Over the past few years, Budapest-based producer Norwell has been dabbling in a vast array of genres – from spacious house to driving electro onto elegiac kosmische and ambient drifts,
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Results3438Premiere: YancityGurl – In Your Strange Worlds
Operating out of Kazan, Russia YancityGurl made his first appearance on Opal Tapes a few months ago, curating the excellent ‘U S S R (Ur Social Status Resistance)‘
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Premiere: Black Manual – Mordendo (Cut Hands Remix)
Originally issued in 2013, ‘Mordendo‘ is the one and only release of Black Manual, a project born in 2012 after Jan St. Werner had heard the percussionists Valdir Jovenal,
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Roman Flügel: All The Right Noises
With a brave title like ‘All The Right Noises’, Roman Flügel’s third album for Dial should be hitting All The Right Buttons. The good news is that after, at least, twenty listens we’ve struggled to detect a wrong noise. All of it seems very right indeed. It’s so right that we think this is likely Flügel’s best work yet.
Fabric & Houndstooth announce 111 track #savefabric artist compilation
After a tragic death on the premises, August saw Fabric’s license temporarily revoked and the subsequently suspended at a hearing the following month. While the greater
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Premiere: Simo Cell – Obi 1
It has been over a year since Simo Cell released his debut 2-track 12″ for Livity Sound’s sister-label Dnuos Ytivil. Since then Simon Aussel contributed a track to Widom
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Premiere: 99LETTERS – Neo Life
Launched ealier this year with a rather massive debut courtesy of Dutch electro crack DJ Overdose, Budapest-based outlet Dalmata Daniel continue their exploration of wide-angle sonics and supple floor-oriented material with a new instalment from Japanese producer 99LETTERS. Over
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Pangaea talks up ‘In Drum Play’
Marking his return to Hessle Audio with the release of his first awaited long-player, we caught up with UK-based producer Pangaea to discuss his album writing process and his relationship with Hessle Audio.
Premiere: Illum Sphere – Red Glass
Since his debuts on Fat City in 2009, Manchester-based producer Illum Sphere became a regular on a variety of top-class labels out there, contributing choice releases to Martyn’s 3024, Tectonic,
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Broshuda: Ooze Vector
Just as he does toy with shapes and structures through retro-laced, post-pop and graffiti-imbued collages, Broshuda has developed a sound that is steadily mutating from a certain ‘figuration’ to increasingly abstract forms. Moving from more calibrated formats to anti-normative fields of experimentation, ‘Ooze Vector’ is a striking example of this substantial evolution.
Premiere: 2 Bad Mice – Limit Of Paradise
Over a decade after their last outing, UK hardcore dons 2 Bad Mice are finally back in business with ‘Gone Too Soon‘ EP on Sneaker Social
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Shifted: Appropriation Stories
Appropriation Stories is one of the top Shifted works to date – providing everything fans and new listeners could want out of a techno album, while not trying to vacillate between the dancefloor and a headphone listen. It has terrific balance, exudes confidence and packs a mean punch with silk sheets surrounding it.
Premiere: Jason Fine – Workin’ it out (Porn Sword Tobacco Conga Wok)
Having initially shaped the idea of Kontra Musik around a series of club nights, Ulf Eriksson gave life to the label exactly ten years ago. Not endorsing one specific genre,
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First Listen: Carsten Jost unveils second album ‘Perishable Tactics’ on Dial
Best known under his production alias of Carsten Jost, Dial co-founder David Lieske is set to release his second album ‘Perishable Tactics’ in January 2017. Our pick ‘Army Green’ offers a spooky STL-tinged melody lacing up a deeper than deep bass drum, dusty claps and delayed piano keys drowned in reverb with a hip-swaying groove.
Premiere: Morkebla – Snow Canvas
Since its launch earlier this year Edinburgh-based imprint Czaszka Records has been on a roll, dishing out no less than seven releases in eight months – including choice transmissions from 1080p
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Les Graciés: Low Doses
Veiled under the name of Les Graciés, Paris-based sound artist Gaël Segalen and half of the Deepblak core Afrikan Sciences break down cultural barriers to pull an unique and cohesive output off their own singular heritages. After honing their skills for four years the pair is eventually taking the leap of releasing their longed-for debut joint effort ‘Low Doses‘, due out on Lindsay Todd’s Firecracker Recordings on 25th October.