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Traumer is back on Smallville’s beloved Fuck Reality imprint, but this time under a different name. As Marion Poncet, the French producer delivers his heartbeats in full length format with ‘The Raging Swells Crushing The Cliff Of My Love’, a deeply personal album pressed as a 2×12″ and the second LP in the Fuck Reality... Read more »

Melody Of the Soul returns with the fourth chapter of its Soul Sampler series, and ‘Soul Sampler IV’ works once again as a snapshot of where the label currently stands. The compilation gathers a broad cast of producers around one shared sensibility, favouring patient arrangements, warm low end and melodies that reveal themselves slowly rather... Read more »

Italian artist Francesca Lombardo returns to her very own Echoe imprint this September with the ‘In Your Bass’ EP, a two-track release packed with acid tones, hypnotic grooves and plenty of character. Landing on vinyl and digital on September 18th, the record is another strong chapter for an artist who has never been afraid to... Read more »

To celebrate the release of ‘Dreamliner’ alongside Low Steppa, Roel steps into our Prima Lux series with an hour that sums up exactly where his sound sits right now. It is warm, unhurried and built for the moment a floor starts moving on its own, with filtered disco loops, rolling basslines and vocal hooks threaded... Read more »

After winning the 2025 German Jazz Award for ‘Album of the Year’ with ‘Love Avatar’, German drummer and producer Peter Gall could have simply repeated the formula. Instead, he returns to Compost Records with ‘Drum Seeds’, a bold solo album where raw beats, vintage analog synths and a deep jazz soul collide in fascinating ways.... Read more »

Romania has long been a quiet powerhouse in electronic music, and DumitrEscu is one of the names carrying that reputation into new territory. Splitting his time between Bucharest and London, he has built a catalogue that moves comfortably between underground club cuts and records with far wider reach, guided by an instinct for grooves that... Read more »

Few producers have shaped the modern hardgroove sound as persistently as Aitor Ronda. The Barcelona artist has been playing vinyl since 1996 and releasing records since 2001, building a catalogue that has landed on Terminal M, Filth on Acid, Octopus and Tronic while earning long-standing support from Carl Cox. His 2018 cut ‘Tweezer’ topped the... Read more »

SUNCTURE continues its abundant run of groove-led releases with ‘DÉSIR,’ the latest single from label resident Kapir. The new record explores a more playful and sensual side of the producer’s sound, combining organic instrumentation and hypnotic rhythms with unexpected electronic textures and a distinctly French vocal presence. ‘DÉSIR’ doesn’t follow a straight line, instead allowing... Read more »

Five volumes in, Bestiary has become the clearest picture of what Marginalia actually is. ELIF started the label in Barcelona as a home for the producers whose records fill her sets, naming it after the drawings and scribbled notes that 11th century scribes left in the margins of manuscripts, the one place on the page... Read more »

For When We Dip Magazine’s Main Mix series, we’re delighted to welcome Brina Knauss for episode #194, a live recording captured at UNVRS in Ibiza where she opened for Carl Cox. The set arrives to celebrate her latest release, ‘Take Me Higher’, a three-track EP that lands on her own imprint EMPATH. Brina has spent... Read more »