Unreleased house/techno tracks recorded between 88-91 from the Chicago master Mike Dunn. ‘I Wanna B House’ comes with an edit from Johnny Aux as well as another straight up acid track ‘I’m The Houze’.
001.Features
The Exaltics – Phormix Podcast #7
VA – Unknown Landscapes Selected 2 [POLEGROUP029]
Pole Group presents a collection of 4 tripping stripped down techno by Woo York, Tripeo, Claudio PRC and Christian Wunsch.
Echologist – New Strains EP [PLR1404]
Techno in his pure form! New amazing Planete Rouge by Brendon Moeller aka Echologist. Four trippy and dark techno athems. Opening with the Millsian ‘New Strain’, its rotational vibe continues on the dizzying techno of ‘Confusion’, before the tougher ‘Crystal Days’ leads on, ending with bleeps and sweeps of ‘Yellow Sands’.
Roman Poncet – Wallfish [ARTSCOLLECTIVE003]
Philippe Petit – Figure SPC U [FIGSPCU]
Philippe Petit is welcomed to Figure SPC with this dextrous and inventive four-track EP. Ranging from the Euro-beat infusions of ‘Body’, with its menacing electronic palpitations, to the stuttering syncopations of ‘The Truth’, the bouncing, addictive tooly vibe of ‘Lost Again’, or finally the tracky, introspective chord-journey of ‘In Between’, its a varied and versatile EP from the hard working activist.
Manuel Gonzales – Full Frontal [BH011]
Detroit’s Manuel Gonzalez on Berceuse again. Manuel hits the groove hard and soft in two Detroit techno joints. A-side, ‘Full Frontal’ comes for your booty at 138bpm inna old skool UR or Rob Hood style, layering the kicks with chirruping alien bleeps and discordant synth surges. B-side he links up with Ramon Ramirez for the much more personable ‘Blowout’ yielding dubbed-out kosmiche synth expressions anchored by a billowing B-line at 118bpm.
Sterac – The Hypnoticus [108DSRSTR2]
Dutch techno practitioner Steve Rachmad aka Sterac is back with a hot new track for Delsin. Originally released on a limited white label run earlier in summer, it now comes backed with remixes by Fachwerk’s Mike Dehnert, VRIL and US twosome Anthony Parasole & Phil Moffa.
Floating Points – Nuits Sonares / Nectarines [EGLO041]
Sam Shepherd has long been a master of the kind of ultra-deep, rolling, soft focus deep house that raises the spirits and soothes the soul. Even so, there’s something incredibly special about “Nuits Sonores”, the lead track from this EP. Based around a deep, tactile groove and blessed with rising synth solos, dancing acid lines and his usual fireside Rhodes antics, the track rises magnificently for 12 spellbinding minutes. As it progresses, further elements make their way into the mix, until it reaches the kind of organic deep house climax that makes even the grumpiest souls go weak at the knees. Flip for “Nectarines”, the kind of loose-limbed fusion of deep house sassiness, Detroit techno electronics and fluid jazz drumming at which Shepherd has always excelled.
Alessandro Parisi LIVE @ Knekelhuis, Studio 80 (Amsterdam) 29.11.2014
The Isolator – Distance EP [LOCKERTMATIK004]
In 1925 Hugo Gernsback invents the “Isolator”, an elusive helmet that can cloister oneself away. Now 89 years later Lockertmatik puts on the helmet …
Kit N C.L.A.W.S. – Desertofsameness [ET037/GOOILAND018]
Kit n C.l.a.w.s. is a project by two experienced musicians in the fields of dance and psychedelic music. Teaming up was probably one of the better ideas they had for a long time as the music this duo serves us is simply amazing. Deep trance indulging moody house tracks with acid influences.
VA – Trust XV-II [TRUSTXVII]
Trust’s anniversary series continues with its second of three chapters: Six far-fiction electro tracks by DJ Stingray, Dez Williams, Scape One, DJ Glow, Microthol, and Biepang continue the story of a human mining operation on 61 Cygnus e, a remote planet orbiting Bessel’s star.
Ike Release – 33ème Pulsation
HNNY – Noth-ing [LT055]
HNNY seems to save his best for Local Talk. “Noth-ing” is a single-sided salvo shot through with the sort of breezy sweetness we’ve come to expect from the Swede. The track itself fuses bubbling flutes and impassioned vocal samples with typically fluid deep house beats, a languid (but heavy) bassline and just the right amount of cosseting pads.
Takuya Matsumoto – EKR’s Galactic Dance [ROYAL025]
Takuya Matsumoto’s debut release for Clone Royal Oak. A beautiful 4 track EP with unique tracks from this talented Japanese producer.
TX Connect – Trixxter EP [DABJ1213]
Gavin Guthrie returns on Dixon Avenue Basement Jams with a full record as TX Connect. There’s a strobe-friendly feel throughout this final DABJammer of 2014, as the producer joins the dots between acid house and fluorescent techno, with a few hints of early ’90s rave thrown in. This is most obvious on the title track, which expertly fuses a wobbly acid line, ricocheting drum machine hits and a nagging, early ’90s riff. “Intramountains” comes swaddled in stormy sound effects, cloaking its hissing rhythms with foreboding techno stabs and backwards samples. As for “Xanadu”, it’s a deliciously rough-and-ready chunk of late night acid jack.
VA – Creme Organization Valley Of Shadows x LIES EP [VOS003/LIES023.5 ]
To remain in biblical territory “The last shall come first”. Such is also the case with the 3rd in the Creme Valley of Shadows series which will come out before part 1 & 2. So yeah this 3rd installment is a collaboration with NYC’s by way of Paris L.I.E.S. Records. Six tracks by Legowelt, Randomer, Simoncino, Innershades, Ron Morelli and Wilie Burns.
Dave Hargadon – Finding Purpose (Part 2) [LOD004.2]
Second part of the “sold out” album “Finding Purpose” produced by the Dublin based artist Dave Hargadon, also know as the half part of the project “Slowburn”. Again house sounds from Chicago, Detroit and via The Hague with strong melodies and heavy drums.
