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.
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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.
Nico Purman to release ‘AOM002’ on Art Of Memory
After a two-year break, Argentinian producer Nico Purman makes a comeback via his own Art Of Memory imprint with ‘AOM002’, a record thought and shaped as a diptych.
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.
R-Zone: R-Zone 16
There is a sense that R-Zone is continuing to mature where it could have embraced a niche, flourished and withered, resulting in a label that is now consistently surprising and enthralling with each new release.
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’.
Philipp Matalla returns to Kann with ‘Kiba’ EP
Philipp Matalla’s forthcoming EP on Kann sticks to the mellow sounds of his previous release but adds shuffling lo-fi house breaks.
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.
The Pilotwings: Molitor 71
‘Molitor 71’ hits the mark with force and self-restraint, offering a taste of transcendental music that’s no short of splendid.
UN.T.O. launch with Raw Ambassador ‘Tough Steel’
Freshly-established Milan-based imprint UN.T.O. emerge with their debut 12″ courtesy of Italian producer Antonio Barbetta aka Raw Ambassador on 29th February 2016.
CoastDream drops debut release on Renascence featuring Annanan
French event promoters Renascence 9293 launch their eponymous imprint with CoastDream’s ‘Sunny Breeze EP’, including a remix of Berlin’s favorite Annanan on the flip.
Omar Souleyman: Heli Yuweli
The most interesting results of artistic collaboration often come from a willingness to tear it up and start again.
Tolouse Low Trax: Rushing Into Water
Tolouse Low Trax’s first instalment on Düsseldorf Themes For Great Cities spawns its own frame of significance; scripting industrial tempo automatisms and duplicated instrumental close-ups all the while shaping unexplored sound-dimensions from scratch.
Annanan announces ‘Fear and Love’ EP for LL.M.
Berlin based producer Annanan returns to the LL.M imprint to release his first solo EP for the label, entitled ‘Fear and Love’, scheduled for release in March 2016.
Apron Records announce new Brassfoot ‘Realms’ EP
Following up to Shamos’ killer debut ‘Road Works Part 1’, released just a few days ago, Brassfoot is set to drop the second Apron bomb of 2016 with ‘Realm’, due out mid-February.