Heavy wave/italo inspired dance tracks by Jeffrey Sfire on Cocktail D’amore.
001.Features
Virgo Four – E Series Part 1 [CHIWAXV401]
Escape Force – Confused House 4 [CH004]
This psychedelic NYC crew give us 3 ways to exit the mind… Dope project from Terekke, Steve Summers & Bookworms.
Andrade – Conscience Mind [MM012]
Andrade is new talent coming from the Parisian underground. Andrade is currently putting the finishing touches on his future productions and just started his own label Street Knowledge Recordings.
Ivel Tax – Ambientum EP [DB008]
New release by Ivel Tax on his own Disco Birds. A three track release with: deep, groovy and ambient sounds to enjoy.
Kogui – Implied Reference To Fundamental [AII001]
The fist release on the new As It Is label, coming from Kogui. Moody techno tracks with that euphoric/melancholic early nineties feel and a Steven Tang remix included.
Lunar Lodge – Singularity [LXRC016]
Lunar Lodge is hailing from the darkest corners of Rome, delivering three tracks of dark analog music. The main track is an hypnotic adventure in noise. A journey into techno of the deepest shade. Signs, with its tense rhythm, is infused with frightening accents and voices. Finally, Event Horizon, closes the EP looking in the distance, the unknown, the death and the sorrows, and infinite solitude.
Takeshi Kouzuki – Whirlwind [MMX404]
Japenese guy, Takeshi Kouzuki is well known for his productions on Mathematics, Abstract Acid or Hotmix. Here he delivers this EP with 3 tracks of Nu-Chicago/Acid/Jakbeat, be certain that the voodoo is this wax. ‘Whirlwind’ will hypnotize you with its beautiful acidic melodies.’Aoiro’ is a massive jakbeat raw track on which you can feel the influence of traditional Japanese music, absolute dancefloor killer! ‘Moon’ is just beautiful in all those points, it will put you in the trance.
Rio Padice & Massimo Di Lena – Prisma EP [MAMSW006]
Italian producers Rio Padice & Massimo Di Lena, owners of the Early Sounds label, deliver a fine EP of raw analogue house and techno grooves on More About Music.
Mystic Jungle – Jungle Thrills [EAS005]
Aurora Halal – Passageway [MD001]
Passageway is the debut solo EP by Aurora Halal, producer, video artist and creator of Brooklyn’s Mutual Dreaming party series. Four shadowy and intimate dance landscapes of shifting subterranean textures, backed with a hallucinatory remix by Detroit Techno legend Terrence Dixon. Minimal, metallic and pulsing with hazy sensuality, these tracks offer an exciting first glimpse into a unique emotional world.
Common Series – Common Series 2 [CS002]
2nd release on the Common Series. Kraut Rock, Industrial influences all over. Main track is a massive slap bass with trippy string sections. A truly epic track. Seriously cool 8 minute track on this small 200 copies edition release.
DJ Guy – 20/81/05 [AC004]
Appealing to those who seek a spiritual journey across the many terrains of Techno, this is music not for the faint of heart. All tracks serving a specific body healing purpose – receiving, assimilating and expressing life force energy, A1-20 takes you on a hypnotic trip and should be played at high volumes to fully receive all its properties. B1-81 is a one-way ticket down the river of emotion and will transport you to the 5th dimension if you don’t be careful & finally B2-05 (Edit) is something unquantifiable. don’t be fooled by the short nature of this track, it’s hidden properties allow for an expansive journey through the mind, body & soul.
VA – Carve [DMT004]
New release on Decision Making Theory Germany with four tracks bu Lee Holman, Gonzalo MD, Session Restore and Philippe Petit.
Donato Dozzy & Nuel – The Aquaplano Sessions [SP033]
When the Aquaplano records were first released in 2008 and 2009 they were distinctly out of step with the way techno appeared to be heading. The minimal detour was reaching its logical endpoint, and producers were returning to the 1990s for inspiration, with Berghain and Sandwell District at the vanguard of a new techno movement. What the Aquaplano sessions shared in common were slower BPMs and finding inspiration in the 1990s, but there they parted ways. The influences these Italians were drawing on were rather different, returning to tribal rhythms and ambient textures to sketch out a much more heady, psychedelic form of techno. The results were a perfect balance of hypnotic beats and swirling atmosphere geared for a broken-in dancefloor or the hazy afterhours. Across these two records Dozzy and Nuel would go a long way towards creating the template for a brand of deep, atmospheric techno that has become much more prominent in the years since. And while many have sought to imitate this sound, few – if any – have matched what first emerged from the Aquaplano sessions. After only being available in a very limited run, it is fitting that the sonic blueprints provided by Dozzy and Nuel are now available again – and much more widely – at a time when their influence is as strong as it has ever been.
Korridor – Path 0102.591 [NE007]
From the suburbs of Stockholm Korridor transmits three ultra deep and slowly progressing techno tracks, carefully crafted in a thin layer of ice cold atmospheres and twisted rhythms.
Deepchord – Luxury [SOMA394]
The ever-reliant Deepchord kicks off 2014 in his usual stylish way with two deep cuts in the Luxury EP. After last years jaunt into the ambient with 20 Electrostatic Soundfields, Rod Model return to the world of slick beats and even dreamier synths and atmospheres. Luxury 1 ebbs in majestically as beautifully crafted layers of synths glide across field recorded drops of water that instantly play with your senses. Pumping sub bass fills the rest of the spectrum as Rod does what he does best by creating an unending slick groove, pieced together by crisp percussion. Yet more atmospherics come into play in Luxury 2 as otherworldly field recordings are brought to life through the use of Rod’s unique processing and layers of dream state synths. A perfectly worked groove seems to come out of nowhere and glides gently under the atmosphere; again subtle percussion ties everything together seamlessly.
Commodity Place – Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources EP [ELER005]
Commodity Place project is back with two masterful compositions wrapped in a special colorful EP. The duo composed by roman musicians Massimiliano Loretucci (computer and synths) and Riccardo Frosoni (guitar and percussions) has set two amazing tracks letting the mind and body to travel far away till the most unreachable and undefined horizons of psychedelic music.
The Games – Circus Minimus [ANNA050]
The Games truly were visionaries and pioneers. They never got the credit they deserved because they were not in the right place at the right time and lacked the contacts good management could have provided. This album is a must for all synth-pop enthusiasts and lovers of quality pop anthems. It earns its place as an historical masterpiece when you consider the dates when these songs were released and the timeless relevance of the songs to the world today.
Os Ovni – Let’s Leave Reality [SC002]
“‘Let’s Leave Reality,” the debut LP from Florida’s intergalactic synth duo, Os Ovni. Let’s Leave Reality features eight tracks of experimental electronic pop lost in time and space. The psychedelic harmonies and colliding layers of synths paint a vision of a future that isn’t so much bleak as it is paranoid. Hyper-paced drum machines buzz under the shimmering structure of the synths. Logan and Omebi’s vocals stir in perfect harmony glazed with lost celluloid inspired visions.
