Tracklisting
A1 Reeko - Tomorrow Doesn't Exist
A2 Reeko - BlackOwl On My Shoulder
B1 Reeko - Rooted
B2 Reeko - Above The Ground

Sales Note
We're excited to welcome Reeko back to Samurai Music tofollow up his perfect debut EP for us 'Confront The Serpent'.The new EP is a deeper collection of tunes, with its narrativebased on the gift of living in the moment.

"The future doesn't exist, there is only the present, from thereeveryone co-creates their reality which becomes what we call "future" but the possibilities in the present moment are infinite." Reeko More

Delsin welcomes Spanish techno icon Reeko to their Cameron series. Pushing his impressive take on techno for the past 20 years he keeps re-inventing himself, with a recent move on Berlin's Samurai Music presenting a full drum & bass EP as perfect example of this. And also here for Delsin, it's a fresh approach exploring new sides of techno. It's broken and wiggly with dreamy riffs tying it all together. Uplifting mountain valley techno combined with stepping off-beat kick drum jams. It's a flawless pack where Reeko shows he's capable of creating playful heads down techno of any kind. More

Track list:
A1 Reeko - Confront The Serpent
A2 Reeko - Smile At Reptile
B1 Reeko - Seek Alignment
B2 Reeko - Samsara

Release Info:
The stars aligned to bring another of our all-time favourite producers, and indeed one of the most important musical figures from the Techno sphere to the 170/85 BPM tempo when Reeko sent us a demo late last year. All four tracks perfectly create a fully formed and distinctive stylistic adaptation and were signed instantly. If we imagined what Reeko would sound like at this tempo, we couldn't have envisioned a better reality.

These four tracks make up 'Confront The Serpent' - an ode to the machinations of an Ayahuasca ceremony and its resulting journey of discovery. The Serpent symbolises our shadows and the importance of facing them.

A hazy psychedelic aura floats across these tracks, binding them together, while the kicks possess the perfect frequencies you would expect from such a renowned kick-drum scientist. Percussive and ambient elements for each track create flawless contrasts and shade, while Reeko's subtle low-end work proves the deadly ingredient to send the tracks into a delicious level of hypnotism. 'Smile At Reptile' is especially notable for its deftly reworked, cascading breakbeat and inventive kick/break combo.

A potent new force has arrived at this tempo and we are honoured to be the label that presents the first fruits of this new perspective to the world. More

2022 repress

printed outer sleeve / turquoise inner sleeve / clear vinyl

Tracklisting:
A1 Reeko - Reach A Climax
B1 Reeko - Weak Spots
B2 Reeko - Cleverest Demo

Release Info:
Next guest on the Ownlife platform is a well known name, in between deejays, selectors and electronic music passionates. Reeko has been a totem in the techno scene, shaping the sound of the genre during the past two decades and releasing some of the most consistent records in this category.

The prolific Spanish artist shows this time, a breathtaking palette of sounds, taking his own direction once more. Melting his signature sound with an experimental approach, putting together powerful basslines with extremely sharpened tones. "Crystal clear" is a piece made to enjoy the abstract side of Reeko's expertly produced compositions with the ethereal taste of the intelligent dance music, ambient deepness and stepping low frequencies. More

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Reeko comes home again with his brand new EP, one step more in his tremendous discography and again a
statement of modernism, soul and anger, all in one. Four different flavoured cuts of meticulously crafted club tracks, dense, obscure, liquid, sometimes harsh and incredibly sounding.

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Peder Mannerfelt is known as ‘The Subliminal Kid’ and as part of ‘Roll The Dice’ alongside his own releases on Digitalis, We Can Elude Control and Stockholm LTD. Here we find him collaborating with Simon Haydo (also well established on DEM) for their first Avian appearance with five intense, unnerving and varied tracks… Mastered By Matt Colton at Alchemy, London
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