Split release from the Black Market archives with tracks by Larry Heard and The It (with a main role for Larry Heard too). Two amazing tracks which actually 20-25 years later still sounds more futuristic as many releases nowadays. Spaced out jazzy keys on the mind blowing Black Oceans with trademark Larry Heard melodies. Flip side takes things to the darker chicago jack territories with the great Endless flight track by The It. This is one of their overlooked and more obscure tracks.
Romanian Jay Bliss makes his debut on 20:20 Vision Recordings with ‘Pluto’, in his style sitting somewhere between house and techno, with strong Detroit roots. ‘Pluto’ it’s a smooth and crisp tech house roller that recalls classic 2020 releases gone. On the flip, Skudge gives their own take on ‘Pluto’, a different beast to the original, all stuttering percussion and menacing strings, a perfect counterbalance to the original version.
New Clone Basement Series (lucky number 013!) with the long awaited return of A Made Up Sound (aka 2562), following up on his Archive EP/CBS02. Written as a counterbalance to the more experimental releases on his own AMUS label series, Archive II finally unleashes what’s possibly his most banging, straight-forward club material to date, while retaining the trademark A Made Up Sound funk and swing. “Hang-Up” is all about the irresistible Herbie-injected groove, cut-up and layered to great effect, whereas things get darker and bass-heavier with technotrack “Sweetback” on the flip. Keeping the tension high till a drop towards the end, seven minutes never seemed so short.
The second installment in Developer’s July emissions. “Dirty Drive” sees Developer stretching to work a melody into his machinery, coming out with a metallic dub chord drowning in its own echo, while “Dirty Drive 2” adds some complexity to the musicality and creates an utterly engrossing hook in the process. Shifted’s remix keeps a careful distance between the clean beat and the murky textures of the dubby elements, but for a real lesson in refined techno composition head straight to Stanislav Tokachev’s “Building Peaks”. Simplicity doesn’t come more captivating than that synth line.
With his Modularz label becoming a firm bastion of unfiltered techno machinations, Developer sets about bombarding our senses with his productions and curations across two vinyl releases this month. For the first part, his own “Heated” rattles through an industrial landscape devoid of colour, instead populated by reverb decays and distant clangs of metal. The rest of the record is handed over to Truncate, whose “Diffraction” flips the script with a central melodic hook and a thoroughly austere beat. Jonas Kopp’s remix beefs up that same theme by doubling up the phrase and edging towards a peak time monster, while Markus Suckut takes things deeper and into a more house compatible realm.
Amazing release by Polar Inertia, who already gave a glimpse of their techno brilliance on Dement3d 002, but with ‘The Last Vehicle’ it seems their craftmanship has come to full growth. This third release on Dement3d is once again formed of three different tracks, high in contrasts and emotions. Industrial but groovy, raw yet hypnotising deep techno that will create a stir in basements and warehouses worldwide.
Mote Evolver return with another salvo of reworks from Planetary Assault Systems’ seminal record ‘Function 4’, originally released on the influential Peacefrog label in 2000. Marcel Dettmann returns with a “Base dub” remix which is a more stripped back affair than his more full bodied first attempt, concentrating instead on subtle rhythmic nuances. Lucy provides two remixes – one utilising a minimal breakbeat over shrill pads, and one that piles on the atmosphere with its swathes of reverb. And Shifted rounds it up with his slickly executed revision, with a rolling rhythm that’s packed densely around abstract tones.
The Manzel series continues with the catalog no. 002 on this unknown imprint running by a mysterious techno artist from so far away.
Realmz returns to Sonic Groove with some spectacular tracks of hard edged Industrial Techno. Entitled ”Left To My Devices”, Realmz once again shows off his originality in combining elements of Industrial music with Techno. You will even find a nice deep dark acid track to close things out.
Trippy minimal techno tracks rooted in the best Detroit tradition of the genre by Dimi Angelis & Jeroen Search on A7S Records. Dark droning, energy loaded and straight bumping cuts by these two dutch producers.
Token presents two remixes by Ben Klock and Inigo Kennedy for Phase’s big ‘Binary Opposition’, which took the techno scene by storm.
Aula Magna is an electronic music record label born from a long-time running audiovisual collective based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Founded by Seph, Pablo Denegri, Qik and Mekas, the label is a platform for forward looking techno and sound experiments. Aula Magna’s first release is a various artists 12″ that sets the stage for what’s to come. Taking on the dubbier side of techno and electronica, the record presents four bass-heavy and deeply physical cuts that showcase each artist’s view on futuristic noise-oriented electronic dance music.
This are the remixes of Toby Drehers album “Freiluft” on Rotary Cocktail Records, featuring with nice reworks of Mark Broom and Marko Fürstenberg.
We are proud to welcome Simple & Thigpen (aka Helix) from Detroit & a small town in southeast Georgia on Ilian Tape for their first collaboration ever. As Peanut Butter is a national dish in the USA since ages, every real American knows how to lick and swallow it the perfect way. So here we go with a 134 BPM swangler that funks from your backyard trying to get your arm hard while you are playing a bit of dart! Freak Seven from Manchester is transforming the original from Ying to Yang through adding his personal slang while designing men strings with jewelry for Alexander Wang. And last but not least the Zenker Brothers adding their incomparable dust in which you all hopefully trust.
All Inn represents the Romanian Jay Bliss in the 8th round of Black series. “Kokkoo For Coco Puffs” gives a repetitive hypnosis to the dancefloors in more than 13 minutes. After the long tracker trip on the flipside “War of the Worlds” comes front of us with dry and housey rhythms filled with funk, and “Mission Control” closes the line with its perfect toolistic sound for main-time djsets.
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