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Our “special guest” not only commented on the last item of our selection below but also took care of today’s review. This is how passionate he is.

His name is Dari Garcia AKA Notzing and he honoured us with his “double investment”.

Two years ago, Rookas contributed in Crescent London’s Podcast:

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The British label (and event series) showed its quality network straight from its two first releases: two VAs with talented guests, such as The Alchemical Theory, Simone Bauer, Dycide and Rookas himself, building an instant solid reputation for the project. Then, Crescent London achieved one dope EP after another, confirming its honourable status in the British scene.

Coming from Lithuania in northern Europe, Rookas followed a classic path from DJing to producing, yet his first album was ambient, revealing an impressive musical sensitivity at the outset of his career. In the present EP, he shows high maturity with the music tools, accompanied by artists who give interesting versions of his work. A sense of freedom emanates from the release and we love it…

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How dare you use your phone on the dancefloor? 😳🙄

KitchenSync is conceptualised on live streams played in the kitchen, as a reaction against the sinful clubbers, who’d better use their phones at home, preferably in the kitchen, as the bathroom is already taken. 

If the concept is original and pleasantly wacky, we don’t really follow the Beatport-based imprint from Dubai, because it mainly hosts tech house “cooks”, a genre that we usually don’t connect well with. However, if it opens its doors to artists such as CTAFD, it motivates us to keep an eye on the project, because as expected, our dear talented Chinese explorer deepened the music with his emotional ambiences and well-dosed rhythms…

We love his aliens… This one reminds us of an aunty 🫣🤫

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Which worlds do you enjoy watching in movies to escape from the harsh reality? Past worlds? Foreign worlds? Future worlds?

Half of the mystical duo Primal Code, Pianeti Sintetici has been bathed in the science fiction culture during most of his life, finding in it mainly a way to rest from busy work. Today, the “child living inside of him” is still enchanted by sci-fi art: he’s for instance regularly using Midjourney to design post-modern alien pictures “just for fun”. This explains the cinematic layers in the present EP, carried by creative rhythms, the trademark of his infinite talent as a well-accomplished artist.

Do you remember the first episode?

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Vector Field, formerly known as Stigr, is what you call “an underrated dope producer”. Since his album “Modulated Circles” on Secuencias Temporales, we admire both his artistic side, at the source of well-inspired music, and his technical side, inherited from professional experiences in the studio and on TV.

If the French artist has a solid fanbase on Soundcloud, we think that his pieces deserve more light, such as “D​û​rthar”, which is for us a little hidden treasure.

EXPERIMENTAL

Bas Dobbelaer and Vand, Daniel[i] and Vand, Laura BCR and Vand, it was time for Vand to finally fly all alone. Like always, we exaggerate: he already made a solo EP on Alpenglühen. Four years ago. 

The Dutch artist is now based in Utrecht, a beautiful medieval town crossed by rivers, in line with his alias (Vand means “water”).

For his leap of faith, he chose a local label, Konstrukt, that we fondly call “The Dutch Hypnus”, for featuring artists such as Primal Code, Mohlao, Wa Wu We and Birds ov Paradise.

It’s not totally anecdotal, as you can sense their influence on “018”, as well as Tin Man’s, another artist of the label, who extensively designs the languid acid waves present in the third track. Yet Vand also brings his own interesting ideas of course, and being compared to Hypnus’ dream team is a compliment from our mouths.

GREY AREA

Her 2017 Horo Vision Podcast has been for us an epiphany, the sensation to witness the future.

After some dope releases on Horo, in line with what Sam KDC was also doing on the label, she moved to Delsin Records and its mythic Mantis series, designing “techno tracks with DnB flavours”, a genre defined as “Grey Area” by Presha and ASC.

Then, after a memorable podcast for the emblematic Georgian club KHIDI, she signs the first release of KHIDI’s new digital-only sub-label. She also dropped an insane Page for The Memoir recently, getting closer and closer to our shores, for our greatest pleasure.