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001.Features
Orphx – Black Light [SG1039]
Orphx returns on Sonic Groove soon again after last years widely acclaimed “Division EP”.Their newest release “Black Light” will once again explores the dark deep dublike sounds of techno.
Jeff Mills – The Drummer Pt. 3 [PM024]
Jeff Mills is back with another platter of stripped and streamlined drum tools for the DJs. This episode pays tribute to Art Blakey, Jack DeJohnette, Alphonse Mouzon, Louie Bellson and Bill Bruford in Mills’ inimitable style, offering a different percussive pattern inspired by each.
Sterling Void – Serve It Up [CC019]
This record never got a proper release. But now, Clone managed to get the rights and more important a proper old recording of Sterling Voids instrumental version of Serve It Up. His first ever recording done in Chicago, 1987! Alden Tyrell restored the original recording and he prepared the track for its official release, almost 25 years after it was recorded by a young guy who was just enjoying himself in a Chicago recording studio for the first time, and not knowing that he was becoming part of house music history! Steve Summers / RBL did a new version on the B-side!
Harmony Funk – Can’t Let You Go [CJFD05]
One of the best kept secrets of Chicago house music is this amazing deep raw track of Harmony Funk. Intense pure house music with raw edges just as we like it! Comes with great great remixes by Ovatow and Marco Bernardi.
Syrinx – B.D.O. EP [ANNXYY]
Syrinx presents his first limited release on Ann Aimee. Side a brings a deep fine dubbed out spacey funky techno track, on the flip he delivers a raw industrial techno track, and one smooth interlude/ambient track.
DJ Yoav B – Love Dubs [81DSR/YBS3]
A welcome return for Tel Aviv’s Yoav B on Delsin Records. This is fifth full length single, again in his own freestyle sound. “Higher Love” sounds like house done by a passionate liquor store, with it’s lazy house beats and dramatic synthlines. ‘Love Dub’ is a more freestyle beat jam, whereas ‘Soul Surrender’ has a gritty moving bassline.
Basic Soul Unit – Jak’d Freq Remixes [CREME047R]
Genius Of Time – Same Old Place EP [ANIARA001]
New Swedish label Aniara Recordings brings us deep, dirty and slow house from the southern part of their vast country. Gothenburg duo Genius of Time give us a fresh take on what modern house music can be. Well-crafted tracks that build slowly but surely through a rolling groove and pumping basslines. Two oldschool meet new school house burners.
Dplay – Samoah EP [MILD005]
Mild Pitch are back with their fifth release – first one from Dplay for the label. Already a familiar ‘face’ from his releases on Running Back and Drumpoet, Dplay’s brand of deep house fits the label’s sonic agenda like a glove. Uber-deep, enveloping, emotive house with a slightly teutonic feel.
Trickski – The Warm Up [DOG009]
Back to the raw, slow, deep and loaded with an intense atmosphere which guarantees this cut will stay long in the minds of those who hear it. The arrangement builds using layers of fizzing synths while the pitched down, drugged up vocal makes the call to the dancefloor.
Jeff Mills – Something in the Sky Part 3 [SITS003]
Havantepe – Caterpillar EP [PONG005]
Havantepe release a 12 with deep dubby techno sounds with layers of sounscapes, shuffling rhythms, warm chords & build-up tension that will work perfectly on late night club floors. Luke Hess debut in Pong musiq, “Caterpillar” Rmx further explores deep Detroit dance music through field recordings, live percussion sessions, analog experimentation, and dark melodies.
Tony Lionni – Timeless [WM50215]
Wave Music team up again with Berlin based dj/producer Tony Lionni for a brand new EP. His musical style is a perfect fusion of detroit tinged techno and brooding deep house. The timeless EP is a rock solid 4 track package and kicks off with anger a tough and taut slice of percussive techno with detroit inspired pads and a hypnotic rollin’ sythn line.
Forward Strategy Group – Combat Code EP [TPT035]
The Forward Strategy Group sound covers everything from deep dub techno, through classic minimal (not mnml) grooves, right up to abrasive, industrial noise experiments. Combat Codes is formed of 4 tracks. The original Codes are a perfect introduction to the harsher end of the FSG sound, as rhythms are sculpted out of a mass of noise loops and industrial percussion.
VA – Workshop 10 [WORK010(60463)]
Mr. Pauli & David Vunk – We Are The Laser Lords EP [MST017]
The two electro disco 80ies analog fetish freaks, Mr. Pauli and David Vunk, started a new The Hague – Rotterdam collaboration and made the tracks that they like to hear in a dj set and of course for the love of music!
Kenny Larkin – Glob Remixes [PLE65317]
“Glob” feels like something new, with jazzy, sometimes glitchy bells slowly climbing changing beats and rich bass drops. Remixes from Ben Klock, Claude von Stroke and Kenny Larkin.
Orlando B – Beneath The Surface EP [YORE003LTD]
Yore returns with the 3rd release on the Yore Limited series. Orlando B. favors the kind of funky and raw-sounding techno that flourished during the late-’90s and early-’00s and so naturally invests his maiden voyage on the Yore imprint with the same kind of classic soul that renders that earlier era’s sound so appealing.
Alton Miller – Can’t Hide It [PCDMS025]
After last year’s Alton Miller release on ProgCity Deep, we‘re now ready for the second round with another masterpiece. “Can‘t Hide It“ in its original mix shows once again the pure and raw sounds of true House music, just how it was made back in the days. And if this is not enough already we’ve got a wonderful package of remixes, with Tony Lionni, Matthias Vogt and Paskal.
