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The fifth EP from Uruguayan Phonotheque Recordings by Santiago Uribe.

Halbert presents his debut EP with four unique tracks that hold a focus on the late night dance floor. Through hard work and years of introspective studio time, our Mallorcan colleague has mastered the art of mysterious and melodic production. Hypnotic vocabulary, progressive energies and dynamic arrangements emerge from his music with strength and fluidity. References of techno, trance and breaks can be heard from beginning to end, and Halbert’s deep conscious beliefs and understandings are well noted throughout his first release.Mastered at Analogcut.

When Fred sent me the demos for his first release I remember being compelled to shut off all the lights and listen to them in complete darkness at full volume. I’m not sure why his music makes me want to do that but when he sent me this next batch I found myself needing to repeat the same process.

After the 2020 release of Old Dreams And Memories, Icelandic dub techno linchpin Yagya returns for a second release on his emergent label, Small Plastic Animals. This latest venture marks a new chapter in the artist's accomplished career, having released on Delsin, Subwax BCN and A Strangely Isolated Place as well as forming a core part of the Thule collective alongside his partner in Sanasol, Thor. As those associations ably point out, the music Yagya crafts is spacious and atmospheric, using the techno tradition as a vessel for meditative as well as emotional exploration and experimenting with sound design according to a specific, patiently cultivated style. Always Maybe Tomorrow finds Yagya ruminating on the behavioural energy of environments as viewed from afar - the man-made electricity of urban expanses and the interconnected flora and fauna of ecosystems. Looking to his chosen tools as a means to express these ideas, he employed a non-linear approach to each of the four tracks on this EP, choosing to create musical systems in constant flux rather than composing each piece in a conventional left-to-right narrative. Yagya's trademark voluminous chords and vast pads ebb and flow through filters controlled by LFOs and randomness, creating their own micro-incidents and macro evolution as though holding a mirror up to the environments the initial inspiration was drawn from.

Here we go again! Obergman is back with another stunning Electro 12". No words necessary, just go with the electric floooow...

Dutch 303 aficionado Böhm lets his arsenal of bleeps and breaks loose on GST19. Released in collaboration with Echocentric Records and in addition to ECR005.