Maarten Mittendorf, Jasper Wolff and Indigo æra celebrate 5 years

Indigo Aera celebrates five years with Lost Archives Special compilation. 

Indigo Aera is the brainchild of Jasper Wolff and Maarten Mittendorff, former residents at the now-shuttered nightclub Trouw who these days host a night at De School. Launched in 2011, the label champions soulful, Detroit-leaning techno by putting out new material as well as older, previously unreleased productions under the Lost Archives banner.

Lost Archives Special, scheduled to land next month, is Indigo Aera’s most ambitious project. Its five individually titled records bring together 18 tracks in all—some are unreleased, some are new and others are being put on a physical format for the first time. Skudge, Makam, Don Williams, Joris Voorn, Antigone and Sterac are some of the names involved. Wolff and Mittendorff have each contributed one of their own tracks. Along with the limited-edition box set (and digital formats), the label plans to issue each 12-inch as separate EPs later on. Artwork by Daniel Hageman

Stream The Lost Archives Special here below.

Indigo æra will release part 1, part 2 & 3, and part 4 & 5 on October 21st, November 18th, and December 12th, 2016

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Stream two forthcoming Herbert reissues

Curle‘s subdivision Petite shine with two reissues from Matthew Herbert‘s 1996 collection of early dancefloor-oriented 12″s. See You On Monday and Deeper sounds as fresh as they did in ’96. Herbert didn’t only successfully pave the way for micro-house, minimal, or whatever they are calling it these days, he also perfected it. Remix duties are given over to Linkwood and Basic Soul Unit.

Petite will release See You On Monday on 30 September, and Deeper on 14 October, 2016.

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Muscut Plays Records

Ukrainian sound artist Dmytro Nikolaienko is a man of many hats. Music experimenter, eclectic DJ and meticulous vinyl collector he is also a mastermind behind the private music label Muscut.

Being obsessed with digging, researching and listening to the archives of early ­electronic, library, exotica, science fiction and soviet documentary soundtracks Dmytro released his debut album Loops & Cuts Soup in 2010 on Nexsound. Later, keeping and reinterpreting the aesthetics, he recorded The Sounds of Pseudoscience co-published by GRAPHICAL/Muscut is intended to sound like a library soundtrack for a scientific documentary.

Nikolaenko’s label is widely collaborating with young avantguard Eastern European musicians, spreading around the world precious limited editions of beautiful noisy electronica, new cosmic-psychedelia and spaced out krautrock born by the Black Sea. For Thisispaper Dmytro recorded an impeccable blend of his influences, favorites and own creations. The tracklist features Indirect & Nikolaienko (forthcoming on Muscut), Cluster, Piero Umiliani and Sun Araw, amongst others. Full tracklist here

Muscut will release  Ode To The Sea by Indirect & Nikolaienko in November 2016.

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International Feel starts new sublabel

International Feel has started a new sub-label called Feel International, with the first release out on September 9th.

Feel International will be vinyl only, photocopied inserts, no art. The first release comes courtesy of Juan Marco. Juan Marco make music for Daydreamers. They are new too.

Feel International will release Flumlens EP on September 9th, 2016.

 

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Non Series celebrates five years with three-part compilation series

Non Series will toast to five years of operation with a three-part compilation series called FIVE.

Label owner Psyk has enlisted a cast of acts in the Non Series family for contributions, along with a few newcomers. On the first instalment, due out on September 30th, ROD, Architectural, Yotam Avni and Psyk supply tracks, while Dimi Angelis, Henning Baer, Savas Pascalidis, Chevel appear on the second, which hits shelves on October 28th. Tadeo, Eduardo de la Calle, Mark Broom and Aiken appear on the final instalment, which arrives on November 25th.

Founded with Raffaele Attanasio’s Black Bloc EP in 2011, Non Series has become one of techno’s key labels. It’s put out more than 20 records throughout the past five years, with a slick, propulsive sound rinsed by top-tier jocks from across the genre’s spectrum.

Stream FIVE I here below

Non Series will release FIVE I, FIVE II and FIVE III on September 30th, October 28th and November 25th, 2016.

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