Day: August 23, 2010
Shed – The Traveller [OSTGUTCD014]
One of the most cherished artists in the Ostgut family, Shed returns with his sophomore album “The Traveller”. It’s a more subtle and perhaps more confident record than Shedding The Past, taking in austere dub minimalism (‘The Bot’), gauzy ambient interludes (‘STP 2′), imperious acid techno (‘My R-Class’), and, on closing track ‘Leave Things’, a kind of scuffed, ecstatic jungle reminiscent of Aphex Twin’s ‘Polynomial-C’. FACT’s Kiran Sande called up Pawlowitz in Berlin to discuss the LP, and the unlikely debt it owes to the Pet Shop Boys…”
Donato Dozzy – K [FUR018]
VA – From Chicago Turin Amsterdam & Dublin With Love [UZURI012]
The new Uzuri presents a VA with 4 traks from Ksoul & Muteoscillator, Chicago Skyway, Juju & Jordash and Slowburn, bringing to us the sound of house from Turin, Chicago, Amsterdam and Dublin.
Axel Boman – Holy Love [PAMPA004]
Hyperactive hotshot house hunk Axel Boman steps up and delivers a stunning debut EP for Pampa. Since many years an important force on the small but friendly Swedish club scene, and one third of the Studio Barnhus crew together with Kornél Kovács and Petter, Axel is as experienced a producer as his ideas are fresh. He is creating “worlds” rather than “tracks”, and on his “Holy Love” EP we are transported to three very different places indeed.
The Hipodrome Of Music 