We start presenting our favorite tracks from 2024. More or less in a chronological order we present here the seventh set of tracks.
2024 Best Tracks part 7 (of 10)
RekaB – Random Fragments EP [YRE-054]
ReKaB drops a strong four-track EP, rooted firmly in the Detroit sound with a nod to the soulful techno styles that shaped the UK underground in the 90s. This is his second EP for Cologne’s YORE Records. The production, as always, is spot on—sharp, detailed, and endlessly listenable. While the tracks carry the weight of tradition, they’re not stuck in it. There’s a fresh, forward-facing energy here that keeps things exciting.
2024 Giveaways
Just in time for Christmas we present a 2024 retrospective with “musical gifts” discovered on bandcamp. The music here is shared for free download / pay-what you want from artists and label we admire.
Continue reading “2024 Giveaways”Dr. DayVentura’s Xmas Surgery [FREE DOWNLAOD]
Dr. DayVentura with some italo & new beat edits, just in time for Xmas.
Legowelt – Dummy Mix 022
Anthony Rother – Future Kids [FREE DOWNLOAD]
‘My album follows this time an already existing other idea of Electro and will be therefore on my new Label “3MULATOR BOY”. It’s my attempt of a variant of Technobeat-Electro. The inspiration for this came after hearing DJ MELL G at the Mechatronica label night at the Human Club in Barcelona 2024.’
Die Gestalten – Du Bist [DIEGESTALTEN100]
Another edition of Die Gestalten with heavy, deep and retro futuristic electro tracks in the vein of Red Planet.
2024 Best Tracks part 6 (of 10)
We start presenting our favorite tracks from 2024. More or less in a chronological order we present here the sixth set of tracks.
Filmmaker – Great Tribulations LP
Filmmaker presents a new album named ‘Great Tribulations’, selfreleased on bandcamp.
Umwelt & Parand – Shapeshifters EP [NF31]
Umwelt and Parand join their considerable forces together for this last outing of the year on the New Flesh label. It comes on translucent green wax and opens with the collaborative ‘Time Paradox’ which fuses techno and electro rhythms into a thrilling, bumpy ride to the cosmos. ‘Spaceshifters’ is their second cut together and this one has more brutal drums and coarse, coruscated percussion. Parand goes it alone on the flipside for an acid-laced electro-techno monster and then Umwelt brings a little celestial melody to ‘Transmission From Hydra.’
Delta Funktionen @ HÖR (Berlin) 15.12.2024
The Martian – The Long Winter Of Mars EP [RP005MCM]
G-Man – Throw EP [SYNCRO57]
G-Man (aka Gez Varley, formerly of LFO) returns with a new excellent dub techno 4-track EP on Syncrophone Records.
VA – Yarrow Ballet V.A. 02
Yarrow Ballet returns with a temperamental twelve track VA compilation traversing from moody experimental electronics to dark industrial sounds, post punk and gloomy synth wave.
La Serpiente – Elaphe Dione [RN026]
Random Numbers continues its presentation of La Serpiente’s immersive output with Elaphe Dione: The first full-length album of the multifaceted producer and a matured imprint of his distinct sound. The record includes five tracks and a digital bonus exhibiting a sonorous marriage between post-industrial esotericism and club-ready psychedelia; A labyrinth of elaborate sound design coiling around sharp rhythms, adorned by fractured voices spawned in obscure worlds. With sensibility towards granular detailing amidst a powerful cascading flow, La Serpiente’s versatile sonic arrangements coalesce into music that always breathes – A drifting current of enchantment materializing as a release that is both ornamental and symbolic in its vision.
Marsman – Italorator Episode 21
Hyperstellar – Message To Nowhere [BAP218]
Like the morning sun penetrating a Winter sky, a shimmering frost flecks the brightness of “Message to Nowhere”. The four tracker showcases the sound of Ruben Benabou’s Hyperstellar nom de plume, a sound that draws inspiration from sci-fi soundtracks and the warmer currents of electro. Refracted bleeps introduce the title piece, shorn beats cutting through glowing synthlines as the EP takes flight. Tight terse drum patterns are the launchpad from which melodies sail and swoop in “Words in a Void”, bittersweet strings and warbling pads bending and shifting above juddering basslines. Fellow Frenchman, and all-round electro virtuoso, The Hacker remixes “Message to Nowhere”. Pulling the track toward the centre of the floor, scissoring snares slice through echoing notes and silken shrouds in this machine funk remake. Temperatures rise for the close. Bold key changes and snapping rhythms gather in “A Thousand Nights”, a lively late evening close to a quartet of sheer quality.
Bobby & Frankie – Pump & Relax (E.E.’s ‘Mancesco In The Lab’ Edit) [FREE DOWNLOAD]
llusive master reworker E.E. returns to Slow Motion’s ‘A UFO’ Free Edit series with his seductive blend of Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Bobby O. The rework results in a full-power marriage of ‘Relax’ and ‘Pump It Up’ reminiscent of Paradise Garage and this unmistakably shimmering era. E.E. raises the tempo and cuts the majority of the vocals, keeping the thumping bass line and classic synth riffs as a focal point throughout. Staying true to the sound of 1985 and not messing with the delicate tones, he achieves a perfect balance, re-invigorating these hits and readying them for another round of dancefloor explosion.
2024 Best Tracks part. 5 (of 10)
We start presenting our favorite tracks from 2024. More or less in a chronological order we present here the fifth set of tracks.
Charlie – Spacewoman Remixed [WE014R]
Following her iconic and genre-defying EP ‘Spacewoman’, Charlie has joined forces with Italo heavyweight David Vunk and prolific label head Franz Scala for two remixes of her singles, “Let Go” and “Spacewoman.”
The Hipodrome Of Music 