David Flores aka Audio Injection and Broken Rules begins his latest music project: The Truncate Series. This is the first release from the series presenting some industrial techno with vocals inspired from “DBX – Losing Control”. The EP comes with a remix from Raiz.
SP-X provides a three-tracker for Komisch, based on heavy, resonating beats, nagging, insistent percussion and dank, high-frequency filters. ‘Field Construction’ and ‘Internalize’ are highly effective techno tools, predicated by subtle arrangements despite their forcefulness. ‘Flux’ is the most deranged track though, with what sounds like a screeching air raid siren cooper-fastened to concrete beats – once you’ve heard it, you’ll never forget it.
Dino Sabatini continues exploration into the dark side of the industrial techno Sonic Groove with his four track” Small Step EP”. Deep dark electronic music ranging from peak floor burners to dark deep mind burners that techno & industrial lovers from around the universe will surely love.
Second release from Färden featuring the debut from Splice, with some really pure and beautiful techno.
‘Beelines For Working Bees’ is a 12” that sees four of the most innovative artists in electronic music rethinking and reconfiguring the strands of Lucy’s forthcoming album ‘Wordplay for Working Bees’. The relationship between the point of origin and the end point is not a prescribed one: the beelines of Tommy Four Seven, James Ruskin, Peter Van Hoesen and Truss return to the hive of Lucy’s album taking the most experimental and cross-pollinated paths. SA008 acts as a case in point for techno, melding and fusing genre boundaries to reveal new hybrid sounds. SA008 presents a utopian vision that’s puckering at the seams. The artists chose the tracks that they wished to remix and fused their own defined sound identities with that of Stroboscopic Artefacts. In anticipation of Lucy’s debut album this is a delicious foretaste of what’s to come and a cryptic insight into four of techno’s leading minds.
Adventurous techno tracks with the basic and functional approach like all of the Horizontal Ground releases.
The Romanian Aeromaschine delivered a real versatile stunner release for Baalsaal Records. “Debunking Random Myths” stands out as a very unpredictable piece of live performanced like collage. “Not So” is an hypnotic acidy interpretation of past future old school with a present high roller coat. On the flip Bearweasel digs a little deeper with classy dubby elements and a journey to planet x dream dancing to come… The dark horse is “Serenades for Simple Brains” a beatdowner that nails it when it comes to non hype edit production.
Deep Detroit , basic channel inspired techno tracks. XDB delivers a cool bassline driven remix that goes somewhere between old Chicago and more atmospheric techno.
Other Heights Three introduces Ozka and Jakob Altmann. Belgian and German effectivity bound together in a strengthened and dub-begeisted EP.
An other release on the Spanish label Analogue Solutions, with some banging house and techno based on samples from Detroit tracks.
This two tracker is another slice of solid, atmospheric dub-techno that skanks and drives along with much attention paid to the basslines. Heavy bass driven post Basic Channel techno tracks.
Lonesome Berlin is the long time coming first LP from this German guy solo project CCCANDY. After the debut 7’’ on Eat! and the tape on Neue Strassen, we now have a proper full-length featuring twelve dark minimal synth pop songs. This is the sounds of the old Europe during the Eighties, when the Berlin Wall was still real: cold and catchy at once, minimal yet groovy. Greyscale bedroom electronics.
Dark Entries is honored to present the highly limited second cassette by British duo Nagamatzu for the first time ever on vinyl. “Sacred Islands of the Mad” is a collection of eleven tracks recorded between December 1984 and March 1986. agamatzu began in 1982 after messing around with old tape machines and drum boxes, making numerous contributions to international compilations and erratically releasing their own cassettes. Their name comes from a character in JG Ballard’s “Atrocity Exhibition” and their music reflects his influence and incorporates carefully chosen samples from the Challenger shuttle disaster, Gregorian chants and films including “Dawn of the Dead” and “The Omen.” All the songs were recorded onto a Ferrograph reel to reel in a small room at their parent’s house and some of the backing rhythms and sequencers were recorded first onto cassette and then the band played along live. Nagamatzu’s instrumentals combine stuttering bass, guitar bursts and funeral keyboards draped over a dragging drum machine beat, calling to mind Clock DVA, Cabaret Voltaire and early New Order or Cocteau Twins. “Sacred Islands of the Mad” is a complex, textured tapestry of sound full of dark electronics, fresh harmonies and danceable rhythms.
Dark Entries has dug deep into the early days of the Belgian cassette scene to release two tapes by The Neon Judgment in the form of one vinyl LP for the first time ever! These pioneers of underground electronic music hail from the small town of Leuven near Brussels, Belgium and gave birth to the New Beat and EBM scenes worldwide in 1981/2 with the release of their first two cassettes–neatly compiled here as “Early Tapes”. Arriving just in time to celebrate the Neon Judgment’s 30th anniversary, “Early Tapes” showcases the band’s brash and seedy lyrics, with raw synth stabs and repetitive drum machine beats adding to this rhythmic discourse. The result is a combination of lo-fi technology and emotional sincerity to create a sound both warm yet alienating that has stood the test of time and 30 years later, still evokes the same magic.
The Exaltics are back with a new album on Last Known Trajectory. Short, sharp, electro styles in the form of ‘Irresistible’ and ‘Calculate’ devised to strike the target head-on, while the brooding, soulful, even graceful, techno gloom of ‘Relentless’ warns of impending doom. Dark times… dark vibes.
Workshop 12 features some deep & dubby detroit influenced minimalistic techno coming from the German hero Kassem Mosse.
The Oliverwho Factory returns on Rush Hour with their new single ‘Galactic Transit’, a hot slice of raw and sexy Detroit house music.
Aesthetic Audio presents the new release featuring three lush compositions. Keeping consistent with the previous ten Aesthetic Audio releases, the formula for this new gem remains an uncompromising plethora of very raw substance, innovation and timeless music.
Still Music is proud to present “Analog Aquarium”, the debut album by legendary Detroit house producer Rick “The Godson” Wilhite. Rick is a longtime member of Detroit’s dance music scene, one of the epicenters of Detroit’s 1980’s techno music explosion. Rick has been around for almost two decades and has churned out a myriad of EPs, but never before did he release an actual full-length album. “Analog Aquarium” will feature a total of 10 tracks, of which most are previously unreleased, including a few collabos with Theo Parrish, Osunlade and Marcellus Pittman.
Rick Wilhite – City Bar Dancing (Basement Mix) download
Sixth and final chapter in this label from Felix K. Pressed in Berlin, this is a recommended slab that sits somwhere between dubstep, drum & bass, techno and electronica. QNS stands for Quantity Not Sufficient.
