First part in the triptych of Versalife! Pure intense atmospheric electro techno tracks constructed on the costal areas of the dutch west coast.
Month: February 2011
VA – Undergound Dance EP [HM001]
Obscure label created by Nick Anthony Simoncino. The first release is a various artist four tracker including tracks from Carl Bias, Joe Drive, Nicholas and a collaboration between label owner Simoncino and Marcello Napoletano.
Hardfloor – Silver Submarine [HF012]
This is the first single release from the forthcoming new Hardfloor album “Two Guys Three Boxes”. Typical Hardfloor Acid tracks true to the style they are famous for. The package is rounded up with a remix from the Acid legend DJ Pierre.
Chestionabil Joint 11 @ Popa Nan 82, Bucharest 25.02.2011
Lucy and Xhin – LX2/LX3 [CLR044]
CLR044 features two tracks of Lucy And Xhin. Faultless and haunting tracks of this highly promising production team, deep and hypnotic, energetic and gliding, artistic and experimental, cutting edge Techno by Lucy And Xhin, somewhere between creative chaos and futuristic genius.
Truncate – Concentrate [TRUNCATE001]
David Flores aka Audio Injection and Broken Rules begins his latest music project: The Truncate Series. This is the first release from the series presenting some industrial techno with vocals inspired from “DBX – Losing Control”. The EP comes with a remix from Raiz.
SP-X – Field Lines Never End EP [KOMISCH006]
SP-X provides a three-tracker for Komisch, based on heavy, resonating beats, nagging, insistent percussion and dank, high-frequency filters. ‘Field Construction’ and ‘Internalize’ are highly effective techno tools, predicated by subtle arrangements despite their forcefulness. ‘Flux’ is the most deranged track though, with what sounds like a screeching air raid siren cooper-fastened to concrete beats – once you’ve heard it, you’ll never forget it.
Dino Sabatini – Small Steps Ep [SG1045]
Dino Sabatini continues exploration into the dark side of the industrial techno Sonic Groove with his four track” Small Step EP”. Deep dark electronic music ranging from peak floor burners to dark deep mind burners that techno & industrial lovers from around the universe will surely love.
Splice – Den Andra Farden [FARDEN02]
Second release from Färden featuring the debut from Splice, with some really pure and beautiful techno.
Lucy – Beelines For Working Bees [SA008]
‘Beelines For Working Bees’ is a 12” that sees four of the most innovative artists in electronic music rethinking and reconfiguring the strands of Lucy’s forthcoming album ‘Wordplay for Working Bees’. The relationship between the point of origin and the end point is not a prescribed one: the beelines of Tommy Four Seven, James Ruskin, Peter Van Hoesen and Truss return to the hive of Lucy’s album taking the most experimental and cross-pollinated paths. SA008 acts as a case in point for techno, melding and fusing genre boundaries to reveal new hybrid sounds. SA008 presents a utopian vision that’s puckering at the seams. The artists chose the tracks that they wished to remix and fused their own defined sound identities with that of Stroboscopic Artefacts. In anticipation of Lucy’s debut album this is a delicious foretaste of what’s to come and a cryptic insight into four of techno’s leading minds.
Szare – 49.557. 19.041 [HG008]
Adventurous techno tracks with the basic and functional approach like all of the Horizontal Ground releases.
Aeromaschine – Basement Dubs EP [BSR004]
The Romanian Aeromaschine delivered a real versatile stunner release for Baalsaal Records. “Debunking Random Myths” stands out as a very unpredictable piece of live performanced like collage. “Not So” is an hypnotic acidy interpretation of past future old school with a present high roller coat. On the flip Bearweasel digs a little deeper with classy dubby elements and a journey to planet x dream dancing to come… The dark horse is “Serenades for Simple Brains” a beatdowner that nails it when it comes to non hype edit production.
Serge – Clone Basement Podcast 001
2562 interview
Lowjac – Slowjac EP [BLIQ002]
Deep Detroit , basic channel inspired techno tracks. XDB delivers a cool bassline driven remix that goes somewhere between old Chicago and more atmospheric techno.
Jakob Altmann / Ozka – Other Heights 003 [OHWL#Three]
Other Heights Three introduces Ozka and Jakob Altmann. Belgian and German effectivity bound together in a strengthened and dub-begeisted EP.
Unknown Artist – Analogue Solutions 003 [ASR03]
An other release on the Spanish label Analogue Solutions, with some banging house and techno based on samples from Detroit tracks.
Unknown Artist – Transit Ways / Seven Days Left [1XA004]
This two tracker is another slice of solid, atmospheric dub-techno that skanks and drives along with much attention paid to the basslines. Heavy bass driven post Basic Channel techno tracks.
Beta Evers interview
CCCANDY – Lonesome Berlin LP [AV!007]
Lonesome Berlin is the long time coming first LP from this German guy solo project CCCANDY. After the debut 7’’ on Eat! and the tape on Neue Strassen, we now have a proper full-length featuring twelve dark minimal synth pop songs. This is the sounds of the old Europe during the Eighties, when the Berlin Wall was still real: cold and catchy at once, minimal yet groovy. Greyscale bedroom electronics.
The Hipodrome Of Music 