Hypnotic, deep and painstakingly produced stuff that makes maximum impact with minimum components. Serene and blissful techno rollers that will take any dance floor to a the next level produced by dutchy Robin Kampschoer. His first release for the young Amsterdam based LET label/Party Crew comes with a remix from none other than Detroit’s Luke Hess.
Detroit techno veteran Terrence Dixon marks another chapter of his long standing career signing for Italian imprint Out Electronic Recordings as Population One. Terrence Dixon is going to kick off the new year with two techno, retro-feeling original tracks capturing his typical production take. ‘Temporary Insanity’ rolls out the hard-driving, stomping old school side of the artist, featuring sharp melodic sound scapes and incisive percussive elements. Fat claps and bright hats animate the mood involving listeners through a simple, incisive rhythmic power combined with a bass static arpeggio sequence and pointed bleep textures together. ‘Multiple Choice’ differs from the previous cut by featuring a spacey atmospheric, heady synth lines and patterns, taking your mind to a more mysterious, introspective dimension with enchanting pads plus a energetic kick, bass and drum intersection.
FBK aka Kevin Kennedy is a hardworking man, be it battling computers and machines when producing music or when going out there and getting job done. In either case, one things is certain – theres no messin’ around. He’s also one half of ‘The Fallen’ a duo performing live, showcasing their love for banging darker industrial/wave inspired techno. His pal James Johnson aka Plural, artist with release on legendary Metroplex label last year, provided great remix on this latest EP by Kevin under his FBK moniker for Barba Records. All three original tracks are long building, big room, grooving stompers with a lot of emotions that would fit in various sets pretty much at any time. To keep things entirely ‘D’ footed, the legend, the man of weird, beautiful, unique and reduced techno world – Terrence Dixon rounds things up with his hypnotic re-interpretation of title track.
Kaelan joins the ranks of the squad of Shaw Cuts with the EP ‘The Silent Swordsman’. Equipped by his sharp stabbing weapon and a mysterious fighting technique taught by the head chief of the Sun Moon Sect Master Wu himself, Kaelan strikes out to hunt.
A future classic of the Detroit master on the Berlin based Sushitech Records! Essential Alert, must have release.
On the day today tonight, Portillo’s teeth removed to boost pound. And Ethyl and Flori go swimming at St Lamb’s pool in Acton – happy now?
The second release on Behzad Et Amarou label, with dark, atmospheric sound, bookended by textural pads, haunting ambiance, and galloping rhythms from Cory James.
The third EP of the Exhibitionist 2 EP series is here. The recordings are taken from Jeff Mills‘ live performance in Leiden, Netherlands on 21st February 2015 and bring the EP series to a close after two first EPs which focused on the studio mix part of the follow up to his groundbreaking 2004 film Exhibitionist.
Indigo Aera presents the first solo release from Takasi Nakajima known from the duo Different World which he formed together with Claude Young.
Science Fiction continues their Interplanetary mission, this time they reached Uranus and discovered 3 quality analogue techno tracks, including a brutal remix by Xenogears aka The Analogue Cops.
Delsin present Sides Of Space, a collection of classic, lost and forgotten tracks from atmospheric techno producer D5. The tracks on this new compilation have been chosen from old CDRs by label boss Marsel and truly reflect the artist formerly known as Dimensions 5’s fine tradition of relaxing chilled out, Detroit influenced techno. This is a compelling compilation that is wholly timeless from start to finish. Though driven by a fine sense of groove, it is also great head music that is richly musical and truly serene. In all, this releases reminds us that D5 is a underrated producer of emotive electronic landscapes.
CRFSPLIT is a new series, a collaboration between CRF and a guest label with two different artists. For the first release they choose CLFT, the French label based in Lyon. On the A side Birth of Frequency with two hypnotic and abstract tunes, with a dry and claustrophobic atmosphere. CLFT choose 2030 on the B side with Life’s Lake and Fallen-in, very Detroit influenced with light pads and melodies.
The ever-enigmatic Redshape returns to his own label Present with this propulsive and decidedly unearthly release. Bleep Repeat makes for a potent first track. Here, a thumping step gives way to synth lines that sting and swell across solar systems. Things get headier, grittier, reaching a furious and frightening rush with spectral soundbites to match. A homage to UK rave sounds, this track perfectly captures the uncanny pairing of aggression and rapture at the heart of 90s bleep. Paper Blades follows, a celestial soundscape punctuated with hissing breakbeats and a sinewy bassline. Rippling acid lines beam along the astral plane, and a hallucinatory, near-liturgical melody meanders all the while. Spaced-out yet inexplicably driving, this track is elevating, enveloping definitely one for transcending.
NYC experimentalists Sheik ‘N’ Beik with another weird and wonderful record courtesy of founder Julio operating under a new guise: Rechulski. A regular at the collective’s parties – Rechulski offers up a celestial 3 track EP as his debut and in doing so offers up an insight into a left-of-centre approach to production that lends him perfectly to a record with Sheik ‘N’ Beik.
BNJMN returns to his regular label home of Delsin with a brand new mini-album of experimental cuts that continue his journey into ever more decayed, lo-fi and gritty sound sculpture. This new release features six tracks and kicks off with ‘Microgravity,’ a shadowy exercise in suspensory dub that ripples and groans, growing in menace over its static laced three minutes. Next, ‘Womb’ is a vast chamber of glory synths and rippling pads that sounds like it comes from the after life, ‘P-Tr’ is a high tension, nerve jangling brew of glassy electronics with heavy kicks buried deep below and ‘1987’, a fuzzy, darkened brew of spacious kicks, whirring machines and bubbly tape sounds that are seriously foreboding. ‘Oder’ is a more emotional work where multiple synth lines echo about and emit cautious rays of light, then finally ‘Amygdala’ is based around a frazzled, oversized and spraying bassline that is backed by radiant pads and a dystopian house groove and it rounds out another expertly outlier collection full of strange yet compelling tracks and textures.
With 28 years of nurturing local DJ talent and delivering quality music week in and week out to Glasgow’s most clued up people, the Sub Club is proud to present to you their brand new record label, Nautilus Rising. Fair to say it’s been a long time breaking the surface. For this inaugural Nautilus Rising EP, the Sub Club sticks with that tried and trusted Subbie approach. NR001 presents 4 new tracks from 4 Scottish producers. Timeless techno with soul, funk and energy.
DeepLabs is a Detroit based record label run by Luke Hess. The focus for the label is to release Detroit influenced techno for the dancefloor and to build a strong community of likeminded artists.
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