VENT moves closer to its initial tenet: the love for raw and unsullied techno. Miss Sunshine returns to VENT and brings home two strikingly forceful tracks, with Cindy adding to the arsenal with her characteristic grit, and thus the circle is complete as stripped back yield of high grade techno on all cuts.


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VENT loves raw and unpretentious techno. The second love dose comes from no other than Miss Sunshine, who has distilled her intimate knowledge of techno dance floors worldwide for us into two driving tracks - one of which is remixed by Zadig. In this instalment, Miss Sunshine plays with the dichotomy between the feelings of entrapment and revelation, and does so in the language that VENT prefers to communicate with: no-nonsense, stripped down techno. “Trapped” is filled to the brim, curled tightly into position ready to burst with kinetic energy. Like a compressed spring, it waits to be released and yield to its essence, free of containment. “Revealed” on the other hand is an amalgamation between relaxedness and vital energy, as its cool pads contrast with the tireless percussive rhythm. To reveal does not mean that it shows, it means that it lets one see. Zadig's remix takes “Trapped” to another place, high and deep at the same time, where he binds the listener to the state that only techno can bring to mind and body. Some call it Detroit, some call it transdimensional beingness. Come with us and enjoy a stay in the quantum state between trapped and revealed.

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10 years, 20 releases. This is the last of them. Label head Inter Gritty at the controls, delivering four tracks of techno with a twist. Over & out from Random Island HQ - it's been real! More

Annie Hall once again proves why she is one of the most interesting producers right now, continuing to carve her own niche of future machine funk right in between techno, electro and IDM. Overturn delivers a razor sharp remix with plenty of attention to detail, while Inter Gritty closes the EP with some serious old school vibes. More

Techno partisan #1 Sev Dah comes back with another trio of trademark no-nonsense techno tools. 1999 takes you back to 1998 with its subtly funky, bleepy groove, the kind of track that will just always work. Rumble adds a playful touch with its ever changing patterns, and Numbers rounds out the EP with yet another powerful tool, aided by a hypnotic vocal loop.
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Three superbly crafted techno tools from Nihad Tule, with plenty of energy and impeccable attention to detail. More

Viktoria joins Random Island with a strong three-tracker! Fast Forward uses a stripped-down, pounding rhythm to create an efficient, no-nonsense techno tool. The flipside shows off Viktoria's clout for creating hypnotic atmosphere, Tesla serving a delicious blend of twirling acid, warm pads and a seriously bass-heavy beat, and Launch closing the EP with deepest ambience.
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First full EP from the enigmatic Osch! Straight from the Norrk?ping underground, this live techno master drops three solid tracks. Two stripped down, beat-driven techno tools are accompanied by one more abstract track to show that this versatile producer is far from a newcomer to the scene. More

Album debut from Inter Gritty! This island-hopping adventure takes us from the quirky depths of Ictis through the 303 workout of Stac Lee and the brutal pounding of Swona, to the lush electronics of Cijin. The Norrkˆping, Sweden-based producer has taken his sound one step further from his previous EPs and painted a bigger picture, covering an archipelago of sound that offers both rough seas, jagged cliffs and serene forests. More

Snaga the angry hungry acid monster wants to hurt you bad. He/she/it is joined by Tezina, a highly useful techno tool that puts a beat to the voices in your head. On the flip, super production duo Johanna Knutsson and Hans Berg tame the beast and send him/her/it on a solo mission to a galaxy far, far away More

Sev Dah brings his brand of powerful, no-nonsense techno with the mighty, pounding Xanax. Life Of The Unborn takes a more experimental approach and offers a dark and haunting soundscape. Inter Gritty is on remix duty, stripping it down and turning the EP around with his jacking, Chicago-inspired take on Xanax.
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Three live recorded hardware jams from Abygatan, Norrkoping, Sweden. NTTA11 are Nihad Tule and Inter Gritty, and an array of old and new machines. This EP offers a trippier take on live techno than their first 11", but still very much pure-bred techno all the way. Except the closing Meta Incognita, which is something else. We're not quite sure what. More