EE Tapes are more than honoured to welcome Nine Circles aboard of their 7″ vinyl series. A new line-up with new challenges, starring Lidia “The Rose” Fiala and keyboard wizz Per-Anders Kurenbach.
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Vatican Shadow @ Boiler Room (San Francisco) 14.06.2014
Yagya – Sleepygirls [106DSRLP]
Icelandic producer Yagya release his fifth album, Sleepygirls, on Dutch label Delsin. It’s a deep, spacious and dubbed out affair that stays locked at a pleasingly sedentary tempo throughout. The album is a fine fusion of tropes from Yagya’s earlier albums, features jazz instrumentalists that improvise beautiful melodies over monotonic, almost drone-like, techno beats and also uses live recordings of Japanese vocals, saxophone and guitar to counter the repetitiveness of the rhythms. Right from the rolling bliss of the opener, you’re suspended in a womb like pillow of sound that is soft, warm and serenely beautiful. As tracks roll on, the pace stays the same but themes vary from upright and summery to more elongated and insular. This is natural, organic dub that is a delight and a pleasure to listen to.
“I wanted to create an album that’s atmospheric, repetitive, and easy to listen to over and over again. Something that works well in the background (e.g. when concentrating on work), as well as up close in a big sound system. I also wanted to learn how to make my music sound better than before, since I’m a huge sound-nerd, so that was a part of the goal for me personally.”
F. Mavelli – Special Brigade [B4003]
The Special Brigade – one of Legowelt’s best fictitious classic-italian-late-’70’s-police-horror-cult-movie electronic techno music soundscape. Florenza Mavelli’s Special Brigade soundtrack (aka Uomini Brigata Specialle) an obscure italian tv-series tells the story of an elite special government police unit formed to counter terrorism and organized crime. It first surfaced on the legendary CBS blog late 2007, only to fade into obscurity again after the old CBS’s foreclosure. In 2009 it was remastered from vintage reel to reel tape and released on Danny’s Strange Life label on a CD album. Now Bunker brings it back! It’s great to taste six of those dramatic cuts on vinyl finally.
Metasplice – Vertia / Tiled Eighths [DOSER023]
This weighty double sider on Morphine delves into the paranoid / submarine dwelling / meta-hacker / soundtrack territory they are often known to enter when performing live. Vertia snakes like a virus. Tiled Eigths is pure fever.
Alessandro Parisi / Adamennon – Il Plenilunio Del Fuoco [FLR009]
“We were lured by the call of the Naught. We bring royal blood to purify the land with the consecration of ancient sages. In the name of the sacred all-glorious crusade, moved by psychokinetic power, we brutally kill as the heavenly dew falls on the battlefield.
We are the fire’s moonlight warriors and this is our holy war.”
Erdbeerschnitzel – The Ample Waters [DSR-H8]
Hot on the heels of his last outing for the Delsin house series comes this, another essential new offering from German producer Erdbeerschnitzel. The title track ‘The Ample Waters’ is a joyous and lively concoction that fuses curious melodies with busy little piano stabs and more trilling, sunny melodies. It’s busy house for bustling dancefloors and next up, ‘Never Tilt’ slows things down with jumbled, woody percussion falling over lazy drums and stretched, yawning synth smears. Colourful and effervescent, it’s a track that makes you want to shake your limbs. ‘With Level Hopes’ is again characterised by melodic colour, with pixelated patterns stretched over a funky, gooey bassline and clacking percussion. There’s a beautifully DIY feel to the loosely assembled track that gives it a life all of its own before closer ‘Yet Unfulfilled’ pairs slo-mo beats with neo-soul vocal snippets, lazy and stoned summer chords. It’s the most emotive of the lot, but all four tracks are truly feel good jams that have come just in time for some serious summer action.
Trinidadian Deep – Ep III [NERO026T]
Neroli is back with the third contribution from Trinidadian Deep to the label, continuing to follow the way of the previous two: deep spiritual heartfelt tracks.
Garnier – KL 2036 EP [MCDE1212]
Deep, layered, soulful and musical tracks from Laurent Garnier. 2 quality offerings that fit MCDE to a tee.
VA – Special Edition 03 [SE003]
From the executive producer Chez Damier come a Special Edition release marking the 20th Anniversary of Balance and Prescription records. Side A. The Mission: Lavida (life) is a project and group from Switzerland that was produce by Chez Damier and Italian producer Demetrio Giannice, The track is Deep with Choped vocals of Chez and Chaka Khan, very chord driven with a Jazzy feel as the break of the track. A2. Is a young group of French producers from Paris called Siler & Dima , Thomas Zander with track called: Inappropriate, a deep driven track with spoken words , more minimal and was inspired by some of Ron and Chez early works, this is for sure new school and very club friendly. Side B is a remastered version of the rare Prescription Underground mix of Ron Trent and Chez damier’s classic ””the Choice”” this is one of the dance classics that helped shaped a new underground sound for the club, with ripping synth, raw snares and high strings, this 20 year old track hold up as well as a track made today.
DJ F – 1974 [AHD007]
Spain’s A Harmless Deed label announce the release of its first artist album. DJ and producer DJ F, who up to now has also produced a sleek brand of airy dub techno and house on labels like Frigio and Semantica, drawing on everything from lo-fi Detroit techno to vintage electro.
Duplex / Tuff Sherm – Population Density / Drain Spectre (After Virgo) [MID003]
The A side got fixed by the legendary chaps of Duplex. They’ve been coming along since the first waves of house and techno and gave proof of this with their contribution ‘Population Density’. On the flip we find Tuff Sherm’s 10 min excursion holding beastly percussion and melomanic fatness.
XDB – Afrikk EP [ECHOCORD061]
The 2nd Ep by Kosta Athanassiadis aka XDB on Echocord. The Afrikk Ep contains 3 original tracks, all rough, deep and dubby with house elemenst, typical XDB style. Also the ep contains a remix of the Afrikk track by Philogresz. All tracks are perfect for the dancefloor, a good mix of the modern House sound of today and Dub Techno.
Scientific Dreamz of U – Visionz Of An Abstract Plane [TABR026]
Datastreams formed via the merging of spin ½ wavefunctions, refracted through myriad unit spheres in momentum space. Alternative visionz divined by Lost Trax.
Laura Jones – Embrace [LEFT048]
Paul du Lac & Cassy remixes of two Laura Jones trax. Great versatile EP with nice different vibes that go well together. Well balanced release with 4 solid tracks.
RA.422 Abdulla Rashim
Developer – In Pure Form [MOD016]
Modularz Label owner Developer presents his first LP „In Pure Form“. This is a real wealth of work that developer has been creating over the last year. Its a fairly large catalog of tracks focusing on raw rhythms, strong tools and powerful funk fueled techno. This is a massive selection of functional tracks direct from the Developer factory of techno.
DVS1 – Distress EP [HUSH003]
Woo York – I Am Against [SOMA409]
Ukrainian duo Woo York are set to release their new record that proves to be somewhat representative of recent dramatic events in their country. Entitled I Am Against, both the main track and the EP itself are referring to the developments that lead to revolutionary struggle of the Ukrainian people. Fighting inequality, saying what you have to say and doing what you have to do seem to be the core ideas of the record. You might have figured that out yourself by spotting a rebel protester from Januarys clash with riot police depicted on the record sleeve. The EP also features a special remix from UK Techno producer, [Phase].
VA – Colony 001 [CLNY001]
A rolling and bubbling analogue house and techno release from the newly-minted Vienna-based Wild Open Space imprint. Featuring Phil Madeiski, Felix T and Max Mulder channeling the spirit of Chicago and Detroit with a European production edge.
