Intergalactic Gary @ Dekmantel Selectors 2016
College – Old Tapes LP [AMI001]
College – Old Tapes celebrates ten years of composition from 2006 and 2016. Most of these tracks are unreleased demo versions. To illustrate the music video of the track “Auto Pilot”, College team up with the director Dan Bell. This collaboration, born out of the same generational anchoring, reflects the strange dream of a paradise of the consumption which collapses silently.
Hysteric – Pepper DJ [EDP002]
Australian digger and producer George Hysteric with the second release from Edit du Plaisir. 4 edits of French Italo, brazilian new wave, Sexual disco and wonderful indian love song! It’s better than chilli, better than spice!
Vadim Khrapatchev – Flights In Dreams & Reality [BR008]
Epic Synthi 100 action by Ukraine’s most notable film composer. Music for the soviet drama film Flights In Dreams And Reality. Both tracks recorded and performed on EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer in Moscow on 15-16th of April, 1982. Source files from original tapes were kindly provided by the author himself.
Marco Shuttle – XLR8R Podcast 472
Eshu – Fraktur EP [ESHU010]
ESHU Records hits release number ten with a new EP. ‘Fraktur’ features six tracks of stripped back house and techno that are all atmospheric and heady. Opener ‘Winter Track’ is a smooth and rolling dub techno number that is grainy and economical yet hugely absorbing thanks to its circling synth details and woody drums. ‘Creating Moods’ is even more expansive and spacious, with gently swirling pads enveloping a soft, broken rubber kick drum. The title track is another expertly distilled, dry and heady groove with its frayed edges and warm analogue feel, then ‘Hello’ really flips the script with over driven Jeff Mills kicks and intergalactic synths bring a spooky sci-fi feel to proceedings. ‘Yorubaland’ is then a cosmic ambient interlude with fax tones bleeping and blipping as lazy pads smear out in the background and last of all ‘Core’ comes on strong with more quick and slick intergalactic techno carrying you off to some distant planet.
South African Jazz selected & compiled by Antal
VA – Africa Airways Three: The Afro Psych Excursion 1972-1984 [ASVN030]
The Africa Seven label might not have been around for very long, but the London-Paris dynasty has certainly established itself as a no.1 outlet for rare, unhinged world music. This is Africa Airways Volume 3: The Afro-Psych Excursion, a gorgeous compilation spanning the years 1972 to 1984, and it clearly offers some of the most magnetic tunes that they label has put out thus far. There isn’t a mediocre song in here and, as the saying goes, it’s all-killer-no-filler; take African Black’s “Nzango”, for example, a twisted, FX-heavy tribal experiment, or the more soulful highs and lows of tunes like “Zinabu” by Bunzu Soundz. Rough, dusty, completely psyched-out, and inimitable the whole way through; if you’re looking for something that’ll get the heads turning, and the diggers jealous, then this is your LP.
Suspensivos Inflamables – Nube Psico Dub LP [COS003LP]
Hailing from Buenos Aires, like a massive tentacular burst of lightning, electrifying everything and everybody along their way, Suspensivos Inflamables since 2001, have been blasting stages and danceoors across south america with unprecedented sonic and ultra sonic power. Flowing unobstructed between lavish dubs and feverish psych punk rock, this 8 member ensemble performs live submerged on a visual lysergic orgy of self designed animations and video footage projected onto themselves. In the same fashion, this LP was recorded live in studio at Odisea Records, Buenos Aires, on several memorable sessions.
A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service [88985377872]
The general consensus is that “We Got It From Here, Thank You 4 Your Service”, A Tribe Called Quest’s sixth and final album, is something of a triumph, with many critics hailing it as the best full-length of 2016. It’s certainly a fine set, full of their trademark musically rich backing tracks (enhanced, this time round, with a greater reliance on live instrumentation), conscious lyrics and distinctive, on-point vocal delivery. Given their legendary status within hip-hop, it’s unsurprising to see a string of similarly high profile guests dotted throughout, with Busta Rhymes, Andre 3000, Kayne West, Consequence, Jack White and Elton John (presumably in sampled form) all lending a hand. Even if you’re only mildly interested in hip-hop, this should be essential listening.
Vitanov – Fake Tapes N°4
DJ TLR – The Assasination of I-F – Part 1 – “Someone Has To Resist”
Steffi & Dexter – Zatlap [KLAKSON025]
The original Klakson funkateers Steffi and Dexter return to true form with three punchy techno/electro cuts. “Zatlap” on the A Side is a lush nighttime driving track with an urgent bassline powering all through the song while spaced out strings develop. The B-side’s “Kopstoot” is a pure funk workout in the Detroit tradition while “De Fles” builds a stack of airy pads on top of a playful question and answer bass riff to maximum effectiveness.
Mattia Trani – Bionic Life In A Static System [INITIAL003]
Doubled with a social network and technology addiction, life tends to be each day more and more mechanical. ‘Bionic Life In A Static System’ reflect Mattia’s feeling about this matter of fact. Human will soon tend to be machined: automatically, resuming their feeling to a simple emoticon. Mattia is giving us his vision of this near future with these 4 tracks, proposing us some atmospheric and melodic pads and robotic electro rhythms added to the finest futuristic acid lines.
Infektion – Gates Of Dawn [ARTS025]
Infektion is back on ARTS with the next level of hypnotism. The 4 cuts are crafted with surgical precision. The Art of Hypnotism at its finest.
Dannilov @ First of the Year 01.01.2017
VA – Psychic Advisor [SMALLVILLE049]
Psychic Advisor, is a worldwide affair: mysterious Makybee Diva from Down Under, Snad – hailing from Chicago, L’amour Fou on B1- the project of Move D and his friendsf rom Taipeh (Benoit and Marco), plus Arnaldo closing down the compilation on B2. You might consider this record as a clubnight from start to finish. There is everything from slow euphoria to crystaline deepness, from shake-moments to different states of a sweet dream, but it all fits as if it was bound together.
Ricardo Miranda presents The Latin Soul Brothas – Grooves, Vibes & Sessions EP [NERO035T]
Chicago’s own Ricardo Miranda is back on Neroli with his Latin Soul Brothas project. This time exploring the deeper sides of his sound with jams like ‘Moog Sessions’, ‘Dizzy Vibes’ and ‘Friday Grooves’. While ‘Otra Voz’ recalls some of his previous latin influenced tracks on Neroli.
Casionova – Subspace Transmission 2 [MW011]
Continuing where ‘Subspace Transmission 1’ left off Casionova brings another triple-tracker 12″ of synth jams and dancefloor grooves ranging from the merciless bass-driven Mecha-disco assault of ‘Droids Night Out’ to the epic, booming and deep bass box-jam ‘Magic Touch’ and with the galloping, mystical and hypnotic ‘Necromancer’s Spell’ sandwiched in between – for those who like their electro-disco raw and relentless.
The Hipodrome Of Music 