Month: August 2012
Vakula – SHEVC006 [SHEVC006]
After a small Shevchenko break, the Slavic Spiritual Warrior is back! Expect the usual mind-melting psychedelic dub warfare from all angles. ‘No Music’ is proper warehouse gear – intense, dark and cut at 45rpm for maximum damage. Flip over for two more abstract, analogue voyages into the Ukranium.
Marco Bernardi – Cosmodrome [RAWAX010.4]
Felizol – Our Team Never Won [NTROP021]
Felizol comes with his 3rd EP for Ntrop recordings. “Our Team Never Won” of 3 tracks, attempts to bridge experimental hardware music with programmed club-oriented grooves. Randomness and roughness straggle with elegance and balance. Our team Never Won is a deep techno song with foggy vocals, aggressive kicks, distorted bass and side-chained melodies. “11 Years” minimize latin harmonies and guitar timbres while the dry house beat and the warm poly-analogs follow the repetitious vocals. “The Promise” is an experimental dub with jazz fragments and minor piano chords constructed around the field recording of a Finish lunatic old man talking to himself.
Trackman Lafonte & Bon Qui Qui – Pacific House EP [LIES013]
New Trackman Lafonte & Bon Qui Qui aka Legowelt & Xosar. Raw analogue house music. When computer programmer and music enthusiast Lowrell “Trackman” LaFonte was relocated to a small suburb North of Santa Barbra California a chance encounter brought him to meet Bonquiqui Pardue. As he scoured his local break to find someone with a resin patch kit to fix a fresh ding in his favorite tri-fin fishtail, Bonquiqui, dental hygienist, and also an avid surfer just so happened to have a kit handy and a union was born. From this moment on Lafonte & Bonquiqui were inseparable, often hitting the clubs and immersing themselves in Latin Freestyle and obscure local house productions from the smog filled Valley. As it would have it, eventually the two moved in together and began working on their own music, using strictly Casio drum machines and keyboards. Inadvertently, Lafonte & Bonquiqui pioneered a sound now known by the masses as “Surfer House.” These three tracks stand as a testament to a time in California music history that can never be recreated, no matter how hard the posuers at the local break try.
Andreas Gehm – What’s On Ur Mind EP [MATH064]
Andreas Ghem returns once again to the Mathematics imprint for more banging house cuts. “Fire & Ice” along with “From Space 3 SunsS” bring old school Chicago house vibes with raw drums and eerie synths. “Warm Words Don’t Help As Much As A Helping Hand” with the title track take on the flip.
Kuba Sojka – Mysterious Intrigue EP [MATH063]
From the full length double CD Mysterious Intrigue by Kuba Sojka on Mathematics Recordings, comes 4 tracks previously unreleased on wax. The original version of “I Can’t Stop” and “So Far Away” take on the A-side while “El Trompetista” and “Galactic Ritual” fill the flip. All cuts show the producer’s top notch skill and balance between house and techno.
Boyd Jarvis – 1985 [TRA021]
VA – System Failure [CHAVAL005]
Spanish Chaval records with their 5th release show casing the talents of a group of spanish techno producers. A sharp energetic selection of tracks by Groof, Tadeo, Architectural, Retrovision, De Felipe, Ausdrucke. The future for the iberican techno looks bright!
Robert Hood – Torque One / Movement [MM161]
As a first taster of the upcoming Nighttime World 3 album by Robert Hood, Music Man presents Torque One (taken from the album) and an exclusive & vinyl-only track to this 12”, called Movement. As a first taster of the album we now present to you ‘Torque One’ (taken from the album) and an exclusive & vinyl-only track to this 12”, called ‘Movement’. With this release, mister Hood delivers 2 timeless pieces of electronic music inspired by a jazzy, dreamy ‘Nighttime World’. Quality.
Eduardo De La Calle – Suprawax 004 [SUPRAWAX004]
Effective dub inspired house/techno tracks by this Analogue Solutions offspring by Eduardo De La Calle.
M.S. – Get Down EP [RAWAX010.3]
Strong Detroit inspired tracks on Rawax. This one digging in the rich history of Detroit techno for its influences resulting in a cool 3 track ep of some timeless techno tracks on clear vinyl 10”.
Mike Huckaby – Baseline 88-89 [SYNTH002]
Two tracks on Huckaby’s own label SYNTH that complete his “Baseline” series (the first being last years Baseline 87′ on Sushitech, which quickly sold out). Two jackin Detroit house tracks that will also quickly sell out as usual!
Michael Ozone – Perfect Systems Remixed [ESP006B]
Michael Ozone, the character who’s just dropped his debut offering for the ESP Institute this July, is back with a remixed version of his jungle-tuff “Perfect Systems” EP. On Side A, Steve Summers has taken Perfect Systems for an imperfect ride, jacking it up as expected while keeping the somewhat sinister mood of the original. On the flip, Young Marco strips down Hetrotopia to its core, letting you realize how a well-programmed track can maintain its melodic and hypnotic sense, even when all that’s left is percussion.
Ashes To Machines – Resistance EP [LELEKA003]
In his continuing quest to explore ever broader and more ambitious musical territories than those records from his existing, already expansive, yet still relatively young back catalogue have done, Konotop’s spiritual warrior Vakula brings us the latest installment of Leleka. This time, it is with the aid of the pan global operation known as Ashes To Machines aka Lionel Corsini (DJ Oil) & Jeff Sharel. Remixes propel the organic sounding originals further towards the future, with Vakula, Ji Dru & Sandra Nkake and Juju & Jordash all adding their own unique interpretations, while equally showing the depth of understanding they all have for more esoteric musical forms.
Ivel Tax – The Black Market [XQUISITE001]
Xquisite, a new and emerging vinyl only label from Lisbon, prooved their taste in having signed Ivel Tax from Romania for their first release. Two very relaxed, natural, and carefully uplifiting tracks here, wide open tracks, giving a distinct airyness and natural vibes, not to forget the solid drum programming.
Adi Dumitra & Toygun – We Made A Record [GSR002]
The second installment on Get Slow, featuring the young and talented Romanian producer Toygun, who joined forces with Get Slow headman Adi Dumitra to give us a fresh and deep view of contemporary house music. “Static Soul” is a bass driving deep house floorfiller with reminiscence of the golden garage days and “We made a record” is an even deeper journey with inspired synth stabs and a killer groove. This package is topped with the invaluable contribution of Finnish star producer Phonogenic who adds his own flavor to “We made a record” creating a deep landscaping version in his Get Slow debut.
Regis – Death Head Said [DN050]
Raw banging techno racks by Regis. ” the tracks from the Death Head Sessions were originally dub-plates used for Regis Live Actions at the End of the 90’s. They were used to layer over live electronics and are all interlocking pieces that were constructed to be played back to back. They have now been reclaimed from the earlier decoy release * ,re- mastered and arranged in the order they appeared on the original dub plates.”
Markus Suckut / Marcelus – 10 inch01 [REPITCH1001]
Repitch presents the new 10inch series. For the first time Repitch is releasing original tracks from new artists so it won’t be stuff from D.Carbone, Ascion and Shapednoise. The artists featured on this new 10inch series are Marcelus and Markus Suckut. On the A side, Markus Suckut delivers an epic techno track in a full oldschool spirit. The stomping broken beat is marked by a dark melody and a groan which take us back to 1995’s R&S golden age. Marcelus, on the B side, mantains the oldschool spirit of the release with a raw and mechanical floorburner that sounds like a powerful studio-session between an Industrial band and a modern Techno producer.
Inigo Kennedy – Vignettes (Two) [SEMANTICA036]
A techno man for over 15 years, Inigo Kennedy was initially associated with labels like ZET and Missile in the second half of the 1990’s. Thereafter he took it easier until making a return to the studio some years ago. Formerly known as a backer of harsh 4/4 beats, Kennedy now explores new directions and follows up the first “Vignettes” experimental single released last year on Semantica. The second installment sees Kennedy moving closer to the floor again. Made for club charts is “Shapeshifter”, a mid-pace techno cut with abstract notes and occasional deep bass rave stabs, sending fluorescent sinusoids flashing through time and space. “Disquiet” bombs protons in thin air in an electrofied exercise. The B-side concludes with digital ballad “Ihana”, which feels like picking the summer’s first strawberries. Different from what I remember Kennedy doing, but contains a fair amount of excitement.
The Hipodrome Of Music 