‘World Music’, the second 12 from Washington, DC’s Protect-U is a total mutant house/techno. On the A-Side, synth lines bubble like 80s-style Francis Bebey, then burn up into a space-pulse overdrive. The flip, U-Uno, is an underwater electro-sitar dream straight outta 24th century India, followed by a slo-mo dub of World Music that slips back and forth between digital Jamaica and European nu-romance.
This is the 2nd Acid Test 12” from Absurd Recordings done by Iron Curtis. Features the original mix of Your Love along with two remixes from the Idjut Boys.
Meanwhile unveils Inward Content by Inward Content a collaboration between Niels Luinenberg (Delta Funktionen) and Samuel van Dijk (Mohlao). The album was recorded specially for the label by the two dutch producers over the course of a two year period.
This is the first full-length album on the It’s label for Germany’s Richard von der Schulenburg aka RVDS. It’s deep, acid, fragile, party, lonely, and special. Inspired by classic deep and acid house, old instruments such as the TR-808, Roland JP-6, Wurlitzer E-Piano and some others are combined with new accents, but always with a special bent towards Detroit music.
First Longplayer on Knowone with dub techno, downbeat, ambient tracks, each track got one side to tell his own story. Six tracks with more than 70 min playtime.
CRC, one half Morphology, returns to Heliocentric Music with two new blistering tracks in the vein of famous 90ies UK-IDM Techno. The contribution by Myon is a 9-minute cut with huge basslines and strings that will rock your socks of.
Doctor Vinyl announced the second release of Boubastar aka Sebastien Bourbonnais. A mixed bag with 3 distinctive colors and sounds. ‘Tesla Versus The World’ goes into E-dub techno versus melodic house mode, while ‘We-R-Reborn’ is as sublime menacing melodic techno cruncher, but the standout of this release is ‘Third Mountain From Our Last Encounter’.
Breathy, atmospheric and yet dynamic electronics on this debut LP byDesolate aka Sven Weisemann , celebrating Fauxpas Musik’s first anniversary. The dark but dynamic sounds of Burial and the spherical spacey atmosphere of Boards of Canada seem to be basic inspiration for Desolate. The album includes nine tracks in total ranging from deeper to more ambient compositions and as a bonus you get a CD version thrown in with two bonus tracks!
Four tracks of deep techno and electro produced by Nick Dunton, one half of The 65D Mavericks. This EP represents a bit of a departure from his hard-edged 65d style, and brings four beautiful tracks steeped in soulful imagery. It’s all classic Detroit style techno on here ranging from solid sweet dub techno to more string laden electro tracks with beautiful spoken voices. ‘Lost Love’ is absolutely the winner but all 4 tracks are top notch
The next full length from Delsin, entitled “What Have We Learned” from the Lebanese-born producer Morphosis aka Ra.H aka Rabih Beaini, is co-released on his own Morphine Records, as well as by close associate M>O>S. Influences range from Krautrock via New Wave but, importantly, all are digested by Morphosis before being re-imagined as something wholly fresh and original which, in turn, stands up well to both dancefloor deployment and intense home listening.
Introducing our techno comrades in Berlin. From the outset Xenogears set about propelling you on an intrepid and spirited pursuit: an experience which is at times intimate and at others ominous but always driven by the techno vision.
The Hipodrome Of Music 