Each of them praised and celebrated for their excellent job at reissuing lost gems and sought-after records from more or less distant eras – from Patrick
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Results1378Farr Festival reveal first acts and stage hosts: Moodymann, Dixon, Eclair Fifi, Bokeh Versions
Holler people, it’s this time of the year again. Today we’re no short of glad to present you the first wave of acts that’ll be unfurling on Bygrave Woods for the ninth edition of Farr Festival, and we have little doubt you’ll be drooling over this inaugural list of artists scheduled to perform.
Premiere: Fia Fiell – Caju
After a successful first number released last year which gathered the likes of Daze, Albrecht La’Brooy and Mic Mills, Butter Sessions and Noise In My Head
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Florian Kupfer returns to L.I.E.S. with ‘Contact’ EP
The longed-for reunion is happening, the news finally landed today. After three releases in the space of two years for the US-born imprint – amongst which
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Premiere: DJ Spider & Franklin De Costa – F Planet (Shifted Remix)
Born a couple years back with a diptych release for Berlin-based label Killekill, the collaboration between New York’s very own DJ Spider and seasoned German producer
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Premiere: Pelican Daughters – Lambent Lights
A role model in artistic integrity and dedication, Kashual Plastik is as bold in its endeavours as it is uncompromising in its choices. Throwing down the gauntlet
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Enter Chafik Chennouf’s 360° visual realm of darkness for ‘Ferroequinologie’
A long time in the works, this 360° VR music video for Chafik Chennouf ‘Ferroequinologie’ on Opal Tapes lures you into a parallel universe that oozes nothing but nighttime terror and situational claustrophobia. This one’s got enough chills to make you quiver for the season.
Premiere: Benoit B – 100% ZRU
Two years after the label’s launch with Benoit B‘s debut EP, ‘Tough, Cheap and Real‘, French-born Berlin-based label Banlieue Records steps up with a piping-hot celebratory
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Music Video: Benedikt Frey – Dissolved Girl
Taken from Benedikt Frey’s longed-for debut album ‘Artificial’ released earlier this month via Andy Hogge’s ESP Institute, the slow-burning ‘Dissolved Girl’ got the visual treatment courtesy of film director Peter Odinzow.
Perm
We invited Stefan Schmidt-Dichte aka Perm for a bit of DJ action, and he came up with a killer mix interlacing straight out pulsating techno cuts with polyrhythmic detours and further minimalist, off-kilter grooves. We also had a chat with the man to discuss studio methods, living in Leipzig and his beginnings in music production.
Premiere: 19 Gadi Pirms Sakuma – Singapuras Vejs
Incepted last year with a pair of VA comps featuring artists such as Drvg Cvltvre, Bergsonist and BPMF, Mélodies Souterraines is a label that impresses by
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Premiere: Franck Gérard – 146 Arcades
Record store, label, independent structure with a host of exciting projects underway… you’d have a hard time drumming Groovedge Records in the usual shelves and boxes neurotic collectors
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DJJ: Yn Y Ty
Fusing strains of batucada and African polyrhythms with tape-saturated Chi-town grooves and deep smokey ambiences, DJJ offers up an all-embracing audio cocktail that doesn’t quite choose between muscular swing and laid-back lounging, intensity and magnitude; feeding the furnace with an equitably balanced mix of pace and focus to ravish all on the dancefloor.
Premiere: Chafik Chennouf – Ferroequinologie (Mondkopf Remix)
It didn’t take Amsterdam-based label Leyla Records much longer than a couple years to find its cruising speed. Having quickly established as one of the most
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Premiere: Menko – The First Kiss
Dedicated to “combining raw contemporary techno with original 80s/90s industrial, electronic, experimental and EBM music“, Murray CY’s imprint Contort Yourself has been putting together some of
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KEMAA
Berceuse Heroique label boss KEMAA serves up an addictive two-hour mix that spans ambient, techno, electro, house and obviously much more than any regular club mix could encompass. No interview supplied this time – sometimes it’s better to live by the word of Proust, “Real art doesn’t require proclamations, it is accomplished in silence”. We hope you’ll enjoy this variegated floor-oriented mix as much as we do.