Lotic - "Carried"

The lead single from Agitations, the latest project by Berlin-based experimental club producer Lotic, out now via Janus.

John Roberts - "Orah"

Boiler Room has debuted the title track from Orah, the new EP by Berlin-based deep house producer John Roberts, out September 7 via his Brunette Editions imprint. Enjoy!

M.E.S.H. - "Thorium"

From Berlin-based producer M.E.S.H.'s Piteous Gate, an album of tightly constructed electronic soundscapes on PAN.

Lotic - "From the Front" (ft. Dr. Luke, Rabit, Sugur Shane, DJ Karfox, Big Hud, Fat Pimp)

https://soundcloud.com/lotic/front Lotic's self-released mini-album Damsel In Distress was named one of the best of 2014 by FACT Magazine, referring to it as a mixtape of "gothic club nightmares". Quite a description of the Berlin, Germany DJ/Producers' brand of dark yet satisfying, enrapturing club music. And "From The Front" only helps to add to Lotic's mystique: it's a grab bag of disturbingly distorted southern voices and lyrics that are paired with a production job that includes elements of trap, trance, gritty grime and crunchy, squeaky dubstep, all competing with each other for attention but still working seamlessly together. Lotic, along with his collaborators (Dr. Luke, Rabit, Sugur Shane, DJ Karfox, Big Hud and Fat Pimp) have created a song that's sure to be considered an eerie, almost ghostly but exciting and bouncy certified club/strip joint banger.

-Ron Grant

Lotic - Damsel in Distress

https://soundcloud.com/janusberlin/lotics-damsel-in-distress I'm starting to believe that Damsel in Distress, the latest offering from Berlin-based electronic music producer Lotic, has the potential to be the most compelling EP of 2014. The project spans 12 tracks of hard-as-hell, club-terrorizing beats, with a confounding but brilliant recontextualization of Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" at the center of it all - I'm frankly in awe over how he managed to draw such raw emotion out of this freaking song. Overall, I'm digging the concept, I'm digging the sounds, and I'm definitely looking forward to what this guy does next. Hear what I'm talking about above and enjoy!

Damsel in Distress is out now via Janus.

Desolate- "Divinus" (Fan Video)

On "Divinus," Desolate words the sonic manifesto for his debut album, the Invisible Insurrection. The reserved vocal samples and repetitious rhythms may not sound like much, but this project emphasizes atmosphere than it does song. Maybe it's a little to structured for me to go full "ambient" on it, but the hypnotic punch Desolate packs into each track on Insurrection is an invisible one. It's hard to see coming, but there's no question it's there once contact is made.

Look for the LP now on fauxpasmusik. -