Influenced by his passion for Detroit and Chicago’s House and Techno scenes, on his production debut some deep tracks with nice baselines, layered with strings, soaring pads and an abundance of hats and snares.
Author: hipodrome
Mark Forshaw – Digital Tsunami 041
VernoN – Bud XXL EP [RWT-1]
VernoN switches to Romansoff’s Raw Tools imprint. As you might expect, the Bud XXL EP is jam-packed with intense machine rhythms, body-shaking electronics and twisted acid lines. As a result, each of the three original tracks tiptoes that fine line between jacking analogue house and raw techno. There’s a vintage Chicago feel to “It Ain’t You”, while “Keep On Dancing” layers a flurry of cowbells atop a jaunty bassline and delay-laden machine grooves. The real killer, though, is “Bud XXL”, a spiraling, in-your-face concoction that sounds like a signifier of a coming apocalypse. Glaswegian-in-Bristol Marco Bernadi reworks “It Ain’t You”, turning it into a freaky chunk of alien funk complete with mutant Detroit synths and chugging drum machine rhythms.
Head Front Panel – HFP #006 [HFP006]
Head Front Panel is a new sub-label from Tabernacle Records focusing on techno from anonymous artists in 2014.
Head Front Panel – HFP #005 [HFP005]
Head Front Panel is a new sub-label from Tabernacle Records focusing on techno from anonymous artists in 2014.
Vernon Felicity – Superficial Pleasures EP [MID004]
Number four will be born to the floor. Melomanic mastermind Vernon Felicty is the freshest residential of the harbour city and we had to trouble up faster then Bonny & Clyde’s motorbike. Here’s what happened… Get ready for a fix of Rotterdam’s danger!
Juju & Jordash – ‘Ambient’ jam @ Freerotation 11-13.07.2014
Richard H Kirk – The Many Dimensions Of Richard H Kirk [DS110]
This collection of recordings by Richard H Kirk is now released as a 3xCD box set by Die Stadt,in association with and under license from Intone.The box set contains the three albums for the first time on CD. CD 1-Richard H kirk-Reality is Opposite (guitars, breakbeats, electronics and digital interference in the sound of insurrection.) Cd 2- Orchestra Terrestrial-Umladen(classical analogue mood music) Cd 3-Richard H Kirk and the Arpeggio 13-Anonymized (minimalist analogue arpeggio workouts). All three albums were recorded between October 2010 and December 2011 as cities around the world were in turmoil. Richard H Kirk is a co founder and now sole member of electronic music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire and last year celebrated 40 years as an audio/visual artist.
Havantepe – Olivenbaum EP [BAUM010]
Salz – Reworks pt. 6 [TELRAE022]
The new Salz release on Telrae kicks off with their rework of the “Call Of Cthulhu” and is dedicated to the early days of Berlin techno and therefore a reminiscence to the period which has been most influential to the duo. The recording is again powerful and impressive and enables one to float on it in perfection. The Salz dub remix of ” Fox In The Box” has always been one of the favorites of theirs and comes here for the first time on vinyl.
Joey Anderson @ Dekmantel Festival 01.08.2014
Marcelus – Neighbourhood Podcast Volume 5
Anomaly – Sun & Moon EP [SPM022]
Fred P immerses himself further into his techno alter ego, bringing more depth and insight to the saga, using sound to transcend time and space.
Population One – Theater Of A Confused Mind [RHM013]
Deadly Population One album from Terrence Dixon on Rush Hour. Under the Population One codename, Detroit citizen Terrence Dixon has realized some of his most vivid, esoteric portals to the Motor City mindset. ‘Theater Of A Confused Mind’ is Dixon’s 2nd album in this mode, twenty years after his debut album, ‘Unknown Black Shapes’, and the ‘Hippnotic Culture’ 2LP, whose ‘Rush Hour’ track inspired the company’s name.
DJ October – Gate 2 Yesterday [SKUDGEPT011]
October is back with his first solo 12″ after appearing on Fred P’s SPM label last year. Both cuts will please lovers of October’s trademark slow techno sound and also hint at the industrial influences which he explores more heavily on his debut LP, forthcoming on Skudge White.
Sterac aka Steve Rachmad – The Hypnoticus [108DSR]
Upfront white label copy with two tight & funky techno movers by Dutch techno legend Sterac aka Steve Rachmad. Official release later this year with new/other tracks and remixes.
Ben Sims & Kirk DeGiorgio – Raw Hide [MACHINE003]
Four peak-timers incl. a special club edit of the popular ‘Rawhide’ track, and Degiorgio’s ‘Dread’ appears on vinyl for the first time after it’s inclusion on Sims’ Fabric Mix CD. Funky and uncompromising as always – this will be a mainstay in Techno sets.
Intergalactic Gary @ Boiler Room x Dekmantel Festival 01.08.2014
Mick Wills @ Boiler Room x Dekmantel Festival 01.08.2014
Jared Wilson – Ghost Miners [7777007]
Killer debut release from Jared Wilson on his own label 7777. Wilson states the album draws inspiration from the literal underclass. “Ghost Miners is influenced and dedicated to all those who have worked and lived underground, from gold miners in South Africa, copper miners in the 1800s in northern Michigan, the mole people of NYC to orphans living under Bucharest.” Raw acid and techno of the highest caliber.
