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CBRB's latest triptych for Phantasy takes their sound into a more dystopian direction, a world of concrete shopping centres, the occult and physically irresistible repetition. The title track 'Mecanique Sauvage' is a muscular industrial / outsider house track, a stop start rollercoaster that constantly intensifies. One part a brutal exercise in poise and restraint, and one part undiluted disco excess. A contradictory beast of a track. Something of a epic (at over 8 mins long) 'Children Of The Monolith' drops the tempo to 100 BPM and takes the listener on a very different kind of trip. A widescreen composite of...

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Mécanique Sauvage EP - Cowboy RhythmboxDecades Vol. 1/3 - Tolouse Low TraxThe Darkness (I:Cube & Lipelis Remix) - Save!Subaru Pesha (Roman Flugel / Red Axes Remix) - Red Axes / Moscoman / KrikorConsolamentum LP - Andrew WeatherallSun Masks LP - Lena PlatonosPlay The Game (incl. Andrew Weatherall / Heteric Remixes) - Craig Bratley / Danielle MooreLove Is Enough Remixes (Richard Sen / Khidja / Luke Soloman / Jamie Paton) - Plus InstrumentsImport (SpaceLex & Alessandro Adriani Remixes) - DJ Bert & EagleIch Traume So Leise Von Dir - Becker / Stegman / ZeumerView and buy the chart over on Phonica...

Connan Mockasin's follow up the widely acclaimed oddball-psych of 2010’s 'Forever Dolphin Love'. 'Caramel' boasts a unique brand of mutated, lustrous soul that was almost wholly self-recorded over a month in a Tokyo hotel room.  It's a concept album as well: "The concept is that it's actually an album," says Mockasin. "It starts with the dolphin (from 'Forever Dolphin Love') leaving, and the boss (the man) who is so in with love with the dolphin is sad, and then it kicks into the new album, and he is happier. But there's a car race and a crash."... Click here to grab...