G-Machine – Primo Contatto [BAP044]

Turning back the clock, before fast forwarding it, comes Giovanni Damico as G-Machine. A new virtuoso of space boogie. Buckle up, destination: Primo Contatto. Across eight tracks the Italian astronaut traverses the sounds of the cosmos. Warbling reverberations introduce “Flying Objects”, with thick bands of synthesizer throbbing in its veins. The ultra slick “Contact” follows. Electrofunk bars float beneath stratospheric synth. Styles co-mingle. Patrick Cowley melts with Afrika Bambaataa. Disco Magic meets Tommy Boy. An overarching groove permeates the album, a heady funk that courses through tracks like “Body on the Ground” and “Transmission”. The moon based mirrorball sounds flex and flow, “It’s A Shame” cutting floors with sleek vocoders and addictive analogue riches. If you’re waiting for re-entry think again, there is no return ticket. G-Machine will only be taking passengers further and further on his cosmic odyssey with tracks like “In My Arms” and “Boogie Down”. Buck Rogers in the 25th century breakdowns and rollerskate goodness from needle drop to the run-out.

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G-Machine – Primo Contatto [BAP044]

Carpentaria / Hysteric – Dromedary EP [PPUTI06]

CARPENTARIA/HYSTERIC - Dromedary EP

Public Possession “Under The Influence” catalogue number 006 is another delivery from Down Under. Four customised Disco heaters roughly built around an Arabic theme – with Italian background. Courtesy of Tamas Jones & Paul Harmon (building the duo „Carpentaria“) and George Hysteric on the flipside.

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Carpentaria / Hysteric – Dromedary EP [PPUTI06]

Roberto Auser – Extraterrestrial [CHAR003]

The multitalented Roberto Auser returns to his Dutch West Coast dancefloor roots. Heavy three tracker on the Pinkman sublabel Charlois, with sounds varying from tripping intergalactic tribal electro to southern space disco.

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Roberto Auser – Extraterrestrial [CHAR003]

Wish Key – Orient Express / Last Summer [DE95]

Wish Key was an Italo Disco duo of Manlio Cangelli and Lorella Ghilardi in Milan. Their first single “Orient Express” was released in 1983 by Discomagic Records. It begins with a rolling baseline, bright synthesizer stabs, and a sampled train siren. The double-tracked male/female vocals compliment each other perfectly, heightening the dramatic tension. On the flip is “Last Summer”, a slower paced affair with Silvia recalling a dream of lying on the beach and having a good time.

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Wish Key – Orient Express / Last Summer [DE95]

VA – Let It Be (Acid) [CUR002]

Cologne Underground Records, a Label runs by Elec PT.1, proudly presents V/A – Let It Be (Acid).
International Acid Affairs. No smooth ChikkieChikkie. Straight in your Mind. And your Azz.

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VA – Let It Be (Acid) [CUR002]

Mark Verbos – Walk The Distance [BK013]

The Bunker New York presents a surprise EP from veteran techno producer Mark Verbos – a man whose discography stretches back over 20 years – fits that remit. Flitting between acid-laden psychedelic intensity (“Just A Little Late”), high-octane loop jams (“In The Back Room”) and sweaty, all-out assaults on the senses (the metallic madness that is “Start Up Drive”), it portrays Verbos as a masterful producer of no-holds-barred dancefloor techno. Interestingly, he diverts a little from the script on the EP’s final moment, “Walk The Distance”, combining sparse dub techno rhythms and ghostly electronics.

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Mark Verbos – Walk The Distance [BK013]

Tense – Disconnect Myself (Beau Wanzer Adjustment) [MNQ067]

Back in 2011, Chicago’s Beau Wanzer reshaped the angry body-music of the now-defunct Houston duo Tense with an 8 minute claustrophobic TR-909 workout. The track never saw the light of day on vinyl… until now.

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Tense – Disconnect Myself (Beau Wanzer Adjustment) [MNQ067]

Magas – Heads Plus [MW002]

Midwich Productions presents James Marlon Magas’ Heads Plus. For the past several years, Magas has been concentrating on instrumental production, eschewing vocal histrionics of previous work, in favor of moodier, more open-ended composition. This focus has resulted in the bombastic and hallucinatory Heads Plus, an all-instrumental wallop that fuses howling ARP Odyssey, capricious Juno funk and fuzzed Rhodes anchored to the ever-present throb of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. Freed from vocal constraints, Heads Plus conjures a cinematic ambience where light and dark wrangle for dominance in a dystopian post-techno near-future.

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Magas – Heads Plus [MW002]

The Mystic Jungle Tribe – Solaria [EAS009]

Mystic Jungle’s tribe lands to Solaria planet with a sound inspired by craters, solar wind and obscure presences who are probably responsible for the hieroglyphics found in an abandoned cavern.

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The Mystic Jungle Tribe – Solaria [EAS009]

Gay Marvine – Bath House Etiquette Vol. 8 [BHE008]

Bath House Etiquette Vol. 8 continues the devastation from Gay Marvine: totally transformed Donna Summer, a Prince disco edit that removes all the vocals, his Liaisons Avant Apres Mars master edit, and Iggy Bowie Eno Sister Midnight.

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Gay Marvine – Bath House Etiquette Vol. 8 [BHE008]

Light Sounds Dark – DSL002 [DSL002]

Light Sounds Dark travels through space enclosed within a case of its own building, surrounded by a mass of the forms created by our habitual thoughts. Through this medium we look out upon the world and naturally see everything tinged with its predominant colors, and all rates of vibration which reach us from without are more or less modified by its rate.” This is what is meant when they say that another person’s vibes are “on my wavelength…”

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Light Sounds Dark – DSL002 [DSL002]

Mark E – E-Work #1 [MERC020]

Mark E makes a rapid return after the hugely successful E-Versions series, we now embark E-Work. While E-Versions celebrated the full, dazzling shimmer of the Disco ball lit dancefloor, E-Work turns down the lights, and turns up the system for some pared down sonic sorcery. Emotive, muscular machine jams then, in Vocal and Instrumental versions.

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Mark E – E-Work #1 [MERC020]

214 – North Bend [SHIPLP003]

Cultured Dutch label Shipwrec is to team up with Frustrated Funk to release ”North Bend”, a new album by 214 aka Chris Roman. The album features atmospheric techno ambient with scattered beats, lush electro that is filled with true electronic soul and cosmic soundscapes that come from another world. This album is furthering Roman’s own signature sound as well as a new and subtly evolved brand of electro that builds on a rich history of electronica. It’s another fine statement that reminds us just why Roman, the Frustrated Funk and Shipwrec families, are such puristic minds that push music from the heart.

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214 – North Bend [SHIPLP003]

Dollska – So Long for a Small Storm EP [KISSA002]

Scots-Belarusian electronic producer Dollska (formerly Dollskabeat) returns with her new EP ‘So Long for a Small Storm’. The EP features a rare remix by Detroit Legend Gerald Donald (Drexciya/Arpanet/Japanese Telecom) under the guise of Rudolf Klorzeiger and a bonus track ‘Opus Dreams’ by Dollska on the B-Side.

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Rutherford – Singularis [BT006]

The second release of the year for Brokntoys finds the label returning to Sweden’s Ronnie ‘Rutherford’ Johansson. ‘Singularis’ represents one of the rare occasions the Gothenburg-based artist has released outside of Luke Eargoggle’s Stilleben label, and features some proper icy electro productions as well as more abstract fare.

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Rutherford – Singularis [BT006]

DMX Krew – Abstract Forms Synth Funk Vol. 2 – Dogg Fungk [SYFUNK002]

DMX Krew continues to shine on Abstract Forms new Synth Funk offshoot. Like the first EP ‘Electro Worm’, ‘Dogg Fungk’ features more old school flavours and for Volume 2 Ed gets busy with some killer synth-driven Jazz and Funk grooves.

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DMX Krew – Abstract Forms Synth Funk Vol. 2 – Dogg Fungk [SYFUNK002]

Calimex Mental Implant Corp. – El Saber Del Arpavor [NW003]

Danny Wolfers comes again with a new project, Calimex Mental Implant Corp., on his label Nightwind Records. 13 summer cruising tracks very much in the style of Legowelts PPU release from last year. Gold plated cassette in faux plastic luxurious case.

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Calimex Mental Implant Corp. – El Saber Del Arpavor [NW003]

Eduardo de la Calle – The Intellinet Prophecy [BAD006]

Eduardo De La Calle is back with his debut album and it comes through the young Badance label. The Intellinet Prophecy is a techno album with audible influences of jazz and the supremely scientific, where tracks like “Call From Beyond” or “Faith Necessary” go way beyond the dancefloor and land somewhere in outer space, a place on which genres don’t seem to exist and the passage of time is swamped in beats and melodies.

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Eduardo de la Calle – The Intellinet Prophecy [BAD006]

Leonardo Martelli – Menti Singole [ATN021]

Antinote introduce Leonardo Martelli who’s Menti Singole 12″ again proves what a vital and interesting label the Paris concern has become under the tutelage of Quentin Vandewalle. Leonardo Martelli is a relative newcomer from Foligno in Italy, with just one prior cassette behind him, which appeared on Drvg Cvltvre’s New York Haunted label. There is a distinct electro flavour hovering over Martelli’s Antinote debut. Of course there is still plenty of room for the kind of leftfield meandering that Antinote has made its name on, but with a more forthright club purpose beating at its heart.

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Leonardo Martelli – Menti Singole [ATN021]