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Netlabel: www.norbumusic.com
Style: minimal deep, funky minimal

After a lengthy pause, this octal annual release brings joy and happiness to all. With his skillful production, Kalope brings us another not-so-dark release. This selection of aquatic-themed joyful tracks is a sure summer hit.

This short and infectious ep is a more housey affair for these sun-filled chilled Ibiza mornings. After a mesmerizing ambient opening, In deep sea expedition continues with majestic and deep-influenced spliced chords. It’s a deeper exploration of the photic zone. This tom-driven track sees some resemblance to earlier Kalope tracks with its sampled vocals, but reinvents itself with a more complex and playful rhodes theme. Building its groove with shifting chords and echoing flutters, it goes deeper preparing us the next menacing encounters.

Jumping us like a jellyfish in open water, the Droog experience begins. Building its groove around the original reinvented chord progression, it continously explores the depths of original tune. Like a colourful discomedusae, Droog wobbles around like a true deep house chap he is. With its clever reenactment of the main theme with a little touch of reverberation this track builds itself to the high-pitched plucked climax. Like any good track, it abruptly ends this ep. Good subtle edit!

01.in deep sea expedition
02.in deep sea expedition (droogs whats up mr jellyfish edit)

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NetLabel: www.norbumusic.com
Link: release
Style: minimal house

This sixth, double-track release on Norbu is marked with a return of Kalope, along with his already-trademark sound combining quirky minimal with experimental ambient elements.

Flatfield, the ever-evolving title track bounces and clicks, creating itself from found sounds and random claps and crackles. Intersect with subliminal number counting, the track starts off slowly developing itself with improvised percussion and sounds into an soundscape of echoes, ambience and mangled-up samples.

Plucked guitar melody resonates with the rest of the tracks, paving way for more pads delayed track development. Lintilla, inspired by a mesmerizing cloning story of the yesteryear, starts off with pitched human noises and crispy percussion which serves as an introduction to melody-going-on-randomness synth line and slight reverberations.

Resonating break familiarizes you with a proper ambient treatment before continuing with the rest of the track and descending into epic soundscapes.

01.flatfield
02.lintilla

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NetLabel: www.norbumusic.com
Link: release
Style: minimal deep

This time, from your favourite netlabel, from Belgrade, Serbia, we’ve prepared for you the perfect mixture of your favourite boule-based sporting event and a gentle giant robot story. The first annual 5th release starts off with kalope’s heartwarming petanque.

Watch out that cochonnet, kalope’s crispy percussions and resonating pads tell a struggling story on a path to petanque stardom. Grgamrgatron is a disturbing, yet fuzzy story by droog, reflecting on a deep emotional connection between a battle robot and a lush cactus.

This mesmerising love story is all about delayed and non-moving robotic jungle percussions. Filled with echoing progression, this track bears a mysterious, almost-plucked melody. A first for Norbu, this release features two bonus not-so-well hidden tracks, remixes by kalope and droog remixing each others respective tracks. Let’s bocce!

01.kalope - petanque
02.kalope - petanque (droog remix)
03.droog - grgamrgatron
04.droog - grgamrgatron (kalope remix)

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NetLabel: www.norbumusic.com
Link: release
Style: minimal tech

Continuing where third release left off, Norbu’s new one is a deep slice of reduced minimal seduction coming from serbia’s known DJ and producer Shoxy. This sexy two-track starts off with Casanova, a sexy dancefloor bomb already recognised and played by top DJ’s.

Chunky percussion and bleeps build this deep monster to the epic dissonant plucked break. Swoops of noise complement this track in all of its club-friendliness. Moving on from the venetian womanizer also known as track one, Sombrero is a more mexican affair, evolving with the ever-changing beats and wooshes, recombined with tones and bleeps awash with morphing echoes of percussion.

Pitched hits of synthetic drums, almost-industrial sounds of filtered noise form this club bomb, ranking in at over seven minutes of dance-friendly material. This may not be a golden sombrero with “only” two tracks, but it’s the best present for any minimal music lover or DJ. With several releases lined up for this year, Shoxy is a producer to watch out for.

01.casanova
02.sombrero

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Free NetLabel: www.internutmusic.com/norbu
Archive.org: details
Style: minimal tech

“Lo bueno, si es breve, 2 veces bueno”… sería la frase perfecta para a este trabajo, pero aún así…, me he quedado con ganas porque son 2 temas realmente grandes. Un primer corte oscuro con una melodía preciosa y “muy schon” es un temazo que hará que te levantes de la silla. Posdata: espero que os guste el nuevo diseño

This rather playful release from droog brings yet another portion of seducing minimal goodness. Coinciding with the joyful day of March the 8th, droog wishes a happy IWD to all the women around the globe and especially those in some eastern european countries.

This holiday release opens with alles ist hermoso, a shaped slice of both minimal and epic proportions, intersect with deep and clicky percussion while complementing the fat analog synth melody that takes the listener on an upbringing journey through delayed subtleties.

A clunky dancefloor bomb, muy sch÷n, takes the listener on an exploration of the basic beats, clicks and imperfect interaction of offbeats. Paired with exceptionally-produced funky bass and out-of-time chunks of percussion, it is a sure keeper. This track’s killer short breaks bring Norbu closer to the dance floor.

01.alles ist hermoso
02.muy schon –> buenísimo!!

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NetLabel: www.internutmusic.com/norbu
Link: release
Style: ambient/downtempo, minimal house

At the beginning of whole new Norbu trend, comes a release from promising young Belgrade artist droog. Starting off with the poisonous happiness of vellocet, droog takes us on a chunky glitchy journey through uplifting wooshes.

Going on with synthemesc droog takes a different approach using funky minimal sounds intersect with hypnotic plucked melody.

Third track, drencrom, is all about minimal ambience and feedback experiments.

01.vellocet
02.synthemesc
03.drencrom

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