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Premiere: Border One Returns to Escapism Berlin With “Restive” EP, Featuring Cassegrain and Phara Remixes

After already contributing a remix to our first release, Border One returns to Escapism with the EP Restive. The up-and-coming Belgian producer and DJ manages to connect hypnotic grooves and dancefloor vibes on two original cuts. Cassegrain and Phara are on remix duty, finessing the originals with their unique take on techno.

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Premiere: Fabio Neural Returns to Intec With Collab EP featuring Konrad and Frankyeffe

Carl Cox is an industry figurehead who’s legacy in music includes his iconic label Intec, which he runs with friend and business partner Jon Rundell, and the new release is from Fabio Neural.

Intec regular Fabio Neural is back on the label with an EP he has made in collaboration with Konrad (Italy) and Frankyeffe who has each collaborated on a separate track.

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Premiere: Luke Slater Invites Rising UK Artists Rene Wise and Billy Turner for Mote-Evolver’s “Parallel Series”

Rising UK artists Rene Wise and Billy Turner each deliver two deep techno cuts for the sixth chapter of Mote-Evolver’s Parallel Series’, curated by label founder Luke Slater.

Inaugurated by Luke Slater (as L.B.Dub Corp) and ASC in 2011, Parallel Series has continued to host split releases from the likes of Shifted, Samuli Kemppi, Bas Mooy, Chris Finke, Developer, Truncate, Sev Dah, Jeff Rushin, and more.

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Premiere and Q&A: Gary Beck Reignites “Harder” Sosak Alias With “Chaos Cloud” EP

Gary Beck reignites his Sosak “harder” techno alias with a brand new EP release, the first since January 2015’s Buy This Wreck release on Overlee Assembly.

Chaos Cloud is a three-track EP from the Scottish producer, DJ and label-head, scheduled for April 8th release on his very own celebrated BEK Audio imprint. As a regular fixture at the world’s top clubs and festivals, Glasgow born producer and DJ Gary Beck has long been established as a primary figure in techno. Known and respected for his unique sound, he has gained support from the best names in the business and released music on some of the genre’s leading labels, institutions such as Drumcode, Cocoon and Saved as well as his very own BEK Audio imprint.

On top of premiering the title track from Sosak’s new EP, 6AM had a quick chat with Gary to discuss the revival of Sosak and what sets it apart from the music we have come to known Gary Beck for.

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CJ Jeff Returns on Yoshitoshi Recordings with Raw and Gritty “Eye Contact” EP Featuring Mathias Kaden Remix

Over the past few years, CJ Jeff has become an integral part of the Yoshitoshi roster, first with his remix of Eddie Amador’s 6AM (we love that track name!) and then with his debut label EP Pitch Black. His music is a raw, unadulterated mix of tech house and techno that you can always count on shaking things up at the party. CJ goes dark and gritty with loads of funk on his new EP Eye Contact.

The title track is nothing short of gargantuan. Its heavy, driving bass riffs and pounding drums are pulled straight from the techno bible, and CJ combines them with distorted vocals and acid square wave riffs that keep it lively over a big bottom end that roars through subwoofers like a monster. To kick things up a notch, we’re very exctied to welcome German house honcho Mathias Kaden to Yoshitoshi with a remix of ‘Eye Contact’ that balances out CJ’s brutal mix with a jacking house groove. Mathias is known for his funky and minimal tracks and his remix is as textbook as it gets, deploying bouncy bass and warm, classic-sounding drums and a breakdown to send the floors into a frenzy.

On the B-side CJ wraps up this great EP with ‘Silver Spoon,’ a slightly deeper but still energetic techno roller sporting a Detroit-style chord stab riff and plenty of percussion. One can’t help to be transformed to another time and dimension with Silver Spoon. We think that place is a dark warehouse.

As 6AM premieres the title track from Eye Contact, we took the chance to catch up with CJ Jeff following our interview and Global Vibe Radio mix with him last year.

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Premiere: Mark Greene Returns to Orange Recordings with “Manipulate” EP

Manipulate EP is Mark Greene’s third outing on Orange Recordings following on from previous releases ”Rain Dance” and “Back Off” which was featured in Carl Cox’s 25 year anniversary mix for BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix.

London-based producer Saytek is on remix duties fresh from releases on Darren Emerson’s Detone and Carl Cox & Christopher Coe’s imprint Awesome Soundwave.

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Premiere: Croatia’s Out of Place Records Delivers 5th EP With Cuts From Insolate, Janice, Michel Lauriola and Neznan

Out of Place records from Croatia, ran by Insolate and Volster, comes out strong with their 5th release.

For the first time on the label, Out of Place welcomes absolute quality original tracks from mysterious Berliner Janice, Venezuelan secret weapon Michel Lauriola, and Croatian wunderkind Neznan, as well as this fantastic contribution from label owner Insolate herself — a high-energy trippin tool techno piece perfect for peak-time dance floor moments

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Premiere: Studio Rauschenberg Blends Retro-Futuristic Soundscapes and Contemporary Electronica With Tempelhof EP

Studio Rauschenberg is the project of Berlin-based producer Johannes Russ.  Equipped with analog synths, guitars, samples and field recordings he blends retro-futuristic soundscapes with instrumental beats and contemporary electronica, telling stories about deserts, moons and distant planets.

Traveling through countless artist studios and workflows as a music technology developer, Russ has garnered an array of influence alongside an arsenal of field recordings along the way.

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GiordanĂž Enlists Remixes From Mike Parker, Kastil and Kalter Ende for “Axis Of Rotation” EP on Concerns Music

The fact that movement is equivalent to existence and energy is a stringent factor to GiordanĂž as well as an essential support to lean on for this new release. Although, the Italian producer limits his inspiration to the disproportionate strength exercised by a core to materialize relentlessly the continuous rotatory displacement of a body. Nothing is more penetrating and robust than the magnitude displayed by the most deeper part of an incessant circular flow.

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Premiere: London Based Irish Producer Niamh Dishes Out Four-Track “Constitution Hill” EP on Kombinat

Kombinat’s third release Constitution Hill comes from London based Irish producer Niamh who marks her first EP with a four-track collection of driving, tripped out sounds.

Nodding to her roots in Dublin’s electronic music scene which paved the way to her discovery of the rowdier side of techno which she currently revels in, this EP celebrates the beginning of her journey in production which initially started near Constitution Hill in Dublin and continues to evolve here in London.

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