Data Sounds” and “Sound Lsd”, a “new language system that speaks directly to the cerebrum” using “frequency components that are not perceived by the conscious mind”, reflecting Kawahara’s interest in concepts such as astrology, love mantras, and astral projection. Also here are two pieces featuring dolphin sounds and human brainwave feedback, as well as pieces from a recording unit called H Music De-perception (hmd) and a group called Xiaoyun. The majority of tracks here were not originally released under Kawahara’s name, but this compilation is an essential key to decoding the Henry Kawahara saga, and also an unveiling of the secret we planted in the previous release, "Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: Essential Henry Kawahara," which Kawahara himself was involved in selecting before his death.

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Volume 3 Clear Vinyl Edition

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

34,99 €*

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Planet Mu)

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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Herva

Seez

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Altin Village & Mine)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Herva started to work on 'Seez' right after the release of his last Planet Mu album 'Hyper Flux' back in 2017. He was experimenting with home-made hardware and after the album release wanted to raise the bar, challenging himself to build a point-to-point mixer from scratch. This task took almost a year of intense soldering and forced him to scrap music production. Eventually all this hard work grew into making studio hardware properly and he co-founded a new company making mixers and compressors that work with Eurorack, called Audio Gear Obsession. On 'Seez' Herva moves away completely from the sample-based music he's most known for and into programming and computational production, which he mixes and compresses with his newly-built hardware tools to give them the life and feeling he requires. There's also an element of randomness in 'Seez' as the music is generative, defined with numbers and ratios from his own software, tuned by ear rather than to set scales, with unexpected outcomes.To make the record, he spent more time digging between the different iterations of each track than coding the programs that generated them. He says "How I make music is kind of weird for most producers, but I like it, and I plan to dig further. You can think of 'Seez' as the alpha version of what I and my system are able to do." The new music still retains Herva's laid back airy feel. Each track is like a small ecosystem of chiming tones, wafting drones and skittering rhythms, hinting at formal patterns and melodies but developing on its own abstract terms. It feels as if it's the audio equivalent of watching sped-up recordings of a camera capturing different combinations of plants growing, a pleasant and curious experience to let yourself enjoy.

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Kalme

Neue Sprache

Around The Songsters Commune

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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The artistic oeuvre of Berlin-based Sonja Deffner is as extensive and diverse as its contexts are high-profile: If the classically trained musician could in recent years be heard as a member of the groups Jason & Theodor, Die Heiterkeit, Globus and Pttrns, as part of Christiane Rösinger's touring band, or as a recording musician on Andreas Spechtl's (Ja, Panik) albums, she has at the same time produced an acclaimed graphic work, video works and made her theater debut. Under the name Kalme, Deffner now presents her solo debut »Neue Sprache«, which feels like a culmination: Deffner doesn't need much space to present an artistic position of spectacular incisiveness and maturity.

The formal language of Kalme's debut evolves with reference to experimental pop and R&B, but equally informed by ambient electronics or dub techno. Analog and digital sound synthesis meet Deffner's characteristic use of field recordings, acoustic instrumentation (clarinet, percussion) meets musical post-production, sampling meets expressive synthesizer playing. At the center of the album, however, are Deffner's remarkable lyrics, written in German for the first time. Deffner creates a language of stark, emotional poignancy that is as conspiratorial as it is precise. The themes of the tracks develop between the poles of movement and stagnation, understood as motifs of biographical as well as musical ways of being or relating. In this forcefield, personal and political considerations coincide again and again, for example when Deffner reflects on her experiences with the social conditioning of femininity and motherhood.

The album title »Neue Sprache« (»New Language«), then, describes a search for forms of articulation of solidarization: language as a tool of a new relationship to the world that allows testimony to individual experience without reproducing categories of repression. In this way, Kalme's debut simultaneously achieves a radical intimacy, just as, on the other hand, the confrontation of language and sound repeatedly opens up fissures that deny any semblance of comfort. »Neue Sprache« does not stop at this modernist gesture, however, but unquestionably takes a stand. That's what Kalme's »Neue Sprache« ultimately is: the taking of a position. A statement.

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Bergur Anderson

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Futura Resistenza)

10,49 €* 14,99 € -30%

Us Ephemeral Transparent Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Around the Songster's Commune was made quite quickly and purposefully without a lot of fuss -- made to preserve the spirit of its making -- at Diana Duta's generous Jambes studio in Brussels. It's a collection of meditations: compositional fragments, whimsy ditties, field recordings and (live/d) experiments with troubadour song-making methodologies. It's a sonic drift -- sonically drifts. Here, Bergur seems to be exploring the looseness of world-making. Or, maybe better said, exploring how loose he can get with world-making and the realization of sonic realities. Exploring how unconscious, how trusting of himself, as an artist/composer/sound-maker/human, he can be. (Katrina Niebergal)

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Vitesse X

LP | 2022 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

31,99 €*

Chocobo & Chill Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Detached from the influences of the outside world, I began to reunite with feelings that I forgot I had the capacity to feel. I started to recognize how, in this modern society fueled by greed and excess, we have reached a collective state of deep desensitization. Us Ephemeral is a call to return back to ourselves, to feel without judgment or resistance; self-actualization as an act of selflessness." -Vitesse X

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Rifti Beats

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Gamechops)

Legend Of Synthwave Deluxe

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Chocobo & Chill is an instrumental hip-hop tribute to the world of Final Fantasy.

Chocobo & Chill features fifteen of Nobuo Uematsu’s beloved Final Fantasy tracks flipped and remixed by beat-maker Rifti Beats. Chocobo & Chill hits with nostalgic flair, taking inspiration from the Super Nintendo’s Final Fantasy VI and the Playstation era Final Fantasy VII - X.

The album begins with “The Prelude” and “Chocobo” — two iconic tunes found throughout the Final Fantasy series, making their first appearances on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Homages to “Final Fantasy VII” follow, with a gentle rendition of its main theme featuring pianist PianoDreams. This track previously appeared as the instrumental for “Lifestream” from Mega Ran’s Black Materia: The Remake. Fans of Final Fantasy 7 will also appreciate the sweet and melancholy “Aerith’s Theme”, and the iconic “Victory Fanfare”.

The series’ next installment, Final Fantasy VIII, gets its turn in the spotlight too, with dreamy remixes of “Breezy” and “Balamb Garden”. The album takes a dark turn with final boss theme “The Extreme”, which is known for its appearance in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers.

Magical and nostalgic vibes continue with Final Fantasy IX’s “Crossing Those Hills”, “Village of Dali”, and “Song of Memories”. Standouts from Final Fantasy X also appear; fan-favorite "To Zanarkand", best known for appearing in Final Fantasy’s world-touring orchestral show Distant Worlds. The acoustic track "Sight of Spira" (also known as Spira Unplugged) take the form of an acoustic guitar duet, and meme-worthy "Tidus's Theme" features brass and orchestral instrumentation from Pontus Holtgren.

Rifti Beats is a beat-maker with a passion for videogame and anime music. Chocobo & Chill is Rifti Beats' first solo album with GameChops. It’s the seventh installment in the label’s "& Chill" series.

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Helynt

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Gamechops)

32,99 €* 43,99 € -25%