Great electro release by Analogue Audio Association on Placid Records.
001.Features
Boris Divider – Deflector / Atractor [FR004]
Man/machine magician Boris Divider unleashes his fourth album. Continuing his explorations and escapades into the darkest, iciest realms of electronic music, Deflector/Atractor is perhaps his most extensive collection to date as we’re treated to shimmering ambient bliss (“Particle”) to dreamy, skippy, robot-charming fracturism (“Mikrowelt”) via his more classic, straight up funky electro (“Deflector”). Yet another bold march into the coded unknown for both Boris and Fundamentals, this can’t be slept on.
Villa Abo – Love Surrender [BORFT116]
Love Surrender original and Three other takes + two synthetic messages from Studio Styrka. That is what this vinyl contains. Love surrender has a more synthier style than the tracks recently released on Bio Rhythm.
DMX Krew – A New Life [CPU00001010]
In between the release of album length projects for Mystic & Quantum and Shipwrec, Ed Upton returns for Central Processing Unit duty with this collection for the label’s Binary Series under his universally recognised DMK Krew banner. Upton’s taking no prisoners here with six cuts aimed squarely at the electro purists out there, effortlessly combining neck snapping rhythms with those unique melodies that characterise the DMK Krew electro sound. Tracks like the fluctuating analogue drama of “Not Very”, the Martian boogie of “Spook Show” and EP highlight “Crawlspace” rank this release up there with the best thus far in CPU’s must check discography.
The Exaltics – Some Other Place Vol. 2 [CWCS008.2]
Lory D – MT100 [SR003]
A legendary name in techno, Lory D is back and as strong as when his vinyls were cherished all over the world as his SNS (Sound Never Seen) was printed by Rephlex of Aphex Twin. MT100 is a timeless and genre-free track: it’s just music. The melody is sound-track material for a high profile film with a rhythm which however recall the first drum machines of the eighties.
Rhythm Factory – Thistle EP [RAWAX004LTD]
Rawax welcomes 2 friends to the family – Rhythm Factory aka Arno Völker aka Einzelkind & Robin Scholz.
Antenna – Odessa EP [PNKMN006]
The mysterious Antenna (formed of Kiev native Sasha Renkas and Dutch vocalist Eline Makker) project drops a new limited 12” on the Pinkman imprint. Cold East European house tracks topped with melancholic vocals. Straight from the attic, all recorded on the fly. Comes with cover and label artwork designed by the artists themselves.
VA – RDY #15 [RDY015]
Rodney Bakerr – The Club House Sessions [RH012]
Gene Hunt – Pandemonium [LACR005]
Gene Hunt on Delroy Edwards imprint. Chi Town don drops 2 loaded jak bombs over L.A….it’s all over
Beau Wanzer – Power Outage [NATION015]
Four sedated tunes from Beau Wanzer coming on Nation. Subtle and not so subtle frequencies drag aside gloomed out rhythms and beat less malfunctions.
Unknown Artist – Wargames #1 [WAR001]
Mysterious, dark & distorted heavy hitters on 7”. Definitely not for everyone. Limited press which won’t last. ”Shout out to Matilda & the Paris regiment.”
Robert Crash – Under Party [DIN001]
Like a noisy hound in your neighborhood – keeping you awake.. awesome stuff on this fresh U.S. house label! Jackin beat tracks and psychedelic discofied mixers from Robert Crash. Beatin’, jackin’ and rockin’ the house.
Head Front Panel – HFP #004 [HFP004]
Raw intense techno tracks on the Head Front Panel label. Reminding a bit on the early relentless Jeff Mills productions and Terrence Dixon. Funky looped techno with bubbly and funky bassline sequences and effective percussion.
Head Front Panel – HFP #003 [HFP003]
Those looking for concrete information about the music they’re listening to should probably steer clear of Tabernacle Records’ offshoot Head Front Panel. They’ve yet to announce the identity of any of the producers behind the series blend of slowed-down futurism, discordant electronics and feverish techno. This third installment in the series is similarly mysterious in origin, and once again features a range of intriguing cuts. Opener “Track 1” sounds like an explosion in a “Speak & Spell” factory – a veritable whirlwind of discordant beeps and throbbing techno rhythms – while “Track 2” offers a smoother and more hypnotic variation on a similar theme. Best of all, though, is the jaunty, late night bounce of slow techno excursion “Track 3”.
John Daly – Second Knight [TANSPLAN004]
Irishman John Daly takes a rare break from his One Track label and delivers his magic to the Tanstaafl Planets imprint. Floating house and spacey techno on the b-side that seamlessly merge Daly and Tanstaafl’s aesthetics, while the A-side delivers a pulse-raising new fusion of jacking swing and dubby synths.
Marco Bernardi – Floating [HPSKL004]
For their fourth transmission, Happy Skull presents a trio of dystopian fantasies from analogue maverick Marco Bernardi. Opener ‘Floating’ is a throbbing trip in to rattling techno territory complete with discordant chords and bubbling acid lines. ‘Broken Boiler’ offers a trademark Bernardi fusion of sweet, visceral melodies and raw machine drums. Rounding things off is ‘upside In’, a fearlessly wonky voyage in to freaky techno-funk.
Denizo / Alex W – Detroit Techno Archive III [DTA003]
The third release on Detroit Techno Archive. Detroit inspired techno at it’s best with powerful tricky grooves, warm and massive.
Protect-U – Free USA [FT022]
“Free USA” is the first full-length album by Protect-U, the Washington, DC-based duo of Aaron Leitko and Future Times Records co-founder Mike Petillo. On their two Future Times EPs – Double Rainbow and World Music – Leitko and Petillo poured layers of ambient drift onto nearly-steady house foundations, creating long and propulsive zone-outs. On Free USA, Protect-U doesn’t depart from this sound as much as they launch further and further out with it, specifically in the rhythm section, which pivots and lurches into unexpected places throughout the LP. Melodically, automation and humanity combine with dizzying, psychedelic grace, making the sound design sparkle with cool precision. From the bright, super-soaked opening track ”Needs” to the boxed-in drum clunk and iced-out coda of ”Down the Tubes,” Free USA showcases Protect-U’s constantly mutating strand of electronic music.
