“The Digital Black Label Series is a free download series.”
Format: 4 x File, Compilation, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 1 Jan 2014
Style: Dubstep, UK Garage, Drum and Bass
DeepWoods : Heavy Rain [stasis027]
“Watch out! It’s heavy dub techno rain!
We are happy to present you brilliant piece of sound art by DeepWoods, talented electronic artist from USA.
Heavy Rain EP contains fine rhythms of 100% dub saturated drums, filled with perfectly flowing synths and delayed chords, percussion and remnants phrases on top.”
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Format: 4 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 2 Jan 2015
Style: Dub Techno
Mar’yan Kitsenko : Black Flowers [bsc_054]
“Kyiv, Ukraine based sound artist and Energostatic Records netlabel co-founder Mar’yan Kitsenko has been producing music under the moniker Marc Atmost since the early nineties. Since laying that alias to rest in 2012, he returns with two sophisticated dark dubby techno numbers for basic_sounds.
The title track is an eight-minute long journey that begins with sounds of cracking fire that seamlessly morphs into a roaming dub track full of reverberating spanning chords layered with bright chiming tones. ‘Black Flowers’ brilliantly shifts with ease around the six-minute mark into an emotive trance inducing closure. Amazing. ‘Orders Of Magnitude’ is a quirky techno number, controlled with immaculate pulsating deep baselines while incorporating alien-like squawks, modern jazz samples and warm melodies. Overall Mar’yan Kitsenko delivers two masterfully ingenious tracks integrating elements of the unexpected.”
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Format: 2 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, WAV
Released: 2 Feb 2015
Style: Dub Techno, Trance
Mark Ward : Rise [dsp002]
“Recorded in Sheffield during September and October 2014 this EP was originally released on 17 January 2015 on the short-lived net-label, Dischi Senza Parole.
The sound of the sea was recorded in Scarborough in February 2014.
The acoustic guitar was recorded in 16bit WAV format using a portable 4-track field recorder in a room with a polished wooden floor and hard walls which provided natural reverb.
Some of the drones were made from stretched, reversed and other wise manipulated guitar recordings.
Others and the remaining instruments are native to Ableton Live.
The looping, arranging, composition and sequencing were all done in Ableton.”
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Format: 4 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 19 Jan 2015
Style: Ambient, Drone
Various Artists : Deep Diversity vol.2 [DEPCD006]
“Finally, after several months, the second compilation is released. Enjoy again a variaty of different deep music genres. You can grap a copy at the link below!”
Format: 12 x File, Compilation, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 1 Feb 2015
Style: Dub Techno, Deep House, Ambient, IDM
Brother Blue : Royal Secret [BC37]
“Tim Gray hails from Portland, Oregon, and although many of you may already know him for his stellar releases as Ethernet at Kranky and Tanuki House at Occult Research, he debuts a new project at Recycled Plastics: Brother Blue. Brother Blue is Mr. Gray’s outlet for dub techno, pure and simple, and it delivers on that front in spades. Tim’s right at home with his machines and the evidence is in the sounds – deep, round basslines hugging clean-cut beatwork to make dancefloor-friendly grooves that still manage to sedate you at home. Layers of blue reverb that settle over watery synth drones and spattering chord stabs like a soft rain. Here, on his debut EP (which is a not-inconsiderable 50+ minutes long) Brother Blue establishes his intent with a cut taken from his forthcoming full-length (Gradual Brightening), and backing it with two excellent non-album cuts and a massive 20+ impressionistic remix from Coppice Halifax.”
Format: 4 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 11 Jan 2015
Style: Dub Techno, Ambient
Pk jazz Collective : The Farewell [SCL159]
“The Farewell LP by Pk jazz Collective is the compilation of songs about love and its faces. Different types of feeling that makes our world alive arrayed in musical form. From old blues standards through the classical song of The Doors to modern pop songs of famous young singer Austin Mahone, covered by jazz-rock musicians from the distant Astrakhan.”
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Buy CD via DIY label Run On Recordings
Format: 11 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC, WAV
Released: 30 Jan 2015
Style: Downtempo, Psychedelic Rock, New Wave
Smooth : Vintage 02 [CYAN 043]
“As announced, the ‘vintage-series’ by Smooth continues. The second EP was exclusively produced using vintage gear like Roland TR-626, Roland MC-303, EMU ESI-4000 and the fantastic Roland D-50, besides some outboard effects.
Tracks somewhere between Dubtechno and Deep House, focused to rough chord sounds and warm, smooth filtered pads, from minimalism in sound to moving sound scapes and breathing noises. All that is in here, so grab it!”
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Format: 6 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC, WAV
Released: 25 Jan 2015
Style: Dub Techno, Deep House
Reiko Sad Soul : Equilibrium EP [MZMR.NL#003]
“The third release of our netlabel is pure techno by Reiko Sad Soul.”
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Format: 2 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 26 Jan 2015
Style: Techno
deeB – A Day In A City [DWK296]
Tracklist:
1. Intro (feat. Noumenom)
2. Morning Rituals
3. Pop Up Horizon
4. Or Else
5. The Wrong Part Of Town
6. Pedestrian Flow (feat. DJ Dash)
7. Thru City Lights (feat. Mitchell Rivers)
8. Call It A Day
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Format: 8 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps
Released: 29 Jan 2015
Style: Downtempo, Trip-Hop, Instrumental Hip-Hop
Bass and Space 