She Lies are a disco post-punk band from Berlin. They used to live together in an appartment sharing their musical ideas and Inspiration before starting to record their no wave inspired songs. Anni one of the two charismatic girls is on vocals and guitar, while ele, her childhood friend, is on Synths and Samplers together with Michel and Daniel who are also part of the band Rework. Their rythms are deeply maniac, proceeding into synth driven krautwave monsters, adjusted with catchy girl vocals and guitar noise. She Lies first release "Needed you" comes out with an amazing remix of Needed You on the B Side by Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J Fairplay under THE ASPHODELLS, they turned the original into an uptempo and hypnotic track. More

With the BODY EP SCOTT FRASER signs his third collaboration for ASTRO LAB RECORDINGS, after the highly acclaimed "JOHN HUGUE EXPERIENCE" with MARK E on the remix and tracks on labels such BIRD SCARER, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, Scott is back with this inspired track of Old School Chicago house with a small touch of classic DETROIT techno. With Scott we decided to ask RAUDIVE for the b-side remix, he tuned BODY into his own techno secret, strong bass treatment, crazy synth, something really strong for the dance floor !. Already supported by Ivan Smagghe, Pilooski, Andrew Weatherall, Rebolledo, Red Axes, Matt Walsh, Remain, Cosmo Vitelli and more.
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The French Astro Labs label run by Laurent Pastor since 2005 is proud to announce its second Various Artist compilation across two stunning discs featuring a host of exclusive productions from some of electronic music's most exciting artists. This is the first of 2 vinyl samplers containing the albums highlights. Releasing music from artists like Scott Fraser, Sean Johnston and Mugwump, and with support for the label coming in from tastemakers like Daniel Avery, Astro Lab has a fine reputation for raw and analogue machine music in many different guises. This new compilation is just the same, chock full of jams from established heroes and newer talents alike including People get Real, Eskimo Twins, The Deadstock 33's and many more. More

First SCOTT FRASER'S EP on ASTRO LAB , after his recent releases on World Unknow and remixes for VIRGO FOUR we are really proud to have Scott on board, The John Hugues Experience is already supported by Andrew Weatherall, Ivan Smagghe, Daniel Avery and more.. On the B-side MARK E turned this low techno track into an slow house flavor, something betwwen Nu -Groove styles and Mark E current stuffs.

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Really exited about this one, ANA HELDER from Argentina (Comené) delivered here an nice and freaky oldschool mid tempo track, so nice.The first remix is by ASTRO LAB'S home cat TIMOTHY J FAIRPLAY, something between Carpenter and Andrew Weatherall.Then on the B side IVAN SMAGGHE' S remix is just amazing with some old synth and techno atmosphere. Last one is FRANK WEST, our second collaboration, he turns the song into a solid booty dub song.

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New cat on the Astro Lab camp, Timothy J Fairplay from the Battant band, after good releases on kill The Dj, Andrew Weatherall's Rotters Golf Club, Live At Robert Johnson Tim gave us couple of great tracks with his best Carpenter mood, it was so hard to choose, we took 3 of them and asked our favourite producer Mr Andrew Weatherall to remix one, he turn the "Sleigh Ride/blizzard into this slow techno atmosphere. On the B side Astro Lab ZNTN remixed "General Arrived" and turned the original into an amazing dancefloor tune, something close to the Optimo's works. More