William S
I'll Never Let You Go

Zonate's latest drop, 'The Bodhi EP,' spotlights four cutting-edge global artists with standout electro tracks ready to command the dance floor. Deiv kicks off the A1 side with a seriously wonky head-turner, boasting an infectious bassline and twisted vocals. Sharing the stage, Ole Mic Odd's tough, stripped electro tune cuts through like a precision blade. As you flip the disc to the B side, brace yourself for Micro.Tron's energy-packed journey, a speaker-testing techy electro experience. The EP closes out with Two Phase U, delivering a raveesque, '90s-sounding party tune that's set to make the whole place jump.

Backward Futura, exploring the sounds and vibes of 80’s and 90’s electronica thru the lenses of the new Millennium. Third release courtesy of Rifeño from the Takicardia Kingdom. Cinematic breaks and tropical bleep, the soundtrack for the Axel Foley of the new millennium.

Pavel Milyakov, AKA Buttechno, coming through with the kind of impeccably-produced, trance-inducing deftness we've come to expect.A kindred spirit of the Oyster Cult, this is a union long overdue. While he’s often found working in horizontal zones, inhabiting the intersection between ambient and downtempo, these are dancefloor dynamics for pure contemplation. Gone is the amorphous abstraction of releases like ‘PSY X’ and the kind output reserved for release under his birth name, instead opting for a lean, hypnotic kind of minimalism.‘OYSTER57’ picks up where the ‘Inorganic Demons’ LP and aptly-titled ‘Minimal Cuts’ series left off. Saying that, the first three tracks navigate territory gloomier than the aforementioned; uneasy at times but deeply engrossing, smudged and frayed into heads-down interzones of tunnelling throb and icy melodic flourish. Girder-strength pressure primed for metaphysical experience.Then, like a vestige of the finest turn-of-the-century progressive trance, ’bleeps’ ends proceedings on a slight departure. A showcase of restraint from the Berlin-based maestro and a fitting way to close.