The tenth volume from Jeff Mills’ series “Something In The Sky.” Cosmic rhythms from a master of his craft.
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Skudge – Fingers / Vessel [NONPLUS021]
Nonplus imprint looks to Sweden for its next release, with one of Skudge’s rare appearances outside of their own imprint. Lead track “Fingers” is as simple as techno gets, as peak time chords filter through a strong 909 kick in a fashion reminiscent of Shed’s most effective Equalized moments. “Vessel” meanwhile is a more slow burning affair, building up its mechanistic arpeggio over swelling analogue pads and stray claps, combining classic Detroit sci-fi moods with a Berghain scale.
Xosar – Rush Hour Mix
The mysterious Xosar recorded a brand new zonked out mix to celebrate her “Nite Jam” release!
Life Recorder – No Look Back [AES015]
Purpose, Musical Integrity, Limitless Depth & Fearless Exploration are the basic principals for timeless music, and are the focus of Aesthetic Audio. Listen to “No Look Back, and it’s all there within this wonderful 4 tracker. Hailing from Marseilles, France, Aesthetic Audio proudly introduces the artist, Life Recorder.
Fit & Gunnar Wendel – Enter The Fog / Roll Out [FXHE-FNH]
Two track collaboration EP by Detroit’s Fit and Leipzig’s Gunnar Wendel aka Kassem Mosse. Recorded in Detroit at FXHE Studios.
Marco Zenker – Twenty-Three [IT015]
The 12″ starts off with Anisa, dedicated to Marco’s lady in mind and partner in wine. The eastern influences from his hood aren’t easy to ignore, and if u listen very carefully u can feel and smell the shisha dust inside the Landwehr street. In a city like Munich it’s hard to rent an extra room for a studio due the extremely high prices, so we all have bedroom studios with the advantage that we can do music whenever we feel to. However our Stressin turkish Neighbour behaves like the pain in the ass of the whole neighbourhood. But we all have a Vision and the Night gives us the support we need to create our own space and our own time within our own spirit on 180 g vinyl from now on with a vinyl only cut on every 12″.
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Paul Mac – Hotel Insomnia EP [EPM019]
Paul Mac is one of the UK’s real techno veterans, a producer with a sizeable back catalogue spanning a variety of sounds. For this EP, a taster for an album of the same name, he focuses on deep, Detroit techno, but with a twist. The title track is a driving affair, but Mac lends it a musical sound with evocative, breezy chords combined with dramatic string stabs. “Undoubted” sees him go down a more tracky route and its heads-down groove veers close to militaristic, but he keeps it on the right side thank to the clanging drums and crashing percussion. Marcel Fengler also contributes an excellent, wobbly bass-led version of “Insomnia”.
T Mack – Mill Due (The Galactic Funk DJ) [ CM001]
Slamming remastered reissue of über-rare Detroit electro gold ‘Mill-Due’ by T.Mack on tiny label Megas. Incredibly hard to come by, this underground 12” from 1985 oozes funk, soul, boogie and delicious groove with a huge slice of time-defying electro chic. With a super-squelchy analogue bassline, sexy guitar licks and killer beats, it is topped off with Detroit style space-age deep vocals which conjure images of early Juan Atkins productions – this record is a collector’s wet dream! An on-air favourite of The Electrifying Mojo, this is Motorcity electro at its very peak. Essential for fans of electro and techno alike! Do not miss out on this true holy grail of Detroit electro funk.
DJ Spider / Hakim Murphy – Audio Tagz EP [SYNAPSIS006]
Audio Tagz is inspired by graffiti street art & translated into tones as they tag your eardrums. These throw ups are their signatures, as they take you on an adventure of techno, beatdown, deep house & experimental sounds.
Robert Hood – Motor: Nighttime World 3 [MMLP038]
After the legendary “Nighttime World Volume 1” and “Nighttime World Volume 2”, Robert Hood returns with the long awaited “Motor: Nighttime World 3” on Music Man. With this, Robert Hood returns to the project he first started on Austria’s Cheap label back in 1995 and subsequently continued in 2000 on M-Plant. Fusing his trademark minimal techno into jazz inspired moods and inflections, Hood emerges from the smoke-lit shadows of a downbeat, but not beaten, Motor City metropolis. Inspired by Julien Temple’s documentary ‘Requiem For Detroit?’ Robert Hood examines the life, history and future of Detroit’s motor industry and its workforce, set against a backdrop of decay, despair, hope and re-birth.
Skudge – Haste / Wonder Stories [SKUDGE006]
Skudge present a new release on their own label, featuring two tracks “Haste” and “Wonder Stories”.
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Jason Fine – Kontra Musik Mixes [KM010]
As one of the younger breed of Detroit talents, Jason Fine is still just starting to get a foothold, despite having a good few years of releases behind him. His Kontra Musik relationship has proven to be the most fruitful, and this remix package capitalizes on that with two top shelf commissions. A Made Up Sound brings his unmistakable broken house swing to bear, with warming subs and thick swathes of pad and melody twisted to Dave Huismann’s crafty designs. Heinrich Muller brings the Drexciyan vibes in abundance with his punchy electro stance that remains peerless after all these years.
The Exaltics / Morphology – The Exaltics meets Morphology [SOM021]
Solar One Music is proud to present the second chapter of ”The Exaltics meets..” Series. After Gosub, this time the finnish Duo Morphology is in the game. Both artists deliver deep, moody electronic music with great melodies and beats. Perfect for your next trip to Mars with the ”Curiosity”.
Luke Hess – Keep On [FXHE-LH1200]
Sophomore album from Luke Hess on FXHE Records. The 12-track “Keep On” features guest spots from Detroit poet Papa Smurf and Hess’ brother Jeff, as well as mixing assistance from Omar-S.
Mathew Jonson – Panna Cotta [IIWII015]
ITISWHATITIS is back! 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the labels first release “Panna Cotta” with two new tracks. Lost in vaults until now “Panna Cotta” resurfaced of a CD Mathew made for friends in 2003. As fate would have it though it would be the first out of hundreds of CD’s only labeled “2003″ that Mathew picked from the box in his search. Here at IIWII we believe heavily in synchronicity. These tracks have found there place in time to be released.
Petar Dundov – Lily Wasp / Triton [MM162]
Petar Dundov is back with a new 2-tracker on Music Man. Deep melodic techno, from the past to the future and back again onto today’s dance floors.
