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Rotkeller – Herr Vodmar

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The second album by swiss pals Rotkeller, «Herr Vodmar». They’re back with luscious sounds on entangled groundworks and delicious ideas for harebrained melodies. Eight firm & heavy weight tracks on 12″ vinyl and digital, officially released on sept 27. There will also be a couple live shows, check the Live section on our site. For bookings, please get in touch.

«Herr Vodmar» is released as collaboration with Everest Records. Limited to 300 copies with artwork by Amadeus Waltenspühl, mastered by Calyx Berlin. The vinyl version includes a personal download code for the digital release. If you wish digital only, go to Everestrecords.

We also have two different shirts made, get involved with the preorder (click and scroll down) now and save some $$$. Click on the image for full size.

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Playpad Circus / Azabeats 10″

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This one features two beat heads out of Germany, both of them creating forward thinking electronic music.

There is Playpad Circus, constantly killing it at remix jobs and live shows, and Azabeats, part of the alt rap group Son Kas and the Postrap collective.

Sharing a 10″, Playpad Circus’ «Drink And Fuck» directs into a sinister, feral world, while «Far Away From You» by Azabeats points out the way out of there, before he too shatters the supposed to be homelike place («Last Week»).
Brute beats, breaks and samples meet sort of speak garageish ideas, with drums as leitmotif.

Limited to 100 hand numbered copies in hand stamped covers, mastered by Deeskee. Sold out.

Maki – Leaving Exarchia / Grayscale 7″

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Over at the website of our beloved canadian record label Clothes Horse Records you can read statements like «consistently killing shit for over a decade, Maki has quietly established himself as one of the most slept-on producers in Canada» followed by «with a musical aesthetic akin to a riot in Syntagma Square, his soundscapes have shaped the character of some of the most unique and distinctive records in the Canadian indie-rap scene». No way we could have said it better. Wherever some Maki production pops up, it is very clear that it will please our ears and minds.

That is why we are convinced that there does not necessarily need to be a voice over his production for it to work. Therefore it is a major delight to present the new 7″ «Leaving Exarchia / Grayscale», which holds two outrageous bangers. After a summer of discontent in Athens, a room in Exarchia and a thousand photographs, a commentary on those experiences emerge. The canadian producer returns to prog-inspired traditions with densely-layered synths, guitars, field recordings and distinctive drums. Still here and still there. A crisis of sorts. A work in progress.

It is kind of a deluxe edition limited to 100 hand numbered copies on grey marbled vinyl in silk screened covers by Michael Beutler. Mastered by Deeskee. Sold out.

Meienberg – Blurring The Boundary 10″

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The considerable assemblage of musical layers aren’t the only cause for the multifaceted soundscapes and moods you’ll experience during the Blurring The Boundary EP by Meienberg. Sweet-tempered hands can turn to claws of frowning trepidation, warm synths to harsh bass, sociability to shaking uptightness and all the way back before you know it.

Having collected a decent amount of influences throughout at least the last three decades, Meienberg will give you a lot to figure out. Even though we don’t like genres, let’s name dub(-step), idm, various electronics and breaks to say the least. The way all of this gets combined, resulting in discrete and solid buildings, is something of a rarity.

After purchase you’ll get a download link of the 10″ vinyl six-track EP plus the bonus bangers «Asanga’s Dog» and «Out Of My Hands» in wav format. A large poster of the album artwork will be thrown in for free. Have a listen: