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Elias Mazian ‘All Night’

Artist: Elias Mazian
Title: All Night
Label: DGTL Records
Cat: DGTL012
Format: Digital
Release Date: January 22nd 2021
Tracklist:
1) Don’t Break It
2) All Night
3) All Night (Shanti Celeste Remix)

The DGTL Festival imprint puts in the pipeline its 12th release signed by Elias Mazian. ‘Don’t Break It’ shares a sunny and warm vibe, that one typical of the parties that happen in the summer season, but unlike it the title track ‘All Night’ gambles with a colder house style, still oriented to the dancefloor but with a pacate sound setup.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/eliasmazian
https://soundcloud.com/dgtl-festival

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Douglas Greed ‘Numbers / Everybody Wants To Live In A Mansion (Remixes)’

Artist: Douglas Greed
Title: Numbers / Everybody Wants To Live In A Mansion (Remixes)
Label: 3000Grad
Remixer: youANDme, Marco Resmann
Cat: 3000GradSpecial010
Format: Digital
Release Date: January 15th 2021
Tracklist:
1. Numbers (youANDme Remix)
2. Everybody Wants To Live In A Mansion (Marco Resmann Remix)

youANDme and Marco Resmann make a great appearance on 3000Grad taking care of two songs from Douglas Greed. Their interpretations of ‘Numbers / Everybody Wants To Live In A Mansion’ are distinctive and bring some freshness to the German label. Marco Resmann brings out the character of ‘Everybody Wants To Live In A Mansion’, playing with all the original sounds and adapting the track structure into a brilliant 4/4 one, while youANDme stays coherent too the with main theme of his assigned song, his interpretation of ‘Numbers’ is great and adds over a unique mentalism, obtained with a particular loop game get with the original sounds.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/douglasgreed
https://soundcloud.com/youandme-martin
https://soundcloud.com/marco-resmann
https://soundcloud.com/3000-grad

Hardt Antoine ‘Tonight/Are You There’

Artist: Hardt Antoine
Title: Tonight/Are You There
Label: Reculture Records
Cat: RECU003
Format: Digital, vinyl
Release Date: February 5th 2021
Tracklist:
Tonight
Are You There

Reculture Records founder Hardt Antoine is set to release the two tracker ‘Tonight/Are You There’: it features a slow and hybrid house / electro house, both the genres retrace some influences from U.K. and French styles. The vinyl version will feature an extended version of the track ‘Tonight’.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/hardtantoine
https://soundcloud.com/reculturelondon

Ecilo ‘Dub Kapital’

Artist: Ecilo
Title: Dub Kapital
Label: ARTS X (ARTS)
Cat: ARTSX022
Format: Digital
Release Date: January 11th 2021
Tracklist:
1. Bugi Minimalist
2. Dub Kapital
3. Lorong Hitam
4. Jiwa Maraenism

Jakarta’s (Indonesia) born and raised Ecilo debuts on ARTS X with ‘Dub Kapital’, a strong four tracker that melt contemporary techno with warehouse and dub techno influences.
The high bpm speed contributes to surface the mentalism offered by the various combinations of drum + synth.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/reza-ecilo
https://soundcloud.com/artsltd

Richie Hawtin ‘CONCEPT 1 96:12’

Artist: Richie Hawtin
Title: CONCEPT 1 96:12
Label: Concept 1 (Plus 8)
Format: Digital
Release Date: Exclusively only January 2021 (previously 1996)

<a href="https://richiehawtin.bandcamp.com/album/richie-hawtin-concept-1-96-12">Richie Hawtin “Concept 1 96:12” by Richie Hawtin</a>

Richie Hawtin puts out exclusively via Bandcamp all the 24 tracks featured in the CONCEPT 1 series, previously published in 1996 with a dedicated set of vinyl releases. After 25 years these techno pieces see the light again in digital format, representing evolution signs of music, technology and deejaying.
That’s a great occasion to put the hands on this minimalistic, explorative and aseptic techno, which sounds contemporary than ever.

More info:
https://richiehawtin.bandcamp.com/album/richie-hawtin-concept-1-96-12
https://soundcloud.com/richiehawtin

The Best Of Get Physical 2020

Artist: Various
Title: The Best Of Get Physical 2020
Label: Get Physical
Cat: GPMCD244
Format: Digital
Release Date: December 18th 2020
Tracklist:
1. Elias (GER) feat Boule Mpanya – Bina
2. Thandi Draai – Iris
3. WhoMadeWho – Hi & Low (Santiago Garcia & Animal Picnic Remix)
4. DJ Le Roi, Roland Clark – I Get Deep (Ed Ed Remix)
5. Pezzner – I Am You
6. Yulia Niko feat. Coro Coro – Molly & Sally
7. Roland Leesker feat. Marvin Jam – Crazy
8. Kate Simko – The Echo (Strings Mix)
9. Gel Abril – Sweet Vibration
10. m.O.N.R.O.E. – The Sound of Violence
11. Monkey Safari – Palomar
12. PALMFooD – Bogogan
13. DJ Clock – Riders (Extended Mix)
14. Liam Mockridge, Lowheads feat. Johnny Kulo – Mess Around (Club Mix)
15. Cook Strummer – Rising
16. Metatext – Sounds of Meditation
17. Rashid Ajami – Dark City (Atjazz Remix)
18. Blanka Mazimela feat Korus, Sobantwana – Gcwanini
19. Bruce Loko feat Biishop – After Hours

Buy link: https://getphysicalmusic.lnk.to/GPMCD244

Get Physical closes this dramatic year with a dedicated compilation, featuring their best songs published in the previous months. The various artists and songs perfectly describe the current style followed by Get Physical, that range into an explorative side of tech house, with classy house and tribal influences.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/get-physical-music

Various ‘A-Sides Vol. 10’

Artist: Various
Title: A-Sides Vol.10
Label: Drumcode
Cat: DC235
Format: Digital
Release Date: December 7th 2020
Tracklist:
1. Jay Lumen – Galactic Rainbow
2. Ramon Tapia – Drum Control
3. Victor Ruiz – Love Story
4. Bart Skils – Solid State
5. Adam Beyer – Changes
6. SAMA – Into The Abyss
7. Thomas Schumacher & CAITLIN – Qadash
8. Ilija Djokovic – Equilibrium
9. Patrik Berg – Activated
10. Thomas Hoffknecht – Escaping
11. Zimmz – Tension
12. Alan Fitzpatrick – Rochus
13. Lilly Palmer – Amnesie
14. Veerus – I Know
15. Alex Lentini, Stomp Boxx – Expanders
16. Timmo – Reflections
17. Reset Robot – Distant

Drumcode Records has just published another edition of its “A-Sides” series, a compilation that features 17 tracks made by a collective of artists affiliated or surrounding the Swedish imprint. As expected, this volume offers outstanding and interesting techno pieces, ranging from the most dancefloor oriented tracks to the underground ones. Hopefully the djs and producers (due to the various lockdowns happening all over the world) had some extra time to spend in the studio, unleashing their creativity and ingenuty. The songs that mostly catched our attentions are the ones made by Jay Lumen, Victor Ruiz, Sama and Timmo, without diminishing the appeal of all the other tracks.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/drumcode

Sasson (fr), TAAMY feat. Idd Aziz ‘Zani EP’

Artist: Sasson (fr), TAAMY feat. Idd Aziz
Title: Zani
Label: WIRED
Remixer: FNX Omar
Cat: W247
Format: Digital
Release Date: December 18th 2020
Tracklist:
1) Zani (FNX Omar Remix)
2) Zani (Original Mix)

Pre order link: https://www.beatport.com/release/zani-feat-idd-aziz/3204351

Wired Records is living a great time: in the last months the label is putting out some really interesting and exclusive releases, featuring nice music with great motifs and interesting styles. Sassos meets Taamy and the vocalist Idd Aziz for the creation of ‘Zani’, a solid tech house tune with afro influences. The chants from mr. Aziz elevates the potential of the production, adding a mystical sensation. FNX Omar appears on the release too with his tribal inspired remix.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/sassonparis
https://soundcloud.com/taamyofficial
https://soundcloud.com/iddaziz
https://soundcloud.com/wiredonline

Various ‘Kindisch Steps XVI’

Artist: Various
Title: Kindisch Steps XVI
Label: Kindisch
Cat: KDDA034
Format: Digital
Release Date: December 4th 2020

Buy link: https://kindischoffical.bandcamp.com/album/kindisch-steps-xvi

Kindisch recently published another track selection, which falls into their “Steps” compilation series: that’s a great bunch of nine songs that ensemble the sound research and the music vision of the German label. The whole sound is contemporary and fresh, it resumes the particular blend of deep house or tech house adopted by these genuine artists.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/kindisch

Raär, Trudge, Tauceti and Sonhan ‘Ceremony, Rituals, Sacrifices’

Artists: Raär, Trudge, Tauceti, Sonhan
Title: Ceremony, Rituals, Sacrifices
Label: Vaerel Records
Cat: VAERELD001
Formats: Digital
Release Date: December 11th 2020
Tracklist:
1. Ceremony I
2. Ceremony II
3. Ceremony III
4. Ceremony IV
5. Rituals I
6. Rituals II
7. Rituals III
8. Rituals IV
9. Sacrifices I
10. Sacrifices II
11. Sacrifices III
12. Sacrifices IV

Pre order link: https://vaerel-records.bandcamp.com/album/ceremony-rituals-sacrifices

Vaerel Records starts to release music also in the “only digital” format with ‘Ceremony, Rituals, Sacrifices’, that’s a collaborative album made by three artists linked to the label: they’re Raär, Trudge, Tauceti and Sonhan. Each word coming from the title track offer four different song interpretations, the result is a listening session made by 12 tracks that range between various organic mixes of ambient, industrial, drone and broken beat techno.

More info:
https://vaerel-records.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/vaerel-records