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Ah, Berlin: the sun, the heat, and the Dense newsletter are all coming back today. One has to love the sweet smell of sweaty wax.

We usually kick off these newsletter by recommending some full lengths, but this week is one for singles. Mandatory inclusion on everybody’s shopping list right now is the Flying Lotus and Joker split 12″ on Tectonic, as well as no less than three new 12″ on Planet Mu (quite electronica with Ital Tek, all wobbly dubstep with the newcommer Gemmy, and a surefire high production with Pinch). You also don’t want to pass on the new EP by 2econd Class Citizen, “One By One”, out on the Berlin based label Equinox,.

Our love this week went however not only to one release, but to a whole band, with the arrival of three new releases by the great Various Production (“As It Stops Raining” and “Buds” on Fire Records, and the self released “Tricycle”). We recommended to you ther first, then their second album, and pretty much everything in between, so I guess it’s time for the whole Dense team to, again, state how much we all enjoy this act’s music.

Finally, our good friend at Belio magazine are celebrating their tenth birthday, and we just got the new issue of this design magazine, which has considerably gained in size and thickness. Check it out.

Happy sweating and happy Densing, here’s this week’s list:

ELECTRO, IDM, DUBSTEP & BREAKCORE:
Johnny D – Walkman – 12″ – 8 Bit – 9,90 €
Seven – Dark Passenger / Conspiracy – 12″ – Aquatic Lab – 8,90 €
Ceschi – Puking Over / Atomic Drugs Activated – 12″ – Bovinyl Moosick – 8,90 €
Wevie Stonder – The Bucket – CD – Cack Records – 15,90 €
Gunjack / Blackmass Plastics / Bracket – Ugly Boys Have More Fun – 12″ – Consume – 9,90 €
Mrk 1 – Kill Zone / Tunnel – 12″ – Contagious Recordings – 8,90 €
Coki – Square Off / Warlord Riddim – 12″ – Dancing Demons – 8,90 €
Murderbot – Tremor Dub / Crowd – 12″ – Dead Homies – 9,90 €
Various Production – Buds (feat. Pumajaw) – 7″ – Fire Records – 5,90 €
Various Production – As it stops raining (feat. Georgias Horse) – 12″ – Fire Records – 9,90 €
Freakatronics – Carneval Auf Der Couch – 7″ – ITD Music – 6,90 €
Emma – Emma Not – 7″ – ITD Music – 6,90 €
Extra Life – Secular Works – 2LP – Loaf – 18,90 €
MIttekill – You Are Home – CD – Modul8 Music – 13,90 €
Gemmy – Supligen / BT Tower – 12″ – Planet Mu – 8,90 €
Ital Tek – Massive Error – 12″ – Planet Mu – 8,90 €
Neil Landstrumm – Lord For 39 – 3LP – Planet Mu – 21,90 €
Pinch – Attack Of The Giant Killer Robot Spiders! – 12″ – Planet Mu – 8,90 €
RSD – On Deck / Accepted – 12″ – R8 Records – 8,90 €
6Blocc – Terminus – CD – Scale Step Productions – 15,90 €
Dev79 – In Ya Face – 12″ – Seclusiasis – 9,90 €
Motor – Death Rave – 12″ – Shitkatapult – 7,90 €
F-One – Madhouse / Stereo System – 12″ – Southside Recordings – 8,90 €
Prodigy – Warrior’s Dance (Benga remix) – 12″ – Take Me To The Hospital – 8,90 €
Flying Lotus / Joker – Glendale Galeria / Untitled RSN – 12″ – Tectonic – 8,90 €
Various Production – Tricycle EP – 12″ – Various Records – 9,90 €

TECHNO, MINIMAL & HOUSE:
DJ Vadim – U can’t Lurn Imaginashun – 2LP – BBE – 18,90 €
Dimitri From Paris – Nightdubbin’ – 3LP – BBE – 21,90 €
Roberto Bosco – The way is always the same – 12″ – Be As One – 8,90 €
Mixhell – Highly Explicit – 12″ – Boysnoize Records – 8,90 €
DJ Koze – Mrs. Bojangels – 12″ – Circuscompany – 9,90 €
Efdemin – Acid Bells Martyn RMXs – 10″ – Curle – 9,90 €
Nathan Fake / Extrawelt – Electrochoc Sampler 7 – 12″ – Electrochoc – 9,90 €
Dapayk & Padberg / Dredl Kibosh – Fenou 08 – 10″ – Fenou – 8,90 €
Diskjokke – Asa Nisi Masa / Cearadactylus – 12″ – Full Pupp – 9,90 €
Daze Maxim – Organ Message – 12″ – Hello Repeat – 8,90 €
Heinrichs & Hirtenfellner – Dark Orbit – 2LP – Highgrade – 18,90 €
Windsurf – Bird Of Paradise – 12″ – Internasjonal – 8,90 €
Martin Eyerer & Oliver Klein – Babylon – 12″ – KlingKlong – 8,90 €
Coyu & Edu Imberón & Goldwill – El Baile Alemán / Matikal – 12″ – Liebe Detail – 8,90 €
Santiago Salazar – Arcade – 12″ – Macro – 8,90 €
Kerri Chandler – A basement, a red light, and a feeling – LP – Madhouse – 15,90 €
Mossa – Ransack / Dark Love – 12″ – Mo’s Ferry – 8,90 €
MRI – Die Stasikinder vom Busbahnhof – 12″ – Resopal – 9,90 €
Tensnake – In the End – 12″ – Running Back – 9,90 €
STL – Silent State – 12″ – Smallville – 8,90 €
Argy & TMB / DJ Duke – Day Two – 12″ – These Days – 8,90 €
Cobblestone Jazz & The Mole – Traffic Jam EP – 12″ – Wagon Repair – 9,90 €

INDIE, GUITARS & EXOTICA:
Arthur Russell – The Sleeping Bag Sessions – 2LP – Traffic Entertainment – 20,90 €
Conrad Schnitzler – Rare Tracks – LP – Erkrankung durch Musique – 9,90 €
Japanische Kampfhörspiele – Luxusvernichtung – 10″ – Cargo Records – 11,90 €

HIP HOP & DUB:
Ceschi – Same Old Love Song – Pic12” – Equinox – 8,90 €
2econd Class Citizen – One By One – 12″ – Equinox – 8,90 €
Bruno Natal – Dub Echoes – DVD – Soul Jazz – 18,90 €

PRINTED MATTER:
Belio – Die Young #7 – Magazin – Belio – 19,90 €
Belio – #29 – X10 – Magazin – Belio – 20 €

from now on, you can also find our show recommendations on our homepage.

Not much going on this week, but some interesting events nevertheless. Enjoy and visit us someday at the store.

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a) 16.05.: Ngoma gets tribal @ Raum18
b) 20.05.: Die Remise improvises @ Maria Terasse
c) 21.05.: Niki Matita’s Minimotique leaves into the summer @ Madame Claude
d) Exhibition: NO ROOM SPACES @ Galerie Open

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Saturday, 16.06.:
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NGOMA

live:
TIMEBLIND [Soot/Version]
DJ ZHAO [Ngoma]
DEE-VD & CHEMO [Ngoma/Dirty Canvas]
DJ JANECK [La Bolschevita/Wiesbaden]
DJ KUSTO [La Regla]

Ngoma returns at a brand new Berlin venue, Raum 18, on Saturday 16th May with a booty-shaking line up. Headliner Timeblind is a sonic scientist from New York, currently living in Berlin. He has released on DJ /Rupture’s Soot Records, Orthlorng Musork and the mighty Tigerbeat6/Shockout label as well as prime 90s techno labels such as Probe, Missile, Synewave and Communique. Ngoma founder and resident DJ Zhao has been active as dj and sound curator since 2001, Zhao organized critically acclaimed long running sound-art series TONE_; founded and performed regularly at techno club PULSE”; and has opened up for groups such as Pan Sonic. DJ Janeck explores the similarity between Latin American music and the sounds of Eastern Europe, the Colombian cumbia with their clarinets and accordions or Cuban charanga with their violins and flutes to his Jewish Roots. DJ Bongo was born in Cuba, and his trumpet work has seen him sharing the stage with the likes of Lauren Hill ,Zap Mama, Dave Brubeck, los Van Van, Raul Paz, Sargento Garcia, Jimi Tenor, Max Herre, Morgan Heritage, Sly & Robbie, Jean Paul and Buju Banton. Without falling victim to the clichés of globalisation, DJ Bongo describes his style as “Electrolatin freestyle” or in other words: “ a corner where everything is possible”. DJ Bongo is a LaRegla resident as is DJ Kusto whose Afro-latin and tropical beats regularly rock the foundations of this venue in GörlitzerPark. DeeVD has been djing in the UK for 15 years and founded London’s ground-breaking Dirty Canvas night (grime and dubstep) and runs the No Hats No Hood label. He moved to Berlin in 2008 to join forces with Zhao on Ngoma. His DJ partner is sonic scientist Chemo, from Leeds but has been djing and producing in Berlin for three years.

With that kind of line-up you know that Ngoma represents the positive side of globalization. Bass culture and musical heritage fuse; ultra-modern riddims meet the wealth of local flavors; irresistable next-level urban dance music arise on every continent. Tanzania, India, Cuba, Egypt, South Africa, just a few destinations where wild styles are born, crucial new scenes thrive – places out of reach to most – NGOMA ambassadors of boom bring the heat from party hotspots across the known world – the wickedest beats and sweetest flows. Forget post modernism, NGOMA is the crazy sound of NOW.

23 Uhr / 11 pm

Raum 18
Ziegrastr. 11-13
12057 Berlin-Neukölln

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Wednesday, 20.05.:
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DIE REMISE IM SOMMERCAMP: WEDNESDAY IMPROV SERIES

Die Remise is starting a new event called “Die Remise Summer Camp@Maria” on May 20th. This Wednesday Improv Series is an outdoor event with a nice stage close to the river, BBQ, drinks and a terrace to hang out. Incase of bad weather there is a possibility  to move to the so called “third room”@Maria. This event takes place on a weekly base and will continue until the end of September  – when we start the Lazy Sunday again.

We would like to invite you to perform. Are you interested? Please let us know….(dont forget to mention possible dates. Thanks.):

live:
Fritz Welch (Drums & Voice)
&
Ignaz Schick (Turntable, Saxophon)
&
Chris Heenan (Kontrabassklarinette)

Brian Mitchell (Gitarre)
&
Brendan Dougherty (Schlagzeug)
&
Guido Henneböhl (Geräte)

Anat Cohavi (Sopransaxophon, Bassklarinette)
&
Ignaz Schick (Turntable, Saxophon)

Frederic Lyenn Jacque (Gitarre, Irische Bouzuki, Bass)

DJ: Jazz Sound System

chill & grill: 18 Uhr / 6 pm
live music: 21 Uhr / 9 pm

Maria am Ostbahnhof – Terrasse
An der Schillingbrücke/ Stralauer Platz 33-34
10243 Berlin

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Thursday, 21.05.:
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NIKI MATITAS MINIMOTIQUE

Last minimoutique before a long long summer break – perhaps for ever… do not miss this. Also one of the first show of berlin electronic allstar band cushion caroms supported with visuals by u-matic and telematique.

live:
Cushion Caroms – the brandnew band of Takeshi Nishimoto (guitar), 1605munro (electronics) and Miwon (electronics)

Recordentertaining the bar: Niki Matita

21 Uhr / 9 pm
Spenden willkommen / Donations appreciated

Madame Claude
Lübbener Str. 19
10997 Berlin – K’Berg

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Exhibition
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Katherine Newbegin – Behind The Scenes

Behind the Scenes is the result of this question of the history of the places, and its title describes an aspect of the artist’s work. Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1976 Katherine Newbegin majored in photography and English Literature at Hunter College in New York as well as at Yale University. Newbegin was assistant to the German artist Candida Höfer, whose photographs of interiors differ greatly from Newbegin’s. Katherine Newbegin has been travelling throughout Eastern Europe since 2005, and has also traveled in communist Cuba and US states such as Oregon. The American artist depicts the outside world, a world dominated by the past, a world which people use and discard, and which reflects human fallibility in its rooms. A worn-out, lifeless world is presented, whose attributes are isolation, shabbiness, neglect, and emotional emptiness. Newbegin is interested in what is behind the façade. She has to overcome locked doors for her research and often has to sneak into buildings like a thief. Nothing is arranged in her works, nothing is specifically illuminated or staged. Persistently, she circles the object of desire until that one perfect moment has arrived for her to take her photograph. The artist searches for traces. With a large backpack and her camera equipment in tow, the young woman goes on a search for isolated places to track down visual clues which are easily overlooked in this fast paced world. Through her lens she discovers a world long forgotten by today’s consumer. Newbegin chooses locations that have inherited their looks from politics, as it were. Soviet architecture of the 1960s, whose monumental concrete constructions were shaped by the need to prove presence and modernity, is one of the artist’s targets. Melancholy descends on the viewers of Katherine Newbegin’s color photographs. Emotionally empty rooms, hotel rooms, floors, staircases and bathrooms testify to a harshness, a type of reality which is usually hidden or quickly suppressed. In her work, Newbegin investigates these stories and this momentum, thus also analyzing universal conditions for being sheltered or unsheltered. Katherine Newbegin explains her choice as follows: “… set against the western idea of an affluent middle-class family driving to Disneyland, it is this stark contrast which acts as the crux of my fascination with these hotels. One of the most compelling aspects of the vacations offered to the ‘best workers’ of the Soviet regime was the element of control and monitoring which took place during the trips.”

Exhibition running until 2.7., Tuesday to Friday from 2 pm to 7 pm, Saturdays 11 am to 8 pm.

Galerie open
Legiendamm 18-20
10179 Berlin – K’Berg

Here is Dense again, sacrificing hours of enjoyment in today’s sun to bring you some fresh beats and their accompanying newsletter.

The record of the week is pretty obvious this time around: Boxcutter is transmitting a new “Arecibo Message”, which we received on both CD and LP, and all wholeheartedly recommend. Less bassy and more playful is another long awaited release, the “Toned Downed” 12″ by Detroit’s Soundmurderer, and we are also happy to carry Led Piperz‘s “Aerial / Otherside”, as this act’s in-store gig at Dense last Winter has stayed a fond memory.

A few things have arrived in new formats, mainly Buraka Som Sistema‘s “Black Diamonds” and MF Doom‘s “Born Like This”, which are now available not only on CD, but also double vinyl. On the other hand, Martyn‘s “Great Lengths”, which we already had on wax, is now here on silicon as well.

Other releases of note this week include Wisp‘s new album, “The Shimmer Hour” on Rephlex, a second compilation 12″ by Berlin’s 50 Weapons, or “Vs Children”, the new LP on Tomlab by Casiotone For The Painfully Alone.

Interesting trend in the breakcore aisle, with three releases mixing insane breaks and metal, by the furiosos of Death Storm, Eustachian and Whourkr. Your neighbouring grandma will not approve.

It’s time to recycle your animals, by the way: the two Animal Collective albums “Feels” and “Sung Songs” have been re-mastered, re-designed and re-pressed by Fat Cat, and re-stocked by Dense.

Here’s the list. Remember than too much sun tanning and latte-sipping is unhealthy, contrary to good music.

DUBSTEP, ELECTRONICA, BREAKCORE…
Martyn – Greath Lengths – CD – 3024 – 18,90 €
Led Piperz – Aerial / Otherside – 12″ – Airflex Labs – 9,90 €
Compilation – V001 – 12″ – Endlich Elektro – 8,90 €
Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond – LP – Fabric – 17,90 €
Eustachian – Mngwa – 7″ – Hirntrust – 7,90 €
Hentai Lacerator – Chelsea Charms R.I.P. – 7″ – Hirntrust – 7,90 €
Deathstorm – Bringers Of The Apocalypse – 7″ – Hirntrust – 7,90 €
Harmonic313 – The Hologram – 10″ – Ho Hum – 9,90 €
Guido Möbius – Gebirge – CD – Karaoke Kalk – 14,90 €
Dj Floorclearer – Malicious – CD – Noizetek Recordings – 14,90 €
Boxcutter – Aricebo Message – CD – Planet Mu – 16,90 €
Boxcutter – Aricebo Message – 2LP – Planet Mu – 19,90 €
Wisp – The Shimmering Hour – CD – Rephlex – 16,90 €
Groupshow – The Martyrdom Of Groupshow – CD – Scape – 15,90 €
Baleine 3000 – Tour Manager – LP – Sonig – 13,90 €
David Last & Zulu – Musically Massive – CD – staubgold – 16,90 €
Whourkr – Naät – CD – Suprachaotic Records – 14,90 €
I Monster – A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars – LP + 7” – Twins Of Evil – 21,90 €
Soundmurderer – Toned Down – 12″ – WeMe – 8,90 €
Bar 9 – Coaalescence / Domination – 12″ – Z Audio – 8,90 €

INDIE, ROCK, FOLK…
The Whitest Boy Alive – 1517 (incl. Morgan Geist RMX) – LP – Asound/Bubbles – 9,90 €
Art Brut – Art Brut vs Satan – LP – Cooking Vinyl – 16,90 €
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Beware – LP – Domino – 19,90 €
Animal Collective – Sung Songs – 2LP – Fat Cat – 26,90 €
Animal Collective – Feels – 2LP – Fat Cat – 26,90 €
Stebmo – s/t – LP – Invada – 17,90 €
Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz – Gok – CD – Karaoke Kalk – 18,90 €
Antony And The Johnsons – The Crying Light – LP + Cd – Secretly Canadian – 20,90 €
Psychic Ills – Mirror Eyes – LP – Social Registry – 18,90 €
Young Widows / Bonnie Prince Billy – split series vol. 1 – 7″ – Temporary Residence – 7,90 €
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – Vs Children – LP – Tomlab – 18,90 €
Diamond Watch Wrist (Prefuse 73) – Ice Capped At Both Ends – CD – Warp – 20,90 €

TECHNO, HOUSE & MINIMAL:
Compilation – #002 – 12″ – 50 Weapons – 7,90 €
Gel Abril – Thicken – 12″ – Be As One – 8,90 €
Ekkohaus, Yakine, Herb LF – Island Of Lost Children 2 – 12″ – Circuscompany – 9,90 €
Mike Shannon – The Box EP – 12″ – Cynosure – 8,90 €
Jon Hopkins – Light Through The Veins – 12″ – Domino – 8,90 €
Daniel Steinberg – Keep On Movin – Flügel Rmx. – 12″ – Front Room – 8,90 €
Ame – Setsa – 12″ – Innervisions – 9,90 €
Windsurf – Bird Of Paradise – 12″ – Internasjonal – 8,90 €
Swayzak – Dirty Dancing – CD – K7 – 15,90 €
Christian Löffler – Heights EP – EP – Ki Records – 8,90 €
Louderbach – Shine – 12″ – Minus – 8,90 €
Exercise One – No News Today – 12″ – Mobilee – 8,90 €
Maayan Nidam (Miss Fitz) – Night Long – 2LP – Power Shovel Audio – 17,90 €
Actress – Ghosts Have A Heaven – 12″ – Prime Numbers – 8,90 €
Audion – Mouth To Mouth – 12″ – Spectral – 9,90 €
Niconé – Abayomi – 12″ – Stil vor Talent – 8,90 €

NOISE, EXPERIMENTAL, AMBIENT, INDUSTRIAL…
Carsten Klook – Halbe Portion Jubel – CD – Gruenrekorder – 12,90 €
Suspicion Breeds Confidence – The Fauna and Flora of the Vatican City – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Christoph Korn & Lasse-Marc Riek – Series Invisible – Book – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Lasse-Marc Riek – Wahlstedt – CD – Gruenrekorder – 12,90 €
Lasse-Marc Riek – Wahlstedt – CD – Gruenrekorder – 12,90 €
150603 – Polystore – CD – Gruenrekorder – 12,90 €
Compilation – Rhythm – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Roland Etzin – Estrecho de Gibraltar – CD – Gruenrekorder – 12,90 €
Compilation – Neuklang Kirchenlied – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Bukarest / Bucuresti – Fragmente – CD + Book – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Compilation – Gruenrekorder AudioArt 02 – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Dirk HülsTrunk – Examples of Sample Poetry – CD – Gruenrekorder – 12,90 €
Compilation – Der Michel und der Dom – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay – Landscape in Metamorphoses – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
tbc – Pfalz II – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Roland Etzin – Indicator – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Gruppe Nord – Der Wellenreiter – CD – Gruenrekorder – 12,90 €
Compilation – Gruenrekorder AudioArt 03 – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Andrea Polli – Sonic Antarctica – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Dirk HülsTrunk – Blitzkrieg Gemütlichkeit – CD – Gruenrekorder – 12,90 €
Lasse-Marc Riek – Luminarskuu – CD – Gruenrekorder – 12,90 €
MIchael Peters – Field Recordings From Barbados – CD – Gruenrekorder – 13,90 €
Moondog – More Moondog – CD – Honest Jons – 20,90 €
Jean-Philippe Goude – Pour l’instant – CD – Ici d’ailleurs – 17,90 €
Jon Mueller – Physical Changes – LP – Radium – 24,90 €
Projekt Transmit – Projekt Transmit – LP – Staubgold – 17,90 €
Mapstation / Paul Wirkus – Forest Full Of Trees – CD – staubgold – 15,90 €
Compilation – I/D/V 01 – 7″ – Unframed – 9,90 €
Richard Garet & Brendan Murray – Of Distance – CD – Unframed – 14,90 €
Compilation – I/D/V 02 – 7″ – Unframed – 9,90 €
Phantom Limb & Earth’s Hypnagogia – In Celebration Of… – CD – Unframed – 14,90 €

HIP HOP:
Subtitle – Nerves Of Ice – CD – 299records – 14,90 €
Chris Wood & Meat – No Sad Beat EP – 12″ – Below – 8,90 €
DOP, Markus Homm – Bis Co Budva EP – 12″ – Diynamic Music – 8,90 €
DOP – Dein Verlangen – 12″ – Eklo – 9,90 €
MF Doom – Born Like This – 2LP – Lex – 21,90 €
Barnstormers – Apostrophe – DVD – Nowon – 15,90 €
Arthur Russell – Wild Combination – DVD – Plexi Film – 20,90 €
Prefuse 73 – Everything she touched turned ampexian – 2LP – Warp – 19,90 €

All right, we’ve been pretty super bad with the newsletter in the recent months. Things were hectic, or maybe we just got lazy. Anyway, we’re back, and intend on serving you your weekly dose of wax and silicon goodies more regularely in the future. The Densing may go on.

To kick off the highlights of the week, let’s start with the newly relocated to Berlin Tim Exile and his new album on Warp, the surprising “Listening Tree”, available on vinyl and CD at your favorite record store (and we’ve got the “Family Galaxy” single as well). Also on Warp, do not miss Hudson Mohawke‘s “Polyfolk Dance”, in a more hip-hop direction. And “almost” on Warp, don’t pass on the soon-to-be-rare 12″ of Flying Lotus feat. Declaime on amp

A lot of new dubstep wax also arrived this wek, with for example two new split 12″ on Tectonic (Martyn / 2562 and Skream / Benga), some super heavy dubstep CD (a rare thing) from Somatic Responses and Kromestar, a new Sarantis 12″ and a new compilation on Terminal Dusk, or three new records by the great 16 Bit (quite varied, one of them featuring a Mr Oizo remix). Speaking of the devil, Mr Oizo‘s “Pourriture” 12″ has arrived from the Ed Banger stock to Berlin.

Those of you looking for more delicate atmospheres and a few more strings should be well advised to check out the new LPs by Japan’s Mono (“Hymn To The Immortal Wind”) and Holland’s The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (“Mutations”), while your dose of fresh hip hop might come in the form of MF Doom‘s new album on Lex.

Finally, let’s cool down, expand our musical cultures and trip away with the double CD compilation curated by the usual more techno oriented Henrik Schwarz and Ame Dixon (“The Grandfather Paradox”, on BBE) or Lustmord‘s new “The Dark Place Of The Earth”.

By the way, while most of you will have noticed that our live-gigs recommendations have risen from the grave as well, we’d like to remind everybody that the Dense DJ Team is playing this Thursday at Maria Am Ostbahnhof during a new Jarring Effects event, together with Ezekiel and Brain Damage. Pre-sales tickets can be purchased at the store.

Here’s the list. Rejoice, for it has risen and of course, keep on densing.

ELECTRONICA, DUBSTEP, ELECTRO & BREAKS:
Larvae – Videos – DVD – 10.90 €
16 Bit – Twice – 12″ – 8.90 €
Bar 9 – Triple Drop – 12″ – 8.90 €
Likhan – Redlight / Quiet Riot – 12″ – 7even Recordings – 8.90 €
Cardopusher – Unity Means Power – 2×12” – Ad Noiseam – 14.90 €
Somatic Responses – Reformation – CD – Ad Noiseam – 14.90 €
Trygghet – Two View – 12″ – Atelier Musik – 13.90 €
Geiom feat. Marita – Reminissin’ – 12″ – Berkane Sol – 9.90 €
AGF / Delay – Symptoms – CD – Bpitch Control – 18.90 €
Paul Kalkbrenner – Berlin Calling (Soundtrack) – CD – Bpitch Control – 20.90 €
Gunjack – A Murder Of Crows – 12″ – Consume – 8.90 €
ID – Akusative / Flay – 12″ – Cool And Deadly – 8.90 €
Parson / Fragile – Into The Night / Night Of The Hunter – 12″ – Creative Space – 8.90 €
Matka – The Killers Playground – 12″ – Creative Space – 8.90 €
Ekelon – Techrische EP – 12″ – Creative Space – 8.90 €
Kromestar & Droid – 6 Points / Dirty Dirty – 12″ – Dark Circles – 8.90 €
16 Bit & Mr Oizo – Flat Beat / Classical – 12″ – Dub & Run – 8.90 €
Giant – Rocker / Rain Mind – 12″ – Dub Police – 8.90 €
Renaissance Man – Spraycan EP – 12″ – Dubsided – 9.90 €
F1 & Kromestar – Hard Grade / Pass Da Spliff – 12″ – Dubstar – 8.90 €
Kromestar – My Sound – CD – Dubstar – 16.90 €
Mr Oizo – Pourriture – 12″ – Ed Banger – 9.90 €
Various Prod & Gerry Mitchell – The Invisible Lodger – LP – Fire Records – 17.90 €
Jakes – The Jakes Project vol. 2 – 12″ – Hench – 8.90 €
Joe – Grimelight / Rut – 12″ – Hessle Audio – 9.90 €
Hecq – Steeltongued – 2CD – Hymen – 19.90 €
The Bug feat. Killa P & Flow Dan – Skeng – 12″ – Hyperdub – 8.90 €
LD – Traumatic Times / Woodblock – 12″ – Hyperdub – 9.90 €
TRG / Kontext – They Know / Plumes – 12″ – Immerse – 8.90 €
Elmapi – Arcane Electronique – CD – Lentonia – 13.90 €
Elmapi – Pop Up – CD – Lentonia – 13.90 €
EDH – 7″ – 7″ – Lentonia – 8.90 €
A&E (Stock, Hausen & Walkman) – Stone Deaf / Machine – 7″ – Lentonia – 8.90 €
Hoodz – Bad Mind / Clash – 12″ – Lo Dubs – 8.90 €
Sully – Trackside / Duke St Dub – 12″ – Mata-Syn – 8.90 €
DJ Maxximus – Neo – 12″ – MG 77 – 8.90 €
Mordant Music – The Hauntological Song – 10″ – Mordant – 8.90 €
Jean-Michel – Tons Of Fun – CD – onpa))))) – 10.90 €
Monster X – Satan Iz Love – 12″ – Peace Off – 8.90 €
Remano Eszildn – R-Tracks – LP – Planet Mu – 15.90 €
Stagga – Sick As Sin – 12″ – Rag & Bone – 8.90 €
Flying Lotus ft Declaime – Whole Wide World – 12″ – Ramp Recordings – 8.90 €
Trill Bass – Trillitary Mind – EP – Ruff – 8.90 €
Reso & ID – Shifty – 12″ – Smokin’ Sessions – 8.90 €
Mobthrow – Mutant Dubstep Vol. 3 – CD – Spectraliquid – 10.90 €
Neil Landstrumm – Empire On A Fiver – 12″ – Stuffrecords – 9.90 €
Martyn / 2562 – Yet / Kontrol – 12″ – Tectonic – 8.90 €
Skream / Benga – Trapped In A Dark Bubble / Technocal – 12″ – Tectonic – 8.90 €
Horsepower Productions – Damn It / Kingstep – 12″ – Tempa – 8.90 €
Sarantis – Nitroglycerine / Half Dead – 12″ – Terminal Dusk – 8.90 €
Compilation – Azure – 12″ – Terminal Dusk – 7.90 €
Fractional – Still Life? – 12″ – The Centrifuge – 7.90 €
16 Bit – PCP / President Of Europe – 12″ – Urban Essentials – 8.90 €
Unknown Artist – Greasy Mitts / Dark Heart – 12″ – WAR – 8.90 €
Tim Exile – Family Galaxy – 12″ – Warp – 7.90 €
Clark – Growls Garden – 12″ – Warp – 10.90 €
Clark – Growls Garden – 12″ – Warp – 10.90 €
Tim Exile – Listening Tree – 2LP+CD – Warp – 20.90 €
Tim Exile – Listening Tree – CD – Warp – 17.90 €
Bar 9 – Murda Sound Remixes – 12″ – Z Audio – 8.90 €
Mike Lennon & Rusko – When Science Fails – 12″ – Z Audio – 8.90 €

INDIE, JAZZ, PUNK & MORE GUITARS:
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Mutations EP – CD / LP – Ad Noiseam – 14.90 €
The Whitest Boy Alive – Rules – LP – Asound/Bubbles – 19.90 €
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle – LP – Drag City – 20.90 €
The Ex – 30 – 2LP – Ex Records – 18.90 €
Mono – Hymn to the Immortal Wind – 2LP – Human Highway – 19.90 €
Santogold – s/t – CD – Lizard King – 14.90 €
Liars – They were wrong so we drowned – CD – Mute – 17.90 €
Mulatu Astatke / The Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information – CD – Strut – 17.90 €
Loudest Boom Bah Yeah – Booty Beats Fully Realized – LP – Teenbeat – 15.90 €

EXPERIMENTAL, AMBIENT, EXOTICA & NOISE:
Aun – Motorsleep – CD – Alien8 – 17.90 €
H. Schwarz & Âme Dixon – The Grandfather Paradox – 2CD – BBE – 19.90 €
Compilation – Adventures In Sound – CD – El records – 17.90 €
Compilation – A Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island – CD – Lo Recordings – 20.90 €
Sebastien Tellier – Kilometer – 12″ – Record Makers – 9.90 €
I.U.D. – The Proper Sex – LP – The Social Registry – 19.90 €
Lustmord – The Dark Places Of The Earth – CD – Vaultworks – 16.90 €
Mama Rosin – Brule Lentement – LP – Voodoo Rhythm – 17.90 €
Snake Figures Arkestra – Cooks & Devils – CD – Zarek – 13.90 €
Heather, Kammerer, Shirley – Ruby, Ruby, Ruby – The Shadow Of Your Smile – CD – Zarek – 16.90 €
Charlemagne Palestine & Perlonex – It Ain´t Necessarily So – 2CD – Zarek – 18.90 €

TECHNO, MINIMAL & HOUSE:
Dub Taylor – Beauty & Beast – 12″ – Alpaca – 8.90 €
L Kubic – Pompeji – 12″ – Black Fox Music – 7.90 €
Modeselektor – Happy Birthday Remixed #3 – 12″ – Bpitch Control – 8.90 €
Ernesto Ferreyra – Siluetas – 12″ – Cadenza – 8.90 €
Digitaline – Tapadaka – 12″ – Cadenza – 8.90 €
Michel Cleis – La Mezcla – 12″ – Cadenza – 9.90 €
Minilogue – Animals RMX – 12″ – Cocoon Recordings – 9.90 €
Sarass – Compost Black Label 44 – 12″ – Compost Black Label – 9.90 €
Adam Marshall – North at Night EP – 12″ – Cynosure – 8.90 €
Christian Naujoks – Untitled – LP – Dial – 17.90 €
Donk Boys – Sucker Punch – 12″ – Dirty Bird – 8.90 €
Chris Lattner & Coco Malente – Limbo Taxi – 12″ – Einmaleins Musik – 8.90 €
Walker – Schrei Nach Liebe – 12″ – Force Inc. – 7 €
Someone Else – Elsewehere EP – 12″ – Foundsound – 8.90 €
Daniel Steinberg – Uptown / Revival – 12″ – Front Room – 8.90 €
Who Made Who – The Plot (remixes) – 12″ – Gomma – 8.90 €
Who Made Who – The Plot (Nôze, Mole Remix) – 12″ – Gomma – 9.90 €
Oliver Huntemann – Rikarda – 12″ – Ideal Audio – 9.90 €
Culoe de Song – The Bright Forest – 12″ – Innervisions – 9.90 €
Jus-Ed – Our Children EP – 12″ – Kinda Soul Recordings – 8.90 €
Martin Eyerer – Cave Canem – 12″ – KlingKlong – 8.90 €
Sven Tasnadi & Juno 6 – Leipzig EP – 12″ – Liebe Detail – 8.90 €
Donnacha Costello – The Only Way To Win Is Not To Play – 12″ – Look Long – 8.90 €
Kerri Chandler – Track 1 Revisited – 12″ – Max Trax – 9.90 €
DeWalta / Aquatic – Skipper – 12″ – Meander Music – 8.90 €
Anja Schneider / Lee Van Dowski – Deseo – 12″ – Mobilee – 8.90 €
Filippo Moscatello – Pagliaccio – CD – Mood Music – 18.90 €
Italoboyz – Bla Bla Bla – 12″ – Mothership – 9.90 €
Portable – The Emerald Life – 12″ – Musik Krause – 8.90 €
DJ Sneak – Back In The Box 2 – 12″ – NRK – 9.90 €
Karmina – Wonder 21 – 12″ – Opossumini – 7.90 €
Abonné – Bongospace – 12″ – Opossumini – 7.90 €
Marcus Hartmann – Rapid Fire – 12″ – Opossumini – 7.90 €
2 Working Donkeys – Sex In The Jungle – 12″ – Opossumini – 7.90 €
Blackwall – Blackcrack / Proseedore – 12″ – Opossumini – 7.90 €
Compilation – Kalte Füsse II Vol.2 – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Format: B – Split Pot – Inhouse Mixes – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Gennaro Rossi – Multicoloured Plants – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Sweet ‘n Candy / Rufus Dunkel – Hit The Points / All My Eye – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Moritz Piske – Slipless In Seattle – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Moritz Piske – Ein Känguruh Im Clubraum / Huldigung Den Triolen – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Blackwall – Fast And Cheap / Cocs – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Format: B – Split Pot – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Format: B – Cosa Nostra Funk – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
SweetN.Candy – Behind The Scenes – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Compilation – Kalte Füsse II Vol.1 – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Sven Tasnadi – Our Destiny – 12″ – Ornaments – 9.90 €
Compilation – 10 Years of Poker Flat – 2LP – Poker Flat – 17.90 €
Compilation – 10 Years of Poker Flat – 3CD – Poker Flat – 31.90 €
Steve Bug – Two of a kind – 12″ – Poker Flat – 8.90 €
Martini Brös – Pläy – 2 x 12” – Pokerflat – 17.90 €
Ion Ludwig – The Manipulator Of – 12″ – Resopal – 8.90 €
Echologist ft. Spaceape – The Mercy Dubz – 12″ – Resopal – 9.90 €
Two_EM &El Locco – Bodywork – 12″ – Rotary Cocktail Recordings – 8.90 €
Dreher & Smart – Call of Banganzwe – 12″ – Rotary Cocktail Recordings – 8.90 €
Robert Dietz – Forward Snipping – 12″ – Running Back – 9.90 €
Das Bierbeben – Remixes – 12″ – Shitkatapult – 7.90 €
Lindström – Where You Go I Go Too – 2LP – Smalltown Supersound – 23.90 €
Compilation – Nueva Cumbia Argentina – 12″ – Soot – 11.90 €
Osborne – Hover Crafting EP – 12” – Spectral – 9.90 €
SCSI-9 – Haystack EP – 12″ – Subotnik – 10.90 €
Amir – Communicare – 12″ – Trapez – 8.90 €
re-UP – Inside Us – 12″ – Upon You – 8.90 €

HIP HOP:
MF Doom – Born Like This – CD – Lex – 17.90 €
Diplo & Santogold – Top Ranking – A Diplo Dub – CD – Mad Decent – 14.90 €
MF Doom (Viktor Vaughn) – Vaudeville Villain – 2LP – Soundink – 19.90 €
Hudson Mohawke – Polyfolk Dance EP – CD – Warp – 11.90 €

PRINTED MATTERS:
De:Bug – #131 (April 09) – Magazin – de:bug – 3.80 €
Zonic – 14-17 – Magazin+CD – Pommersche Literaturgesellschaft – 12 €

Happy new year from everybody at Dense. May 2009 bring you bass, beats, drones, glitch, riffs, noises, breaks and everything else that sounds sweet to your ears. Here’s a list of new releases found under the current blanket of snow over Berlin, to help you kick start your musical year.

There are quite a few heavy hitters in the dubstep aisle this week, starting with the new “Tempa All Stars vol. 5” from (how surprising) the Tempa label, Coki‘s new 12″ on DMZ, Kode 9‘s new one on Hyperdub, and a very massive “Wasted” 12″ by the less known Excision on Rag & Bone.

Speed things up, add a megaton of breaks, and you get some strong new breakcore records, starting with the infectious and uplifting “Time To Play vol. 1″ by Sickboy on Ad Noiseam, then going with Repeater‘s “Ultra Violet” on Peace Off. After bouncing to these two (and a pause in the techno room with the Ricardo Villalobos remixes of Carl Craig & Moritz von Ostwald‘s recomposition of Ravel’s Bolero), time for some calming down at home with Robert Henke (akak Monolake)’s new “Atom / Document” CD, Old Splendifolia‘s “Swaying Boldly Afar” CD (on Plop), more neo-classical experimentations with Maninkari‘s new “Art des Poussières” LP on Conspiracy, or joy for the eyes with Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s “Insen” DVD (on Raster Noto, of course).

More drones, more doomy sound are coming this week with “Till The Old World’s Blown Up” by Fennesz, Dafeldecker and Brandlmayr, Isis‘s new “Not In Rivers But In Drops” (on Ipecac) and the very pretty split between Jesu and Envy on Conspiracy.
Finally, the spotlight in the hip hop section comes in the form of the first release on Dälek’s new label, Deadverse Recordings, with Oddateee‘s debut “Halfway Homeless”.

ELECTRONICA, DUBSTEP, BREAKCORE and other BROKEN BEATS:
16 Bit – Put Ya Dirt Inside / Ford Fiesta 10″ Destpub 8.90 €
Aelters – Volu Beit 3″CD Tigerbeat 6 5.90 €
African Head Charge – Akwaaba LP Acid Jazz 13.90 €
Bjﾚrk vs. Modeselektor – Dull Flame of Desire 1 12″ One Little Indian 9.90 €
Blackmass Plastics – Mutate To Survive 12″ Rag & Bone 8.90 €
Caspa – Floor Dem 12″ Sub Soldiers 9.90 €
Coki – Triple Six / Road Rage 12″ DMZ 8.90 €
Compilation – Jahtarian Dubbers Vol.1 CD Jahtari 15.90 €
Compilation – Around The World vol. 2 12″ True Tiger Recordings 8.90 €
Compilation – Tempa All Stars vol.5 2×12″ Tempa 15.90 €
Compilation – Spring Breathing CD Acidsamovar 13.90 €
Compilation – Praxis Anonymous Series 1 12″ Praxis 7.90 €
Compilation – Russian Subs vol. 1 CD Subnoto12 Records 13.90 €
Compilation – Tail Wagging Music 2 x 12″ La Madame Avec Le Chien 17.90 €
Excision – Wasted 12″ Rag & Bone 8.90 €
Fanny – Icantbelieveyourwereamusician.yougotnosoulbaby 2 x 12″ Widerstand 13.90 €
Goth Trad – Law / The Clown 12″ Deep Medi Musik 8.90 €
Headhunter – Grounded 12″ Tempa 11.90 €
Julian Hruza – Super Sound 12″ Jhruza 8.90 €
King Cannibal – Call Me Cold Blooded 12″ Rag & Bone 8.90 €
Kode9 vs LD – Bad / 2 Bad 12″ Hyperdub 8.90 €
Kromestar / Hatcha / Cyrus – Cybertron 12″ Southside Dub Stars 8.90 €
Ku Bo – Kaggua / Lem Lem 12″ Man Recordings 8.90 €
Last Step (Venetian Snares) – 1961 CD Planet Mu 17.90 €
Mala – Miracles 12″ Deep Medi Musik 8.90 €
Monstr – Incident / 4AM Brawl 10″ Destpub 8.90 €
Moves!!! (Starkey) – All Skate 12″ Dress To Sweat 8.90 €
Old Splendifolia – Swaying Boldly Afar CD Plop 15.90 €
Public Enemy / Deformer – Check What You’re Listening To Remixes 12″ Redrum Recordz 9.90 €
Repeater – Ultra-Violet 12″ Peace Off 8.90 €
Robert Henke – Atom / Document CD Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music 15.90 €
Scuba / Dissident – Tense / Society of Silver Skeletons 12″ Hotflush 8.90 €
Sickboy – Time To Play vol. 1 12″ Ad Noiseam 7.90 €
Skream / G-Squad – Assumptions (Benga remix) 12″ Ringo Records 8.90 €
Submerged / Cable – Corrupt Souls / Gutter 12″ Ohm Resistance 8.90 €
Sunken Foal – Fermented Condiments 12″ Planet Mu 9.90 €
T++ – Unknown 12″ Apple Pips 8.90 €
Tes La Rok & Desto – Low / One Thing 12″ Argon 8.90 €
Various Production – 13 12″ Various Production 9.90 €
Virus Syndicate – For The Music 12″ Contagious Recordings 8.90 €
Yo Majesty – Club Action 12″ Domino 8.90 €
Zomby – The Lie 12″ Ramp Recordings 9.90 €

ROCK, METAL, FOLK and other GUITARS:
$olal Presents The Moonshine Sessions – Luna’s Song 10″ “Ya Basta! 9.90 €
1000 Robota – Du Nicht Er Nicht Sie Nicht LP Tapete 13.90 €
Brendan Cranning – Something For All Of Us LP Arts & Crafts 14.90 €
Fennesz / Dafeldecker / Brandlmayr – Till The Old World’s Blown Up CD Mosz 19.90 €
Final Fantasy – Plays To Please CD Slender Means Society 14.90 €
Gil Scott-Heron – Black Wax DVD Bell Arts 9.90 €
Glass Candy – Beatbox + 7″ LP + 7″ Italians Do It Better 23.90 €
High Places – s/t LP Thrill Jockey 18.90 €
Isis – Not in rivers but in drops MCD Ipecac 9.90 €
Jesu / Envy – Split LP LP Conspiracy 14.90 €
Mohel – Babylon Bypass LP Tyyfus Records 16.90 €
Pelican / These Arms Are Snake – Gold Diggers / Pink Mammoth 10″ Hydra Head 15.90 €
The Blow – Bonus Album 10″ K Records 12 €

NOISE, GLITCH and other ELECTRONIC WEIRDNESS:
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto – Insen Live DVD Raster-Noton 24.90 €
Compilation – Early Electronic Music 59-69 Institute of Sonology CD Sub Rosa 17.90 €
Hanatarash – Hanatarash 3 CD RRR 18 €
Manfred Hﾟbler & Siegfried Schwab – Vampyros Lesbos OST 2LP Crippled Dick Hot Wax 20.90 €
Maninkari – Art des poussieres LP Conspiracy 16.90 €
Nurse with Wound / Stereolab – Crumb Duck CD United Diaries 20 €
Olaf Rupp – Mai 12″ Sieben/A-musik 8 €
Psychic TV – Live in Gﾚttingen CD Temple Records 14.90 €
Psychic TV – Live in Berlin CD Temple Records 14.90 €
Psychic TV – Live in thee East Village CD Temple Records 14.90 €
Walter / Lonberg-Holm / O”Rourke – A Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi CD Grob 12 €

HIP HOP:
Cage – Movies For The Blind CD Eastern Conference 9.90 €
Compilation – A-Side Of Counterflow CD Counterflow 9.90 €
Doseone – Hemispheres CD Purple Guerilla 15 €
Jean Grae – This Week CD Babygrande 12 €
Kissey Asplund – Silverlake 12″ R2 6.90 €
Madlib – Go 7″ Rapster 5.90 €
Mr. Dead – Metabolics Vol. II CD WordSound 15.90 €
Oddateee – Halfway Homeless CD Deadverse Recordings 15.90 €

TECHNO, MINIMAL, HOUSE & TECHNO:
Afefe Iku – Mirror Dance 12″ Yoruba 9.90 €
Agoria – Dust 12″ Different 8.90 €
Anders Ilar – Sworn CD Level 15.90 €
Anders Ilar – Sworn 2LP Level 15.90 €
Apendics Shuffle – You Got my Harmony 12″ Mo’s Ferry 8.90 €
B12 – B12 Records Archive 2CD B 12 Records 19.90 €
Bruno Pronsato & Minimo – That’s Amore EP 12″ Bosconi 9.90 €
Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald – Rmxs by Ricardo Villalobos & Carl Craig 12″ Deutsche Grammophon 8.90 €
Compilation – Daft Punk’d #2 12″ DPD 9.90 €
Compilation – Daft Punk’d #1 12″ DPD 9.90 €
Compilation – Top Ten 3/3 EP Level 7.90 €
Crane.ak – Tripower 12″ Force Tracks 7.90 €
Gaiser – Blank Fade 2LP M_nus 18.90 €
Hobo – From A To B 12″ M_nus 8.90 €
Jens Bond – Hypochonder EP 12″ Highgrade 8.90 €
Kaitaro – Minority EP EP Level 7.90 €
Liquid Liquid – Optimo Remixes 12″ Domino 8.90 €
Liquid Liquid – M. Dear & Sample208 remixes 12″ Domino 8.90 €
Luciano – Live @ Weetamix CD Max.Ernst 15.90 €
M.C. Sergio – In The Name Of Love 12″ Bellaphon 10 €
Miss Jools – La Luna 12″ Mobilee 8.90 €
Modul – Pioneers EP EP Level 7.90 €
Motorcitysoul – Hatohay 12″ Lofi 8.90 €
Phonique – the Pump EP 12″ Dessous 8.90 €
Pigon – Promises 12″ Dial 8.90 €
Radio Slave – Sex Trax EP 12″ Running Back 9.90 €
Raudive vs. Donnacha Costello – The Pokerlat Tournament 12″ Poker Flat 8.90 €
Robert Wyatt & Bertrand Burgalat – This Summer Night (Hot Chip Remix) 12″ Domino 8.90 €
Trick & Kubic – Nunsdorf City 12″ Killa Beat 8.90 €
Unit Moebius – The Golden years pt.1 12″ Clone Classic Cuts 9.90 €