Filed under: 111.Free Tracks | Tags: azari & iii, carl craig, dieter krause, dj qu, falty dl, hackman, jimmy edgar, mustang, soul clap
Filed under: 001.Features, 111.Free Tracks | Tags: album, big bully, chela simone, contexterrior, free download, house, jay haze, laila tov, paul st. hilaire, ricardo villalobos, rockey, sao paolo drum circle
Jay Haze gives new album away for free and asks that if you download it, to listen to it all the way through at least once.
“Love = Evolution” is rumored to be Haze’s last artist album. It features a number of collaborations and as well as the expected soulful and techy house sounds, there are numerous diversions into dub and more laid back listening experiences.
free download: RA / sendspace / oron
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: clone records, clone royal oak, genius of time, house
Clone Royal Oak series is coming with another young talent, Genius Of Time from Sweden.Three takes on classic house music done by young producers in their unique almost serene style that reveal their Nordic roots.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: beatdown, deep house, demetrio giannice, third ear
Demetrio Giannice with some blissful house tracks that are rooted in the American house traditions of some Detroit pioneers as previously nicely documented on the Third Ear Beatdown series!. Jazzy, intense and bright sounding tracks with a personal Demetrio Giannice twist that deserve to be on that everlasting black wax!
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: chicago, deep house, dj qu, inmeg, joey anderson
DJ Qu associates with Joey Anderson to drops the 1st release on his new label. Raw and serious cool tracks, somehow between early Chicago and the smooth tracks of Dj Qu.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: detroit, grooveman spot, house, jazzy sport
Here’s the 2nd 12inch withcuts from the forthcoming Grooveman Spot 3rd solo project album Runnin Pizza. This 2nd 12inch has some nice beatdown vibes going with a Hip Hop aesthetic and a raw Detroit house vibe. “Going On” is the a percussive boogie beatdown track and has mid-tempo claps with percussion, fender rhodes and a strings sample going “5hg Rhyth” is a wonderful afro-percussive acid beatdown cut, starting with a percussive groove and complemented by a acid sound with funk vibe and groovy key chords. “Take Back” is the new dimension of Grooveman Spot’s hip hop beat science and grooves.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: house, jerzzey boy, my love is underground
The third release on the French label My Love Is Underground comes from Jerzzey Boy, clasic deep house tracks with a New Jersey feeling.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: clone basement series, clone records, conforce, techno, xdb
Conforce makes his debut on Clone with two raw intense tracks (Spoiled and Vulcan) that are heroin for techno lovers! Spoiled also comes in 2 remix versions my XDB.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: berlin techno, md2, mike dehnert, techno
The third release of MD2. A 4 track EP with 4 straight techno tracks that are raw and effective!
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: berlin techno, bleak, sudden drop, techno
Sudden Drop step it up a gear for their 1st release of 2011 with newcomer Bleak providing a double header of beats. ‘Isolated’ kicks things off in fine style with sleek, super phatt beats and a serious amount of pace. Throw in some tight production technique, a serious attention to groove and a fine palette of sounds and you have an impressive addition to any techno minded dj’s record box.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: berlin techno, drumcode, jerome sydenham, techno
It’s a swift return to Drumcode for Jerome Sydenham. “In The Zone” does what it says on the tin, swiftly locking into a brooding heads down techno groove, driven by intricate textured drums, scratched vocal effects and a singular synth throb that gradually increases with hypnotic intent as the track progresses. The flipside excursion “Amp” proves to be just as menacing a peak time proposition with a guttural bassline that twinges with evil intent sitting deep below crisp minimal drums and an undulating rhythmic buzz.
Taking the low end tradition of Bristol music and marrying it to a murky, swung 4/4 aesthetic, Kowton returns to Idle Hands with a 2 tracks EP. “She Don’t Jack” creeps into life with industrial textures before crisp, rigid claps and shuffled hits skip energetically around a bassline malevolent in its simplicity. “Drunk On Sunday” works drum machine grooves from the off, heading down a stripped-bare corridor of pitch-black house.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, aril brikha, art of vengeance, detroit techno
Aril Brikha will release “Deeparture In Time – Revisited” in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of his 1999/2000 released Album on Transmat. This also kicks off his own label “Art Of Vengeance”. Next to the remastered originals of “Deeparture In Time”, the release features a 2nd CD with 10 previously unreleased tracks that were created between 1995 and 1999. All of them take us on a time travel to the 90ies, with a sound still prevalent in modern productions, as pure as can be. This one’s for the lovers of the early Detroit Techno with that unique Aril Brikha twist, and all those who’d like to discover it: One Chord To Rule Them All.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: axis records, detroit techno, jeff mills, minimal techno, the good robot
The third installment to “The Good Robot” series from Jeff Mills. This record focuses on the ways humans interact with machines to create anything, even something as simple as a drum pattern – machines can be precise on their own, or altered in the way humans can program and utilize their functions.
After many years of collaboration, this is the first full Matt O’brien release on Curle.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: detroit techno, polymorph, the analog roland orchestra
The Analog Roland Orchestra now join the Polymorph family. Raw analog Detroit techno with the dark atmosphere is what these chaps do and they do it well! The original favors a slowly evolving powerful hybrid of Techno, while on the flipside the Reshape mix of “Timespaceroom” is much more on the tougher side of things with a bold bassline, spooky voices and tough chords.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: applied rhythmic technology, art, detroit techno, ian o'brien, kirk degiorgio, the third man
“Promenade Eleven” is a reverse-engineered remake of “Night On The Promenade” which originally appeared in limited quantities on the New Religion label in 2006 under the name “Super-A-Loof”. Promenade Eleven (Original Mix) adhere’s faithfully to the original arrangement but has been re-recorded and totally remixed from the ground-up for a modern club sound. Further to this release are two vastly different remixes – from label owner Kirk Degiorgio and The Third Man.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, deep house, fred p, soul people
“The Incredible Adventures of Captain P” is Fred Peterkin’s third album to date, following two full-lengths under his pseudonym Black Jazz Consortium. Though loyal to his hypnotic deep house signature sound, this album breaks the mold a bit, throwing in ambient, left-field and even some hip-hop style beats.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: blakkat, detroit house, freerange records, gerd jansen, holly backler, manuel tur, mark bell, phillip lauer, tuff city kids
Here we get treated to an excellent old school house burner complete with remixes from some equally hot names on the scene, Tuff City Kids (Gerd Jansen owner of the Running Back label and Philip Lauer from Arto Mwambe) and Blakkat aka Mark Bell.
Subliminal sounds by the Italian Marco Shuttle who delivers an brilliant executed slice of dark basement techno.
