Population One – Time Will Tell EP [30DEXO001]

Population One, the legendary project of the Detroit Techno legend, Terrence Dixon, arrives at 30drop to present his new work and unveils the 30drop guest artists release series under the name of: 30drop ExoPlanets. “Time Will Tell” is a conceptual work that exceeds standards. The hypnotic and elegant minimalism of “3.26.2013@11.40pm” harmonic complexity and surrealism jazz of “11.18.2013@1:41am” and “5.26.2012@5.59pm” and the sonic and spatial reverie “12.1.2008@5.48pm” are the four tracks of the EP. Deliciously transgressor, imaginative and ambitious, the work gets into an unexplored territory to the delight of the most avant-garde dance floor.

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Population One – Time Will Tell EP [30DEXO001]

Vernon Felicity – Persuader EP [C#SOS7]

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Vernon Felicity – Persuader EP [C#SOS7]

Darko Esser – Juilce EP [ARTLESS2186]

Mojuba sub label a.r.t.less welcomes another addition to the label roster, dutch Techno boss Darko Esser. In more recent time he showcased his talents under the acclaimed Tripeo moniker, but now it’s time to unleash a powerful and very emotional EP under his original name. He turns in two tracks for his label debut that will catch your attention right away, being capable to maintain any crowd from sunny festival ravers to lost in a moment underground clubbers.

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Darko Esser – Juilce EP [ARTLESS2186]

Octave One – Burn It Down [4WCLLP2-600]

”This new album comes at a time when the pair are still evolving and searching out new forms. As live performers they are reaching an ever larger audience around the world and plenty of the energy they exude there is bottled up in this new LP. Made using a fine collection of hardware including bits by Roland, Moog, Dave Smith Instruments and much more besides, it follows 2008s Summer on Jupiter and proves that as individuals and as musicians we have grown with time and through our travels. Our music reflects that. Our work this time around has taken a lot longer to produce, but we feel it represents, more than anything else we have done to this point, our complete idea as an album project. Kicking off with the rooted kicks and sci-fi, slo mo techno of Eighth Wonder the album unfolds through elastic and triumphant diva house on Jazzo/Lose Myself [featuring Ann Saunderson], cosmic soundscaping on Afterglow and melodically enriched grooves and funky guitar licks on A Better Tomorrow (O1 Remake) [featuring Random Noise Generation]. Elsewhere there is breezy and anthemic fair with Believer, soul kissed sounds and lush pads on Whatever She Wants and then shapeshifting, industrial tinged beats and twisted techno in the later half. Things unfold on Burn It Down with a real sense of narrative, though, and despite being a techno album never do things grow to stern or serious. Instead the mood and tempo switches up knowingly, just like an Octave One live set, and really transports you to another place entirely in the process.”

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Octave One – Burn It Down [4WCLLP2-600]

Deniro – The Penal Colony [TAPE009]

Deniro strikes once more on Amsterdams fabled Tape Records with The Penal Colony. His hypnotizing sound lures in between the first waves of Detroit Techno and the finer bits of contemporary techno. He puts melody above power, depth over effect but proofs to maintain floor heat over and over again.

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Deniro – The Penal Colony [TAPE009]

Binny – Retrospective EP [SCN007]

Scenery Records turns to another Liverpudlian producer, Binny, for a brace of new tracks that come with interesting remixes from Windy City native Chicago Skyway and label cohort Circular Rhythms.

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Binny – Retrospective EP [SCN007]

J.S. Zeiter – Pulse / Submerge [M-0006]

Sixth release on the MCMLXV label featuring two tracks aimed squarely at the dance floor by James Zeiter. ‘Pulse’ is a hard-hitting peaktime dancefloor weapon, while ‘Submerge’ is an altogether more atmospheric & stripped down workout.

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J.S. Zeiter – Pulse / Submerge [M-0006]

Kartei – The Information Is Coming From The Server [FIELD016]

Dutch label Field is ready to complete its recent trilogy of album projects with ‘The Information Is Coming From The Server’, a debut album from Kartei, aka Crysta Patterson and Voiski. The duo started their cyber technopop act in 2007, performing contextual actions on more alternative scenes. Their working ethos is based on collecting data from the internet to create new material. Data and songs are preserved into their server systematically. The album they serve up here is a condensed compilation of their archive, which can be described as clean and melodic, subtly uplifting and calls on classic techno as well as plenty of futuristic ideals. Grooves are quick and slick, synths are well crafted and emotive and everything is underpinned by a motor kick that powers the album along. Tracks like the bubbly ‘Sunset’ make for moments of calmer reflection between more trip out kickers like ‘Kartei gets Fat’. New wave vocals and sombre chords, bleepy melodies and celestial pads also feature throughout this album, and all in all adds up to a terrifically journeying album of fresh electronic sounds.

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Kartei – The Information Is Coming From The Server [FIELD016]

Somewhen – Dain EP [IMF005]

The IMF label serves up its first release of 2015 and introduces a rising Berlin talent Somewhen. Lead track “Dain” is a stripped back thing of wonder, approaching levels of trippiness that put it somewhere between Dozzy and Acido, whilst “Aula” offers a rougher, more unpredictable side to Somewhen’s production palette. To end matters, Somewhen lays down a gnarled slab of acid perfect for deep in the night in the shape of “XJ”.

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Somewhen – Dain EP [IMF005]

Eduardo De La Calle – The Sequoia Symposium [NONPLUS027]

Hailing from Spain, Eduardo De La Calle has been a prolific DJ and house and techno producer since the early nineties. Eduardo is an underground legend staying true to his analogue production techniques and never following the pack.

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Eduardo De La Calle – The Sequoia Symposium [NONPLUS027]

Zadig – Kern Space Adventures Episode #2 [SYNCRO023]

The first “episode” of Zadig’s Kern Space Adventures series, released last year, offered a particularly intergalactic take on deep house, and sat somewhere between Alien-era Larry Heard, the inherent far-sightedness of Detroit techno, and the head-in-the-clouds electronics of Space Dimension Controller’s more ambient moments. There’s a similarly weightless, drifting-through-space feel about this follow up. It’s particularly noticeable on “Quiet Orbit Around Gladia 2”, a heady fusion of deep space rhythms, loopy, acid-influenced electronics and tactile chords that seem to stretch out beyond the horizon. There’s a little more bump and swing to the slightly darker “Hunted By The Cosmic Assassin”, but it still comes smothered in glassy-eyed pads and immersive electronics.

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Zadig – Kern Space Adventures Episode #2 [SYNCRO023]

VA – The 9th Argument EP [AMG009]

Argumento strikes again with the 9th Argument EP, a various artist record showcasing uncompromising techno. Echoplex represents the Detroit sentiment spiced with pounding grooves along the way. Berlin based Frieder Blume aka B.E.F. delivers a floating & sonic analogue jam, where the grainy dub chords interact with the square pattern inside the storming 909 groove. Closing track of this record is by Mechaniker Zu Befehl. Shuffling beats, minimalistic programming with capacity to deliver the unexpected behavior in todays techno.

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VA – The 9th Argument EP [AMG009]

Delano Smith – A Tale Of Two Cities [C4RMK]

Two strong remixes for Delano Smith. Efdemin and Tobias are on the case. Efdemin drops an epic building Detroit techno flavoured bomb and Tobias take is equally strong but slightly more trippy and hypnotic.

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Delano Smith – A Tale Of Two Cities [C4RMK]

Tadeo – Terra Incognito [TOKEN051]

And so the Token juggernaut continues, slaying all before it with some of the best club techno you are likely to find right now. Terra Incognita sees Spanish producer Tadeo debut on the label after a fine succession of 12″s in 2014 and at six tracks long Miguel Sar takes the chance to really explore his range. “Requiem” offers a foreboding beatless opener that is rife with tension, whilst “Deep Space” explores similar territory to the Something from the Sky series by Jeff Mills. From here Tadeo runs through various shades of dancefloor techno with the mind bending “Apollo 7” our pick!

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Tadeo – Terra Incognito [TOKEN051]