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Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (Orange Milk)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Cold neon lights. Dreamy sounds. Pure, hypnotic visuals. Welcome to the brand new, mesmerising universe of synthwave - unlike one you've seen before, where the future is in the past, and the past in the future. If you’re looking for alternative background music to accompany your work/study/chill sessions, you’ve arrived at the right destination. Hazy resonances, lush synth pads and electronic drums with gated reverb will have you gliding through outer space, mixed with nostalgic reverberations reminiscent of the ‘80's - recharging your energy and creative inspiration upon returning to the present. There are mysterious faces to meet thrilling stories to be uncovered on the road ahead; but for now, let your thoughts drift to a place of pure focus and relaxation.

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Nico Niquo

Esperanto

15,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Nico Niquo’s ‘Esperanto’ sees the Australian artist return to Orange Milk Records six years since his album ‘In A Silent Way’

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CD | 2023 | JP | Original (Rings)

Red Curb

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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CD reissue of Rei Harakami's third album, "red curb," which was created in a personal way, is a masterpiece that has garnered acclaim from many quarters and solidified his popularity. "In making the third album, I was thinking that I should do only what I like, or rather, I can only do what I like... By the way, I thought I would retire after releasing this album, but that did not happen." - Rei Harakami

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CD | 2023 | JP | Original (Rings)

Lust

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The CD reissue of Rei Harakami's 4th album "lust", which includes the classic songs "joy" and "owari no kisetsu"!! The reissue includes new liner notes by Carlos Nino, who has collaborated with Rei Harakami. Four years after his third album "red curb," this album includes "joy," one of Rei Harakami's best-known songs, and "owari no kisetsu," a cover of Haruomi Hosono's song, in which he takes on the challenge of singing vocals for the first time.

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CD | 2023 | JP | Original (Rings)

Colors Of The Dark

25,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Japan's world-famous masterpiece by the late Rei Harakami has been revived! The long-awaited reissue of the CD written by Rei Harakami for "Colors of the Dark", the contents of the planetarium projector Megastar-ii cosmos at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), is now available!! "I created this album for a planetarium project, with the idea of sustaining the atmosphere for over 30 minutes so that you may fall asleep. Ikuko Harada from Clammbon reads the poem by Shuntaro Tanigawa. I really don't mind you falling asleep while listening." - Rei Harakami

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Colors Of The Dark Clear Vinyl Edtion

LP | 2006 | JP | Reissue (Rings)

39,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ajasphère)

Release: 2006 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The classic album "Colors of the Dark" by rei harakami, which became a big hit among his fans, will be reissued on 180g heavy weight clear vinyl!! Rei Harakami, who passed away in July 2011 at the age of 40, is back with his long-awaited analog vinyl release, "Colors of the Dark"!! This album, which mainly features ambient sounds among Rei Harakami's works, was created as the soundtrack for "Colors of the Dark", a content for Megastar-ii cosmos, "the world's most advanced planetarium projector" at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Miraikan, Japan. It also includes "yami wa hikari no haha," a poem by Shuntaro Tanikawa, read by Ikuko Harada (Clammbon). At the time, the record was sold out immediately, and it is known as a rare piece that fetched a high price on the second-hand market.

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Aja

Ajasphere Volume 1

19,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Le Vinyle Club)

J.Lloyd

Kosmos

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Last Resort Black Vinyl Edition

Trentemøller

2LP | 2006 | EU | Reissue (Le Vinyle Club)

35,99 €*

Release: 2006 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Moonshoe)

Cousin

Rosie/On2

10,39 €* 12,99 € -20%

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Utopia Originals)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following up his recent record on Naff, Cousin returns to the Moonshoe home front for his latest offering. Introspective and unbound sounds etched into the latest mini disc - delicately staunch cuts that may both pluck at your heart strings and rattle your bones. Recommended connection to the call as it phones home.

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3 Men Gone Mad

You Try

15,29 €* 16,99 € -10%

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wewantsounds)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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3 Men Gone Mad were an independent group formed in Blackburn and Darwen in the UK. They fused electronic sounds with rock and were prolific in the 1990s when they became cult favourites amongst those who know. You Try is a much sought-after collection that has been restored by Utopia Records many years after it made its way onto John Peel's 1991 Festive 50. He heard in it a mix of The Clash, Joy Division and Talking Heads and that still rings true. The main mix has a raw energy that captures the angst of Britain at the time - and still today, frankly. A spaced-out dub brings a fresh feeling of euphoria and an extended B-side mix draws out this record's undeniable pleasures.

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Ramuntcho Matta

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | Original (Citizen)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the vinyl reissue of Ramuntcho Matta"s rare first self titled album from 1985, mixing funk, no wave and ambient soundscapes. The album released on tiny French label Mosquito was conceived as the soundtrack for French choreographer Régine Chopinot"s play "VIA" with costumes by fashion rising star Jean-Paul Gaultier. It was recorded at a buoyant time in Paris when Matta - who had just spent a few years in New York following the death of his brother Gordon Matta-Clark - immersed himself in Paris" underground scene. Consisting of 19 tracks alternating between funk and ambient soundscapes, the album has been remastered for vinyl from Ramuntcho"s masters and features a 4-page booklet with liner notes (Eng/Fr) by Jacques Denis in conversation with Ramuntcho and a 2p insert featuring the original poster for the VIA show by famed illustrator Marc Caro (Delicatessen).

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Vhinz

Belvedere

24,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

The Secret Chord

Fermi Paradox

8,24 €* 10,99 € -25%

Rain Before Seven Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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It doesn't stop. NRW is proud to present something very special for your ears. Beautiful soft synths with vast and dynamic chords make "Fermi Paradox" an instant definitive Retrowave album. A must listen to for all synth lovers.

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Penguin Cafe

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

24,99 €*

Rain Before Seven Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Penguin Cafe return with new album Rain Before Seven.. A sense of optimism infuses Penguin Cafe’s fifth studio album, not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self-effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it operates within the certainty that things are going to be alright. Probably.

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Penguin Cafe

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

27,99 €*

Songs For Uncloudy Days: The Early Years 1953-62

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Staple Singers

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Acrobat)

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Myuthafoo Black Vinyl Edition

Caterina Barbieri

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Light-Years)

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (IOT)

Mounika.

Don't Look At Me

33,99 €*

I Want To Leave This Earth Behind

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP version comes with 1 random Carl & TJ Comic Board (out of 5 different boards) + 1 Pack of Stickers
Each comic board is into 200 copies.
Three years after his last album 'I Need Space', Mounika. is back on his favorite playground: electronic music, which arouses his curiosity since his beginnings. He is now ready to unveil 'Don't Look At Me', a new opus that takes us, by other paths, to his unique universe. Recorded during the confinement in the intimacy of his home studio, the French artist reveals little by little another facet of his artistic personality, more raw and affirmed, without totally abandoning the cottony sounds already proposed on titles like 'Cut My Hair' (diamond single) or 'Tender Love' (gold single). We discover sensitive compositions, still inspired by his love for trip-hop, piano and artists who made his musical culture during his youth: Moby, Ratatat, Air or Bonobo. After all, a Mounika. album without a tribute to these figures is not really an album...
But something new was needed to distinguish this opus from the previous ones. From the very first tracks, we can clearly feel this need for exploration that has always guided the French producer. 'BonXair' or 'Nomadics' take us, for example, in a more straight electronic, more heady than usual. In the same spirit, the rhythms close to the deep house of a track like 'See You Dancing In The Dark' offer to the album a new direction, and yet is quite representative of the work undertaken by Mounika. these last years.
In this new record that will also satisfy the fans of the first hour (a sample loop well felt, as on 'Little Love' or 'I Looked Into Her Eyes', always makes its effect), the French artist has also opened to collaborations of choice. Mounika. works on the heart, and thus wished to welcome those who have particularly marked him during his more or less recent discoveries. The American artist Roland Faunte lends his voice to the effective 'Little Love', while Ural Thomas & The Pain (discovered notably on the series 'It's Bruno') takes care of the chorus of 'I Looked Into Her Eyes'. The British rapper Lord Apex delivers a spellbinding performance on 'Memories'.
Finally, if you listen carefully, you can even hear Mounika. singing on some tracks... like '20' or 'Don't Smoke'. Put together, these appearances perfectly complement the energy transcribed by Mounika. throughout 'Don't Look At Me'.
And what could be better than an amazing graphic universe to open the doors of this album like no other? Meet Carl & TJ, two cartoonish characters created in collaboration with Berlin-based artist Joe Taylor, who take care of guiding the listener through this new adventure. One is dreamy and contemplative, the other asks himself a lot of questions... and between them, they form a colorful duet illustrating with tenderness the universal emotions that punctuate this third opus, and that Mounika. will notably defend in the first part of Wax Tailor's French tour starting next April.
The successive pianos composing the productions of 'When In My Heart In Your Heart' then 'Outro' come, at the end of the record, to conclude the setting in orbit proposed by this 'Don't Look At Me'. One more step in the sensory journey that Mounika. is committed, from the intimacy of her room to the international success, to build relentlessly.

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Stefana Fratila

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Not Not Fun)

12,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Signature Dark)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Between December 2018 and 2019, Canadian composer Stefana Fratila went on a series of research trips throughout North America – including to Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Nasa Goddard Space Flight Centre – to meet with astronomers and scientists to answer a complex question: “If each planet in our solar system were a room, what would each room sound like?” Her findings culminated in Sononaut, a collection of open-source VST plug-ins for digital audio workstations emulating each astral body’s atmospheric conditions. (Artist Jen Kutler collaborated on the project as well, using calculations by Nasa astronomer and planetary scientist Dr. Conor Nixon). During a residency at Cmmas (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras) in Morelia, Mexico, Fratila began writing the album on an octophonic sound system, then added additional synthesizer, finalized arrangements, and incorporated Sononaut at her home studio in Toronto. The results are surreal, expansive, multi-colored, and mesmerizing. I want to leave this Earth behind is an odyssey of cosmic voyaging and technological innovation, fusing science, sound design, and stargazer reverie into eight cosmic portraits of our vast galactic family.

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Aleksi Myllykoski

St. Virus

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (blundar)

Nrl:Ndr

Untitled

25,49 €* 29,99 € -15%

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Lila)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Coming from a diverse background of equal amounts hip hop and rock, the producer behind the alias of nrl:ndr got into dance music late in his musical career. After playing in kraut-oriented bands like So Many Mammals, parts of that group reformed into the live techno outfit Tren Né, with the goal of fusing techno elements with live drums. Playing for illegal raves with a punk-like energy, nrl:ndr has cemented his relationship with his machines in service of the dance floor.

But his solo debut on blundar is quite far removed from that scene. To understand this music, one should be aware of the conditions under which it was manufactured. Reluctant to consider himself an artist in the traditional sense, nrl:ndr makes his music free of anticipation and without apparent goals. To glean into this outré musical space is like putting one's ear to the boarded up windows of the photograph that adorn the front sleeve.

The album makes extensive use of the Roland Jv-2080, a sample-based synth rack from 1996 with a distinctly clean sound. Our producer dives deep into the expansion cards (labeled after genres like “Hip Hop” and “World”) for curious and sometimes cheesy samples. But he also forces the Jv-2080 to do things which are not its forte, like the arduous task of programming decent kick drums.

Another technique that is testament to his experimental view on music making, is the idea of using sketches of unfinished tracks with different time signatures, and mash them together into something new - of which the results of one of these experiments can be heard on the closing track and its bilingual conversation between ambient and tribal.

Full of stunted rhythms and eerie melodies, the unclassifiable nature of the music of nrl:ndr lies somewhere in the vicinity of IDM, classical avant garde and private press synth. From the epic opening track - echoing the post-kraut drumming style of Michael Shrieve - to juggling with chopped up vocal samples and treading into almost trap-like territories on A4, he crosses into a multitude of genres without getting his hands too dirty with nostalgia.

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Ayaavaaki / Purl

Ancient Skies

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Glum)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lila mainstay Ayaavaaki and ambient veteran Purl speak different languages but used a translator to convey ideas to one another as they made this record. And they very much foment their own unique musical language on Ancient Skies, an album that blends ambient, drone and space music into richly layered soundscapes that are constantly on the move. Each piece is meticulously crafted and suspense you up amongst the clouds, hazing on at the smeared pads and swirling solar winds that prop you up. It's a record that would work as well in the depths of winter as a bright spring day such is the cathartic effect of the sounds. Beautiful, thought-provoking and innovative, this is as good an ambient record as we have heard all year.

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Lukid

Tilt

19,99 €*

Dead Dreams Don't Die Vol. 2

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lukid's first solo album in 9 years, following several releases as one half of Rezzett and 3 EPs as Refreshers.

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V.A.

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Half Grand)

13,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Chapelle Xiv Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Half Grand Records’ second release makes it more clear that their target is squarely between the dancefloor and headphones. This unpredictable playlist spans genres, from Golden Science’s buzzy boom bap to Jon Doppler’s sub shaking hardcore, with layers of analog goodness that seem to glow with the first days of rave. Electronic music veteran Proswell contributes a real viber, replete with growling basslines and bells. Round it out with a sprawling, spastic workout from Sweden’s A Stantz (Peel MD) and you have a chronicle that would fit perfectly in the collection of fans of early Warp Records, Tobacco, and millennium era Merck Records. Check it out!

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Auflassen

26,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Titrate)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Auflassen is an organic album that blends live instruments with electronic beats, distilled from the decades of experience of Guillaume Coutu Dumont.

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Pagan Red

Materia

26,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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TEll A ViSiON Crystal Glass Vinyl Edition

TEll A ViSiON

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Duchess Box)

22,99 €*

CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Mylja)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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TEll A ViSiON releases her new self titled album via Duchess Box Records TEll A ViSiON is the moniker of Berlin artist Fee Kurten who recorded her album in East London. Having formally been part of a long term music project TEll A ViSiON became a new project in 2022 with a revitalized direction, a rebirth. The new demos caught the attention of Duchess Box Records who swiftly took the artist for a record deal and have been working to start the hype with the first singles gaining more and more attention with each one. Stop, the hype starts now. TEll A ViSiON has been playing shows all around Germany and recently toured in 2000 cap venues with Guano Apes. Fee Kurten started making music as a child in her hometown of Hamburg and was laying down rap tunes throughout her teenage years. TEll A ViSiON fuses a mix of influences from early hip hop, new wave, dub. trip hop and post punk. Mockumentary has a off world sound with its deep beats and slick synths which gives it a cosmic feeling.

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Cedric Vermue

Perpetua

14,99 €* 19,99 € -25%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Arbitrary)

Antoine Hubineau

Dissolvè / Scillions

10,99 €*

Dancefloor Classics Volume 2

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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arbitrary presents Dissolvè / Scillions by Antoine Hubineau. Derived from the same series of compositions, Dissolvè and Scillions are drawn from modular synthesizer recordings which have been reworked, treated and composed in the computer.

Dissolvè is a mosaic which is in constant motion. The inner details are guided by an outer structure which act as a kind of rhythmic subtraction. It is destabilised to the point where it fractures, from the macro to the micro level; abstracting a filigree from the original rhythm.

Scillions breaks an initial path into several directions which create new paths. Directional blur in harmonic motion makes it difficult to predict the outcomes. Contrary movements, synchronisation and desynchronisation build and break the relations between these new paths. Finally, altered versions of these new directions give some familiarity, while adding to the ambient disorder.

Based in Latillé (France), Antoine Hubineau works in the electronic music field, as a composer, musician, teacher and co-founder of the Sillages residency. His practice is focused on sound synthesis, which become alternately pseudo-acoustic instruments, abstract matter and surreal spaces. In his compositions, he makes the most of the cracks between free pulsation and collateral rhythms, between harmonic stability and sound spectrum tearings.

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V.A.

10" | 2023 | EU | Original (Rajaton)

18,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Udacha)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sasu Ripatti presents the second volume in his "Dancefloor Classics" series with five 10" releases coming throughout 2023. Music for imaginary dancefloors, released on Ripatti's own label "Rajaton".

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Kurvenschreiber

Licht Ausgang

20,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mille Plateaux)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Udacha label might have been away for a while but is now back with a vengeance. First up for this return is a new long player by the mighty fine Kurvenschreiber quarter, which is made up of Sergey Komarov, Vlad Dobrovolski, Ilya Sadovski and Alexey Grachev. These sound artists have been excelling in their field for some 10 years now and use synths as well as found sound objects to create their work. Magnetic tape loops, various instruments, pre-recorded loops, shortwave radios, transformers and much more give rise to this unique record which mixes up Boolean jazz, kurventronika and post-rock.

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Cristian Vogel

Fase Montuno

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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OST Splatter Vinyl Edition

Zer0

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

17,54 €* 26,99 € -35%

Still Going Strong Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A familiar place that doesn’t exist, a soothing song from a distant nowhere. From Zer0 れい comes an enveloping slushwave experience where tangible reality meets the achingly ethereal. OST comes to vinyl, compact disc and cassette

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Shades Of Thunder

LP | 2023 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

28,99 €*

Eiko Ishibashi / Jim O'rourke

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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NRW is proud to present Shades of Thunder's first album on NRW Records. Still Going Strong is a testament to Shades of Thunder's magnitude of synth sonics. A must for all Retro-Electro and Retrosynth lovers. Enjoy!

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Lifetime Of A Flower

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Week-End)

32,99 €*