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ACTIVITY FM PROMO Artist: V/A (DJ Hell, Truncate, DJ T-1000, Mark Broom) Title: AFM001 Label: Activity FM Cat. no: AFM001 Full EP Releases March 27th Bogota-Berlin based audio visual studio Activity Vision announce Activity FM, a new record label for 2025 with an upfront four track V/A EP featuring a global batch of techno and electro visionaries DJ Hell, Truncate, DJ T-1000 and Mark Broom. The labels mission is to focus on presenting new sounds from respected names alongside up and coming talent from their native South America and beyond, marrying the visual dynamic of their work with their passion of electronic music culture. Expect a series of digital releases dropping regularly this year covering all sides of club music from the techno, electro, house and breakbeat continuums. This first V/A EP sets out the tone for AFM with a set of four heavy-weight club tracks - DJ Gigolo founder DJ Hell is first up with heavy-set darkside thumper Scale. The lead single from the EP, Truncates Where Do We Go comes next and is dominated by a juiced up acid line, this one is aptly timed to drop on international 303 day. Legendary producer and graphic artist DJ T-1000 (Alan Oldham) presents a new DJ T-1000 track No Victims Only Volunteers next - a masterclass in Detroit machine funk. For the closing track on this V/A EP, UK techno don Mark Broom opened up his DAT archive to exclusively release Nineties for the first time which was originally produced between 1992-1993 in the golden era of UK warehouse techno. Originally hailing from Venezuela - Activity Vision create high-quality audiovisual content for the electronic music industry and was established a decade ago by a team of 90s and early 2000s rave scene pioneers. Founded by Elektor, Dagga and Mickey they are more than industry-leading content creators but a tight-knit network and community of music lovers, DJs, producers and creatives that also include Manao, Confidential Recipe, DJ Melej, Club Soxial, DJ OddO and Ara_u in their ranks. In the last 10 years they have worked with over 400 artists and 40 labels, projects and communities including Get Physical, R&S, Rekids, International Chrome, Ovum and Richie Hawtins From Our Minds event series. For Activity FMs releases the collective will keep visual storytelling at the core of what they do taking inspiration from Detroit technos artwork traditions and the likes of Alan Oldham, Underground Resistance as well as Jack Kirbys classic American comics. They set out to have a strong visual identity to match the vibrancy of their releases, watch out as they plan to grow and build the label through digital and vinyl releases, events and live-streams. Tracklisting: DJ Hell - Scale Truncate - Where Do We Go DJ T-1000 - No Victims Only Volunteers Mark Broom - Nineties

DJ Hell, Truncate, DJ T-1000, Mark Broom