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Alter Hour's 7th release features the distinctive, stripped-back sound of Lithuanian underground producer Modebakú. Topped with a remix by mastermind Ion Ludwig

Nuira is the joint project of Italian producers Giovanni Petruzzelli and Michele Lamacchia. The 6-track strong mini LP called "For Unconventional Ears LP" is a homage to old school drum and bass and breakbeat, while also taking influences from more modern breakcore, culminating in beautiful and blissful breaky bassiness. Hard-hitting yet romantic tracks invite you on a dreamy ride into the past, present and futu-re! A record to brighten any listener's horizon… All tracks written and produced by Giovanni Petruzzelli and Michele Lamacchia Mixed at acustic sound studio (Bari - IT) Special thanks to Marco Squicciarini and Nicola Loporchio System Error MM GmbH, Berlin, Germany, Earth © 2024

Vitamin for ears proudly presents "New Now" E.P. by Adam Collins. Step aboard the enchanting voyage of "New Now" EP where every spin of the record takes you deeper into a story spun from pure sonic magic. As "Aacid Reboot" awakens the narrative, each beat a step into a world where music paints the unseen. "New Now" EP initiates with ambient tracks seeding a ripple that escalates to a breakbeat epilog. Sounds like a fairy tale, right? Try this Vitamin for ears and tell us how it was. ...............................Warning! ......................... Before listening, consult Your DJ.

Next up on Salty Nuts is groove maestro Harry Wills, one-third of the Phonetraxx trio. Harry delivers four original tracks that showcase his musical range and unique ability to craft mesmerizing vibes with elegant simplicity, guaranteed to send dancers into a trance on the floor.

The title track, “Heads & Volleys,” brings just the right amount of energy, blending in some quirky, jazzy, slightly dissonant chord layers for a touch of delightful weirdness. “Cruisin’” offers a perfect blend of housey vibes, ideal for closing out the night or setting the tone during the day.

Opening the B-side, “Encounters” is a late-night stomper that introduces a moody atmosphere with spoken vocals in the breakdown. The final track, “Glideride,” infuses electronic elements to elevate those special moments on the dance floor.

The “Heads & Volleys” EP will be available on vinyl only and in highly limited quantities, so don’t miss out!

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Since its opening in spring 2021, Jubg, a still young Cologne gallery for contemporary art, has specialized in the broad field of artists and collaborations working along artistic interfaces, especially those between visual art and experimental and/or electronic music. For example, Jubg has already hosted exhibitions by Markus Oehlen, Kim Gordon, Wolfgang Voigt, Matthias and Aksel "Superpitcher" Schaufler, Sven-Åke Johansson, and Emil Schult. Albert Oehlen, who is a kind of mentor and supporter of the gallery, was also a guest at Albertusstraße this summer, where he presented the exhibition D-i-e Orpheusmaschine together with Michael Wertmüller, Thomas Stammer and the poet Rainald Goetz.

It is only logical that the gallery now expands its sphere of activity to include its own label, on which music appears that comes from similar contexts as the artists listed above already suggest.

As catalog number 1, Jubg is now releasing the official soundtrack to "The Painter" from 2021. The film, German title "Der Maler", is a mixture of feature film and documentary and a collaboration between German director Oliver Hirschbiegel, best known for his Oscar-nominated film "Downfall", and Albert Oehlen, with whom Hirschbiegel has a long friendship, as they both once studied together at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Hamburg.

The docu-fiction shows Oehlen struggling with a painting and pondering the meaning of his work. Oehlen is played by German actor and musician Ben Becker, accompanied by the off-screen voice of Charlotte Rampling. In the film, Becker makes a painting that Oehlen himself creates step by step behind the camera, while the actor improvises the process in front of the camera.

The wonderful music for this film comes from no less than two outstanding personalities whose individual biographies and musical signatures could hardly be better suited to this project. On the A-side it is Gudrun Gut, icon not only of the German electronic music scene since at least the 90's, singer, composer, DJ, label owner (Monika Enterprise) and of course founding member of the legendary 80's New Wave band Malaria. On the B-side it’s the world famous and award winning US avant-garde trumpeter and improvisational musician Nathan "Nate" Wooley, who has played with Fred Frith and John Zorn among others.

Gudrun Gut's tracks bear such beautiful titles as "Bewegung", "Küste" or "Weinen" and she once again pulls out all the stops of her great skills and decades of experience as a producer of the most diverse electronic music genres. These are unusual and much more experimental musical paintings that she creates here than on her recent solo works. Edgy, angular, raw and unpolished, yet always elegant and clever, she subverts the male artist madness depicted extensively in the film in her own unique way.

Nathan Wooley answers with the instrument he has been familiar with since childhood, the trumpet, with which he is able to create a ravishingly virtuosic noise. His pieces are more like sketches, often only 90 seconds or a few minutes long, but in all their abstractness underpin the narrative of the film almost perfectly.

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Blue Hour Music welcomes French artist Mathys Lenne for his debut EP as ‘The Scan’ - his go to alias for classic techno. Titled ‘Callgroove’ the record features four functional and highly seductive DJ tools aimed at darkly-lit dance floors. Each track is stripped to its essential layers, holding its own unique tension with hints of pre-pandemic club moments, lead by bold rhythmic groove manipulation, classic drum programming and immersive atmospherics.

The 90’s San Francisco underground electronic scene always commanded a great deal of love and respect here at OCD. It played an important role not only in the development of the global electronic music scene, but also in our personal, never-ending journey of discovery. Back in 1996, between the early releases of one of the SF’s scene most important and pioneering record labels, Sunburn Records, an EP titled “Plum Pudding EP” by an artist called “Trailmix” appeared. It featured 4 tracks spanning between early hours progressive-house and more gentle, mellow breaks with a hint of electronica. For many years it has been one of our most favourite record from that scene and era. 27 years later, we’re beyond stoked to have being able to successfully track down that gentleman by the name of Alan Aronoff (Trailmix) who, with no hesitation, allowed us to reissue that special EP on The Secret Sun.