Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens : Los Angeles Mescal Buttons [WR044]

“The setting is Los Angeles, the scene is a dusty abandoned street, sometime during a sweltering hot summer in the mid-1980’s. Morriconez, appearing in this title using the clever FBI-dodging moniker Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens, exits a baby blue Dodge Charger wearing a silver-studded brown leather jacket, bell bottom Levis and some blood-spattered cowboy boots. He stamps out a cigarette and removes his pilot shades. Five o’clock shadow defines a chiseled scar-covered jaw. Wasting no time, he pops the trunk and removes a black guitar case with a single letter, M, emblazoned in the center. A vague hum appears behind him, followed by a visible cloud of dust. Along the wavering horizon line, a black helicopter emerges and steadily draws closer to our debonair hero. He unfastens the three clasps on the guitar case, gently and seductively opening it to reveal not a guitar, but a rocket launcher. The camera zooms in fast on the helicopter pilot’s face, ripe with silent terror as he faces the Morriconez surprise assault. Our man pulls the trigger, instantly reducing the minigun-fronted copter to an epic explosion of metal and burning human remains. Throwing the spent launcher to the dirt, he reaches inside his jacket, pulls out a smoke, lights it, and puts his shades back on. Before he can get back into the car, the passenger door opens and a buxom girl wearing a tight red dress appears. ‘Honey, you said you were just stopping to say hello to an old friend?’ she asks. Morriconez saltily replies ‘No, I had to say goodbye. Get back in the car.’ With that, she rolls her mascara-covered eyes and our hero speeds off into the lopsided Los Angeles sunset, leaving a trail of tire tracks and droning guitars in his wake.”

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Format: 3 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 6 Sep 2013
Style: Psychedelic Rock

baltic.dub : Neuroleptics EP [PE002]

Planet Eden is the new sublabel of eden.deeply, focussed on minimal-techno sounds. Their second release is provided by baltic.dub.

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Format: 3 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 15 Sep 2013
Style: Minimal, Techno

Sven Laux : Squeezed Patterns [unfound77]

“germany’s sven laux returns once again to unfoundsound with squeezed patterns. you get four mind-numbing original versions which offer his trademark sound of clicky and densely experimental minimal techno doused with found sounds — riding a fine line between deep and chaotic. plus, you get an enchanting deep tech-house remix courtesy of isoteric, plus two more off-kilter and noisy minimal techno remixes courtesy of phooptart and berk offset. eat it up, then poop it all out, and then eat it all up again.”

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Format: 7 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC
Released: 10 Sep 2013
Style: Minimal, Techno, Tech House, Deep House, Experimental

Máquina Solar : De Escamas [pyr091]

“Máquina Solar is a duo consisting of Amanda Irarrázabal (b. Santiago, Chile) on double bass and vocals and Wenchi Lazo (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina) on guitars and vocals. They have been playing on and off for two years recording their first album De Escamas in January of 2013. the music they play is based on free improvisations of concise and varied time lengths resulting in sounds that resemble, at times, short compositions.”

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Format: 20 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps
Released: 10 Sep 2013
Style: Avant-garde, Free Improvisation, Experimental

Mported Flows : Advice [BSMX0061]

“Over the past couple years, C-Doc has brought with him an incredible group of releases that he’s been involved with. Mported Flows’ new album is no exception. Originally set for release back in 2007, for whatever reason it never officially saw the light of day. It’s a shame, too, because it deserves an audience.

It’s truly a pleasure for me to finally be the one who brings you ‘Three Pronged Fork’. Unlike what mainstream rap fans have come to expect, Mported Flows is an MC with plenty to say. Whether it’s about the state of Hip-Hop in ‘Gangstas, Guns, Liquor’ and ‘Mic Drones’, providing advice in ‘Advice’, speaking about the love for his son in ‘Sonny Morning’ or getting deeply introspective on ‘Last Track’, there’s no question about whether his lyrics spring from his soul or not. Add to that the solid production throughout and you’ve got a must hear album.

Hip-Hop never went away… I know that… but still… Hip-Hop IS back. Bump this.

Thanks to Mported, C-Doc and everyone else involved in the making of this album. Incredible work.

Of course, thanks again to you for downloading and listening. I hope we continue to deliver the music you love. Please spread the word about blocSonic, if you enjoy what we do. Remember… everything we release is cool to share! Always keep the music moving… share it… blog it… podcast it! If you’re in radio… support independent music and broadcast it! We don’t stop.”

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Format: 12 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC
Released: 17 Sep 2013
Style: Hip Hop

Roedor : Onirismo [MNE 005]

A listening experience featuring an exploration of the universe of timbres and its relation in time, creating textures achieved by field recordings.”

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Format: 10 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 8 Sep 2013
Style: Experimental, Field Recording, Ambient

Johannes Schwarz : Think EP [Nu-Logic066]

Johannes Schwarz from Germany presents on Nulogic Netlabel his latest work: Think EP. Based primarily on experimentation, he offers us four extraordinary tracks where Ambient, and even Dub, come to cross with IDM without forgetting Techno patterns as in the dj tool ‘Weird’. Serious work, a must-listen to.”

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Format: 4 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps
Released: 6 Sep 2013
Style: Dub Techno, Ambient

Seal Bient : Untitled EP [ML051]

What’s in a name? Just listen to three untitled tracks, chilled and dubby.

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Format: 3 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps
Released: September 2013
Style: Dub Techno, Ambient, Techno

Various Artists : EGIDA 02 [Kidnapping 011]

“We started the second part of Kidnapping anniversary moving to Madrid, the Spanish capital, which it has mentioned has a long history of connection with the techno. We walk into the streets stained with blue blood drops conquests news from distant lands and Lope de Vega poems, uploaded to the first two tracks, by prestigious artists: The first, ‘Uanamani – Avaris’ which as a opening disc also has the symbolic characteristics of diversity, deep ambient dub techno and even some break, an off voice and a bit of calm before the storm coming at all. The second, ‘Groof – Darkest Hour’. Roberto Gemelín, that in other times firms as Robert Calvin, and here he does as Groof, which deals with different styles and always does well. In this case shows the seriousness that you put on your techno industrial environments, without abusing of the speed of the beat, and displaying maximum strength. The region has much to investigate, and it is then that we stay in Spain, because the third artist, Jose Pouj, which initially began its work in Castilla-León, after a time also moved to Madrid. And inside the industrial air, he has added shades of experimental techno. We took off to the British Islands, and stop in Dublin, Irland’s capital, to hear ‘Adam Kelly – Find A Way Out’ and its maybe the darkess material of the the disc. Strong, sharp hi-hat and giants drums who never stop moving, destroying any opposition. We return to Spain, but in this case the city of Valencia, to rediscover Raszia, an artist that usually used to does his good works in Kidnapping, and this time gives us ‘Battlestar’ a traveler techno with an climate tense and universe metallic squeals. We move to the East, to the Budapest city (Hungary), to give play to ‘Synus0006 – Shots’ an unhurried techno, synthesized sounds, oxidized percussions and modern air. Finally, Unit 115 closes with ‘Lepantt’ experiencing the honeys moves, putting variants to the high note that plays, to the synths with saturated atmospheres and melodies that suffocate under a sequence of drums with personal style.”

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Format: 7 x File, Compilation, MP3/320 kbps
Released: September 2013
Style: Techno

Various Artists : EGIDA 01 [Kidnapping 010]

“Kidnapping is for celebration, and how could it be otherwise, removes a disc that symbolises the happiness of their anniversary. A meeting of artists from the label, which contribute their two cents to the album that contains two parts full of names, beginning, and various substances, faithful to Kidnapping style. The first part opens with ‘Subliminals’ extensive techno idm track with an infernal brekeado, and as a sample of all that diversity that identifies the stampl, full of shades and sounds of different nature. Mutant Beatniks lets us see his British blood, from the city of Bath, near Bristol, in southwestern England, but it is not English tradition only, which applied to music would be enough, the city of Bath has roman origins, and it has cultural attractions that it has transform into a World Heritage Site; well, these achievements as we add also to the contemporary techno. We flew towards the beloved Barcelona to meet to his second job. Between thrashings Barca, blue Mediterranean and remains of the Gaudi´s magic, we find the industrial ambient techno that proposes Delusions (Archi Ferrero & James Hazel) with his track ‘Dynamic 2’. Walking on the amplitude of his grave, make us friends with the lashes of their percussion. We crossed the ocean, and while we´re trying to get used to spicy food in Mexican City, we get into the insistent ambient techno ‘Reiko – Spell Spain’ with a tinny piano that seems naif, but ends up having the forcefulness of a screw is threaded into the temple. We gain strength for a long trip: to the next track far away in the Orient. We fall in Hokkaido, Japan’s largest island, mountainous with geological eruptions, clear lakes and thermal baths, reliefs that perceives in different layers of background that add idm techno groove of ‘Terra Motogaya – Press Cord’. We return to Europe, back to Spain, and along the shore Ebro River, we stop in Zaragoza, crossed by Roman history, medieval, Renaissance and Modernist. It has Universality since the sixteenth century, it had Goya painting the corners, and in present it has a techno that makes you shake the floor. Theres no need for details, if you want to move the track, turn on play to ‘David Meiser – Technology Is Back’, loud and clear. We moved to the sixth track walking towards northern Europe, we stop in Berlin, and start talking of Berlin in a portal techno music, needless to say… just say that Berlin is still high quality reference and breeding, ‘Dubit – Klassick’ has clearly demonstrates this. A Unit 115 we know Buenos Aires air, but if we add to his techno a melodious pianos that always insist and a transatlantic flight that it had move to his new residence in Barcelona, gives us the results of his new work.”

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Format: 7 x File, Compilation, MP3/320 kbps
Released: August 2013
Style: Techno