Tracklisting
A1 Chloe Lula - Morphology
A2 Chloe Lula - Observer
A3 Chloe Lula - Close Range
B1 Chloe Lula - Dislocations
B2 Chloe Lula - Cyrenaic Paradox
B3 Chloe Lula - Hidden Reverse

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Chloe Lula Announces Syntax: A Singular Vision Connecting Ambient Meditations and Hypnotic Techno San Francisco-born, Berlin-based artist Chloe Lula announces the launch of Syntax, a record label that codifies her unique position within the electronic music landscape. Arriving as the definitive home for her work as a DJ, producer and cellist, Syntax follows her established residency at Tresor and acclaimed releases on foundational labels including Mord, Blueprint and the highly esteemed experimental imprint Subtext. Her label is the culmination of a decade spent as both a participant in and a defining voice in the scene—a space where Lula’s deep and cohesive vision of electronic music finally converge. The label’s name refers to the arrangement of elements to forge new meaning, a philosophy Lula applies to her singular musical grammar. Whether through her slow-burning, exacting techno or her instrumental compositions, Lula’s work is characterized by a patience that understands nuance and counterpoint. This vision is reflected in the label's structure: releases will arrive in thematic series that bypass traditional genre markers to focus on atmosphere, immersion and hypnotica. The imprint’s debut, SYN-PLS01, marks the beginning of the Pulse series, a collection specifically engineered for the floor. For this inaugural release, Lula took recordings from Swiss electroacoustic composer Alexandra Bellon as a jumping-off point, molding Bellon's architectural sense of space into six tracks of driving techno. Future series will expand the catalog into ambient and instrumental territories, reconciling formal acoustic tradition with the raw functionality of the electronic landscape. With a career spanning editorial leadership at Resident Advisor and her work shaping the dialogue of the culture through her writing and interviews, Lula brings a deep, analytical knowledge to her craft. Syntax is the connective tissue between her work in the booth and her critical contributions to the field—a project that formalizes her distinct perspective as both a curator and a creator. SYN-PLS01 arrives on May 8. Follow @syntax.records for updates.

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Following on from September's "Sonic Underworld EP" by Shlomi Aber & Kashpitzky, James Ruskin's label delivers another first as Chloe Lula presents her Blueprint Records debut with the "Torpor EP".Her debut on Blueprint, "Torpor" is a reflection of her stylistic evolution, bringing the sounds of ambience and synths into a clean, contemporary techno framework.

Chloe is a resident DJ at Tresor. She's played at Berghain, Boiler Room, Khidi, Movement weekend in Detroit, and countless clubs, festivals and parties across Asia, Europe, and North and South America alongside artists like Kanding Ray, Helena Hauff and Lewis Fautzi, becoming known for atmospheric, acidic sets that dig deep into the niche recesses of techno. In addition to her career as a DJ and producer, Lula is a cellist-her debut instrumental full-length will be out on James Ginzburg's Subtext label in November 2024-and the senior producer of Resident Advisor, where she hosts and curates panels and interviews as a broadcast journalist at festivals like Nuits Sonores, Dekmantel, Unsound, Rewire and more.

Her debut on Blueprint, "Torpor" is a reflection of her stylistic evolution, bringing the sounds of ambience and synths into a clean, contemporary techno framework. A lifelong reader, each track-and the EP's name itself-pays homage to a book or piece of writing that has been influential in her development as a writer and an artist.



Tracklist
A1. Chloe Lula - Pattern Recognition
A2. Chloe Lula - Recoil

B1. Chloe Lula - Smiling In Slow Motion
B2. Chloe Lula - Magnesium


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A1 NWHR - El Precio Del Tiempo
A2 NWHR - Almas En Cautiverio
B1 NWHR - Una Vida Equivoca
B2 NWHR - Holograma En Tus Ojos
C1 NWHR - Botella Rota
C2 NWHR - Mentes Corrompidas
D1 NWHR - Perdura En Tu Memoria
D2 NWHR - 2028

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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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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 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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For our fourth release, we welcome Basel-based producer Ben Kaczor. ‘To Baby Bones’ showcases the tracks produced as part of Ben’s first live set presented at Above Below Festival in 2024.

Written as a homage to a loved one, the title track of the EP is a gentle soundscape traveling through memories and subtle body shivers, far away yet never out of heart’s reach. ‘Bridge’, as if hung high above, suffuses the air with a thick emotional haze, lifting slowly as a walk along a fragile structure ends. Wistfully transforming present into past, ‘This Blue Light’ melds with the orange glow of the sun and dissolves into a white cloud. Driving and fizzy ‘Punchbag’ brings all the dreamers down to earth. Immersing them straight into the buzzing front left, it buoyantly concludes an ode to the melody of life and the joy of a loving heart — To Baby Bones.

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Wild by nature, the Does of the Florian Pellissier Quintet could never be contained in a creative pen that would have forced them never to cross potential geographical limits. Travelers, spending their energy without restraint to let the hard bop of their jazz wander and export itself wherever the groove guided them, they went as far as Africa or South America, from the Cape of Good Hope to Rio. Rio, precisely where, for their last appearance, exposure to a brief electric current had carried them into outer space. A revelation.
Furious strides, exhausting gambols, the Does had done so much that they could not escape the obvious call of calm and serenity. Freed from distances, and after a stop in Colombia to mingle with the crowd at the Barranquilla carnival, it was California and its Pacific coast they reached, to rest before the peaceful immensity of the ocean.
One hundred sixty-five million square kilometers, an infinite expanse to contemplate in order to fling wide open the gates to an even vaster space. A spiritual domain conducive to the search for new sounds. That of the open sea, where measuring miles is neither relevant nor meaningful, and where the only compass becomes the musical tracks the Does follow.
Beneath their coppery hooves, to the crystalline sound of the Fender Rhodes and the sweep of electric layers, the path to take revealed itself in this meditative and abstract realm they had never before explored. Invited to join the purely organic textures, the synthetic notes distilled a few aromas of sweetness into an album of ten tracks, where the FPQ abandoned written scores on some pieces in order to be guided only by the inspiration born of a newfound freedom.
Blue when they began their journey five albums ago, their coat has now taken on the colors that illuminate the Pacific coast. That moment when, as you gaze at the horizon swallowing the sun, only glowing shades filter through—reddish, orange, violet.
Departing without haste or frenzy from one of the shores bordering the ocean, the voices of Archie Shepp, Iggy Pop, and DjeuhDjoah still resonating in their antlers, the Does may now be on the opposite shore. Carried all the way to the Japanese coast by Hokusai’s wave…

TRACKLIST:
A1. The Weed
A2. Carnaval de Barranquilla
A3. Archie et John ft. Archie Shepp
A4. The Movie Critic
A5. La Naissance de la Comédie
B1. Wonderful World Leaders
B2. Pacifiques Biches
B3. Only Fan ft. Iggy Pop
B4. Où C’est Qui sait ft. DjeuhDjoah

Bonus Track (Only on CD)
10. Jazz Myst (Pacifiques Biches Original Sketches)


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Following our acclaimed Chez Damier release, Skylax proudly welcomes back the brilliant Byron The Aquarius. A true craftsman from Alabama, Byron blends the spirit of Detroit's deep house with live jazz energy, echoing legends like Theo Parrish and Moodymann. This new EP, Afrofuturism, is a statement of intent: four deeply musical tracks rooted in soulful rhythm and cosmic funk. From the spiritual groove of the title track to the introspective dub of Sunday’s Ain’t The Same, this is Byron in top form — keys blazing, grooves flowing. With past releases on Sound Signature, Axis, Eglo, Apron, and Shall Not Fade, Byron’s music continues to light up the underground from Detroit to Berlin. Artwork by H5 – the legendary studio behind visuals for Daft Punk, Air, and Vitalic. Whether you’re a house head or jazz lover, Afrofuturism is a timeless piece for real dancers and dreamers. Strictly for the heads. Vinyl only. No repress. Skylax Records.

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A1 Oscar Mulero - The body
A2 Oscar Mulero - Like a black rainbow
B1 Oscar Mulero - Golden dome
B2 Oscar Mulero - Sacred place

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Luke Hess invites four artists to reimagine his latest ARKEO album on DeepLabs, each bringing their own unique perspective to the label’s sound.

Handpicked for their shared friendship, history, and the lasting impact of their music in his DJ sets, every contributor delivers a remix that resonates with authenticity and depth.

Together, these tracks form a cohesive body of work that captures the essence of DeepLabs and the timeless spirit of Detroit techno.

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- 2026 repress -

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A1 Luigi Tozzi - Sentient
A2 Luigi Tozzi - Amphibia
B1 Luigi Tozzi - Uterus
B2 Luigi Tozzi - Reptilian

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Released under the January full moon, 2025.

Early support from Abstract Division, Albert van Abbe, Brando Lupi, Iori, Lewis Fautzi, Samuli Kemppi, Svreca, Takaaki Itoh, Tommy Four Seven, Atomic Moog, Blazej Malinowski, Cassegrain, D-Leria, Forest on Stasys, Joachim Spieth, Ness and Yuka.

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A1 Ivano Tetelepta & Roger Gerressen & Ben Buitendijk - Dilated Pupils
A2 Bas Amro - Languor
B1 Cyspe - Reminisce

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Oblique returns with a highly personal project: 3 tracks from (or with) friends who all helped create/inspire/influence the sound of the label.

Ivano Tetelepta, Roger Gerressen and Ben Buitendijk already had loads of jam sessions when suddenly "Dilated Pupils" happened. It launched a project that consists of spontaneous studio jams in various formats (involving a dozen of befriended artists on multiple EP's, remixes and even an label). Six years later the original track, after which the project was named, will finally see the light of day!

Bas Amro's "Languor" shows that he, besides having an ear for reimagining classics, can also do his own ;)

Cyspe's "Reminisce" more than deserves the full B-side to close the EP off. A stunning 14 minute trip through the depths of what this incredibly talented producer has to offer!

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