Specificity EP from Tevo Howard featuring three lush tracks taken from the Tevo Howard “At All Pursuits” album.
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Simoncino – Dream EP [LIES012]
Italian producer Nick Anthony Simoncino continues his prolific production run with a new four track EP, staying on course producing classic house music. True to form, tropically tinged, melodic, deep house music that will sound perfect in the upcoming summer months.
Jack Curtu – Senza Via D’Uscita [LXRC009]
In Italy’s deepest south, where summer sun is harsh and burns you at midday, sweat is real. You can smell, taste and feel it. It’s cold sweat. From constant fear, that haunts people in the dusty streets like shadows. Some say, it’s only paranoia. But you can’t deny the kidnappings, the stick-ups and the killings. Police is doomed to watch, hands cuffed, since the power lays in the hands of others. Who are they? They are invisible. You can only see the bloodshed and the tears. And like everywhere else in the world: violence is always calling for more violence. This is the life of Jack Curtu. And his music takes you there. Three slices, each unique in style, yet united by human rage, misery and desperation. Senza via d’uscita – there’s no way out!
Entro Senestre – Flashbacks EP [EVR006]
For Greece’s Echovolt Records sixth outing Entro Senestre offers four slamming neo-underground dance tracks. This promising newcomer weaves his own thread of melodic techno, Chicago and deep house tailoring a fine sophomore release.
Tevo Howard – Catching Up [TTHR-DR015]
This Release contains outakes and demos of some of the early works of Tevo Howard. Tevo rounds up five alternate versions and unreleased tracks for ‘Catching Up’. The Chicago maestro blesses us with the never-before-heard ace ‘Meet Me Half-The Way’ beside a demo of his sublime ‘Everyday House Music (Original Demo Mix)’ and the gritty yet elegant jack of ‘Passion Sound (Inner Beauty) (original Demo Mix)’, and the exotic-minded synth cascades of ‘Cosa Sucia’.
Rio Padice – Urania EP [RAWAX008]
Having slowly plugged away at the underground scene for many years now, Rio Padice seems to be settling into his own sound now, and it’s right at home on Rawax. There’s a brittle quality to the pumping drums that Padice programmes, as if they might shatter at any given moment. Meanwhile the vibes that surround these skeletal rhythms range from the mellow keys of “Track 1” through to the red-lined acid squelch of “Track 2”. With everything lovingly fed through an aging process to give it a grainy quality, you can’t deny that the man has worked hard to make his tracks raw.
Roger 23 – Four Hallucinating House Figures [NR013]
Neurhythmics once again enters the deepest realms of house music with the help of the one and only Roger 23. Four exciting tracks ranging from deeper chi-house to more jackin’ type stuff.
Juju & Jordash – Tapud Minimix May 2012
VA – Space Jam [JAMTRAXX002]
J.A.M. Traxx is a vinyl only label inspired by synth and analog machines, spacey- hypnotic atmospheres and everything is showing a genuine passion for complex rhythm and going against. This is the second various EP and includes tracks by Punknown, Humandrone, Elec Pt.1, Alternativ 2 and Tiger Mask.
Mick Wills @ Alchemy, Vicius Club (Rome) 05.05.2012
Orgue Electronique – Strange Paradise [CRLP009]
A double album by Orgue Electronique aka Brian Chinetti on Creme Organization. What lies here before you is sculpted out of the blood and tears of 5 years of life, and all the dreams, imagination, tristesse and longing that goes along with it. A mesmerizing double album: wholly matured and further enhanced by collaborations with luminaries like Robert Owens, Alden Tyrell and cult hero Fre2k. It’s warm and generous, made up of real emotions, of moments frozen in time and of the impassioned cries of a soul on the run. To finally let it go after so many years is – for all the parties involved – a strange yet exciting moment, not unlike the birth of an elephant baby…. out of a human female.
ViLLan X feat Kold / DCantu – Disparate Implementation [SEQ003]
Killer release on New York’s Sequencias label. Powerful and hypnotic Chicago acid inspired cut on the A and a cool slow building chord driven track layered over raw drum rhythms on the b-side. A pair of artists from two different points along Interstate 94, who have a reputation for the very same. The main body laid down by VILLan X is tight metallic percussion underpinned by solid kicks and a stream of robotic filtered bass, containing unexpected shifts within the frequency register. Foreboding tones and feelings drift towards us across which the disembodied voice of Kold is able to find a platform from which to shudder into our consciousness and pose questions from across the galaxies about the nature of our very being. dcantu carries on the feelings of space, with protracted white noise shots and stabby modulated organ chords, but doesn’t leave it long before setting the pace with solid drums and shifting keyboard funk aimed squarely your body and the dance floor as octave changes force you up and then down again to a backdrop thick with texture. This provides for the body and the mind.
Violence FM – Ondulation EP [SUIT002]
The second release from the Skylax sublabel Stay Underground, It Pays is coming from Violence FM. Rhythm playing and drum-machines programmings, editing, mix and mastering, his compositions are often inspired by tribal spirits, organic deep bass and melodies, oscillating beetween smoothie and energy, or both. Deep & Drum could be summing up his mind working, but no matter because the energy and emotion are primarily convened for a result that combines demanding sensuality and wildness. The release comes with a John Heckle remix.
VA – Houseville Of Skylax #2 [LAX129]
The second Houseville of Skylax EP features 5 amazing cuts from respectively John Heckle (with 2 cuts !), Master Muzikbox aka Mzkbx, Luv Jam and Rezkar.
Tom Trago – Iris Remixes [RH114RMX]
A year after the release of Tom Trago’s ‘Iris’ album we now have versions from no less than KiNK, Linkwood AND Larry Heard.
Alex Isreal – Front Butt [CR1258]
Alex Israel, Chicago’s own overlord of deranged deep house comes to Creme with a rip-roaring four tracker in said style. Lush pads meander over swampy basslines and drum patterns that wash over you like a sweet Monsoon. Hard to imagine it was conceived in the Windy City, but we guess the allure of the unattainable is a potent one.
Ken Kojima – Obscure Business [CHIWAX004]
The Black Electro Orchestra – ElectroMusica Popular [TTHR-DR014]
New release by Tevo Howard under his The Black Electro Orchestra project, reinterpreting classic pop songs by Culture Club, Joe Jackson, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode and Madonna.
Paul du Lac – Child’s Play [CJFD012]
Three new and raw box tracks by Paul du Lac, who seems to be pushing his minimalistic jackin’ sound palette even further. We have the fierce and autistic-tantristic dirtyness of ‘Tantra Master’, the Dance Mania flavoured funk of ‘Childs Play’, and the deep strings of the bassline-driven ‘Spaces Below’, a classic Chicago-inspired piece of work that seems to come from deep within.
Max D – Orgies of The Hemp Eaters [FT013]
Future Times presents a new Max D 12″, with a remix by Terekke! Max is back from the jungles of “Polo”, and he’s shed some of the atmosphere to make two cuts in full precision mode. “Orgies Of The Hemp Eaters” swings between Sakamoto romanticism and classic bass euphoria while the drums almost snap the track apart. Terekke steps in next with his “Can’t Get Enuff Mix” and punishes with a smudged version. B-side “Slick” streamlines the flow into a taut, intricate frenzy – a meditation on melody and the pure bliss of machines.
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