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SASHA	Fabric 99	4LP	FABRIC	FABRIC 197LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/27/2018 4-LP version. Packaged in a bespoke card envelope. Sasha provides the 99th installment of the world's leading house and techno mix series from London's renowned Fabric nightclub. From playing acid house at the legendary Haçienda to residencies at a number of the world's super clubs and a Grammy nomination, Sasha's career trajectory is unparalleled. His vast discography includes a number of studio albums, remixes for Madonna and The Chemical Brothers, soundtracks for computer games, and a long list of acclaimed mixes. He runs his own management agency out of New York and oversees his imprint Last Night On Earth. Fabric 99 shows off his legendary track transitions and how they enable broken beats and ambient wanderings to sit comfortably alongside dub techno and uplifting house. The continuous DJ mix features a Sasha exclusive, "Smoke Monk (Fabric Mix)". Sasha on the mix "Getting the chance to do this Fabric CD was an honor. Some of my fondest moments playing in London have been at that club. I really wanted to capture what I do there as I feel it's somewhere I play differently to anywhere else in the world." Features Agnes Obel, Quiet Village, Marbert Rocel, Heitzberg Theorem, Kora (CA), Tom Flynn, Indigo, CLOSE, DJ Hell, Joyce Muniz, Ghosts On Tape, Jus-Ed, Whitesquare, Crowdpleaser, Exercise One & Mathew Jonson, Sasha, Objekt, Jono Ma & Dreems, Javier Logares & Kaarel, Tiefschwarz, George Fitzgerald, Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Antigone, BAILE, and Felicia Douglass.

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MUTANT BEAT DANCE	Mutant Beat Dance	2CD	RUSH HOUR	RHM 027CD
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/27/2018 Mutant Beat Dance has returned with their debut self-titled 25-track album. The record image booklet has been in development since 2015 with over 200 minutes running time and is released in various formats. The debut album from renegade trio Mutant Beat Dance -- Melvin Oliphant (Traxx), Beau Wanzer, and Steve Summers -- takes the wild and free sound of Chicago's Music Box era into the 21st century. Over twenty-five tracks the album mines an oft-cited but rarely understood ground at the intersection of post-punk, minimal wave, industrial, disco dub, EBM, and proto-house/early-House. Mutant Beat Dance is an epic journey into a classic American ideology that had its apex in Chicago. This aesthetic has already proven influential on many artists across the globe. Least of which is the Grammy-winning LCD Soundsystem whose members Tyler Pope and Patrick Mahoney back Melvin on vocals here on the Martin Hannett and Howard Devoto inspired "Feed The Enemy". Another LCD member Gavin Rayna Russom also provides vocals on the later-cut "Geometrical Disease" as Black Meteoric Star. Mutant Beat Dance was originally a duo made up of Traxx, and molecular biologist, Chicagoan Beau Wanzer. Traxx and Beau have been working on this concept in various forms throughout the last decade on solo and duo releases. After a rack full of releases, the duo began to refine their concept from 2015 on into its most thoroughly developed state -- the result is this epic 25-track, 200-minute long debut M.B.D album for Rush Hour. Given the scope of the material for the project it became logical and necessary to expand the unit to include its newest member Brooklyn based Steve Summers known for his releases on Clone Jack For Daze, Confused House, and others. Together this hard-working trio has completed an album with an enormous diversity of song styles unlike anything they have ever done before. Unique in its musical range and content from obscure electronics with subliminal messages to funk-laden machine grooves, industrial soundscapes, Detroit dirge, cryptic ankle bitter anthems, and beyond, this is a genre-bending challenging monster of an album that may scare you at first but push forward and deep rewards lie within. Also features Marianna and Naughty Wood.

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MUTANT BEAT DANCE	Mutant Beat Dance	6LP	RUSH HOUR	RHM 027LP
$98.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/27/2018 Consists of six records in three different formats of 12"s, 7"s, and 10". Mutant Beat Dance has returned with their debut self-titled 25-track album. The record image booklet has been in development since 2015 with over 200 minutes running time and is released in various formats. The debut album from renegade trio Mutant Beat Dance -- Melvin Oliphant (Traxx), Beau Wanzer, and Steve Summers -- takes the wild and free sound of Chicago's Music Box era into the 21st century. Over twenty-five tracks the album mines an oft-cited but rarely understood ground at the intersection of post-punk, minimal wave, industrial, disco dub, EBM, and proto-house/early-House. Mutant Beat Dance is an epic journey into a classic American ideology that had its apex in Chicago. This aesthetic has already proven influential on many artists across the globe. Least of which is the Grammy-winning LCD Soundsystem whose members Tyler Pope and Patrick Mahoney back Melvin on vocals here on the Martin Hannett and Howard Devoto inspired "Feed The Enemy". Another LCD member Gavin Rayna Russom also provides vocals on the later-cut "Geometrical Disease" as Black Meteoric Star. Mutant Beat Dance was originally a duo made up of Traxx, and molecular biologist, Chicagoan Beau Wanzer. Traxx and Beau have been working on this concept in various forms throughout the last decade on solo and duo releases. After a rack full of releases, the duo began to refine their concept from 2015 on into its most thoroughly developed state -- the result is this epic 25-track, 200-minute long debut M.B.D album for Rush Hour. Given the scope of the material for the project it became logical and necessary to expand the unit to include its newest member Brooklyn based Steve Summers known for his releases on Clone Jack For Daze, Confused House, and others. Together this hard-working trio has completed an album with an enormous diversity of song styles unlike anything they have ever done before. Unique in its musical range and content from obscure electronics with subliminal messages to funk-laden machine grooves, industrial soundscapes, Detroit dirge, cryptic ankle bitter anthems, and beyond, this is a genre-bending challenging monster of an album that may scare you at first but push forward and deep rewards lie within. Also features Marianna and Naughty Wood.

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LEIMER, K.	Threnody	CD	PALACE OF LIGHTS	POL 002-2018CD
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/20/2018 "Threnody by K. Leimer is a music of disorientation, error and loss. Free of any particular sense of continuity or structure, Threnody dwells in an absent-minded and forgetful state, inhabiting an aftermath of events too disorienting to be completely comprehended. Highly atmospheric, the music draws from influences as diverse as Arve Henriksen, David Sylvian, Taylor Deupree and Biosphere. Shattered phrases emerge among shrouded details in a state of sustained incompleteness. In a departure for Leimer, this music is highly improvised, mostly studio-generated in real-time. 'I approached the work by repeatedly abandoning it and, at some later time, after pursuing some other task, after days or weeks of new outrages, wandered back and tried to once more pick up the threads.' Threnody is music tuned to a fractured time. K. Leimer founded Palace of Lights in 1979. Leimer's work has also been issued by Autumn, First Terrace, Les Giants, Origin Peoples and RVNG and his cassette work is included in the critically acclaimed VOD box set American Cassette Culture. Leimer has been actively producing music since the mid 1970s -- his current catalog includes eighteen solo albums plus collaborative albums with Savant and Marc Barreca. His work is included in the collection of The British Library."

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AMNESIE WITH THE NICOLOSI FAMILY	Turas	12"	ESPACIAL DISCOS	ESP 005EP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/13/2018 First legit ever vinyl reissue of this Italo-disco/funk anthem from 1983 produced by Tony Carrasco and originally released on Proto Records. File next to Klein & MBO. Master tape sound and original artwork.

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HUNEE	Hunchin' All Night (Double LP Version)	2LP	RUSH HOUR	RHMC 001N-LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/13/2018 Double LP version of Huncin' All Night. Hunee presents a collection of his favorite dancefloor cuts from the '70s to modern times. Pressed on three slices of vinyl. Going from afro to disco to techno, Hunchin' All Night holds a wide spectrum of songs, tracks by the wonderful Boncana Maïga, Black Beat Niks, Larry Heard, Mappa Mundi, and many more. Hunee, aka Hun Choi, is a Korean Berliner who has been drawn in music since a very young age. After working in record stores and studying musicology he resided in Amsterdam, where he released his debut album Hunch Music (RHM 016CD/LP, 2015). As a DJ he has always followed "a hunch", which gave him wings to communicate the music he loves with crowds all over the world. With Hunchin' All Night, Hunee expresses his relationship with the dancefloor. Features Carlos Maria & Nuno Canavarro, Aby Ngana Diop, Boncana Maïga, Stanislas Tohon, Raphael Top-Secret, Don Laka, Blak Beat Niks, Ron Trent, Larry Heard, Villa Abo, Mappa Mundi, and Hunee.

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BACALOV, DANIEL	1984/5: Il Ladro Di Anime/Diario Segreto Contraffatto	2LP	SOAVE	SOAVE 017-18LP
$40.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/13/2018 Soave present a joint reissue of two of Daniel Bacalov's albums: Il Ladro Di Anime (1984) and Diario Segreto Contraffatto (1985). Daniel Bacalov, composer of music for theater, cinema, and dance, studied classical guitar and percussion. He composed the music of numerous theatrical performances represented in many international theater festivals. His first two publications on LP were Il Ladro Di Anime, presented at the Venice Biennial of 1984 and Diario Segreto Contrattato. Soave offer these two fundamental documents of the period, reprinting them for the first time in a limited edition on double LP. The compositions are mainly structured on ethnic percussions played in a masterly manner, accompanied by acoustic guitars and synths of the time, in particular the DX7 and PPG Wave. The dictated rhythm unites the show as a universal and indeterminate single body. In those years the theater in Italy broke from its usual codes, mixing "high" and "low" culture, introducing a new language and new reflections, redefining the theatrical event and the need to investigate all the territories of creativity; in this panorama the sounds and the music assumed a central importance that today remain the most concrete testimony of that extremely creative experimental period.

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DAVIDSON, MARIE	Perte D'Identite	LP	WEYRD SON RECORDS	WYS 005LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/13/2018 Now waiting for 2018 repress, endlessly delayed... Originally released by Weyrd Son Records in 2014. Perte D'Identite is the debut LP by composer, singer, and poet Marie Davidson, one of the finest artists rising from the electronic dark-synth scene in Montreal. Her voice is a stark, half-spoken monotone which will tell you stories from which you can't escape unchanged. With Perte D'Identite, she refines her storytelling with suffocating tales that are both intimate and melancholic. Meanwhile, her miraculously human electronic rhythms are as frantic and hypnotic as an intense stare. In her premier full-length album, she invites you to take a look in the peephole, revealing a fascinating cinematic picture. What you will see are the parts of yourself which you're scared and ashamed of, but also the ones that reveal a haunting and glamorous sensuality. Includes a remix by Cristobal U & The Mole.

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OZMOTIC	Elusive Balance	CD	TOUCH	TO 107CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/13/2018 Ozmotic is a multidisciplinary artistic project, deeply fascinated by the dynamics of contemporary society, by architecture, cities, and vast uncontaminated spaces. Ozmotic creates world sounds characterized by an intense tonal variety and a refined rhythmic research. The interaction between electronic music and digital visual art in real time is an essential trait of Ozmotic's aesthetic. Having previously collaborated with Fennesz, Murcof, Bretschnider, and Senking, Elusive Balance is their third album, following AirEffect in 2015, and Liquid Times in 2016 (both for FolkWisdom). Ozmotic now release their debut album for Touch, Elusive Balance. Elusive Balance explores the relationship between humans and nature, as well as the search for balance between these two great entities. The theme of equilibrium and its precariousness, and its natural tendency to achieve relative stability connects all living things. Equilibrium is also a junction point and evolutionary engine -- unstable and elusive, ready to deteriorate and to start a new reaction mechanism bringing organisms to a new harmony. "Beauty is a rare and fleeting thing; it often corresponds to those phases where we can grasp that unstable equilibrium which exists between us and the world at large." Musically the album seeks resolution of sound contrasts, in a continuous search for an emotional component that gives simultaneously a feeling of tension and stillness. There is a duality between the "organic" components (represented by soprano sax and percussion) and their interaction with machines and computers. In Elusive Balance, Ozmotic investigate the essence of their sound to expand its emotional and compositional potential. Each track contains a search for a synthesis between sound elements apparently distant from each other, but in reality, they create a new balance -- as poetic as it is musical. The album's seven tracks draw a sonic flow in which the melodic aspects are countered by glitches and angular sounds, and the ambient passages are subjected to heavy rains of rhythm, leaving space for dreamlike moments.

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VENUS FLY TRAP, THE	Icon	CD	GLASS MODERN	GLAM 001CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/13/2018 Icon from The Venus Fly Trap follows on from Nemesis which came out in 2008 and a limited red vinyl best of Metamorphosis in 2016. Is there life on Mars? Venus and Mars... Men are from.... Mythology has been part of VFT's psyche alongside space and science fiction. Screen idols and goddesses, the celluloid pantheon... immortality guaranteed... Music created for imaginary films for your mind. Legend, iconic, over-used, TV celebrities, famous for being famous... Film noir via Tarantino-female heroines with edge... "Vitesse" built for speed, streamlined structure, fast and furious... propulsion, eyeliner eyes... like a beam of headlights. Personnel: Alex Novak - vocals; Andrew Denton - guitar/programming.

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CAPITOL K	Goatherder	LP	FAITH AND INDUSTRY	FAI 014LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/13/2018 Goatherder is the seventh album from underground London producer Kristian Craig Robinson, AKA Capitol K. This ace manipulator of audio and punk warlord of groove has crossed a tapestry of styles and approaches with his own secret compass since 1998. Along with everything from Chinese pop to the marching band music of the United Arab Emirates in his early musical vocabulary, the influence of rave, new wave, grunge, and noise-core would collide to create a bold new sound. The last seven years have seen Capitol K's stature as a producer elevated with his establishment of the renowned Total Refreshment Studio and recording work with musicians such as the Mercury Music prize nominated The Comet Is Coming, global dance act Ibibio Sound Machine, the pan-Arabic Flamingods, Serafina Steer and her BAS JAN project, and contemporary folk artist Rozi Plain, among many more. This latest work was developed and recorded in his native Malta, where he built a studio in a cave (a former goat stable). K gathered bamboo instruments collected around the world, including an ancient Quecha reed-pipe (his new-found lead instrument), and various resonating vessels and percussive objects including dry fennel storks collected from Punic troglodyte sites, and atonal flutes built from fresh cut farmland reed. Ritualistic improvisations took place over a series of seasonal visits, awakening genetic memory and plant communication. Back in London the tracks were interfaced and expanded with post-industrial machine beat and bass guitar lock down. Homage is paid to new age synthscapes, while a spirit jazz overtone arrives from K's recent years as the sonic muscle behind a plethora of luminous albums born in his Total Refreshment Studio. Goatherder follows on from the 2016 collaborative incarnation Loose Meat and sonically abridges 2012's Capitol K album Andean Dub. Outside of studio production and his solo repertoire as Capitol K, Kristian has toured as guest musician with multiple bands over the last 15 years, including Brazil's Cibelle, Archie Bronson Outfit, and Du Blonde. His last project, Loose Meat, was a collaborative album of poetic dance music received lots of radio play in the UK and toured across the country for a year, performing a number of festivals. He established the Faith And Industry record label which handled his subsequent releases. He now releases a number of other artists through this label that he develops and produces.

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DOUGLAS, DAVID	Mountain Pink	12"	ATOMNATION	ATMV 058EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/13/2018 David Douglas has been a mainstay of the Atomnation label since day one, releasing several EPs, albums, and remixes from 2012. David gained an international reputation as a producer, DJ, and live performer. On Mountain Pink he displays a sound heard at his DJ sets and live shows.

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TIN MAN	Acid Acid Acid	4LP	ACID TEST	AT 008LP
$38.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/6/2018 Acid Test reissues the highly sought-after Acid Acid LP from Tin Man, originally released in 2005. Now titled Acid Acid Acid, it includes a fourth disc of unreleased material recorded from the period. Remastered by Stefan Betke.

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ORA ISO	Image Certifies	LP	DOWNWARDS	DNLP 012LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 Regis's Downwards label presents an album of heavy-hearted industrial songs from Ora Iso, making a kind of windswept, slowed-down, and gothic pop variant that's essential listening if you're into HTRK, Tropic Of Cancer, or Clay Rendering. Ora Iso are an NYC-hailing band revolving around Indonesian-Australian, Kathleen Malay and New Yorker, Jason Kudo. Building on the rubbly ground of their Bathcat debut for Ba Da Bing! (2014), the duo's mutual sense of entropy and ennui results in a classically scorched sound in Image Certifies, one laced with scornful sarcasm and a general dissatisfaction with the world, and yet somehow bolstered by the slightest promise of hope. Weighing in their heavy, bleeding hearts on ten brittle dirges described by the band as "A love letter to a society dying of its own self-induced cancers", Ora Iso play to Downwards' most maudlin aspects with a sound that clearly resonates with their previous releases by Eyeless In Gaza or Tropic Of Cancer, but here blessed with a strung-out, unyielding, and lugubrious quality they can surely call their own. As will become patently obvious, Image Certifies is not a record that takes itself lightly, and when the mood is right, the blend of Kathleen Malay's stark, cracked, gothic vocals with Jason's Kudo's cranky as hell Vainio-esque instrumental backdrops is a perfect accompaniment to moments of introspection and misanthropy. From almost BM-styled beginnings on "No Fish", their agenda becomes apparent as it grows into a slow rolling fog of distant, evocative vocals wailing worn-out nothings about "the future" and "the children" in an effortlessly sensuous and blank-eyed style that worms through the record, peaking in highlights such as the jagged "Dead Riot", and the folksier trudge of "Pour It On Me", whilst the bollocked drums of "From The Hallway To The Door" and the exquisitely succinct "Have I Gone Too Far?" packs a more gothic electronic crunch recalling NIN or Clay Rendering. Cut by Christoph Grote-Beverborg at Dubplates & Mastering.

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VA	Acid Camp All Stars Volume 2	12"	ACID CAMP	ACR 005-15EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 The all-star team at Acid Camp has been touring around the world in search for inspiration. They've created new and engaging tracks for you to share with your favorite dancefloor or your private listening environment of choice. Find part one (ACR 005-1EP) and two of their series at your favorite record shops. Volume 2 features Jasen Loveland, Dar Embarks, Some All None, Sepehr, and Simic.

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ECHIVERRI, ABBY	Ab Initio EP	12"	THE BUNKER NEW YORK	BK 032EP
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 From the very first track, it's clear that Abby Echiverri's debut, Ab Initio EP, is something different and rare: a polished and fresh interpretation of electronic music that incorporates classic electro squelches with intricate broken beats and expansive synthesizer zone-outs. When The Bunker New York asked her to explain her process of creating these hardware-based jams, Abby said: "It all stems from my own experiences on the dancefloor and wanting to recreate that for other people. I want to make music that rewires the brain: music that is challenging, yet groovy... repetitive, yet evolving. An aural psychedelic."

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WINK, JOSH	Selecta	12"	OVUM	OVM 295EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 Selecta is yet another crystalline acid body workout from the Ovum boss Josh Wink. Galvanized by heavily swung drums, loaded and coded with a venom-like funk and characterized by a big sound system vocal that tears out of nowhere and disappears just as quickly; it's yet another unique piece of 303 witchcraft, the likes of which only Wink can conjure. Deeply groovy, unabashed darkness, and just a nuance of mischief with the vocal, it's yet another precision piece from Mr. Wink who's also kindly provided an instrumental for your added creative pleasure.

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DEE, MANNI	The Residue	2LP	TRESOR	TRESOR 304LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 Tresor present the release of Manni Dee's first album, The Residue. Based in London, Manni Dee is held in high esteem by many for his spotless production and relentless DJ sets. The gleaming rendition of Manni's creative vision stuns. He knows sounds inside-out, making his studio a favorite stop for many to receive Manni's expertise. The production of The Residue was inspired by the city of London and its general living conditions. More particularly, how social cleansing, inequality, and the political situation generally -- and on a holistic scale -- informs internal and external locus of control. The Residue is disconsolate, and with such heart-wrenching tracks as "In Communal Solitude", "Vicarious Living", or "Submit. Breathe." or the mutinous "At Mercy Of The Muse" and "Paroxysm", Manni Dee clearly cuts out his insurgent statement.

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DJ BALDUIN	Vvigmara	LP	GLYK	GLYK 002LP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 An ode to a special place and time. Glyk label-founder DJ Balduin is presenting six songs of dreamy ambient and house on his debut mini-album, Vvigmara. Inlay with download code. Edition of 300.

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LEONEL	Mountain Birds	12"	POSSIBLE FUTURES	WCH 003EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 Paul and Alessio of Possible Futures believe that some essential fractions in the history of music need to be transmitted in new ways to budding generations. Over the last 15 years, Possible Futures have been witnesses to the wildest fauna and flora the great nocturnal jungle. It is through their open and eclectic selections that Possible Futures turn the dancefloor into spaces of self-discovery and musical trance-en-dance. For this third record, Argentinean expert producer Leonel returns with two long pieces of poetry. 180 gram vinyl; Includes AIFF download code.

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MARTYN	Voids	2LP	OSTGUT TON	OSTGUT 029LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 Double LP version. Martyn releases the new album Voids, his first for Ostgut Ton. Over the course of 2017, Dutch-born, Washington D.C.-based producer Martyn had undergone a metamorphosis -- one that began with a medical emergency and has dovetailed into personal musical transformation. Having narrowly avoided death after suffering a heart attack, Martyn reentered his studio and began a process of reassessing the elements that drive him to make music: sampling, unpredictability, melancholy, sci-fi, polyrhythms, texture, ecstatic moments, Detroit, interlocking percussion and bass. However, the initial spark to start producing again came through his experience listening to Max Roach's 1979 ensemble percussion album M'Boom. In his own words: "That was the first record I listened to in my studio after coming out of the hospital. It's a project where he works with a slew of top-notch percussionists and drummers and rotates them for every composition . . . I could hear so much space in the music, something I had never noticed before; almost like a 3D experience, with the most striking aspect being the emptiness between the players." Over the next eight months Martyn would go on to write Voids, his first LP for Ostgut Ton and in a few other ways markedly different than previous records; it features no guest appearances or collaborations and at nine tracks, is musically stripped down to the essentials. It's also a highly personal take on forging new paths forward in genres where the Berghain/Panorama Bar resident has long been known for his production wizardry and innovation: post-dubstep and UK garage. Voids is roughly split between these musical foundations, recontextualized with elements of Nyabinghi, drum 'n' bass, and gqom to form snarling, bass-driven hybrids. In contrast to his GL Outtakes (2017), Voids is also an attempt to work through personal trauma and loss, including the passing of close friend and fellow producer Marcus Intalex, aka Trevino, to whom the track "Manchester" is dedicated. The sound of Voids is big and unapologetically rough around the edges. It is music as therapy, drawing on the healing elements of music past, but is far from retrospective. Indeed, Martyn is no stranger to electronic futurism, as his numerous solo productions for Ostgut Ton, Dolly, Hyperdub, Brainfeeder, Ninja Tune, Warp, and his own 3024 label (with visual collaborator Jeroen Erosie) have shown. On Voids, however, these futuristic sonic qualities coalesce into something darker, more biographical and untethered from expectations.

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SESSION VICTIM	Smile/Mourn	12"	PEN & PAPER	PEN 002EP
$14.50 LOW STOCK LEVEL The second record on Pen & Paper contains two Session Victim original tunes, demonstrating the duo's trademark taste for sublime sample composition. "Smile" is dominated by a heavy drum set that paves the way for an assortment of smaller and bigger funk loops, eventually joined by a vibrant lo-fi chord. "Mourn" sees a moody blues sample float on top of the creamiest synth pad, echoing in-and-out while telling it's dark, old story.

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VARG	Nordic Flora Series Pt. 5: Crush	2LP	POSH ISOLATION	PI 209LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 Following on from the previous iterations of the series, particularly the widely acclaimed Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City (2017), the cast of collaborators remain familiar. Some faces are more prominent on this occasion, while others were folded into the series for the first time at last year's Berlin Atonal festival where Varg's Nordic Flora program was unveiled. The album's most tender moments arrive when the acoustic instrumentation and ambient ascents cross and tangle with the spoken word performances from AnnaMelina and Chloe Wise. They speak in lullabies of decadence. And the sincerity catches you out, tapering the rush, awakening the crush. When working with both AnnaMelina and Vanity Productions, the gentle details get scaled up for bigger arenas, the track signaling a kinship with last year's Yung Lean collaboration. Not surprisingly, Varg configures this side of Crush alone, perhaps letting this stormy intensity out just the once in a mournful piece with Ecco2k. True to the Nordic Flora Series, the artwork comes from American multidisciplinary artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt. Features Morning Star, Ecco2k, AnnaMelina, Chloe Wise, Matti Bye, Christian Augustin, Henrik Söderström, and Vanity Productions.

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STEWART, JAMES	Cotounou EP	12"	ALMA NEGRA	ANR 004EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 James Stewart is the host, resident DJ, and co-promoter of monthly night "Black Atlantic Club" at Le Sucre in Lyon. An avid lecturer on the subject and founder of the Blog Afrosouldescarga, he merges an intellectual approach with the musical and creative side of things: as an active conga player and percussionist, member of Voilaaa Sound System and show host at Radio Nova. This EP is the work of a mature and thoughtful musician, combining different musical influences at a high level of production. Alma Negra Records present James Stewart's Cotonou EP. "Mugara Ndega" features Martha Thom and Jacob Mafuleni.

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FAFCHAMPS, JEAN-LUC	H1KhH2WM (Du Seuil), a Five-letter Sufi Word	CD	SUB ROSA	SR 445CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018 The third chapter in the Sufi Word's series. Jean-Luc Fafchamps on the release: "The Sufi Letters is a vast project of 28 compositions (for the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet) undertaken in 2000 and still ongoing. I am drawing inspiration from the symbolic charts found in Sufi mysticism. Each Letter is a sonic meditation on the frontiers of conscience and the paradoxes of time. Today's word, 'Du seuil' ('From the threshold'), is the third word to be released by Sub Rosa. It is a journey of sort through grief: stages of conscience, journey through hell, nocturnal anxieties, meditation, resilience. Do not worry too much though, for isn't it from the distance of death that one can shine the best light on life. Isn't all grief also a threshold?" H1KhH2WM (Du Seuil), a Five-letter Sufi Word features Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Centre Henri Pousseur; conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy. Includes 20-page booklet. Jean-Luc Fafchamps is a pianist and composer. He studied at the Conservatoire in Mons and at Louvain University. A member of the Ictus Ensemble, he has taken part in many concert performances in large ensembles or chamber groups (performances of works by Lindberg, Reich, Aperghis, Mernier, Leroux, Harada, Francesconi, etc.) and in mixed performances, particularly accompanying dance -- multiple performances with Rosas (Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker -- and theater -- several creations with Aperghis. He has made recordings for Sub Rosa -- with the Bureau des Pianistes and as a soloist -- of works by Bowles, Liszt, Feldman, Dallapiccola, Duchamp, Scelsi, and Berio and has contributed to numerous recordings with the Ictus Ensemble and has accompanied many singers.

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