From Sweden with Italo to Dresden with love. Stockholm's DJ City drops his first release on Dresden's Uncanny Valley with the COSMICOMICS EP, a 100% fun record for all the senses, deeply inspired by Italo Calvino's iconic short story collection. The stories have inspired DJ City to a record that aesthetically draws from 80s Italo Disco and 70s science fiction films. In the book, each story is based on a scientific fact about the world and the cosmos whilst using fiction to ask how we understand it. Where Calvino's stories are comical and absurd, DJ City surrenders to the sublime and romantic and moves further into the metaphysical world that Calvino created to come up with three energetic and melodic tracks bursting heavily with fantasy and drama. Deeply rooted in dance music's history, they shine with Hi-NRG-vibes, strict dancefloor commitment and little easter eggs like that Drexciya-reference in COSMICOMICS. The cover of the record is a painting from 2020 by Swedish artist Jens Faenge called THE INN. The picture seems to have been broken up into several dimensions, and abstract details make it difficult for the viewer to know exactly what and when the scene is taking place. When shown in Shanghai, the painting was censored by government agents and had to be taken down. A testament to the power of the image. Perhaps it shows our main character, perhaps it shows us the author or the artist. Depending on who listens, who reads and who looks, a multitude of universes open. More

After a stint of regarded releases on Public Possesion DJ City returns to Cocktail demote Music with Giuda Iscariota.The title might evoke images of the eternal betrayal but DJ City seems fully devoted to his crowd. Fueled by the distant memory of his regular sets at Cocktail, City touches on an array of moods and styles keeping his foot on the pedal. Giuda Iscariota emulates the selection choices of DJ City during his many sets at the party with a no nonsense focus on dance floor drivers while Nattens Tysta Timmar slathers on the queer vibe by sounding like a lost Pet Shop Boys deep cut. On the flip Sophies Theme picks up the pace again with acid laden house grooves and Archeoicae’s head down hands up arp driven frenzy. More

Borneo Records welcomes Swedish made, Berlin based DJ City to the family!
As a fairly fresh face to the European dance music scene, involved with renowned musical outlets like Cocktail d’Amore and Born Free, DJ City has been turning heads with his playful and energetic style.
For Borneo’s ninth release DJ City delivers two deep dance floor cuts, referencing and paying hommage to his childhood idols, craftily combining well known building blocks into future classics.
”Sierra Madre” is a warm and deep dive into the aesthetics of the late 90s electronic music scene, balancing between lush pads and low bit rates. Steadily it progresses as the loops unfold and evolve into an ambient landscape of clear peaks and valleys. Dreamy and suggestive without becoming too literal or camp, it invites its listener to let the mind wander during the course of the dance.
On the flip side, “5426261” is a more playful feature as its percussion and somewhat off tune melodies roll out. The texture is light and invites its listener to venture in thought to an imaginary Mediterranean location right before dawn. The enigmatic title is repeated in a sample towards the end, implicating it is a phone number. Who are you trying to reach?
Written & produced by J. Norling, 2016-2018, Örebro/Berlin. Artwork by Nicole Martens. Borneo Records Rotterdam 2020. More

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.
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The old dreg of Born Free still trying to force that melancholic, life-saving, house-hits in to the human body of cold heart investments. Singing in pitched voices, sampling ballroom queens, stealing the most expensive chord.. Oh well.. More

The Moscow duo is back with an other dose of hunted industrial techno punches. From a navy fit republic of love!
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Louis Guilliaume Rotterdam-techno explorer on Born Free with a three tracker. Electronic funk made with his best friend, Akai.
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After 11 years of production and releasing of records, here comes DJ Sling's first solo release. All tracks made in a manic foggy darkness during the first weeks of psychosomatic treatment. Melancholic, life-saving, house-hits!


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Empfänger stay in the sewers like TMNT. Back with four tracks of their crackbrained EBM - DISKO More

ark late night groovers by the Odopt bad boys, straight out the kitchen of Bar Simachev. "Horrungruang" is simply a killer track.

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Powder following up her doubt release with more of that far out and far eastern electronics! More

Stellar debut from 22 year old Stockholm loner Assar Jansson with the mesmerizing house track "Pant". Remix duties are handled by Samo DJ and Elias Landberg (Skudge) who together form the group called Four Legs. More

Sexazoid, a name that we?ve seen in writing on the streets of Stockholm now finds its way to the world of music, with synthetic sounds from a metal chamber dripping with pheromones. Fine acidic house sleaze!

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Special Occasion are David C. Gray and Enchante. Together they make music for the early lonely mornings between the sheets. On the b-side you find the tear drenched versions of MaxxxBass of KWC 92. More

From a dark and depressing country in the northern hemisphere called Sweden, comes this duo consists of towLie & Sling. Here with another slab of demented mongo EBM. Creepy Asylum music! More

Debut single for this hi-tech low-life straight from the slums of Hong Kong. The music of Scott Young is much like the city itself, intense and claustrophobic on one hand, dreamy and cinematic on the other. These tracks were made in what he calls the "spaceshuttle" energized by late night noodles under the shimmering neon signs. More

Demented house/techno on a-side, and EBM-style techno banger on B-side by Yourhighness (Maracas Rec). VERY GOOD More

Uptempo Sci-Fi techno from Mighty Thor (Drumcode / Hundarna fran soder) & droning remix from Florian Kupfer ( L.I.E.S.) on the flipside.

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