Randolph Chabot Jr. aka Deastro started to make electronic music when he was 13 at his home in Sterling Heights, MI. He finished his first album that year despite the ecstatic, aural trauma it caused his mother. He studied youth development in college with the intent of becoming a social worker, dropping out to pursue music full time. He formed an electro band called Veleciraptor, which inspired the ideas for his current synthesized projects: Our Brother The Megazord and Deastro, which try to blur the lines between electronic and acoustic music. All the music is made in Randolph’s Detroit basement with the help of sampled children’s toys and synthesizers.

Deastro / Powered #1 (2007)

01, Light Powered
02, Night Powered
03, Space Powered
04, Truth Powered

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Deastro / Powered #2 (2007)

01, Life Powered
02, Myth Powered
03, Star Powered
04, Wind Powered

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Deastro / The Phantom Clause

01, All You Deadeyes Rejoice
02, Child Of Men Son Of God
03, Phantom Clause
04, Wasslelingering

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The Selph / Libre y Consciente EP (2008)
Label: Littlebus [Littlebus004]
Style: Minimal, Techno, Ambient

Hey dears! We have the pleasure of present at new littlebus’s release. It was made for a great producer and person from Italy. We know him for your some demos that he sent us, then we call him for at to make THIS great EP. The Selph have a darky sound but not for dark less happy!  His tracks goes from sweety house till dark atmospheres and fat sounds. Four originals tracks and two remixes from big artist as Dana Ruh and Perro Magnetico, finish a cool release with a really perfect stuff. For complete this release, the guys of “Proyecto Fauna” made a amazing artwork. They worked with the concept of “Libre y Consiente”, and created a landscape retro futuristic that leaves us impressed. This release was mastering for Pheek, He’s the man, we love the final work! This is “Libre y Consciente EP”.

1, Vox Populi
2, Social Identity
3, Consciousness
4, Noosphere
5, Vox Populi (Two Veggis and A Vegan. Perro Magnetico Remix)
6, Social Identity (Dana Ruh Remix)

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VA / In Memoriam Andrey Tarkovsky (2008)
Label: Musica Excentrica (exc015)
Style: Dark Ambient, Musique Concrète, Experimental

Musica Excentrica proud to present our compilation dedicated to most impressive film-directors of XX century Andrey Tarkovsky.

In the entire history of cinema there has never been a director, who has made such a dramatic stand for the human spirit as he did. Today, when cinema seems to have drowned in a sea of glamorized triviality, when human relationships on screen have been reduced to sexual intrigue or sloppy sentimentality, and baseness rules the day – this man appears as a lone warrior standing in the midst of this cinematic catastrophe, holding up the banner for human spirituality.

The Genius of modern Russian cinema – hailed by Ingmar Bergman as “the most important director of our time” – died an exile in Paris in December 1986.

After 22 years, passed from that year we decided to ask Kim Cascone, Astro, Violet, 833-45, Kenneth Kirschner, Astrowind, Pink Twins, Alva Noto, Nobukazu Takemura and Nikita Golyshev what do they think about Tarkovsky’s phenomenon. This musical answers are now gathered in a big compiliation, and we invite everyone to explore it.

01, Kim Cascone / The Little Apocrypha (5:49)
02, Astro / The Dark Side Of The Mirror (7:52)
03, Violet / Xata (3:05)
04, 833-45 / Marshlands (4:59)
05, Kenneth Kirschner / October 30, 1993 (6:11)
06, Astrowind / Autumn Drifting (6:02)
07, Pink Twins / Water (7:39)
08, Alva Noto / Stalker (5:05)
09, Nobukazu Takemura / In Memoriam Andrey Tarkovsky (7:57)
10, Nikita Golyshev / Sphere (4:01)

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Milieu / Stray Trains (2005)
Label: Earstroke Records [EAR019]
Style: IDM, Ambient

Milieu has a special way with making sounds unique to his style. abusing his drum lines with rigorous trips to and fro old, dusty, obsolete tape decks, sipping tea, petting cats, that sort of thing. Stray Trains is a warm and pleasant listen from a happily magical Milieu.

1, Mahogany (3:59)
2, Smokestacks (3:13)
3, Playground Memories (4:41)
4, Three Thirteen (2:14)
5, Paddyscapes (3:43)
6, Motorbike Trail (3:28)
7, Drain – Meadows & Labyrinths (7:20)

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RA.111 / Stimming (2008)

Hamburg represent! This week’s podcast is an exclusive live set full of hot new jams from Hamburg’s man-of-the-moment, Martin Stimming.

01. Lee Jones – Safari (Stimming Mix) – Aus Music
02. Stimming – Una Pena – Diynamic
03. Stimming – The Anger – Liebe*Detail
04. Stimming – The Beauty – Unreleased
05. Stimming – Saibot – Unreleased
06. Stimming – Danke – Buzzin’ Fly
07. Stimming & H.O.S.H. – Radar – Diynamic
08. Dan Berkson & James What – Keep On (Stimming Mix) – Dessous

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Sackrai / Another Story (2008)
Label: Archipel [ARCH042]
Style: Minimal, Tech House

Sackrai, a Japanese producer, DJ and member of the group The Suffragettes, has previously had a track released on Telegraph’s ‘Too Cool for School’ compilation and now we are proud to bring you an EP of his charming, warm and mellow music, entitled “Another Story” as well as a remix from fellow member of the Suffragettes, So Inagawa. The release is cooked to a simmering perfection, providing a spectrum of inebriating moods which foams at the surface with a coronal glow. “As If” and “Hundred Feet” generate more meaty, corporeal feelings with gentle shrouds of sunny chords, while “Close Behind” and So Inagawa’s remix of “Hundred Feet” are electrically charged and heady with subtle fragments of warbling digital embers sewn throughout.

1, Hundred Feet (6:10)
2, Close Behind (6:10)
3, As If (6:53)
4, Hundred Feet (So Inagawa’s Remix) (5:55)

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StevieP / Attune EP (2008)
Label: Stir Sound [stir028]
Style: Techno, Experimental, Minimal

Attune kicks off with the title track, a straightforward jammer of a track with a swing on the bassline and melancholic pad. The second track, Head Rush, is a little darker with Stevie’s signature chord progressions and super clicky hats and percussion. Uhu wraps up the originals with a fun and funky little number. Measax strips it down on his remix of Attune. Newcomer Emory Emlyn get’s shaky on his interpretation of Head Rush and Jeffrey.S rounds out the back end with a percussive rework of Uhu.

1, Attune (6:38)
2, Head Rush (8:26)
3, Uhu (6:45)
4, Attune (Measax Remix) (6:01)
5, Head Rush (Emory Emlyn Remix) (6:41)
6, Uhu (Jeffrey.S Remix) (7:10)

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Magda @ Fusion Festival (2008-06-26)
Luciano @ Raum Open Air (2007-09-16)
Dapayk & Padberg @ Harry Klein, Munich (2007-10-13)
Mikael Stavöstrand / Live PA @ Kontrol, San Francisco (2008-07-05)
Barem vs. Ryan Crosson @ Zenzero (2008-05-03)

Wolf + Lamb Music Summer 08 / Mixed by Mixed by Jena Paradies
No Regular Play – Blonde Juan
Lee Curtiss & Gadi Mizrahi – The Itch (Zev Remix)
Loren Steele – Jaxx
Lee Curtiss – Heavy Petting
Lee Curtiss & Gadi Mizrahi – Junglebunnyhump
Gadi Mizrahi – I Know
Nicolas Jaar – Hage Chahine Feat. sax by Will Epstein (Kasper Remix)
Nicolas Jaar – The Student Hairstyle
Nicolas Jaar – Par(sol)
Greg Paulus – My Man’s Gone Now
Wolf + Lamb & Smirk – You Will Find

Jackmate presents SpaceIsThePlaceBetweenTheWaves mix (mnml ssgs mx07)
01. rod modell – aloeswood
02. sensorama – harz
03. claro intelecto – gone to the dogs
04. robert hood -
05. dave angel – tokyo stealth fighter (carl craig remix)
06. dennis ferrer – buzz beatz
07. patrick russell – love spray
08. lawrence – titel 3 (isolee Remix)
09. burial – night train
10. martyn – vancouver
11. yennek – without house
12. patrice scott – visions of mantada
13. md3 – face the nation
14. dp 6 – hungry look
15. jackmate – earthtones dub
16. quince – for my mr.
17. ur – amazon
18. osunlade – my reflection (deetron mix)
19. dop – i..m just a man
20. dj koze – i want to sleep
21. aphex twin – slaw2

Skoozbot / May 08 Mix
00:00 – jpls – puss – minus
00:00 – heartthrob – valentine – minus
00:30 – agaric – no one knows (camea remix) – sunset diskos
02:01 – recyd – bueno – leftout
04:55 – marco carola – sensation – plus 8
08:12 – joseph capriati – pac man (from karaoke to stardom remix) – minibus
10:35 – bip soup – grin-bo – cápsula
13:36 – bukaddor & bishbeck – mr. floppy – MBF
16:08 – sebastian roya – andante (jens zimmermann remix) – connaisseur supérieur
17:38 – thomas elder – stoned – franz franz
22:09 – alexis cabrera & guti – tercero – minibus
24:04 – alexi delano & tony rohr – run 0 – plus 8
25:46 – bip soup – bloop – minibus
28:06 – mark broom – Never Again (Mihalis Safras Remix) – playmobil series
29:41 – elektrabel – smash st (zahn remix) – enemy
31:00 – matteo spedicati – fior di fragola – mindshake
33:27 – alexis cabrera & guti – minibass – minibus
36:29 – skoozbot – two over the eight (paco osuna remix) – mindshake
39:15 – lauhaus – shitapple – intacto
39:45 – richie hawtin – statikphunk – plus 8
41:16 – marco carola – contortionist – plus 8
44:33 – daniele papini – church of nonsense – alchemy
48:04 – mark ramsey – hub caps – autist
50:05 – matteo spedicati – stilnox – mindshake
53:22 – detroit grand pubahs – thanks for coming (the advent remix) – detelefunk
54:08 – uto karem – alive – agile
57:09 – simone tavazzi – microonde – perc trax
60:10 – acid circus – uncle jak – droid
63:11 – greenbeam & leaon – vakho jaja – minibus
66:05 – futt’ to fino – bong n’ gong – metroline limited

Acht / Side EP (2008)
Label: Italo Business [itanet035]
Style: Minimal, Techno

1, Cage Fumi
2, Micro Organism
3, Slimy
4, A Mad Mom

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Sascha Müller / Noise Reducer EP (2008)
Label: Ear-Min Records [EAR-MIN21]
Style: Tech House, Minimal, Techno

For the 4th on Ear-recordings we present to you Sascha Müller. This time with a release on EARmin. This EP, a two-tracker, with minimal, but groovy tracks. The first one is with a track with a hypnotizing theme. A sort of a nervous bell-sound with high octaves and less use of rhythms. The seconds is more of an up-tempo track, with more or less darker sounds and just as less rhythms as the first track and in the middle of the track a kind of a deephouse string with some ambient-like soundscapes. Both tracks very useful on the dancefloor.

1, Mantra (5:20)
2, Lomographie (4:59)

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RA.109 / The Mole (2008)

The Mole brings a mix for make-ups. And break-ups.

01. Terry Callier – Dancing Girl
02. Os Mutantes – Baby
03. Teddy Pendergrass – When Somebody Loves You Back
04. Gap Band – Outstanding
05. Ethel Beatty – I Know You Care
06. The Blackbyrds – Think Twice
07. J Dilla Jay Dee – Don’t Cry
08. Sylvester – I’ve Been Down
09. Donny Hathway – Giving Up
10. The Temptations – I’m A Bachelor
11. Donny Hathway – I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know
12. Marvin Gaye – When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Reprise)
12. Genty – Baby Goodnight
13. Noviciat De Soeurs Missionaires De Notre-Dame D’afrique & Four Religious Drummers – Yesu Ka Mkwebaze

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Sul.a / Ink Spot (2008)
Label: Archipel [ARCH039]
Style: Glitch, IDM

Sul.a returns to Archipel with “Ink Spot”, a very smooth and intricate album with heavy dub leanings.”Wake-up Call” is a contorting abstract static shock to the cortex with heavy set rhythms intent on making all in its aural path step to it within a soft layer of subtle windblown melody while “Hungry Ghost” is dotted with mentally muscular pointillistic patterning to satisfy and fill any smokey spectral appetite. Malfunction in perfect synchronization,

“Eleven, Eleven, Eleven” sports warm layers of gentle melody and light shimmering guitar slices bringing a very organic lining its digitized fabric. “Apricot Blossom” caresses with downy chords, the germinating architecture of a calyx spreading, ready to unfurl into wavering, glowing pedals of pixelated glass while “Soy” takes a more wooden and darker route, a stream of ricocheting percussive elements embedded within a textural crown of mycelial and hypnotic chords.

“Rightwingfckface” is sharp and angular in nature, laced with luminescing elements heating up the aural atmosphere to a boil feverish enough to alter perception. “Diphenhydramine” is a drowsy swagger into hypnagogic imagery and vaporized communications in otherworldly tongues.

“Dead End” swarms like a cloud of insects on a window looking for light, absorbed by the electro magnetic radiation they wish to get near to. “Bill Hicks Will Eat Your Soul” slices away agreeably in a temperate and nebulous haze ready to swerve and lean into a state of subliminal twilight.

This release is available for free! You can still support the artist and buy it on digital shops such as iTunes, Beatport, Kompakt, whatpeopleplay and others.

01, Wake Up Call (4:03)
02, Hungry Ghost (5:00)
03, Eleven, Eleven, Eleven (4:06)
04, Apricot Blossom (4:44)
05, Soy (4:40)
06, Rightwingfckface (3:49)
07, Diphenhydramine (4:44)
08, Dead End (4:13)
09, Bill Hicks Will Eat Your Soul (6:57)
10, Apricot Blossom (Ten And Tracer Remix) (4:30)

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Suokas / Candy Man (2007)
Label: silenzio.tv [slnz.a007]
Style: Techno, Minimal

We’re back to start in a proper way this 2008. And we’re back after a trip that took us really far: we’ve found Suokas in Russia, and it was instant love. With a sound that ranges from rough funk to more dramatic psichedelia, his debut on Silenzio is a four track ep empowered by two impressive visions of the direction that minimal techno will take. Candy Man and Fucker – our bet for a brighter future – have the right mood and enough power to be the perfect tracks of both beaming mornings and obscure nights. Above all, an astonishing Jon Seber remix heads once again to those stifling beats and deep chords that represent our favorite present.

1, Candy Man
2, Pantone
3, Eat & Wash
4, Fucker
5, Candy Man (Jon Seber Remix)

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RA.108 / Triple R (2008)

Triple R celebrates nearly a decade of Traum on this week’s edition of the RA podcast.

Dominik Eulberg – Die Trottelummen von Helgoland
Dominik Eulberg und Gabriel Ananda – Schierker Kreisel
Kenny Leaven – Feed Me Better
Echopilot – Schwamm
Adam Kroll – Squonk
Nathan Fake – Dinamo (Eulberg Mix)
Minilogue – Space (Radio Slave Remix)
Airbus Modular – Destinations
Jesse Somfay – This Fragile Addiction
Adam Kroll – Stalker
Jesse Somfay – Faberge
Kenny Leaven – Feeling Spicy
Nathan Fake – Undoing the Laces
Minilogue – Leopard
Lars Wickinger – Blutrausch
Kenny Leaven – Wasabi
Super Flu – Sambalg
Extrawelt – Doch Doch
Dominik Eulberg und Gabriel Ananda – Harzer Roller

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Morp Phlenidol / Long Distance Runner (2008)
Label: nonstopnonsense.netlab [nnnl.16]
Style: Techno, Electro

1, Auditory Cortex
2, Dataclone
3, Manipulation Simulation
4, Centaur Sausage
5, Distance Analysis
6, Long Distance Runner
7, Too Long

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RA.107 / Laurent Garnier (2008)

Legendary French DJ and producer Laurent Garnier spins RA.107.

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Gate Zero / Green Planet (2008)
Label: Stadtgruen [gruen026]
Style: Glitch, Minimal, Ambient

It might be the state before or after civilization. We slip into a green ambience. Surrounded by little creatures we walk through higher grass. Dark electronic sounds frighten us, but everything is in an harmonic stability. Do we strife through a primeval forest or trapped into an adventure game?

Gate Zero surprises with a smooth and calm releases which convinces by its balance: between natural and electronic sounds, between almost romantic harmonies and weird insertions. Major and minor at the same time, floating into each other on the same level, and merging beyond rightness. While listening we drift into a state of self-absorption and we can see clearly our path in this green world: We have to slow down to give all creatures and things their own place and time. Then, everything will have its inner truth beyond the antipodes.

01, Green (6:44)
02, Green #02 (5:00)
03, Roots #03 (4:19)
04, Fresh Water Lake (1:49)
05, Mind Machine (3:34)
06, Angels Fallin’ (3:19)
07, Sumpfloch (2:51)
08, Fresh Water Lake #02 (1:12)
09, Counter Balance (4:45)
10, Phantom (4:17)
11, Nachtschleife (6:50)

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Tom Ellis / Done In EP (2008)
Label: Alt Recordings [ALTF005]
Style: Tech House, Minimal, Techno

It gives us great pleasure to present to you the latest release on Alt Recordings, featuring three brand new tracks by none other than Tom Ellis! Having given us a blinding remix for the Daniel Schneider EP last year, he now returns with the ‘Done In EP’, featuring his trademark funked out style and a further extension of the path Alt chooses to tread through electronic music.In just four years of releasing material, Tom has forged a sound so distinctive as to give him worldwide recognition, for both his own productions and the releases put out on the Trimsound label that he runs with partner in crime Leif. With a style that comes on quirky at times, groovy at others, often deep but always funky, there’s nothing else out there that sounds quite like the Trimsound family.

As well as his releases on Trimsound, Tom has notched up EPs for a staggering number of labels, from Morris Audio and Floppy Funk to Logistic and Frankie. As if that wasn’t enough he also has releases impending for Musique Risquee, Akufen’s highly regarded label, Minibar, another Floppy Funk and Hartchef Discos, the label run by Audio Werner.

That’s not even mentioning Ekkis, his downtempo side-project releasing on the Minordust netlabel, or Trimsound Live, his live project with Leif, featuring Tom on live bass. With his fingers in all manner of jazz-filled pies, it’s a treat to be able to share some of his tasty morsels with you.

1, Done In (5:56)
2, Faces (7:00)
3, Kinky Knows Kinky (6:46)

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VA / Variants (2006)
Label: Cism [cism_1]
Style: Dub, Minimal, Ambient

1, Syene / Lunatic (6:33)
2, Kabana / Tetramodule (5:25)
3, Dip / Party-Fon (4:11)
4, Hermetico / Un I Corni (7:39)

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Dr. Nojoke / Kleine Cliknophonie (2008)
Label: Archipel [ARCH041]
Style: Techno, Minimal

Archipel’s forty-first release brings Dr. Nojoke into the spotlight with the extra thick and intricately percussive “Kleine Cliknophonie”.

“Desertas” is a thick skinned and sticky low slung psychedelic funk animal running in percussive cycles so warm they become immediately tangible. “Emporungsstandard” spins a web of bending raw vocalizations in a sultry atmosphere of twirling hypnoscapes.”Flugs” heavily holds itself up with rhythmic strength walking amongst a crowded corridor of exotic and foreign memories created within moments never experienced prior to their conception while still remaining familiar.”Hohlophony” begins with fluttering swarms of white noise insect life and atonal musings and quickly evolves into a caustic nether-hours freak-out. “Nur Himmel” carries a hefty, warm and wooden elastic weight with sideways, hypnagogic synaptic synthesis splashed throughout.

This release is now for free but if you wish to support the artist, you can find it on sale in online quality shops such as Beatport and What People Play.

1, Flugs (7:15)
2, Desertas (7:45)
3, Nur Himmel (6:49)
4, Empörungsstandard (5:40)
5, Hohlophony (7:01)

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