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The Mirrax Sequence

Ben Vedren’s latest EP Stellar Fanks on My King Is Light, curated by visionary Thomas Melchior.

The Tugboat Editions EP by Temu

Motor city’s urban legend Gari Romalis aka Gari Romalis Electronix has curated an EP on his very first label established in 1994 Lost City Records and now featuring new and upcoming talent. Gari is known for releasing heavy techno & house tunes for the past 3 decades. And now, he is responsible for molding a mixed style VA, giving opportunities to rising producers on the scene & serving as a mentor. Featuring 3 original cuts with a remix from the don himself, this is not to be missed. It seems like the Detroit native is going to continue to release quality house tunes consistently as he has been doing now for over 30 years with the relaunch of Lost City Records. Gari’s music always speaks for itself, his impeccable taste for music has now brought these 2 new artist together for a killer EP. Keep an eye out for more to come from this Detroit label.

On Figure X45 we are presenting a new up and coming artist, Jancen. With only a handful releases under his belt, this promising young dutchman delivers immaculate productions that veer between the deep and the jacking, always powerful and driving but with a strong sense of groove pervading throughout.His opener Quintessence leans on the hypnotic side, distilling the effect of a mesmerizingly simple loop reduced to the beauty of its essential elements. Racking up the momentum is tightly bouncing Elusive, riding a funky acid riff that transforms the track into one of those unexpected moments of raising the energy mid-set.On the B-side, Jancen showcases his talent of building mind-expanding dub-techno excursions, as the echoes of Diminished Dub roll out while even packing some proper propulsive percussion on top! Final track Unattributed takes us way down the rabbit hole into atmospheric trippy territory as searing hats pave the path ever further into the belly of the beast.For buyers of the digital package, Frostbite sits somewhere in between all of the above, combining sparse stabs of resonant synths with thumping kicks and a pumping rhythm to find that complex equilibrium of depth and charge…Stay tuned for more tracks from Jancen to keep you warm later this winter, coming right here on Figure.

Barbatuques, a well-known Brazilian group of body percussionists, adapted "Baianá" back in 2005 (first released on the "O Seguinte É Esse" album) and since then it became a staple of their concertsThe original is a modern folk song from Bahia composed by Maria do Carmo Barbosa, but it was the mouth harp sound and the stomping beat on the Barbatuques' arrangement that imprinted its trademark sound. A couple of years ago, Jan Schulte, the german producer known for his taste for tropical drums (and also for using a few different aliases), heard the song and decided to add an extra punch to it for his DJ sets: more drums, taken from a library record of "drumdrops" (hence the title).Now for the first time "Baianá" is issued on vinyl. It marks the second volume of the Brasingles eries, a new series on Selva Discos dedicated to releasing loud 12" singles with the original song on the A side and a rework on the B side, to please both the DJ and the listener.