Amelie Lens' EXHALE imprint launches with a myriad of uncompromising techno tracks from the underground's finest established and aspiring artists. EXHALE's much anticipated first release continues the legacy of the EXHALE event series with a fifteen original track compilation featuring old and new friends from each avenue of the underground. With a shared love of rave culture, the label is a platform for the forward-thinking while simultaneously paying homage to foundations of techno. With this in mind, Amelie gathers familiar faces and upcoming artists to deliver the future sounds of techno. Spanning to each dark corner of the technosphere, the compilation fosters a range of sound that exhibits each artist's production taste and background. Amelie & EXHALE events mainstay AIROD open proceedings with the ascending 'Adrenaline', featuring acid lines and hypnotic vocals, with Spanish techno veteran Regal driving on with authoritative speed and neurotic alarms in 'Spreading the cult'. Following his debut on LENSKE, Amelie welcomes AhI Iver to bring an acid flavour to this compilation along with French talent Felicie, who builds tension early on with raucous track 'The Devil Himself'. Obscure Shape & SHDW follow with 'Brennende Erde', inducing a state of trance with whirring atmospherics. Next up is notable Berlin based producer Klangkuenstler with 'Engelsblut', an oscillation of stabbing keys, sinister drones and unrelenting hi-hats before transitioning into 'Take Two' from REMY-X, whom Amelie discovered after his stand-out EP on Coincidence Records last year. DJ/Producer at the forefront of French techno Antigone proceeds with 'U Tell Me', along with Brecc who incorporates industrial elements and thundering bass with track 'Vox', continuing with Antwerp producer Lukas Firtzer's 'Excessus', packed with shifting percussions and tenacious melodies. Purveyor of modular techno MRD combines layered atmospherics and euphoric pads in 'Reach my hand', followed by Mehen (aka Hadone) who maintains pace with his rendering 'Broken Whisper', with a disorentiating and melody driven expedition from Francois X next to switch up momentum. Promising upcoming Dutch producer Grace Dahl ensues with the merciless 'Vermilion Empire', while production virtuoso DYEN nods to EXHALE's roots in rave culture with 'Fantasy', a medley of spiked vocals and ethereal synths that maintain the energy until the final kick.

Emerging as a trailblazer in the electronic music scene, Anfisa Letyagos label NSDA is set to unveil its first VA compilation, Utopia, on Friday, September 6th. This 20-track compilation, embodying the labels innovative spirit, will be an exclusive digital release. Since its inception, NSDA has become synonymous with boundary-pushing electronic music, championing cutting-edge sounds and artistic freedom. The Utopia compilation reflects this ethos, presenting a diverse array of tracks from some of the most compelling artists in the scene. Highlighting the labels commitment to uncovering new talent and celebrating established names, Utopia brings together a blend of NSDA veterans and fresh faces, each contributing their unique sonic landscapes to this expansive project. NSDA founder comments: Utopia is a project from my label NSDA, embodying the concept of an abstract, mythological world inhabited by evolving, formless sea creatures and the entire environment surrounding them. This world exists purely in our imagination, representing a rejection of the possible by embracing the impossible. In this VA, each artist interprets their experience through their unique vision and sound. Each song is a personal journey into the world of Utopia.