Classic Detroit techno tracks by Terrence Dixon. Unpolished and raw tracks ‘The Return Of The Speaker People’ comes in the original version and a good remix by Kausto.
001.Features
Steve Summers – Mode for love EP [LIES006]
Jason Letkiewicz aka Steve Summers latest EP moves forward from his previous efforts touching upon the seedier and more jacking side of what New York City House music once was. Bringing to mind images of a more dangerous and exciting city where crackheads roamed free, hookers hooked, fiends copped bags and music existed as a reactionary reflection of its surroundings. Directly influenced by these times, Summers took his arsenal and concocted an emotional four song record that nods to this period as well as foreshadows the impending doom of a city wrapped in an airtight bubble.
Koova – Erem [AC007]
AC Records brings 6 tracks of the finest Detroit influenced dystopian electro futurism from Koova. Sinister pads and dark angels sing the praises of a moist bubbling electro bass.
Soft Metals – Soft Metals [CT116]
The Portland duo Soft Metals present their debut self titled LP on Captured Tracks. Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall, music and voice, have combined to make a mechanical, robotic yet very human record and it’s the result of the by-play at work between Hick’s machine like synths, effects and beats and Hall’s ethereal and dreamy vocals. The album includes 10 synth-pop track.
Regis – In A Syrian Tongue [BLACKEST004]
“I A Syrian Tongue” is Karl O’Connor’s first solo EP as Regis in ten years. Across these three tracks, Regis showcases a sound that delivers the industrial intensity of his vintage Downwards work, the elegance and swing of his Sandwell District contributions, and a seemingly new ingredient: something powerfully, irreducibly Blackest Ever Black.
STABLO – No. 9996 [STABLO9996]
Robert Owens & Tevo Howard – One Tear [TTHR003]
Chicago legend Robert Owens teams up with Tevo Howard for a 4 tracks single on Tevo Howard Recordings. The EP features a moody original version in the spirit of Chicago House and three remixes.
Terekke – Damn / Pf Pf Pass [LIES005.5]
Two dusty d.i.y. straight to tape house jams from Brooklyn’s lowlands, by basement producer Terekke. Over saturated house energy meets voices of paranoia while shifting Juno chord changes and a dirtbag 707 drums keep things moving.
VA – Twentyfour Ways [SMALLVILLE024]
“Twentyfour Ways” presents four sunset tracks by Benjamin Brunn, Christopher Rau and Smallpeople and special guests C-Beams aka Break SL & Sandrow Mitzschke from Dresden.
The Units – Connections [OPCMLTDCD002]
Opilec Music bring the first ever remix album of San Francisco’s cult synthesizer-punk legends, The Units. Reworks by Alexander Robotnick, Chris Carrier, Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi, Dompteur Mooner & The Outlier ft. Pollyester, In Flagranti, Klein & Mbo, LoSoul, Nick Chacona, Sinner DC, The Love Supreme and many many more!
Fall On Your Sword – The First Time I Saw Jupiter [DFA2305]
Brooklyn band Fall On Your Sword release on DFA Records. “The First Time I Saw Jupiter” creates an atmosphere of eerie, icy desolation; sounds emit outward in what feels like the loneliness and desertion of space. “Rhoda’s Theme” feels slightly more hopeful and less lonely. The song begins with a soft, repeating keyboard line, and then opens up onto beatific synths. There are slight shifts of shape across its nine-minute duration, as it moves from moments of driven beats and rhythms to sections of gorgeous, nearly orchestral streams of sound.
Kuba Sojka – Berlin News [SLN002]
Polish producer Kuba Sojka with a smoky and nostalgic house on London label Souliner. Title track “Berlin News” utilises multiple layers of expansive pads over an ascending analogue bassline; considering how many elements are jostling for position the effect is impressively reined in. On the B-Side, “Electronic Fever”, the same kind of arrangements are used, but building up to a complex improvised piano melody. The last track “Auster Session” is a collaboration with Electribalt.
Maxi Mill – To The Next / Sun Rays [RH-VD005]
Next up on Tom Trago’s Voyage Direct series is Maxi Mill, a young producer from Amsterdam. ‘To The Next’ / ‘Sun Rays’ is his debut release and showcases his love for raw, dirty and syncopated house music.
Skudge – First Observation EP [ECHOCORDCOLOUR016]
Echocord Color delivers a new EP by the duo Skudge. It also includes a deep and dubby powerful remix by Conforce.
VA – Untitled [STHLMLTD022]
New various artists EP on Stockholm Ltd, including music from Pfirter & Grindvik and The Rumours and the debut on the Swedish label for S100 and Tom Dicicco. Including reworks from Skudge and legendary Oliver Kapp.
Ripperton – For All The Wrong Reasons [TMQ001]
The first release on the new project by Ripperton called Tamed Musiq. An emotive and intense track by Ripperton, with a Skudge remix.
Exium – The Unexpected [NHEOMA010]
Exium presents the follow-up on the great album “Roots of Time”. “The Unexpected” is an excellent take on the deeper side of techno, from the building energy on the 1st part with the lucious chords and wicked percussion to the dreamy sequence on the 3rd.
Gosub – Touch Screen Terrorist EP [AFS008]
The Exaltics – They Arrive [CREC010]
The Exaltics making their first appearance for Crème Organization, with a very atmospheric and interesting EP. The Exaltics unleashing their unique brand of brooding and dark electronix tech-fi.
Gavin Russom – Night Sky [DFA2289]
DFA Records presents “Night Sky”, a track that grows and grown into an 13 minutes odyssey. The buzzy bottom end enters and expands before Russom’s vocals – alleyway dark and mysterious – make their way in. The song dips and dives, going from barebones synthesizers resting on organic percussion to explosive vocal choruses. The end reunites nearly every sound that made a previous appearance in an ensemble of ecstatic rhythms and noise. Mutant Beat Dance aka Beau Wanzer & Melvin Oliphant III, undo the original and transform it. There are so many new elements to be found here – a thick bassline, shuffling beat, wiry electro etchings, eerie washes of synths that swell unexpectedly and unannounced – it all makes for a collection of sounds that, thankfully, are head swimming in their unique and wonderful unpredictability.
