Surprise release by a mysterious UK producer. Sweet and dripping wet Chicago House beats that are as timeless as they are fitting with current trends.
001.Features
Chicago Shags – Lost In A Blue Night [CRJAKX05]
New Shags! Typically retarded but strangely enticing Chi-Haya house that swings like a tit. Produced by an auxiliary member of the New Kids Turbo and his socially challenged compadre from the Coastal region. Furtherly fidled with by an anger management trainee from the second division saturday amateur football team.
Phuture / Jackmaster Hater – Acid Trax [KR005]
Rough and ready, previously unreleased takes on Phuture’s blueprint-setting ‘Acid Trax’. Frontside is a 4:45min version by Phuture with slightly altered drum pattern harnessed to that virulent 303 sequence. Flipside Jackmaster Hater comes like a oil-spattered Chi-town mechanic, retuning the engine of battered but classic motor.
Backyard Weekend @ Casa Alba Camping (Bucharest) 03-05.06.2011
Life’s Track – Life’s Track [BOSCO015]
Life’s Track is the mysterious and anonymous Bosconi homemade project of two promising artists, 100% build through an analogue and raw production and mainly based on a psychedelic, futuristic and freestyle musical approach. Versatile futuristic tracks that has influences from Chicago house, Detroit techno funk and maybe even a bit of that new school sound that crosses genres.
Roman Rauch – RRRemixed [PHP053]
Roman Rauch’s debut on Philpot with a remix package incl. Erdbeerschnitzel and SoulPhiction remixes. Both do a brilliant job twisting the originals with their trademark mixes and Roman also contributed a new track in the same vein as his predecessors.
Mat Chiavaroli – War Outside [KSR008]
New Italian artist, Mat Chiavaroli, on Kinda Soul Recordings, featuring three groovy Detroit house cuts in the tradition of Moodymann.
Rob Mello vs Skipson – The Mel Skipson Project [QUINTESSE021]
Rob Mello and Skipson reinvented the modernist way of sample-clearing and came up with a fine joint effort called The Mel Skipson Project. Quality house sitting perfectly with the Quintessentials tradition.
RK’s – Save The Earth EP [EM002]
Willie Burns – S/t [LIES004]
The tracks on this recording are the unedited experimentations of Willie Burns and are a testament to music when it comes straight from the heart without pretense or forethought unlike most dance music today.
Midland – Through Motion EP [AUS1133]
Midland drops his third solo EP on the esteemed Aus Music imprint. ‘Through Motion’ is led by a smooth tech/house percussive pattern, whilst airy synths rise and fall in the backdrop. The introduction of the deep sub bass kicks the rhythms into real action, soon to be complemented by an unidentifiable vocal sample and the gradual emergence of beautiful chord melody.
Delano Smith – Dark Shades Of Detroit [SUSH013]
‘Dark Shades Of Detroit’ is the new release on Sushitech by Detroit house master Delano Smith.
Marcel Heese @ Tunapark, Tresor (Berlin) 06.05.2011
Delta Funktionen – Setup Three: O/F/F [ANN015]
Delta Funktionen delivers his third and final part of his Setup series. More freaked, frantic and robotic as ever before.
R-A-G – Rage EP [MOS_DEEP_006]
M>O>S Deep presents the 2nd EP by this new Amsterdam underground jacking crew, consisting of M>O>S label boss Aroy Dee, G-String and Marco Spaventi. Five times house beauty & energy!
Snuff Crew – Basement Jams Part I [LAX122]
Skylax Records present their 22nd release, “Basement Jams Part I” EP featuring 4 amazing cuts from the infamous Snuff Crew team.
Hardrock Striker – Motorik Life [LAX121]
After a hiatus of almost one year, Hardrock Striker releases “Motorik Life” on his own Skylax Records imprint. The EP includes the original and two remixes by DJ Sprinkles.
Chris Mitchell – 84 [PBR019]
New release on Plan B Recordings coming from Chris Mitchell, featuring to underground house cuts. The EP comes with two remixes from Dakini9 and Amir Alexander.
Cavalier – A Million Horses EP [DPC035-1]
Agnès in his Cavalier guise presents this 6 tracker as a preview to his forthcoming album on the Zurich based label Drumpoet Community!
VA – The Hidden Tapes LP [MW030]
A Compilation of Minimal Wave from Around the World ‘79-‘85. The Hidden Tapes features rare, unreleased, and licensed tracks from as far as Japan and the former Yugoslavia. Most of the bands on this compilation recorded on 4-track tape in their bedroom studios while two of them went further to collaborate by sending tapes through the mail. The sounds on this record range from raw proto-industrial to naive danceable Belgradian new wave, to filmic synthesizer music to more complex, vocal-driven melodic synthpop.
