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Swedish house music shooting star Axel Boman has just released an album that would make Kraftwerk proud: 'Radioactive Orchestra featuring Axel Boman ' is all about listening to the sound of radioactivity.

Radioactive Orchestra is actually a web-based musical interface (accessible here), which has been developed by Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in collaboration with the Nuclear Safety and Training Institute (KSU). Co-designed by media artist Kristofer Hagbard the software makes the processes of atomic gamma decay audible and has served as the primary tool for six tracks of wonderfully subtle electronica house and ambient by Axel Boman.…

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Chances are you've seen G.Rizo on stage on Patrick Pulsinger's recent album tour, behind the decks at her own Art Klub, or starring in performances by US artist Jen Ray.

For the past few years G.Rizo has been busy making waves across the music and art scenes, editing New York's Repellent magazine, releasing on DJ Hell's Gigolo imprint, and working with musicians like In Flagranti, Snax, and Jimmy Edgar.

Most recently the multi-talented singer, DJ, and producer has embarked on yet another new venture: Setting up her own label, Hezekina Pollutina.

First releases…

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Hot on the heels of our Stockholm City Focus our DJ mix this week comes from one of the city's finest young artists, Kranglan Broadcast label owner Harald Björk.

Over the past few years Björk has defined a unique style of melodic, electronica-influenced techno for himself, across EPs for Traum Schallplatten, his own Kranglan Broadcast label, and most recently his debut album 'Bigfield'.

Having grown up in the suburbs of Stockholm, nature has served as a constant inspiration to Björk, whose music is naive and emotional, yet bears an elegant and experimental edge.

Björk's fusion of dreamy melodies,…

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For our 25th and final podcast this year we would like to look back on a year of amazing music with our most personal podcast edition to date.

Each member of the zero" team - those that haven't gone missing in the holiday snow chaos that is - presents his favourite track of 2010 in this podcast edition, the one track that has made this year special for him or her.

With a number of different tastes and penchants represented by the people that zero" keep up and running, we hope that you will enjoy our selection of favourites.…

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This week's podcast is once again our Crew Picks edition, which brings you a fresh selection of our favourite tracks from the past few weeks.

For every Crew Picks edition each member of our team selects five of his current favourites to be assembled into a one-hour mix by one of the DJs in our crew.

This time around the mixing part has been done by Georg, editor-in-chief at zero" and also known under the name of DJ Glow from his productions of Detroit-style electro, mainly for his own Trust label.

Assembled digitally this time around, his mix includes…

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This week's podcast comes from someone who certainly ranks among the hottest artists of the year 2010: Bucharest's Cosmin Nicolae, better known as Cosmin TRG.

Nicolae originally become known under the name of TRG when he single-handedly put Romanian dubstep on the map back in 2007. His very first single, 'Put You Down / Broken Heart', was the first release on Ramadanman's Hessle Audio imprint and provided a template for the label's influential deep and reduced dubstep style. Both tracks received much attention at the time, spawning equally acclaimed remixes by Martyn and label boss Ramadanman the…

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Ever since its inception in 1997 Californian label Phthalo has been a treasure chest for the discerning electronic music fetishist. Lovingly curated by Dimitri Fergadis, known as Phthalocyanine from his productions for Plug Research, Planet Mu, and A-Musik, Phthalo has been home to early works of renowned artists like Daedelus, Vladislav Delay, Kit Clayton, and Jimmy Tamborello's Dntel project.

Vladislav Delay has just resurrected his Sistol alias after ten years for a new album on the label, and both John Tejada and Dntel have reissued some of their early works via Phthalo. A startling line-up of…

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For years the sound of Chicago Juke and ghetto house has remained one of the last untapped and truly underground genres of dance music. The origins of the style can be traced back to the first half of the 1990s, when DJs like Paul Johnson, DJ Deeon, and DJ Funk started speeding up Chicago house music and stripping it down to its bare-bone grooves, bass-lines, and raunchy lyrics on their productions for labels like Dance Mania. Ghetto house - or Booty house, as it was commonly called at the time - was born.

In recent years ghetto…

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Berlin's dub master Fenin has recently been raising attention once again with his releases for Echochord Colour (alongside like-minded producer Deadbeat), as well as his own label, Dock.

Now Shitkatapult presents two new volumes of Fenin's music: 'Mixes & Maxis', a retrospective compilation of some of his finest productions transcending the borders between techno and dub, as well as 'None Of Them (Robag Wruhme Remixes)', a single featuring two distinct interpretations of Fenin's evergreen by former Wighnomy Brother Robag Wruhme.

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As Berlin's Berghain club has become nearly synonymous with the German capital's night-life scene over the past five years, its label, Ostgut Ton, has done an exquisite job of bringing the club's distinguished sounds of underground techno and house to the world.

Ostgut Ton celebrates its fifth anniversary this week with a truly unmissable compilation, 'Fünf', and we are happy to join the festivities with special prices on all Ostgut full-length albums as well as a retrospective of some of the label's defining releases.

Go here to see what's on offer:
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