MinimalNet

Netlabel: www.microlabel.it
Style: minimal tech, minimal technohouse

Evolving fluctuating rhythms and synthetic sounds model and define the smoothness of the environments which are evoked by the three tracks found in this official debut work by the dj and producer Feder, from Lecce.

Produced between 2003 and 2008, Pears contains a varied range of intentions; minimal techno contaminated by elegant melodies, icy rhythms and crisp sound layers. Pears.

01.pool
02.the bear tower
03.utte

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Netlabel: www.ante-rasa.be
Style: techno, industrial

Arrestar was born and raised up in Brussels. At the age of 15 he got in touch with techno music. About 2 years later he bought his own turntables and started to play some hard techno. Arrestar music began to change later to become more industrial and experimental off beat techno.

01.prayer (black smith craft remix)
02.prayer (charlton rmx)
03.prayer (grovskopa remix)
04.prayer (original mix)

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Netlabel: www.stirsound.com
Style: minimal tech, technohouse

To say No Barca is a brutal track might be a little overboard but this stormer boasts some serious floor-stomping elements for the DJ that likes to shift into overdrive, No Barca is where it’s at. The haunting continues with Cliche, a moody and bottomless head bobber with a hurling synth line and punchy, organic drum sounds. Fantoft strips things way down to skeletal clicks and pops.

Combine that with some choice middle eastern vocal cuts and your left with another rarefied piece of dance music bliss. More middle eastern percussion samples and an unlikely Blade Runner esque jazz horn fuze together on Salazaar to round up a very unique EP for us, and we hope for you as well.

01.cliche
02.fantoft
03.no barca
04.salazar

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Netlabel: www.alt-recordings.com
Style: minimal tech, funky minimal

After just over a year of putting out EPs on Alt, we are very pleased to present the first full length compilation, Android Lubricated Tech-Funk. The collection of tracks represents everything Alt is about, from deep experimental weirdness to peak-time dancefloor business. There are tracks on offer from nearly all the artists we have released since the beginning, and we are very pleased to welcome some new faces. You’ll recognise some of them, and may have never heard of others, but they all share the same twisted vision for where house, techno, electronica (and any other form of music) can go in the future.

Leif kicks things off with the mighty ‘Pushing Hands’, a loosely knitted bongo freakout that keeps the lounge-jazz vibe he is known for, but pushes his handling of percussion to a new level. Tone Def’s remix of Daniel Schneider’s ‘Miesekatze’ track takes a very different route, stripping everything back to it’s barest elements, with a trademark grooving beast of a bassline propelling the beat along. New to Alt, Le Jockey turns the pace up with a delightfully mental track full of pulsating techno rhythm, choppy micro-samples and a healthy dose of humour. Donk Boys take their sound deeper than usual on ‘Avgrundens Harskare’ (which means “lord of the abyss” apparently) for a sinister track rich in detail and melody.

Tone Def’s latest offering is pure four to the floor funk, all nagging hi-hats and quirky ticks riding over a granite bottom end. Tom Ellis returns to the Alt fold with a textbook bumping, grinding house cut full of tricksy rhythms and that unmistakable Trimsound funk. Just when you thought it was safe on the floor, Daniel Schneider throws a hefty curveball in the shape of ‘Ask That Bitch’ that rains down gallons of beautifully choreographed sounds. J-Lab pulls things back with ‘Somewhere’, carrying that trademark melodic moodiness that permeates his tracks before blossoming into an electro-flecked party monster. Closing down the party, Storlon’s penchant for trippy soundscapes goes to the next level on ‘Oenologia’, possessing an immense level of sound design.

part 1
01.leif - pushing hands
02.daniel schneider - miesekatze (tone def remix)
03.le jockey - fun time frankie
04.donk boys - avgrundens hrskare
05.tone def - leanne

part 2
01.tom ellis - organized
02.daniel schneider - ask that bitch
03.j-lab - somewhere
04.storlon - oenologia

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Netlabel: www.aldenterecords.com
Style: minimal tech, electronic

5 tracks played “live” during summer’08, synths are twisted, breaks dancefloor into a musical trip between electro & techno music. Influenced by the minimal scene, Moïse plays a fucking groove with cool strings and melodies.

01.dubmatic
02.introspection
03.kong masta in acid bath
04.look like this
05.the butter files

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