Next up from Abstract Forms is part two of the combined EP series, again the focus being on outer-worldly electro jams. The artists on offer are Versalife and Matti Turunen (Morphology). Together they offer 6 tracks of electro music ranging from fast paced, but deep and spacious compositions, to slow and sleazy bump and grind electronica.
Unknown To The Unknown have put together their new release, Stingray Enters The Unknown a collaboration between Detroit’s DJ Stingray & London’s DJ Haus. Entitled The Sadist Pts 1 and 2 – the release is backed with remixes from the legendary Heinrich Mueller (Dopplereffekt) and Cestrian (Ali Renault, Heartbreak).
Steve Conner unfurls a new project in the shape of Adapta, with this classy quartet of gritty machine funk for the newly minted Brutalist Sunset imprint. The Adapta project is the result of Conner’s live recording in a studio based around a redesigned Memorymoog synth bulked up with Roland and Elektron hardware. “Concrete Sun” in particular is an abrasive delight, with jagged textures scraping across a backdrop of scattergun binary melodies and swampy bass. “Duerden Sound” even sees him indulge in doom laden steppish dub techno, on an extended studio flex with particularly bleak thoughts running through their heads.
Comeme imprint return from a short break sporting a new addition to the family. Hailing from Moscow, Phillip Gorbachev’s arrival on the label sees them expand operations continentally and with real style. Proceedings get off to a thrusting start with the epic sounds of “In The Delta” little more than a steadily crescendo building arch of arpeggiated energy over straight-up proto kicks. “Gas Lady” is equally simple in its execution and deadly in its intent, grasping several layers of synthy excellence over searing tones and loose limbed electro rhythms. “Montana Blues” combines a cavernous house rhythm with over the top electric guitar axe riffs; and somehow manages to sound thrillingly sweat inducing as opposed to awful and cheesy. “Postovoi” ends this release in diverse style, throwing a big old gristly punk funk bassline underneath a storm cloud of descendant rhythms.
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