Spanish Chaval records with their 5th release show casing the talents of a group of spanish techno producers. A sharp energetic selection of tracks by Groof, Tadeo, Architectural, Retrovision, De Felipe, Ausdrucke. The future for the iberican techno looks bright!
As a first taster of the upcoming Nighttime World 3 album by Robert Hood, Music Man presents Torque One (taken from the album) and an exclusive & vinyl-only track to this 12”, called Movement. As a first taster of the album we now present to you ‘Torque One’ (taken from the album) and an exclusive & vinyl-only track to this 12”, called ‘Movement’. With this release, mister Hood delivers 2 timeless pieces of electronic music inspired by a jazzy, dreamy ‘Nighttime World’. Quality.
Effective dub inspired house/techno tracks by this Analogue Solutions offspring by Eduardo De La Calle.
Strong Detroit inspired tracks on Rawax. This one digging in the rich history of Detroit techno for its influences resulting in a cool 3 track ep of some timeless techno tracks on clear vinyl 10”.
Two tracks on Huckaby’s own label SYNTH that complete his “Baseline” series (the first being last years Baseline 87′ on Sushitech, which quickly sold out). Two jackin Detroit house tracks that will also quickly sell out as usual!
Frustrared Funk presents a new release by Boris Bunnik aka Conforce as Versalife, featuring 6 deep electro detroit infected tracks.
Theo Parrish’s second visit to Running Back is all new material – almost. Black Mist in its extended version is just that: an extended take of the already released version on the rare-as-hens’-teeth Sketches pack. Previously unreleased and no less persuasive are Pop Off and Wild Out. While the first one centers around an endless piano and sucks you into the magic of repetition, the second one sounds like a Theo Parrish demo for Dance Mania after he came back from listening to Lil Louis at the Bismark Pavilion.
Massive new three tracker by Kenny Dixon JR – featuring the much looked out for ‘I got werk’ .
Tone Control return with house music vocal legend, Robert Owens for a steppin’, bass led mantra for the dance floor. Tone Control bring in soulful house star, Sean McCabe on Moog, Rhodes and Organ to complete ”Starting With Me”. Working the analogue delays, ”Stuck On Loop” is a dark and serious dubbed out excursion. Glaswegian producer, James Johnston has been making big waves for vinyl loving, deep house heads recently (recent Juno #2, regular top 5) – he turns in a heavy chorded, bumpin’ dub remix
Skylax Records, the company focused on realeasing original obscure dance classic and everything’s that sounds fine to their ears. For this new release serie, they bring one of the most influential & mysterious producer from Detroit since the late glorious 80’s, an amazing singer, keyboard player & producer. This guy is Niko Marks.
Norwegian Sex Tags Mania offspring-label wANIA presents a very special, off-schedule and limited Wania-US-edition. A-side with a disco-house jab from the usually spaced out Trance Yo Lie. B-side giving full-side-space to dj Sotofett’s NYC Dub Mix – an unreleased house remix of Madteo’s ”We Do…”!
The prolific run of Ben Sims and his Theory imprint shows no sign of stopping, this time it’s a tough but DJ friendly 3 tracker featuring remixes from 2 of Holland’s finest. Orlando Voorn, a bonafide Techno legend, graces the E.P with a firing and typically quirky, funked up, analogue drenched reworking. While ‘Ritzi Lee’ returns with another no nonsense, raw as fuck, balls to the wall monster.
Back and cooking up more funk and flavor with his second album for Rekids, Mr G proves he’s still the king of rhythm with ‘State Of Flux’. Packing more history than most of the top current producers put together, Mr G has been fine-tuning his breed of music for two decades. Described by the man himself as “it’s all about a bassline”, his music takes the formula of a ballad and the movement of reggae.
The Box series returns on Theory with 3 peak time tough edged tracks. “Bite This” sees Ben Sims drop an anthemic analogue fuelled jacker. “Reverse Processed” from Holland’s Ritzi Lee is an uncompromising old school Techno banger and “Dry Run” by Paul Mac is a drum heavy DJ tool with a crowd pleasing vocal sample
More business from the man like Sanys, on his fledging Downfall Theory label. Like previous releases the mastering and cut on these records is truly electrifying, and sure to send currents of energy through most underground rave dungeons. “Forward Thinking” has rattling percussion against a sonic bed of luminescent strings, twangy acid bleeps and an intermittent piercing lead. “Front Row” is more heads down. The phasing percussion jars rigidly in between the grooves while some filters get to work on the pads. A head-mangling track which should get people pulling out the strangest of shapes, if they manage to keep vertical that is.
The Secret Initiative return with the latest chapter in the series. Going for a classic Detroit and Chicago Techno House vibe. ”East of the Northern Star” blends dark dub-ish chords , deep melodies over classic 909 Wild Pitch styled drum rhythms. On the flip side ”Half A Life Ago” is a proper classic Detroit drum driven fueled affair layered with a lower the low deep hertz baseline , melancholic strings.
This first release for the Artful Division imprint takes in two original cut from Rick Wade and remixes
from label bosses Jon Brooks & Cecil and fellow Leicester housers and City Fly residents, Höhle. Rick Wade drop some heavyweight deep vibes in the form of Cooler Heads.
The Hipodrome Of Music 