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FaltyDL remixed Toro y Moi

New Thefft on PTN

What you see now is like a dim image in the mirror

Hypnotic School

What started as nightly jam sessions in Amsterdam by four Turkish and Dutch friends ended in a quest to release funky, deep pop music.

Koloah - Acid Creek

New unsigned track by the Ukraine-based Koloah.

DJ Caspa B2B w/ De Sluwe Vos @ Undeground Sessions (01-03-2013)

Ok so here is the Underground Session show that I did on Friday evening with the one and only DE SLUWE VOS from Local Talk/Slapfunk/Raw equipment. To all those that missed out here's another chance to download and here what we were doing for just over 2 hrs...

Something I will never forget having one of my house heroes in my apartment spinning live with me :)))

Hope you all enjoy this Journey :))

Coco Bryce - Let Me Put My Poems In You

as featured on "Club Tropicana", out on Fremdtunes, March 25

Marsman - The City (Sam A La Bamalot Remix)

Remix i did for the remix album of Marsman (@marsman) Check out the rest of the really dope remixes @ lomechanik.bandcamp.com/album/marsman-remix

Shourai - 5 Hour Set (03-03-2013)

Trim - I Am (Acre Remix)

Terence Fixmer - Psychik EP [CLR065 / CLR]

A) Psychik B1) Psychose B2) Lovesick Feat. Cormac release date : 11 feb 2013 on CLR rec.

Another intriguing release by one of France’s most distinctive and prolific electronic music artists is coming out on CLR. On the present EP Terence Fixmer delivers three brand-new tracks which vibrate with imagination, quality and depth, proving once again why he has been at the forefront of the Techno scene for more than ten successful years. The first track and a-side of the vinyl entitled “Psychik” is a straight forward, ruthless piece of Techno, fulfilling each and every need of the dancing crowd. With its dark, hypnotic and unrelenting vibe it simultaneously challenges, pleases and releases body and mind. “Psychose” is the more moderate but equally strong counterpart, carrying on the deep and mesmerizing atmosphere of its predecessor. The slower groove leaves loads of space for the individual elements to unfold and every single sound acts and shines with its particular texture. And if this would not be enough, in the third track of the EP Terence Fixmer surprises with a completely different facet of his versatile musicianship. “Lovesick” is not only another slick production but also features the sensual and haunting vocals of Cormac, resulting in a unique Techno song which talks about love and pain in a very personal, disarming and poetic way.

Spare - Slacking EP [WRINDIV005 / Well Rounded]

Dadub - You Are Eternity [SACD003 / Stroboscopic Artefacts]

‘You Are Eternity’ is the third album to be released on Stroboscopic Artefacts and comes from two of the minds who have shaped the label since its earliest days: Dadub. Recorded over a period of two years, but containing fragments and ideas that stretch back a decade ‘You Are Eternity’ has been mixed together to form a continuous piece rather than twelve discreet tracks. The effect? An immersive journey that encompasses the descriptors brutal, ferocious, ambient and aqueous.

It would be easy to describe the album’s structure as that of two halves, but it’s not that simple. The structure that Dadub has developed is cyclical at its most compliant, and elliptical at its most oblique. Within these forms the sounds that emerge run the gamut of electronic music. ‘Existence’ and ‘Unbroken Continuity’ explore futuristic, atmospheric states. ‘Path’ swaggers with rippled dub. Embedded into ‘Truth’ is a polemic sample of Henry Waxman questioning Alan Greenspan. And the same record houses ‘Transfer’, a staunch cut that’s more than fortified to do some damage.

In the studio Dadub’s process is nothing short of alchemical. Their characteristic sound originates from entirely digital sources, but their sound treatments reanimate this raw material filling it with warmth and human emotion. The source loops and synthesised lines are run through countless channels and complex chains of effects to arrive at a destination unrecognisable from the points of origin. Dadub are true sound materialists.

Knowing that Dadub place so much emphasis on process, it’s all the more interesting to hear their collaborations with other artists and ‘You Are Eternity’ is graced by fellow SA cohort Edit Select, the sound experimenter Øe and Ninja Tunes stalwart King Cannibal. It is indeed King Cannibal who teamed up for the album’s most ferocious cut ‘Transfer’. Whereas ‘Experience’ ft. Øe is a hazy slither of atmospherica. And the only straight kick of the entire record is to be found on the track with the most elusive subject matter, ‘Death’ ft. Edit Select, a collaborative elegy on the ultimate unknown. ‘You Are Eternity’ tends towards spaces that are undefined, that are unquantifiable - this album is a foray into Jenseits.

The album title hints at the almost spiritual origins of the album, Dadub’s search for music that goes further, that spreads away from the confines of the time and place in which we find ourselves, music that seeps into the cavern of the eternal. Tucked into ‘Vibration’, the very first track, is a sample of the Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. He leans close and says: Music is a spiritual gift, and those who misuse it, die young. Sage words. ‘You Are Eternity’ is a record that refuses to take any chances, Dadub are clearly producers intent on being around for quite some time.

Words: Clare Molloy

Tracklisting:

1. Vibration 2. Truth 3. Life 4. Path 5. Circle [feat. Edit Select] 6. Death 7. Transfer [feat. King Cannibal] 8. Arrival 9. Unbroken Continuity 10. Experience [feat. Øe] 11. Existence 12. Iridescent Fragment

Dark Sky - Confunktion / Double U [TEC069 / Tectonic]

Xhin - Dark Tiled Landscape EP [TOKEN28 / Token]

release date (vinyl & digital): 4th of March 2013

After last years critically acclaimed ‘The Realm EP’, Xhin returns to Token with new savagery.

‘Projection’ sets the mood perfectly with its dark throbbing sound textures, while the real storm gathers during the title track, which showcases fierce percussion and a mean low end. When Xhin unleashes his demons in the brutal ‘Hunters’, the earth shakes under the heavy artillery of spiky, menacing drums. ‘A Different Angle’ is the soundtrack to the aftermath and guides us back to safer grounds accompanied by dark layers of dense atmospherics.

This EP sucks you right in and before you know it, you find yourself trapped in this ‘Dark Tiled Landscape’. Welcome back Xhin.

TRACKLIST A1 Projection A2 Dark Tiled Landscape B1 Hunters B2 A Different Angle

Nubian Mindz - Hacker Wacker EP [disko303 / disko404]

Nubian Mindz - Hacker Wacker EP disko404 Records

A1 Hacker Wacker B1 Vox & Cymbal X1 2nd Chapter Of 74 (Digital only) Y1 Break The Rules (Digital only)

RocketNumberNine & Four Tet - Roseland [TEXT023 / Text]

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