First release of Bucharest based dj/producer Romansoff on his own label Raw Tools. Pure raw & jacking analogue sounds on this three-track EP.
Month: April 2013
Black Jazz Consortium – Codes And Metaphors Pt.3 [SPMCM003]
Fred Peterkin’s fourth solo LP on his own Soul People Music creates a mood that carries a message embedded in the rhythm. Carefully woven hypnotic dialog flows threw a subdued mist of color and textures. Such subterfuge beckons the listener to yield to its suggestion as the story unfolds. Codes and Metaphors features the talents of Minako Sasjima Of Japan, Lady Blaktronica Of SoundBlak recordings, Malena Perez of DeepBlak and Christina Wheeler. The Ideas are simple the rhythms are simple the music is real. The vibration is Soul People that is the foundation of Black Jazz Consortium “life threw sound”. This is the third part of Codes And Metaphors.
Carlos Nilmmms – Cupid And Psyche EP [ORN025]
Atmospheric & raw analog cuts between classical composition and oldschool deep house. Business as usual from Ornaments and Carlos Nilmmns
Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - Dusty Ballrooms EP [JYC006]
New release on Junk Yard Connection by Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie. Switch away your mind into the dusty and happy twenties when pharmacies sold coke over desk and the ballrooms were filled with glamor.
Vercetti Technicolor – Olympic Sequences EP [HM010]
HotMix presents Vercetti Technicolor, obscure producer from Greece . Amazing EP with Italo Disco movie influences.
Roberto Auser – Eclipse [PNKMN002]
The second EP on the dutch imprint Pinkman comes from Roberto Auser, bringing a varied EP with his unique westcoast sound. First up is the outer space dance track ‘Never Say Never Again’, remixed by Dutch techno pioneer Mark du Mosch on the flip. The final track ‘Eclipse’ brings us back to his native country Ausland, a tribal battle track for all the weekend warriors out there.
Bande Apartment – Rita, Kate & You Too [APT042]
TR One’s Dean Feeney and Eddie Reynolds call on compatriot and singer-songwriter David Kitt to inaugurate the Band Apartment project with this two track release for the Apartment label, fusing disco, P-funk and italo-rock. From it’s back-beat beginnings, the 80s film referencing “Lubricating Rita” builds into an anthemic disco monster of crazy synths, humming vocoders, roaring guitars and a well produced bassline reminiscent of Breakwater’s powerful “Release The Beast” (later famously sampled for Daft Punks “Robot Rock”). “Katie’s Girth” is a little more tropical – a Talking Heads tropical – mixed with wild streaks of disco strings, horns and sultry vocal breaths.
Rory Phillips – Mixed Fortunes #4 [MIXEDFORTUNES004]
Rory Phillips has cooked up another installment of the Mixed Fortune series, this time with “Tunnel Vision”, its thick, arpeggiated bassline, disco flex and 80s pop touches making it a truly beautiful boogie-slanted electro monster. There’s a special surprise too: the man goes head to head with Night Slugs man L-Vis 1990 for “Silicon Island”, a house chugger with some serious 80s vibes in there – Korg Polys all round!
Amin-Peck – Essential Trax [DDR003]
Like most 80s electronic bands, Amin-Peck walked a fine line between disco and minimal wave throughout the course of the early 1980s, oftentimes incorporating shameless pop melodies and avant-garde leanings. Amin-Peck were an Italian band lead by Giorgio Fioroni (aka George Fyron, arrangements, production, vocals) with Leonard Parker (arrangments, keyboards) and Max Marne (production). Incredible but true, Amin-Peck started as ‘hard rock’ guitar band in the 70’s…there are some tracks also on You Tube before they became one of the best examples of Italo disco. Well, finally an album that contains their best tracks for your ‘Italo party’ at home! If you like “Italo disco” or “minimal synth” this record it will be a ‘must’!
DJ Qu – XLR8R Podcast 289
DJ soFa – Cosmic Rocket Groove Channel Nr.7 12.03.2013
Santiago Salazar – Different World 006
Svenghalisghost live @ Boiler Room 02.04.2013
Steve Summers live @ Boiler Room 02.04.2013
Tornado Wallace – Juno Plus Podcast 57
Simoncino – Open Your Eyes [MATH067LP]
Stunning vinyl version of the full length featuring top quality house music not found on the CD release. Includes the first part of Ron Trent’s “Jungle Dream” remix, a Dream 2 Science mix, and tracks “Trip to japan”, “Saber”, “Use Me Lose Me”.
Simoncino – Open Your Eyes [MATHEMATICSCD012]
The founder of Hot Mix Records delivers a bangin full length to follow up his EP on Chicago Mathematics. Here he continues with more amazing sounding house tracks.
The Sun God – The Spirits Have Spoken [SEQ006]
Chicago legend Jamal Moss makes a return to Sequencias with two tracks of overdriven angularity in his most jacking incarnation, The Sun God. If you know Jamal, then you’re aware that no other artist has informed electronic rhythm-based music quite like he has. Spoken By The Spirit works a thicket of hi hats and snares around an incessant clav in one of Moss’s signature persuasive work outs. 4 This Is Your Salvation seems to run in the opposite direction of the A side—the tangle of stuttering, overheated circuits now being sucked into a vortex with an uneasy momentum.
Perseus Traxx – Bunker 3099 [BUNKER3099]
Finally out of little Britain, ahum, sorry, out of little Paxton, Mr. Rogers is currently thriving on his newly acquired medication of high-quality codeine, all thanks to the benign blessings of the pharmaceutical industry: His house is definitely jackin’ it deeper and browner than ever before, almost sounding like a Ron Hardy shooting up at the end of a hard day’s night back in the days of the warehouse.
Steve Summers – The Outermaze [LIES023]
Man of many identities, Steve Summers comes back out of the gate with his strongest and most dynamically engaging material. Twisting the formulaic pattens of modern electronics and finding the gray area where melody meets noise, where noise subsides to jacking arpeggeations, eventually pushing the tracks forward and opening them up. Through the chaos of the music there remains an enjoyable balance which effectively works wonders in a club setting.
The Hipodrome Of Music 