Month: April 2013
Neville Watson – Creme Podcast #10
Neville Watson – Songs To Elevate Pure Hearts [CRLP010]
English producer and DJ Neville Watson will release his debut album on Dutch label Crème Organization in May 2013. Entitled Songs To Elevate Pure Hearts, it sees Watson explore similar ground to that of the EPs he has released on labels like Teng and Clone Jack For Daze dating back a whole decade. Watson, who also set up Windsor’s much loved Mighty Atom record store and label, has become synonymous with re-interpreting classic Chicago house sounds in his own heavily analogue way. His productions often deal in an authentic rawness and roughness, whilst as a live specialist he has been much in demand in recent times thanks to boundary nudging outings at clubs around Europe with Bulgarian partner in Crime, KiNK. The album offers eleven tracks, kicking off with the serene ‘Dark Star’ before immediately getting fractious with the twisted lines and crisp percussion of the title track. Though containing plenty of material for the dancefloor, so too is this a carefully programmed trip that takes you up as well as down, with the likes of ‘The Girl From Kowloon Tong’ exploring beat-less, melodically intoxicating territory between harder hitting joints like the widescreen, dubby techno of ‘Against The Tide’ and controlled, machine frenzy of ‘Everything I Know About House (I Learnt On Facebook)’. Tracks like ‘Axiomatic’ prove Watson as adept at crafting occult moods and unusual feelings as he is the more physical beats and classicist stylings of the ode to real house music that is ‘Son of House’. Taking you up, down, backwards and forwards through time and space, ‘Songs To Elevate Pure Hearts’ does exactly what the title suggests, no matter how pure your heart.
Willie Burns – Run From The Sunset [CR1264]
The Hague’s Creme Organization presents a new release coming from WT Records label owner, Willie Burns. Run From The Sunset EP is 4 tracks of dirty and danceable house.
DJ TLR – Six Axle Podcast 031
Todd Osborn – 303 / 909 [7777005]
Upcoming release from Todd Osborn on Jared Wilson’s 7777 label. The A-Side track 303 explores some dark acid territory, while the B-Side 909 is a melodic house track in Osborn’s signature style. Like previous 7777 releases, we do not expect these to last long.
Sycorax – Aspect Ratio [NJ006]
Daniel Helmer and Ben Manzone started making tracks as Sycorax back in early 2011. This is their new release on New Jersey Records.
The Superior Inferior – Echelon XIII EP [OE003]
The third release on One Electronica is produced by the Superior Inferior and includes two additional remixes from John Heckle. Inspired by early industrial, wave, synth, acid and not produced to adhere to any genre.
Traversable Wormhole – Traversable Wormhole Vol 6-10 [CLRCD012]
Traversable Wormhole returns to CLR after a huge success in the techno scene with the digital releases and remixes of volumes 1 – 5. The present offering on CLR contains all songs from volumes 6 – 10, originally released on 12“ vinyl only.
Max_M – Invisible For All [WNBLMTD003]
Italian DJ / Producer Max_M arrives at Woods N Bass Records to present the third edition of their vinyl-only imprint. Three good examples of explorative but yet refreshing dub techno, in which Maxs reversed, delayed chords should make this a secret weapon, perfect for some dancefloor euphoria.
VA – Soundtracks For No Film Vol.1 [ACIDO012]
Soundtracks For No Film Vol. 1 is a rather charming mini album of outer-spatial, conceptual electronics from the always on point Acido Records label, seemingly tasking contributors to deliver arrangements worthy of soundtracking film. Madteo sets the tone with “Science Fiction” a haunting spectral cut with little regard for beat structures that could feasibly sit in alongside his brilliant LP for Sahko last year. Alongside this, the A Side features three short form productions, with 291out’s “Urania (Titoli Di Coda)” the highlight, sounding very much like the music you might hear during the end credits of a forgotten 80s sci-fi drama. Complementing this, sometime Sex Tags Mania artist Doc L Junior is given the whole of the B Side to draw out an expansive, epic synthscapes “Modul 2”.
Diego Gamez – Game’z EP [UQ052]
Jus Ed debuts Diego Gamez from Barcelona’s Monkey Bar. 4 slamming tracks bridging the techno-house divide.
Jaysun Merced – The Ville EP [UQ051]
Number 51 on Underground Quality brings four tracks from Jus-Ed’s Bridgeport CT homie & owner of Jackdat Records, Jaysun Merced.
Dj Jus-Ed – XXX House Music [UQ050]
Rick Wade – Hard Full EP [HT056]
Holic Trax serves up its fifth release from none other than Detroit music making machine Rick Wade of Harmonie Park and Moods & Grooves association. His Hard Full EP opens with the title track, Hard Full. Sounding like a classic Wade cut right from the off, squelchy drums turn over and over to lock you in place before typically elegant string samples sweep up through the mix and really set it off. ‘Deep Subliminal’ kicks that bit harder and firmer with splashing claps and a gentle tumble of toms and congas that imbue the track with a tropical tribalism. The last track is Pyro Dynamics with its nagging bass synth line, dreamy sunny day melodies and locked in place, heavyweight drums
Henry Gilles – Damn It Or Change It EP [RAWAX107]
Silent Servant Interview
Santiago Salazar – Minority Mix 8
Sandwell District – Fabric 69 [FABRIC137]
Over the course of ten active years, Sandwell District were responsible for disarming and destabilizing the structures that gagged free-form expression, drawing upon tenets of DIY-post-punk culture to disrupt accepted ideas of exactly what it meant to be an artist, label, DJ or producer. During this time, the collective’s core members, Function (Dave Sumner) and Regis (Karl O’Connor) (along with label partner, Silent Servant), played a key role in broadening the link between early electronic, post-punk, and noise; an influence which continues to resonate in the burgeoning, and shape-shifting, modern-day techno scene. With this mix, another genuine artefact has been added to the Sandwell legacy, a document of their skewed presence and existence, a treasure guaranteeing the kind of quality that electronic music compilations rarely achieve. In 1 hour 15 minutes, the pairing of Regis and Function succeed in presenting and executing some of the most potent flourishes in the Sandwell catalogue, distilling them into a coherent body of work that masterfully defines the current techno zeitgeist. Few contemporary producers have bettered the merciless techno blueprint laid down by this collective, and few ever will.
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Expander & Thinkfreak – The End Of The World [SONICULTUREUNLIMITED011]
2012 didn’t bring us the end of the world, but it brought us a new EP on Soniculture called The End Of The World. Label owner Expander and Thinkfreak sat down and produced this 3-tracker that represents in their mind the phenomena that was about to come and our future in the stars.
The Hipodrome Of Music 