Alex Neri
It's All About Love

We are proud to present a hidden gem producer from Los Angeles, California scene. A talent that raises his hand in a forceful way with this release. Orlando Valencia aka Volen who has brought his highly energetic, raw and intergalactic sounds to the label and for the first time releasing his music on wax. Volen explores the intersection between house, breaks, techno and electro with a real futuristic and mature sound, all the tracks are very attached to the ideology of the label, without a doubt a release that will make a lot of noise on our favorite planet called earth.

“What’s that racket?? Oh for god’s sake, it’s those London lads up to mischief again. Bloody nuisance! And look at the grins on their faces…”Lucky number seven on Magic Carpet sees Duowe, the boys behind Fraise Records, doing the absolute business with this versatile 4-tracker. Hot dancefloor material for the android discothèque.

I met SUGAI KEN a few years ago in Tokyo, outside the Dommune radio studios. His personality and music, a very special brand, touched me. His music is a coded vision of a dream world. A trade that is progressive yet traditional - in the most positive sense of the word.Recently out of the blue, Sugai San sent me a collection of personal field recordings he made of folklore groups and public performances in Tokyo, Toyama, Kanagawa, Kyoto, Tottori, … The close listener already knows that Sugai San’s aesthetics speak of a great knowledge of these performing arts.An open invitation: “the traditional local performing arts in the 21st century intrinsically conceive “fragility” as they are vulnerable to extinction. The Japanese local performing arts that appear in this recording is no exception, endangered by the declining birth rate and aging population which are typical to the country. (SUGAI KEN)”I bring the original recordings into conversation with new elements (corresponding field recordings and or additional percussion and strings, performed by Antwerp musicians Jeroen Stevens and Roman Hiele) like a ‘monomane’ - tr. imitating – sound game. But when i throw these old and new figurines together on the podium, the objects immediately disappear in the cracks of the stage wood. Thus only the understament of the suggestion remains. And relentlessly the significance of every movement now becomes a question.Furthermore, what’s in focus? The manipulation? Or the content? Or are we zooming in on the aspect of archiving ~ preserving? Dubious.In KAGIROI – tr. heat haze - people coexist for a moment severely carved in time like a high contrast still of dancing flames. When you bring this composition home, it will never boil yet merely evaporate. And when you gaze at the clouds of condensed droplets inside your own darkness, on a soft volume, You complete our puzzle.SUGAI KEN - field recordings, liner notesLieven Martens - collage, additional sounds and field recordingsJeroen Stevens - additional percussionRoman Hiele - double bass, masteringKohei Oyamada - liner notes translation

Templeight is Temple’s eighth release,The first in our seventh year.It features eight tracks from artists spanning two continents. These are bent songs of glimmering confusion that rejoice in dissolution;songs to truncate the spaceBetween us all. We love them,and you might too. ::))Artwork by Jonathan Castro & Alejos and Robuche.Mastering by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut Mastering.Ex-Terrestrial - Inlet and M & Dust - A Day in June mixed by Priori.Phones in the Sun - First Look mixed by Lukas Glickman.

Nug-Net Class of 2021: PART 2In 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic, Gene On Earth created his production masterclass “Nuggets: The Blueprint”. This is the second part of a collection of works submitted by students shortly after finishing the course. Nug-Net will continue to be a home for music written by course students. To take the course, visit www.nug-net.com.