New name of FXHE! Dj Blend with some Omar S style tracks. Stripped down and a rough funky groove.
001.Features
Jason Fine – Menage At Trois [FXHEJFINE]
New Jason Fine on FXHE with some jackin house for the heads!! And hopefully the theme for many “menage at trois” around the world…
Recloose – Saturday Night Manifesto [RH035]
Recloose is back on Rush Hour with a 3 track EP. Two refreshing house tracks on the A side, and a banging heavy one on the B that’s leaning towards electro.
San Proper – Shook [RT002]
Two analogue raw and lively tracks dripping dirty funk and dusty machine sound. San Proper delivers to funking monster tracks without going into cliche’s.
Blakkat – In Ten City [IR011]
Indigo Raw brings up their 11th release with an two acid cuts from Blakkat. The EP is completed by to remixes provided by Horacio and Mirus & Andre Buljat.
VA – No Control [EB001]
This was supposed to be the first release on the sub-label Exposed Black, from the parent net label Exposed Audio, but was never released. Tracks from Das Komitee, Masstyk, Mihai Popoviciu, The Model and Toygun. This was compiled by Jay Bliss in 2006.
Chicago Skyway & Dcook – Lager EP [MOS_DEEP_007]
Chicago Skyway is back on MOS deep with another epic release, ranging from melodic deepness to wild-jackin’ dance floor-madness. The Lager EP kicks off with Bad Driver, a raw and solid Chicago-banger with an irresistible driving bass-line, rattling beats and atmospheric strings. For Lager Nord on the flipside Chicago Skyway teams up with his compadre Dcook, delivering an emotional and dreamy classical Detroit Techno influenced track. Lager is reworked by Steven Tang, another rising star in Chicago’s contemporary electronic-music scene, known for his Obsolete Technology imprint and his Verged Sessions on Aestatic Audio. Steven’s Obsolete Technology Remix focuses on lush orchestrated strings and deep synths flowing over a massive foundation of thumping beats.
Ricardo Miranda – Urbanism Remixes EP [NSRVINYL003]
A full Urbanism EP with remixes by Chiba (Argentina’s Hernan Cronner & Chicago’s Ricardo Miranda) and Daryl Cura – with the original version. One of the favorites on 3 Chairs member Rick Wilhite’s “Vibes” compilation, this track gets a proper single release complete with remixes by MIRANDA himself as well as Daryl Cura. “U Are Your Art”, on the flip, is a dope deep house bonus tune for even more added bang.
Disco Nihilist – Running (Far Away) [RBDN001]
Disco Nihilist with tracks between Chicago’s Jack urgency, Detroit’s funky machine soul and the raw magic of vintage drum machines. His style is natural, murky, filthy and raw to the core. The six track EP ”Running (Far Away)” for Running Back is an exercise in grinding beats, squelching acid lines, graceful pianos and heartfelt rhythms without any paralyzing retro romance.
Bicep – EP2 [TOB014]
Featuring a deeper take on the analog house sound, “EP2” on Throne of Blood, represents a step forward for Bicep. Midwest rave veteran and analog synth maestro Mark Verbos turns in a tough and stripped back remix.
Heiko Laux & Teo Schulte – Can’t Unspill The Milk [SUOL027]
New release on Soul by Teo Schulte and Heiko Laux, a jazz man and a techno man, featuring thee original slow house cuts and two remixes from Daniel Bortz and Till von Sien.
VA – Belgian Pop & Wave Songs From The 1980’s [POPWAVE001]
Very tidy compilation of excellent 80’s wave songs from some of the finest underground Belgian artists of that era.
Futility – Forward / Deluge [FLEXI002]
Futility is a minimal-synth-wave project of Mr. Lacey and Mr. Frank with occasional help from Mr Nicolai. This is their debut and the 2nd release for Flexi Wave.
Colouroid – Amor Y Neon [FLEXI001]
Debut single by the synth-wave duo Colouroïd, based in Stockholm Sweden delivering well-crafted 80’s minimal wave.
VA – Renaissance [TH003]
“Renaissance” finishes the Transhuman trilogy with the usual mini LP 12” format, including 6 tracks from Arcanoid, The Transhumans and EBE 1, a new artist from the emerging scene of Madrid and half of Sowing Paranoia.
Alex Cortex – Unshell [POM025]
New release on Pomelo, “Unshell” featuring 4 modern dancefloor tracks in best Alex Cortex style, characterized by tight rhythmic structures and a unique and irrestistible hypnotic power. From deep stumbling house grooves with piano stabs and a male vocal admiring´Your sexy moves´ and a Chicago Jacker with a repetitive voice on the A Side, to athmospheric dark techno with warped sound effects and breakbeat house layered with modulating 8-bit sounds on the flip, this record shows once more Alex Cortex´ skills to move off the beaten tracks in his very own style.
Area Forty_One – Discharging Clouds [ANN014]
Ann Aimee goes darker and more minimalistic than before with this debut release by Area Forty_One. This unknown producer gives us his personal interpretation of modern techno. This double pack contains five solid techno cuts, filled with spacy and robotic sounds, together with one imminent ambient track.
Kassem Mosse – Musical Generics [M007]
The 7th release on Mikrodisko delivers the perfect concept for the dissolution of the antagonism between original and replica with Kassem Mosse’s “Musical Generics”. The two tracks on offer, namely “7pm” and “7am”, showcase two very different aspects to the German producer’s aresnal, with the former touching on the deeply melodic end of techno, while the latter offers a tense.
Robert Hood – Omega: Alive [MPM012]
Robert Hood, the Detroit legend and true originator of minimal techno returns to revisit the Omega project he first began last year. It was inspired by the 1971 sci-fi thriller “The Omega Man”, which may be unfamiliar, but is based on the 1954 novel “I Am Legend.” The original album was released last year, however, this time around, he has given it a makeover in order to suit a live show he will be touring around this upcoming summer. On ‘Omega: Alive’ Hood takes the raw elements of the originals and builds them into a tense and pulsating live show that propels ‘Omega’ into a new light. Opening with new track ‘Bells At Dusk’ Hood builds over a sparse drum pattern before a scatter shot piano riff announces the unmistakable kick sound of the minimal master. ‘Run’ keeps up with soft pads and then Hood drops one of the albums key tracks with the staccato-strobe flash of ‘Alpha: Alive’ as he works the original into a mesmerizing and melodic, string inflected monster. Then we have new track ‘Minimal, Minimal’ whose hypnotic refrain could well be a call to arms across the world’s dancefloors this summer whilst Hood also re-works classics like ‘Who Taught You Math?’, ‘Unix’, ‘Minus’ and ‘Side Effect’ into his unique rhythm of vision. Finally Hood wraps the Omega story up with three bonus tracks including brand new track ‘Atomic’.
Sigha – Sigha EP [HF029]
Hotflush presents its fifth release from Sigha. This EP continues his progression into subterranean techno hauntings. With this release he takes a more direct approach that maintains the cavernous atmosphere and spatial tension of his previous work on Hotflush and his own label Our Circula Sound, resulting in a collection of club tracks that evolve and sizzle with burning tenacity, ultimately bursting into the beatless closer that echoes about in an otherworldly space.
