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Nu Guinea: The Tony Allen Experiments
Extending the wide-ranging savoir faire of illustrious afrobeat pulse-machine Tony Allen with a fresh blend of retro-laced and path-clearing vision, Nu Guinea’s debut long-player stands as an original creation in its own right.
Mister Ho & Heap to release debut 12″ on ESP Institute
Back from a last outing on Crème with his label pal Luca Lozano, Klasse Recordings co-founder Mister Ho teams up with Discus Throwers and Neubau honcho Heap on ‘Collision Resistance
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Always Human Tapes drop 50th cassette ‘Transi’ and offer free download
Denver based record label ‘Always Human Tapes’ celebrate the release of their 50th release ‘Transi’, an 8-track mini album courtesy of label honcho Ryan Wurst under his Yellow Hyper Balls guise. Name your price!
Premiere: CoastDream ‘ABC Theme (Annanan’s Dirt Mixx)’
Freshly-launched off their eponymous crew of promoters, French label Renascence present a solid debut outing courtesy of emerging dusty house and techno producer CoastDream, plus Annanan on remix duty.
Avalon Emerson debuts on Whities
Young Turks sub-label Whities return with a three-track platter from San-Francisco born producer Avalon Emerson. Watch the official music video for ‘The Frontier’ within.
Premiere: Steven Be Calm ‘Room With A View’
Returning after a pair of warmly received twelves from Mall Grab and LK, Bristolian imprint Shall Not Fade welcome Australian producer Stephane 1993 to the stable. Stream title track ‘Room With A View’ in full now.
Photonz
Coming up this week in our podcast series, One Eyed Jack’s boss Photonz dishes out a mind-bending mix of club-devoted thrumming techno beats and acid-tinted electro grooves.
James Booth / Tyler & Mandre: Split 10″ Vol. 1
100% Silk and Nous habitué James Booth teams up with Tyler & Mandre for the inaugural release in Lowtec’s brand new Out To Lunch 10-inch series.
Mixtape: Africaine 808
We caught up with DJ Nomad to speak studio work ethos, creative freedom, youth influences and chunks of their Berlin experience. Icing on the cake, the Vulkan Dance sachem selected 10 of his favourite African folk songs and a bit more than that for y’all to enjoy!
Ge-ology lands on Altered Soul Experiment with ASE04
Paris-via-Berlin label Altered Soul Experiment fly to Brooklyn for ASE04 – a soulful funk-and-boogie masterclass courtesy of skilled selector and reputed hip-hop beatmaker Ge-ology.
BAR: L.A. Düsseldorf
If ‘Welcome to Bar’ offered a beguiling seven-track slab brewing mellifluous kraut tropes with heliotropic synth-pop in a fragile – road movie style, black and white scenario, this remix EP awakens its delicate melodies with particular class.
Coni: Imaginarium Essai EP
Putting on display a lush palette of dub accents and unflinching techno in trompe-l’oeil, the French producer goes deeper than deep with ‘Imaginarium Essai’.
Gut Nose
Fresh off the release of his excellent third instalment on Brooklyn’s finest Styles Upon Styles, New York-based beatsmith Gut Nose graced us with a short yet intense 30-min inner-city safari, fully recorded via his beloved MPC.
Premiere: AWB ‘Ecliptic’ (Original Mix) + (Shlømo x Antigone Remix)
French producer AWB debuts on Taapion Records with ‘Celestial Longitude’ EP, including reworks from label associates PVNV and Shlømo + Concrete resident DJ Antigone. Stream ‘Ecliptic’ in original form and revamped version in full.
Premiere: Voiski ‘I Would Not Be Logical’
Parisian producer Voiski makes his return to Ron Morelli’s stable with ‘Untitled (Go Play Your Games…)’ EP, a beastly three-track agitator scheduled for release on February 19th.