• Nic Fanciulli – Balance 021

    Following on from Deetron’s brilliantly executed Balance 020 project, Balance Music presents Balance 021 mixed by Nic Fanciulli. The Saved Records boss delivers a stunningly intricate mix that Highlights his ethos as DJ and label owner. CD1, entitled simply ‘Balance’ is a subtle and expertly crafted mix that balances a ...

Radio Slave – Balance 023

Radio Slave – Balance 023

    Balance 023 mixed by Radio Slave [Balance Music] Matt ‘Radio Slave’ Edwards is one of electronic music’s true experimentalists; a man rooted in house and techno whose oeuvre reaches much farther beyond. From the downtempo gloss of his Quiet Village project to a half-hour-long remix of Diddy to the audio-visual soundscape immersions of The [...]

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After Dark

Late Night Tales presents After Dark

Late Night Tales introduces a tangent to the timeline of the esteemed artist curated compilation series with ‘After Dark’: a DJ led, club focused mix which – as expert compiler Bill Brewster describes – “is dance music for people who know how to make love”. After Dark. It’s New York at 4am with the lights [...]

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Koze

DJ Koze – Amygdala

The world has been waiting for this album for eight years – DJ Koze returns with an astonishing, mindblowing album that has not exist in this form as of yet! “Amygdala“ is Koze’s Sgt. Pepper. It’s an unreal 78-minute walk through Koze’s mind, complete with moods, intensities, sounds and scenes as yet unheard of. It [...]

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Modeselektor – We Are Modeselektor

Where did the first Modeselektor tracks come into life? Where is Monkeytown? Why is a ride in a tour bus more fun than being on a plane? These and many more questions are answered by the documentary “We Are Modeselektor“. In 72 minutes the film makers Romi Agel and Holger Wick draw a portrait of [...]

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sandwell

fabric 69: Sandwell District

In 2002 Sandwell District commenced operations. Over the course of ten active years, they were responsible for disarming and destabilizing the structures that gagged free-form expression, drawing upon tenets of DIY-post-punk culture to disrupt accepted ideas of exactly what it meant to be an artist, label, DJ or producer. During this time, the collective’s core [...]

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The Upbeats – Primitive Technique

The Upbeats – Primitive Technique

While The Upbeats may explain their choice of album title with the humble statement “We’re not super tech geeks, we’ve always felt our approach to production is quite simple.” Anyone who knows anything about this duo’s music can tell you that the end results sound far from primitive. The cheeky-grinned New Zealanders have filled dance [...]

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Nic Fanciulli – Balance 021

Nic Fanciulli – Balance 021

Following on from Deetron’s brilliantly executed Balance 020 project, Balance Music presents Balance 021 mixed by Nic Fanciulli. The Saved Records boss delivers a stunningly intricate mix that Highlights his ethos as DJ and label owner. CD1, entitled simply ‘Balance’ is a subtle and expertly crafted mix that balances a plethora of diverse tracks, often [...]

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Balance presents jozif

Balance presents jozif

After 22 volumes of its much-lauded double-disc compilation series, Australian imprint Balance returns to launch its new ‘presents’ series, throwing the spotlight on the emerging talents that are shaping the future of the scene. One of the most exciting names to proliferate in the world of house music and thereabouts over the last five years [...]

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John Digweed – Live in London

John Digweed – Live in London

Bedrock label head honcho John Digweed celebrates the label’s anniversary with a stunning 5-hour mix across a great 4CD box. Nearly 5 hours on this 4xCD set of John Digweed recorded live in the mix at the Bedrock Anniversary party at Fire & Lightbox, London. Over 50 tracks and remixes from some of the best underground producers including the likes [...]

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Nick Warren – Masters Series

The first Renaissance ‘Masters Series’ of 2013 comes courtesy of DJ, producer and label owner Nick Warren. This is not only his first compilation for the clubbing institution since 2001 but his first full solo outing over two CDs. “The mix was a joy to do. It had been a while since I had done [...]

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Hot Creations

Various – Hot High Lights

Hot Creations, the hottest electronic dance label right now who have two sold out showcases at Brixton Academy in April, celebrate three years of dancefloor dominance with a compilation of the label’s highlights. It’s been a momentous few years for Jamie Jones and Lee Foss’ label; the 24-track release takes you on a journey of [...]

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Calibre

fabriclive 68: Calibre

Dominick Martin’s a little bit of an anomaly in terms of contemporary drum & bass. Having been active and continually releasing music under his Calibre alias since 1998, it feels a little odd in a modern world so besotted with oversharing to think that he’s never had a remix made of his material, nor has [...]

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Fottprintz

Footprintz – Escape Yourself

The long awaited Footprintz debut album ‘Escape Yourself’ finally arrives!  A piece of work that delivers on a level that many dance LP’s aspire to reach but few attain; a ‘proper’ album with each song taking you deeper and deeper into what is an accomplished and well-rounded body of work. From the moment the opening chords [...]

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Pets

Various – Friends will Carry you Home too

Pets Recordings is pleased to present Friends Will Carry You Home Too… The second installment of the celebrated compilation series compiled by label bosses Catz N Dogz. Marking the third anniversary of the label, Friends Will Carry You Home Too presents two CDs loaded with brand new exclusives from the Pets Recordings’ established and up-and-coming [...]

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Involver

Sasha – Involver 3

DJ/Producer Sasha is recognised as one of the world’s most innovative icons in the electronic dance music world and has remained on the cutting edge of dance music for well over two decades. Sasha returns in 2013 with the 3rd edition of his globally successful concept ‘Involver’ proudly released by Ministry of Sound. Emanating a [...]

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Cosmin

Cosmin TRG – Gordian

Two years after his debut full length on the label, Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons will release the second artist album, Gordian, by Romanian Cosmin TRG. Since that debut, the now Berlin based Cosmin has toured the globe, taking his rusted techno frequencies to places like fabric, Berghain and Sonar, at the same time as releasing more [...]

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Schiller

Schiller – Sun

“Sun” is the seventh studio-album of Christopher von Deylen aka Schiller, the German issue of which has already reached gold status in Germany – just like all previous Schiller-albums. Schiller – who has achieved ongoing success since his worldwide club hit “Das Glockenspiel” in 1999 – has developed from a side dance project to one [...]

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vidis

Vidis – Silence Please!

Lithuanian DJ and producer Vidis has a history of strong influence on the worldwide front. Together with his friend and partner Mario they are known as Mario & Vidis. The duo constantly rewrites House definitions, setting standards and pushing boundaries in all directions. Vidis’ Get Physical debut is in the form of a compilation, but [...]

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Bass gen

Various – Bass Generation

Dubstep is what begun this revolution, of course – which shook electronic music loose from its dependence on the rhythms of the 1990s and gave it enough heft to kick through scene and genre barriers – and there’s plenty of it here to show that it is still alive and well and shaking the foundations [...]

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Minilogue – Blomma

Everything comes in its own time: a wordly wisdom that Marcus Henriksson and Sebastian Mullaert aka Minilogue take for granted. Since their foundation in the year 1997 they emerged to one of the most respected and hard to pigeon-hole electronic music acts worldwide. And that not only because in each of their artistic expressions you can feel [...]

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Sweet Baboo – Ships

‘Ships’, Sweet Baboo’s fourth record will be released on Moshi Moshi, and is a concept album about the sea and was recorded with long time collaborator The Voluntary Butler Scheme late last year.   A native of the North Wales countryside, Sweet Baboo aka Stephen Black is a single minded, idiosyncratic singer possessing an ear for [...]

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The Veils – Time Stay, We Go

“Time Stays, We Go” marks the beginning of a captivating new era for a band already hailed as “The best and most unsettling thing I’ve seen in music this year” by The LA Times and “Quite possibly the most underrated band on the planet” by NME. Fourth album for the renowned group mixed by Bill [...]

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