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Ambient, breaks, deep house and downtempo move through the four sides with the unhurried, open-eared quality that has made Project Indigo one of the more distinctive voices in the current Swiss underground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel mainstays Lb Honne and Boaksi anchor the compilation alongside Flabaire, Iltaa, Boaksi, Tibi Dabo, Sœnne, Hame, Ben Kaczor and Hobie — a diverse but cohesive lineup whose contributions range from sun-warmed deep house and broken rhythms to more introspective ambient and downtempo territory. The sequencing moves with a natural, unhurried logic, each track given room to breathe within the whole. 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Heard on dancefloors from Brooklyn to Portugal to Poland this spring and summer, the title track delivers the super smooth melodic minimal with raw acid basslines that has become the Mountain People's most enduring signature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flip brings two further highlights — Mountain008.3, a classic from 2009 appearing on vinyl for the very first time in remastered form, and Dachkantine06, which rounds out a release that covers the full arc of the project's sound with characteristic confidence. 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Originally released on Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald's legendary Chain Reaction label, it remains one of that imprint's finest and most singular achievements — simultaneously dense, driving and ambient in a way that constitutes most of its enduring appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve tracks that move through the full Chain Reaction vocabulary while sounding like nobody else on the label. Black Angel is a true work of techno artistry, the beat gradually building in intensity as it slowly emerges from weaving rhythms. Red Angel opts for a slight melodic line with rhythmical pauses that keep the structure fresh. Sethos and Moonshot reach into dubwise rhythm and bass of the deepest order, while Wipeout I and Recall descend into subterranean realms of menacing abstraction before Rocket brings back lush soundscapes alongside a raw bassline. 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Raw and gritty, deeply driving yet bouncy, wobbly at times and with no compromises. Artwork by Stefan Marx, as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatthias Schubert's musical realm, like that of his favourite sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, deftly walks the line between oneiric abstraction and all-engulfing narrative arcs — and all four tracks on SMALLVILLE 77 carry that quality. Fog Gathering and Moments Of Bliss open the A-side with the raw, propulsive energy that sets the tone, while Arp Night and Eubaka take the flip in slightly more oblique directions without ever losing the groove. Deep house delivered with personality, conviction and a characterful edge that feels entirely its own. 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Fahrenheit Fair Enough effortlessly straddled IDM and post-rock, southern bounce and British electronica, recorded in Eustis' childhood bedroom in the Riverbend neighbourhood of New Orleans over the course of a year. Now arriving as a 25th anniversary edition on Ghostly International — deluxe double vinyl, new colour, the first pressing in over a decade — it returns to a world far more ready to receive it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title track opens with a melody augmented by frenetic but never overwhelming percussion and subtly processed guitar — laid back, contemplative and instantly beguiling. TTV's soft woodwinds and burbling rhythms fade into the watery strums of Lotus Above Water, while John Thomas On The Inside Is Nothing But Foam sends the listener on a gentle cruise along a starlit highway on dreamy, yearning guitars. 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As Barker puts it: \"you always hit against this problem of an all-encompassing taxonomy and the baggage that comes with it.\" Four tracks that make a compelling case for what happens when you refuse to accept that baggage. 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That reluctance is what makes this album so significant: it is his first LP not released on Something, arriving on Smallville — the label that was home to two of his most celebrated recordings, Neurotransmitting Clouds On The Secret Freeway and Silent State, both of which reappear here alongside seven further compositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album is drenched in field recordings, background textures lending organic and natural context to every spacious interlude. Percussions are sanded to a smooth finish but left without polish — soft to the touch, rugged and matte, refusing to deny their natural origin in favour of synthetic lacquer. Lead track Scuba's Motion Dub grips and pulls the listener deeper into the murky depths the album inhabits over ten unhurried minutes. One Day offers the album's first proper teaser of its tremendous capacity for melody and harmony, muffled yet bright brass samples making their way through the mix halfway through with extraordinary effect. 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Sebastian Genz has always been a regular of the Hamburg imprint, and The Story About You captures him at the moment of full arrival: stripped drumwork underpinning simple melodies that shift and evolve subtly over time, no breakdowns, drops or drama, just the unhurried evocation of feeling that tastes all the richer for its slow gestation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a softness to the tracks that is wonderfully inviting — as suitable on a snowy walk as on a sun-drenched beach. Opener Doobiest beckons the listener to relaxation with the sounds of waves and gulls before the record settles into its own deeply mesmerising rhythm. 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Mind Minus and Sun Rider push the synthesis between atmosphere and dancefloor momentum to its most fully realised form, while the closing sequence — Distant Moons, Sleeping Dragons and Escape Through The Iris — brings the album to a close with the kind of cosmic, unhurried sweep that only comes from a producer operating at the peak of their powers. Slater's most complete and fully realised P.A.S. statement to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ostgut Ton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64644718133625,"sku":"OSTGUTLP14","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0667\/6814\/2623\/files\/PlanetaryAssaultSystems-ArcAngel.jpg?v=1789806489"},{"product_id":"barker-utility-cd","title":"Barker - Utility","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: Ostgut Ton – OSTGUTCD46\u003cbr\u003eFormat: CD, Album, Stereo, Digipak\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Germany\u003cbr\u003eReleased: Sep 6, 2019\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Techno, Experimental, IDM\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor those familiar with Barker's unconventional and uncompromising take on techno, Utility feels something like the main event. Following the sterling Debiasing EP, Sam Barker's debut album on Ostgut Ton doesn't simply step away from the pack — it fosters an Elysian colony on a new world, populating it with wondrously enigmatic music that shuns industrial stereotypes and eludes categorisation entirely. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRhythms shape themselves into auditory Fibonacci spirals and kaleidoscopic fragments, riding not on intrusive kick drums and feigned energy but on naturally propulsive musical arrangement — every pound of energy matched by an equal countermeasure of peace, every ambient passage carrying a patient energy that seems to require just a slight push to ignite. The track titles offer their own clues: Paradise Engineering, Experience Machines, Gradients Of Bliss, Hedonic Treadmill, Models Of Wellbeing — a mirror held to the world of clubbing, painting a hedonistic landscape ruled by machines piping celestial music into cavernous rooms of endlessly replenishing ravers. 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