More obscure edits by Alexis Le Tan & Joakim for their project Full Circle.
General P.D.C – Amazon Dub [NB002]
New release on Notte Brigante, the label, radio and party from Lyon, run by HLM38 aka Julien Viallet. This is the second release from the label and comes with a track by Julien’s new project General P.D.C, with a remix from Beesmunt Soundsystem one the B-side. It’s about dubby/tribal vibes, with some 90’s UK breakbeat in it.
Olivia – Crack Mix 266
Plant43 – Three Dimensions [CPU01001000]
Plant43 aka Emile Facey, one of CPU’s originators delivers his fourth album ‘Three Dimensions’. Eight tracks of crystalline electro with his signature epic pads and Blade Runner-esque melodies. Facey is one of the most respected electro artists of today and this album galvanises this reputation. DJs will find several weapons amongst this package of beautiful electronic music that rewards both headphone listeners as much as a big room.
Animistic Beliefs – Molucca Quake EP [CE029]
Rotterdam’s finest new analogue electro technicians Animistic Beliefs start 2019 running with a full EP on Cultivated Electronics. Four tracks of pure machine funk electro with a remix from Solar One head honcho and CE regular The Exaltics.
Psyk – A Moment Before [TRESOR308]
Tresor Records celebrates the return of Spanish Manuel Anós aka Psyk on its catalogue, with his new album “A Moment Before”. This is Psyk’s first long player since his debut “Time Foundation”. The album is undoubtedly Psyk’s most advanced piece of work to date. It dialogs with practices in reduced forms of techno, as originated by artists like Robert Hood, through the recently re-released “Internal Empire” on Tresor.
VA – Amsterdam_Madrid [RYC010]
With it’s 10th release, Reclaim Your City is set to enter a new aesthetic cycle, sloughing its old skin for a brighter, all the more edgy one. Not content with counting some of the finest names in today’s techno landscape on board in the persons of Oscar Mulero, Psyk, Sterac and Dimi Angélis, ‘RYCL010 – Amsterdam_Madrid’ is the occasion for Reclaim Your City to take a new breath and explore deeper the intrinsic values and key-words that make for the label’s very raison d’être: music, energy, action, city, quality, art, underground, activism, rebellion, global community.
VA – Omniform II [PRBL013]
Parabel Omniform II, the second release on the label’s V/A series, featuring Dino Sabatini, Patrick Siech, Samuli Kemppi, and Ritus; a new project from Ray Kajioka and Eddie Hale. Cerebral techno to the core.
AbraHM – Spaceship [BXLN001]
BXLIN is a new atmospheric techno label from Germany and this is the first release coming from AbraHM.
An-i live @ Dekmantel Festival 2018
Sansibar – White Swan [NATURAL026]
Sometime FTP contributor Sansibar is the latest experimentalist to make his bow on Natural Sciences, a label that we reckon is amongst the most vital and interesting around right now. Spat out of Helsinki’s underground punk and metal scene of the Lepakkomies institute, Sansibar steps up with his debut vinyl release of chronic electronic plague pulled from winters of darkness, new beat and discarded political manifestos.
Das Ding – Plastic Disaster [TAT024]
Smallpeople – Afterglow [SMALLVILLELP12]
It’s been seven years since Smallpeople’s debut album, ‘Salty Days’. In the time since, much has changed in the world of dance music, yet the Hamburg duo have remained dedicated to their unapologetically reassuring vision of house music as-a-whole. With ‘Afterglow’ we get a record carved directly from the hearts and record collections of two individuals whose understanding of dance music appears to be some sort of blissful second-nature.
Aroy Dee & Ma Spaventi – The Way We Love [MOS026]
Marco Spaventi and M>O>S label head Aroy Dee link up for another of their intriguing collaborations. Their latest offers another vital mix of raw house and ambient. Opener ‘The Way We Love’ features typically rough, blistered drums and sci-fi synths, but this time with a heavenly vocal and uplifting chords up top that tug on your heart strings. An ambient reprise of the same track is a perfect excuse to kick back and get lost in your own thoughts. ‘The Way We Move’ then takes a long view, with far-gazing Detroit pads and mid tempo drums getting you deep into a dreamy groove that is wide open and expansive. Last of all, Marco remixes this one on his own and flips it into something that is even more melodic, with circling pads and a musical bassline all making for a beautiful piece of timeless house music.
Leeon – I’ll Be There [7SR030]
Glaswegian Leeon delivers in stunning style this follow up to 2012’s brilliant debut on his home city’s classic Seventh Sign Recordings imprint.
ES-Q – Enter The System EP [DOLLY032]
ES-Q already successfully emerged on the scene with the massive club banger ‘friend zone’ on PXU. With his new EP called enter the system he strikes hard, again 4 straight up dance floor fillers for all the ravers dedicated to bleep.
Heap – Amour Propre EP [BAU011EP]
Heap at the controls on his own deadly NeuBau imprint. Die Wilde Jagd supply a heavy sweat enducing remix on the flip.
Juju & Jordash – Slack Trax Vol. 2 [SLACKTRAX02]
Juju & Jordash presents the second release on their new label Slack Trax, an outlet that focuses solely on material focusing firmly on the dance floor. Slack Trax Vol. 2 includes no messing club missiles from the dextrous duo.
Trenton Chase @ The Black Lodge (Los Angeles) 02.03.2019
Gil.barte / Lostsoundbytes – Split EP [BT34DDQ5]
The 5th entry on the Discos del Quebranto series continues to rake the kerbside muck of ‘club music’, presenting 2 disparate visions from 2 label heads. KUMP’s mastermind Gil.barte opens proceedings with the stuttering bodysludge of Guédé and Egareur. Two kleine nightmusiks to drag you out of meatspace, with the Kyuss-ala-PCP throb of Guédé especially sure to find favour on fog-bothering 8 AM+ floors worldwide. Tempos pick up and lights turn down on the B-side, with Lostsoundbytes (Vastechoses label head), driving disintegrating delays and snares into 3 Belgiqué-nouveau tools, keeping the rhythm & textures bumping throughout.
The Hipodrome Of Music 