Lux Rec brings out the latest work by Mathematics & HotMix artist Joe Drive, delivering a spaced out three track EP, from “Clone Replacement” dark funk mutations to the Drexciyan electro of “Crossing the Forbidden Planet”, landing eventually on “Saturn 15” hitech soul.
New release on Kinda Soul Recordings by mathematics artist Takeshi Kouzuki. 3 tracks on this new 12″ blending smooth acidic otherworldy sounds with classic Chicago influenced bouncy beats.
Bosconi Records presents a three tracker by Rocardo Miranda. Analogue pleasure and dancefloor goodness including the bouncy acid house groover “State Of Mind”, the dry and minimilastic Chicago rooted drum tool track called “Drum With The Funk”, and in the end the peaceful, dreamy and atmospheric trip of “No Sound”.
After their debut, Achterbahn D’Amour (aka Iron Curtis & Edit Piafra) return to Absurd, with 2 new tracks plus a massive remix from Skudge.
This time it’s XDB delivering the goodies for Dolly, as always pushing the boundaries between house and deep techno. With this 4 excellent cuts XDB is taking the label in even deeper territories. Even though they are very well playable and will easily rock the floor, taking it up to somewhere between jupiter & mars, XDB’s tracks are more than just proper dj-tools. So well-crafted, deep, harsh and hypnotising, but always firmly keeping floor contact with minimal yet funky drum programming, exactly as this kind of music should be. To top things of, Brooks Mosher on remix duties delivers a Detroit inspired remix of ‘Sunda’.
Rawax with another strong ep done by the young talented Unbroken Dubs. Raw analogue sounding techno tracks with a nice lively feel and funking drum machines!
New series of work by Jeff Mills based on stars and constellations. For this release Mills sets his sights on Orion. Superb sounds from a master with a vision.
The duo of Travis Stewart (Machinedrum) and Praveen Sharma (Braille), utilize the broader canvas of the album format to develop their collaborative process and incorporate the diverse influences present in their solo work to their sonic mixture. But both artists add a crucial sense of emotional sensibility and melodic sensuality that defines the Sepalcure sound.
Etui Records start their new limited vinyl series, returning to their musical roots of the late 90s. They retrace Detroit Techno and simultaneously transfer Dub Techno into an up-to-date audio frame. The first release comes from Monomood.
The man with the mask has the ability to maneuver between true school techno, malicious house, break beat bombs and Motor City romanticism – all ornamented with Redshape’s very own mark. For Running Back, he delivers something like a cross sum of his work. “On Da Floor” is subterranean haunted house with a broken heart, while Goom features a take-your-shirt-off Reese-bass-line.
All the tracks here are based around the 909 – thunderous kickdrums and sharp, hissing hi-hats that cut through the mix. Still, there’s a broad range of sounds, from head-down, fists-clenched warehouse workouts with an industrial edge, to more melodic tracks with Detroit references aplenty. Good honest techno with a real raw live feel.
The debut Ep from mysterious Parisian techno duo, Kartei, starts off with the Renaissance style “Lichtgarten”. In its unreleased state, the 15th century style arpeggio and driving beat already turned heads with appearances on some legendary Legowelt dj mixes. The record continues on with a modern track reminiscent of “hot on the heels of love,” and the heavy kicked aquatic space styled “Transponder”. And that is just the A side. The B side is big room Convextion/Basic Channel style techno and a gentle come down ambient track.
John Beltran presents 3 new ambient electronica tracks on Styrax Records. Beautifully produced, generously melodic work of one of techno’s unsung heroes.
Another ”typical” Semantica release. This time it’s Mike Parker with an interesting blend of electronix and techno.
Sascha Rydell is delivering the goods once again for Farchwerk, with four gritty yet funky metallic techno cutz.
EarToGround presents their first label release. Out of London comes the Programm EP with original sounds written and produced by Dax J & Chris Stanford. With their strong influences of traditional techno they have brought it’s rawest stripped back elements to life. A mechanism of deep synthesizer stabs, a hard but sweet kick drum and complementary hi-percussion & shakers setting a solid platform for this new born label. On the flip side, EarToGround welcomes remixes Shifted and Truss.
Avian moves forward to its second release. This time from label co-owner Ventress, his debut release sets the tone of future productions with 4 tracks of forward thinking, hypnotic techno.
Elastic Dreams presents the debut release from A Sagittariun, with some deep and warm electronics and two remixes from MD2 aka Mike Dehnert.
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