Doug Beck
Lapse

The first freshly cooked EP from the Toulouse-based collective Microondes, "Chaleur Tournante", is a 4 tracker filled with energy, floor filling vibes. Influenced by House, Deep House, Acid House and Minimal. Familiar piano House riffs, acid tones, broken rhythms and retro synths are combined to recreate our missed club universe. The well-known Deborah Aime La Bagarre and his track "Effort Patriotique" wrap up this release with an explosive mix.

Another big release on SOUNDS. in the rebound.This time it's Modal - Carnivalesque (2x12") by Woody Mcbride and Dave Stevens from 1997.Don't sleep on this official re-mastered re-issue!

Our forthcoming release from Roma Khropko has a story behind it. After producing some tracks for his girlfriend, she liked them so much that they were included in a mix for the Club Vision POOORCast Series. We loved the tracks so much that we asked for the ID and now, here we are, releasing them on our label. CV08 is real connection. Music is connection.

Innershades drops a bomb EP on Heko Records. Summer anthems alert !

This time round it’s a 3 track VA from Serbian artists Marko Nastic and Bosko Balos, plus another Banger from the UK producer Len Lewis.‘Music Is the Highway of Shared Experiences’A1 The Void, Len Lewis: “This track is a sinistertechhouse representation of when I died and went down to ‘the void’ in 2017. Then clawed my way back up through the earth to now!”B1 Thinking, Marco Nastic feat. Ryan James Owens: “One playful jam session in my studio resulted in this house/techno oriented track with Ryan’s vocal on top”. B2 Bag Me Up, Bosko Balos: “Starting 2022 I lost all of my projects from the last two years. Among a handful of wavs was Bag Me Up which marked a change in my sound. A combination of electro-break and old techno / house style”.

More VA action as the series continues with another instalment. As is tradition at OEW, four heavy hitters grace the newest plate. Enlisting rising talents and familiar faces alike, the Witness surveys all, cherry-picking another clutch of intrepid dancefloor navigators for the label.Asphalt DJ tees off with a shadowy, driving tripper. Flush with insistent throb and a spectrum of proggy flourishes, it’s properly hypnotic fare. De Lichting member RDS, on the other hand, opts in favour of deep space projection. ‘TH Only’ is a pristine transmission; deep groove and widescreen scope primed to soundtrack imagined interplanetary expeditions.Making nocturnal manoeuvres with a touch of grit, Hypercolour and Glass Table co- founder Ste Roberts goes off on another tangent entirely. ‘Tune Pitch Decay’ is as dusky as it is propulsive; tough and cavernous for the duration. Made of uneasy soundscapes and half-time, rolling drums, Amsterdam local Tammo Hesselink finally rounds things off on an abstract, downtempo tip.Artwork & Design by Susanne Janssen.