Steve Moore – Panther Moderns EP [LIES010]

MOORE, Steve - Panther Moderns EP (Front Cover)

New ep from Steve Moore which hits hard straight from the get go, as the title track Panther Moderns sees Moore moving into bleaker, mid-tempo musical territories with this brutally haunting, sparse, yet, funk ridden cut. Beyond Tykens Rift is the light at the end of the tunnel with its melodic and uplifting techno/new age leanings while the b-side’s Ancient Shorelines I., which opens with heavy arpeggios and a plodding kick, creates desolate landscapes of still to be discovered planets as the song’s dramatic narrative unfolds.

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Steve Moore – Panther Moderns EP [LIES010]

Break SL – Desert Flight EP [UV009]

Break SL strikes back with a massive track called “Desert Flight” on the Uncanny Valley camp. Over the course of ten minutes the track unwinds as an analogue Slowhouse trip that is dominated by a gritty synth figure. With typical sophisticated Break SL drums, radio transmitted messages directly from the cockpit and a freaked out siren it’s a track that is not from this world. The flipside starts off in a more classical manner with the rumbling House of ‘Amorphed limits’. The track is distinguished by rapturous synths and gets spiced up through additional drum work by Break SL’s partner in crime Manuel Sander. ‘Beercase Song’ originates from collaboration with Dresden’s universal genius Max Rademann. His quirky keys and Break SL’s drum workshop create a dirty piece of Funk which rounds up an eclectic EP by a versatile producer.

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Break SL – Desert Flight EP [UV009]

Tevo Howard – At All Pursuits [TTHR-DR010]

This album features 7 long form dance tracks, and is as Tevo Howard’s second album to date. The tracks included are to be looked at as sound compositions both as a whole and as their individual parts. In sound design, these tracks are sculpted for the dancer while focusing on metaphoric juxtapositions between the actual text titles of the tracks and their individual sound designs.

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Tevo Howard – At All Pursuits [TTHR-DR010]

Tazz – Adventures Of Tazz Sampler [TSUBA057A]

TAZZ - Adventures Of Tazz Sampler (Front Cover)

With his old-skool rooted sound, Tazz has always brought tantaslising styles to Kevin Griffith’s mighty Tsuba stable. There’s something very playful about the way he sets about building tracks, not least on the square-wave bass rinsing “Giovanni’s Keys”. Let it never be said the man is cashing in on tried and tested formulas, bringing his thoroughly modern production skills to bear on tightly honed floor rockers. “Many Reason!” ups the ante further with the teasing arpeggios and chiming synths, while “Captain Groove & The Oscillators” pulls things back to show it’s not all peak-time bangers in the Tazz camp.

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Tazz – Adventures Of Tazz Sampler [TSUBA057A]

Leeon – A New Chapter [7SR023]

A breakthrough artist features on this, the new 7th Sign, which also sees Conforce deliver a slick remix. Leeon, a Glasgow-based DJ and producer, uses his debut to serve up three beautiful slices of the proper machine soul we’ve come to expect from 7th Sign.

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Leeon – A New Chapter [7SR023]

Reggie Dokes – Child Of The Sun EP [CIN12011]

Cinematic’s latest release comes from Reggie Dokes in the form of “Child of The Sun EP”. An inspired artist hailing from Detroit, Reggie spoils us with three funk fuelled cuts via the motor city.

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Reggie Dokes – Child Of The Sun EP [CIN12011]

Andy Ash – Broken Nights EP [BKR002]

Wonderfull languorous slice of laid back slo mo house that fuses together loose limbed percussion, an old school riff and haunting, pitch shifted vocals. The tracks builds in intensity as the arrangement progresses, bringing the piano to the fore and shifting up a gear with hypnotic vocals that give the record a truly balaeric feel, quality stuff.

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Andy Ash – Broken Nights EP [BKR002]

DJ Aakmael – Deepermotions [UNX001]

New project by Dj Aakmael featuring 4 raw and smoked out house bangers shouting out to many of the Deep House legends. Lots of gritty, dirty chopped-up chords riding heavy beats showinf Aakmael’s love for that classic sound, featuring deep and warm organ chords topped off with lovely voices.

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DJ Aakmael – Deepermotions [UNX001]

Julius Steinhoff / Oskar Offermann – Faces #6 [WHITE015]

A new release in the Faces Series on White label, featuring two sweet deep house tracks that go back to the early days of Chicago, but done in a nice contemporary way by Julius Steinhoff and Oskar Offermann.

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Julius Steinhoff / Oskar Offermann – Faces #6 [WHITE015]

Lapien – Anvers EP [BLIQ004]

‘Anvers’, the French name for Belgian port Antwerp, starts in unassuming manner, synths swimming, bass pondering, a gentle cymbal tapping. It’s the sound of thoughtful admiration, as if Lapien is standing in front of the city’s towering gothic cathedral, motionless in the midst of a now modern metropolis. But then, as loops spring uncomfortably back and an insistent beat thunders into the fray, one realizes that this is no time for admiring architecture; this is a night drive through the city – coarse orange streetlamps, chrome blue reflections, droplet-stained window panes. Remixes by Conforce and Fred P.

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Lapien – Anvers EP [BLIQ004]