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Marcello Napoletano with the third release from his private collection. This is a 100 copies limited edition only available direct from the producer.
Month: February 2013
Vape / Vulcano – Muscle 002 [MUSCLE002]
Vape is the new Italo-techno project of the Riviera band. Their first tracks range from the charming pop womanly appeal of “Antonello” to the pesticidal harshness of “Raid”, across the gross provincial anthem “Radioactivo”. Vulcano is the joint venture of Marco Shuttle and Perseus Traxx with the Vape manufacturers at the Brenta Studios. Their poisonous bits sprayed on this 12″ are the state of the art in pest control. These cats are really pushing things forwards here, the B-side especially is some out-there sonic manipulation. “Ugly Faders” reinforcing the feelings one might get if trapped in a malfunctioning space station. “Vulvano” continues the anti-gravity aesthetic and smudges the whole thing in a thick acid wash.
Mock & Toof – Walking The Streets (Remixes) [TINC008]
‘Walking The Streets’ is the second single to be taken from Mock & Toof’s latest acclaimed album ‘Temporary Happiness’. This remix 12″ offers a return to the dancefloor sound that M&T started out with and features the vocals of album collaborator Ghostape. Dutch synth wizard Legowelt twists the track into a 90s breakbeat rave mover with a squelchy acid gurgle to move things along. Rephlex’s DMX Krew takes on the B-side, dropping killer analogue acid house vibes along the way.
Mick Wills @ Schwingen Der Freiheit (Nuertingen) 31.12.2012
Fah – Fahzers Set To Earth [CPU00000001D]
Holland’s FAH (aka Robin de Bekker) presents his album of braindance influenced electro Fahzers Set To Earth. Tight, punchy electrobass riddims, operating on the cusp of Rephlexian electro a la DMX Krew and Drexciyan aqua-funk, Fah cycles from the skating 808 patterns of ‘Not Enough Fahzers’ to the whirring syncopations and jazz chords of ‘Casting The Rod’ on the front, while paying tribute to James Stinson on the flipside’s woozy ‘Glowism’ and the skewed, angular hyperfunk programming of ‘Magnetic Freedom’.
Jodey Kendrick – Steel Erector [CAT206CD]
Rephlex hooked up with Jodey Kendrick. One might say it’s very Drexciyan or Aphexy music, but that’s because it’s rooted in Rephlex’s favourite genres of New York Disco, Chicago House and Detroit Techno, though with a certain mystery something special added. Careful use of microtuning and analogue tweaking, combined with a very British pastoral quality, Jodey provides us with something pleasurable and original to listen to every time. This album is the accompaniment to Jodey Kendrick’s other recent album, Plus Ten. Jodey has worked long hours for the last eight and a half years as a steel fabricator on some of London’s largest buildings but this hasn’t stopped him from amassing a library of hundreds of tunes, a reflection of his passion and drive for music, hence the Steel Erector album.
The Ghost That Walks – Angry Angels EP [SAT043]
Having been dormant for over three years, New York label Satamile returns to continue spreading the gospel of proper electro music with a six-track EP from The Ghost That Walks. Drexciya enthusiasts will be all over this record; the rubbery melody of “The Angriest Angel” recalls the Detroit duo at their most playful but with a simmering undercurrent of tension that is very much the producer’s own signature style. Similarly great are the searing analogue synth buzz of “Seven Deadly Sons”, the tribal 303 stomp of “Urban Jungle” and the 808 rattle and Belgian rave tones of “Resident Evil”.
Versalife – Vantage Point [CWCS007]
Versalife aka Boris Bunnik returns to the Clone West Coast Series for more under sea level electro-techno. After his debut 12inch series Night Time Activities, here a full length album inspired by the horizons and emptyness of his home lands in Friesland. Accompanied by beautiful artwork of fellow Frisian, and one of Hollands most talented painters, Robert Zandvliet (who happens to have his atelier around the corner of the Clone Hq). His amazing painting ”Winter by Jouswier” (spread among the front and backside of the digipack) symbolizes perfectly the rhythm of the open spaces in Friesland. Especialy in the whitened more abstract and cold winter landscape thats almost synonym for Versalife’s abstract ice cold electro techno.
Reckless Ron Cook – The Lost Tapes EP [7DAYSENTRC1000]
It has been over 10 years since Reckless Ron had a release. Last year he appeared on Big Strick’s Resivior Dogs with “Night Moves.” What better way to bring 2013 in than “The Lost Tapes”, the new EP from Reckless Ron Cook. Here we have four high adrenaline first generation pure Detroit Techno tracks.
The Exaltics – Muted World [TRUST023]
Germany’s #1 electro project The Exaltics joins TRUST for a special EP: ‘Muted World’ shows the project at its most original, pairing subaquatic electro and electronica with acid touches and epic synths. Bristol hotshot Kamikaze Space Programme (DecaRhythm) supplies a sharp and hard hitting, AFX-inspired rework.
Der Noir – A Dead Summer (Remixes) [MROME023]
“A Dead Summer” is the highly recommended first album by Der Noir , a Roman trio offering a dark and gloomy sound reminiscent of early Bauhaus and the Sisters of Mercy. This is the remix album, released by MinimalRome and featuring Heinrich Dressel, Mick Wills, TeslaSonic, Newclear Waves and Alessandro Parisi.
Heatsick – Dream Tennis Remixed [CDA006]
Dream Tennis was the second release for the Cocktail d’Amore imprint in the summer of 2011 from Steven Warwick better known under his alias Heatsick. remixes by Legowelt, Willie Burns, Young Marco and new comers Clima.
Legowelt – Stargazing EP [UTTULEGO]
On a hot streak Danny Wolfers is knocking out Jewel after Jewel at the minute. Star Gazing is just as space-stradling as the title suggests, off-key, offworld discords colliding with breakbeats and detroitian atmospherics, intricate electronics, the burblings of a robot examining the earth of an alien world, before huge bass enters the party. Visions In My Mind is Legowelt’s take on the disco-tech vibe, Wayfaring Stranger completes the picture, a slamming acid jacker!
Perseus Traxx – Tales From The Night Sky Part 1 [MOS018]
After his excellent and well-received Coded Emotion EP on the MOS label in late 2011, analogue fetishist Perseus Traxx returns for another MOS outing. It finds the producer in similarly classic mode, exploring the deep down depths of house and techno in his own fuzzy and hugely atmospheric way. ‘Gorgon’ has widescreen synths, tightly coiled synth lines and jagged beats all tussling with each other, whilst ‘Poseidon’s Monster’ is about chattering claps hanging above a synth line that twists and turns, implodes and explodes at whim. It’s focused and forceful at the same time as sounding some how human. On the flip, ‘Return To Seriphos’ is another dense soundscape, but one that invites you into its core thanks to the freeform analogue lines, contrast of rough with smooth and generally classy Chicago vibes. ‘Stranger Shores’ is less troubled and more reflective with bright melodic chords glowing from the centre of the track as warbling, swollen sub undulates all around them.
Steve Murphy – Planet Earth EP [RAWAX010.6]
Excellent dreamy nineties Detroit/U.K. inspired techno/house tracks by Steve Murphy on Rawax.
VA – RDY #10 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY010]
Ron Hardy edits of ‘Sleezy D – Trust’, ‘B52’s – Planet Claire’ & ‘Acid Dreams’. The stuff the real djs were looking for.
Nacho Patrol – Cimmerian Funk [NJ002]
Nacho Patrol is Danny’s travels towards African Space travel. Where earlier Nacho Patrol records spent time exploring cosmic Ethiopia, this current incarnation adds a more sci-fi element to the mix, taking influences from Chicago house to Sun City Girls, this is purely original sounds from one of the best producers out there.
Ron Morelli interview
Tony Carey – Explorer And Yellow Power [MR016]
Medical Records presents the groundbreaking electronic classic “Explorer” and its sister LP “Yellow Power” by Tony Carey. (a keyboard whiz from California) In the mid-late 1970’s, he moved to Germany and began working in Peter Hauke’s studio. Here a reissue of the highly-sought after “Explorer” LP along with “Yellow Power” as a 2LP package. Rumor has it that “Explorer” was intended to be demos for the “Yellow Power”. Eventually both of these brilliant LPs were released on X Records in 1982. “Explorer” is the more stripped down almost proto-techno meets synthed out Italo disco while “Yellow Power” has a more polished, well-rounded and produced sound with a different array of instrumentation and alteration in mood. The tracks on “Yellow Power” seem to convey a futuristic sci-fi Japanese motif which possibly explains the beautiful airbrushed samurai warrior on the original cover. Some tracks have sparse vocal samples such as on the lovely “Peking Duck” and “Queen of Scots”.
Alessandro Forte – The Hunger EP [IT003]
The Hunger (1983) directed by the recently deceased Tony Scott and starring David Bowie, Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve has been the inspiration that Alek has served to make this album. On side A, I Love You Forever, a theme to the purest style Italo where rhythms coalesce with the power of the vocoder and melodies you trap to melt in the bass line. In this same face remixes of high-level made by two of the producers who admire and which stands out the Synth Alien vocoders or the incredible Kid Machine solo, and how they have adapted the original song to your own style. On the b-side, far more serious, in which the concept of the album is more evident, presents three tracks filled with impossible arpeggios, analog warmth and layers of melodies full of feelings in which Alek Stark demonstrates his Italo disco love.
The Hipodrome Of Music 