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COMPILATION "X Color"
The ongoing celebration of Kontra-Musik’s 10 years’ anniversary is basically a recognition of the importance of charisma within the predominantly mechanical sphere of electronic music. To quote label boss Ulf Eriksson in a recent Groove interview: “To release on Kontra you need to have developed a unique and personal sound. If you are one of the machines out there producing electronic music for the dead, look elsewhere.” For us, the Kontra-Musik X release was an emblem of our label’s history, filled with unique and personal sounds.But in one instance one may rightfully claim Kontra-Musik’s conventionality: our record sleeves are generally black & white. On X Color, however, we decided to make our murky label a bit more colorful by letting a handful of our favorite artists present their own takes of classic Kontra tracks. As a figure of speech, these artists repaint the tracks with their own colors. Sebastian Mullaert and Porn Sword Tobacco, for instance, work with very warm and vib..
EMPATHY FAMILY "Sleep Transmission"
The Atlantic Ocean’s winds taint the metallic cities it must afront, and remains a sound, the natural worlds drowsy way of meeting a humanity it doesn't recognize, here is what is left of that dialogue between the aquatic world and what we have made of our humanity. Providence based duo Empathy Family returns yet again with another drone-ambient project, Sleep Transmission, a thoroughly woven blanket of tape loops and electronic ambient soundscapes. Its clearly demarcated transitions prevent the project from losing the listener or the listener from losing the project for that matter. The underlying continuum that is the “sleep transmission” is not here to be forgotten, its drone nature provides comprehensibility while its imaginative structure prescribes an urgency that is so often missing from what is subject of the drone-ambient genre. written, performed and recorded by Drew Collins & Jack Williams, mastered by Collin Gorman Weiland. Screen printed sleeves, hand-marked, lim..
RIVERDOG "Lifted Compass"
In a forest where all the trees wilt inwards and the rain is made of rock, those attempting to pass by find a tone to follow. A loud whisper navigating around the demented bundles of branches, though this is not a whisper that is always without a fray… Sometimes you can hear its paws in the mud. Sometimes you can hear the breaking of the branches crackle, like they didn’t have blood, no sap, no green plant blood, just veines looking for something to be let through while the wood lays in its teeth. And it’s during then, during the splinter, during the reception of a new thing to breath, that the pass-bys find the tone. Like a needle in a haystack, or even a clover in the arctic, some hear this lifted compass, a continuous whisper that has no north, no south, no hospital, no police station, no ramp, no stars, but a constantly evolving arrow that points to the same direction but never the same place. Listen. Over there, I hear something bark, I hear a beast whisper in pain, I hear a..
TM404 "Endor Trico"
You know that warm feeling of anticipation, standing on a platform waiting for the train to bring a loved one home to you? That’s what a new Tilliander record is like for Kontra-Musik. After releasing the monumental Chill Out album under Andreas’ Mokira moniker, we took a rather different approach this time, opting for the White Label. Even though the title ’Endor’ has nothing to do with the Ewok-inhabited Forest Moon in the Star Wars saga, it’s still a decisively green and verdant track, filled with all the sounds of a dense forest. ’Trico’ is the quiet lake deep within this forest; a serene spot inhabited with dragonflies, great white pelicans and slinky salamanders that curiously look a bit like Richie Hawtin during his Moby era. We simply love this place and hope that you will too. -Kontra-Musik ..
HARMONIOUS THELONIOUS "Background Noise"
After releasing a brilliant and stomping three-tracker on Kontra-Musik White Label last year, ex-Durian Brother Harmonious Thelonious returns to the Kontra-Musik family with an absolute gem of a record. This is everything we want dance music to be: characterful, playful and impossibly funky. Harmonious Thelonious is a master of crafting organic sounding rhythms but arranging them in a manner that reminds one of a 1970’s car factory. Primal pulses running through modern assembly lines, gears and pistons covered in green lianas. The result is a perfect symbiosis between living tissue and mechanical parts – dance music for primitive cyborgs. -Kontra-Musik..
OSYNLIGE MANN "Airports / Exodus"
Well renowned bass player extraordinaire, Osynlige Mann (URAN GBG, The Exorcist) from Gothenburg releases long awaited new solo material On Höga Nord Rekords. This 7” contains high voltage material; “Airports” and “Exodus” brings tense seventies synth and early eighties electro to the table. The A-side “Airports” is a Kraftwerk inspired elegy over the lumpenproletariat of the machines – aeroplanes. ”No sleep for the big machines, no rest for the sad machines”. The B-side, “Exodus” carries more obvious characteristics from Osynlige Manns other projects and sounds like a more electronic version of URAN GBG! Man and machine can live in peace. But a machines never forgets… -HN ..
FRAK "Berga Magic EP"
===BACK IN STOCK=== 140g 12" black vinyl, mastered & cut at Optimum Mastering UK. Sleeved in white reverse board 12" cover. Scizzo Porpurri meriummum. 2 sides of FRAK and starts with soft psychic bipolar techno and ends harder psychotic tripolar techno. ..
COMPILATION " X "
Kontra-Music Dance Classics & REmixes…-To celebrate Kontra-Musik Records hitting the ten-year mark, founder and label owner Ulf Eriksson has put together a collection of some of our finest releases. This has been a daunting task, for we are happy to announce that we could easily have made several very different compilations that we would have been equally contented with – there are so many superb tracks we had to leave out. This has, however, been a labour of love. Much like the label itself.Eclecticism has always been a lodestar for Ulf Eriksson, as we hope this collection gives testimony to. The label has always been moving freely between techno, house and more experimental sounds. Kontra-Musik intends to show different angels of perspective, not to convert you to a new Religion or Ideology. Being open to a broad variety of sounds and rhythms – judging them not solely by their functionality but rather by their personality – has been the Kontra-Musik way from day one. While it has..
DJ SLING "The Old Dreg"
WE say experimental Electronic dance…The old dreg of Born Free singing in pitched voices, sampling ballroom queens, stealing the most expensive chord. This EP has it all! -BF ..
CORAL D "Everything Going To Be Alright"
"Listen to me! Everything is going to be alright. Let the beat control your body!" Desperate times calls for desperate music and this thumping number from Coral D is sure to get you through to the other side. With rave samples and 90s references we're taken back to the future and never want to leave again! On the flipside a remix by Samo DJ and Skugge of Hidden Operator in case you didn't get enough on the a1! -BF..
DANIEL SAVIO "Born Free 36"
Mr. Savio is a Stockholm underground legend and a good friend of Born Free since the early days. On BF36 he's serving up three house jams paying homage to Lovisa, Valle, Hjalle and Manfred, his immediate family. The vibe is soulful, deep and simple, just like a warm heart pumping at 120 bpm -BF ..
O´girl "Street Roller EP"
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This is a special release... Sometimes you just feel right about it... O'girl is Ellinor Jackson P, hailing from Karlskrona - Sweden. Her experiments with freeware on different devices turned up to be a real good Lo-Fi production... And yes! The original tracks has this feeling of a bad mp3 copy, so the Lo-Fi sound you hear at the snippets is aswell on the vinyl too... If you're looking for a high end house 12" dont buy this. If you're looking for something special then you might have a listen to this. A side is the two original tracks and on the B side there is two remixes / edits by VILLA ABO. ==A VERY LIMITED PRESS== ..
DA BOOK "Vixxen"
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RELEASE DATE: 1/1-2019 A real Techno / House / Electrosynth Stomper!! "Patrik Book has being in our knowledge since we were kids and listening to his early project AUSGANG VERBOTEN "Entertainment", a real underground synth tape released back in 84 and later re-released as LP by Genetic Music 2004." Enough said, 100% POWER! This wont slip!..
LILLE ROGER
"Undead 1984-1987"
Cold Meat Industry
cmi-01
cmi-01
(Div.electronics)
(6xLP BOX)
20181,100.00 SEK
LILLE ROGER "Undead 1984-1987"
6 LP´s Limited edition of 500 copies. Housed in a box with photos printed on the inside, two A4 inserts with texts by Kristian Olsson and Lars Larsson, 4 LP jackets and an A3 poster. Tracks A1 to A5 were originally released on the Despise / A Celebration split LP with Verboten. Recorded February 1985. Restored February 2018.Tracks B1 and B2 were originally released on the Undead 7". Recorded 1987.Tracks B3 and B5 were originally released on the Döda Talar Inte compilation cassette. Recorded 1987.Tracks B4 and B6 are previously unreleased. Recorded 1987.Tracks C1 to E5 were originally released as the For Life cassette. Recorded March-August 1985.Track F1 was originally released on the Myths Of The Near Future compilation cassette.Track F2 was originally released on the Modern Pop Music According To De Selby compilation cassette.Tracks F3 to F5 are previously unreleased.Tracks G1 to H5 were originally released as the Älskar Dig cassette. Recorded May 85-July 86.Tracks I1 to L5 were previ..
1,100.00 SEK
ANNANAN "You"
With a string of resonating releases and progressively improvised live-shows, ANNANAN have been expanding and refining their stylistic range across gritty Acid psychedelia, explosive, dark-waving Electro and a raw blend of Techno and House that is as fierce as it is fragile. The duo’s first album on their own imprint MACHINE JAZZ does take all of this into account - and yet it’s crucially different to everything else they’ve put out so far. „You“ is a captivating electronic pop adventure, an experimental amalgam aligning Anne Ghost’s polymorphic lead vocals with Tom Aaron’s vast and versatile analogue productions in unexpected ways. Dominated by reduced rhythms and a carefully crafted melodic shape, the result of this dialogic fusion are irresistible, forceful songs that draw from diverse contemporary and traditional sources: you’ll even hear Trap fragments, an R&B trained voice, reminiscences of the Knife as well as cinematic synth excursions. While exhibiting a broad set of moods..
WOLVES BAY "There & Back EP"
Nothing is static. Music moves you places. And sometimes your machines follow you wherever you go. That's exactly what happened some moons ago during a nature retreat in Icelandic landscapes. The man. The machines. Water. Lots of water. Trees. Endless trees. And the horizon. Out of early mornings & contemplation come 3 tracks of sheer beauty ready to reunite with urban dancefloors. -Wrong Hands..
FRAK "Project Digitalis"
FRAK are back on track with this dreamy album with deep dark hypnotic slow rhythmic tracks. This is experimental analog and haunting dancemusic at slow BPMs which gives you a glimpse of swedish smalltown dystopia in all its glory. The A1 track might give the impression that this is a romantic record and the A side in general will make big city people feel the urge to move to small towns again, but on the B-side it just gets darker and weirder (the smalltown kinda reveals its ugly underbelly) and it all ends with a track that would make the taped nipples fake fetishists in techno city shiver. I could say you need a mask to play this out, but lets not take it that far. For old fans of FRAK this record both delivers (A-side) and challenges (B-side). Me, I want doubles. -Joakim Cosmo..
MAVA & NEBUKAT "Polymer EP"
Tallinn duo MAVA & NEBUKAT deliver four tranquil cuts on Estonia’s LIITHELI, featuring remixes by Leleka founder VAKULA and 1212a alongside label boss ALI ASKER. Mava and Nebukat have been an important part of the Estonian underground scene for some time, promoting parties and DJing in and around the capital. Their grafting has seen them join up with Green Village producer Ali Asker, who launched LIITHELI in 2016 to focus on local talent with early offerings from himself and fellow Estonian N1MA. First up, ‘Polymer’ immediately grips us with rising tension - progressive synth-lines and fluttering percussion becomes the main focus here. ‘Ambient Track’ provides synthetic luscious melodies harmonising delightfully with the broken-beat drums. 1212a and Ali Asker’s remix of ‘Polymer’ offers a captivating dubbed-out theme throughout, balancing delicate minimalism, with breezy atmospheres. Ukrainian producer Vakula presents a heavenly six-minute healer through precise, fluid pulsations a..
WHITE AFGHANI "Kaleidoscope EP"
Next on Noorden is WHITE AFGHANI with his debut release »Kaleidoscope EP«. The up-and-coming producer from Cologne drops a dancefloor focussed five tracker between leftfield flavoured breakbeat and ambient leaning big room techno. Munich based ZENKER BROTHERS transformed the EP’s ambient track »Rain and Bliss« into a resonating peak-time-killer with catchy basslines and groovy chords. Top-notch! -Wrong Hands..
HNS-X "HNS-X Volume 4"
HNS-X made a new record after a while: „The music was new, black polished chrome and came over the summer like liquid night.“ HNS-X drops another cup of fluent Acid (any Tin Man fans around? tune in!) and bangin' Techno on the flip! -Wrong Hands..
JAMES KUMO "Drifter"
Label-head JAMES KUMO brings three original cuts to his KMusic imprint with Plan B co-founder DJ SPIDER on remix duties. Title track ‘Drifter’ kicks things off as celestial pads swell alongside rumbling sub bass and ethereal arpeggios before off-kilter synths and rugged industrial drums are presented by New York’s DJ Spider who steps up to deliver a darker and more dramatic aesthetic with his interpretation. Next, ‘Evolution’ sees Kumo utilise stereo delayed chord stabs as underpinning pads create an ethereal feel. Rounding off the package, ‘Spectro Jazz’ sees a brooding top line resonating alongside jazz-infused atmospherics and subtle background effects to create a raw, refined and hypnotic finish to the release. -Wrong Hands..
RADIOWORKERS / SEIXLACK
"Dixava"
777 Recordings
777-16
777-16
(12" Mini Album)
(Techno)
(Electropunk)
2018130.00 SEK
RADIOWORKERS / SEIXLACK "Dixava"
Showcasing Brazil with a split EP by new members Radioworkers (Benjamin Sallum, Pedro Zopelar & Henrique Martinelli) and 777 regular Seixlack (aka Innsyter)! ..
130.00 SEK
CLOCKED DEVICES, STRANGE FM "Biorhythm EP"
First release from new label ANALOG CONCEPT from St. Petersburg, Russia! This EP contains four classic deep electro jams by new local talents CLOCKED DEVICES & STRANGE FM. -Wrong Hands..
120.00 SEK
BERNADETTE TRAX "Bernadette Trax 01"
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"This is the first of many BERNADETTE TRAX vinyl only releases to come. Named after my mother who got me started in all this, Bernadette Trax is my personal label, a vehicle for my music and a labour of love, specifically my love for deep underground house music of all kinds. The culmination of 30 years of influences, clubbing and too many late nights, this EP features my wonderfully talented friend and vocalist Anna Krestense Gantelius Glahn. Hope you like it and play it." -Michael Lovatt (Label owner & Producer)..
XΛN / HONEÄLOME
"Any Body Can Dance"
Any Body Can Dance
abcd001
abcd001
(12" EP)
(House)
(Div.electronics)
2018120.00 SEK
XΛN / HONEÄLOME "Any Body Can Dance"
Russia's underground party and podcast series ABCD (Any Body Can Dance) have decided to launch their own label and geo-referencing has become a major aspect in the choice of artists for the first release. Xan and Honeälome are from one provincial town of Votkinsk, which character left a solid imprint on the work of both musicians. Experimental yet atmospheric house grooves with electronica influences and leftfield breaks for your listening pleasure! -Wrong Hands..
120.00 SEK
COMPILATION "Thugs"
12" repress edition, comes in simple black cover. House & Techno cake of four... delicious bites!*LEAVES*PABLO MATEO *BRIGHTON *POTENSIA..
COMPILATION "C'est La Vii"
12" repress edition, comes in simple black cover. Great various compilation - wide range of different dancemusic.Brighton, Leaves, Roger 23, Glyn, Futers, Qnete, Rixdorfer Grau...
COMPILATION "Brutal B Sampler"
The premiere release on the new Helsingborg label BRUTAL B. This sampler is showing what to expect from the label in future…Raw unpollished Jacki´n Techno / acid etc.....
STOP MODERNISTS Feat. CHRIS LOWE "Subculture"
Synth House - Deep House in a very special way. Released on SÄHKÖS sublable Keys Of Life...2011..
110.00 SEK
RONNY NYHEIM "Multisensory Integration"
Deep siren & straight to the groove Techno by Ronny Nyheim on new Norwegian outlet PsyPal. Full A-side with a minimally modulating solid driver emphasizing sonic tunnelling below razor sharp hihats. B1 is a faster pounding & psycho-tweeked remix by E-GZR (from Wania fame) and B2 rounds off as a saturated banger conflicting melody & lightly groving harmonic & padded noise. Stylistically functional & very real! -Fett D...
E-GZR "Metalurgic Funk Vol. 2"
Metalurgic Funk Vol. 2 takes a short leap from Vol. 1, with all 4 cuts based around solid tonks of straight forward techno. Cutting 909-hat's, tunnel-visioning and simple but detailed slings of futuristic synths thread the whole record together. Pretention is left aside for upfrontness and most advanced interpretation of these looped bangers are left to happen in the listeners head while segueing into the core of techno. -Fett D...
110.00 SEK