Pobedia from Leningrad Region, Russia, is floating through The Fog. His new EP contains four nice dub techno tracks starting with a “Dark Beam” and ending at “Sundown”. Underway there’s a somewhat hard drone excursion into “Isolation”.
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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 3 Apr 2012
Style: Dub Techno, Ambient, Drone
“Tomzn is a young upcoming German producer, who´s breaking the edges between the electronic
genres without looking back at usual standards. Grewing up in the far east of saxonia, germany,
he became infected with the passion for electronic dance music. Next to tentativ steps in djing
with the age of 17, he started to produce his first simple loop-tracks without loosing the joy of djing
with the black gold. Tomzn constantly increased his production-skills with permanent looking for new sounds and rhythms without devoting to one kind of style.”
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Format: 3 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 30 Mar 2012
Style: Minimal, Deep House
“Barren Waste came together in late January of 2011 in response to an unimaginative local metal scene. All four members wanted to make something exciting and have so far done just that. Genre conventions were dropped. Instead the songs dictated where the songs would go. Not only are the usual elements of Death, Black, Thrash, Grindcore, and Hardcore used, but they are coupled with noise, classic rock, and free jazz influences. This chaotic, free-form sound paired with their intense live show make Barren Waste worth checking out” (ReverbNation).
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Format: 4 x File, EP, various formats
Released: 30 Mar 2012
Style: Post Rock, Jazz
“Being an idealist is noble and deserves endorsement. That is exactly the belief of our Zurich-based artist Bernhard Gietz (better known as ‘Berni’), who releases wonderful tracks in between dub techno and house under this moniker (Idealist) since a few years on labels such as Deep In Dub or Dreiton. His latest release on Broque, the Defective Units EP, is dedicated to the little flaws, imperfections and surprises one has to face when working with analogue devices such as the ones from the Roland TB family. What leads us to another one of Berni’s big and longstanding passions: Acid. However, Berni’s tracks are far from culminating into wild 303-infernos, but embed acid lines in a very elegant manner into floating dub techno grooves. While some tracks lean more towards their Basic Channel roots, others embrace warm Detroit techno soul, but they always manage to nonchalantly close the gap between contemporary club standards and the retrospective view into dub techno history. In between these explorations, Idealist also sneaked in ‘Bad Times’, a true hymn made of deep after hour nu-disco sounds together with heartwarming and shyly filtered hooklines, which provides the perfect soundtrack for welcoming the sunrise after a good night out. Who would have thought that the courage to embracing imperfectionism could lead to such a perfect release?”
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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 1 Apr 2012
Style: Acid, Detroit Techno, Dub Techno, Deep House
Nebyla from Ulan-Ude, Russia, serves five chilled and sophisticated deep house tunes to fall into.
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Format: 3 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 30 Mar 2012
Style: Deep House
Five smooth house tracks by dayz & knite on the “triple A” house netlabel Supafeed. The EP impresses, besides the funky electro touch, with two well turned out remixes.
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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: March 2012
Style: House, Electro
“Ohrwert, one of several monikers utilized by Arjen Schat, brings Recycled Plastics some of the finest electronic music from the heart of the Netherlands. Containing both the minimalist dub techno that Ohrwert releases are perhaps best known for with Arjen’s atmospheric ambient drones under his own name, Tral is a hypnotic and immersive listen that seduces you with its subtly changing repetitions and crisp, clean rhythmic surfaces. As an additional bonus for the DJs and producers amongst you, Arjen has provided loops from each Tral track, ready to be dropped into your DAW of choice and mixed to taste. The limited CD-R version of Tral comes with two exclusive bonus tracks: Ancestral and Campestral.”
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Format: 6 x File, EP, various formats
Released: 12 Feb 2012
Style: Dub Techno, Ambient
“This release by mon0 is the artist’s fourth album, the first one on Sublime Porte, after an ep on Silent Season and several releases on Kreislauf and Test Tube. An expert in long tracks, mon0 here provides us with six beautiful journeys into sound all lasting around ten minutes.
The opener, the soothing Monolog, is a great moodsetter for what follows, and shows just how accurate the sensation of space is in this album : with calm rhythms and a simple pad flowing from highs to lows, an almost solid mass of sound encompassing deep Detroit slabs and white noise, seagulls on the coast and the sound of the wind across the sea, it dives deep and takes us on the ride.
Seaside is a fantastic drone cut, complete with electronic rain and steel drums being overtaken by demonic forces. It’s almost as if we hear an ancient sea god rattling on metal sheets and a thousand undead echo chambers chanting in unison a strange prayer in an unknown language. The fog then proceeds to slowly move away, and as we stray forward we uncover the shapes under a closer light.
As we wander inland, Autumn Clouds start to gather over our heads, a chilly wind sets in, passing through the trees and chiming in with the bells of a distant temple. Deep in the forest more rain starts pouring down… Guided by strange lights, we arrive near the village of a native civilization, and their drums start blending with the faraway sound of the bells.
Starting off slowly, Gray Skies is a more straightforward dub techno affair, but which manages to retain the same level of ambience as its predecessors. The track rests upon layers and layers of pads, with slow attack chords and very original percussions to boot, it takes its time to build a consistent atmosphere before entering into motion. Dialog continues on that note, with a noticeably darker atmosphere, and is definitely the more club-oriented of the bunch, but still has that keen sense of mood before functionnality, and it’s a true delight to hear.
Outro is the bleakest track yet : featuring a chilly drone as a center piece, and sounds akin to wind in winter, it evokes images of infinite lunar landscapes, grey and white mountains of dust slowly eroding, bursts of solar flares and the vast emptiness of space, with the blinding light of stars and planets pinned against the unfathomable black void of the universe. And you in the middle, wandering helplessly through infinity.”
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Format: 6 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps; 6 x File, EP, WAV
Released: 28 Mar 2012
Style: Drone, Ambient, Dub Techno
Three tracks of fine deep house by Lee Trax.
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Format: 3 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: March 2012
Style: Deep House, House
“Leonel Jacquier‘s Naomi contains four free tracks of deep minimal techno.”
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Format: EP, 4 x File, MP3, 320 kbps; 4 x File, FLAC; 4 x File, WAV
Released: 26 Mar 2012
Style: Minimal, Deep House, Abstract
Bass and Space 