Raw & gritty peak-time analogue techno cuts by ROD’s new hardware project Rod20.
Russell E.L. Butler – Call Me G LP [T4T014]
T4T LUV NRG presents “Call Me G”, the new album by Brooklyn’s Russell E.L. Butler. In the intervening years, Russell has experienced an accumulation of personal subjective experiences which are explored through captivating musical modalities and expressions on this sprawling, gorgeous, and deeply emotional album. Russell’s work on “Call Me G” can be described as a unique amalgam of early NY house music, dub techno and poetry. The album’s title track, as well as its instrumentals, are a kind of storytelling for histories that continue to exist without observation as well as for secrets and the power they hold in spite of their truth being obscured and sometimes lost.
Aleqs Notal – Big Tal’s Elements [LVL002]
One Level presents Aleqs Notal’s upcoming EP ‘Big Tal’s Elements’ – four carefully curated house joints by the Paris-based DJ and producer. The release encapsulates a wealth of influences combined to create a modern and innovative soundtrack. Producer, DJ, and founding member of the innovative ClekClekBoom collective Aleqs Notal has continued to cultivate a sound that’s rooted in the sonics of Detroit and Chicago. Here he gives a taste of his upcoming EP ‘Big Tal’s Elements’ with ‘Untwisted Delight’, a homage to the timeless sound of the Motor City. A bass-driven DJ tool, pulsating with the resonance of the 808, evoking echoes of Pittman, and igniting a powerful dancefloor energy.
Miles Spilsbury – Light Manoeuvres [ND012]
Debut album from UK jazz saxophonist and composer Miles Spilsbury, featuring Carlos Niño. ‘Light Manoeuvres’ is about warmth, generosity and openness. The music which would become Light Manoeuvres was sketched in fragments, but began to take shape in earnest during a period of living under the Marseille haze in the South of France. The specific character and opacity of the light in Marseille inspired the album title which imagines the movement of light passing over different subjects and spaces in intricate motion. Sand blows over from the Sahara on the Sirocco wind and is whipped up by the Mistral, the Marseille sky becomes golden and vapoured, then intermittently pastel blue. That image stuck while shaping this body of work, and became integral to the function of the compositions – which act as jumping off points for the players and myself, vehicles for improvisation and gateways to something else entirely.
Mary Greer Mudiku & Oneness of Juju – Black Love Alive Again [STRUT251D]
Strut presents a reissue of Mary Greer Mudiku & Oneness of Juju’s album “Black Love Alive Again”, first released on Back Fire Records.
Marsman @ Corpo, Bloemerbar (Nijmegen) 27.10.2023
Cyber @ DT CAMP 2023
Jerome Hill – Crude Appraisal EP [SRTX040]
Jerome Hill returns with his 5th full EP on the label to warm you up for winter and it’s maybe stylistically, his widest offering yet. A joyous mash of influences collide and Hill spits them out of the blender with some typically unexpected curveballs. From the strikingly moody break beat acid of The Warning, to the 8 minute long extended Disco workout of ‘Harlseden Shuffle’. Then on the flip side, a reliably gnarly wedge of Technoey Acid House in ‘Combustion Zone’ and the EP culminates with a tip of the hat to mid nineties House with the rumbling bass and catchy percussion of ‘House Thing’.
Strange Haze – Temple of Truth [OUT002]
Outside In returns with some new-school, acid inspired sounds made for the club by Strange Haze.
OMBRA Festival 2023
The annual unusual sounds gathering in Barcelona is here again. The 2023 edition of the OMBRA Festival is a special one, celebrating the 5th anniversary. The festival is returning it’s former industrial aesthetics, after one year of transition from the former space Utopia 126, the industrial area in El Poublenou.
This year the festival will happen in a new and captivating venue that perfectly embodies OMBRA’s essence of industrial aesthetics, the former Mercedes-Benz factory, ENMASA.
Chino LIVE @ DT CAMP 2023
Alessandro Adriani LIVE @ DT CAMP 2023
Alpha Sect – Dance Mécanique [VV014]
Dance Mécanique EP: Unleashing the Pulse of the Mechanized Symphony. Embark on a sonic journey through the labyrinthine landscapes of machinery with Alpha Sect’s upcoming EP, “Dance Mécanique.” This vinyl release, destined to echo through the underground, serves as a pulsating manifesto against the encroaching takeover of our world by cold, relentless machines. In Meredith, Alpha Sect crafts a sonic portrait of a world on the verge of mechanization. His haunting voice, draped in delay and reverb effects, weaves seamlessly with the beats of EBM and the cold melodies of Post-Punk. This sonic tapestry creates a hypnotic soundscape that mirrors the evolving relationship between man and machine. Dance Mécanique, the titular track, unravels the dance of humanity entrapped in the mechanized rhythm of everyday life. Here, the gritty beats of EBM and ethereal echoes of Coldwave serve as a mirror reflecting how, at times, we move mechanically, lost in the repetitive motions of a world dominated by cold efficiency.
Mike Tansella Jr. @ DT CAMP 2023
Timothy J. Fairplay @ DT CAMP 2023
Böhm – Scientific Relevance EP [EUDEMONIA016]
Dreamy and old-school ravey moments that resonate perfectly with each other on this versatile EP by Böhm. Böhm is no stranger to the electronic music scene as he has made quite a splash with his latest releases on Dolly, Partout, M>O>S and Undersound Recordings and this outing on Eudemonia acts as an ideal successor.
Times New Roman vs Ernestas Sadau @ DT CAMP 2023
Franck Kartell – Acoustic Warfare LP [N2MU009]
Six years following his previous LP, Franck Kartell returns to the music scene with an exceptionally personal album released under the label Noise To Meet You. On this occasion, the French artist pays homage to one of his lifelong obsessions — underwater detection and the acoustics of war. Eight exclusive tracks that immerse listeners in the raw undulations of rough waves, the echoes of sonar sounds, and weighty atmospheres combined melodic elements that define Franck Kartell’s unique sound.
Rude 66 – Conditioning Consciousness LP [BAP169]
For more than thirty years, Ruud Lekx has been corrupting hearts and minds with his unmistakable brand of synthesizer music. Under his Rude 66 mask, this titan of electronics returns to Bordello A Parigi with twelve darkened tracks for ‘Conditioning Consciousness’. Tempos glide low in the opening incantations. From the breathy murmurings of “Magick Angels’ Invocations”, the listener is brought into Rude’s world. Shauna Lekx’s signature vocoder lyrics and blackened subject matter are central tenets, as are hauntingly delicate melodies. “The Riddler In Me” is a deep psychological journey through cable and circuit, an unsettling monologue accompanied by liquid analogue lines. BPMs are allowed to rise for the shimmering warmth of “In Exile” and in the reverb soaked “The Chariot”. But these are the outliers. Across the collection, percussion drives without ever being a central force. Instead, the focus is the bewitching and brooding compositions. Take the drugged low slung groove of “The Talisman of Algol” or the loose modulations of “Le Sagittaire”, here the listener is brought into the heart of the machines and the musician. The curtain close, “The Five Swords Of Venus In Aquarius” gathers a spread of influences, bringing them together into one piece. Synth. Soundtrack. Strings. All culminate in this superb climax, a climax to an album that broaches the boundaries between terrifying and terrific.
Filmmaker / Petros Spatharos – DDS08 [DDS08]
Dalmata Daniel welcomes Filmmaker and Petros Spatharos for the eighth part of their split series. This obscure 3-3 track vinyl is the debut of the Columbian music maker on the label. However, for the Athens-based producer it’s a return after his participation on “Dalmata Daniel eats Lahmacun” compilation. But this project isn’t their first collaboration, because Petros released his first album on Body Musick, Filmmaker’s own imprint.
The Hipodrome Of Music 