The Helium Robots aka Ewan Wilmott make imaginative Factory-Records-electro-balearic-disco, errr, and robot music. Two tracks of that caliber are placed on the a-side. The flip has Theo Parrish laying his gifted hands on Jarza to two different outcomes. ”Translation 1” is an up-to-date Parrish space cadet trip, while the second take emphases the dark and typical Theo magic in his roots house period.
Moonchildren aka Chris Gray and his spacey-yet-groovey collection of electronic music are just a regular part of the Chicago deep life. This dark, bubbly, slow-paced tech-house Downbeat EP Go Away (You’ve Got To) is right on time for those who need a fix. The title track yearns for that psycho lover to get the hell out of your life for good. It Was The Fried Chicken That Saved Our Sanity (Because The Ghetto Is Sad) is not just a fancy song title. It’s one way Chris survived living in the impoverished Mississippi Delta. And we round out this sensual EP with Sun of God, which pays homage to the salvation and rare appearance that the sun brings during a long, wicked, brutally-cold Chicago Winter
Addictive beatdown house tracks inspired by the athmosphere of a foggy San Fransisco. Memories of days with good friends hanging out in a foggy city gives a melancholic feel, but the masculine grooves make this a fierce release that works well in the club. a Nice combination that goes back to some hiphop roots and a love for deeper intense house music that works in the club.
Philippe Petit comes up with three new tracks that will satisfy listeners looking for main room full-on pumping techno, Detroit chords or atmospheric early/late evening dubby sounds.
Second release on the French label Dement3d Records! Deep post-apocalyptic Berghain-style techno works by Polar Inertia, an enigmatic techno duo formed in 2010, who swiftly pointed themselves in the direction of an extremely contrasted music, both heavy and delicate. Evoking a sci-fi end-of-the-world countdown scenario, the two artists of polar inertia decided to move aside, and make way for an imaginative and poetic world based on the words of a mysterious narrator.
Sushitech presents the new Delano Smith album, An Odyssey. Delano shows us the musical world he is living in today. Taking all of his experiences from the past years, all the various styles of records he has played and all of the inspiration that has soaked into his soul from playing in major clubs and cities around the globe, the album comes together as a single entity and represents the sound of Delano Smith and his work with Sushitech. The album sound is deep, lush and dry just as you would expect from a true Detroit legend. Moving all the way from Deep House to Techno, Delano and Sushitech have collected his best works during the last 2 years and compiled an album of new tracks and unreleased rare mixes.
For the 26th release, Skylax is back with Carlos Nilmmns. This new EP goes from the purest techno to deep house, creating some cinematic landscapes that really touches our hearts. He really have his own soud, deep as hell.
NDATL continues with new remixes crafted by label head Kai Alce of ‘Sacrifice’, by House Music Legends Robert Owens and Larry Heard.
Amsterdam enclave Dekmantel have elected to toast the five year milestone in the best way possible with a series of highly collectable twelve inches featuring tracks from artists who have contributed in that period – be it performing at their killer parties or releasing music on the label. The series gets off to a veritable flyer with productions from Morphosis and Juju & Jordash either side of this wonderfully decorated twelve inch. The latter honorary Amsterdammers open proceedings with a Cosmic Dub update of the “African Flower” jam that featured on their 08 Aesthetic Audio split with Keith Worthy which naturally smoothes out the percussive klack of the original for a more sumptuous ride. It is matched by the jittering analogue behemoth that is Morphosis’ “Pulse” with skin crawling organs lifted from the Hammer school of horror excellently riding the scattergun percussive rhythms of an increasingly rippling and dusty beatdown ride.
This limited 7″ offers two deliciously simple but bombastically effective drum tracks that should appeal to those who like to pepper their mixes with cute percussive interludes. Both tracks are stripped-down, 808-heavy grooves based on a pair of collaborations with Kai Alce that first appeared on the Jive Time 12″ in December 2010. The percussion is of course spot on, with plenty of repetitive claps, 808 cowbells and, on flipside “Incognigro (Bonus Beats)”, the most subtle of deep house chords.
Another set of fine house reworks and re-edits in this Strobelight Honey series. Side A offers up an edit of Modern Mechanical Music’s “Persia”, which is the kind of mid 80s fusion of electro-dance and that new fangled Chicago house music surely a massive cut at the Warehouse and Music Box… Next we have another variation on Bill Withers’ perennial favourite “Who Is He (And What Is He To You)?”, this time featuring proper big-lunged diva vocals and a stripped-down, jackin’ Chi-town house backing track. Lastly “Boom Combined” keeps the Chicago theme going with more of those Roland 808 primed 4/4s.
Gene Hunt’s first release was on the infamous TRAX imprint and he swiftly followed it up with a string of tracks that were personified by a strong influence from Detroit. Deep strings mixed with intricate drum patterns. This Ep with four killer tracks brings back old times.
New release on the Finnish ProForm Series, with tracks by Healium, Virta, Näköradiomies and CRC. “We Want You To Understand The Future Vol. 1” is founded in the past. The cues are taken straight from Chicago, with labels like Trax, DJ International and Westbrook coursing through these Finnish veins. The record offers up four cuts of 303 painted House, with a bit of Techno pebble dash. Each artist manages to produce a clever DJ friendly work within the boundaries of the prescribed sound. Four well constructed pieces of retrospection and another vinyl feather in the ProForm cap.
Dean Meredith’s The Rhythm Odyssey returns for his next single for Lip Service. This time he gets together with label mates Ben and vocalist James from The Main Stem to produce a tasty slice of classic, haunting house music with “Devils Tease. You can hear all those early influences in their dirty drum machines, deep bass, piano and strings like in all those early DJ international releases, then James’s vocal performance draws you further, deeper into the twilight hour.
Claro Intelecto aka Mark Stewart makes his Delsin debut with a 3 track EP entitled Second Blood, which precedes the release of his full length album on the same label in march 2012. First up, the title track ‘Second Blood’ is a lazy, scuffed and romantic sounding deep dub cut that lurches from one beat to the next with a lazy smile and soft eyes. Plenty of echo and reverb have it drifting off into the distance as warm pads and rising strings add subtle tension. Another lazy roller but this time with brighter melodic flashes, next effort ‘Heart’ is just as lateral, dubwise and soothing as the title track, melting your mind into a dreamy state of hypnosis before b2 ‘Voyeurism’ lifts you out of your trance with a firmer kick drum, more cutting claps and groove that bounces a little more than it rolls. Some taught acid notes appear eventually, rounding off a cerebral, dead of night EP made as much for home listening as it is gentle Sunday afternoon comedowns.
The second release on Warm Sounds with four raw house tracks. Nice versatile ep with tracks ranging from raw acid to more bouncy house with some vocal samples.
On this vinyl record co-founder of net-label “Chevengur Melody” Sol collected the best works of talented residents of the label. Here you can listen to underground sound of Telegraph, groovy tunes of East Soul Person and experimental-dance music of Uncle Deep.
The second Knowone album 3x12Inch with a slightly change of sound that moves away from the smokey dubby tracks to more melodic Detroit influenced tracks.
