ROMAN FLÜGEL – GEHT’S NOCH? (21 YEAR ANNIVERSARY)

Posted on 2025-04-21

A noughties classic, an earworming anthem, an eventual schoolyard ringtone favourite; Roman Flügel’s once inescapable ‘Geht’s Noch?’ celebrates turning 21 on Running Back, refreshed and remixed by a scene-spanning set of artists paying keen tribute to its absurdist energy.

Casually released as part of a Cocoon Records compilation in 2004, ‘Geht’s Noch?’ rose from the depths with the support of Sven Väth, becoming an international phenomenon, conquering and uniting the dominant scenes of minimal and electroclash alike. Some have said it laid the foundations for the ‘Dirty Dutch’ house scene, albeit from over the border in Germany.

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JAMES K – PLAY

Posted on 2025-04-14

New York based artist James K returns with a new song of summer – Play. This track is an electric pop anthem that blends ear-worming melodies with peak-time breaks, buzzing power-punk guitars and a classic rave pulse, with K’s signature enchanting vocals playfully spitting emotion. It’s a hallucinatory pleasure, tearing through your body and mind. Play rushes with a rebellion of friends-an electro fever daydream waking up everywhere we go.

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DEATH IN VEGAS – DEATH MASK

Posted on 2025-04-07

Death In Vegas return with new album ‘Death Mask’, where disintegration, overload and total sonic immersion tell a personal tale. With dirty circuitry and rough-hewn textures at the fore, this is gritty, unpolished techno; an audio outlier that’s full of personality, and a bold artistic statement. It’s closer in DNA to the grainy growl of sunn O))), or the searing intensity of Underground Resistance at their fiercest, and as far from generic influencer business as you could possibly get.

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AL WOOTTON – RHYTHM ARCHIVES

Posted on 2025-03-31

In January 2025 Al Wootton was invited to Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio in Australia, home to a unique collection of rare vintage drum machines. Al made recordings of multiple drum machines utilising their individual rhythms, characteristics and quirks. These recordings were taken back to the UK and treated with various processes and additions to create Rhythm Archives.

The resulting record is a minimal exploration of rhythm via industrial, dub, post-punk and proto-techno sonics. It is a tribute to these machines and their creators, and resources such as Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio who maintain a huge archive of these and other instruments, prioritising public access and education.

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STABUDOWN PRODUCTIONS – ANGELIC CAPITULATION

Posted on 2025-03-24

Since his last album for Diagonal in 2019, Jimmy Donadio AKA StabUdown Productions has turned down a spiritual path, debuting his Vedic Dread moniker with Star House while exploring Krishna Consciousness and Dharma Yoga. Tinge of Ascension filters all of these concepts through the dancefloor, traversing lush dubby dimensions and broken beats reconfiguring funky licks. The transcendent synth fluctuation of ‘Cursive Transport’ turn into a downtempo, mildly acidic club meditation, slowly bubbling up the tracklist to twitchy pulsating concoctions, before the massive closer ‘Fully Ascended’ swims through states of being sonified by sparks and flurries of ambience and knocking beats.

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