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#1 Versions by Aera

This release from Area features downtempo versions of previously released work. Tracks build flow slowly through bright, reverberating synth landscapes. Features 8 deep techno and IDM “(version)” tracks, plus a 38 minute continuous mixtape. Tracks like “Jack Leather” and “Odessa Step Sequence” are some of the highest-flying, with prominent percussion, while “Prana” is nostalgic.

I’ve been traveling a lot this month, and this continuous mix has been in heavy rotation.

Versions, by Aera on Innervisions.

#2 Anything Exist Anymore. by Irazu

Abstract and minimal industrial techno builds into momentous rhythmic noise; with heavy, driving mechanical techno. “Pneumonia” shudders to life, while “In constant decay” launches a storming barrage of drums, sharpened with distortion. “Unity” is a perfectly rumbling factory landscape.

Anything Exist Anymore., by Irazu on Semantica Records.

#3 BLACK METROPOLIS by Yazzus

Hell yeah. “Metro City Bay Area” is hard as hell Detroit techno, ghettotech vocals, with searing rave leads.

BLACK METROPOLIS, by Yazzus on Tresor Records

Short List

South Pole. by Skjöld

Dark and hard minimal techno. Some really mesmerizing deep space grooves on here. “Radiation Assessment” and “Deep Space” back to bake are a solid 12 minutes in interstellar space. Hypnotic plasma percussion, while the synths slowly swirl and echo in, before dropping into hyperspace halfway through.

South Pole., by Skjöld on Semantica Records

MPU102, by MPU101

Thick, melted, warm ambient synths. Smooth, layered, and uncomplicated moods. “M12 apnea” is a sweeping Philip K. Dick cinematic opening, while “MalfuncJuno” is perfectly hexagon-shaped turquoise nostalgia.

MPU102, by MPU101 on Ilian Tape

The Lion & The Ram by Maedon-X

Excited to see this collab. “Human Replacements” builds on hard-edged industrial loops, deep space signals from Adam-X, and the obligatory dark EBM vocal samples. “When it All Ends” is a buzzy, slow-rolling menace.

The Lion & The Ram, by Maedon & Adam X present Maedon-X on Tresor Records.