acid house
Echo 106 Live @ Loch (Zürich) 13.04.2013
Perseus Traxx – Bunker 3099 [BUNKER3099]
Finally out of little Britain, ahum, sorry, out of little Paxton, Mr. Rogers is currently thriving on his newly acquired medication of high-quality codeine, all thanks to the benign blessings of the pharmaceutical industry: His house is definitely jackin’ it deeper and browner than ever before, almost sounding like a Ron Hardy shooting up at the end of a hard day’s night back in the days of the warehouse.
Johnny Aux – Voltage EP [MAMSW004]
Johnny Aux on More About Music Records featuring some strobe light house music with all the raw energy of early Chicago.
Perseus Traxx LIVE @ Boiler Room 26.03.2013
Omar-S @ Boiler Room (London) 05.03.2013
Elec Pt.1 live @ Bar (Rotterdam) 01.03.2013
Perseus Traxx – Live From The Living Room Corner: 716 Exclusive Mix 66
Andreas Gehm – witclub.net Podcast #46
John Heckle LIVE @ Mumu 5th Birthday (Liverpool) 02.03.2013
DJ TLR – Forever In 3rd Grade
Mantra – Many Words [SOM/CIC03]
Solar One Music is always on the search for new missions and now its time for a new series on this label called “The Crystal Issue”. Focus will be more on Acid/Chicago/Detroit/Techno/House which also big influences for the label heads of SOM. First release is from Mantra.
Michael Ferragosto – Synthdrome At The Disco [MUZIQUE011]
Marcello Napoletano presents Michael Ferragosto’s “Synthdrome at the disco” a banging four track EP starting with “Amore jacking per 77” & followed by “Risque Intentions”. On the flip, “V2021” and the title track continue with the raw Chicago influenced warehouse vibe, old drum machines & synths. Some deep acid trax.
Alis – Azimuth EP [DBA010]
The tenth release on Don’t Be Afraid is coming from Alis. Alis is the new project from Italo-Bulgarian Londoner, Sabina Plamenova. Azimuth EP showcases this producer’s fresh take on electronic music across a range of tempos. The influence of acid house on Alis’s music, and the influence of cities like Detroit and Chicago, are pronounced. In addition D’Marc Cantu remixes the EP’s most dancefloor-friendly track, Azimuth, lending it a deeper and more brooding edge.
The Exaltics / Elec Pt 1 – The Exaltics Meets Elec Pt. 1 [SOM022]
Elect Pt1 becomes the latest collaborator in The Exaltics Meets series following prior introductions to Morphology and Gosub. German speakers will be able to decipher Elect Pt1’s “Drei Chinesen Mit Dem Acidbass”, a potential retrospective nod to Bunker’s “acid planet” squat parties. A flabby kick, crushed hats and white noise sounding more like a baby robot tantrum than synthesis opens “The Party”, before unexpected doo-doo-doo vocals become the tracks centrepiece. The Exaltics opens his side of the 12″ with throbbing drums and hardedge acid in “The Midnight Connexion”, which later gives way to uplifting chords. Acid and breakneck drum loops make up “Nichts Aber Auch Nichts” which also receives some euphoric synth treatment.
Vape / Vulcano – Muscle 002 [MUSCLE002]
Vape is the new Italo-techno project of the Riviera band. Their first tracks range from the charming pop womanly appeal of “Antonello” to the pesticidal harshness of “Raid”, across the gross provincial anthem “Radioactivo”. Vulcano is the joint venture of Marco Shuttle and Perseus Traxx with the Vape manufacturers at the Brenta Studios. Their poisonous bits sprayed on this 12″ are the state of the art in pest control. These cats are really pushing things forwards here, the B-side especially is some out-there sonic manipulation. “Ugly Faders” reinforcing the feelings one might get if trapped in a malfunctioning space station. “Vulvano” continues the anti-gravity aesthetic and smudges the whole thing in a thick acid wash.
Perseus Traxx – Tales From The Night Sky Part 1 [MOS018]
After his excellent and well-received Coded Emotion EP on the MOS label in late 2011, analogue fetishist Perseus Traxx returns for another MOS outing. It finds the producer in similarly classic mode, exploring the deep down depths of house and techno in his own fuzzy and hugely atmospheric way. ‘Gorgon’ has widescreen synths, tightly coiled synth lines and jagged beats all tussling with each other, whilst ‘Poseidon’s Monster’ is about chattering claps hanging above a synth line that twists and turns, implodes and explodes at whim. It’s focused and forceful at the same time as sounding some how human. On the flip, ‘Return To Seriphos’ is another dense soundscape, but one that invites you into its core thanks to the freeform analogue lines, contrast of rough with smooth and generally classy Chicago vibes. ‘Stranger Shores’ is less troubled and more reflective with bright melodic chords glowing from the centre of the track as warbling, swollen sub undulates all around them.
Andy Vaz – Imaginary Beings [CHIWAX006]
Return of Andy Vaz who delivers some minimal jacking acid for Chiwax, four tracks of acidy goodness from the hands of the Yore Records labelboss. ”He Used To Be An Asian” track is a perfect executed track of hypnotic jacking acid.
Marquis Hawkes – Higher Forces At Work [DABJ1204]
CCO – Music For Cosmonauts [LXCD001]
CCO played a stunning and completely live & analog set at Zukunft, in Zurich. Lux Rec asked him to reenact the set and record it once again, live. The result is an electronic music suite, filled with 808 and 707 beats, 303 acid lines and spatial sounds. It was magic to see CCO at work, as no computer was used in the process every pattern specs had to be written down on paper, and machines programmed on the run. Following the vinyl EP previously released on Lux Rec, which contained revised excerpts taken from same liveset, this CD includes the entire piece.
The Hipodrome Of Music 