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A1 Sub Terra - exordium
A2 Sub Terra - rebellium
B1 Sub Terra - victoriam
B2 Sub Terra - perfidiam

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Prepare to be captivated by the mesmerizing melodies and immersive atmospheres woven throughout "Rebellium." Sub Terra's signature blend of hypnotic rhythms, celestial harmonies, and otherworldly textures invites listeners to embark on a sonic odyssey unlike any other. More

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A1 SlugoS - Dressed In Decay
A2 SlugoS - A Violent God
B1 SlugoS - Restless
B2 SlugoS - Ketamine Dysmorphia More

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A1 Lesser Of - I Absorb You
A2 Lesser Of - Biting My Skin
B1 Lesser Of - Your Voice In My Mouth
B2 Lesser Of - Double Heart More

Tracklisting:
A1 Vera Grace - Surrealism
A2 Vera Grace - Manipulation
B1 Vera Grace - Entropy
B2 Vera Grace - Disruption More

Tracklisting:
A1 Don Woezik - Cursed Development
A2 Don Woezik - Despair
B1 Don Woezik - Unholy Rhythm
B2 Don Woezik - Siren's Kiss More

Tracklisting:
A1 Charlies Sparks & Aahan - Tenjin Shrine
A2 KØZLØV - Element Perturbateur
B1 Caravel - Pray For Forgiveness
B2 Dexphase - Hear Your Little Demon More

Tracklisting:
A1 Morsure - Dementia
A2 Morsure - Rip Them Apart
B1 Morsure - Anomaly Detected
B2 Morsure - USB Ishimura Policy More

Tracklisting:
A1 Tim Williams - Anomie
A2 Tim Williams - Adrift In The Void
B1 Tim Williams - Collapse
B2 Tim Williams - L'appel Du Vide

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After being part of the various artists "Sentence Four", Tim Williams releases his solo EP on the SNTS' label Sacred Court. More

Tracklisting:
A1 SlugoS - Sheol's Covenant
A2 SlugoS - Heretical Subversion
A3 SlugoS - 22.2.22
B1 SlugoS - Bogotá Distrito Capital
B2 SlugoS - Eyes Wide Open
C1 SlugoS - Sapphire
C2 SlugoS - Violence In Motion
D1 SlugoS - Blackout
D2 SlugoS - Craw Out Of The Sewer

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The Spanish artist based in Berlin SlugoS makes his debut with his album "Heretical Subversion" on Sacred Court, the label of the masked artist SNTS. Broken rhythms, aggressive percussion and intense atmospheres describe this full length album. More

Tracklisting:
A1 HATELOVE & Wanton - Permanten Brain Damage
A2 Hybral - Das Urteil
B1 Tim Williams - Son Of Perdition
B2 VII Circle - Everything Or Nothing

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New Various artists series on SNTS sub label Sacred Court with the Fourth Sentence. More

Tracklisting:
A1 Sept - Hyperreal
A2 Sept - Virtue Signaling
B1 Sept - Dies Irae
B2 Sept - Dignity Loss Alert

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Polish artist SEPT releases a 4-track EP on SNTS sub label Sacred Court. More

Tracklisting:
A1 Niki Istrefi - The Way Of All Flash
A2 Niki Istrefi - Road To Ruin
B1 Niki Istrefi - Health Pool
B2 Niki Istrefi - Scythe

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Niki Istrefi debuts on SNTS sub label Sacred Court with a 4-Track EP.

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Tracklisting:
A1 Nico Moreno - Carefree Speech
A2 SEPT - Under The Vault
B1 Noneoftheavobe - Awipie
B2 Lesser Of - Scissor Limbs

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Tracklist:
A1 Tham - Silent Call
A2 Tham - Nothing Lasts Forever
B1 Tham - On The Edge
B2 Tham - Om Namo

Release Note:
After being part of the various artists "Sentence Two", Tham releases his solo EP on the SNTS' label Sacred Court.

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Tracklist:
A1 Bernhard & Session Restore - Common Quest
A2 FL_000 & Session Restore - Spheroid
A3 Session Restore - Untitled
B1 Session Restore - Summer Daze
B2 Bernhard - Relais

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Session Restore teams up with good friends Bernhard and
FL_000 for a colorful, groovy techno EP.

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A1 Öspiel - And Then You Will Burn
A2 Öspiel - Hidden Behind Her Eyes
B1 Öspiel - Cold Lust
B2 Öspiel - Broken Promises

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Ospiel debuts on SNTS' label Sacred Court with a dark and cutting-edge industrial techno EP.

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A1 Achiever ? Death's Chamber
A2 AEIT ? Kill Me
B1 Tham ? Hyaena
B2 WNDRLST ? The Fall Of Kanazawa

Second Various Artists release on SNTS' label Sacred Court.

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As mood changers go, this track is up there with the best. Last year whilst DJing with miche at Shapes festival in the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland, a breathtaking yet ominous Alpine sky suddenly became a picture postcard moment. The clouds parted and a double rainbow formed, as miche dropped Studio Rio's bossa nova remake of Bill Withers’ all-time classic 'Lovely Day'. From there, the dancefloor shifted gears and morphed into full-swing feel-good vibes, in a beautiful, spontaneous moment nobody could have planned for.

Mr Bongo now proudly presents a reissue of this brilliant, bossa-channelling Bill Withers reinterpretation from Studio Rio’s 2014 release ‘The Brazil Connection’. Masterminded by the German, Grammy award-winning Berman Brothers, the project was born out of their deep love of Brazilian music. “Our goal was to bring the Brazilian joie de vivre to iconic performances by well-known artists. What would these classic songs sound like had they been recorded in the studios of Rio de Janeiro in the first place, with the best Brazilian musicians and arrangers?” the brothers reflect.

Capturing the life force of Brazil, the beating heart that is its music, they set out to find the musicians who would fit best with their concept. Landing in Rio in 2013 a series of coincidences led to them being introduced to their idols Marcos Valle and Roberto Menescal, who both agreed to come on board. The Berman Brothers also wanted to find some of the musicians who recorded with one of Brazil’s most influential composers Tom Jobim. “Fifty years after Jobim made the music that really defines bossa nova, we found that many of his sidemen were still active, including Paulo Braga of Jobim’s famed rhythm section. It was magic; everything just fell into place.”

There's no question that the original of ‘Lovely Day’ is up there as one of the most feel-good, spirit-lifting anthems of all time. Here the brothers, with the help of a whole host of Brazil’s finest musicians, rework Bill’s soul-fuelled groove into a bossa nova slice of sunshine. With the blessing of Bill and Sony, they were given access to the original multitracks so they could incorporate Bill’s vocals perfectly into the new arrangement.

Joy-injected horns and bouncing double bass blend with the smile-inducing samba flavour of Pretinho da Serrinha’s cavaquinho playing. Tying it all together Torcuato Marinao who worked with the likes of Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, completes the line-up as arranger of the songs.

The perfect end-of-the-night track, mood lifter or soul warmer, remakes don’t get much better than this. More

On Albacete Knife Al Wootton offers up four hardware tracks of raw percussion and
ambience dubbed out to infinity. Drawing on the Post-Punk elements of his Holy Tongue project and transmuting them for the sound-system deejays, the EP covers low slung steppers, trance inducing percussion trips, psyched out Goa beatdowns and mutoid hardcore reductions. Raw and bristling psychedelic techno dubs for out there heads and feet. More

Tokyo's EXPLORATIONS crew drops a jazzy housed up remix of the classic "BRAZILIAN LOVE AFFAIR". Lush keys, a lovely songstress and natural live- drumming falling right into place on this raw rework. 100 copies of this limited 1-sider. On colored vinyl. More

No messing basement gear on a new Non Stop Rhythm sub-label.
Late night steez that go into the filthy realms. All cuts bump. More

Cut from material recorded in April 2021 at Fish Factory studios in London, the album’s title Abbreviations nods to the editing and post-production processes that trimmed the original recordings into seven succinct and intricate tracks. Making space for collaborators Ernesto Marichales (percussion), Miryam Solomon (vocals) and Valeria Pozzo (Violin, viola), it builds on the critically-acclaimed success of Sound & Reason (supported by Gilles Peterson and Mary Anne Hobbs) to bring out different shades of the group’s shape-shifting sound.

‘Elevator Company’ condenses twenty-minutes of jamming around Tal Janes’ hypnotic guitar line into a low-lit lounge groove that subverts the tropes of elevator music associated with some forms of easy listening jazz. Featuring Solomon’s wordless vocals, the piece blurs the lines between ambient and improvised music, creating a warm and intimate atmosphere reminiscent of classic RnB recordings.

On a different tip, ‘The Spin’ is a trance-like freak-out drawing on the final reserves of energy at the tail end of two days of solid recording. Reflecting guitarist Janes’ idea that "music really starts happening after a while, once you feel like you have nothing left to offer," the hypnotic rhythm section sets the tone for an fraught and frazzled guitar solo that seems to dissolve the very edges of time and space in the process.

An album that speaks to Qwalia’s endless capacity for self-renewal and uninhibited expression, Abbreviations takes its cue from the group’s name to communicate something ineffable about the nature of music, rhythm and sound that must be experienced to be truly understood. More

Side A
Ode to Perfume (London Live 2009)
My Persian Love (Remix)
Photosong (Roundhouse Mix)
Side B
A Perfect World (Remix)
Music To Be Murdered By
Side C
Let’s Get Cool
Fragrance (Remix 2009)
In Space
Side D
Music Is A Miracle

The magic and majesty of Holger Czukay’s late career works for Claremont 56 is being celebrated on a new compilation. The former Can bassist – a musical maverick renowned for his freewheeling approach to composition, recording and promotion – released a string of inspired tracks on Paul Murphy’s label between 2009 and 2012, typically delivering hard-to-pigeonhole workouts, bona-fide epics and radical reinventions of some of his most beloved tracks.

The collection has been a labour of love – fitting given the sonic details and inventive musicality that marked out the late artist’s solo career – for Claremont 56 founder Paul Murphy AKA Mudd, who first reached out to Czukay after witnessing his now legendary live performance at the Roundhouse in 2009. As Murphy details in his introductory liner notes, it led to a productive working relationship between the pair that included collaborative recording sessions with Ben Smith in Czukay’s legendary Innerspace Studio – a former cinema in Cologne in which much of Can’s music was recorded.The impact of that Roundhouse gig on Murphy is reflected in the fact that two of the tracks on the collection are based on that celebrated performance. There’s ‘Ode To Perfume’, a languid and solo-laden version of one of Czukay’s most celebrated solo records that ratchets up the original’s inherent dreaminess, and a jaunty take on quirky kraut-pop number ‘Photosong’ featuring a spoken introduction recorded at the concert in question.

Murphy’s ability to coax Czukay into delving into his archives is evident across the compilation. Opener ‘A Perfect World (Remix)’ is an eccentric, ever-building masterpiece originally recorded in 1984 – but later re-imagined for Claremont 56 – featuring vocalist Sheldon Ancel and former Can band-mates Jaki Leibezeit and Michael Karoli, while ‘Fragrance’ is a subtly re-wired slab of picturesque Balearic kraut-dub which was initially recorded as a coda for ‘Ode To Perfume’ but lay unreleased for decades.

Then there’s ‘Let’s Get Cool’, a bright and breezy, French horn-sporting 2009 take on 1979 avant-disco classic ‘Cool In The Pool’; ‘My Persian Love (Remix)’, a 2010 re-take of one of his earliest solos recordings; and the near 18-minute brilliance of ‘Music Is A Miracle’. Originally recorded for his fans in the 1980s – but only released three decades later – this widescreen epic not only features drums by Jaki Leibezeit and a fine spoken word vocal by Czukay, but also numerous nods to some of his most revered tracks.

It's fitting, too, that two of the most potent cuts feature Czukay’s much-missed wife and musical muse Ursa Major: the dense, trippy and fittingly out-there ambient soundscape ‘In Space’, and the mesmerising ‘Music To be Murdered By’. Partially inspired by hearing painfully out of tune violin practice through his studio windows, the track was originally recorded for an unreleased album but finally found a home on Claremont 56’s 10th anniversary box set ion 2017. A genuinely spaced-out and mind-mangling slab of organic dub in Czukay’s distinctive style, it delivers a fine curtain call to the iconic artist’s endlessly inventive career. More