She has the magic touch for meaningful music, not only when it comes to her own label Duality Trax, which was launched in 2020, but also when putting those records on the 1210s.
DJ CHARTS Holly Lester [Duality Trax]
INTERVIEW & ARTCAST #118 Gallegos
Releases on Desert Sound Colony's Holding Hands and DJ Autumn's Banoffee Pies have made Oliver Gallegos a driving force if not to say an innovator of the UK's electronic music scene
EXCLUSIVE Takadoum ‘After Sorrow’ [Momo’s Basement]
From Paris with love! Momo's Basement second catalogue number, namely Keep It Vague, is a remarkable anecdote about electronic music's best kept secret as Paris based artist Takadoum, once a member of Beat X Changers, takes on the challenge to combine the musical present and past to create four timeless cuts that remain forever.
EXCLUSIVE Voodoos and Taboos ‘If We Were’ [Phonica AM]
The first release on Phonica's newly founded label Phonica AM, curated by staff member Luther Vine, is set to drop in September to ring in some musical autumn madness in four acts.
EXCLUSIVE ADSR ‘Haunted (Todd Nickolas Remix)’ [ELEGAL]
The third release on Klasse Wrecks sub-label ELEGAL comes from former Canadian artist duo ADSR, consisting of Dominic Paterson and Todd Nickolas, whose musical hey-days date back to the 90s.
ART:CAST #117 by Yard One
Artist duo Yard One, individually known as Jordan Bruce and Larry Jones, have had a string of releases since debuting in 2015 on Jordan's very own label Tact Recordings.
INTERVIEW & EXCLUSIVE Enrico Mantini ‘Ecstatic Dung’ [EM1991]
As a music enthusiast, a follower of the scene and arts one has certainly come across one of the many early aliases, like Transitive Elements, Riviera Kidz or Deep Choice, of Italian House music mainstay Enrico Mantini.
EXCLUSIVE Fio Fa ‘Turizmo’ [Pear]
Hailing from the city of Dublin it's Fio Fa who is responsible for Pear's next release, his altogether third on the label after two EPs in 2018 respectively 2019.
EXCLUSIVE DC Salas ‘The Weight Of Uncertainty (I:Cube Remix)’ [Futureboogie]
With EPs on Correspondant, Live At Robert Johnson or his own label Biologic Records, DC Salas has built up quite an impressive back-catalogue over the past two years and the Brussel-based artist does not seem to slow down.
STAKES IS HIGH – a playlist by Torture the Artist for August 2021
Stakes is High is Torture the Artist’s Spotify playlist with music appreciated and favored at the moment and is regularly updated. So check frequently for your dose of music from well-known as well as up and coming artists.
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