Overview. Convention-blurring techno producer/musician Kelly Lee Owens will release her second album, Inner Song, on May 1st via Smalltown Supersound.
Alongside the announcement, she presents its lead single/visual, “Melt!” Inner Song finds Owens diving deep into her own psyche—working through the struggles she's faced over the last several years and exploring personal pain while embracing the beauty of the natural world.
It's a leap in artistry from a musician who burst forth on the scene with a confident, rich sound, and is steadily enticing. Inner Song follows the 2017 release of her much lauded self-titled debut, as well as remixes of St. Vincent and by Björk, last year’s “Let It Go / Omen” 12”, and her recent collaboration with Jon Hopkins.

Overview. Breaking onto the scene with a new label and new music, the Belgian based Cri Du Coeur has released a powerful 3 track EP, comprised of an original mix and 2 guest remixes named Diaphragm. 
Teasing what more is to come from both him and his label, Diaphragm (Original Mix) is an eerie and fast-paced techno beat, designed to leave you breathless as the manipulation of volume builds suspense as it minimises and maximises the elements. Accompanied by 2 other high-calibre versions, the Truncate remix brings the DJ’s recognisable touch to the stand-out hi-hats and overall hefty vibe of the track, while Kaiser’s take is a little more abstract from the original; bringing pure transformational and industrial grit to the forefront. 
Releasing on his very own Arkham Audio, Diaphragm is set to be released on the 18th of March 2020. Watch this space for more to come from Cri Du Coeur and his label Arkham Audio.

Overview. Limited edition vinyl imprint Absence Seizure established in 2015, focusing on late night grooves and bass. Matuss’ 13th release on the label Seizure No.13 EP comes at full force with its melodic deep house ready for the dance floor or the afters. 
The first track on the EP is ‘Continuum’, combining an ambient sensibility with deep house energy, an epic slow burner which morphs into something quite spectacular as the groove moves on. Next we have the hypnotic ‘Mer De Soleil’, carried along a melodic bass and a snipped vocal pattern which carry a weightless feel ready for dancing. The addictive and emotive ‘Solicitors Are Welcome’ employs twinkly synths with a house beat, and features a dreamy vocal from Sophie Buskin. A real end-of-the-night track, its given a re-working from Silent Surrender, sending percussion rushes and an expert manipulation of the vocal work to form an intoxicating listen. 
Matuss has shown once again her expert crafting of deep, dance floor rhythms with Seizure No.13, released via Absence Seizure on 9 March 2020.

Overview. Having released his last fantastic EP Melodius Hubbub a year previous, ED1999 is back with his newest project ,  named Moving Glow on Porpax records , illustrated by Graphic Designer Oliver SPERL  - representing Belgiums best talent. Remaining serious in sentiment but developing his sound, ED1999 uses elements of light to contrast with the dark. As his previous EP followed the theme of interpreting pathways, this EP isn’t all too much different, as it captures the autonomous and excitable nature of light. Even though the speed of light is the fastest most constant definitive, ED1999 manages to bend, warp and interpret light itself through each track’s alternate paces and elements. 
That makes it no surprise that Beam of Light starts us off with a full-body feeling of suspense. His classic momentous techno beat with a gratifying and anchoring kick drives the track the entire way through. Then, as the title foreshadows, the glimmers of light - in the form of synthesisers - manage to push their way through the cracks and eventually bleed out until they’re completed absorbed by the beats and become one. 
Unknown Luminescence is nothing short of a fun, intense and gyrating episode; in true groovy techno fashion, it’s designed to get any listener’s shoulders swinging and body’s sweating. The repetition of the light ambient melody throughout gives the sense of a far off signal call, drawing in techno lovers from far and wide to enjoy the experience in synchronicity. 
Darker again with more sinister undertones, Flamboyant Ray is an assertive approach to techno, yet cloaked in mystery thanks to its muffled kick drums and reverbs. As a more consistent track meant to maintain intensity, it’s style and confidence hardly alters throughout its duration. 
The final track on the EP, Photonic Energy, embodies the environment of electrical currents swimming through dark and damp corridors; reacting and gurgling as electricity meets moisture. Distant murmurs give the effect that the space is alive and every inch of existence is thanks to the encounters through your senses. 
With fast BPM’s and illuminating melodies, Moving Glow is an impressive EP showcasing how when contrasted with the darkness, bright and minor melodies can overcome the body and mind. 
Releasing on Porpax Records in 2020.

Overview. Synthesist, producer and co-owner of the modular synthesizer company Endorphin. es Julia Bondar, releases a brand-new EP I Want Forbidden, encapsulating the electric power of her live sets and her affinity with the darker side of underground club music. 
Raised in Ukraine, Julia spent her early years in the shadow of the post-Soviet regime, the afterglow being that of an integral desire to rebel; her exposure to electro legends such as The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy led her to connect spiritually with the fiercely energetic live outlier acts such as Crystal Castles and Lorn, and translating this into her own newly-found music creation. With live sets commended by the likes of Aphex Twin, Julia is an underground prodigy, beginning to make her own music heard within the walls of performances in her current favourite base, Barcelona. 
I Want Forbidden is Julia’s lush and dark eulogy to the hidden nature of our fantasies, translated onto the other-worldliness of the dance-floor. Melodic yet sinister, the EP takes the modular textures of her live set with some graceful hypnotic undertones to reveal a thought-out release valuable for the darkest clubs. 
‘Black T-Shirt‘ is all about connection on the floor, blending slow-building technoambient tones with an unstoppable bass-line until the tension is entirely built up. An introduction of twinkly synths adds a seminal, intimate layer, hypnotizing yet totally focused. 
Loosely based on sketches from Julia’s legendary live sets during the summer, ‘Talk Dirty To Me’ begins with rushing synths and disorientating bass before a tinkering of modular drums are introduced and the bass grows more menacing. Keeping in line with the sensual theme of the EP, the final track ‘Lust’ begins with a cinematic melody blended with industrial overtones, building slowly to reveal a layered gem of sparkly synth-work and glitchy drums, dancing between the fringes of experimental techno. Julia Bondar accompanies this track with a cinematic video clip like she usually does in collaboration with Endorphin.es Production. The video is based loosely on the 1981 German film ‘Possession’, showcasing Bondar erratically moving around a deserted subway, seemingly possessed by her hypnotic music. 

Overview. Throughout his career, Roger Semsroth has followed a deep intuition for experimentation in sound, wrapping club music around eerie microtonal motifs and industrial sensibilities. This new work for Tresor takes a step forward, as the first true techno album from Sleeparchive, where his previous LPs have exhibited themselves more conceptually, or under different names and his Nord Vest label.
Semsroth has been active in electronic music since the late 90s. He received initial attention first for his electro productions under the alias Skanfrom and the 80s minimal synth inspired Television Set. These projects echoed his love for these sounds, which the East Berliner had steadily immersed himself with after the end of the GDR. Upon hearing the bleeps of Mika Vainio and Plastikman, he began to engage with his strain of techno. Over the last decade, he has focused on his Sleeparchive alias, which dates back to 2004. Alongside close friend DJ Pete, he performs live techno as TR-101. His relationship with Tresor began in 2011, first releasing the Ronan Point EP and following up with the crucial A Man Dies In The Street series in 2013.
With this new album, Sleeparchive’s impact on the techno sound is ever more relevant. Awaking in constant locomotion, locked-in, unrelenting and dry. Sleeparchive’s churning loops etch visions of tight minimalism at times densely frenetic and others serenely galactic. This predilection continues throughout the four sides on the album, eschewing conventional arrangement styles with gradual probabilistic change. Tracks such as ‘Needle’ and ‘Peccant’ offer up precise, sinewy techno. ‘Leave’ recalls the Detroit sound of Terrence Dixon, with its cascading synth tones and droning atmospheres. The album closes with a different version of ‘Trust’ to that found on last year’s Revised Recordings EP released on Tresor, with its now-familiar nerve-inducing pizzicato strings even more at the fore with its mechanic delivery.