Part-time tram driver and full-time disco disciple, Helsinki’s Jaakko Eino Kalevi catalyzes street smart funk into heat stroke for Yin Yang Theatre, his new EP on Beats In Space Records.
001.Features
Gay Marvine – Bath House Etiquette Vol.5 [BHE005]
More sickness from Gay Marvine. A side pure disco and deep funk reshaped as tools for today. B side total cult classics revisioned to devestate any dance floor.
Kline Coma Xero – Kline Coma Xero [MR036]
Medical Records presents the debut full length release of Kline Coma Xero. Formed in 2012, Kline Coma Xero is a group whose work embraces elements of early minimal synth wave with distinctively thoughtful lyrics and evocative melodies. Kline Coma Xero’s Tony Williams has had his roots planted in various projects in the past, spanning a realm of styles from experimental noise, tape loops and early industrial. Using a writing style that employs the use of hardware sequencers driving analog instruments rather than computers, Kline Coma Xero produces a uniquely oblique interpretation of past-meets-present in modern electronic music.
Severed Heads – City Slab Horror [MR035]
Their most varied, interesting work, City Slab Horror includes stark synthesizer workouts, several tracks of pure rhythm and noise, and, thankfully, little of the unambitious tape music for its own sake of Since the Accident. “Cyflea, Rated R,” “4.W.D.,” and the title track provide several examples of the best experimental synthesizer tracks of the mid-’80s.
Information Society – Insoc EP [MNQ053]
The ”Insoc EP” contains the first official recordings from the legendary Minneapolis music collective Information Society led by founder/producer Paul Robb. Originally released on vinyl in 1983 the EP became extremely difficult to find. Now, for the first time since 1983, Mannequin Records is giving it a new birth on wax, this time including a bonus track ”Charentiesm” never appeared before in any format, which is the first track ever recorded by Information Society in 1982.
Nine Circles – Number Not Available [EV009]
EE Tapes are more than honoured to welcome Nine Circles aboard of their 7″ vinyl series. A new line-up with new challenges, starring Lidia “The Rose” Fiala and keyboard wizz Per-Anders Kurenbach.
Yagya – Sleepygirls [106DSRLP]
Icelandic producer Yagya release his fifth album, Sleepygirls, on Dutch label Delsin. It’s a deep, spacious and dubbed out affair that stays locked at a pleasingly sedentary tempo throughout. The album is a fine fusion of tropes from Yagya’s earlier albums, features jazz instrumentalists that improvise beautiful melodies over monotonic, almost drone-like, techno beats and also uses live recordings of Japanese vocals, saxophone and guitar to counter the repetitiveness of the rhythms. Right from the rolling bliss of the opener, you’re suspended in a womb like pillow of sound that is soft, warm and serenely beautiful. As tracks roll on, the pace stays the same but themes vary from upright and summery to more elongated and insular. This is natural, organic dub that is a delight and a pleasure to listen to.
“I wanted to create an album that’s atmospheric, repetitive, and easy to listen to over and over again. Something that works well in the background (e.g. when concentrating on work), as well as up close in a big sound system. I also wanted to learn how to make my music sound better than before, since I’m a huge sound-nerd, so that was a part of the goal for me personally.”
F. Mavelli – Special Brigade [B4003]
The Special Brigade – one of Legowelt’s best fictitious classic-italian-late-’70’s-police-horror-cult-movie electronic techno music soundscape. Florenza Mavelli’s Special Brigade soundtrack (aka Uomini Brigata Specialle) an obscure italian tv-series tells the story of an elite special government police unit formed to counter terrorism and organized crime. It first surfaced on the legendary CBS blog late 2007, only to fade into obscurity again after the old CBS’s foreclosure. In 2009 it was remastered from vintage reel to reel tape and released on Danny’s Strange Life label on a CD album. Now Bunker brings it back! It’s great to taste six of those dramatic cuts on vinyl finally.
Metasplice – Vertia / Tiled Eighths [DOSER023]
This weighty double sider on Morphine delves into the paranoid / submarine dwelling / meta-hacker / soundtrack territory they are often known to enter when performing live. Vertia snakes like a virus. Tiled Eigths is pure fever.
Alessandro Parisi / Adamennon – Il Plenilunio Del Fuoco [FLR009]
“We were lured by the call of the Naught. We bring royal blood to purify the land with the consecration of ancient sages. In the name of the sacred all-glorious crusade, moved by psychokinetic power, we brutally kill as the heavenly dew falls on the battlefield.
We are the fire’s moonlight warriors and this is our holy war.”
Erdbeerschnitzel – The Ample Waters [DSR-H8]
Hot on the heels of his last outing for the Delsin house series comes this, another essential new offering from German producer Erdbeerschnitzel. The title track ‘The Ample Waters’ is a joyous and lively concoction that fuses curious melodies with busy little piano stabs and more trilling, sunny melodies. It’s busy house for bustling dancefloors and next up, ‘Never Tilt’ slows things down with jumbled, woody percussion falling over lazy drums and stretched, yawning synth smears. Colourful and effervescent, it’s a track that makes you want to shake your limbs. ‘With Level Hopes’ is again characterised by melodic colour, with pixelated patterns stretched over a funky, gooey bassline and clacking percussion. There’s a beautifully DIY feel to the loosely assembled track that gives it a life all of its own before closer ‘Yet Unfulfilled’ pairs slo-mo beats with neo-soul vocal snippets, lazy and stoned summer chords. It’s the most emotive of the lot, but all four tracks are truly feel good jams that have come just in time for some serious summer action.
Trinidadian Deep – Ep III [NERO026T]
Neroli is back with the third contribution from Trinidadian Deep to the label, continuing to follow the way of the previous two: deep spiritual heartfelt tracks.
Garnier – KL 2036 EP [MCDE1212]
Deep, layered, soulful and musical tracks from Laurent Garnier. 2 quality offerings that fit MCDE to a tee.
VA – Special Edition 03 [SE003]
From the executive producer Chez Damier come a Special Edition release marking the 20th Anniversary of Balance and Prescription records. Side A. The Mission: Lavida (life) is a project and group from Switzerland that was produce by Chez Damier and Italian producer Demetrio Giannice, The track is Deep with Choped vocals of Chez and Chaka Khan, very chord driven with a Jazzy feel as the break of the track. A2. Is a young group of French producers from Paris called Siler & Dima , Thomas Zander with track called: Inappropriate, a deep driven track with spoken words , more minimal and was inspired by some of Ron and Chez early works, this is for sure new school and very club friendly. Side B is a remastered version of the rare Prescription Underground mix of Ron Trent and Chez damier’s classic ””the Choice”” this is one of the dance classics that helped shaped a new underground sound for the club, with ripping synth, raw snares and high strings, this 20 year old track hold up as well as a track made today.
DJ F – 1974 [AHD007]
Spain’s A Harmless Deed label announce the release of its first artist album. DJ and producer DJ F, who up to now has also produced a sleek brand of airy dub techno and house on labels like Frigio and Semantica, drawing on everything from lo-fi Detroit techno to vintage electro.
Duplex / Tuff Sherm – Population Density / Drain Spectre (After Virgo) [MID003]
The A side got fixed by the legendary chaps of Duplex. They’ve been coming along since the first waves of house and techno and gave proof of this with their contribution ‘Population Density’. On the flip we find Tuff Sherm’s 10 min excursion holding beastly percussion and melomanic fatness.
XDB – Afrikk EP [ECHOCORD061]
The 2nd Ep by Kosta Athanassiadis aka XDB on Echocord. The Afrikk Ep contains 3 original tracks, all rough, deep and dubby with house elemenst, typical XDB style. Also the ep contains a remix of the Afrikk track by Philogresz. All tracks are perfect for the dancefloor, a good mix of the modern House sound of today and Dub Techno.
Scientific Dreamz of U – Visionz Of An Abstract Plane [TABR026]
Datastreams formed via the merging of spin ½ wavefunctions, refracted through myriad unit spheres in momentum space. Alternative visionz divined by Lost Trax.
Laura Jones – Embrace [LEFT048]
Paul du Lac & Cassy remixes of two Laura Jones trax. Great versatile EP with nice different vibes that go well together. Well balanced release with 4 solid tracks.
Developer – In Pure Form [MOD016]
Modularz Label owner Developer presents his first LP „In Pure Form“. This is a real wealth of work that developer has been creating over the last year. Its a fairly large catalog of tracks focusing on raw rhythms, strong tools and powerful funk fueled techno. This is a massive selection of functional tracks direct from the Developer factory of techno.
