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Woo York ‘Echoes From Beyond EP’

Artist: Woo York
Title: Echoes From Beyond EP
Label: Afterlife Recordings
Cat. #: AL038
Format: 12″ vinyl, digital
Release Date: May 15th, 2020

Woo York follow up their ‘Chasing The Dream’​ ​album with an EP of timeless, acid compositions.

‘Echoes From Beyond’ houses four of the Ukrainian duo’s signature productions. The infectious melody of the title track opens the release in show-stopping style before ‘Dancing With Sirens’ and ‘Minimalism’ take you deeper with triplet pulses, dense basslines and a cosmic atmosphere. ‘Epilogue’ is an eyes-closed epic to end the release on a high.

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Tommy Farrow ‘Let’s Just / Can’t Explain’

Artist: Tommy Farrow
Title: Let’s Just / Can’t Explain
Label: Stress Records
Cat: STREC020
Format: Digital
Release Date: May 22nd 2020
Tracklist:
1. Let’s Just
2. Can’t Explain

Pre order / listening link: https://www.beatport.com/release/lets-just-cant-explain-extended-mix/2903083

Tommy Farrow has been into deejaying for many years, an activity and passion that let him to comprehend what are the right records to be used in a party of for a mix recording. Also, he founded the Syko Disko parties and he’s still resident dj at Tank Nightclub.
With a small EP to be out on Stress Records he’s going to start a new challenge, getting into the magic world of music productions. Both the tracks ‘Let’s Just’ and ‘Can’t Explain’ reflect in the best form many tipycal influences and styles coming from the UK music scene. The release is functional to the dancefloor but at the same time offers a pleasant listening experience.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/tommyfarrow
https://soundcloud.com/stress-records

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Trudge ‘My Lurking Fears’

Artist: Trudge
Title: My Lurking Fears
Label: ARTS
Cat: ARTSX016
Format: Digital
Release Date: May 20th 2020
Tracklist:
1. My Lurking Fears
2. Lipsync
3. Vaulted
4. Too Strong

Pre order link: https://artsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/my-lurking-fears

French techno act Trudge debuts on ARTS with the four track EP titled ‘My Lurking Fears’. The songs featured show a style harder and more aggressive than the usual adopted by the artist, the bpm are high and those great 80s pads, typically used by him, appear only on ‘Lipsync’. ‘Vaulted’ represents a good way to mix acid and electro into contemporary sounds; but the true revelation is ‘Too Strong’: as suggested by the title this track goes very hard, introducing another stylistic facet of Trudge where industrial hardcore elements prevail, we can recognize a booming reverbered kickdrum that communicates with monotoid synths and luscious pads, creating a really attractive and overhelming vibe.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/trudged
https://soundcloud.com/artsltd

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Scuba ‘Never Forget Remixes’

Artist: Scuba
Title: Never Forget Remixes
Label: Hotflush
Remixers: Baltra, Effy, Peter Ibbetson
Cat: HF053
Format: Digital
Release Date: May 15th 2020
Tracklist:
1. Never Forget (Baltra Remix)
2. Never Forget (Effy Remix)
Bandcamp Exclusive: Never Forget (Peter Ibbetson Remix)

Pre order link: https://ffm.to/HF053i

Scuba’s ‘Never Forget’ was published at the end of January 2020, it was another good sound experimentation made by the British artist, who during his long time music career has been capable to surprire the audience with different and desirable tracks.
This month sees the reborn of the main theme with three particular interpretations. Baltra adds an electronic swing to the original, where sexy hihat patterns and an arpeggio synth reinforce undoubtedly the song structure. Effy increases the dancefloor potential, she used a short vocal sample and a solid kickdrum that make the big part of the game, besides a re-arrangement of the main chord is simply but really effective. Last but not least, if you get the release from Scuba’s bandcamp you can get an additional remix made by Peter Ibbetson, who discovers another distinctive and dreamy side of the main theme.

More info:
https://scubaofficial.bandcamp.com/album/never-forget-remixes
https://soundcloud.com/scubaofficial
https://soundcloud.com/baltra
https://soundcloud.com/its_effy
https://soundcloud.com/peteribbetson
https://soundcloud.com/hotflush

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DJOKO ‘Hooked EP’

Artist: DJOKO
Title: Hooked EP
Label: Shall Not Fade
Cat: SNF042
Format: Digital
Release Date: May 29th 2020
Tracklist:
A1. Hooked On You
A2. Facettes
B1. Bad To The Bone
B2. Jode Lade
Digital Bonus: In The Zone

Pre order link: https://shallnotfade.co.uk/album/hooked-ep

DJOKO continues to spread really cool and outstanding vibes, delighting the house music audience with four great tracks to be out soon on Shall Not Fade.
His ‘Hooked EP’ gets into house, 2step and garage styles, revaluing in its full form the artist’s massive dancefloor oriented style. In fact the songs, aside the cathy club vibe, increase the wish and necessity to go partying again, arousing a dreamy and lovely feeling.
The EP will be available on both digital and vinyl formats. Exclusively in digital format the song ‘In The Zone’, for sure the 90s music lovers will notice a sample from a great classic 🙂

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/djokocologne
https://soundcloud.com/shallnotfade

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Audiojack ‘Are We Here’

Artist: Audiojack
Title: Are We Here
Label: 8Bit
Cat. #: 8BIT158
Release Date: 08.06.2020
Tracklist:
A. Audiojack – Are We Here
B. Audiojack – Higher

It’s a huge pleasure for Nick Curly & Gorge to welcome longtime friends Audiojack to their label. In fact a dream came true as for a long time discussions took place to find a way to release a single from their favorite british house duo. Now they are here.

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Re.You ‘Maison (LP)’

Artist: Re.You
Title: Maison (LP)
Label: Connected
Cat. #: Connected054
Release Date: May 29th 2020

After more than a decade at the forefront of underground electronic music, Re.You puts all his vast experience into a long-awaited debut album on Connected, breathing new life into house music. ‘Maison’ is a bold artistic statement across nine tracks featuring guests and label bosses Stereo MCs, plus Florian Busse & Ahmad, Elli and Oluhle & Aaaron.

German artist Re.You is Marius Maier, a producer who runs his own Younion label and continues to innovate with his edgy house and tech fuelled productions. As well as on releasing Connected, he has seen his music issued on Moon Harbour, Kompakt and Mobilee and manages to transcend fashions and scenes with his unique sound. After many years in Berlin, he moved to Paris, and found himself full of new ideas, inspired by the city and its creative energy.

As such, most of this new album was written in the French capital. He was there for just six months but as Marius says ​”it was a truly inspiring place and time, so I thought I would give the album a French name. ‘Maison’ means home. That’s what I feel now I’m back in my German hometown Ulm after 10 years of Berlin and a short stay in Paris. I feel now is a good time to release my debut album on Connected, a platform on which I always felt at home.”

Things get off to a dramatic start with the lurching bass and broken kicks of ‘When I’m Lost’ featuring the emotive vocals of Elli. It sets a serious mood that continues on ‘We Want To Go’, a sparse and expansive track with found sounds, creeping chords and a sense of late-night menace. ‘Relocate’ feat. Stereo Mc’s is another broken beat that could come from the streets of London and is complete with spoken word vocals, then ‘Freedom’ offers a high-speed house cut with cosmic arps and driving claps.

The excellent ‘In The Dark’ switches up the vibe again, this time with unbalanced bass and crisp percussion taking you deep into the night, while ‘Inyani’ feat. Oluhle & Aaaron gets you in an afro-tinged trance thanks to the vocal chants and suspensory, spiritual chords that cast a real spell. ‘Soft’ rolls beautifully deep with distant bird sounds, then ‘If You’ feat. Elli picks up with a slick and slippery tech groove full of mystery and intrigue and the journey is complete with the emotionally stirring trap style house of ‘Strings Of Joy’ feat. Florian Busse & Ahmad.

Maison is an adventurous culmination of many years of artistic endeavour that brings plenty of fresh and exciting new perspectives to house music.

Tracklist:

1. When I’m Lost feat.Elli
2. We Want To Go
3. Relocate feat.Stereo Mc’s
4. Freedom
5. In The Dark
6. Inyani feat.Oluhle & Aaaron
7. Soft
8. If You feat.Elli
9. Strings Of Joy feat. Florian Busse & Ahmad

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The Kraftwerk cofounder died this week at the age of 73. Following some main mike stone of his great life and career.

Here, we look back on 11 essential records from the catalogue of his pioneering band.Florian Schneider was born in occupied Germany just two years after the end of World War II. With Kraftwerk, the band he cofounded, he would come to define everything hopeful about postwar-Europe: technological advancement, prosperity, open borders and freedom of movement. By bringing synthesizers into the mainstream and inspiring the originators of techno, hip-hop and electro, Kraftwerk has had a profound impact on 20th century music.

Schneider started out playing the flute in an early version of Kraftwerk (after one album as Organisation) that created earthy, pulsating jams. Though the flute was beloved to Schneider, after the group’s first three albums (which have never been officially reissued), he discovered the potential of synthesizers on “Autobahn,” the group’s first hit, and never looked back. 

“Autobahn” proved you could have a hit song made with just synthesizers. From there, the group made several albums of inspired electronic pop, with themes that touched on the Cold War, travel, robots, emerging technology and the encroaching loneliness of the modern world. And they did it with style, creating rhythms and melodies that reverberated far beyond Germany.

Schneider left Kraftwerk in 2008. (The band hasn’t put out any new music in his absence.) From their early longhair hippie jams to the suave, suited man-machines they became, Schneider was a member of a group that helped define the way we see synthesizers, computers and electronic music as a whole.

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Nodo & Mule ‘Amistad EP’

Artist: Nodo & Mule
Title: Amistad EP
Label: Loot Recordings
Cat. #: LOOTREC027
Release Date: 29th May 2020
Tracklist:
01 Amistad
02 Ambar
03 Ambar (Viktop Remix)
04 Azahar
05 Azahar (Lucefora Into The Wild Remix)

Argentina’s Nodo & Mule (ARG) make their debut on Loot Recordings with three wonderfully deep tracks backed with remixes from Viktop and Lucefora.

Nodo & Mule (ARG) are relative newcomers to the scene, bringing their fresh take on emotive house music from the streets of Argentina to the world, via imprints like Oleeva, Canopy Sounds and Magician on Duty. Now they join forces with the always impressive Loot Recordings for an EP that is set to cement their position on the international stage.

Title cut ‘Amistad’ is an elegant offering of deep, summertime house, a slow burner backed by the rhythm of crisp drums and bottomless low end. A dreamy, hazy piano drifts throughout the track, immersing the listener with delicate notes and warm chords.

‘Ambar’ centers on a medley of gentle piano chords and a striking vocal, wrapped with organic, lush drum patterns. The original is complimented by a remix from Viktop (Den- ver by way of Miami, Do Not Sit on the Furniture resident) who delivers an intense reworking of the original, giving the vocal a more ethereal effect and incorporating the piano riffs and chords to make this a standout reinterpretation.

Last of the original cuts is the mysterious ‘Azahar’ featuring a mesmerizing arrangement of tribal percussion and tinkling pianos which offers up a melancholic soundtrack for desert sunrises and island sunsets. Fellow Argentinian Lucefora turns in his “Into The Wild” remix, a gorgeous version that maintains the groove of the original combined with playful melodies and euphoric vocals that hit all the right emotions.

This is another winning release from the Loot Recordings stable and their latest international signing.

 

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Various ‘Northern Lights Vol 1’

Artists: Various
Title: Northern Lights Vol 1
Label: 10 Steps North
Cat: 10SN010
Format: Digital
Release Date: May 8th 2020
Tracklist:
Yeadon – Ten
Dan Patrick – Torus
Port Manteau – Deadline
Gallago – Freefall

Pre order link: https://www.beatport.com/release/northern-lights-vol-1/2882266

10 Steps North is the project run by Yeadon, a cool record label that is getting recognized for its interesting stuff published and the artists collaborations. As stimulation to the innovation the label’s catalogue is ready to open its door to a new series of compilations titled ‘Northern Lights’. The sound shared through this EP is fresh and brilliant, featuring artists such as Dan Patrick, Gallago and Port Manteau who carried good vibes and instrument combinations in their productions. The Gallago and Port Manteau’s productions deserve a mention because their catchy and engaging nature, ‘Freefall’ by Gallago reminds to the oldschool trance and progressive style, while Port Manteau’s ‘Deadline’ is really dreamy and night-loving.

More info:
https://soundcloud.com/10stepsnorth