Axel Boman is making a strong run with new releases this year! Together with his own Studio Barnhus release this is the second summer 2011 release. Fresh house music from Sweden, comes with remixes by Applebim and Al Tourettes.
Aim present a double vinyl compilation, closing the circle of the first year of Aim records. Featuring seven deep raw tracks from all previous artists and also some new, Christopher Rau, Oskar Offermann, Moomin or Oliver Deutschmann.
Debut release of these talented guys from Napels, Italy. They deliver three classic yet fresh deep house tracks, with warm & lush chords & basslines and superb analog drum programming, very deep, warm, funky.
Marcos Cabral, half of Runaway, takes an unexpectedly nice departure from his previous works with three refreshingly varied original tracks. The A-side title track 24 Hour Flight develops as a late night, muted chord-driven filtered techno mixer which nicely compliments the A.2 track Cassandra with swelling bass and mellow dub-techno influences . Filling the entire b-side at almost 13 minutes is the analog house jam Freckles, complete with bright synth washes, 707 drums, and maybe even a breathing vocal buried in there somewhere as the jam goes on and on.
A.r.t.less presents the debut album by Detroit Techno veteran Martin Bonds aka Reel By Real. After 2010’s retrospective of his most seminal work, these are the first new tracks under his Reel By Real moniker since almost two decades. This album takes you on a great multifaceted journey through one of America’s definitive music capitals and the birthplace of Techno narrated by one of its very own musicians and a true ambassador of its soundtrack.
New release from Efdemin on Curle, including two tracks ‘Farnsworth House’ and ‘Blount’. The last one is a collaboration between Efdemin and his good friend and fellow Dial artist Kassian Troyer.
The first release on Black Catalogue is coming from owner Monty Luke. The “Tomorrow EP” contains three tracks and gives an eclectic glimpse into what just what Black Catalogue is all about. The A-side, “Tomorrow,” is a sub-bass driven snapshot one of Detroit’s possible futures. “The Next” is simply a message. And the double-A side, “Yesterday & Today” is a Detroit dancefloor record that takes a filtered disco hook into a future direction.
C-Beams’ debut artist EP on Uncanny Valley. For “Strollin’” they lend the vocal talents by Tina Slotta and the result is an irresistible House-jam. Easy vibrant beats are complemented by birds’ twittering, warm keys and Tina’s carefree lyrics. Jackmate’s remix toughen things up and transfers the tracks with mighty Detroit- chords into a real monster for the dancefloor. The slightly murkier “Scrapyard” takes its strength out of the interaction between its vehement beats and the C-Beams- typical sound excursions.
Sebastian Genz aka Moomin drops a teaser for his forthcoming album on Smallville Records. “Sweet Sweet” introduces the tenderness of Moomin’s deep diving sound and is supported by a Oskar Offermann remix.
Flip a coin and decide which side is which and where you are at? Where do you stand in life, what have you achieved? Is it all yours? Play russian roulette, ask fate, live and die. Restart and think. Work or rave. Live to the extremes. Do it with passion. Now or never. Heads or tails.
Massimiliano Pagliara’s debut album “Focus For Infinity” gets some action. Phillip Lauer (Arto Mwambe) and Gerd Janson (Running Back) team up as Tuff City Kids, offering two takes on “A Wrong Chance”. Sweet layer cake of bass, synths, strings and for those who are faint at heart, an additional riddim version provides hidden acid fantasies. On the other side, Oliver Hafenbauer and Christian Beisswenger (Arto Mwambe) keep on exploring their sharp electro funk under their B.H.V.F moniker.
Collection of no-wave and minimal synth acts from the Japanese post-punk scene. Most of the tracks presented here are reissued for the first time.
Totebagz is the collaboration between two of Melbourne’s most daring minds, Jerky Perky aka Misha Hallenbach (Perks and Mini, Bamboo Musik) and DJ Biscuit (Moonrocks). On this limited edition disc, the Totebagz pile blankets of synth upon deep-fried circuitry upon drum machines that have a mind of their own.
100% Silk return with another exceedingly alluring drop, this time from Aurora Halal and Jason Letkiewicz aka Innergaze. Lithe, sexy post-punk disco is the vibe, NYC in 1981/2011 is the setting for ‘Shadow Disco’, strutting to languid dub bassline and preening synth flashes, before ‘Way Of Life’ retires to the balcony to ahem, powder one’s nose and gaze out at glittering harbour lights dancing off glass-curtained high rises. Soon enough the seductive, panther-purring bassline, cooing big-haired women and rippling rototoms of ‘Hypnogogisco’ beckons us back to the middle of the floor and the chick with the biggest hair asks ‘What’s Your Body Doing Tonight’, only it comes out all syrupy slow and you realise you shouldn’t have necked that pint of GHB.
Edmund Xavier’s dark minimal wave project Horrid Red new EP on Soft Abuse. “Silent Party” features the group’s signature style of combining gloomy creepiness with an overall very danceable rhythm pattern, adding up to strangely irresistible party tunes, new wave & post-punk.
The Future Times posse returns with an extended family for the newest installment in their “Vibe” compilation series. This DJ double pack includes tracks both rugged and pristine, from Alexis Le-Tan, Steve Summers, Tom Noble, L.I.E.S. remixed by Max D, Juju & Jordash, Confused House, Steve Moore, Hunee and Swimmers & Gang.
The second part form Simoncinos’s “The Warrior Dance”. On the A side, 2 brand new tracks : one cover of Marshall Jefferson as Jungle Wonz “Time marches on” & “Inga”s crème”, while on the B side, there are 2 remixes from Chez Damier.
Mark du Mosch takes you on his unique journey that glides perfectly between contrasting emotions. Sombre notes brush with warm melodies over four bubbling tracks that are as at home on the 4am shift as they are on the stereo.
Harbour City Sorrow presents a special release from E.R.P. aka Gerard Hanson, featuring three electro tracks.
