Active since the early '00s, Christian Odlozinski released different 12"s and EPs as Dibu-Z for labels such as Mutter, Klangnet, Antikonsum, Klangnet, Robodisco and Heraldic.SPb. "Junk DNA" is his first album and Dominance Electricity is proudly releasing it on CD and 2 LPs. This isn't the first time that the label is releasing Dibu-Z's music, as his track "Remote View" has been included in the "Global Surveyor Phase 4" compilation the last year. "Junk DNA" is a multifaceted album where Christian is mixing different electronic styles successfully: if the opening "Where It All Ends" has classic electronic music references of the likes of Vangelis' "Blade Runner" soundtrack (like the closing arpeggios of the closing "The Future In Your Eyes"), "Breakaway Civilization" steers the wheel mixing space ambiance with acid TB-303 sequences and TR-808 beats (thing that also Cignol experimented lately). "Metamaterial" and "Gnarly" change the game again by bringing in electro melodies and i.d.m. intuitions with sound manipulations. The twelve tracks of the album have no vocals and succeed into giving to the electro lovers good music with robotic rhythm patterns, paranoid atmospheres and nice tiny melodies. It not easy to sum up the last twenty years of electronic music but Dibu-Z somehow did it. Prepare yourself to check a sort of Drexciya on acid or a sort of black hole that sucked in hours of good music and now it's ready to puke it out! A special note to the cover made by the American 3D graphic artist Beeple. Check it here https://soundcloud.com/dominance-electricity/de029

It's four years since Imiafan released their latest album "Krv iernobielych Fotografií" and that one saw Imi team up with Martin Burlas and Ivan Štrpka. For the new MLP "Videnie", released for the French label Falco Invernale, Imi Végh teamed up with Miki Bernath for the music and, as for the previous record, Ivan Štrpka for the lyrics. The six new tracks are in balance from minimal synth and electro: the opening "Bez Úst, Bez Ozveny" is a mid-tempo track that can be also used on a dancefloor thanks to its hard beats and paced arpeggios. "Stupaj" is a faster one but is less dancey due to the many stops and go. The MLP continues with the dreamy cold wave tracks: "Videnie", "Kto?", "Vakuum" and "Krik Pred Ústami". Here, the suspended in time effect help to create the right ambiance for the Slovakian lyrics of Ivan Štrpka. The lyrics are suggestions and they paint a sort of suburban despair which teams really well with the music. Some excerpts: "Peculiar autumn when people are afraid to open letters, so as not to catch a whiff of death" or "Reflections fade, breath disappears. The subway rustles".

In ten years of activity Sebastian Hübert has been able, like a science-fiction writer, to create his own narrative with his own musical project Hyboid as well with his label Astro Chicken Records. With his music made with vintage synthesizers and drum machines, Sebastian created audio stories that lead the listener through space voyages and musically back to the late 70's/early 80's, when funk and disco music melted and muted into electro funk or the first hip-hop experiments. Hyboid is mostly linked to those sounds than to Kraftwerk and this is evident also into the new album "Strange Signals". On tracks as "Restless On Risa", "Cosmic Funk", "Walking The Milky Way" or "Future Fever", within upbeat rhythms and bouncing bass lines you can often find a lead synth line which, like a guide, is there for the listener to follow. Like the other albums, also "Strange Signals" has a theme and this time it's the tale of an interstellar romance gone wrong. Musically on the album you'll find more vocals (effected with the vocoder or not) and also a little bit more electro influences like on "Martian Dreams", "Unobtainium" and "Synthetic Band" or a bit of synthpop like on "Broken-Hearted Universe". Released on black or limited clear vinyl and on digital format, "Strange Signal" is the new Hyboid album that you won't miss! Check it out here https://hyboid.bandcamp.com/album/strange-signals

Formed few years ago into an unknown place in Europe (from some photos posted I think he/she is coming from Berlin), Fotoapparat, after releasing two EPs for the Mexican label Dostonos Records ("Fundamentale Wechselwirkung" and "Doppelmord"), just released a new EP titled "Transhumanismus" for the Fremch label Ukonx Recordings. It's available as digital download on the label's bandcamp page and on streaming on the usual platforms. "Transhumanismus" contains six tracks that put Fotoapparat into the focus of the Dopplereffekt lovers thanks to the cold atmospheres and rich robotic sound palette. The EP has a strong concept. The first three tracks explore our relation with machines. Humanity in its limitless ambition ultimately pushes its researches further and further, until it reaches a turning point: the end of its supremacy. The last three tracks takes inspiration from cinema, literature, science, mythology and philosophy, just to rise a question: what if artificial intelligence emancipates itself and become as powerful as a god ? Can we expect a machine to show compassion and mercy? ...and, would they punish us for our destructive behavior by recreating our consciousnesses into a personal artificial hell? Musically, Fotoapparat succeeded into creating a tense atmosphere with a deep cinematic attitude, which coupled with the robotic rhythms create really good tracks. You have cool tracks, a theme which somehow involve all of us, so you can't ignore this release! Check it in full on the Ukonx's Bandcamp page.

It was 2012 when Empire State Human recorded "Genesis Apollo". Then, it seemed lost until it resurfaced in 2019 into the files of an old hard disk, just in time for the celebrations of the 50th years from the moon landing. The mini album contains six tracks and the first one is the nine minutes long "1961", track which includes the whole JFK speech about the space program. This isn't the only atypical track of the lot, because "Genesis Apollo" has been composed as a sort of soundtrack: it has an unusual amount of vocal samples and no Aidan's voice, apart from the few parts on the opening track and on the extended version of "Apollo", track included in the 2002 album "Pop Robot". Empire State Human succeeded into making an ambient, space, synthpop album, thanks to the right balance of all the elements and without making it sound like an album made by a total different band and it wasn't that easy!