“Above The Clouds I Finally Found Peace, the latest work from French artist Quelza (Leo Naït Aïssa) on Ostgut Ton, feels like a homecoming.

A testament to introspection and self-awareness. Rather than adhering strictly to a club-focused approach, the EP marks a step forward in freedom of expression, breaking away from a purely club-based format and instead leading into a broader listening territory. It unfolds as a personal musical journal shaped by perception, memory, and emotion.

As its title suggests, the record carries a spiritual undercurrent. It stands as a sincere sonic statement from a young artist, driven by a clear intention: to express vulnerability and honesty through sound.

The EP invites the listener to let go of expectations formed by previous releases, while preserving the emotional intensity and distinctive sonic identity that have come to define this work in recent years."

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In a blizzard of breaks and surrounded by towering slabs of icy atmospherics, Quelza comes spinning into the Dekmantel UFO orbit with an EP of grandiose proportions.

Anyone who caught Quelza at Dekmantel Ten last summer will be well aware of the breakthrough producer's affinity for evocative soundscapes — amongst his keen instinct for dancefloor propulsion its his richly rendered atmospheres that have made him such a vital new talent in the industry and club scene. The curious, extraterrestrial quality to his sound is the perfect fit for the resurgent UFO series, and Quelza has more than risen to the occasion with four tracks that take in the widest spectrum of his sound to date.

The title track 'Pensa Poetico' is a dramatic, 11-minute epic that moves beyond dancefloor rigidity into a fractured zone where rhythms splinter and shudder around immersive dub chords pulses and IDM infused rhythms . There might be the anchor of an insistent, staggered kick drum, but it's a simple tool to allow the freedom of movement for intricate layers of steel, glass, ice and dust before the second half erupts in a powerful display of breakbeat science. It's the most adventurous expression from Quelza to date — a track he credits with unblocking his creative process on the path towards a more honest expression within his production.

This spirit of adventure maintains throughout the EP, balancing cathartic compositional shifts with hyper-detailed scene-building and energy shifts that push and pull with your expectations. Quelza's well-established affinity for dancefloor physicality holds true as he twists and turns through these constantly surprising, nail-biting arrangements. Even when everything seems to fall apart, he'll sense the perfect moment to return to a pinpoint groove. Toying with minimal, modernist 2-step and complex organic percussion as well as choppy breaks, this is the sound of Quelza breaking out into a new phase where anything feels possible and his production vocabulary allows him to land audacious moves with mind-blowing finesse.

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Tracklisting
A1 Quelza - Funny, Not Really
A2 Quelza - Melting Cards
B1 Quelza - Kraken Maldive
B2 Quelza - Origami

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A1 Quelza - The Ballad Of Willy Stompers
A2 Quelza - We'll Never Be Friends Again
B1 Quelza - Plastic Waves

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Origami unfolds on La Danse de l'Albatros to reveal an intricate universe - long-form narrative storytelling in direct opposition to disposable tools.

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Tracklisting:
A1 Quelza - And Suddenly, I Was Reborn
A2 Quelza - La Rive
B1 Quelza - Les Lucioles Jaunes
B2 Quelza - Souviens Toi D'Oublier
C1 Quelza - Gargantua
C2 Quelza - He Didn't Say A Word
D1 Quelza - I Saw His Wings In The Sky
D2 Quelza - Ellipsis

Sales Note
***
It will rain all this night
and we will sleep
transfixed by the dark water
as our blood runs
through our fragile life.
***

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Tracklisting:
A1 Quelza - Amalgame
A2 Quelza - Songe
B1 Quelza - La Mina
B2 Quelza - Sar

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Unapologetically cinematic, intricate, full-on bangers here to melt your brains - Quelza is an absolute monster in the studio and generated four glorious cuts on this piece of wax. This collection of tunes from the Frenchman are primed for your fullest of dance floors - both sides of this EP show a side of techno's sonic future, and in keeping with the ethos of Palinoia this is a proper home for his vinyl debut.

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A1 VSK - Lights are On
A2 VSK - Turbulence
B1 VSK - Light are Off
B2 VSK - This is it
B3 VSK - Thinking about you
C1 VSK - Are y Listening?
C2 VSK - Being Focused
D1 VSK - The Shadow
D2 VSK - Alignment

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***
If you decide,
take us
who stand and smoke and glower;
we are rusty with sadness
and
feverish
with climbing broken ladders
***

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A1 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Fallow Glow
A2 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Eclipse Beat
A3 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Phase Drift
A4 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Ultra Resonance
A5 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Afterlume
A6 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Pulse Relic
B1 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Fiber Rush
B2 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Threshold Drop
B3 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Land of Ecstacy
B4 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Void Dance
B5 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Veil of Sin
B6 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Synapse Break

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A1 Ribé - Son Etapas
A2 Ribé - La Incertidumbre
B1 Ribé - El Pavor
B2 Ribé - Cruel

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***
and now
as we ready to self-destruct
there is very little left to
kill
***

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Tracklisting
A1 Räikkönen - F_t_r__P_s_t
A2 Räikkönen - N_n__S_k_s
A3 Räikkönen - L_C_NN
A4 Räikkönen - RR_Y_
A5 Räikkönen - S_n_v_r_g_ü_n_z_
A6 Räikkönen - B_l_ä_t_t_e_r
B1 Räikkönen - P_r_ü_f_u_n_g
B2 Räikkönen - V_ä_d_e_r
B3 Räikkönen - Z_ü_g_e_
B4 Räikkönen - S_Y_R_A
B5 Räikkönen - (-) 7_7_7__D_e_G_r_e_e_s
B6 Räikkönen - C_nf__s_

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A1 Radial & Bas Mooy - Jacht
A2 Boyd Schidt - SAD VAR
B1 Müzmin - Crocket
B2 Michal Wolski - Flow

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C1 Temudo - Leaving the Old Flesh
C2 Kerrie - Hidden Agenda
D1 Rommek - Vaporized
D2 Viels - Saturnalia

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E1 Roll Dann - Human Furnitures
E2 Endlec - Vomv
F1 Earwax - The Extraordinary
F2 Liza Aiken - Linden

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G1 Shaney & Zadig - Downwards
G2 Operator - Vector Tunnel
H1 Mathys Lenne - The Road is Wider Than Long
H2 Time Traveler - Astaroth 4

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A1 UFO95 - Dystopie
A2 UFO95 - Absence Has Shape
A3 UFO95 - Uncall
B1 UFO95 - Radiation
B2 UFO95 - Resolution 2
C1 UFO95 - Resolution 1
C2 UFO95 - Pulsation 3
D1 UFO95 - Pulsation 2
D2 UFO95 - Meditation 1
E1 UFO95 - Surface 1
E2 UFO95 - Meditation 3
F1 UFO95 - Fight Against Yourself
F2 UFO95 - Paradoxe Du Silence
F3 UFO95 - No More To Say

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***
you are much more than simply dead:
I am a dish for your ashes,
I am a fist for your vanished air.
***

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A1 Lakej - In Contrast
A2 Lakej - Persona Non Grata
A3 Lakej - Powers Of Corruption
A4 Lakej - To The Core
A5 Lakej - Enmity
A6 Lakej - Age Of Violence
B1 Lakej - Velvet Morning
B2 Lakej - Forced Trigger
B3 Lakej - Indoctrination
B4 Lakej - Within Range
B5 Lakej - Ascension
B6 Lakej - Framework

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***
It's been a tough fight worth fighting as we all drive along betting on another day.
***

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A1 Maasym - Fallen Into The Hereafter
A2 Maasym - Distal Pinnae
A3 Maasym - Secunda
A4 Maasym - Swamp Margin
A5 Maasym - Kaocto
A6 Maasym - Dahlien
A7 Maasym - Through Agonistic Behaviour
B1 Maasym - Takahe
B2 Maasym - Ants Burrow Their Way In
B3 Maasym - Lutter
B4 Maasym - Deserteure
B5 Maasym - Peruvian Lily
B6 Maasym - Absorbing Grey Tones

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***
It is all ash
and dry leaves
and grief gone.
We are the hunted.
***

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A1 DisX3 - Binary Structures
A2 DisX3 - Lost Coordinates
B1 DisX3 - Resonance Studies
B2 DisX3 - Oscillating Matter

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***
it was going to be all grey.
at last.
for a while.
***

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A1 Chloe Lula - Myopia
A2 Chloe Lula - Sepiatone
A3 Chloe Lula - Rhythm Zero
B1 Chloe Lula - Ego Sum
B2 Chloe Lula - Ninth Knot
B3 Chloe Lula - Oath

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and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.
***

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A1 Dimi Angelis - X-Ray Eyes
A2 Dimi Angelis - Satellite Walk
B1 Dimi Angelis - Wild Bird
B2 Dimi Angelis - Strobosonic

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The morning kept coming on in and there was nothing we could do.

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A1 SHXCXCHCXSH - QQQQ
A2 SHXCXCHCXSH - QQQE
B1 SHXCXCHCXSH - QQQA
B2 SHXCXCHCXSH - QQQI

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as the shadows assume
shapes
we fight the slow
retreat

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A1 Pyramidal Decode - Fighter
A2 Pyramidal Decode - Inferno
B1 Pyramidal Decode - Dominio
B2 Pyramidal Decode - Trasformazione

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We only asked for leopards
to guard
our thinning dreams.
Run with the hunted.
***

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