Andreas Gehm Live @ Don’t: 15th Birthday, Bar 512 (London) 18.04.2015
acid house
Move D & Jus-Ed – Brothers EP [UQ059]
After 4 years of working in the studio Move D and DJ Jus-Ed pay tribute to the genre ACID with there first ever co-produced release. This 2X12 EP contains the long play of the hit single It’s a Struggle.
Flemming Dalum – Magic Waves Podcast #01
Jack Ingoff – The Turn Off EP! [AAACID002]
Amir Alexander Acid (AAACID) returns with his Jack Ingoff alias, a sub-alias of his Smiley Virus pseudonym to bring you an abstract acid dj tool EP. As per usual, the tracks on this label always feature odd time synth patterns against 4×4 beats creating poly-rhythmic effect that first stupefies and then invigorates the crowd as they realize that these are not the average acid tracks. Stripped raw bangers. Just 909 and a 303 pure and simple.
Adalberto – Toolbox [ACIDICTED_2.0]
Acidicted strikes back – raw deep and moody – with a full length 2x12inch album. For the 10th release Adalberto picked the finest tools out of his box to kick acidicted_2.0 on a trip new from the past to the future of electric houze. against all odds Toolbox comes along with 8 fresh oldschool flavoured trax, showing a wide range of hardware based and tb-303/tr-909 driven stuff……ride on!
Andrew Red Hand – For My Mother EP Promo Mix
Samaan – Apertures Of Adelaide EP [OE006]
One Electronica returns with a blinding 12” from Samaan, featuring knock-out remixes from The Exaltics & Phantom Planet Outlaws (feat. John Heckle & Mark Forshaw).
Jay Ka – Stay Ground EP [AII002]
The second release on the As It Is label comes with 5 deamy house/techno reminding of early nineties ‘intelligent’ techno and classic Chicago deep house.
Takeshi Kouzuki – Les Yeux Orange #038
Andreas Gehm / Elec Pt.1 – Death Metal Disco Club #070
Andreas Gehm – Second Coming EP [CUR001]
Kink – Fantasia [PETS048]
Kink’s first ever release on the Pets Recordings label. It finds the Bulgarian live specialist and techno innovator serving up a fantastic new cut and comes with a remix from raw American talent Truncate. Comes with 10 vinyl-only locked grooves.
Paranoid London – Paranoid London [PDONLP001]
The mysterious, no-holds-barred combo Paranoid London has decided to put out a double album containing much of their previously released material, alongside a smattering of previously unheard cuts (including a collaboration with Detroit legend DJ Genesis). The hard-to-find classics still sparkle – check the brilliantly sparse-but-heavy “Paris Dub 1” (with regular vocalist Paris Brightledge) and ragged “Transmission 5” (featuring a killer spoken vocal from Mutado Pintado) – while the new cuts are thankfully up to similarly high standard. Here is some more repetitive, machine bass music for DJs to play loud & dancers to freak to.
Placid – Digital Tsunami 059
Mike Dunn – I Wanna B House [MAMSW010]
Unreleased house/techno tracks recorded between 88-91 from the Chicago master Mike Dunn. ‘I Wanna B House’ comes with an edit from Johnny Aux as well as another straight up acid track ‘I’m The Houze’.
TX Connect – Trixxter EP [DABJ1213]
Gavin Guthrie returns on Dixon Avenue Basement Jams with a full record as TX Connect. There’s a strobe-friendly feel throughout this final DABJammer of 2014, as the producer joins the dots between acid house and fluorescent techno, with a few hints of early ’90s rave thrown in. This is most obvious on the title track, which expertly fuses a wobbly acid line, ricocheting drum machine hits and a nagging, early ’90s riff. “Intramountains” comes swaddled in stormy sound effects, cloaking its hissing rhythms with foreboding techno stabs and backwards samples. As for “Xanadu”, it’s a deliciously rough-and-ready chunk of late night acid jack.
Andreas Gehm – Universe / I Dont Care [LP006]
Greek label Lower Parts presents andreas Gehm aka Elec Pt1, who gets remixed by Damcase and Anopolis.
Traxx @ Nation Nite, Concrete (Paris) 03.10.2014
VA – The House That Jackmaster Hater Built [STILLMDCD012]
Jerome Derradji is gaining something of a reputation as one of Chicago’s premier house archivists, having previously released compilations celebrating some of the Windy City’s most influential – but previously overlooked – labels. Here he’s teamed up with KStarke Records boss Kevin Starke to deliver a two-track set largely made up of material found on tapes that were once traded between Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy and other legendary Chicago DJs. Confusingly much of the material credited to Jackmaster Hater is of unknown origin, while there plenty of other unearthed gems with little or no information. Thankfully, the material – largely mid-to-late ’80s jack and early acid, with a sprinkling of deep house and Italo-influenced fare – is uniformly excellent, making it a “must buy” for anyone with a passion for early house music.
Chicago Jim – Chicago Jim LP [LT008]
The Lobster Theremin label is finally ready to make the move to the full-length format. Interestingly, this first LP – a double album, no less – comes from a largely unheralded source, former Vancouver resident Chicago Jim (AKA Space Jim). Chicago Jim replicates the contents of his self-released 2012 cassette of the same name, bringing his blend of Larry Heard-inspired analogue deep house and stargazing ambience to vinyl for the first time. With nods to Heard’s recently reissued Alien LP, early Transmat and Virgo Four style acid house, it’s an analogue-only set – recorded mostly using vintage kit – that ebbs and flows with great emotional intent.
The Hipodrome Of Music 