Two tracks of pure deepness and emotions have been delivered by Marco Gegenheimer, from Barcelona, on Ratio?music. ’21:4 (The IPS Prayer)’ is all about losing that one love and is a sentimental piece of house music, while ‘Mystical Crossings’ on the flip is all about the mystical and divine aspects of life.
Verdantin is an epic 13 minutes long burner. Moody synths, haunting vocals, and a sub-sonic kick drive the slowly evolving structure forward. However… b-side track Siebzehn is at least as good with its lush dubby chords and its echo-ing vocals layer over a classic house groove.
Surprising dark & druggy deephouse/dubstep crossover from the german deep house producer, Kassem Mosse.
After exploring technoid territories with in the last years Ame are back with a full-on deep house EP. It is very much infiltrated with a Marcel Duchampesque way of approaching artistic objects: ready-made, self-referencing and perpetuating. So musically, Perpetuum Mobile (ital. Moto Perpetuaby Niccolò Paganini) elements push forward into mesmerizing loops. There future is nearer than in most of contemporary deephouse releases.
‘Black Keith’ definitely has that drive and swing and groove we love so much. ‘Close To Me’ is a little deeper and more classy (Detroit), yet still grooves like a motherlicker.
Number 2 in the Strength Music Semester series. More quality Deep House from Jus-Ed, Fred P & DJ QU. Some really nice production that is crisp n tight. Lots of melodic bits to take you away and punchy beats too.
Rush Hour presents a new series of releases entitled ‘Voyage Direct’. This series is about all about feel good club music and is curated by Tom Trago. Hence the name Voyage Direct, which was also the title of his debut double EP. Dexter kicks off this series in a classy style with his Junofest EP.
Title track of ‘Night Heat’ on a side is a melodic and playful detroitish house track. On the b side, we invited our favorite underground house producer Fred P aka Black Jazz Consortium to the remixer. He almost cuted off the melody and made more dj tool version, it fits perfectly for dark club.
The house of Workshop is powerfully represented by Kassem Mosse & Lowtec on Laid records this time.
New Kyle Hall on his own label. Two crazy jackin Detroit house cuts as only Kyle can deliver…
The Verged Sessions represents the evolution of the Chicago/Detroit sound … full of lush orchestrated strings, synths and deep pads with a massive foundation of thumping TR-808 & 909 drums. Steven has previously unleashed quality deepness, for almost a decade on his own label, Emphasis Recordings.
This 12inch contains the duo’s psychedelic-kraut-techno “Tattoo’s Island” in three takes! The original is a tension-laden epic cut while the dub version strips it down a bit and changes the tone mid-track to a more techy-edge – spiritual, snare driven and dubbed out to oblivion. Tom Trago’s “Lost In The Jungle” remix gives the track a whole new twist
The return of Vienna’s producer legend with a fresh 2010 techno album incorporating influences from late 1970s disco/wave punk, 1980s electro, 1990s advanced techno & a timeless intergalactic jazz feel. All eight tracks on the album show great diversity in style and musical approach. Several guest musicians and vocalists played an important part in the development of the album.
Reissue of the hard to find original Hansa International pressing of Harry Thumann’s 1983 cosmic classic ‘Andromeda’. Packed with killer disco and cosmic tunes, this mind-blowing album features some of the most advanced synth and electronic sounds out there. A fave of DJ Harvey and Daniel Wang, this includes some real dance floor bombs and of course, that wicked Sphinx vocoder track.
Part 3 in the amazing Voyeurhythm series… Two more spaced-out slowmo summer house/discojams by Benjamin Sun and Monte Carlo Interchange with even bigger basslines than the previous ones…
A beautiful downtempo disco anthem that brings together everything that the Danish disco trio is about. The remix package includes one of the best remixes London-based Neo Disco Rollers Reverso 68 ever did, besides a second remix by Germany’s Remixer DJ Koze And last but not least a remix by The KDMS, featuring 21 year old Polish Maximian Skiba and London’s Disco Diva Kathy Diamond. Plus a laid back version by up-and-coming band Modernaire.
Stilove4music number 26 is here with two producers Andee Frost and Oohee. Sample based disco injected house house tracks on the reliable Stilove4music!
Cosmic Revenge presents his second EP, a four tracker for Fortified Audio. Opener ‘Hurricane Blues’ comes off like Ikonika’s ‘Fish’ with a more defined IDM debt, while ‘Mutations’ follows with a clean and melodic garage breaks groove. ‘Cold Hearted’ is the best thing here, running an Altered Natives style drum entanglement with jazzy chords to match before ‘Late Nights’ jams on a halfstepped Gangsta boogie flex.
The Bitch’ bounces a cheeky square bassline into play with old-skool ruff-house vibes pivoting about shoulder dropping syncopation. On the flip ‘Crop Duster’ takes it down low with crouching subs and skittering percussion showing the lineage of Afrobeat through house and broken beats to end up in Natives territory.
