After the praise for Morning Worship, released back in 2015 on Royal Oak, Portuguese duo Sabre returns to releases with the EP "Fora de Turf", pointing directly towards the dance floor. There is in "Fora de Turf" a certain idea of transient existence as a series of car journeys cruising the night with no clear sense of direction, recalling the gradual disappearance of public space and loss of community. The weight of Kraut references such as Kraftwerk's Autobahn or Stratosfear by Tangerine Dream is somehow clear in its alignment with a 1995 Carl Craig who had just released Landcruising
On the A side, “Condor Sense” and “Sem Terra”. The first one is a banger built around broken beats and repetitive synth chords that guide us through the drone landscapes on the background, very clearly marked by the 808's rhythms. The second one is anchored in a broken kick and on a growing acid line, punctuated by warm chords and some sliced pads that reminds us of the pulsating heart of the city of Detroit.
On the B side, "Condor Senses" and "Driving Bruno" got some sort of a gliding character. "Condor Senses" is the only track on the EP to accept the classic four-on-the-floor to guide some dubby chords along a quieter landscape where organic and natural sounds lurk. Is it dawn arriving? No. On the last track of the album, "Driving Bruno," Sabre get in the car and step on the throttle, full speed, on a bassline that could resemble some synthwave releases if synthwave had been lucky enough to be born a decade earlier and in the center of the state of Michigan. 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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Sabre is a duo from Lisbon, Portugal. Coming from a more experimental and noise background, the 2 men stumbled onto something that works on the dancefloor, linear steady rhythms and off kilter melodies that make you feel like this is some kind of secret freaky hit that might even crosser over to the Balearic Islands or Cosmic Discoteques. Check!

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Hailing from the bairros of Lisbon, the Portugese duo Sabre take the helm of Tasteful Nudes' second single. The young pair follow up an EP for W.T. Records by expressing adoration for German proto-techno on a majestic scale across a sub-tropical backdrop. "Bali" comes on like a strong cup of psychedelic tea, leaping from a tapestry of gamelan plucks to gigantic, growling bass lines and prismatic synth arpeggios. "Ging" channels Manuel G?ttsching's hypnotic synth lines with the dance floor in mind, rubbing shoulders with a gregarious 303 bass line. 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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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

Ukrainan born, Rotterdam transplant Antenna with four house and techno hybrids for the Clone Royal Oak series. Raw machine driven tracks with a seductive melancholic feel.

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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