Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: break sl, c-beams, house, jackmate, sandrow m, tina slotta, uncanny valley
C-Beams’ debut artist EP on Uncanny Valley. For “Strollin’” they lend the vocal talents by Tina Slotta and the result is an irresistible House-jam. Easy vibrant beats are complemented by birds’ twittering, warm keys and Tina’s carefree lyrics. Jackmate’s remix toughen things up and transfers the tracks with mighty Detroit- chords into a real monster for the dancefloor. The slightly murkier “Scrapyard” takes its strength out of the interaction between its vehement beats and the C-Beams- typical sound excursions.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: house, moomin, oskar offermann, smallville
Sebastian Genz aka Moomin drops a teaser for his forthcoming album on Smallville Records. “Sweet Sweet” introduces the tenderness of Moomin’s deep diving sound and is supported by a Oskar Offermann remix.
Flip a coin and decide which side is which and where you are at? Where do you stand in life, what have you achieved? Is it all yours? Play russian roulette, ask fate, live and die. Restart and think. Work or rave. Live to the extremes. Do it with passion. Now or never. Heads or tails.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: b.h.v.f., house, live at robert johnson, massimiliano pagliara, tuff city kids
Massimiliano Pagliara’s debut album “Focus For Infinity” gets some action. Phillip Lauer (Arto Mwambe) and Gerd Janson (Running Back) team up as Tuff City Kids, offering two takes on “A Wrong Chance”. Sweet layer cake of bass, synths, strings and for those who are faint at heart, an additional riddim version provides hidden acid fantasies. On the other side, Oliver Hafenbauer and Christian Beisswenger (Arto Mwambe) keep on exploring their sharp electro funk under their B.H.V.F moniker.
Filed under: 101.Events, Other Events | Tags: club berlin, das komitee, dragos rusu, mick wills, the fresh, toygun
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: compilation, hiruko records, minimal synth, new wave
Collection of no-wave and minimal synth acts from the Japanese post-punk scene. Most of the tracks presented here are reissued for the first time.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: electro, esp institute, synthwave, totebagz
Totebagz is the collaboration between two of Melbourne’s most daring minds, Jerky Perky aka Misha Hallenbach (Perks and Mini, Bamboo Musik) and DJ Biscuit (Moonrocks). On this limited edition disc, the Totebagz pile blankets of synth upon deep-fried circuitry upon drum machines that have a mind of their own.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: 100% silk, aurora halal, disco, electro, innergaze, jason letkiewicz, synthwave
100% Silk return with another exceedingly alluring drop, this time from Aurora Halal and Jason Letkiewicz aka Innergaze. Lithe, sexy post-punk disco is the vibe, NYC in 1981/2011 is the setting for ‘Shadow Disco’, strutting to languid dub bassline and preening synth flashes, before ‘Way Of Life’ retires to the balcony to ahem, powder one’s nose and gaze out at glittering harbour lights dancing off glass-curtained high rises. Soon enough the seductive, panther-purring bassline, cooing big-haired women and rippling rototoms of ‘Hypnogogisco’ beckons us back to the middle of the floor and the chick with the biggest hair asks ‘What’s Your Body Doing Tonight’, only it comes out all syrupy slow and you realise you shouldn’t have necked that pint of GHB.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: edmund xavier, electro, horrid red, minimal wave, new wave, soft abuse records
Edmund Xavier’s dark minimal wave project Horrid Red new EP on Soft Abuse. “Silent Party” features the group’s signature style of combining gloomy creepiness with an overall very danceable rhythm pattern, adding up to strangely irresistible party tunes, new wave & post-punk.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: compilation, confused house, disco, future times, hunee, l.i.e.s., long island electrical systems, steve moore, steve summers, tom noble
The Future Times posse returns with an extended family for the newest installment in their “Vibe” compilation series. This DJ double pack includes tracks both rugged and pristine, from Alexis Le-Tan, Steve Summers, Tom Noble, L.I.E.S. remixed by Max D, Juju & Jordash, Confused House, Steve Moore, Hunee and Swimmers & Gang.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: chez damier, chicago, house, jungle wonz, marshall jefferson, simoncino, skylax records
The second part form Simoncinos’s “The Warrior Dance”. On the A side, 2 brand new tracks : one cover of Marshall Jefferson as Jungle Wonz “Time marches on” & “Inga”s crème”, while on the B side, there are 2 remixes from Chez Damier.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: house, mark du mosch, tabernacle records, techno
Mark du Mosch takes you on his unique journey that glides perfectly between contrasting emotions. Sombre notes brush with warm melodies over four bubbling tracks that are as at home on the 4am shift as they are on the stereo.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: e.r.p., electro, gerard hanson, harbour city sorrow
Harbour City Sorrow presents a special release from E.R.P. aka Gerard Hanson, featuring three electro tracks.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: ambient, boris divider, e.r.p., electro, julien neto, oscar mulero, semantica records
Semantica celebrates its 5 years anniversary, with a various artists selection featuring ERP, Boris Divider, Oscar Mulero, and Julien Neto. Beautiful electronix by some talented producers.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: electro, sherard ingram, stingray313, trust
‘Misinformation Campaign’ is Sherard Ingram’s third EP for TRUST. Sherard Ingram contrasts his lightning-fast electro-inspired rhythms with lush synth melodies and glistening arpeggios, on occasion more menacing and dystopian moods gain the upper hand.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: container, electro, electronic, ren schofiel, spectrum spools, techno
Container is a recent moniker of Nashville, Tennessee resident Ren Schofield. The sounds on this release are a thick stew congealing new ideas and naive experiments, abstract and minimal in nature with time stopping tendencies. This music, by being so unruly and defiant of any kind of trend, has created a fresh and wierd fusion.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, electronic, forma, minimal synth, spectrum spools
Spectrum Spools present the debut album by Brooklyn’s minimal synth trio Forma. This is a self-styled tribute – and testament – to the enduring power of kosmische. Sumptuously melodic, with flights of improvisational fancy nicely anchored by taut, repetitive drum structures, it’s hard not to fall in love with this record. What really distinguishes Forma from the million devotees of German electronic music is their bold and often unorthodox use of rhythm, at times tending towards metronomic Kraftwerkian synth-pop, at others towards something even more viscous and otherworldly. kraut-influenced analogue electronics.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: billie ray marin, chris & cosey, disco activisto records, electronic, house, kim ann foxman, robert solheim, the opiates, xhk
The Opiates is the latest project from the “queen of electronic soul” Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. This is the taster of remixes and first single “Rainy Days and Saturdays”, from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. Remixes by Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman on ” Jalousies and Jealousies”, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle on “Anatomy of a Plastic Girl”. The XHK Mix of “Silent Comes The Nighttime (Again)”, with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: disco, edits, italo deviance, marcello giordani
Marcello Giordani returns with another three eclectic edits on his Italo Deviance. You’ll be guided into a Space, Italo and Post-Punk Disco trip.
