Second part of the E series. The legendary Chicago act Virgo Four with some sweet & classic deephouse tracks.
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Svengalisghost – Dimensions Festival 2014 Mix Series #12
Donnie Tempo – Switch Burnt EP [MAMSW008]
Chicago producer Donnie Tempo delivers another solid old school EP of Chicago House & Techno jamz for moreaboutmusic.
Virgo – Free Yourself (Reissue) [TX114]
Classic EP from Virgo from 1986. 4 classic tracks including ‘R U Hot Enough. Classic Chicago tracks.
Fatjack – Holy Shit [ACIDICTED_0.5]
“Holy Shit” it is what it is – deep and raw jackin acid house produced the way it has been done back in the days by our brothers from chicago. Fatjack kicks it to another level keeping the mood real and providing a message from beyond by tweakin the 303 to the limit.
Mick Wills – Death Metal Disco Club #050
Nick Anthony Simoncino – Digital Tsunami 033
Virgo – Go Wild Rythm Trax [OST485]
Mick Wills @ Prince Charles (Berlin) 02.05.2014
Mario Moretti – Digital Tsunami 032
VA – RDY #15 [RDY015]
Rodney Bakerr – The Club House Sessions [RH012]
Gene Hunt – Pandemonium [LACR005]
Gene Hunt on Delroy Edwards imprint. Chi Town don drops 2 loaded jak bombs over L.A….it’s all over
RA.415 Ron Hardy
Mark Forshaw – Tools Of The Unexpected [MATH075]
For their latest trip into the analogue unknown, Jamal Moss’s Mathematics imprint has turned to John Heckle cohort and occasional Tabernacle type Mark Forshaw. The producer duly delivers an impressively varied and superbly imagined quartet of cuts, heavy on snappy analogue percussion, stargazing synths and icy, out-there atmospherics. There’s some deep but driving underwater techno in the shape of the claustrophobic “Sessions”, a clanking exercise in drum machine love (the intense but woozy “Tolls of the Unexpected”), a deeper, slower tempo trip into melodic analogue deep house territory (“Analog Kicks”), and a acid-flecked jack-track with distinct Detroit techno overtones (“Neptanus”).
Geena – Mental Dj’s Land [ANT009]
Geena’s Second offer on Parisian Imprint Antinote. 3 introspective house tracks on A side and 3 versions of the same track on B side. This one will stay in your DJ bag for a while for sure.
Innerspace Halflife – Astral Traveling LP [SYNAPSIS010]
The album Astral Traveling by Innerspace Halflife is among us with 9 tunes straight from the universal psyche, yet articulated with the tools of human perception through waveforms. Deeper and deeper the tunes take a listener on a journey of spacey pads, longing melodies, electronic bass notes, and jacking drum programming. In terms of human understanding, the universe is infinite which makes any scenario one can think of possible. With this in mind, Astral Traveling was composed and explores the deepness of creativity as Innerspace Halflife reaches down to pull out sounds using various techniques.
D. Wilson & L. Carson – Tracks From Tapes [SS042]
Sound Signature completists will be rubbing their hands with a sense of relish at the label’s 42nd release as it sees more material drawn from the late 80s archives of Leron Carson. Back in 2001, Theo Parrish introduced Leron Carson’s work with “China Trax” which sounded like the uncovered cassette recordings of a deviant Robert Hood. Carson’s busted lo fi productions from the same era were later given a more extensive airing on the double plated Sound Signature issue Red Lightbulb Theory ’87-’88 and this third appearance on the label draws from some recordings made in collaboration with the unheralded D Wilson. All Sound Signature will offer by way of description is “This was Southside Chitown ’89. If you weren’t there you weren’t there…. lots of underground unreleased music circulated on the Southside on maxell and tonemaster tapes from Walgreens – 2 dollars for a pack of eight” For our money both “Siren” and “Other Science” can be compared to the twisted, grainy freeform acid Jamal Moss makes.
Toygun – Tales From The Crypt Demo Tape
John Heckle – Laid Away EP [SCN004]
Scenery Records serves up a full EP from Liverpool’s much loved house and techno inventor, John Heckle. Remixes come from Dekmantel duo Ksoul & Muteoscillator and MOS alumnus Perseus Traxx. Up first is the oh so lively ‘Laid Away’ which has myriad synth lines all squiggling about above jacking, rough edges house beats. Some of them squeal, some of them are smooth and serene and overall the result is a multi-layered track that fires every synapse in your body. The Perseus Traxx remix of the same track ups the acid ante, smoothes out some of the edges but retains that classic Chicago feel that defines much of his work, whilst Ksoul & Muteoscillator strip everything back to buried deep drums, gentle clattering percussion and a seriously ponderous synth line. It’s moody and desolate yet hugely inviting. ‘DDT’ is a much deeper and murkier affair. Everything comes coated in layers of dirt and dust, be it the sporadic cowbell ping, the scraping percussive smears or the frenzied synth lines. Frankly, the hi hats are so sharp edged you feel they might cut you and the blasts of white noise add yet more layers of intrigue.
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