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Para One · SPECTRE: Machines of Loving GraceMachines of Loving Grace, available in half speed mastered 180g double lp housed in a heavy sleeve with UV spot varnish. Machines of Loving Grace, the new album by Para One, whose real name is Jean-Baptiste de Laubier could be called fiction. It is an object freed from constraints, formats, genres, territories: the gospel of a new world. Six years after Club, eight years after Passion, his previous LP, this lover of electronic music, who has also been putting his sensitivity to the service of movies (soundtracks for Céline Sciamma in particular) opens with this record a new dimension in his artistic career. “I needed to break away from patterns and systematisms of formats, and take unexpected turns. To do so, I had first to allow myself to do so”. Allow oneself and maybe above all confront oneself – with one’s childhood, with one’s childhood’s ghosts, and what fantasies, ideals, memories, and grey areas they harbor. He had to go back – without giving up on his position as an adult, as a full-fledged artist – to the sources of his imagination, to the moment when music was holding almost mystical power. And then revisit it to make something new out of it. Just like Sanity, Madness & the Family (the feature film directed by Para One that he just finished and of which it is a consubstantial part), Machines of Loving Grace has an investigation around a family secret and the father figure as its starting point.

Textural shift.

Josh Brent (Schatrax) - recording from around 1998 - came out as Supa 12″ around 2000 .We found a white label in the basement here and all loved it and started to track down the original tapes for this re-mastered 12″ , simple pure underground house with the right influences - Has been causing underground waves in recent years.

NS-35 SIDE A -JULIUS CAESAR- 9mins 5 seconds Hypnotic ancient Espionage Techno-House HybridNS-35 SIDE B-YEARS OF YOUR LIFE - 9 mins 10 secTargeted Dance-Floor Rhythms

The Connection Machine is Natasja Hagemeier and Jeroen Brandjes. The vinyl version of the album has been re-mastered and features nine tracks from the CD-only original release from 2004.The label Down Low Music is a vital US resource for deeply personal electronic music that works both in bedrooms and DJ booths. It’s a label that put out celebrated albums and EPs by the likes of Convextion, E.R.P and Dan Curtin, so played a key role during its first lifetime. Ten years after their last release they return with a double vinyl version of the previously CD-only Painless album by The Connection Machine.It is an album made up of material made in the nineties that never saw the light of day and is full of achingly deep moods, dreamy acid house, down tempo electronics, ambient, and Detroit techno, all of which make it a lost classic from the Dutch techno scene. This is a vital reissue that not only re-introduces this forgotten classic to a whole new audience, but also the Down Low Music label itself.