After recent explorations into ambient and pop under his full name, Sacha Renkas switches back to his Antenna moniker for ALT013. The Kiev-born, longtime Rotterdam-based artist uses a rough-around-the-edges, hiss-laden palette to construct his intricate, pensive club tracks. Often recording on the fly, he embraces the limitations and quirks of the hardware he works with, curating the happy accidents that come with them and that help make his music feel as alive as it does. It is emotional and imaginative in spirit, yet raw, almost instinctive in its rendering. Renkas cites the new wave and synth-pop from his youth and the sounds coming from Chicago and Detroit, as well as the Dutch West Coast he encountered later on, as inspirations. The sensitivity and hands-on approach associated with these are also tenets throughout his work. The "Another Wave EP," a selection of tracks created over nearly a decade, further substantiates this approach. Made on multiple MPCs, Juno synthesizers, and an Akai S900, and mixed on a Mackie 16-channel mixer, it blends, among others, elements of first-wave techno and European proto-trance. Opener "Alisa" stacks angular sine melodies and formant basslines one upon another yet flows like silk, its balance immaculately kept in check. On "Everyone M1," the bass organ patch from which the track derives its title finds itself amidst a lo-fi flux of capricious arpeggiators, ethereal pads, and decocted drums. "Another Wave" is a carefully sculpted slow burner, collected in its unfolding. Wisps of melody, gated pads, and whisper seem to wind between its drum patterns; the tension looming beneath this patchwork never entirely reveals itself. "Quasar" blends signature dramatic chords and off-rhythm bells with a creeping acid bassline and more kaleidoscopic drum patterns. It closes an EP distilled in its form, confident in its intent, and nowhere too bothered by genre boundaries or other formal constraints. More

The 50th release on the Clone Royal Oak Series. A small milestone, and its longtime label friend and collaborator Antenna who has the right tunes for this release! He delivers a unique blend of house cuts ep that conjures up a very blissed out and heady feel. Digging deep in the roots of electronic dance music the tracks have a classic and familiar feel, reminiscent of the heydays of early 90's raves and chill outs where the darker and deeper sounds reigned. Antenna puts a fresh spin on those classic themes and firmly sets it in a 21st century place. Another beautiful release on the Clone sub label celebrating the musical diversity of all off springs of the Royal Oak of house music. More

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After writing pop-based music under the name Renkas, Sasha Renkas searched for a more carefree and direct approach to making and recording music. His project Antenna is the result of that. He gets his sounds from the unexpected errors and limitations of hardware equipment from the '80s and '90s. Under the Antenna moniker, Sasha has released EPs and singles on labels like Clone, Pinkman, and Beats in Space. This time, Antenna is back with a full-length album. He recorded hours of jams in his studio in Rotterdam and then took a small set-up to Kiev to edit and finish the tracks there. The result is 'Quiet fx', the first release on new label World Of Paint. On 'Quiet fx', Antenna offers melodic soft house tracks with touches of electro and uk breaks. More

Antenna broadcasts new exciting sounds to the ether, channelling a banging A side and two deep cuts on the flip. The message is clear; a beautiful 90's inspired release with artwork to prove it. Ready to dismantle the floor and sooth you into the abyss. Brought to you by the BAKK Satellite Service. More

Clone Royal Oak 043 delivering fresh new cuts from the dutch west-coast! Adventurous psychedelic house tracks with colorful warm tones squeezed out of an artillery of warm and wooly sounding vintage synths creating futuristic vibes. More

Gerd fired up the legendary Yamaha DX100 synth and proves he's still the master of machines from Planet FMDX. 4 housey techno tracks ranging from the beautiful melancholic to dancefloor stomper. More

Cosmic Garden (from Cosmic Rhythm fame...) new on our Royal Oak Series. 4 tracks of smooth bleepy house that only Italians do right. Deep, timeless, all analog produced tracks for that Pleasure Moment.

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4 prime house tracks on Clone Royal Oak by Mr Millionhands Black aka Tee Mango. A very versatile EP that continues the tradition of the Royal Oak series. Continually breeding new offsprings of the classic well-known 80's and 90's styles, all with a strong sound signature of the artist. Tee Mango leaves the traditional path of 90's house music and delivers 4 intense tracks all looking for that perfect groove that you just dont want to stop. Looping vocals, woozy chords, irresistable laidback basslines, Jazzy keys, After hour vibes, peak time heat, this ep got it all. Big Up Mr Mango... this is some proper House music!

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Clone Royal Oak branching out further... Strip Steve makes his debut to the label with a 4 track ep of inspiring and fierce funking sample based tracks. Soaring strings layered over shuffling multi-layered beats, bubbly basslines and elastic melodies. Off-kilter intergalactic House tracks!

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Warm, Balearic tinged deephouse tracks from the italian house master Kekko Montefiori who became immortal with his 1990 Calypso Of House release. Here we have some tracks recently found on some of his old tapes recorded in that era with the same good vibes and spontaneity . Pure house bliss. Essential!! More

Phat grooving bass line driven power house tracks by Fells Point following his debut release on Clone Royal Oak from summer 2016.

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Canadian Project Pablo debuts with a four tracker for Royal Oak. A fresh take on house music with some nods to the classic sounds from Chicago and New York. More

Two highly infectious house tracks deeply rooted in New York's early/mid 90's house culture with an contemporary and true Rotterdam no-nonsense spirit.

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Gerd's return to Royal Oak! For the occasion he dusted of the classic gear and especially the Yamaha DX100. Four tracks from Planet F.M.D.X. More

Person Of Interest goes into deep territories. Steady house rhythms combined with offkilter melodies gives this ep a timeless feel. New music from a past era. More

Bare naked, intense and soulful techno with a housey edge by Nocow. The Clone Royal Oak series started with a black label, and we celebrate release 30 with a limited black label release from this raw talent hailing from St Petersburg. Nocow is crossing borders between house, techno, modern electronica and bass. His productions are versatile and fresh and have a intuitive, seductive feel which pulls you into his fantasy world of forward thinking, futuristic dance music. Royal Oak is offering you a little escape to planet Nocow with this selection of 4 tracks.

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One of our personal favorites from 2015 gets the remix treatment. Remixes by Gifted&Blessed, Mark du Mosh, Duplex and Aera.

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Third installment in the Correlation series by SDC. The four tracks, ranging from deep ambient to rattling electrofunk, are guaranteed to take you on a deep dimensional ride. More

Hailing from Lisbon, Portugal Sabre are delivering their debut release from Clone Royal Oak with a fresh take on house and techno. If you're looking for effective formular club tracks, then please skip through! Four playful and emotive tracks without any of the modern club dogma's, however strongly rooted in the more then 30 year long tradition of our musical culture. From Model 500's Detroit techno to even further back to the likes of Gottsching's electronics and Alice Coltrane's spiritual jazz. Sabre is giving us some personal music created from a subjective perspective evoking different kind of moods and emotions with their wide palette of sounds, rhythms and melodies. Even though this might be ''psychology for dummies'' you probably can say there is a heavy influence from their Portuguese culture and their hometown Lisbon. Warm sounding tracks with a cool (sea) breeze and some of the outgoing, yet laidback southern european character. But sticking to the facts... there is some wonderful and special music on this record!

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Finnish worldtraveling musicmaker Arttu delivers the goods once again for Clone Royal Oak. Three tracks of his own brand of 'evvy funk More

Clone Royal Oak Series with its 24th release! And this time it's Canadian Gingy with vocals by singer Starving Yet Full. RAPT is an amazing vocal tune that doesn't follow the ''color by numbers'' dogmas. 2nd track is the equally exiting instrumental cut named VSCUS with abrasive lead synth twisting and turning over haunting strings and shimmering hihats in the best Detroit tradition. Serge & Tyrell team up for a remix version of RAPT. They deliver a straight forward, no nonsense powerful Dub mix! More