Russell E.L. Butler – I’m Dropping Out Of Life [CGI016]

CGI Records is presenting the new EP from Oakland-via-Bermuda based artist Russell E.L. Butler. I’m Dropping Out Of Life are 4 cuts of essentialist dance music that can provide an ecstatic escape from the drudges of professional life for all who so rightly seek it. Nice and versatile techno-electro tracks with as stand out tracks the melodic killer tune a2 and the deep floating b2 track!. I’m Dropping Out Of Life are 4 cuts of essentialist dance music that can provide an ecstatic escape from the drudges of professional life for all who so rightly seek it according Russel E.L. Butler

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Russell E.L. Butler – I’m Dropping Out Of Life [CGI016]

L/F/D/M – Psychopaths Eating Jelly [CGI010]

Laid down with authority by L/F/D/M are four no nonsense cuts blasting fresh air into that perennially en vogue phenomenon known as acid house. Opener ”Spare Ribs, No Napkin” is meaty and greasy with abandon, as rude and distorted as it is irresistibly syncopated. ”Cutting Fingers” contrasts with a slow burn with a deep kick anchoring shifting rhythms and unsettlingly hypnotic riffs. Flip this treasure over and get pummeled by the rolling stomp of ”Heavy Clouds with its massive 808s and just-off-the-nose acid cycles. Closing things out is the bright paranoid jack of ippos In Slumber” with its muted chords adding freaky color to steady and heady 707/303 workout that charms and overpowers with an electric stink that lingers long after the needle has reached the lead-out groove.

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L/F/D/M – Psychopaths Eating Jelly [CGI010]

Grey People – Trench Foot [CGI008]

Pluralist industrial jackin utopia that is Grey People from the crunchy, dissonant piano stomp of ”Trench Foot, and the equally crunchy, driving, new wave dirge of Moonstruck, to the cosmic drift and thump of ”Lock the Box” and the funked up FM slap-bass of ”Wild Intentions.”

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Grey People – Trench Foot [CGI008]

Featureless Ghost – Sugarcoated [CGI000]

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The newly forged CGI label debuts with a 12″ release from Featureless Ghost, a Atlanta-via- Brooklyn duo hotly tipped with the online content farm after releases on the Crash Symbols and Night People labels. Describing themselves simply as ‘synths/rhythms/voices/moods’ the Featureless Ghost pairing of Matt Weiner and Elise Tippins occupy the crawl space between synth pop, wave, industrial and nascent forms of techno, which manifests itself in two intriguing original tracks in “Sugar coated” and “Cybersapien”. Kudos to CGI for the remix commissions too, with both Scott Fraser and Beau Wanzer excelling – the latter’s take on previous FG single “Flash” is a particular highlight here.

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Featureless Ghost – Sugarcoated [CGI000]