Quality various artists EP on Dial’s lovely subdivision. Deep & psychedelic house for all 3Chairs / Kassem Mosse etc. fans. By Palisade aka Redshape (who comes up with an outstanding journey into Avantgarde based on the feedbacks of John Cage’s ”Pendulum Music”), Smallville’s shooting star Moomin, and RNDM.
Second release on the Weedis Japanese label. Vintage Moon is inspired on Sword & Sworcery game for the i-phone that has a nostalgic feel. Three tracks rooted in the traditions of the Detroit/Chicago house.
Skylax is back with the fantastic first album of Jason Grove. A diverse range of lush & warm French house tracks on one of the finest classic US/Jersey inspired house albums in years.
Jacob Korn on Mild Pitch camp, with a raw intense track that slowly builds and keeps the tension high. Remixes by Manuel Tur and Langenberg who both deliver some great mixes both giving their own twist to the deep original track.
Feelharmonic presents Satore with his EP ‘On Tape’. The young Spanish producer makes his label debut with the deep title track ‘On Tape’ and the funky, percussion-driven ‘For The Road’. On the remix front, the excellent Madrid-based duo Ordell and Ernie from Minuendo Recordings house it up even further with a re-work each of ‘On Tape’ and ‘For The Road’ respectively.
Justin Berkovi delivers 2 heads down mid-tempo Techno dance tracks for his ART debut. Clean, crisp production with thunderous low end characterise both tracks. The title track Drive delivers its power via modulating synth stabs, whilst When I Throw Down commands the dancefloor with its demonic vocal.
Somewhere between Detroit and Far Away Galaxies, Exploration brings you three pieces of electronic music. The title track is a hypnotic stomper for the peak time, designed for these magic moments on the dancefloor. The b-side contains two deeper cuts, full of raw grooves, synth riffs and sound research!
There’s some serious ruffness to this breakout four track compilation from the shadowy Vanguard Sound collective. The Detroit roots of the label shine through, not least on Amir Alexander’s tough, haunting jacker “Violence”. Militant samples and scuffed arpeggios scream Motor City from the off, much like the stripped sci-fi techno of Chris Mitchell. DJ Spider’s “Tribal Mechanism” creates an industrial nightmare out of a rootsy percussion premise, and Hakim Murphy excels with a stalking slice of stripped down menace, capitalising on a broken kick pattern to deadly effect.
Strong debut release of this new label. Epic techno tracks with energy and great tension that manage to keep a nice the energy high without loosing the nice groove.
Peter Van Hoesen’s last solo output on Time To Express dates back from March 2010 with his seminal Entropic City album. After a string of remixes and collaborations Peter provides his own label with a new solo EP. The Transitional State EP presents four brand new tracks, each distinctly different from what has come before.
Deeplab by Luke Hess comes with this split release that sees Jeroen Search on the A-side with Ball Masque, a raw and analog soulful dancefloor monster. On the B-side Isaev brings a futuristic masterpiece cut from his home in Russia.
Roberto Bosco is back for his third offering for Figure SPC, with a future-classic 4 track techno EP, intelligent and sensitive. Easing us into the thick of it, ‘Charming Noise’ takes humming, rumbling bass tones and a metallic clang as its themes. Slow burning and readily effective, its a brooding monster for the late hours. ‘I Just Can’t Breathe’ pushes the adrenalin up a few notches in a screaming, white noise attack on the senses. Bosco’s trademark heavy bass rumble and crisp percussion layers hold their own in this reduced killer. We’re then ready to embark on an emotional voyage as the masterful ‘See The Light’ emerges from the depths with its pushing acid bass and beautiful atmospheric melody. Classic strings and synths swirl and build in a tender and heartfelt piece of timeless techno. Closing the EP, ‘I Was Lonely’ takes the vibe into more reduced, after-hours zones with Roberto’s cool and low-slung take on the smoother sound of future-deep house.
G-Man returns with Robert Hauck aka Rob Strobe to bring forth Acrophobia. A three track dancefloor burner of chord driven pumping techno, the purist Sheffield / Detroit techno kind mixing classic styles of techno into the contemporary field of where techno is at in the present.
The latest Token release sees the label mainstay Phase at the helm for two typically fierce and unrelenting productions. Essentially presented as two “Processes” of the same “Binary Opposition” track, Phase demonstrates his unerring talent for crafting deeply effective techno filled with detailed and wall shaking drum programming and subtle yet devastatingly effective rhythms.
A glossy new stream of consciousness entitled “The 5th Dimension” by Jeremiah R. These ten fresh cuts of nebulous ambient electro are guaranteed to lock you in a celestial meditation chamber and take you on a mental quest through space and time.
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Versalife’s Night Time Activities part 3, with four more deep intense atmospheric electro techno tracks.
Solar One Music presents their new ‘The Exaltics meets…’series. The first one in the game beside The Exaltics is non other than the great Shad T. Scott aka Gosub, known for his unique style with lowslung basslines and melodies. 2 pure funk killer tracks from the veteran from miami. The Exaltics return to their homebase SOM, with their more melodic style they deliver 2 deep tracks full of wide melodies, dark basses and the typical Exaltics mood.
