Month: November 2011
The Third Man – Future Tense EP [ARTDDS006]
Toby Leeming aka The Third Man returns with his 3rd EP for ART, maintaining the high quality of previous releases “Future Tense” and “More Than One” both aim for the dancefloor.
Hazylujah – Too Many Ghosts EP [DSRSP003]
Hazylujah is a new talent from Italy who here presents the first in a new series of webshop exclusives. His four track ‘Too Many Ghosts EP’ is a fizzing and machine wired world of deep space atmospherics, house beats and techno futurism. It clunks and splutters with analogue details in its own unique way.
Sanys – Control Freak [DF001]
This is the virgin record on Downfall Theory, a new St Petersburg imprint serving as the creative outlet for the persuasions and productions of discerning dance music Sanys Etiku. Side A is a full-on entanglement of sandy synths, cell-block stabs, a murderous midpoint bassline and hats slammed through a sieve. Side B is a solid brick of overpowering percussion pressed into an intoxicating terrine of implied melody so irresistible you will eat it raw.
Arthur Oskan – Wants & Needs EP [BMG009]
Convective Deep Techno currents from Arthur Oskan, backed with a Luke Hess remix. On the original ‘Wants & Needs’ Arthur seduces with melancholy, dark-eyed synth pads and a purring bassline, stealthily evolving into a real midnight groover. On the flip, Luke Hess reduces the elements to a shook-down Dub Tech-House roller with strong Detroit genes.
Donato Dozzy interview
P.God – Neptune IV [KOMISCH010]
P.God is a very young producer from Naples in Italy, but “Neptune IV” sounds like the work of a veteran producer. Lead track “Approaching an Ocean Planet” sees grainy, dense beats and hypntoic bleeps take the lead, but hovering above the arrangement, tethered to the reverberated, doubled up claps, are ghostly, eerie chords. The title track adopts a similar approach, with bursts of metallic percussion underscoring spacey pads as P.God drops a droning, tunneling rhythm track. Finally, “Geometric Shadows on Iced Surfaces” sees the young producer opt for a deeper approach. This time the chords envelop a purring groove, but the same sense of understated menace is still audible thanks to the austere hats and bleak subsonic bass.
Mike Parker – Pulse Trader EP [PRG024]
Mike Parker comes back on Prologue, with four deepest energetic driving tracks, monster baselines and loaded with hypotonic.
Karenn – Sheworks 001 [SHEWORKS001]
‘Works The Long Nights’ is the brand new label from Blawan and Pariah, two artists who are constantly pushing the boundaries of techno and bass music. The first release comes from their collaborative project ‘Karenn’ and it consists of two solid techno tracks.
DVS1 – Break Away [KLOCKWORKS008]
Appointment – Reconstruction [AP005]
The ever mysterious Appointment enclave return with the fifth volume of self titled releases, with the four untitled cuts here supposedly finished on a whistle-stop visit to our fair capital London. As per usual, the end product will appeal to those of you who prefer your house music to be raw and unhinged, not least the brooding opening track which is steeped in saturation and pumps along with a piston-like rhythm smashing through your synapses amidst a backdrop dipped in heaving vocal delay. From here Appointment dabble in sub heavy swamp house on the second track which explodes into life quite brilliantly mid way through via an endless procession of shrieking, crashing stabs. Our favourite here however is the third track, which sounds like it was recorded in a cavernous, disused tube station pairing heavily dubbed jack vocals with swirling pianos amidst the singularly dull thud of drums.
#4.26 – Frozen Border 010 [FB010]
Mikkel Metal – All Over [ECHOCORDCOLOUR018]
New Echocord Colour release by Mikkel Metal. He presents his rough side of the genre, raw warehouse infused dubby grooves.
Egal 3 – Time Train [EDEC003]
EDEC offers up a third serving of deep tinged techno. This EP comes from the Romanian duo Egal 3 with remix duty going to Ryan Elliott. “Time Train” is an absolute onslaught of percussion, bass and synth constantly slaying away at the dance floor, while creating a certain euphoric atmosphere. On the flip Mr. Elliott strips back the orignal building a deep groove that defies categorisation.
Mary Velo – Methods [CSF044]
Straight outta Berlin, two tracks by Mary Velo on the Coincidence imprint. So of course, you can expect techno at it’s rawest and a truely suprising remix by Delsin wonderboy Conforce.
Conforce live @ Propaganda Club (Moscow) 30.09.2011
Albert Van Abbe – No Comment_0003 [NOCOMMENT0003]
Fake Left – The Future That Never Was [IS002]
Second release on iS Records. The A-side, The Future Never Was combines sparse beats and pads held together by a growling stuttered bass, which gives the track an industrial feel but on a techno/house tip. On the flip, Fake The Feeling, draws on sounds beyond the current trend for vintage analogue in an original take on the house blueprint. The B2 track Out of Orbit is 4 minutes 48 seconds of Tech soul, for the floor or the headphones.
The Hipodrome Of Music 