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The NID Tapes: Music From India 1969-1972

2LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (The state51 Conspiracy)

New Erotica Collection HHV Exclusive Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The NID Tapes’ presents a collection of early Indian electronic music uncovered at the archives of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. Recorded between 1969-1972 the compilation chronicles electronic works from the previously unknown Indian composers Gita Sarabhai, I.S. Mathur, Atul Desai, S.C. Shama and Jinraj Joshipura who worked at the nation’s first electronic music studio founded at the NID during the utopian years following India’s independence - a radical period of visionary experimentation and artistic freethought.

The studio was founded with support from the New York composer David Tudor who personally set up a Moog modular system and tape machine in the autumn of 1969, and The NID Tapes also includes an excerpt from Tudor’s work discovered amongst the collection of tapes. The release developed from a long-term research project by the British artist and electronic musician Paul Purgas who travelled to Ahmedabad over many years to explore the origins of electronic music in India. This resulted in the discovery of the electronic music archive at the NID and its eventual restoration and digitising, which featured in the acclaimed BBC radio documentary Electronic India.

The compilation presents excerpts from the 27 reels of archive tape spanning the three years of the studio's operational history, showcasing work from the pioneering electronic composers which included the musician and poet Atul Desai, NID teachers and technicians I.S. Mathur and S.C. Shama, Gita Sarabhai who had previously studied with John Cage in New York in the 1940's and the young architecture student Jinraj Joshipura who was just 19 years old at the time of first composing with the Moog synthesiser. The audio showcases their various visions for electronic music production, exploring analogue synthesis, tape collages, voice experiments and field recordings revealing a meeting point of Western and Indian avant-garde traditions, and offering a unique insight into South Asia’s post-colonial sonic imaginary. The vinyl and digital is a collaborative release by Strange Attractor Press and The state51 Conspiracy and has been mastered by Hari Shankar Kishore (hvad) with design for the release and a vinyl etching created by Shreya Aurora a recent graduate from the National Institute of Design.

Launching at the same time through Strange Attractor Press will be a book titled ‘Suncontentinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972’. Edited by Paul Purgas this collection of critical essays will reflect on the larger cultural and political dialogues surrounding the studio as well as written contributions by Geeta Dayal, You Nakai, Rahila Haque and Jinraj Joshipura the last surviving composer from the NID.

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System Olympia

LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Okay Nature)

Barbra Streisand 3" Limited Edition Box Set

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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HHV exclusive vinyl edition on opaque red vinyl including 30cm artwork poster, limited to 200 copies.

All your favourite System Olympia songs in one vinyl record.

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Stokyo x Duck Sauce

3" | 2023 | Original (Stokyo)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Cibachrome Editions)

Lea Bertucci

Of Shadow And Substance

Al Karpenter & Cia Debutante

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Acclaimed NYC experimental musician Lea Bertucci explores dissonance, drone and dynamics with two new longform compositions for strings, electronics, harp and percussion on Of Shadow and Substance. “More so than any of my other music, I don’t feel that these works belong to me,” Bertucci writes. “There is something about them that is beyond myself as an individual and provides, if anything, a brief glimpse into what it is to be human in what feels like these waning days of the Anthropocene.” Working with instrumentation in the ancient “just intonation” tuning structure (in which notes are spaced exclusively at whole-number ratios of frequencies) and a textural approach to composition, even commonly-heard timbres such as cello, harp and double bass in Of Shadow and Substance are afforded a sense of deep, ancestral knowing. The record opens with “Vapours”, whose contemplative, semi-improvisational, interflowing lines of acoustic instrumentation swell and expand like the passage of time, as if revealing an ancient, eternal memory, old as humanity itself. Its spacious, mutable open strings and droning harmonies do not favour a soloist or even any single melody, but instead blur and coalesce into one entity, drifting from consonance to discordance in harmonic clusters. A dizzying middle section gives rise to a sense of panic, pulling the strands of languid, drifting vapours into a volatile tumult before resettling into a misty, atmospheric trance-state. Bertucci writes: “A “vapor” is a molecule that exists on the verge between a liquid, gaseous or solid state, and the archaic term “vapours” was a pseudo-scientific term to diagnose types of hysteria in women.” The piece was commissioned and performed by Italy’s Quartetto Maurice, who were prompted to visualize vapours in air and to meditate on hysteric fits as they play, while Bertucci controls the sonic space with subtle processing and spatial mixing. The latter half of the album—just as moving and evocative—comprises the composition “Of Shadow and Substance” for double bass, cello, harp, percussion and electronics commissioned by the Philadelphia creative foundation ARS Nova Workshop and performed by Henry Fraser, Lester St. Louis, Lucia Stravros and Matt Evans. “This piece measures the accumulation of events over glacial periods of time as a metaphor for social and environmental shifts,” Bertucci tells us. “It is a meditation on time travel, asking the listener to consider the way events from the past propel themselves into the future.” Its construction reflects the strange concertina of time we find in recorded history, suspended densely in the moveable center of an empty space. Using experimental mixing techniques, Bertucci loops and layers fragments of the performance in real-time, resulting in a diffuse, swirling, self-referential mass of experience, both familiar and metamorphic.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ever/Never)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Accidental Music 1987-1991

Charles Esposito

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Mid-Air Museum / chOOn!!)

Ravine Of Spears Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ultravillage is a collective and burgeoning community of new age music devotees, private press fanatics and underground ambient, minimal and progressive electronic aficionados. Their website at ultravillage.com is fast becoming the go to guide for the most obscure entries in the American new age and minimal music canon – a crucial hub for diggers, archivists and label runners recovering lost sounds from by-gone eras.

Mark Griffey, the man behind Ultravillage, has recently made the venture into releasing albums, with the intention of reissuing forgotten personal masterpieces of 1980s and 90s private press synth culture on new label Mid-Air Museum. MM’s first vinyl record release is a collaboration with Scottish reissue label chOOn!!.

Together, they present Accidental Music 1987-1991 by Charles Esposito, a career retrospective of the experimental composer from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The cinematic and the sacred swirl around on Accidental Music, which gives new life to intriguing self-released tapes that Esposito put out in the 1980s and 90s. Heard by few on its original release, the music featured on this compilation ranges from Palace of Lights percussive sonics to an almost minimal techno palette, a meeting of pop and twisted electronics with the hypnotic immediacy of ancient ritual.

Accidental Music 1987-1991 develops a series of resonant harmonic spaces, by adding layers of instruments and played objects. Rather than work as acoustic maps of specific locations, these pieces eddy and gather into positive physical presences. But Esposito’s real strength lies in creating depth of field. The foreground might be dominated by glassy chimes or resonant prayer bowl-like timbres, but beyond it a series of sonic veils seems to recede towards murky imperceptibility. There’s also a kind of surreal decorum at play, passages that sound like an immaculately laid dinner table being shaken by an earth tremor while the tinkling complaints of the silver, glass and muffling linen are scrupulously recorded.

Available for the first time on vinyl, Accidental Music 1987-1991 by Charles Esposito is an exploration into
many inner worlds and dreamscapes, an analogue mirage of avant-garde gems. Produced in cooperation with the artist for Mid-Air Museum and chOOn!!.

Mastered for vinyl and digital and featuring liner notes from Mark Griffey.

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Final / Richard Ramirez

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Hospital Productions)

3LP | 2023 | Original (Stil Vor Talent)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Two of the most legendary industrial noise artists break down and grind into dust with mortar and pestle each other's sounds, thoughts, and silence into a textural collapse that could very well be the discovery of new kinds of static, new kinds of fuzz and new kinds of words that might never be spoken but fall into the ravine of spears.

Presented in grim recycled board with spot gloss jacket and inner print on clear vinyl.

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Oliver Koletzki

Trip To Sanity

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | JP | Original (Clq Entertain)

Clicknot

Spiral Time

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Droeloe)

Droeloe

The Art Of Change

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ofnot)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dutch producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Droeloe (1.2M ML) releases the first single from his debut album as a solo artist, coming in September 2023. Extensive 5-single campaign over 5 months, 1k bespoke vinyl run, US and EU touring in Q3-4 2023 (us), as well as Q1-2 2024 (us/eu). $50k total budget for the album inc. $8k ad spend, media partners in key territories, 360 artwork/animations designed in Virtual Reality by concept artist Funi. Previous (A Matter of Perspective) sold out 1k run of 3xLP vinyls @ 70eur/ unit. This double LP is a bespoke design of 1 x yellow + 1 x black LPs, with lyric/liner pull out. Unique artwork per track on the digital format is brought together into a composite piece of artwork on the gatefold sleeve - the only place fans can view this image.

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KMRU

Dissolution Grip

Kyoko Takenaka + Tomoki Sanders

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

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Planet Q

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Isc Hi-Fi Selects)

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Urban Discos)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Artists Kyoko Takenaka + Tomoki Sanders team with In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi & Pure Person Press to release their breathtaking debut record as Planet Q.

Gatefold Single LP w/ OBI & Insert

To explore and absorb Planet Q, the new record by artists Kyoko Takenaka + Tomoki Sanders, is to become untethered from structural expectations, to reside in a realm where genre vanishes and a profound musical space remains, where the absence of gravity causes curious things to occur.

It’s a spot where handclaps may not move in time, where sonic gurgles of unknown origin offer texture, where a deep, hooky rhythm can propel a groove into the stratosphere.

At various times the tracks move like Dilla pieces, at others like Terry Riley explorations, like Flying Lotus or Milford Graves or Alice Coltrane meditations. But every time you think you’ve got the sound figured out, it hits from another angle. Though a brief missive at 33 minutes, you exit Planet Q as if leaving an utterly alien spot.

Setting: In 2021, during the covid lockdown in America, Takenaka and Sanders were both living in Tokyo without any gigs or work to be found back home. They met at a mutual friend’s cafe in the Higashi-Koenji neighborhood, and the connection was immediate. “The chances of us meeting not only someone else of the diaspora when the borders are closed, but also queer and non-binary, and also a musician? Pretty slim, and pretty fateful,” Takenaka says.

In early 2022, the Omicron variant prompted a new round of isolation. Returning to New York, they united with kindred musicians by going to private jam sessions, but at the time those evenings didn't tap the magic they were seeking. They decided to quarantine and create together. Takenaka was living alone at the time so they invited Sanders to crash there. Says Takenaka, “We made rice, ate natto, meditated and made music for seven days straight.”

That they would create something masterful does seem somehow predestined. Sanders’ late father is the brilliant composer and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, their mother a life-long music fanatic who nurtured the same. The younger Sanders, who grew up in New York and Tokyo, has been playing music – drums, saxophone, clarinet, piano – and absorbing profound sound since they had baby teeth. Takenaka is a first-generation Nikkei Japanese American actor, butoh dancer and filmmaker who also grew up with music; their father was a jazz pianist, and by age 7 they were already singing at jam sessions in Boston. Planet Q is Takenaka and Sanders’ debut musical collaboration.

That week together in isolation was pretty ritualized. Their aim, Takenaka says, was to create “a really beautiful, secluded safe space for ourselves as qtpoc folx – a planet where we both belong – and to make music as we created the space. Basking in it. Being inside it.”

They quickly fell into a daily routine that commenced with an improvised spoken meditation, tidbits of which made it onto the record. The layout of Takenaka’s apartment – an open kitchen looking out on the living room – afforded them the chance to mix rituals. They prepped meals and sampled parts of the process. Cooking rice, making curry, eating natto – the sounds simmer throughout Planet Q. Dancing and calligraphy also informed the compositions. Takenaka calls it “embodying the process, the textures.”

Tomoki says, “Before Hip hop, in my dad’s age, the saxophone was where the rapper, or the electric guitar spotlighted. It was only $500 to buy a saxophone in the 50’s...now its anywhere from $3000-$10,000. However, we fortunately are in a current time to have a whole studio literally in our laptops – and you can get a $50 midi device from a music store or online. Time of technology has advanced the music, the sound, the production – I’m challenged to reimagine things in ways never been thought before.”

Though each piece has distinct traits, Planet Q feels more like a suite of tracks, a gathering of waveforms that, despite their differences, when woven together create an utterly striking piece. The intention-setting opening piece was born through their improvised morning meditations. Tomoki uses bells their father gifted them.

“‘My Sweet, My Tender, My Loving, Home’ is dedicated to my dad and his metaphysical and galactic sounds, that is grounding,” Tomoki says. “Every intention I put into the style of music or energy comes from him and the ancestors, or god, ‘subconsciously’ – being a continuation of his DNA but in a completely different generation and time; me matching his point of view in spirituality and raising a level of self-consciousness.”

Borders blur. Rhythms lope and gallop. “竹” is a beat-driven rush featuring Takenaka on guitar. When Sanders grabs their tenor saxophone for “Grow,” the result vibes like a funky film-noir soundtrack, with Takenaka reciting the title.

Their tools: bells, electric guitar, piano, shakers, saxophone, African thumb piano, flute, keyboard, drum programming and voice. Most importantly, Planet Q is the sound of two devoted artists committing in full to exploring the mystic, hellbent on mastering the ways that two mortals can, with focus, desire and ancestral guidance, unite in music to create something that transcends the here-and-now.

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Akira Mizumoto

A.M.

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Urban Discos)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Akira Mizumoto is a DJ, editor, and writer. His full album "A.M.", originally released in 2002, will finally be released as an LP on Record Day 2023!! Guest vocalists include Tomomi Sano, Yasuyuki Horigome (ex:Kirinji), and Rie Aoki (flex life). In addition to the remastering of all songs, the artwork will be updated to LP-only version by Keiji Ito, who also worked on the artwork of the original CD. The sound of bossa, jazz, and electronics intersecting with a beat based on 4x4 should be reevaluated today. The music is a collection of gems that color the floor, and we hope that you will experience the reincarnation of club music that transcends the ages and continues to spin.

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Kenichiro Nishihara

Elastic Afterwords

Xkatedral Anthology Series II Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Kenichiro Nishihara is a highly acclaimed musician who has gained support from many in the dance music scene. His long-awaited 6th album "Elastic Afterwords", released in 2019 to celebrate 10 years of his career, is now available on LP!! Guest vocalists include Michael Kaneko, Sirup, Marter, and Pismo. The album also features Finland's national jazz player, Jukka Eskola (Flugelhorn), Daisuke (Sax) of "jabberloop", one of the leading instrumental jazz bands in Japan, and Akihiko Ogi (Gt) of Zainichi Funk, and many other live musicians. The album is a milestone work that bridges the club jazz scene of the 2010s and 2020s.

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Kali Malone presnts

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (XKatedral)

Abelcain & Alexandra von Bolz'n

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“XKatedral Anthology II is the second instalment in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music
by composers affiliated with XKatedral working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral
music. This double-vinyl set contains an array of pieces dating from 2018 - 2020. This collection of pieces
focuses on the use of synthetic sound and algorithmic composition languages as tools for precise work
within the realm of spectral exploration. In addition to this, the electronic instrumentation in many of the
pieces is augmented by acoustic instruments.
The first piece on side A is Kali Malone’s Music for Low Quartet. This piece is an adaptation of the
composition “Rose Wreath Crown” originally released on The Sacrificial Code in 2019. In this iteration,
the music is scored for two double basses played by Vilhelm Bromander and Zach Rowden, and sine tone
electronics performed by Malone herself. The recording of this piece was made at EMS in 2019. Closing side
A is Jessica Ekomane’s ‘First Light’. This computer music piece focuses exclusively on digital sound, layering
razor sharp synthetic textures into an otherworldly dynamic weave. The music heard here is a reworked
version of a piece originally commissioned by Semibreve in 2020. Side B contains the work ‘Hands Melt
In The Sun’ by Mats Erlandsson. This composition is built from electronically processed tuned zithers and
synthetically generated tones arranged in a series of chordal inversions over a sustained fundamental tone.
This music, written as a love-letter to the localized drone tradition of Stockholm in the years 2008-2012, was
composed and recorded in seven days while in residence at Ställbergs Gruva in Bergslagen, in the summer of
2018.
Opening the second half of the collection is Rough Draft v.7 by Theodor Kentros. Kentros’ compositional
practice usually combines acoustic and electronic source material and in this piece he molds the sound
of the Buchla 200 and a collection of recorded wind instruments into a molten mass of sound. In its
original form, this music was presented as a multichannel immersive work and even in the current stereo
configuration it retains some of that enveloping sense of depth. The second piece on side B, Inertia, is by
Wilma Hultén, who makes her debut on record here. An exclusively synthetic piece, Inertia utilizes internal
digital feedback in a sealed synthetic system to manifest a harmonic field that swells and abates throughout
the length of the piece, interspersed by small gestural element Closing Anthology II is Maria W Horn’s work
‘Dies Irae’ for female vocal quartet, pitched glass and synthesis. ‘Dies Irae’ uses a modified form of traditional
tonal harmonic language to invoke an uncanny and restless middle ground between the classical western
polyphonic vocal tradition and contemporary electronic music. The version heard here is a live recording
from Eric Ericssonhallen in Stockholm on May 30th 2020. Performing the piece here are the vocalists
Katarina Henryson, Lisa Holmgren, Vilma Ogenblad and Paula Wegmann, as well as Maria herself on glass and
electronics.”

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Heart Blood Steel

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Abundanz)

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Weltschmerzen)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Originally produced and self-released by Abelcain in 2015. Vocals by Andrea von Bolz’n. Newly remastered for vinyl in 2022.

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Nina Pixel

Ancestral Archeology

Live Erleben Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In 2020, electronic musician Nina Pixel was offered a track on a compilation album of songs from the Liptov region. What started as a rearrangement of a single folk song eventually grew in scope and size, eventually becoming a series of releases. Titled Ancestral Archaeology, the series counts two self-released EPs, an audiovisual show in co-operation with Adrián Kriška, and now, after two years, a double LP published by Weltschmerzen. In this definitive form of an album, Ancestral Archaeology reveals itself as a musical reimagination of traditional historical Slovak culture at large.

Nina Pixel averts the perils of lapsing into inauthentic fakelore by building her music with, rather than on, the ethnographic riches of Slovakia. With the eagerness of a genuine archeological prospector, Ancestral Archaeology invokes the always present but seldom perceived linchpins of folklore culture: the desperate clinging to the memory of pre-Christian paganism and witchcraft, songs with narratives of beautiful innate wyrdness that is utterly unfit for mass culture, and superstition as the most serious longing for the balance between sense and irrationality.
If we acknowledge the truism of folklore as the shared way of expression in rural society, the techno music on Ancestral Archeology proposes that, in the urban society of ours, this role is served by raves. The argument isn't as much declared as it's implied // in music and in the spoken-word lyrics that are rife with historical and contemporary sources. An 18th-century recipe by the writer and priest Juraj Fándly proposes snorting the grounded flowers of the medicinal weed Valerian as a way of curing bad vision. "It is a proven remedy!" we are repeatedly assured, and it's not hard imagining Fándly and his parishioners, strung out on Valerian, moving almost involuntarily to the rhythms of their era just as we can move to Ancestral Archeology.

Nina Pixel is a Slovak music artist based in Berlin. Lyrics are inspired by Slovak folklore traditions, songs and shared beliefs.

Manifestation tools: cello, overtone flute koncovka, fujara, gong, metal bowls, sheep bell, field recordings of Slovak forests, Andreas's tom and various drum machines.

Voice samples:
Sutartinės (A Goddess comes from within the Earth)
Funeral Lament, recorded in Vernár 1973 (Puhpowee)
Panoráma Ľudovej Kultúry; Liptov (Pohár viny, 13th Month)

Hay-making Songs; Selec, Kysuce, Terchová (It Felt Like I Suppose to Follow It, Zmrzlí,Dialogické vyvolávania)

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Schiller

2LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Sleepingroom)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2x12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Seaweed)

Seaweed Rythm Vol.1

Electropica Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A double 12' of creative and sharp tracks for the dance-floor, from the temple of minimal music which includes

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Richard Bone

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

Electropica Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Rediscover your love of Bossa Nova!"

Tiger Blood Tapes proudly presents for the first time ever on cassette, Richard Bone's 1998 Ambient Electro Jazz album "Electropica". Features an unreleased outtake "Cosa Nova".

"Electropica" is part one in a trilogy of Richard Bone's Ambient Electro Bossa Nova albums.

Originally released in 1998 on CD by Quirkworks Labratories.

Press Release:

"A curious thing happened to me during the summer of 1996. While leaving a favorite music store, I detoured down the jazz isle. Suddenly, one of the discs flung itself out of the bin and landed squarely at my feet. I was immediately drawn to its cover. A giraffe was gliding across cobalt blue sand beneath an emerald green sky. Without a second thought I bought the disc and brought it home. My life was about to change.

The disc was Antonio Carlos Jobim's "wave". Recorded in 1967, it was one of the most sensual works I had ever heard. The gentle rhythms, the haunting melodies were mesmerizing. The stereo imaging of producer Creed Taylor was magical. I must have played it ten times that night. These were beats of another time, another place. Innocent, yet primal, but most of all...romantic. This was Bossa Nova!

I have spent the last year and a half researching this old/new music. I discovered the masters of this genre: Jobim, Luiz Bonfa and Joao Gilberto. During those many months I listened to little else.

Electropica is my homage to these artists. Through the melding of sampled, found and created sounds, I have tried to capture my impression of this music, these rhythms. My work in the past has been described as ambient or electronic. For this release, I set those catagories aside.

I hope you will take a little time and listen to Electropica with unbiased ears. Close your eyes and envision a different world. With giraffes, perhaps, and emerald skies above cobalt sand.

Peace Always," -Richard Bone

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Richard Bone

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

People Just Wanna Have Fun Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kool & The Gang

2LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Astana Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

Strie & Scanner

Struktura Revisited

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Otama-Tunes, Vol. 1 Splatter Vinyl Edition

Therealsullyg

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

39,19 €* 48,99 € -20%

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (L.I.E.S.)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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With about a million subscribers and millions upon millions of views, TheRealSullyG is the undisputed King of Otamatones. His lovingly-produced otamatone covers of pop-culture standards, paired with quirky and imaginative videos starring the adorable Japanese synthesizers, have proven to be a recipe for viral success. Covering roughly his first year of otamatone content, Otama-Tunes, Vol. 1 dazzles the ears and delights the senses with wahsome covers of Queen, Daft Punk, Michael Jackson, Dragonforce and more! Remastered by Angel Marcloid, TheRealSullyG’s debut on physical media is presented on two different deluxe gatefold vinyl variants as well as CD and cassette.

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JFK

Archives

39,09 €* 45,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Huge 14 track triple vinyl retrospective release from the cult British industrial group JFK (Anthony DiFranco). Some of which pre-dates his work with Ramleh, this collects all the tracks from the Broken Flag cassettes (bf67+bf70) plus previously unreleased and unheard tracks, now standing as the definitive presentation of the band's early years. Absolutely groundbreaking material in all it's damaged sludge fueled beauty. Instruments used include electric razor, washing machine, aerosol cans, and Roland 606 among many more. Absolutely essential. Limited to 250 copies worldwide, comes with insert, one time pressing. Remastered from the original tapes and cut by Josh Bonati.

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Duna)

Desert Flowers

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited Edition 12″ LP Double Vinyl In nature, dunes are sand formations often formed by wind that sculpt elegant and dynamic silhouettes in constant transformation. As in nature the concept of constant evolution and movement will be the cornerstone of “DUNA”. “Desert Flowers” is the first strong statement of the label. The LP 12″ Double Vinyl contains 10 tracks composed by new and established artists that show and already have shown constant evolution and experimentation in the past whilst staying uncompromisingly true to their musical identity. CREDITS: Written and produced by Mike Parker, Giuseppe Scaccia, Mirko Porta, Simone Scardino, Stanislav Tolkachov, Danilenko Dmitriy, Sciarhiar Tavakoli, Lino Monaco e Nicola Buono, Alberto Pasqual, Frederic Lindeman. Mastered at LRS Factory Rome Artwork by MIRUEL – Produced by DUNA 2022 Berlin

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2Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (Mscty_edn)

Unknown Pleasures Zone

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Real Gone Music)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Debut release on the newly-launched Mscty label, the first in a series of highly collectible, very limited and lovingly designed physical releases.
This is a state-of-the-art double cassette boxset complete with 12-page booklet and limted to only 100 copies.
It features a host of brilliant compositions, each exclusive to the label from a wide cross-section of some of the world's foremost emerging electronic artists, including Hannah Peel, Loraine James, Bill Fontana, Chisara Agor and many more.
Each piece represents the artist's response to work by the World's leading architects, unbuilt futuristic buildings and spaces created for London Design Festival 2020.
Mscty_EDN future releases will continue follow the theme of music created for places and spaces around the World, exclusive material specially commissioned musical artists across the globe, from the likes of Ryuchi Sakamoto, Midori Takada, Terry Riley, Moses Boyd, Scanner, Jon Hopkins, Erland Cooper, Craig Richards and any more.

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Mary Mundy

Mother Nature

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Darkness Falls Again White Vinyl Edition

Beborn Beton

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Prophecy)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Joji

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

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Optical Delusion White Vinyl Edition

Orbital

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (London)

Sad Cities Snow White Vinyl Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“A human being experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest [of humanity] – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison…”

You many have seen this quote attributed to Albert Einstein on social media, the archetypal Smartest Guy Ever apparently having an out-of-character religious epiphany. It certainly leapt out at Paul Hartnoll of Orbital who spotted it in Michael Pollan’s 2018 book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence.

“As soon as I saw ‘optical delusion’ I thought Oh hey, that’s the album title,” says Paul. “It just seemed to say so much about how people construct their own realities, how we see patterns that aren’t there, how we see what we want to see.

“But it’s actually a misquote. He never quite said that. In the German original what he’s really saying is that human experience is as relative as physics. Wouldn’t it be good if we could accept that, and find a kind of universal theory of everything for the human race? Then you look at everything from history to art to your Twitter feed and you think yeah, that’s what we’re all trying to do all of the time…”

Hence ‘Optical Delusion’, the tenth original Orbital album and the latest in a burst of renewed post-pandemic creativity for two brothers who’ve stayed at the top of their game longer than anyone from the post-1988 Class of Acid House.

Now with ‘Optical Delusion’ the Hartnolls dig deeper into the unquiet psyche of our increasingly surreal and disordered world. Sketched out partly during lockdown but fully recorded in the uncertain After Times, the album summons up conflicting emotions and sometimes beguiling images from years when the science fiction doomsdays that the Hartnolls watched on TV as kids finally came true. There are mesmeric tracks with names like ‘The New Abnormal’ and ‘Requiem For The Pre-Apocalypse’ and ‘Day One’. But there are also straight-up bangers and ethereal cosmic dreams, abstract sound wars and deeply human songs of separation and loss.

And it all starts with a bang. Lead single ‘Dirty Rat’, an outright Fall-meets-Front-242 class rant with vocals by Sleaford Mods mob orator Jason Williamson, harks right back to the Hartnolls’ days of politicised anarcho-squatpunk. It began as a remix swap (Orbital did the Sleafords’ ‘I Don’t Rate You’) and morphed into a comic, brutal, bass-driven harangue not so much against our rulers but at the petty, mean-spirited, frightened, Mail-reading voters who put them there: the people who are “blaming everyone in hospital/blaming everyone at the bottom of the English Channel/blaming everyone who doesn’t look like a fried animal.”

Also key to the album is opening track ‘Ringa Ringa (The Old Pandemic Folk Song)’ which returns to an Orbital truism, that time always becomes a loop. This chugging, cyclical Orbital groove gives way to an unnerving past-meets-present timeslip fit for ‘Sapphire And Steel’ as goth maenads The Mediaeval Baebes materialise to sing ‘Ring O’Roses’ – the innocent nursery rhyme whose roots are in the Black Death.

“I’ve always liked folk music and mediaeval sounds,” says Paul, himself an occasional Morris dancer. “I had the basis of that track and I wanted to spin it off somehow.” Trawling his archives he stumbled on The Mediaeval Baebes’ version of ‘Ring O’Roses’ “and my hackles just went up. I was like, my God, this is the original pandemic folk song.”

?his being Orbital, there are collaborations galore on the album, the roles once played by Alison Goldfrapp, Lady Leshurr or David Gray now filled by new talents. London singer-songwriter Anna B Savage contributes a compellingly fragile, Anohni-like vocal to ‘Home’, in which nature reclaims the scorched and vacant mega-cities. ‘Day One’ is a pulsing techno track featuring the singer Dina Ipavic. Paul got in touch with her after working on a score for a sculpture show of giant robotic installations by his friend Giles Walker during the pandemic. First Paul cut up his own score and Ipavic’s vocals on the track The Crane, which appears on the deluxe version of the album. Then he thought, Why not work with her for real? The result is school of ‘Belfast’, a bassy dreamscape with vocalised clouds billowing above.

The pensive ‘Are You ?live?’ adds to the Orbital product range of existential questions (‘Are We Here?’, ‘Where Is It Going?’) in collaboration Bella Union signings Penelope Isles, AKA brother and sister act Lily and Jack Wolter. “They’re our studio mates, they work upstairs!” says Paul happily. “And they’ve both got amazing voices.”

But Orbital are Orbital and never far from the dancefloor. “Eventually the more abrasive bits came back into the fold…” ‘You Are The Frequency’, first of two tracks to feature mysterious vocalist The Little Pest, surrounds the listener with warped voices ordering you to the dancefloor (Phil: “we wanted the idea that the music is kind of absorbing you”). And the second, the sinister ‘What A Surprise’, traps you in a paranoid electronic hall of mirrors.

In another nod to Orbital’s resurgent past the cover artwork once again comes from fine art painter John Greenwood, creator of fantastical grotesques for the covers of ‘Snivilisation’, ‘In Sides’ and Orbital’s most recent album, 2018’s ‘Monsters Exist’. Orbital had just had a slick Mark Farrow cover for ‘30 Something’ – this is a return to the overripe and bulbous techno-organic constructions that somehow express Orbital’s own uncontrollably fertile sound.

There are gaps in the future that Orbital are desperate to fill too; there will be tours and festivals and rooms and fields full of people. Those long paralysed months when we had little to look forward to but a Zoom DJ set made Paul and Phil appreciate the things that make life worth living.

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Sally Shapiro

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Italians Do It Better)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Left Ear)

Antipodean Anomalies 2

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Antipodean Anomalies 2 is Left Ear Records' most ambitious project to date, a compilation that took over 4 years to license and includes 17 artists across a double LP. AA2 picks up where the first iteration left off, with co-compilers Chris Bonato and& Bridget Small continuing to dig through the music of the geographically isolating and maverick landscapes of Australia and& New Zealand.

As with the first iteration, Left Ear continues its to excavation ofe the music from these vast micro-scenes that evolved out of a number of small community-focused domains, creating their own unique reinterpretation of musical influences from near and far, spanning the years 1980 – 1992.

The compilation scopes an overlooked epoch from Adelaide, presenting acts such as the DNA Lounge, TCH & Will Kuiper. A close-knit community of like-minded mates that made distinctive electronic music together throughout the 80’s, all of which remained unreleased until now. Holbrook Buchanan capture the ambiance of Perth’s heat prodded afternoon’s perfectly with their track Hunger, a breezy 9-minute minimal-jazz jam that includes kalimba, water samples & conga. Furthermore, artists like David Watson & Colin Offord use samplers and handmade instruments to offer a more abrasive and experimental aesthetic.

To round out the compilation, artists such as Jane Stevenson, discovered a 7” at an op-shop and found the needle stuck on the word, ‘Aloha’. Using tape loops, she chose to highlight imperfections rather than hide them and in unison managed to cross boundaries of time; the 60s (album voice) and the 80s (my voice), of location; Hawaii and Australia, and of language; “Aloha and Hi”. This ethos echoes the compilation's vision, to champion artists that implement impromptu creativity, and who have a desire to create regardless of their surroundings and resources. AA2 signs off with the Back to Back Zithers, drawing inspiration from the haiku poems of Basho. To illustrate this, Kari set a Kacapi improvisation to the backdrop of the cicada chorus of summertime in outer Melbourne.

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2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Demon)

80s Dance Classics

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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3x12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Pont Neuf)

Hexagonal Club Volume 3

Sonic Poetry Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Founded by in 2016, Pont Neuf has established itself as one of France’s leading electronic music imprints. Now six years in, the label will commemorate a milestone sixth birthday.

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Gimmik

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (n5MD)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The follow-up to last year's return-to-form collection, Cloudwalker. Sonic Poetry is a refined group of works showcasing Gimmik's adeptness at fusing experimental electronic music minutia with overarching melodicism. Those that have followed Gimmik's carrier–and subsequent return–will take pleasure in Sonic Poetry's veracity and bolstered production. Leftfield/IDM, Breaks, Downtempo, Electro, and Ambient get dissected and reformed to create a truly authentic album in which it is evident that there is no coincidence in that the opening track is named "Here I am."

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Enphin

End Cut

Metamorfosi The Remix Collection

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“The real mystery does not behave mysteriously or secretively; it speaks a secret language, it adumbrates itself by a variety of images which all indicate its true nature.” — Carl Jung in Psychology and Alchemy, part III, chapter 2.1 Enigmatic psych doom outfit Enphin, formerly known as “Mr. Peter Hayden” or simply “ph” return with their 6th full-length album and Pelagic Records debut, titled “End Cut”. A movie script that became a record, “End Cut” represents a perilous yet enlightening journey for body and mind. If you commit yourself to their guidance, Enphin will take you on a journey through post apocalyptic wastelands into the deep caverns of the soul. Throughout the years many have attempted to probe into the mystery as to whom Peter Hayden might be, but now the two letters have morphed into a new name which refers to the French enfin and which translates to the adverb ‘in the end’. With "End Cut" the four-piece from Finland present a deeply philosophical space doom epic that acts as a final statement on this enduring mystery and which holds the sublime moment in which the true nature of Peter Hayden will be revealed.

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Joseph Capriati

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Redimension)

[The Dark Places Of The Earth]

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Joseph Capriati is to release a selection of remixes of his epic 2020 album Metamorfosi. They arrive on limited edition triple vinyl on April 29th 2022 on his Redimension Music label, and feature the likes of DJ Stingray, Frank Wiedemann & Toto Chiavetta, Steve Rachmad, Dave Clarke, Carl Cox, Francois K, Masters at Work and more.

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Lustmord

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2009 reissue on vinyl for the first time. Electronic music pioneer Lustmord released an album titled [other] in 2008, to date the only Lustmord album with guitars on it, performed by Adam Jones (tool), King Buzzo (melvins) and Aaron Turner (isis). The albums The Dark Places of the Earth and Beyond, both released in 2009, are extensions of the ideas explored in [other] and are taken from the same recording sessions, but with the guitars removed and the essence of [other] distilled and reduced. [other] was a journey with friends, while The Dark Places of the Earth and Beyond take the concept and listener further, deeper, in-between and beyond. While is some ways [other] is as close to a “rock” album as Lustmord will ever make, The Dark Places of the Earth and Beyond are pure Lustmord, a sound that many others imitate but can never equal.

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Lustmord

[Beyond]

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lustmord

[Other]

The Midnight Society Soundtrack Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2008 reissue on vinyl for the first time. [ O T H E R ] is the 10th studio album by electronic music pioneer Lustmord, originally released in 2008 and to date the only Lustmord album with guitars on it, performed by Adam Jones (tool), King Buzzo (melvins) and Aaron Turner (isis).

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The Rentals

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Death Waltz)

Poolside Temples White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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Cvltvre

12" | 2017 | CA | Reissue (Tiger Blood Tapes)

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Ever / Never)

Release: 2017 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited edition LP run of 200 on Bubbly pool froth white coloured vinyl in full colour jackets and shrink wrapped.

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C.I.A. Debutante

Music For Small Rooms

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Ninja Tune)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tiptoeing in, stealth-like, CIA Debutante’s Music For Small Rooms 12” on Ever/Never Records tempts the listener with secrets and their inevitable spilling out into the open. Over the course of several releases, the France-based duo has shown a real gift for delving into the particulars of paranoia, seeding their songs with threats disguised as hooks. On its perfectly succinct new EP, CIA Debutante refines this method, as each of the six tracks plays like dystopian theme songs for closed-circuit television dramas. From the gradually increasing disquiet of “Nuclear Holiday” to the full-on terror of “The Face” (“There’s a blank spot/where the face should be”), CIA Debutante are well-versed in navigating the eternal eddies of existential doubt. With molten electronics accompanying a resigned vocal, “Sinkhole” really does feel like the planet is opening up beneath you, but perhaps you don’t mind as much as you’d have expected. “Faulty Appliances” is a kitchen sink nightmare and even elicits a couple chuckles as it wraps up the leftovers. If you find yourself routinely menaced by everyday objects, then you are primed and ready for the sounds that CIA Debutante pipes into Music For Small Rooms.

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Bonobo

Fragments Deluxe Edition

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (A Strangely Isolated Place)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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clear deluxe double vinyl (140g) including 4 art prints and download code.

Bonobo will release his new album ‘Fragments' via Ninja Tune on January 14th, 2022. Fragments is the most emotionally intense record that he - aka Simon Green - has ever had to make. It’s no surprise that it’s also his masterpiece. The album features Jamila Woods, Joji, Kadhja Bonet, Jordan Rakei, O’Flynn and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. Born first out of fragments of ideas and experimentation, the album ultimately was fused together in a burst of creativity fuelled by both collaboration and Green’s escape into the wild. The artwork for ‘Fragments" is by Neil Krug who returns after creating the art for 2017’s 'Migration’. Krug has also made a visualiser for ’Rosewood”.

One of the biggest names in dance music, Green’s career includes 3 Grammy nominations and playing to over 2 million people for the tour supporting his 2017 album Migration. Migration was a top ten album in multiple countries, top five at home in the UK and a Billboard dance album number one in the US. He’s also a favourite mainstage performer at the world’s greatest music festivals. As part of the tour announced today Bonobo will play three dates at the legendary Royal Albert Hall in London in addition to dates in Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham.

Fragments is a series of 12 sonic affirmations, featuring some of the hardest and most hip-shaking grooves that Green has ever created. The ballads are perfectly placed throughout; they capture a world in flux and glow with hope. Coaxing the ideas out initially took some hard work. The constantly-touring Green creates best while on the move; the global shutdown forced him to stand still.

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Markus Guentner

Extropy

Flashback Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Markus Guentner returns with his signature expansive ambient world-building, and the third concept album on A Strangely Isolated Place, titled Extropy. Extropy marks the final chapter in an accidental triptych of Astronomy-related exploratory albums on A Strangely Isolated Place. From the creation of the Earth and the Moon in his debut album on Asip, Theia; to the relationship the Earth holds with the greater Galaxy in the follow-up album, Empire (2018). To now, Extropy, and the indefinite growth of the life we hold so dearly.

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Maitro & Ducat

LP | 2018 | CA | Reissue (Tiger Blood Tapes)

The Other Side Of Darkness

Release: 2018 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited edition 12" on sky blue Colored Vinyl in full colour jackets with vertical OBI and shrink wrapped.

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36 / Awakened Souls

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Past Inside The Present)

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Sic)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Other Side of Darkness' is a collaborative album from 36 and awakened souls. The project began with James (awakened souls) sending Dennis (36) a few bass loops he made and quickly evolved into a collaborative project with Cynthia

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Uncle Squidz

Cheap Foods

The Road Part II / Lost Highway

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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ONLY 150 PRESSED!!

(NO REPRESSINGS)

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Unkle

3LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Songs For The Def)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Denovali)

Nadia Struiwigh

Whrru RedVinyl Edition

Whrru Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Nadia Struiwigh is a DJ and electronic producer from Rotterdam, Netherlands. Sitting somewhere between Biosphere and Board of Canada, Struiwigh’s refined downtempo electronica takes you on a journey full of synthesized soundscapes that flirt with ambient techno. After releasing "Lenticular" on "Central Processing Unit" and getting constant praise for her work from Resident Advisor she now returns with her first full length and her first cooperation with Denovali called "WHRRu".

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Nadia Struiwigh

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Denovali)

2LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Parlophone)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LCD Soundsystem

This Is Happening

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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3LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Soul:r)

Marcus Intalex

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2019 | UK | Reissue (30th Century)

Karen O & Danger Mouse

Lux Prima

Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are

Release: 2019 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First re-press since the initial 2019 release of critically acclaimed album featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs' lead vocalist Karen O, and Danger Mouse, one of the most influential artist/producers of the 21st Century.

Debuting in March 2019, Lux Prima was hailed by Pitchfork as a “dreamy and poignant collaboration.” It featured the single “Woman,” which was accompanied by a memorable Spike Jonze-directed live performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The single was also nominated for the Best Rock Performance Grammy.

The new package includes the original artwork plus a 16 page booklet highlighting their interactive exhibition “An Encounter with Lux Prima”, held at Los Angeles’ Marciano Arts Foundation featuring a 360 degree soundscape of the album mixed at famed Skywalker Ranch.

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Beauty Pill

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Misra)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Bikini Bandits, Kill! Kill! Kill! Red Vinyl Edition

Bong-Ra

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Redrum)

12" | 2018 | US | Original (Natural Midi)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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20 Years of Sonic Mayhem Bong-Ra's 'Bikini Bandits Kill! Kill! Kill!' Vinyl Debut on Redrum Recordz.

Hail the sonic mayhem as we commemorate two decades of groundbreaking beats! Bong-Ra's iconic masterpiece, 'Bikini Bandits Kill! Kill! Kill!,' is set to make its vinyl debut on Rotterdam's Redrum Recordz. This record is a genre breaking fusion of breakcore, jungle and experimental electronic sounds that define Bong-Ra's visionary work. Safe to say; a classic! With guest appearances of The Dirty Dred (Skindred / Dub War), Mike Redman (Deformer) and Lolita Storm. In homage to the album's relentless energy and fiery spirit, the 20th-anniversary edition comes in striking red double vinyl. Order now to ensure you don't miss out on this limited release.

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Scott Grooves

E2-E4 Reframed

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Skreamizm 8 Black Vinyl Edition

Skream

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Skreamizm)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Commodified Clear Vinyl Edition

NRSB-11

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Disciples)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ok Cowboy Limited White Vinyl Edition

Vitalic

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Pias Recordings Catalogue)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Heavenly Remixes Volumes 8

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Heavenly)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Heavenly Remixes Volumes 7

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Heavenly)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Again Blue Vinyl Edition Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

Oneohtrix Point Never

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Warp)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

Brian Eno

OST Top Boy

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

Sly & The Family Stone

Anthology

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Far From The Maddening Crowds

Chicane

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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

Lars Bartkuhn

Images & Anthems

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Transgressive)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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As a young child Lars Bartkuhn started out writing his first piece of music with a syn-thesizer and sequencer. In the mid 90s Lars became fascinated with the deep and soulful side of House musicand formed Lamaya Productions and now legendary record label Needs (not wants)together with his older brother Marek Bartkuhn and DJ Yannick. Many of Lars Bartkuhn’s productions have been played, charted and loved to deathby DJs around the globe. Lars also played countless regular sessions and concerts of freely improvised music inFrankfurt together with some of Germany’s most innovative musicians, combiningelectronic music and Jazz in a very fresh and organic way.

In 2021 Lars started to work intensely with Rush Hour. After a couple of singles RushHour released a vinyl-retrospective of the Needs era which sold out at light speed.

Many more releases are already in the pipeline ranging from abstract electronic, newage jazz, Fusion to epic deep house anthems associated with his work during the Needs days

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Primal Prayer

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Unicorn Picture Disc Edition

Gunship

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Horsie In The Hedge)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Playing Robots Into Heaven Limited Deluxe Indie Exclusive White Vinyl Edition

James Blake

2LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Polydor)

Mega Remix Man (2).Exe Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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James Blake will release his sixth studio album, Playing Robots Into Heaven, on September 8, 2023. The British songwriter and producer last appeared on the soundtrack for Spider Man - Across the Spiderverse, where he collaborated with Metro Boomin and A$ap Rocky. Over the course of his career, James Blake has become an acclaimed songwriter and producer who now collaborates with and draws inspiration from the world's biggest pop stars - including Beyoncé, Frank Ocean and Kendrick Lamar, among others. He has already received numerous awards for his versatile collaborative work, including a Latin Grammy Award in 2019 as songwriter and producer for ROSALIA's album "Motomami" and a Grammy for "Best Rap Performance" in the same year. (He has also been nominated for a Grammy another five times) and has won a Mercury Prize.

In his new album "Playing Robots Into Heaven" he bridges the gap between electronically generated beats and soft vocals. On it, he creates soundscapes in a loop and breaks out of it - returning to his roots of electronic music.

In September 2023 James Blake will go on tour in Europe.

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Roborob

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Firaga)

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Utter)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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1xLP 180g clear vinyl in a gatefold jacket featuring stunning wrap-around artwork by Leon Tukker, design/layout by Isa Alcántara. Mega Man and Rockman properties are © 1987 Capcom. Firaga Records, Materia Music Inc., and collaborating artists are in no way affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected to Capcom with respect to this album. Musical compositions are used with permission. Sound Recordings © 2022 Materia Music Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Marmo

Epistolae

Consciousness As A State Of Matter

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Marmo, a collaborative project between Christian Duka (Vādin / Amoenus) and Marco Maldarella (Sinestesie), was born out of friendship and shared passion for music-making. Starting off respectively as the electric guitarist and singer in a metal band nearly a decade ago, the pair have worked their way through various flavours of electronic music inhabiting someplace between ambient and dance music, arriving at their singular aesthetic on this, their second album and first for Utter. 'Epistolae' - Latin for 'written letters' - was created between London and Bologna during the Covid-19 pandemic, an ode to friendship and as a way to keep connected during a time of isolated separation. The album is conceived as one continuous musical experience, with each track flowing effortlessly into each other in sequence as is heard on the final cut you are listening to now. A veritable sonic journey, as one might say. The outcome is an undulating collage carrying emotion as its common thread, with rich ambient textures giving way to bursts of percussion, simmering with shrouded whispers and spoken word, embossed with rhythms and borrowing influences from downtempo, dub, breaks, techno and tribal electronica. 'Epistolae' is available on limited vinyl and digital formats, mastered & Cut by Anne Taegert at D&M. Artwork by Marco Maldarella.

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Terr

2x12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Phantasy Sound)

Electropica Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Terr’s debut LP 'Consciousness As A State Of Matter’ arrives on green and orange split double-vinyl, limited to a pressing of just 400 copies, housed in a sleeve of hallucinatory artwork from designer Sebastian Ofuszak.

Across eleven tracks, Terr continues a long, fulfilling journey in electronic music with a visceral, vulnerable full-length statement inspired by tireless and timeless innovators in the history of electronic music such as Giorgio Moroder, Wendy Carlos and Phil Oakey. Achieving a delicate, wide-eyed chemistry between the catharsis of the dancefloor and the ever-renewing promise of pop, 'Consciousness As A State Of Matter’ includes and expands upon the vision of singles ‘Only For Tonight’, ‘Tale of Devotion’ and ‘Layers’.

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Richard Bone

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Sad Disco)

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Poison Girl Friend

Melting Moment

2LP | 2023 | CZ | Original (EMI)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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POiSON GiRL FRiEND is a musician who reigned as a worldwide cult underground diva in the 20s and has been reevaluated in recent years, including being selected for inclusion in "Heisei no oto: Japanese Left-Field Pop From the CD Age (1989-1996)," a renowned compilation of music from the "Music From Memory". Originally released on Victor's Endorphin label in 1992, a mini-album commemorating the band's major label debut, is being re-released on vinyl for the first time ever by Sad Disco!

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Sub Focus

Evolve

Release: 2023 / CZ – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2 A.M Chill Session Colored Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Lofi)

38,69 €* 42,99 € -10%

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Neue Meister)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Step through a portal into a world of utter bliss and creative inspiration with the second synthwave compilation ‘2 A.M Chill Session’, featuring our beloved new character. Euphoric synths, polished drums and reverberations and accompany you through new dimensions, creating electrifying atmospheres and conjuring goosebumps. Suddenly.. You were nostalgic for something you’d never known.

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Pascal Schumacher

Ctrl-Variations

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dear Human Being Colored Vinyl Edition

The Timewriter

2x12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Plastic City)

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Silent River Runs Deep)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In 1994, The Timewriter began creative work on his first album. In 2023, he released his twelfth album, of which he released eight under the name The Timewriter and four under the name JFC and Jean F. Cochois. He is one of the influential artists for the label Plastic City. Free from trends and currents, he not only remains true to himself, but also the label.

His new album, “Dear Human Being” is a very deep Prayer and plea for humanity and its conversion, return to its Creator and reconciliation with him. In its interior, its warmth and insistence, it also reminds us that all people are one family and are. The Timewriter has invited artists again this time. With Lukasz Korybalski on the flugelhorn and the singers Ojochidé, Tony Mac and Sheddz on the microphone, these artists shape the mood of the album. Even if terms like Deep House and Listening could describe the musical style of the album, it’s just clichés and drawers that can’t do justice to this album. So we invite people to hear for themselves, to feel for themselves and to think for themselves.

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Steve Shehan

Indigo Dreams

37,99 €* 39,99 € -5%

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Throttle)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Simultaneous double release of the percussionist / composer Steve Shehan's legendary albums!! The world's first LP reissue of his 1990 CD album "Arrows" from First on Vinyl, and his 1995 CD album "Indigo Dreams" from Silent River Runs Deep.

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Clark

Sus Dog

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Pillowcase)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Clark recruits none other than Thom Yorke as Exec Producer for his first album centred on his own singing. It combines his trademark searing synth melodies and beats with vocal hooks. Thom says "the way he approached it all wasn’t the usual singer songwriter guff thank god; it mirrored the way he approached all his composition and recording, but this time it had a human face. His face." Chris says "I kept on thinking what would it sound like if The Beach Boys took Mdma and made a rave record"

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Joycut

Thebluwave

2LP | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Text)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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The new JoyCut album is ready and deeply alive. It is an elaborative process that has taken shape from the Venice Biennale or the exclusive performance for Robert Smith’s Meltdown.

An interweaving of orchestral saturations and sound expansions steeped in narrative rhythmic landscapes and moving passages that quietly aim at lightness, and liberation from this civilisation.

There is a great amount of the East, Africa; there is absence and the sublime, and yet the depth of these ideological abysses is not intimidating, on the contrary, it asks us to peek inside, to get closer.

Research through a musical language that if once started from rock and psychedelia has evolved and has sought and found peaks in the instrumental, contemporary and modern classical fields.

The sound becomes dense to become liquid and then rarefy like air in a work in which the sound envelops and covers developing through long sonic suites sometimes capable of shaking like an earthquake in which the pats touch each other also passing through calm and sweetness typical of a minimalism that also has roots in the Northern European music scene.

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Four Tet

Pink 2023 Repress

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Global Underground & Amelie Lens-Antwerp

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Global Underground)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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International Love Affair

Tigerbalm

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Ubiquity)

Modified Two Clor Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In an age of regressive politics and inward-looking neo-nationalism, there’s something gloriously open and outward-looking about the musical worldview of Rose Robinson. A keen traveller whose mindset and musical vision has been shaped by her experiences visiting different destinations around the globe, Robinson’s releases as Tigerbalm thrillingly combine her roots in dance music – Robinson has been DJing around her home city of London and much further afield for well over a decade – with rhythms, sounds and instrumentation inspired by all manner of indigenous musical cultures from around the world.

This trademark sound is sonically kaleidoscopic, unflinchingly percussive and undeniably infectious, though attempts to accurately describe it are likely doomed to failure. While confounding those employed to review music not Robinson’s aim – she was much more interested in fusing her eclectic global musical influences and showcasing great female vocalists – her brilliant debut album, International Love Affair, will surprise as much as it delights – and all for the right reasons.

It arrives on the back of a string of celebrated singles and was created with the help of a large archive of recordings of jam sessions with musician friends, and contributions from a talented pool of female singers Robinson has met on her travels around the world. It’s those travels that shaped the sound of International Love Affair, with every track being a personal response to the musical cultures of places she’s visited. Combine these vivid experiences with nods to dancefloor-focused styles she loves – think organic house, nu-disco, Afro-house, dub disco, Afro-disco and Brazilian club cuts – and you have a debut solo album that’s as imaginative and entertaining as they come.

Taken as a whole, International Love Affair more than lives up to the promise of its title, marking out Robinson as one of electronic music’s most inventive and on-point global fusionists.

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Vector Seven

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Darkhan Music)

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Virgin)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Vector Seven, the virtuoso of the cyberpunk genre serves you the virtual album "Modified". Previously only available on the digital format, now available on limited vinyl interface which you can jack in, and experience the retrofuturistic net personally at your own residence. With the hit track “Trauma Team” clocking in at 2.5 million streams on Spotify alone, this creation will not disappoint any online netrunners. "Modified" includes bonus tracks like the grit punched "Hydraulic", Yautja advanced "Camouflage", and a upgraded version of the original "Trauma Team" track. Let the scanning of datapackage commence.... Vector Seven is a well respected synthwave, darksynth and cyberpunk artist from Germany. He is famous for his unique production style combining dark and heavy synthesizer sounds, with punchy drum patterns and a good bit of retro nostalgia. He has proven more than once how versatile he is as a music producer with his distinctive sound design skills.

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Mall Grab

What I Breathe

Fossora Limited Lime Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. What I Breathe is the debut album from Mall Grab (AKA Jordon Alexander). The Australia-born, London-based powerhouse reaches within to create the most comprehensive demonstration of his style to date - loudly defining the raw energy that has become synonymous with the moniker. Even with a stack of very well-received projects already under his belt, What I Breathe can be seen as the first deep breath in and a fierce and deeply personal declaration of what's to come for Mall Grab.

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Björk

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (One Little Independent)

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Anjunadeep)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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The 10th studio album by Bjork on limited lime green vinyl will be in stock again in a few months.

each album always starts with a feeling
that i try to shape into sound
the feeling was landing
( after my last album utopia which was all island in the clouds element air and no bass )
on the earth and digging my feet into the ground
it was also woven into how i experienced the "now"
this time around 7 billion of us did it together
nesting in our homes quarantining
being long enough in one place that we shot down roots
my new album "fossora" is about that
it is a word i made up
it is the feminine of fossore ( digger, delver, ditcher )
so in short it means "she who digs" ( into the ground )
so sonically it is about bass , heavy bottom-end ,
we have 6 bass clarinets and punchy sub
i would like to especially thank bergur þórisson and heba kadry
and side project , el guincho , hamrahlíð choir , soraya nayyar , clarinet sextet murmuri , siggi string quartet ensemble , emilie nicolas , serpentwithfeet
viibra and last but not least : sindri and dóa .
visuals were made by viðar logi , james merry , m/m , nick knight , andy huang , edda , isshehungry , tomi , sayaka , sunna , sara and heimir
and my ever so loyal and magnificent team : derek , rosamary , catherine , chiara , hilma and móa

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Cubicolor

Sometime Not Now

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Michal Menert & The Pretty Fantastics

From The Sea

2LP | 2019 | US | Original (Young Heavy Souls)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Red Light District Red Vinyl Edition

Vhs Tape Rewinder

LP | 2015 | CA | Reissue (Tiger Blood)

37,99 €* 39,99 € -5%

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Love Injection)

Release: 2015 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Enter the Red Light District and get ready for the night of your life

Life is full of fleeting moments; capture them Keep dreaming

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Barbie Bertisch

Prelude

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Apollon)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“I’m closing a chapter in my life,” Barbie Bertisch says to me from a park bench in Greenpoint, “I spent the last four years working towards gaining confidence around my ideas and my creative perspective. This feels like a culmination of that process” The “this,” in question is Bertisch’s debut record Prelude, a collection of eleven songs that chronicle 5 years of Bertisch’s life. The legendary musician Anna Domino describes the record best: “[Prelude is a record of] layers and depths. The melting phases and soaring distances.”

Raised in Buenos Aires and Miami, Bertisch has called New York home for most of her adult life. When she started piecing together Prelude, she was in her Brooklyn kitchen. It was early quarantine. Stuck at home instead of DJing at clubs, she found the space to parse through the archives. What she previously considered unworthy of attention in the era of distractions, finally made sense as a whole once all the noise was turned down. Compiling a list of songs in various states of completion, Bertisch dreamed up an album, a chronicle in growth and healing frustrations of the past, an honest account of someone trying to find her own voice. That in and of itself was a journey. It took years for Bertisch to accept that she was an artist. “I felt like I was surrounded by men who ruled every space. I constantly felt like I had to ask permission to enter, always around bands but never the girl in the band” she says.

Prelude is an introspective record. It explores all of the valences of being and feeling. Some songs are chaotic and choppy. Others are soft and searching. There is rage and innocence, and moments of forced stillness, like capturing the aftermath of panic attacks, as in “After The Storm”. Bertisch also focuses on rhythm, bass guitar being her main instrument, and no stranger to the power of the beat. The record also draws on influences as varied as Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Cocteau Twins, Berlin School, and pioneering producer François Kevorkian. Both sonically and conceptually, Prelude is a portrait of who Bertisch is as a person.“Is This What You Wanted?” is fiery, a pointed provocation to domineering figures from her past. It’s full of strobing, strident synths, and heady lines of bass. It gives off the same vibe as a fire alarm, as a big room dance track that subverts your expectations of what it means to dance in a sea of bodies. “28,” the record’s opening track is more peaceful. It’s all languid keyboard arpeggios with the occasional flourish of a cascading synth effect.

Since most of the songs already existed in some form or another, Bertisch’s job on Prelude was to refine and reimagine music that had previously been private. She spent time rearranging, rewriting, adding elements newly available to her, such as the saxophone, and pushing the limits of the rough mixes to mold the universe she envisioned. Along the way, Bertisch grew more excited about her abilities as a musician. The resulting record is one that is inherently confident.

Prelude is also a homespun release. It’s coming out on Bertisch’s own label, Love Injection Records, which she runs with her partner Paul Raffaele. The two also DJ and make zines under the name, which started in 2015. Love Injection is a love letter to New York. Prelude is a word of encouragement to those struggling with self-actualization. The record was mixed by Justin Van Der Volgen and mastered by Walter Coelho. Love Injection Records holds the remix tradition in high regard, and they’ve enlisted reworks by some of Barbie’s favorite producers. It’s all a labor of love for Bertisch. Prelude is her: Barbie the musician.

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Sleepyard

Head Values

3x12" | 2022 | EU | Original (The Nothing Special)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Sleepyard from Stavanger (Norway) is back with their sixth full length album. Brothers Oliver and Svein Kersbergen conjure up a new mix of drones and soundscapes with beautiful melodies.

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Calibre

Double Bend

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Apollon)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Calibre's new album - Double Bend. Nine tracks pressed over three pieces of 180 gram vinyl with artwork by Craig Richards.

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Sonisk Blodbad

The Shores Of Oblivion