Four parts in one Qaudrolio of a release. 7″ double pack release. Features customizable artwork from the man himself.
001.Features
VA – Uncanny Valley 20 [UVCD020]
It’s time to celebrate! At catalogue number 20 Uncanny Valley extends its compilation-concept to 12 tracks spread over three records (or as a bundle if you prefer digital). The tracks will also be released as a CD compilation. With new music by label-regulars like Jacob Korn, Cuthead and Credit 00, friends like RVDS & K’Alexi or Filburt and fresh talents like Goetterkreis & Steve Kasper it is an exciting ride along the winding roads through the Uncanny Valley. The three records are visually linked with distinctive artwork by the ever-reliable Paul Waak.
VA – Frigio All Stars Vol. 1 [FRV014]
Frigio Records is packing a bag and setting off on a global electronic music trip for this new series ‘All Stars Vol.1’ First stop: Great Britain. Isle of Wight denizen I-Land Beat returns to Frigio following his excellent Cybernautics EP. The South of England artist doesn’t take any prisoners, dishing up a churning pot of atomic House. Stabbing synthlines call up memories of Altern-8 as chords rampage alongside samples and chopped beats for an especially spicy starter. Next, Korea. Pera Yang is a young exciting producer with a raucous message. From his digital album, TCNO1 , ‘Automagical’ is chosen for some special vinyl attention. The track is a raging piece of industrially warped Techno. Pulsating beats jostle against one another before Yang sends all through the shredder. Honored Matres is the blackened acid moniker of Croatian artist Le Chocolat Noir aka Jasmin Yas (the man behind Disco Panonia.) 303 venom drips from beginning to end as claps, cymbals and snares dissect looping vocals for a dark and disturbing floor destroyer. For the finale Frigio returns home, Spain’s Vagon Brei, aka Victor Ramos, delivering ‘80861M.’ The Spaniard is best known for his dreaming Ambient soundscapes on labels like Strange Life and Further Records, but here he is in playful humour. Warbling acid chords thrill, bending under skillfully programmed beat patterns for an intoxicating close.
Trenton Chase – The Vampire Of Sacramento EP [JUNE004]
For its fourth release June Records presents London based Trenton Chase’s debut E.P. The Vampire Of Sacramento ep consists of furious acid warehouse tracks, which were sequenced and recorded live on the MPC. Chaos comes to an end with the illusory closer, P.I.S.C.A
The IT – Donnie [DJ893]
Re-issue of the classic ‘Donnie’ composed by Larry Heard & Chip E with vocals from Robert Owens from 1986 on DJ International Records. Freshly mastered for 2014 and re issued in original 1986 artwork. You won’t find a copy that sounds like this. Includes Ron Hardy remix.
Amir Alexander – The Lands Beyond EP [PBR036]
Amir Alexander returns to Plan B Recordings and delivers an four-track EP that includes his signature jacking house style along with that Plan B grit. All four tracks are dance floor heaters and some of his best material to date.
Klankman – Klankman [B4002]
The Bunker 4000 series with its 3rd release! The Hague’s new young talent debut for crazy acid house and retarded acidic techno, with the same sort of ‘gospel feeling’ as ’90’s’ Chicago’s early ‘Green Velvet.
Zsa Gang – Beehive Rhythms EP [OMR003]
Entitled Beehive Rhythms, the four-track EP is the debut of Zsa Gang, a collaborative project between Jordan Czamanski and Future Times co-head Max D. Taking a similarly live and freewheeling approach to Czamanski’s sometimes psychedelic work as part of Juju & Jordash and Magic Mountain High, the raw hardware sounds nevertheless seem to have some of the stripped back dancefloor focus and thumping rhythms of Max D’s Dolo Percussion project.
Streetwalker – Ooze [DIAG008]
Diagonal Records drop a slow-burning, psychedelic killer from Elon Katz and Beau Wanzer’s Streetwalker, backed with a powerful Silent Servant remix.
Black Seed – Wild Rites EP [DTLSND003]
Christopher Rau @ Club Eden (Bucharest) 29.03.2014
Route 8 – Eleda EP [US003]
The third release on Greek imprint Nous comes from Hungary based producer Route 8, offering five cuts of serious house music. It makes subtle allusions in places to 90s era minimal masters such as Carl Craig, while at other points paying judicious homage to UK trailblazers from Sheffield’s golden era; beyond the canny reference points however each track on the Elada EP is underpinned with an obvious love for the slow-burning soul of deep house.
Jay Mond – Different Structures [FS019]
Nice atmospheric piano house to techno driven peak time to raw dance floor killers. Another nice Finale Sessions.
Christopher Rau – Mehris Mood [SMALLVILLE037]
Christopher Rau strikes back with another Smallville episode of dreams that money can buy. After a couple of diverse releases lately on Office, Dérive and Junk-Yard Collections, he proves his unique exposure to deeply diving with the machines again on Smallville. Christopher Rau’s aural works feel like an outer world’s embrace, an analog kiss from the beyond. Here it is the soundtrack made for our favorite places to escape reality: a magic club, a deepest dream.
Santiago Salazar – Galatic Stomp EP [FB013]
Following a five-year hiatus the #Stockholm based label, Finest Blend makes its return. With previous releases from the likes of Orlando Voorn, Shawn Rudiman, Terence Dixon and label head, Kenny Black it became synonymous with hi-tech grooves, breaking barriers, crossing genres and developing new ones. For its re-launch Finest Blend turns to Santiago Salazar with three tracks of his characteristic house / techno sound. His new EP for Finest Blend opens with the upbeat ‘Galactic Stomp’ full of shimmering flourishes and a tough bassline, before the funked-up shuffle of ‘The Twang’ makes its hit, ending with the spacey electronics of ‘3000 Northend’.
Boreal & Lnrdcroy – Untitled [FP003]
Bill Youngman – Track Four [TANSPLAN003]
New York House meets Detroit Techno, melted together in Berlin. Fierce funk driven techno with a killer bassline on the a-side and some deeper slowly building tracks on the flip.
Staffan Linzatti – The Slight but Dramatic Difference [EVENT0007]
Staffan Linzatti returns for his second release on Chronicle with another uncompromising selection of linear techno constructions sculpted with an unfaltering vision of how hypnotic body music can transcend simple rhythmic needs. Icy atmospherics and razor-sharp production make for one of the strongest manifestations of Linzatti’s distinctive sound.
