Semantica celebrates its 5 years anniversary, with a various artists selection featuring ERP, Boris Divider, Oscar Mulero, and Julien Neto. Beautiful electronix by some talented producers.
001.Features
Stingray313 – Misinformation Campaign [TRUST020]
‘Misinformation Campaign’ is Sherard Ingram’s third EP for TRUST. Sherard Ingram contrasts his lightning-fast electro-inspired rhythms with lush synth melodies and glistening arpeggios, on occasion more menacing and dystopian moods gain the upper hand.
Container – LP [SP007]
Container is a recent moniker of Nashville, Tennessee resident Ren Schofield. The sounds on this release are a thick stew congealing new ideas and naive experiments, abstract and minimal in nature with time stopping tendencies. This music, by being so unruly and defiant of any kind of trend, has created a fresh and wierd fusion.
Forma – Forma [SP003]
Spectrum Spools present the debut album by Brooklyn’s minimal synth trio Forma. This is a self-styled tribute – and testament – to the enduring power of kosmische. Sumptuously melodic, with flights of improvisational fancy nicely anchored by taut, repetitive drum structures, it’s hard not to fall in love with this record. What really distinguishes Forma from the million devotees of German electronic music is their bold and often unorthodox use of rhythm, at times tending towards metronomic Kraftwerkian synth-pop, at others towards something even more viscous and otherworldly. kraut-influenced analogue electronics.
The Opiates – Rainy Days And Remixes EP [DAREC1104]
The Opiates is the latest project from the “queen of electronic soul” Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim. This is the taster of remixes and first single “Rainy Days and Saturdays”, from the forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under the Knife’. Remixes by Hercules and Love Affair’s Kim Ann Foxman on ” Jalousies and Jealousies”, as well as all-time heroes Chris and Cosey of Throbbing Gristle on “Anatomy of a Plastic Girl”. The XHK Mix of “Silent Comes The Nighttime (Again)”, with its hard Dubstep flavour completes the picture and gives the song a completely new voice and vibe.
Marcello Giordani – Disco Cutz#2 [IDR004]
Marcello Giordani returns with another three eclectic edits on his Italo Deviance. You’ll be guided into a Space, Italo and Post-Punk Disco trip.
Dompteur Mooner – Greatest Hits [TAHOE002]
Dompteur Mooner, finder and keeper of the obscure was responsible for several series of well picked compilations such as Kranke Musique ist Schön, Elaste (on Compost Records) and Dottore´s Kranky Disco Band. With his imprint Super Tahoe, this is the second edit EP with rusty rock hits, pumped up Kosmische and Proto Techno called Greatest Hits.
Cavalier – A Million Horses [DPC0362]
Agnès presents a full lenght album under his Cavalier moniker, on Drumpoet Community. “A Million Horses” is a 19 tracks journey through deep, dubbed-out minimal house and techno productions.
Benjamin Brunn – Dust EP [ASHES001]
Benjamin Brunn delivers his latest EP via new label Ashes. 4 cuts of Clavia Nord & 707 heavy blissed out house music spread over two slabs of vinyl.
Omar S feat. Colonel Abrams – Who Wrote The Rules Of Love [FXHE-O&C]
Omar-S and Colonel Abrams present some incredible vocal house music with melody and soul, huge, deep pairing of a legendary voice w/a modern production talent. On the flip is a Shadow Ray remix that picks up the pace morphing the original into a classic peak time house track.
Fudge Fingas – What Works [FIREC007]
New Firecracker 10″. Gavin Sutherland aka Fudge Fingas is the man behind the seventh installment in the cult series, with A-Side cut “What Works” showing a move towards moody, shuffling Detroit house. Remix duties are handed to Vakula and he turns in a memorable, highly atmospheric remix of “What Works”, before another Fudge original, the chiming sea of calm that is “Mass X”, rounds off an essential release.
Max_M – The Kidnapper Bell [MRECLTD009]
Max_M with an original on his own M_Rec LTD, a journey with a very deep sound, something that comes from his background, a walk through Detroit, Birmingham and Berlin. A rhythm that is not heavy, repetitive riff that nullifies any inhibitions. It’s definitely evil, it’s a reminder of the deep and pure techno. Remixes by Shifted and Ascion.
Matt O’Brien – Bloom [OK006]
New release from Matt O’Brien on his own Off-key Industries. ‘Bloom’ lays it smooth and stealthy, riding fat, subs-driven rhythm daubed with fluttering Teutonic synth into a subtly show-stealing breakdown and back to business. On the flip side, ‘Without Warning’ has body-slydin’, mentasm style synth licks and droning pads.
Legowelt – The Teac Life [LEGOWELTLP001] [FREE ALBUM]
Words coming from Danny Wolfers aka Legowelt:
“Ok people here it is the new Legowelt album which is free to download for u all Its got a hella lot deep tape saturated forest-techno tracks on it and when I say Techno i dont mean that boooooooooooring contemporary shit they call techno nowadays with overrated tallentless pretentious douchebag cunt DJs playing a few halfassed dumb mongo beats and being all arty fartsy about it.
F*ck that, I am talking about: Raw as fuck autistic Star Trek 1987- Misty Forests- X-FILES,- DETROIT unicorn futurism made on cheap ass digital & analog crap synthesizers recorded in a ragtag bedroom studio on a TEAC VHX cassettedeck in DOLBY C with an unintelligible yet soulfull vivacity.
if you like it you can donate some $ or Euros, Any donation small or large is appreciated u can paypal to: wolfers@xs4all.nl so I can buy more crap synthesizers to make stuff like this and repair my Roland Juno 106 which stopped working during the recording of this album…probably cause this shit is tooo deep and it just couldn’t handle it…. doesnt matter, the bottom line question is CAN U HANDLE IT???”
Gerry Read – Untitled / Legs [4TH002]
Fourth Wave returns for it’s second poem from the dark abyss of change, this time from the mysterious 18 year old Gerry Read. Multi instrumentalist Gerry chops through layers and layers of samples with his own playing to create landscapes of rolling deep Detroit flecked house music.
Raeyk – Asleep Remixes [VARIANZ015]
Varianz present a remix pack for Raeyk’s “Asleep”, featuring two great remixes from Dario Zenker and Samuli Kemppi.
DJ 3000 – Hotel Oasiz [MT029]
DJ 3000’s “Hotel Oasiz” is part of the new sound of Motech Records. Not that Motech ever predicated itself on an established sound in the first place, but DJ 3000 (Franki Juncaj) has expanded not only the range of his own style, but also the styles of those he chooses to appear on his remix EPs.
Vince Watson – Pressure Part 2 EP [BIO022]
Vince Watson‘s Bio imprint is now back in full flow, and following on from the „Pressure“ EP last month, the 2nd installment of the release, with some very exclusive guest mixes and yet another killer track from Vince himself. Steve Rachmad and Octave One deliver the remixes.
Hakim Murphy – First Kiss [KISS1101]
Debut release of the new US. label Stolen Kisses. Hakim Murphy delivers the original version, a dark and moody track driven by salvos of cutting percussion that give rise to glowering synth progressions and ominous blooms of sub-bass. Its paired with two remixes from Los Angeles Santiago Salazar.
Instra:mental / Boddika – Vicodin (Skudge Remix) / Grand Prix [NL010]
New arrival from the [Naked Lunch] camp indelibly stamped with the production Boddika up against a Skudge refix of some vintage Instra:mental heat. “Grand Prix” arises with a cavernous subby bounce, the track is soon invaded by onrushing hi’s and kicks before swerving into a downward spiral of bass and rave stabs. A former [Naked Lunch] glory in “Vicodin” is revisited by Skudge, transforming the frosted atmospherics of Instra:mental’s original into a constantly brooding 4am wall rattler.
