Various Artists on OBSCUUR Records: Four Compilations, 2022 to 2025
Various Artists is the name behind four multi-artist releases on OBSCUUR Records, released between June 2022 and July 2025. Two are albums built around electro, trance and techno/house, one is a four-track electro EP, and one is a 25-track electro album. This page walks through each in release order, newest first. The full Various Artists page lists everything in one place.
What has Various Artists released on OBSCUUR Records?
Four releases so far:
- Certified Summer Heat (album, 11 July 2025): 15 tracks, tagged Electro and Techno/House.
- It’s A Eurotrance Album (album, 9 May 2025): 7 tracks, tagged Electro, Dance and Trance.
- FIRE SERIES Vol. 2 (EP, 9 May 2023): 4 tracks, tagged Electro.
- Peace is constructed, not fought for (album, 16 June 2022): 25 tracks, tagged Electro.
That is 51 tracks across four releases, with electro as the thread running through all of them.
What is on Certified Summer Heat?
Certified Summer Heat is the most recent release. It opens with “Get Crackin’” and “Windows Down” and closes on “Shades”. Along the way you get “Make My Body Rock”, “Raise Your Hands”, “Back To The Stars”, “Summer Party Tool” and “Dale Candela”. It landed in July, and the track titles are written for open air and late sets.
What is on It’s A Eurotrance Album?
It’s A Eurotrance Album is the shortest of the two albums at seven tracks. The tracklist reads “Mercy”, “3005”, “California Gurls”, “Disparate Youth”, “Complicated”, “Heaven” and “Pjanoo”. It sits in the Trance and Dance lane, with Electro alongside, and came out two months before Certified Summer Heat.
Where do FIRE SERIES Vol. 2 and Peace is constructed, not fought for fit in?
These are the earlier releases, both tagged Electro.
FIRE SERIES Vol. 2 is a four-track EP from May 2023: “Messing”, “Mirror Glitch”, “Reverse Bitch” and “Faceless Gods”.
Peace is constructed, not fought for is the biggest of the four. Released in June 2022, it runs to 25 tracks, from “Tracksuit On The Dancefloor” and “Analog Babylon” to “Sad Rave”, “Hamburg” and “Garbage Pail Kids”. It is a full-length listen, and a good one to work through slowly if you are digging for new electro.
Four releases, three years, one catalogue to dig through.
