Ever ’75 EP
The-Zone Cult opens 2018 celebrating the debut of an Italian artist, audio engineering, which has its roots in the city of Rome:
Eclectic and pure analog: Abacom System with Ever’75
The 3 tracks that make up the release represent a path of his musical influences and his studies and experiments in electronic music.
Basslines grooves, pads melodies … remind us of the Detroit Techno influences and the Chicago Acid House, with a wink at the Italo-disco.
Good listening in what the artist himself calls “sick techno”.
The-Zone Cult opens the new season with another big bet of uncompromising electronica music:
the all-Italian duo “AnyWave” (Arz and Valerio Maina)
Three tracks album with:
“June 3rd” and “July 16th” through a constant bounce at moderate bpm, the vocoder who praise “Music for life” and an 80’s wave influenza synths.
“August 30th” through his 4/4 kick, bleeps and dreamy pads is the soundtrack of a summer full of stellar sunsets and skies.
A new great project arrive on The-Zone Cult.
The italian duo Light Spheres (Francesco Cianella and Gianluca Meloni) begins with an all analogs works!
Split between 4/4 rhytmic & break tracks.
A great research for the sounds, atmos, super sought that will involve you from the first to the last note.
The journey begin
Another emerging artist enters in The-Zone’s family with a digital album consists of 7 tracks that follow a common thread:
The Love Of Space.
A mental musical journey with “different perspectives” from Marco Erroi, which can transport the listener into an alien’s scenario.
Open the album: RAVERIE MUSEUM, totally ambient and space with the presence of voices that makes it clear right away that we are moving to distant worlds.
“THE SPACE INVADERS ARE BACK”, “TELESET CITY” and “SMUFF COLORS” 3 tracks totally hypnotic minimal also characterized by dark rumors, by dark bass and deep-repetitive’s synths.
A whole that makes a bit ‘in mind the scenario of Drexciya and Underground Resistance.
While “MET.RO” and “A SCANNER DARKLY” emphasize the most dancefloor, with European-influenced,
with a rhythmic structure composed of kicks and more powerful bass joined by hit hat rattles that sometimes seem out of control
with the addition of synths esoteric able to create moments of great suspense.
A close “NIWLIND” much more electronic, synths and spatial rhythms, less minimal, bringing us back to earth leaving a great desire to return to observe those worlds so different from our daily living.
A great trip not to be missed!
New year and new surprises on The Zone Records
The first release highlights the concept of electronic music without borders and barriers.
Is ARZ, a totally eclectic artist with a unique and personal style which he called “sophisticated banger sound” to open the new year.
From Punk to Dub passing through the Electro and Ambient..it’s so difficult to categorize ELEMENTS EP.
6 tracks of qualitative impact and totally analog capable of wrapping a unique product for electronics music lover
A true mental journey through soundscapes where the infinite power of imagination can go deeper and deeper.
Lines of low electro classic Detroit merge with precious pad and rhythmic broken clearly influenced by experimental high school English as representatives
Squarepusher and Aphex Twin
It’s the best way for a new year’s start!
Electronic Music with No barriers
Electro is the music of robots, and robots, nowadays, are conquering the Russia, with the help of newcomer ALH.
Hard to believe that this debut EP is coming from the East, where ice and lowest temperatures have the power during the full year.
Every track has something of special, a kaleidoscope with a lot of influences: from Detroit Electro (Dx Game, Igm) with a lot of basses, synthetic melodic lines and synchopated rhythms, to Breaks and Breakbeat (Last Rave, Apparatus) via Electro Techno in drexciyan mode with Acid influences (Cyborg, Nationalist), which sounds as the perfect mix between music from sea and music coming from the laboratories of mad scientist.
Have you ever think to robot zar who brings new music to Kremlin and Red Square?
[Giosuè Impellizzeri]
The 19th release by The Zone Records is a great debut and a “special gift” for the summer! As the title suggests (something different) something different, Something unique and cool that was missing at this label.
The latest releases were totally techno, with this new label wants to remember his vision of “electronic music to 360°”.
It’s a surprise completely played acoustic and analogic , absolutely eclectic.
Seven tracks signed by the duo TraXiss where Pop, Funk, Chicago House, Disco, Breakbeat and imagination blend together to create the sound of this new French reality. A band that is not satisfied with the groove and digitally sampled sounds, but rather, they love the analog sound with electric guitars, acoustic bass, vocals live and much much more.
“March Of The Ghosts” is the song that opens the album where bass, drums, pad, scratch are mixed in a perfect and brilliant style to recall the sound of “Gorillaz” and Other Big International names of Pop.
“Brothers & Sisters” is the real gem of the album. The Vocal Live of Medi Roch is the French response to the influence of the DISCO with the classic Chicago House, a must for collectors.
The journey then moves sound from DISCO to Electronic Funk “Improve”, where electric guitars, acoustic bass, percussion, drum machines and Fx give the perfect example of how to integrate the electronics noise.
In “Veridik” and “Look the Bitch” takes over the rhythm in 4 / 4 perfect for the dance floor with electro bass, effects and vocal samples, creating a sound more European influence close to the production of “Chemical Brothers” and “Daft Punk “.
The end of the album is without words. Two pearls which will remain in our minds for so long. The first is “Microcosmos” HipHop gearing with references to soundtracks of popular arcade games 80s ,in this case the “Luigi’s Theme” revisited so incredible, totally echo sound environments from the world of fantasy to the sounds as “Boards Of Canada”.
The second is “Au Revoir” smooths out the groove and feeling leaving almost five minutes with his hands up, the perfect “grand finale” for all your big event, you really left speechless.
From one year of the birth of the label, this release also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the radio program The-Zone, Italian icon for lovers of electronic music… and now is a big label too!
Here is the second Acid release for The Zone Records.
The first coming from Holland concentrated on the power of the TB303, the second coming from France and signed by a poliartist such as Franck De Villeneuve.
An entire EP where everything blends in a simple and functional way. TB303, kicks, basses, vocals and melodies build a winning sound on dancefloors as well as in your mind.
“Additive” the track that names the EP melts a classical Acid-house Chicago style with a more German’s Kraftwerk type sound.
“Wake up my mind” is based on a hypnotic bass groove with some echoed basslines as well, it reminds the ears of Franky Knuckles’s classic rmxs.
With “Ballade Champetre” you enter the dancefloor and are immediately captured by the warm bass and groove that seize your soul.
Also very interesting work on “My back without stage” a blend between Dub, Acid, Techno and Pop. TB303, piano, vocals and dark rhythms inside this timeless production.