Overview. UK techno stalwart Benjamin Damage makes his debut on Feel My Bicep under the name BDB –  a collaborative alias with anonymous label mates. Two original tracks, a dub and a handy tool make up the 16th release on the label.
It is with great excitement that Feel My Bicep welcome Benjamin Damage into the fold. As the first release on popular Berlin label 50Weapons, Damage’s critically acclaimed album Obsidian was the label’s last release before it shut down. He was quickly signed by R&S records, releasing two EPs with them (Montreal and Malfunction).
He is also due to release a 4-track EP on Len Faki’s label Figure on 11 Nov, as well as an EP on ARTS in 2020. His characteristically emotional and energetic take on techno is evident in these two original tracks ‘Boss Rhythm’ and ‘Niio Rhythm’.

Overview. Mark Broom is fast becoming as expert at providing a platform for burgeoning artists via his Beard Man label; highlighting talent from the international techno scene (like Avision, Rene Wise or Absent) as he is behind the decks or in the studio. And to close the year, his label showcases another of these: Kmyle.
Kmyle is an energetic artist who has begun to build a strong reputation through his productions and collaborations. A hardened machinist, he delights in bringing this energy to his Live Hardware performances and DJ sets which are calibrated for the dance floor, taking him to clubs and festivals around the world like, Concrete, Rex Club, Razzmatazz, Astropolis (Greece), Arena Berlin, Egg London, Griessmühle and more, plus a recent tour of India and China.
Following a number of highly-received EP releases and an artist album, ‘Northern Landscapes’ on Electric Rescue’s Skryptöm Records, the France-based Kmyle was then signed up to the discerning Clergy Records in 2017, which has so far resulted in two solo EPs and a collaboration with Clergy label boss, Cleric that also boasted a remix from Blueprint’s James Ruskin, earlier in 2019.
This next release sees Kmyle making his Beard Man debut with the ‘Human Flaws EP’, where he delivers his powerful techno sound across four new tracks that burst with heavy drums and tight percussion, proving that Kmyle is undoubtedly an artist to watch.

Overview. „Torino Unlimited Noise” (T.U.N), is an electronic-jazz band founded in 2018 by Gianni Denitto (sax), Fabio Giachino (synth) and Mattia Barbieri (drums). 
T.U.N. project, by mixing the experiences of all band members, wants to create a sound which is a blend of electronic music, refined harmonic progressions and improvisation, creating a very distinctive sound in order to reach a wide and mixed audience. 
The trio was founded in 2018 and is publishing it‘s first EP manifesto with Jazzo-Tech combining the three original tracks with two remixes from high class techno scene artists: Vsk and Aleja Sanchez. 
ThEY RESPECTIVELY PREPARED A DRUM AND BASS AND A MORE DANCEFLOOR oriented version of Jason. 
Torino Unlimited Noise is an homage to the city of Turin, to it‘s sounds, its industrial soul and its underground soul which pushes us all to a more human dimension and to a search for a soulful beauty.

Overview. Hot off the heels of Aluxes, his 2018 Lumière Noire debut EP, young Mexican DJ/producer Iñigo Vontier is inviting Chloé‘s label on a trip to the far corners of the body and mind with an album of demented grooves, psychedelic take-offs and imaginary comic strips of mystical rituals. 
A bewitching full-length Mexicans may never possess the sonic science of the Germans, the hedonistic madness of the English or the gift for synthesis of the French, but, as proven by Iñigo Vontier‘s first fulllength for Lumière Noire, their universe is much more exciting than anyone would have ever thought. 
The DJ/producer fully asserts his origins by brandishing the album’s title El Hijo del Maiz („the son of the corn“) almost as an emblem: „in Mexico, corn is eaten daily. It has long been defined as ‚the gold of America‘, and I consider all Mexicans as children of corn“. 
A spiritual and embodied vision Iñigo‘s first Lumière Noire release, the four-track Aluxes, set the tone of the young talent‘s distinctive interpretation of dark disco, which creeps up on the dancefloor from its iconoclastic side. The two tracks and two remixes (one by Flugel, the other by Inigo himself) featured on the 12“ for lead single Xu Xu (featuring Red Axes-affiliate Xen‘s irrelevant vocals) was a full-bodied confirmation that Vontier sees the dancefloor as an arena for the occult –  whether from the peoples of the equatorial jungle, the Middle East or, even from indocile machines. 
But, while the spiritual element seems part and parcel of the Jalisco native’s output, it is in no way the only ingredient of this first long-player: „this album best reflects my own vision and spirituality, and the way I feel it“ he says. 
Whether contemplative or frenetic, the collection of tracks that make up El Hijo Del Maiz takes the kitchen sink and throws it out the window: languid rhythms, haunted vocals, and mysterious percussion fuel a discombobulated house set that scrambles the listener‘s five senses, leaving one disoriented and exposed to the vagaries of vertigo.
A wild and frenzied tracklist Following the demented, dystopian Xu Xu EP, which explored an imaginary jungle that harbored Mayan and Egyptian pyramids, Middle Eastern accents are once more present in the offkilter Bo Ni Ke and its Japanese-influenced vocal trickery, which Moroccan flutes à la Jajouka transform into a feverish trance. With the following three tracks, Iñigo Vontier raises himself to the same level of excellence as the Pachanga duo (of which pride of the Mexican scene Rebolledo, is also known as a prolific artisan of deconstruction): Awaken‘s slumbering voice, heard as through the veil of hypnosis, slowly introduces a techno beat which, as in follow-up Time, literally brings the listener to a levitative state. In a housier vein, yet continuing in the same psychedelic, 90s-infused spirit, Don’t Go Back disrupts the genre’s usual signatures with an out-of-tune keyboard that is becoming the artist‘s trademark, destabilizing the listener into a drunken vertigo, with a good helping of sexiness: „I think the sexy dimension definitely brings a kind of magic to music,“ says Vontier. “I‘m sure I felt this magic during my DJ sets, and I like to think that sorcerers use this element in their practices. I might consider myself a bit of a sorcerer when I take over the DJ booth, by the way.“ 
A mood and sound that can once again be found – in a quieter, more bucolic version – on Chiquitita (feat. the flute stylings of pioneer DJ Rocca, now a partner of cosmic disco legend Daniele Baldelli). The more cinematic, fast-paced and dreamy beat of the no less captivating Little Monster might evoke the mischievous spirit of the Mayas‘ minor mythological creatures, while ode to the magical herb Marijuana (feat Thomass Jackson) proudly tramples into the debate that such a provocative title inevitably provokes: „psychedelic drugs are powerful tools to reach a higher level of consciousness about what surrounds us, but we must learn how to complete this psychic journey by ourselves, notably through meditation and love. Every year, I go down to San José del Pacifico, in Oaxaca (1), to reload with a good mushroom trip“. The darker landscapes of Brujos (feat. Mexican artist Beyou, of the Pachanga‘s Hippie Dance stable) and I Never Try close off an album that is as dense, fractured, mysterious and foreboding as the Central American jungle. 
In the end, El Hijo del Maiz is an album-length confirmation of Iñigo Vontier‘s uniqueness, and his adherence to Lumière Noire‘s policy of letting artists fully express their vision – while letting their passions guide their idiosyncrasies and explorations of innovative electronic signatures.

Overview. Solid Tracks Records presents it’s first vinyl release with an e.p. from Maltese artist, Cloned.
Replicator e.p. showcases 2 original tracks from Cloned: Prototype I, featuring a hypnotic bleepy arpeggio, layered on top of rhythmical breakbeat 909 percussions, while Prototype II is a dubbier affair, with dreamy landscapes.
Both tracks get remix treatments from Berlin-based Kyle Geiger and LHR-head Lars Huismann. Both inject more energy and intensity to bring together a well-balanced, well-rounded e.p.