Decloak Music Studios Forced to Vacate Manchester Home Following Developer Buyout
Goodbye Marlsboro House!
You shall be missed by all…
Today we say farewell to the bunker studio at Marlsboro house. Seven years since the inception of Decloak Music Studio in the basement of this building it is time to part way. From floods, robberies, crumbling walls and even ghost sightings the place was a labour of pure, unadulterated love. Friends were made along with a mountain of music from many people who came through our doors.
We knew the writing was on the wall however. Recently the property was purchased by the owner of Boohoo.com, a business located around the corner from ours and one who has been redeveloping large parts of the city centre. Last month tenants of Marslboro House were served notice bringing to an end our time here over the past seven years. It is one of the final city centre bastions of independent, creative spaces, so the loss of the building is far greater than the loss of Decloak’s home.
We cannot thank enough everyone who has supported and believed in Decloak Music, and I can not thank enough those who have been that positive about the services they received it has meant I have barely had to run a single advert in four years - seriously, thank you!
But this is certainly not the end. Decloak will be continuing to help anyone looking for support in underground electronic music production. With the massive influx of online students over the past 6 months a larger amount of our focus has moved over to this format.
Decloak Music and the services we offer lives on in the next chapter of the story and I look forward to giving more details on this in the next few weeks.
Much love,
Decloak Music
Zonal - Delay Control EP out now on Basement Reborn
Earlier this year we saw another in a string of releases emerging out of the depths of the Decloak bunker. This time Zonal drops another EP on French label Basement Reborn, who’s recent releases feature the likes of Marla Singer and Ket Robinson, the latter of which is also propped up by a remix from Manchester based, A.Morgan.
The first track Delay Control is defined by dark rolling low ends, infused with powerful chord stabs, evoking a peak-time warehouse-rave feel, with Control Delay being a more stripped back and dubbed out affair, whilst still maintaining the driving low ends and high energy techno percussion. Detright is a more synth laden track, with a little more funk in the bass and organic leads. The EP has elements of both US and UK techno with European vibes through out, and is supported by Alex.Do (Dystopian), Juan Trujillo (Simplecoding), Juho Kusti (Deep Space Helsinki), Marco Raineri, Patrick DSP and Raymundo Rodriguez (Jaded) plus many more respectable Techno artists. Available now at all decent download stores!
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Zonal - Xone VIII EP [Convolution Records]
Today see's the third release of 2018 from Decloak Music patron, Zonal on London based label Convolution Records.
Today see's the third release of 2018 from Decloak Music patron, Zonal. Convolution Records is a new London based label delivering fresh techno, and they welcome Zonal to the label for their second release.
The release see's four club ready techno cuts. All tracks are tough with heavy, driving low ends, but nice variations of groove. From the tight rhythmic percussion and twisted lead line in Zone T to the downright obnoxious and wonky synths in title track Xone VIII this release is deep and varied whilst keeping the pounding warehouse techno vibe at the forefront throughout.
You Can check out previews here; https://soundcloud.com/zonal_mcr/sets/zonal-xone-vii-ep
and buy the EP from the usual download stores;
https://www.junodownload.com/products/zonal-xone-viii/3862846-02/
https://www.traxsource.com/title/1011500/xone-viii
https://itunes.apple.com/lv/album/xone-viii-ep/1413144836
