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Two guys & a room of analog gear: The Analog Session return on Seven Textures of...

The new album from the Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky side project.
Gari Romalis Black Traxx Matter album art

Black Traxx Matter is a record with a message from Gari Romalis

Certainly a message beyond the typically tight beats and inventive arrangements of a Gari Romalis deep house record, out now on Nicepeople.
Tee Mango

Tee Mango drops a new EP for Aus, “Last Dance”

Aus Music's catalog is breathtaking, and Tee Mango has made a lot of them. "Last Dance" is an unexpectedly melodic and heartfelt release.
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D3070 debuts on Cyberdome with “Deep Impact”

Apparently named after a flamethrower, D3070 debuts with a sizzling EP of electro sounds with a little bit of dirt rubbed into it.
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Love From The Underground & Drew Sky

Setting off housequakes left and right, Dance Mania alumnus Drew Sky drops some bandcamp goodies for the masses on MEGA.
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Posthuman’s Requiem For A Rave is more than nostalgia for your misspent youth

The Posthuman album Requiem for a Rave could be your life, and if you're reading this it probably was.
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Ralph Session, DJ Romain & Danny J Lewis pay tribute to NYC’s Cielo

We don't get sentimental about a farmer's market or a dentist but nightclubs will always be places we love - even the ones that we hate.
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Deep88: “The Revolution Will Not Be Sponsored”

Or so he says. Deep88's new EP on What About This Love draws attention to influencer culture imposing its will on even underground subcultures in electronic music.
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#ListenUp Felipe Gordon reworks some Local Talk hits on Reworks Vol 3

Felipe Gordon brings some vigor to two recent releases by Corrado Bucci and Envee for Local Talk's "Reworks" series.
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Jazz, house & everything together from Malik Alston

Malik Alston calls this "fun," and fun it must have been to hear his band Painted Pictures become an absolutely ferocious outfit in a studio setting for Air.

Don’t reissues Quick N Smart’s cult classic “Phlokkerbrained”

Original artist Volker Wiegand died in 2008, but thankfully his utterly bonkers version of techno survives him on Phlokkerbrained, reissued by Jerome Hill's label Don't on Bandcamp.
Third Son

Third Son warns “Your Future Self Is Talking Shit About You”

Music with a message from Third Son, out now on Hot Haus Recs.
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#ListenUp Yeti Mind Tricks returns to Motech on “Glorious Purpose”

Yeti Mind Tricks is back on Motech with the gnarly techno follow-up Glorious Purpose.
Tortured Soul 20th Anniversary Album

How’s Your Career? Tortured Soul release 20th anniversary LP

The 20th Anniversary Album is solid overview of Tortured Soul's two decade recording career with a few rarities thrown in.
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Soela: “Berlin” / “Do I Really Need You”

Soela makes beautiful deep house on a two track EP from Fort Romeau's Cin Cin.
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Brian Kage & Delano Smith: Keep ‘Em Movin’ EP

A pitch-perfect deep house track cooked up by Detroit producers Brian Kage and Delano Smith.
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Hieroglyphic Being: “Black Hands Sound 63”

Can't go wrong with anything on this V/A but Hieroglyphic Being's contribution to Neroli's Inside Part 2 will bring you life when you need it most.
Dimension 23 23 years later album art

Spray launches with a reissue from Los Angeles rave scene legends Dimension 23

New label Spray launches with Dimension 23 and a blast from the analog days of LA's rave scene.
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James Welsh is on fire on Man & Minion

Aggro house that's heavier than lead, "Man & Minion" is the title track of the next badass EP from James Welsh on Kneaded Pains.
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Solid Gold Playaz: Next To Me

The second Solid Gold Playaz EP released on Freerange in 2021 is a fitting tribute, if that's what we have, to the late Kenny Gino.

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Premiere: Lovebirds ft. Stee Downes: Want You In My Soul (Schmoov! Extended Remix) [Winding Road Records]

Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the stellar and absolutely classic "Want You In My Soul" from Lovebirds and Stee Downes, Winding Road Records releases a new package of remixes by Knee Deep, Atjazz, Schmoov! and Lovebirds.