Hermeth — Emotional Damage

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01.07.2022

As the bizarre aggressiveness of you grinding your teeth comes to play, these tracks will only amplify the wicked mind-state you’re in. Hermeth as a producer made his name in the underground scene at the end of 2019, and ever since he’s been pushing lava with his homeland Swiss label known as Brainwaves.

Hapësira announced Prelude to the Visions with Giegling

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21.06.2022

Giegling is a German label and collective found back in 2009, known for its beautiful and colorful dubby releases from artists such as Kettenkarussell, Leafar Legov, Traumprinz and many others. Just few days ago, Hapësira have announced that members of the Giegling crew will host their annual Prelude to the Visions event happening in Kukaj, a remote village in the beautiful mountains of the Prishtina area.

Oldest Skopje club Kapan Han shuts down

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31.05.2022

The oldest running club in Skopje Kapan Han hasn’t opened since earlier this winter, when all clubs came to agreement to open despite the COVID sanctions by the government. We presumed that a reopening will follow, however the owner has just confirmed that the nightclub will not reopen and the place will be used for something else.

Transki — Vienna Gates

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10.05.2022

Austrian producer Transki reveals his latest EP “Vienna Gates” via Scum Collective, a crew and label we’ve covered back when they released DJ Disrespect’s vinyl “Jamz from the Attic”. He indulges us in furious techno spiced up with the old-school trance we love, creating a monstrous EP that’s full with dance-floor artillery.

Falling Apart — FA015RMX

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02.05.2022

The fifteenth installment of the Falling Apart vinyl label from Frankfurt brings us diversified neo-trance and techno blends from various of producers. Radiating energy throughout, this release holds remixes from multiple releases by the label, starting with TRANCEMAN2000’s two releases, the last Jonas Kopp and others.

Euphoria V in Prishtina

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30.04.2022

Haven’t been to a rave in Kosovo? Now is the perfect time to experience Prishtina and the raw energy it radiates. The “insanely” psychedelic Niki Istrefi is headlining along Wndrlst for a warehouse gathering 5km from Prishtina in an industrial setting.

Julian Muller & CAIVA — Without You

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29.04.2022

The folks at Live from Earth Klub, a Berlin-based techno label, made their names by dropping artillery just before the pandemic started, and the trend continues. With “Tender Trance” by DJ Gigola and Kev Koko – the former member of FJAAK, they’ve made a stamp on the dance-floor scene by incorporating techno with trance elements like no one else did before.

This time we have the already established Belgian producer and DJ Julian Muller and German artist and DJ CAIVA on vocals, an interesting collaboration that fruits many groove-rich tracks.

Oat M — First Crops

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23.04.2022

The energetic recipe of Italian producer Oat M finds its ways into a fast-paced 4/4 release with three dub-rich hard-techno tracks. He introduces us to elements of the sonic through various of genius ways, and achieves a very powerful rhythm throughout the whole release, making these tracks the proper bombs for ravers all around.

Aslice — A fairer music ecosystem

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16.04.2022

At end of March, Zak Khutoretsky mostly known as DVS1 announced an unusual platform benefiting producers and DJs.

Ventolin — Brux Trax

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12.04.2022

Brux Trax is Ventolin’s debut on the ghetto-esque Planetaria label, coming with a six-track EP highly influenced by the fusion of techno and trance together.
The entry ‘Big Bank’ is a steady four-four banger with catchy but deep vocals, and acidic synth rampaging throughout. ‘Drop Another’ comes in a different outfit, and the intro suggests powerful sound next.

maukook vs dokter doggo — For Those Who Know

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10.04.2022

For Those Who Know is the latest project to come out of the enigmatic DJ PlayStation label play labs, featuring six slices of unabridged electro and techno and distinctive acid-trance underpinnings.
Nostalgia is very much a leaned-into concept. It’s manifested, mutilated and even matured over the past decade or so. Despite its memetic infancy, we have seen the aesthetics of nostalgia, both visually and sonically, become more realised and fleshed-out over recent years.

Jensen Interceptor & Viikatory — I Just Want 2 Dance

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07.04.2022

The Australian producer Jensen Interceptor drops a power electro EP together with with Belarusian artist Viikatory. They’ve sonically shaped a dark but very lucid sound with two 4/4 and two electro tracks, all of which are powerful and as the label says themselves: breakneck party starters.

Katran — Decapitation

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02.04.2022

Katran is the solo project of Belgrade-based Darko Kolar, one half of Ontal. In translation the word ‘katran’ means tar or coal in many Slavic languages, and it depicts its form by bringing the industrial heritage onto his sound signature.

Dense w/ SlugoS

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29.03.2022

SlugoS dominates our bodies and mind on our latest ‘Dense’ episode, with fast paced hard-techno with darkness that makes demons piss their pants. Our Dense podcast just became denser. Madrid-born SlugoS is one hell of a producer, and madman DJ who enters portals to hell and scares away all demons there. A filthy but powerful hour of music made to be a therapeutical journey of hard-techno, schranz and the extremes alike. We hope you enjoy our latest Dense episode!

VA — International Chromies Vol. 10

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27.03.2022

The 10th edition of Jensen’s Interceptor own charity imprint International Chrome is dedicated to Ukrainian causes, and is packed with lava of electro and techno.