Aroy Dee – Tears EP [MOS012]

Tears EP

Four track EP by label owner Aroy Dee. The first track Once U Loved, is warm and emotional, with slowly evolving strings topped with mysterious whispering vocals, reminding to older Blake Baxter material. 2nd track, Tears is a fierce and sexy Chicago-house influenced dancetrack, with a solid baseline, steady beats and lush keys. First track on the B-side is Lift Me High, a downtempo dreamlike analogue house classic with haunting strings and vocals of miss Salvador, merging Larry Heard and G-Strings with an Italo-disco kind of atmosphere. Last on this EP is Soul Spark, an atmospheric techno track with the raw energy of early Relief-releases and the psychedelia of Dance Mania.

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Aroy Dee – Tears EP [MOS012]

DJ Qu – Party People Clap [DEC003]

Killer house track with a raw edge. Levon Vincent beats the original with his remix that has a steady dirty house groove with fat claps and layers of sounds. Monotone groove but with a lot of tension.. another club hit for Levon!. Anthony Parasole and Fred P deliver a technoish version and Jus Ed doing a light mix compared to the others with more housier vibes. Stand out release!!

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DJ Qu – Party People Clap [DEC003]

Jason Fine – Future Thought [KM012]

Jason Fine with his debut album on the sweet Kontra Musik. Mr Fine known for his releases on FXHE (Omar S his label) comes with a great hybrid between some sort of Dance Mania Chicago house (bass lines and drum programming) and Detroit techno (including the intense and overwhelming layers of strings) and stirs things together to his own unique blend of techno music.

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Jason Fine – Future Thought [KM012]

Wbeeza – City Shuffle EP [3EEP-108]

First 350 Copies Comes As Transparent Blue Vinyl In A Black Padded Inner Sleeve!!! This Is The 3rd Wbeeza Ep On Third Ear Recordings, Following The Heavy Stuff Ep (3eep-096) And The New Skank Ep (3eep-100), And Shows The Young Londoner Beginning To Stretch Out And Further Show His Writing And Production Skills. Listen
Wbeeza – City Shuffle EP [3EEP-108]

VA – 61 Center Returning Part 1 [T2X08]

Various Artists - 61 Center Returning Volume 1

Peter van Hoesen returns with his Time 2 Express label after being on tour during the summer season. And in the meantime he got a great selection together with remixes and new tracks by the T2X artists. Peter himself is getting a dirty make-over job executed by Norman Nodge and Pendle Coven. With exciting results as one might expect from these guys! Sendai and Samuli Kemppi delivering some powerful abstract basement techno tracks. T2X with another essential techno release!

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VA – 61 Center Returning Part 1 [T2X08]

Lowtec – Angstrom [PF008]

Lowtec - Angstrom EP

Since the 90’s Lowtec is a reliable source for good deep techno tracks. And this time its no different … probably the tempo is a bit slower then 10 years ago… but the quality went up. Together with his Workshop release probably our favorite Lowtec sofar.

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Lowtec – Angstrom [PF008]

Jeff Mills – Sleeper Wakes [XE CD-1122]

The Sleeper Wakes is a project created by Jeff Mills that focuses on the proactive aspects in Electronic Music. Using the architectural concept of Compression – Release conceptualize by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mills creates a scenario whereabouts he makes a profound gesture through a concept entitled “One Man Spaceship” CD/Events – Womb/Tokyo 2005; an adventurous approach to Electronic Music by applying Classical orchestrations in ways that were uncompromising and without much explanation. Immediately following the debut this release, he choses to step back and disappear from the Japanese Electronic music scene for a scheduled timespan of (4) four years. In this time, Mills has been constantly creating a new style of music for the next and final phase of the Sleeper Project. Conceptually, he explains that he is now travelling the Universe in search of New Worlds to explore(“Worlds” meaning Sounds in Music). His calculation is that such a extended absence from his long and close relationship with the Japanese music audience would create the foundation in which new ideas can be displayed, taking a giant step forward in terms of what the audience would be prepared for. Jeff Mills’ expected return date to Earth (Womb/Tokyo, Japan) will be the first second of the first day of the Year 2010 (New Years Eve 01:01:10 – 12:01am). Listen http://sleeperwakes.com
Jeff Mills – Sleeper Wakes [XE CD-1122]

Master Plan – Obama Tribute [FVR012]

Ron Trent presents the Master Plan >Obama Tribute<, a musical tribute to the election of BAarack Obama. Two versions of >Melting Pot< (one being the instrumental) combine layered speech excerpts over a dreamy, conga driven deep house beat w/an uplifting piano solo towards the end.

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Master Plan – Obama Tribute [FVR012]

Ali Renault – Running On Vapours EP [MST013]

Manchester – Rotterdam Connection, 666 Km, 9hours 35minutes by car. A Hot summer in the year 2031 Moustache records is very proud to release MST013 Ali Renault – Running on vapours E.P. This top London-based musician delivers us a slowflight electro nu-disco napolitana 4 tracker E.P. Expect drunken cowbels, fat flow low basslines, trippy popcorn sounds and robotico vocoders from the heart and soul of downtown London city. High energy like a discoball and bloody slow like a retarded butcher on ketamine. Cutted by the master Lex van Coeverden, a special secret inlay and as always limited vinyl pressing!

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Ali Renault – Running On Vapours EP [MST013]

Jolka – The Jolka Experience [SECT6]

JOLKA - The Jolka Experience (Front Cover)

olka is a new project and moniker for fabled Croatian producer Luka Baumann. Another techno luminary borne of adversity, he has for some years now into the present, graced the community with his works. If Sect 2 further demonstrated his known credentials, Jolka now changes pace and perspective with four pieces of lush, warm chord-driven techno to move our feet and minds into further uncharted territories. Be prepared for further Jolka projects from both sides of the Atlantic, once again following those original principles to demonstrate techno music as a state of mind and attitude.

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Jolka – The Jolka Experience [SECT6]

Mezerik

Interesting unsigned producer from Not-sure-where from.
3 EP’s for free download and they are quite good. Is everything in between Dub Techno, Electro to Robert Hood inspired minimal techno to ambience.. All rooted deep in the Motor City Soul sound.

[MZ001] Celestial Poles EP

[MZ002] Loop 1 EP

[MZ003] Techno 1 EP

www.mezerik.com

Mezerik

Marcello Napoletano – The Space Voodoo [MATH033]

Cover art - Marcello Napoletano: The Space Voodoo

After his “A Prescription of Love EP” which was heavily charted by more than 50 high profile DJs & artists such as Prosumer to Panorama Bar DJs in Berlin to the writers at Fact UK etc, Marcello Napoletano returns with his debut album “The Space Voodoo”. Napoletano pulls influences from a wide range of sources – from the electronic sounds of Brian Eno, the experimental values of Miles Davis, classic Chicago house by Larry Heard, jazz by Monk, Todd Edwards garage to the deep St. Germain. The label head of Mathematics Jamal Moss will assure you that this album will put a spell on you!

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Marcello Napoletano – The Space Voodoo [MATH033]

Johannes Volk / Mirko Hecktor – Heat Haze / Chicago 77 [Dontstop01]

Heat Haze / Chicago 77

First Release of Giessen based DONTSTOP label. On the A Side you can find a stormy deepish techno tune by veteran Johannes Volk, while the other side features flickering house music by newcomer Mirko Hecktor. Heavy club cut by dublates and mastering.

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Johannes Volk / Mirko Hecktor – Heat Haze / Chicago 77 [Dontstop01]

Johannes Volk – When We Lost Contact [Snap007]

As Snapshot’s catalogue grows, so too does the quality. The modest label hits us with five new tracks by Johannes Volk (also known from his works on Lifeworld and Jeff Mills’ 6277 label) with a heavy Detroit minimal feel, instantly reminding us of vintage Robert Hood productions built of only the bare essential elements required to move ones body.

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Johannes Volk – When We Lost Contact [Snap007]