Amir Alexander together with Traxx dropping four Chicago acid bombs on Anunnaki Cartel.
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Gavin Russom – The Purge / Entropy [ET0001]
Entropy Trax, is the new sister label to Kompakt’s Walls helmed Ecstatic imprint. Expect limited edition hand artworked white-label 12”s from a variety of artists, focussed on experimental dance floor sounds. The debut release comes from DFA’s Gavin Russom (The Crystal Ark/Black Meteoric Star) with a titanic double-header that announces the first of a series of releases for the label. Recording under his own name for the first time since 2011’s ‘Night Sky’, this material finds Russom creating visceral and hypnotic dance floor tracks.
Gene Hunt – Living In a Room EP [HM002]
Hardmoon London continues its new found adventure by releasing another piece of the impure sound it thrives on. This time bringing in Chicago Legend: Gene Hunt. Hunt takes a look back into the history books of Chicago with some no-nonsense gritty acid tracks that have been designed to shatter teeth and jaws alike.
D’Marc Cantu – Parisian Summer [DSR112]
Desire presents a new release, featuring 5 jacking tracks with sleazy 303’s frantic synths by D’Marc Cantu.
L/F/D/M – LHF 3 [CDR12009]
Following London producer Richard Smith’s (L/F/D/M, Bronze Teeth) debut 12 for Optimo. A 4 track EP of killer acid grooves.
Ekman – Panzer-1015 [PANZER1015]
Very dark and menacing and heavily-pounding industrial techno/electro planet rock by Ekman on Panzerkreuz.
I Vy / Solid State – Vol. I [CL001]
First release for I.vy on her own label Chinese laundry. The delicate task is entrusted to the producer, which presents herself for the first time ever with a release of her own, not surprisingly titled “Vol I”. A careful work, a well illustrated journey, where the four cardinal points are 4 originals marked by a bass line sound that seems to come from a TB 303 just dusted off by a deposit of Mr. Ikutaro Kakehashi .
Retape – Signals On The Double [030EP006]
A gorgeous 6-tracker by Norwegian techno/electro/acid artist Retape. The EP takes off where Drexciya and related projects such as The Other People People Place left it in the early 2000s. The title track takes it away and is the most technoid of all with a driving bassline and open hi-hats while long stretched melodies finish it off; this one sucks you onto the dance floor as if it were one big whirlpool. The second cut “Coir” is a serene a downtempo 4/4 track that gets you overwhelmed with an otherworldly melody sneakily coming in about midway. “EMN” then, pulls you straight underwater with its hard hitting snares, plastic bassline and acid feel. The tempo goes up with “Cars”, a delay-heavy spaced out acid track for unstable dance floors. The following track “Rotation” is a beatless excursion into the world of clinical synthesized sci-fi music. The incorrectly named “Moving Down” is the final track and a true upper: high speed melodic electro with a touch of melancholia.
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Mick Wills – Densinghour vol. 101
Daniel Andreasson – EP 9 [SKUDGEWHITE007]
Femminielli Noir – Malas Influencias EP [MINDEP001]
Femminielli Noir continue their tour-de-force with some hard hitting rhythms on Malas Influencias. Acid drenched basslines squiggle within your soul like a demented and unhinged drug binge. Heavy warehouse style reverberation adds to the madness, echoing deep and large, like metallic structures being destroyed. Seeking pain in pleasure, this is your only choice. 12” varnished 350g premium quality paper sleeve, with obi strip printed on vellum paper.
Automatic Tasty – Rites of Wrong EP [COMMUNICATION003]
Wrong Island returns with yet another big hitter, welcoming Automatic Tasty to the fold with a 7 track mini-LP. The record starts with a Cassette Boy style attack on the emptiness of daytime TV before firing into a half hour of psychedelic acid house. From the bleepy funk of A Public Service Announcement to the all-out acid assault of Cheers Curtis this record is like what we think Drexciya would have sounded like if theyd written tracks about the hills and fields of Ireland instead of underwater kingdoms, this is perfect summertime music as good for drinking cider in the Sun as it would be for the dancefloor.
C.P.I. – Tunel / Proseco [HVN021]
Marc Pinol and Hugo Capablanca join forces to channel their shared love for Psychic TV, industrial music and New Beat through 2 murky club tunes.
Doom Asylum – Stress Techno [HOT038]
Dark raw pulsating acid techno that reminds a lot of old Acid Planet releases from the mid 90’s. 6 track ep on the US label Hot Recordings. Outsider techno realized via modular synth, drum machine, stress by Andrew Peterson of legendary NC noise duo Yohimbe, existing within a similar milieu as Frak and Unicorn Hard-On.
Delta Funktionen – D-Wave Two.1 [RAMX001]
Delta Funktionen with the first release on his own imprint. Four times 808 power combined with deep Moog basses. Riding a thin line between techno and house with a touch of electro.
Frak – Upset About Lance EP [TSAR002]
Following on from DJ Stingray’s 2013 Weaponized EP (TSAR001), Swedish vererans Frak Step up for TSAR002, delivering a record of analogue black acid magic.
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JPLS – Fall Off Distance [DELFT002]
Delft 002 welcomes another new name to the fold: it’s been four long years since the last officially released original JPLS material but the wait was worth it, with the producer making his Delft debut with ‘Fall Off Distance’, an acid techno nuclear weapon that’s been causing panic when dropped on isolated testing sites thus far. Label boss LA-4A subtly reshapes the original into a more streamlined techno monument on the B1, while longtime JPLS fans will be pleased to discover the producer at his weird & sinister best with the B2, ‘Remove’.
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