Month: December 2009
Flashnap – Suludada [BEYOND003]
Newcomer Ingo Thomas provides the next installment on Beyond with three very unique, raw and individual tracks on vinyl. The off kilter, deep and detroit inspired ‚Suludada‘ charms and chimes its way down a dusty, richly textured path as the meandering synth themes intertwine and grow throughout 8 and half minutes. Painting a mysterious picture of late night abandon, echoes of dark moody club atmospheres and super deep vibes a plenty, its a really stand out track… and the quality doesn‘t let off here! ‚Sweep‘ is another suitably textural offering that lays down tense atmospheric chords and uplifting synth themes from the very start. Reminding us of some of the very best deep techno from over the decades, thrown into one giant melting pot of quality, inventive production, it makes us wonder if our man Ingo just might be a future electronic music figurehead in the making! Closing the record we find ‚Hum Reprise‘, whose dubby stabs, tricky arrangement and bad ass reduction all contribute to another wonderful track. Certainly intended to play loud, this outstanding piece of other worldly electronic entertainment is yet another reason to remember the name Flashnap.
Jacob Korn – I Like The Sun [RB017]
Jacob Korn comes with a epic house track with a nice euphoric feeling and a deeper introvert techno track that reminds a bit of Duplex. Prins Thomas is on remix duty and added some live flavored drum sounds and a disco-ish bass… and hear.. another nu-disco stomper!
Jacob Korn – Supakrank [Dolly001]
This is the first record on Steffi’s new label Dolly and it’s signed by Jacob Korn. Korn is a German producer that started releasing music in 2004, under different aliases like graNuFunk and Jacob Grain. He also started a project with Sebastian Gaiser in 2003 called Sket.
Santiago Salazar – ROOF.FM 21 December 2009
Don Williams Live @ Session Elements, Ya’sta Club, Madrid – 17-07-2009
Lil Tony – Underground Sound Of Helsinki EP [RB019]
Finland’s hardest working DJ Lil Tony is no stranger to people who spent the last 15 years with house music. Part of Nu-Spirit Helsinki, the powerful Future Beat Investigators and the driving force of the city’s pulsating club scene, this man did it right from start to finish (no pun intended). Recently, Tony started to flex his muscles as a solo artist as well with recordings for Innervisions, Versatile or Mood Music and most of all the inspired jacking re-work of Arthur Russell’s Treehouse that the RB office is still jealous of. Blindfolded we would have declared on oath to listen to a missing Ron Hardy rework. But to move on to pastures new, The Underground Sound of Helsinki EP is also a kind of a lost gem with its roots house approach. Three big tracks from Lil Tony: Mona evokes gentle feelings of rough classics from the vaults of Steve Poindexter, Armando and Mike Dunn or all the other cats living in oblivion – ruff, rugged and raw. Saturday Morning is a perfect mood builder and does what straight house music does best, while Employee Only spreads as much optimism and hope as it multiplies those feelings of melancholy just house can evoke to make sad people happy. Subterranean vault music with a fine ear for the action.
Cosmic Twins – RA.186
Redshape – FACT MIX 111
Garcon Taupe / Legowelt – Split LP Series #4 [NM039]
With smashing contributions by electro lord Legowelt from dirty brown The Hague and bleep addict Garçon Taupe from the bourgeois slums of Amsterdam, Narrominded presents the fourth installment in its renowned Split LP Series. Both sides of this Split LP comprise a whole EP in length, and the contributions have in common that they are both deeply rooted in electro music. Side one brings Garçon Taupe – wittenburg ep with some Commodore, amiga influenced electonica with a touch of acid. Split side is for Legowelt – land rovers in astrophysics ep. 4 tracks in the well known Legowelt style… West Coast disco, electro jack shizzle.
Sigha – Rawww [HFT010]
Superb techno/dubstep mixtures from Sigha dropping an understated and ice cool 12″ for Hot Flush. Rawww takes influence from the technohouse constructions of Sheds EQd project on the A-side with dub chords synced around slick sub bumps and crafty rhythm programming, achieving nearly the same levels of swing and flex as the Berlin auteur. On the flip Hold Your Heart Up To The Light switches up to a fragile dubstep construction, like a crystallized reminiscence of Scuba or T++ and Untitled#2 finishes on a kicking nautical trip, sounding like a Ben Klock cut played through a flooded Berghain. If youre into Dettmann, Shed or Scuba this is right up your street!
Shake – Thought Processes [FRCT015]
Various – Creme Jak Be Somebody ! [CREMEDIGISMACK 01]
Creme Organization round up their impressive team of disco and house mutants for a fairly crucial look at some of their consistently awesome output from the end of this decade. With a roster including James T Cotton (aka Dabrye in jackin’ house mode), Jamal Moss (under multiple pseudonyms like IBM and Africans With Mainframes), Legowelt and D’Marc Cantu you can expect expert teachings from the real raw skool of jack. Particular highlights come from IBM on ‘Music Box’ with 10 mins of sleazy tripping oddness, warehouse reverberating acid from Legowelt on ‘Zompy Land’, sh*t-yer-pants Chicago house from Polarius, and an exceptional contribution from James T Cotton on the funk chopping kicker ‘King Of The Box
STL – Check Mate [EchospaceSEQ001]
STL is the production alias of Stephan Laubner who has been releasing material under a variety of pseudonym’s on labels like Perlon, Smallville, Styrax and his own Something Records imprint over the past decade. Stephan’s productions are like fine wine, they develop, mature and get better with age. His past releases have gained support and charts from Detroit luminaries like Derrick May & Theo Parrish to the Berghain collective, Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann & Steffi. His recent licensing of “Silent State” on Cassy’s new “Simply Devotion” mix on Cocoon, Ame’s Fabric mix, Steve Bug’s “The Lab” and earning the number 1 spot inGroove Magazine’s chart all speak volumes about the level of love and passion he puts into his productions. With Stephan’s “Check Mate” he pays homage to a sound we simply adore, a musical conceit only a select few understand, hand crafting his sounds with a variety of analog signal processors, vintage synthesizers and a loving touch reminiscent of the early Deepchord years. This is one to treasure, made for repeat listening!
DJ Kaos – Kosmischer Ruckenwind [CLSS05]
Mr Kaos debut on Clone Loft Supreme (already counts releases on DFA & Rong under his belt) with the best and most mature one on this Clone series yet!! ”Kosmischer Ruckenwind” (or cosmic tailwind) is a magnificent piece of psychedelic kraut-inspired disco with trippy guitars and spaced out fx. Its sounds almost as if Manuel Göttsching, Pink Floyd and Kaos were jamming in the studio. Twelve minutes and not a minute too long. And if that weren’t enough there’s the ‘Rough Version’ on the flip that ups the original’s analog-ness to even higher levels. Timeless release.
Lowtec – Bodytonic Podcast 064
Xhin – Fixing The Error Link [SA002]
Stroboscopic Artefacts is proud to welcome on board singapore-based Xhin (Meerestief). With his production wizardry he has been crafting ominous cuts of cutting-edge techno. “Fixing The Error” is an enormous peak-time club killer. Xhin knits together the sinister sound of the revolt of the machines. High frequency drum machines and ferrous sub-bass synthesizers are working urgently against the clock. Close your eyes, dissolve, step into dystopia. You are transported into a post-human cityscape where strobes reflect off smelting metallic sounds and deafening alarms wail. These warning codes, layer upon layer, fashion a vision of a Metropolis gorging itself on sprawling noises. The flip side, “Link” has no narrative. Instead, this deep, brooding slice of dub-techno is composed of pure atmospheric pressure. The undercarrige slithers and slinks, interrupted by crackles of lightening and prehistoric rumbles. The result is a construction created in a cold palate of pyrite grey: bubbling, spherical and terrifying. This is dark. This is urgent. This is Xhin.
Spirit Catcher – Missing Danger Mix (November 2009)
Eric Cloutier – mnml ssgs mx44
Horizontal Ground – 003 [HG003]
Traditional minimal stripped techno tracks. Think Robert Hood, DBX and the likes… done with a nice modern twist.
The Hipodrome Of Music 