Cardiff’s best kept secret Chesus debuts on 4lux with a release of his own. 4 strong deep house tracks. Cleverly combining the old with the new, Chesus shows his amazing production skills once again. The single features collaborations with fellow Cardiff producers Kofi Tarris and, of course, The Organ Grinder with whom he previously released the club banger Steam Roller.
Bicep are back with the second release on their eponymous Feel My Bicep label. FMB002 features three tracks pushing into a synth driven direction in comparison to earlier releases. “Satisfy” features melodic pads, leads and a breakbeat heavily indebted to 80s freestyle and Baltimore club. “Snackbar” takes a much tougher line, with a subtly growling and grinding bass underpinning its menacing chords reflecting their recent more techno heavy sets. “The Final Trip” is deep into late night Belfast territory, keeping it true to the classic pairing of jackin’ 909 and juno 60 live through the whole track.
MyHouse YourHouse as a philosophy, a way to canalize beats from around the world, sharing with each others. Based in Berlin Nick Beringer is an amazing music producer with fresh ideas, decapitating hi hats and thick basslines, accompanied by a catchy Synth. Proper dancefloor house beats for our very first release.
For this new release serie, we decided to bring you guys a regular member of the crew & one fo the most talented producer : Carlos Nilmmns. Indeed, the man is back on Skylax. The Scottish producers skills again ranging from soundtrack to dirty machine funk. Songs such as “Brooklyn Walk” and “Moments Of Happiness” demonstrate time and time again why many critics are calling him the next Lalo Schifrin. “Raw Tape Cuts” and “I Thought I Had You” take things onto the dance floor. The listener is greeted by a healthy range of classic machine workouts and Nilmmns signature old school technique’s. “Gwen’s Song” captures moments of Paris and the good times. “Soul patrol” track contains elegant synth work and beautiful live keys which kind of reminds one of Drexciya or music from The other peoples place. “106” shows hardware programming at its finest with lush sounds creating warm fuzzy moments perfect for the warm weather.
Home Taping favorite Nicholas returns with another heavy-duty release for the label. Warehouse style cuts dripping in atmosphere and dance floor edge are what this EP is all about. Sweaty, tracky, looped up, raw, and of course perfect for the dance floor.
Sex Tags once again delivering house music with that spirit, soul and funk from DJ Fett Burger & DJ Speckgurtel.
Some serious tracks on the new Dogmatik! Produced by Kuba Sojka, a young producer and musician from Mystowice, Poland. With releases already on Matrix records and Mathematics, demonstrating his techno and house inspired sound, he continues the theme here with the ‘You Can’t Take It EP’. Delivering three tracks of Chicago and Detroit inspired grooves to round off another quality release on the Dogmatik label.
Two years after his last full-length titled ‘Second Son’, which was out on Jamal Moss‘s Mathematics label, John Heckle has returned with his second album ‘Desolate Figures’ for Tabernacle Records. ‘Desolate Figures’ revolves around vintage-tinged Detroit techno, gritty Chicago house and experimental hybrids of the aforementioned genres, with the overall result sounding deliciously and uncompromisingly nasty. The album opens with a wonderfully warped slab of Detroitish techno in the form of ‘Blindman’s Bluff’, a track deeply rooted in spacey synth and string structures that gradually transforms into a superb dancefloor track. From that point on, Heckle continues to present his broad view on house and techno across a set of track that seem to stray away from pre-fabricated song patterns, instead drawing on more abstract and less rigid textures. This ethos gives the LP as a whole a very personal and organic touch, as if it were recorded in a single take while creativity and intuition were peaking. Tracks such as the emotive ‘Inhuman Nature’, ‘Something For Your Distorted Mind’, and the acid-driven, Legowelt-esque ‘Never With You’ are all examples of Heckle’s signature blend of flowing melodics and raspy rhythms, while the industrial and very minimal ‘Love-Lies’ and the nervously rattling ‘Crazy Metal’ add a dash of experimental flavors to the LP. Its diverse content and overall DIY-attitude turn ‘Desolate Figures’ in a somewhat unorthodox package, but if you don’t shy away from experimental house and techno (or if you’re just a fan of the Crème Organization and Tabernacle labels in general), then you simply can’t afford to miss out on this one.
Boris Bunnik has finished his third full-length album as Conforce. Entitled ‘Kinetic Image’, the ten-track album is the sound of Conforce producing without the dancefloor in mind. It’s the sound of him moving away from the past and into the present. The album has very much been designed to be heard in one sitting, as a complete experience that moves away from regimented 4/4 beats and into slower, more surreptitious tempos. The result is an all consuming sonic journey of intriguing and inspiring sounds that range from full on cerebral excursions into vast open spaces that throb invitingly (Scientific Trajectory) to underwater daydreams that suspend you deep in an ocean as various mycobacterial details float by. There’s also more industrial sounding fair that depicts a desolate warehouse in perennial decay (Semantic Field) and mysterious echo chambers that spread out all around you as celestial light beams and haunting melodic ripples gently float by as per the excellent Temporary Reversals.
Latest release from the collaborative project between Move D. & Juju & Jordash. Deep and refined techno tracks.
Shortly after his debut vinyl album in late October, Patrik Skoog comes with another techno track on his own label We Are Records, accompanied by three new favorites on the scene. Tapirus aka Charlton lives in Rotterdam is first. R_L out of Hong Kong contributes to the Ep with his “Chaotic Bliss”, a forceful track drenched in reverb, echoing metal throbs and resonating lustful timbres. Atimpuri finishes off the Ep with his lush track “So Edo”, we have been secretly making people dance to this one for a little while now and are excited to finally have this pressed on vinyl.
MPM17 comprises two brand new Floorplan tracks, Phobia and Glory B plus a remix of album cut ‘Higher!’ by Ben Sims. The opener, ‘Phobia’ is a driving, funk-fuelled track. An unrelenting looped jam that immediately sets the tone for another stunning M-Plant release. Solid peak time techno tracks.
Mr.G is returning with a mint 4 tracker for the heads. 4 acey analog anthems with that authentic Mr.G. sound. Rich basses and excellent placed vocal cuts that allign with open hats perfectly.
To mark the occasion of Delsin hitting 100 releases, the label is to release five new various artist EPs throughout the rest of the year. Besides a special collector’s box edition, all EPs will be offered separately, with limited edition colour runs and unlimited black copies. All fifteen tracks will also be compiled onto one CD. Label mates Convextion, Sawlin and Ross 154 (aka Newworldaquarium) contribute one tack each for the third EP in the series.
Adam Marshall’s original mix takes Chicago drums while chord stabs morph and evolve in a tough, organic style on this 11-minute journey. On the flip side we have a Mike Shannon Remix.
Montreal producer Tazz’s take on dance music is both powerful and quirky, characteristics that have endeared him to a wide range of fans. Pinning him down much further is a harder task. Tazz tends to lay down straight-laced, tech-house rhythms, but his growing arsenal of synth sounds lend his tracks a more experimental edge. Science Friction is his second effort for Adam Marshall’s New Kanada, and it finds him in typical form.
Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat with a new EP on Echocord Colour. The track Mercy Cage comes in two versions. The original track is stumping powerfull Techno track, with the typical Deadbeat feeling, dubby elements and heavy chords, perfect for the peaktime hour on the dancefloor.
Sushitech with a remix pack for Steve Steve O’Sullivan. Remixes by Mike Huckaby, Delano Smith, Rhauder, Exos and Thor.
Pomelo’s newest outing is delivered by the NYC based producer extraordinaire Brendon Moeller, a real master in the field of techno and dub. The EP’s title track promises a subtle fusion of house and techno through a loosly swinging techno groove, and duly delivers with echoing chord cascades and spluttering sound effects. Machiavellian impulse picks up the intensity with a more direct, pounding beat, to which stuttering, spacious stabs add an element of deepness and dub. Loudness Sustain Decay finally has a whole side to itself, starting out as a lofty house mover, with a pulsing wild pitch synths slowly adding tension until the track’s wild finale.
This EP is a sampler of the first full length album by Exploit. Event Horizon combines punchy techno grooves and mature melodic electronic passages.
