TKNS — Caecus Nervi

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29 March 2023

In the vast world of groove-ridden art such as techno, many of the offerings are simply reinternations of what a certain tune made work, often the same ideas get recycled in slightly different packages, and most importantly it’s often that the producer loses his vision and meaning with the sound he delivers. But if we were to get stuck at what the mainstream (even of the underground) offers, we’d be in depression and crying out loud that nothing is good anymore, that things aren’t as they used to be, just a general negative connotation of music.

dj bluegucci – Korea EP

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18 March 2023

You wake up one day and it’s the end of the 90’s, back when they started making it rawest, the sludgy and aggressive tribal techno is at its peak and mister dj bluegucci takes the stage with this 3-track EP consisting of totalitarian powerful grooves accompanied by saturated bass lines that always compliment and playfully bounce together with sharp and crazy, punchy kicks.

SlugoS — Heretical Subversion

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7 March 2023

SlugoS delivers a dark atmospheric and driving techno album on German Sacred Court, imprint label run by SNTS. The LP format is rarely exploited by producers nowadays, but he luckily gets back to it and delivers a beautifully crafted album that evolves and brings a diverse set of sounds from start to end.

Rrose — Tulip Space

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23 February 2023

The six tracks that make up Rrose’s latest EP, Tulip Space, fit together like a puzzle that doesn’t resemble the image on the box. Expectations be damned.

Talismann — Percussion Part 3

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9 January 2023

Heavy-weight techno release from Amsterdam producer and DJ Talismann, who’s been successfully releasing techno, house and other electronic music since the late 2000s. The Part 3 is the newest addition of the Percussion series, marked by heavy rhythms and old-school techno soundscapes of a dark dystopian kind.

V/A — Purgatorium Inane EP

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8 November 2022

Caedite Eos is pleased to present a various artist EP for its second release. This time _asstnt, Leo Laker, Voight Kampff and SlugoS are the ones in charge to deliver four peak-time killer tracks, keeping the same spirit as the first release: pure hard techno with an experimental touch.

Speedy J — Loudboxer

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27 October 2022

Ravers and raverettes, last weekend as I was browsing through some internet pages to discover new music from the industrial sphere of sonics, I stumbled upon this guy Speedy J, a name that I’ve encountered several times before, but for some reason never went beyond to explore his offerings.

DJ Disrespect — Deep Encounter

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17 July 2022

Frankfurt based producer and DJ Disrespect continues his saga with mind-melting hard-techno, this time fusing dub with the extremes of schranz into his release. A sonic mayhem that lures you into bashing all the aggression through fast-paced and straight-forward but pure techno, full with bizarre but mighty action all around.

Transki — Vienna Gates

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10 May 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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2 May 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.

Julian Muller & CAIVA — Without You

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29 April 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 April 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.

Ventolin — Brux Trax

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12 April 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 April 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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7 April 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.