Summer’s here, so come take a listen to our pick of May’s finest tracks. On the menu is a high vitamin cocktail of warm grooves and ethereal melodies, deep scapes and scalding-hot synth radiations. Drop off your shoes and get your feet to the nearest beach.
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Premiere: Efdemin’s remix of Orlando Voorn’s ‘Gain Upwards’
Dial and Ostgut-Ton regular Efdemin offers another chaplet of pummeling kicks but edulcorates its 4 / 4 brutality with a pinch of ethereal pads and spuming bass bubbles for a modular ride through techno limbo.
Dial: All
After over a decade of frantic explorations, tirelessly shedding barks and shaping new sound perspectives via pared down canons, Dial is now up to celebrate its 15th birthday with a high-flying anniversary compilation soberly titled All.
Premiere: Stream ’04RW’ taken from Aleks debut on Natural Sciences
’04RW’ is a track that brews together shuffling chicagoan rhythms and etheral pads with a pinch of vocals getting squeezed down in a pulp of tape-saturated, dust and hiss jumble, whispering its bizarre dancefloor gospel across the grain. Fast-beating percussions and unruly hats run the voodoo down for good.
Art Crime: Obsession EP
Obsession EP keeps unfolding through its own space-time continuum, hatching highly-euphonious harmonics and sassy groove science in a constant shift of tempo.
Premiere: U returns with ‘We Decide Who Comes In’ – Watch ‘Our Place’
Today we’re premiering the video for U’s new track ‘Our Place’, an elusive slice of muffled, dub techno abseiling in melancholic gorges and wistful crevasses.
Premiere: Stream Space Afrika ‘Untitled B2’ from LL.M. 002
A little more than 6 months after their promising debut release hit the shelves, Phil Latch and his LL.M. crew are back to present their sophomore effort: a split four-tracker from two of their previous collaborators in the person of Annanan and Space Afrika.
Geena: Pure Ground Research
In the wake of three well-rounded releases dropped on the ever faultless Antinote imprint, Nicolas Molina aka Geena returns this spring with a fourth episode of his spaced-out ventures on the Parisian outlet.
Vaghe Stelle announces ‘Abstract Speed + Sound’ for Other People
Other People is back with Abstract Speed + Sound, the new effort from Turin-based producer Daniele Mana aka Vaghe Stelle.
Hivern Discs announce debut album from Benedikt Frey & Nadia D’Alò as INIT
In the wake of a solid self-titled debut EP released a few weeks ago on Jon Talabot’s imprint Hivern Discs, INIT return this summer with their first full-length effort on the Spanish label.
Nebraska: Stand Your Ground
After a four year hiatus Ali Gibbs returns under his Nebraska moniker dropping not one but two platters of sun-streaked material that should enchant many summer parties out there.
Win a pair of tickets to Weather Festival in Paris (4th – 6th June)
Ahead of the third edition of Weather Festival in Paris from 4th – 6th June, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to the whole event.
JMMF: Newmanos / Paraesthesia
For its sixth instalment, Steve Summers’ imprint Confused House returns with a solid plate of psychoactive late day jams by mysterious producer JMMF.
Stream BNJMN’s new track ‘Luster’
Following a strong series of EPs and albums on outlets as diverse as Rush Hour, Astro:Dynamics or Delsin, Berlin-based British producer BNJMN returns with a new label project of his own titled BRACK.
Sidney & Suleiman
Ahead of the Workshop x Latency show in Paris on Friday with Kassem Mosse, Madteo and Even Tuell we caught up with label owners Sidney and Suleiman to discuss label operations and the highlights of Paris.
Cosmjn: Drops
French vinyl-only imprint Fragil returns with a mesmerizing 2-track plate by Romanian producer Cosmjn, including a sexy remix by Marcellus Pittman. Deep soil session.