Developer – In Pure Form [MOD016]

Modularz Label owner Developer presents his first LP „In Pure Form“. This is a real wealth of work that developer has been creating over the last year. Its a fairly large catalog of tracks focusing on raw rhythms, strong tools and powerful funk fueled techno. This is a massive selection of functional tracks direct from the Developer factory of techno.

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Developer – In Pure Form [MOD016]

Developer / Stanislav Tolkachev – Observance [INKBLOTS001]

Inkblots Records presents their first release with tracks from Developer and Stanislav Tolkachev. On Side A, Developer focuses on sight and offers Observance and Brightly Dark, in order to make you look at daily things in a different way. On Side B, Stanislav Tolkachev hits your stomach with Raw1, like a butterfly fist into darkness. Raw2 punches your ears and brings your mind to pointed frequencies and a twisted mind trip.

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Developer / Stanislav Tolkachev – Observance [INKBLOTS001]

Exium / Developer – The Payback EP [NHEOMA016]

With every release Spanish duo Exium do it’s like they grow an extra muscle, and at the moment they’re starting to look like a well conditioned iron man. This split release with fellow booming techno cohort Developer sees the duo, on their side of the EP, deliver a stripped and sinisterly grubby “Diverse Population”, while “Pulstar” sounds like a reserved and dubbed-out Sandwell District production. On the Developer-side the American provides a drivelling up-and-down arpeggio in “Promiscuous”, while there’s only two words that can really explain “Indigenous” properly: Developer techno.

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Exium / Developer – The Payback EP [NHEOMA016]

Coldgeist – Artefacts [WCR004]

Weekend Circuit starts the New Year by welcoming French born, Berlin based Coldgeist. ‘Artefacts’ marks the UK imprint’s 4th release in what is becoming an increasingly impressive first year for the label, also welcoming Modularz label head Developer – delivering 2 trademark remixes of the title track.

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Coldgeist – Artefacts [WCR004]

Subjected – Vault Remix Series 1.0 [VAULTRMX001]

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German producer Subjected’s Vault Series label has put out a series of excellent, hard-edged techno releases and now the focus turns to remixers. It’s testament to the label’s stature that it is able to get producers like Developer and Shifted involved. For his part, the mysterious UK producer delivers a bleak, jacking take on “005.7”, his razor-wire percussion marking out nightmarish riffs and insistent tonal blips. Developer’s contribution is as impressive, with waves of hissing hats providing the basis for a swelling chord progression. The release also features a rare remix from Gerd Janson; working with Philip Lauer as Tuff City Kids, he turns “005.7” into a jittery, busy house groove. Completing the package is Moerbeck’s grinding, quasi-industrial take on “005.7”.

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Subjected – Vault Remix Series 1.0 [VAULTRMX001]

Developer / Truncate – Parallel Series 4 [MOTE036]

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Mote-Evolver’s ever successful Parallel Series is now on to its fourth installment, this time with two West Coast producers – Developer and Truncate – going head to head. Pairing of the two is uncanny in many ways given their close friendship and the geographical base they share, and appears to be the perfect choice to highlight the difference between their sound and style to realize the concept of Parallel Series: contrast & compliment.

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Developer / Truncate – Parallel Series 4 [MOTE036]

Developer – Archive 4 [DEVELOPER004]

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Modularz label head Developer continues with his fourth release on his solo project Developer Archive.This release features 5 strong and very functional tracks that stay within the ranges of his more stripped downdarker approach to techno. This is a limited vinyl release that continues to shed even more light on a consistentand effective producer that has been part of the re-surfacing and growing rise of American techno.

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Developer – Archive 4 [DEVELOPER004]

Developer – Archive 3 [DEVELOPER003]

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Developer has gained quite the reputation for delivering great functional raw techno made for the the club and the warehouse and this one is no exception. Easily another huge release on his personal project Developer Archive. Four strong recordings that that cater to those that want that funky dirty element to their sets Developer definitely keeps things moving.

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Developer – Archive 3 [DEVELOPER003]

VA – Conducciones EP [MODULARZ009]

The ninth release on Modularz, featuring new recordings by Developer and new upcoming artists NX1 & Adriana Lopez. A strong functional techno release focusing on driving hypnotic rhythms and funked out harder edge dub techno.

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VA – Conducciones EP [MODULARZ009]

Developer & Stavislav Tolkachev – Part Two [MODULARZ008.2]

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The second installment in Developer’s July emissions. “Dirty Drive” sees Developer stretching to work a melody into his machinery, coming out with a metallic dub chord drowning in its own echo, while “Dirty Drive 2” adds some complexity to the musicality and creates an utterly engrossing hook in the process. Shifted’s remix keeps a careful distance between the clean beat and the murky textures of the dubby elements, but for a real lesson in refined techno composition head straight to Stanislav Tokachev’s “Building Peaks”. Simplicity doesn’t come more captivating than that synth line.

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Developer & Stavislav Tolkachev – Part Two [MODULARZ008.2]

Developer & Truncate – Part One [MODULARZ008.1]

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With his Modularz label becoming a firm bastion of unfiltered techno machinations, Developer sets about bombarding our senses with his productions and curations across two vinyl releases this month. For the first part, his own “Heated” rattles through an industrial landscape devoid of colour, instead populated by reverb decays and distant clangs of metal. The rest of the record is handed over to Truncate, whose “Diffraction” flips the script with a central melodic hook and a thoroughly austere beat. Jonas Kopp’s remix beefs up that same theme by doubling up the phrase and edging towards a peak time monster, while Markus Suckut takes things deeper and into a more house compatible realm.

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Developer & Truncate – Part One [MODULARZ008.1]