Tracks for freaks on Alien D’s “Broadway Mid-Tempo Party Music”
Sweat Equity's Daniel Creahan dons a mask as Alien D on an EP of rust belt techno tracks from Fixed Rhythms.
Nachtbraker drops “Capichone” on vinyl for Peach Discs
Nachtbraker's tracks are often a subtle hybrid of elements of deep house and classic Detroit techno with echoes of '90s Dutch house, all filtered through a highly detailed sound design process. So it is here with four tracks of futurist hybrid 4/4 on Capichone.
Paris Acid City debuts with “Apoji”
Another beautiful anonymous slab of wax from artists unknown to us just waiting to slip into your crate and intimidate all your other records with its fierceness.
Moodymann, Move D, Inland highlight AWAY’s 10 YEARS celebration
Three weekend-long events for the Berlin event will follow a ten track compilation from some of the friends, family & honored guests from the label out June 23.
Photonz makes 12 house cuts about nothing
Photonz drops an album of spares, rares and sketches as a yummy bandcamp only release for diggers and DJs seeking ultra deep cuts.
Time Capsule: Inside the new 5 Mag
Joyce Muniz, Fred Everything, LF System, Conrad Colson, How to Save a Landmark, the AI botnet eating streaming platforms alive and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
The Delivery Men
"It's not possible to be indifferent when someone died for delivering a hamburger." Maxime Dangles' new album takes on the exploitation of France's gig workers.
Zero atmosphere stomp on Janeret’s “Quasar” from Fuse
If Spotify were smart enough to have a whole radio station of tracks that sound like Janeret I'd fork over money to their algorithm like a drunk bachelorette tipping the DJ for playing "Call Me Maybe."
The Last Love Note from Brooklyn
Though nobody could have guessed at the time, this would be the final record for Love Notes, one of our favorite labels and one of the best to emerge in the last half of the '10s.
Frankie Vega: Pathway EP
Chicago techno condottiere Frankie Vega beats the box on Pathway, a three track EP from techno friendship society UKR.
Jerical’s Flesh EP is raw as hell, cultivated Midwest techno
Five tracks of perfectly shaped techno, grown in the hydroponic lead-tainted labs of Rockford, Akron or Flint or certainly from the blueprint sketched on formica countertops in one of those Midwest stations.
The Sound of Tomorrow: Tom Roberts on the launch of Cyphon Recordings
Freerange and Delusions of Grandeur add a new sibling to the label family. Tom Roberts on the launch of Cyphon Recordings.
#ListenUp Antic Soul – Apnea (Jon Hester Remix)
Rolling drums, grooving baselines and dubby reverb for days: two talented cats from Berlin are Antic Soul and their new EP Apnea includes Jon Hester on a cinematic remix.
Aasthma & Umfang remix Rosa Anschütz’s Goldener Strom
The tracks from Rosa Anschütz's Goldener Strom album leave a mark. New remixes from Aasthma & Umfang build upon a priceless collection of strikingly beautiful, ethereal music.
Techno-ish House & House-ish Techno From Santiago Salazar on “Dedicated”
Bags of potential big tune-ness on this five track EP from Santiago Salazar on Yaxteq.
Acid Queen: DASCO hits acid perfection on Powerful Woman
DASCO's four track Powerful Woman EP on Shall Not Fade is an object of art, a record that aims for and achieves acid perfection.
True to the roots: Hector Ram drops vinyl cut Midnight Sounds
Bouncing basement thumps and the unapologetic love for the motherbeat carries through across all four original tracks on Midnight Sounds, a vinyl-only cut from Hector Ram and Short Attention Records.
Ricardo Miranda opens up the vault on The Deep & The Lost
Nobody was making music like this in 2004. Mostly, they're still not. A six track dig into Ricardo Miranda's archives on vinyl from Noble Square.
rhythmrobot – RISE vol 5
30 years of "mostly acid" in a bangin' new mix from Chicago's rhythmrobot for RISE, 5 Mag's weekly mix series.
Premiere: Yuu Udagawa – Stay With Us [Cyphon Recordings]
The debut release from the new sibling label to Freerange and Delusions of Grandeur comes from Japanese DJ and producer Yuu Udagawa. Stay With Us is a heavy, hazy and surprisingly soulful electronic masterpiece from Cyphon Recordings, out February 3 2023.
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Dedication: To Juan Atkins
There was never a moment before today that Juan Atkins was not a vital part of the American electronic music scene.
