A journey into the past and the future of Italo Disco music through the stories of the original 80’s heroes and cult DJs and the voice of the new generation of artists, radio broadcasters and fans ready to carry on the Italo Disco Legacy.
001.Features
Borgie – Kosmostrator On Venus EP [EE020RTM]
Electronic Emergencies kicks off 2018 with its 20th release. On the Kosmostrator On Venus EP, Bosnian DJ and producer Borgie has rocketed himself into deep, deep space, far beyond planet Italo. The sound of the four tracks on Borgie’s second EP for Electronic Emergencies is deep, has dark edges and is extremely danceable.
VA – RDY #43 (Ron Hardy Edits) [RDY043]
Cappuccino – Hell dance with me, Man Friday & Jive Junior – Picking up sounds, Kleeer – Taste The Music.
Decent International 02 – Rentboy / Plantain [DECENT02]
Early 80s. Christiane F and Tron meet over a brutalist landscape. Clock is ticking. Electronic pioneers bang up post punks. Dirty hits. Take more. Time is running out. Northern European sub-cultural appropriation to destroy the dance. Still, it sounds good. And it looks nice. Nice sleeve art. Move along. Move along.
Animistic Beliefs – Sinuous Gullies [BP002]
Solar One Music is happy to release the debut of this promising Rotterdam duo Animistic Beliefs on their sublabel “Between Places”. The EP comes with 5 heavy, tuneful and hypnotising electro tracks you definitely have to hear.
Orlando Voorn Presents The Stalker – Electrocute EP [CEL001]
New dutch imprint presents Orlando Voorn aka The Stalker on the first release. Orlando shows once again his talent to deliver great music in all genres. This time it’s an superb Electro 4 racker!
BS-1 – Age Of Aggression EP [DATO02]
Discos Atonicos presents the label’s second release: Age of Aggression, featuring 5 massive electro cuts that are a straight shot to the dance floor. This new record was produced by Dutch veteran Roland van Oorschot aka BS-1. Producing and experimenting since the mid 1990s, van Oorschot has been a long time fixture in the electronic music world. He has created many projects over the years including Funxiun, Utroid and the previously mentioned BS-1.
Versalife – Soul Of The Automaton Pt.2 [TRSD005B]
Sysex Ferro – Sysex Ferro [BORFT153]
Manchester, 2016. 1/3 FRAK & NEBULA = THE SYSEX MEETING. Disco – House – experimental Hip House and parapsychic jazz.
Jensen Interceptor & Assembler Code – 6th Element [BNR172]
“6th Element,” Jensen Interceptor’s newest release with frequent collaborator Assembler Code brings this aesthetic in a darker, more focused, more serious direction without losing the grit and grain that colors his work. The result is 4 tracks of club ready, weaponized techno heavy on EBM and industrial influence with an agenda to menace.
Aleks – Pool Daze [OA005]
Rising talent Aleks joins the Organic Analogue realm of spiritual sonic exploration. The Amsterdam-based producer has already made a name for himself in the past few years with his penchant for sci-fi imagery and impeccable hardware jams, hence he feels like a natural fit for OA. This double LP release provides the chance to hear some of the breadth in Aleks productions, from ambient submersions to Detroitian techno and sharp edged 303 resonance that skirts the divide between jacking club material and emotional content. HVL returns to OA with a frankly stunning remix of “Pool Daze” that steps up to the giants of early electronica. As an additional treat, the Georgian producer has also donned his Kiyadama guise for the eight-minute psych-out “Acid Expansion Remix” of “Void”. Capturing the foggy time-slip quality of the dancefloor with a sound that could just as easily come from the late morning, the Pool Daze LP is equally comfortable as another thread in the OA tapestry.
Serial Error – Drum Abuse [RAT13]
Rat Life Records presents Serial Error a Project by Credit 00, Jacob Korn & Sneaker. This outfit was brought to life in 2013 when Red D called for some New Beat style tracks for his “Our Beat Is Still New” Compilation. Flying a bit too low under the radar ever since Rat Life decided to reissue Drum Abuse on a Super Sound Maxi Single. The Track was made in Jacob Korn’s headquarter studio / synthesizer museum. The task distribution was hit quickly: Jacob squeezing the acid out of his huge Formant modular system, Credit 00 beating the drums on the Boss DR 660 and Sneaker throwing his unique vocals on top.
Pascäal – No Pain [CLAVE-003]
Pascäal delivers four live hardware cuts ranging from warm pensive techno in “Orbs (Glass Mix)” to the cavernous and dubbed out “7”.
Maenad Veyl – Somehow, Somewhere They Have Heard This Before [PBD10.5]
Pinkman welcomes Maenad Veyl to its roster of artists for his debut release in the form of the labels second tape. ‘Make Them Remember’ sets the gloomy mood with clattering percussion and ghostly synth lines. The messy drum patterns of Taiko Death Rhythm’ are breaking up the cold mist. The A-side of the cassette is completed by the melodic slow burning energy of ‘D.M.M.R.M’. On the other side ‘State ov Apprehension’ and ‘Sotto Gli Occhi Tutti’ further darken the character, to then pave way for ‘In Ruins’ to finish the damage with it’s ethereal, yet soul ripping guitar riffs.
Siegmar Fricke – Kassettenjahre 1988-1993 LP [MM005]
Siegmar Fricke describes his music as ‘dynamic dancable collage-pop with a 90s technoid tendency’. The music on this release is made by Yamaha sampling- keyboards, Yamaha multieffects, synthesizers and 60s magnetic tape recorder, recorded on a four-track Tascam tape-machine. From 1987 – 1993 he produced twenty four cassette releases, some on his former label ‘Bestattungsinstitut’ and some on other tape-labels all around the globe. This vinyl is a fine selection of various tapes from 1988 – 1993 slightly edited for club use and remastered by Berlin’s masterchef Kitaro from Schnittstelle. Heavy underground dancematerial for the first time on vinyl. Comes with a strong extended dancefloor remix by Manfredas.
The Pulse Projects – Black Catalogue Rituals – 2004-2005 [SUBAPICAL02]
Subapical presents Dutch producer Albert Van Abbe’s The Pulse Projects – Black Catalogue Rituals (2004-2005). The Pulse Projects Black Catalogue Rituals (2004-2005) show Albert Van Abbe’s grittier electro/industrial focused work all recorded in the mid noughties. Here he serves up 4 tracks from the archives.
Tuomo Vaananen – A Small Flood [LJ009]
Typically outstanding, cultured, listenable techno by the co-founder of this excellent Finnish label, adroitly traversing dub and ambient. Nothing lunky or domineering, dystopian or Gothic, this debut LP generates senses of immediate, natural being out of field recordings (Waiting Halls, Winners, Temple) and the foibles and hiccups of the music-making process itself (New to the System, Sloth, A Small Flood).
Oscar Mulero – Acceptance [SEM070.3]
Advance 12″ of the upcoming Oscar Mulero album ‘Perfect Peace’, SEMANTICA 70 with some deep electronix.
