Diagonal Records drop a slow-burning, psychedelic killer from Elon Katz and Beau Wanzer’s Streetwalker, backed with a powerful Silent Servant remix.
Author: hipodrome
Black Seed – Wild Rites EP [DTLSND003]
Christopher Rau @ Club Eden (Bucharest) 29.03.2014
Magic Mountain High LIVE @ Boiler Room x Dekmantel 01.03.2014
Romansoff @ Misbits 1yr Anniversary 14.03.2014
Route 8 – Eleda EP [US003]
The third release on Greek imprint Nous comes from Hungary based producer Route 8, offering five cuts of serious house music. It makes subtle allusions in places to 90s era minimal masters such as Carl Craig, while at other points paying judicious homage to UK trailblazers from Sheffield’s golden era; beyond the canny reference points however each track on the Elada EP is underpinned with an obvious love for the slow-burning soul of deep house.
Jay Mond – Different Structures [FS019]
Nice atmospheric piano house to techno driven peak time to raw dance floor killers. Another nice Finale Sessions.
Christopher Rau – Mehris Mood [SMALLVILLE037]
Christopher Rau strikes back with another Smallville episode of dreams that money can buy. After a couple of diverse releases lately on Office, Dérive and Junk-Yard Collections, he proves his unique exposure to deeply diving with the machines again on Smallville. Christopher Rau’s aural works feel like an outer world’s embrace, an analog kiss from the beyond. Here it is the soundtrack made for our favorite places to escape reality: a magic club, a deepest dream.
Santiago Salazar – Galatic Stomp EP [FB013]
Following a five-year hiatus the #Stockholm based label, Finest Blend makes its return. With previous releases from the likes of Orlando Voorn, Shawn Rudiman, Terence Dixon and label head, Kenny Black it became synonymous with hi-tech grooves, breaking barriers, crossing genres and developing new ones. For its re-launch Finest Blend turns to Santiago Salazar with three tracks of his characteristic house / techno sound. His new EP for Finest Blend opens with the upbeat ‘Galactic Stomp’ full of shimmering flourishes and a tough bassline, before the funked-up shuffle of ‘The Twang’ makes its hit, ending with the spacey electronics of ‘3000 Northend’.
Boreal & Lnrdcroy – Untitled [FP003]
Bill Youngman – Track Four [TANSPLAN003]
New York House meets Detroit Techno, melted together in Berlin. Fierce funk driven techno with a killer bassline on the a-side and some deeper slowly building tracks on the flip.
Staffan Linzatti – The Slight but Dramatic Difference [EVENT0007]
Staffan Linzatti returns for his second release on Chronicle with another uncompromising selection of linear techno constructions sculpted with an unfaltering vision of how hypnotic body music can transcend simple rhythmic needs. Icy atmospherics and razor-sharp production make for one of the strongest manifestations of Linzatti’s distinctive sound.
Albert van Abbe – Astroturf [VANABBE001]
Asss – Halt Sex Mi [HAR001]
Florian Kupfer – This Society [LIES045]
Florian Kupfer is back with a new ep diverging from his previous efforts and delving interesting results. Nasty one from this very talented young upstart. This Society turns out to be a massive floor board ripping cut in a similar to old Acid Planet or Bunker tracks, no bells and whistles just bare bones warehouse mayhem. Resistors teases in start/stop fashion throughout pushing to the point of no return and never getting there leaving the listener in limbo. Finally, taking up the entire b-side, Reach Another System is an autistic 909 driven piano track in the most unconventional sense which implodes upon contact.
Helena Hauff – 1028 [PANZER1028]
Hamburg’s saviour of the Reeperbahn darkness, ‘la belle dame sans merci’ from the notorious ‘Golden Pudel’ club, her menacing and ruthless sound strongly reminiscent of ‘Beverly Hills 808303/Interr-Ference’ from The Hague’s sinister ’90’s
Etcher – Polytom Dusk [AACID007]
Flowing acidic lava from new Abstract Acid discovery, Etcher, who we have absolutely no prior knowledge of, but this matters not as this is solid acid-techno through-and-through, reminiscent perhaps of an early nineties European sound, which of course we favour greatly here at Interstellar HQ. Quite simply really, really good acid.
Clendon Toblerone – It Is Within [COSMOS001]
Second release on the Cos_Mos label, with 3 ritual dark house tracks by this ‘mystery’ artist. Danny Wolfers all the way!
Hakim Murphy Interview
Gemini – In Neutral [CGTX004]
3rd Part of the tribute to Spencer Kincy’s ‘Gemini Traxx’ series, bringing his legendary 1997 album fully remastered.
