Music Man presents the third single from Robert Hoods’s ‘Motor: Nighttime World 3′ – ’Black Technician’. It includes 2 remixes from the Underground Resistance crew, the ‘UR Mad Mike Remix’ features founding UR member Mike Banks with edits by Skurge & Ray 7. On the ‘DirtTech UR Remix’ Mad Mike collaborated with Waajeed.
Genre bender Phon.o finds new perfection in merging UK bass music with techno, garage and even house music. Not in a wild mash-up kind of way, but very organic and natural sounding. ‘Schn33’ is a guaranteed floor filler for all kinds of dance music Djs. No matter where, no matter when, no matter what mixed with, this is an anthem! Perfectly supplemented with a strong B-Side, this might be the strongest Phon.o single yet.
Although Michigan is well inland from the North Atlantic Ocean, it doesn’t mean Detroit can’t make techno for the high seas or uncharted waters. Terrence Dixon’s Lost At Sea 12″ for the Surface label founded by Nick Dunton and the late Richard Polson sees four tracks of “Untitled” Detroit techno traverse through a sonic field of Joey Anderson and DJ Qu house drums, while saw-wavey Drexciyan qualities and Jeff Mills techno loops also circulate the EP. A deep and heady 12″ of U-boat rhythmics for the techno underground.
Lovely 1990s UK Hardcore & original Techno revival cuts coming from Head High on Power House imprint.
Back to the basics! Raw, Grimy and Underground. Produced by Detroits own DJ Roach. This EP gets em up!! Its simple. Not too much, just funky as hell Detroit style.
Bringing Madd Chaise back to the fore The Oliverwho Factory serve up some spiced up oldies (Rain 5th Wave Remastered & Touch Me Remix) along with the new bonus feature 2morrow.
The first release on the label Rebalance featuring two remixes by Bleak and Steffi and Bleak for Unbalance.
Debut release by Naas on Toni Limited, featuring two deep trailing techno tracks and remixes by Alexander D’niel and Phil Denton.
Number 15 on Sect is coming from Fanon Flowers with some crafty killer Techno. The release is rounded up by a Substance version.
Beyond The Speaker is a new label launched by three American individuals with hands in graphic design, DJing and presenting radio shows. These mediums are put to expert usage on the label’s first release, Angels Against Dust, which pairs up two of electronic music’s singular personalities in Legowelt and Willie Burns. Each side sees one production from each producer with Legowelt’s penchant for woozy melodic hooks, rippling percussion and aqautic techno complemented well by Burns’ more meditative, hypnosis inducing arrangements.
Straight and to the point high bpm club ready tracks from the world of Delroy Edwards. No one is left standing with the clap, whistle, and warble of this ghetto funk. Rough and tough beat tracks made for mixing and getting the fuck out, just like in the old days. Nothing flashy here, hard working tracks for the working dj.
Luke Hess shows his Detroit roots w/his dub tech pasted synths & flowing pads. Chicago mastermind Steven Tang puts it together w/ beautiful drum programming & freeform synths. XDB takes a turn to the deeper side of things w/bass line & prototype drums.
Mobach drops his lush melodic debut album ”Cold Rain” on Syncom Data Records. Four years after his ”Metrobots” twelve inch Mobach delves deeper into his unique hybrid form of techno, house, electro, dub and downbeat experimental electronics. Ten tracks full of infectious melodies, clever beats and weird soundscaping that creates this typical Mobach audiosyncratic world, probably best reflected in the beautiful artwork, also from the hand of the artist.
Stefan Schwander has been releasing his heavily processed and sequenced take on African music and American minimalism under his Harmonious Thelonious moniker since 2008. His new EP on meakusma is only the second one on a non-German label. On two tracks, Schwander takes his trademark rhythmically and melodically repetitive sound into straightforward Techno territory, although some heavy phasing gives the raw power and stoic repetition of these tracks an ambientish, post-club feel. Two other tracks further develop his typically eclectic and informed sound, playing live organ on one of them, displaying a jittery and jumpy rhythmic style that looks for a groove that until now did not exist. Jesse Hackett, a.k.a. Elmore Judd, delivers a remix that takes the original firmly into ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’ territory, giving melody and rhythm a more open sense of space, and layering it with vocal samples to further add to a sense of Funk alienation.
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