Raw and dirty with a touch of jack! Adalberto provides three TR-909 driven trax, produced on real hardware for real people. The Dance Maniac EP reflects the mood of classic underground house music with elements of 90s ghetto house from Chicago.
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Mgun – The Near Future EP [TTT007]
New release on The Trilogy Tapes label by Mgun aka Manuel Gonzales. Deadly sick, ambient and stepping by turns, it’s an essential offering for anyone interested in the outer reaches of house and bass music. Opener ‘2’ is a stuttering, bleepy techno number, followed by the dense, almost psychedelic layers of guitars and distortion that is ‘Walk With Me’. Sleazoid electro banger ‘The Race’ closes side A. ‘Flutter’s Brother’ is a muffled 3/4 time techno rumbler. ‘Shamen’ goes for a skippy garage feel, albeit one with hobnail boots on. Final track ‘Tiles’ is a combination of computer language and speaker-blowing sub bass.
Dj Speculator aka Willie Burns – Six Axle Podcast 023
Tevo Howard – New Mix Monday
Portable – Fabric Promo Mix
Paul du Lac – Bio Rhythm Podcast #02
Moon B – Creme Podcast #8
Lamanchanegra – The Never Ending Pack
Charlton Ravenberg – Midlight Sessions #8
Johannes Volk – Aquanautic Tales [EXP005]
Since launching his own Exploration imprint, Johannes Volk’s output has hit a confident stride which allows him to continue extolling the virtues of creative, imaginative techno in the classic sense of the word. With the colorful flair of earliest Detroit, “Submarine Funk” makes this point the clearest, but certainly there are rich melodies and weighty rhythms to be enjoyed across all three tracks. “Aquanautic Tales” is a more stripped and brooding slow burner, while “Newborn” glides on a thick bed of synth, but it’s the last track that brings all the elements together for a sci-fi jam.
Old and Young – Gamma Ray EP [OY005]
Old and Young Records chooses to release two tracks that explain its style and mind, produced by the entire crew (Alessandro Gambo, D-Vince, Sergio Pace, The Acid Music Band), between dark moods and powerful grooves, the tracks explain what is Old and Young Records, while Santiago Salzar comes with as remixer of their fifth release.
Anthony Naples – Moscato EP [MSN003]
Second release from Anthony Naples on Mister Saturday Night Records and this one is a beast of a techno track. On his second 12″ he brings two mixes of this tune with the A-side holding down a sweet deep house mix while the flip bangs out a relentless techno mix.
Hinode / Marieu – Punch In the Face [ENW003]
Enlightened Wax returns with a fistful of kick drums to the face and a whole load of crunchiness to boot. Marieu makes a return to his own label alongside Berlin’s rising analogue fiend, Hinode who makes himself heard right from the start of A1, submerging us into a shuffling, funked-out frenzy of samples and ruthless percussion. The A2 is another brutal monster, where bursting toms, cascading synths and analogue rawness align to form an irresistible peak-time burner; but it’s on the B1 that things turn really nasty – some seriously off-kilter percussion moulds seamlessly with gorgeous strings only to fall back apart into a winding bundle of slicing drums. Not much can be said about the B4, it’s just a classic “MG” (Marieu-Groove) bomb: dusty drums, shredded vocal samples and those jagged piano keys grinding their way into that seductive Enlightened Wax vibe.
Plant43 live @ Up Digital presents the Sedna Sessions NYE 2012/13
Plant43 – Frozen Monarch [FR026]
UK based Emile Facey joins the frustrada familia bringing a heavy, ice cold and highly emotive 3 track EP. Much in the vein of ERP and the likes but with a sharper sounding more abstract approach. This makes Plant43 a unique and welcome addition to the Frustrated Funk label.
E.R.P. – Pith [FR024]
New Frustrated Funk release by E.R.P. aka Convextion aka Gerard Hanson, the man with the tear-jerking string electro-techno.
In Aeternam Vale – La Piscine [MW041]
Fans of mechanical techno-not-techno sounds will be all over Minimal Wave’s latest transmission from 80s French underground heroes In Aeternam Vale. Having reissued several essential lost works from the outfit last year, most notably the proto-Sandwell sound of “Highway Dark Veins”, Veronica Vasicka delivers another two tracks from the vault on limited fluorescent yellow vinyl. Stylistically mirroring that previous two track release the title track is an equally brilliant synth-techno beast which could easily pass for a Function track today, while B-side “Calling Somewhere” sounds like a cold wave version of proto-halfstep. Needless to say, the fact that these tracks are 22 years old literally left us speechless.
Intergalactic Gary @ Altes Wettbüro (Dresden) 22.12.2012
Healing Force Project – Hybrid Furrows [SEQ005]
Presented in two parts, “Hybrid Furrows” marks the second transmission of the mysterious Healing Force Project from Treviso, Italy. The first part is a dense, introspective overture. A ceaseless minor key drone lays the path for deep thrumming gong-like pulse and shuddering percussive textures. A song without a coda, a dream without resolution, it simply dissipates like fog—never revealing it’s center. The second part is similarly monolithic in nature, but crafted more for movement than meditation. It is vicious arpeggiated psychedelia, sharp enough to cut into the deepest recesses of your psyche.
Ian Martin – Swamp Modulator [PANZER1002-2]
Ian Martin delivers five brand new tracks of paranoid intensity and cruel insanity on Panzerkreuz Records with full-on dark ambient and sinister soundscapes.
