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The Units – Connections [OPCMLTDCD002]
Opilec Music bring the first ever remix album of San Francisco’s cult synthesizer-punk legends, The Units. Reworks by Alexander Robotnick, Chris Carrier, Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi, Dompteur Mooner & The Outlier ft. Pollyester, In Flagranti, Klein & Mbo, LoSoul, Nick Chacona, Sinner DC, The Love Supreme and many many more!
Fall On Your Sword – The First Time I Saw Jupiter [DFA2305]
Brooklyn band Fall On Your Sword release on DFA Records. “The First Time I Saw Jupiter” creates an atmosphere of eerie, icy desolation; sounds emit outward in what feels like the loneliness and desertion of space. “Rhoda’s Theme” feels slightly more hopeful and less lonely. The song begins with a soft, repeating keyboard line, and then opens up onto beatific synths. There are slight shifts of shape across its nine-minute duration, as it moves from moments of driven beats and rhythms to sections of gorgeous, nearly orchestral streams of sound.
Kuba Sojka – Berlin News [SLN002]
Polish producer Kuba Sojka with a smoky and nostalgic house on London label Souliner. Title track “Berlin News” utilises multiple layers of expansive pads over an ascending analogue bassline; considering how many elements are jostling for position the effect is impressively reined in. On the B-Side, “Electronic Fever”, the same kind of arrangements are used, but building up to a complex improvised piano melody. The last track “Auster Session” is a collaboration with Electribalt.
Gavin Russom – Night Sky [DFA2289]
DFA Records presents “Night Sky”, a track that grows and grown into an 13 minutes odyssey. The buzzy bottom end enters and expands before Russom’s vocals – alleyway dark and mysterious – make their way in. The song dips and dives, going from barebones synthesizers resting on organic percussion to explosive vocal choruses. The end reunites nearly every sound that made a previous appearance in an ensemble of ecstatic rhythms and noise. Mutant Beat Dance aka Beau Wanzer & Melvin Oliphant III, undo the original and transform it. There are so many new elements to be found here – a thick bassline, shuffling beat, wiry electro etchings, eerie washes of synths that swell unexpectedly and unannounced – it all makes for a collection of sounds that, thankfully, are head swimming in their unique and wonderful unpredictability.
Khidja – Poor Relatives EP [LCL07] FREE DOWNLOAD
Local Records present the first release by Romanians Rusu & Flore aka Khidja.”Poor Relatives” features 5 original house tracks full of synths and disco feeling.
Pacific Horizons – Beaches Of The Black Sea [PWF003]
Two tracks of urban psychedelia from the heart of L.A. “Beaches Of The Black Sea” is an ambitious chugger filled with flamenco guitars and synths. The B-side “Stealing The Fire From Heaven” is a more experimental cut with neo-industrial rhythms and a rolling bassline.
Tyson Ballard – Little Too Much [VR006]
New Ep from the Voyeurhythm camp. Label founder Tyson Ballard weighs in with melodic, analogue bounce on the original, laced with a husky soul vocal that climaxes in a hip shaking freestyle percussion jam. Sidwho? on remix duty and builds up a dark, steamy synth-driven dub, complete with snarling vocoder on the Late Nite mix. Ben Sun comes with a version that slowly unveils a cracked, shimmering melody over the top of his dusty drums and sub bass, as the vocal gently persists on the Dawn’s Arrival mix.
Lerosa – DJBroadcast Podcast 161
Neville Watson / Apiento – World Unknown 02 [WU002]
Two track EP with a clasy chicago house work out by Neville Watson and Apiento delivering a track that sounds like some lost Ancienne Belgique classic it pounds and pumps along.
John Daly – Bodytonic Podcast 107
Steve Summers – Confused House Vol.1
This is the free CD-R “Confused House Vol.1” that was given for free with every order of the Steve Summers – Lucid Fingers EP from the site of Echovolt Records. It includes exclusive unreleased tracks from all his aliases and collaborations. Mixed by Steve Summers.
Flemming Dalum – The Other Side Of Italo (The New Worck 394)
VA – Messages From The Void Vol. 2 [CYBERDANCE009LP]
Cyber Dance Records are proud to present their first album release ‘Messages From The Void Vol 2’, a compilation, on double-vinyl and CD, that confidently re-defines the sound of the label in more exciting and varied directions at once than ever before. Consisting of eleven tracks that range from electro to synth-pop and from Italo to disco-funk, the album features contributions from Cyber Dance regulars like Mark Du Mosch, Ali Renault and Tommy Walker 3 alongside tracks from emerging artists like Bill Ambrose, Brassica, Meschi and Serious Lover and also the more mysterious Night System and Martin Aston.
Black Devil Disco Club – Feel My Bicep 2:04
Live Thugs – Exploration EP [YO001]
Nice first release on YO! Good Music label. Modern and deeply rooted house music by Live Thugs on the “Exploration EP”.
Nhar – Innerplace / Moonhole EP [PSPV003.4]
Perspectiv welcomes French producer Nhar, with two tracks tapping into human emotions, using vocals and touching on an almost neo-romantic feel. Both tracks are backed by equally impressive remixes by John Daly. Irish producer takes the blissful originals and adds his own touch of progressive rawness.
VA – Frank Music Vol. 1 (Let’s Be Frank) [FM12001]
The first release from Frank Music, a new label from Berlin. This 4 tracks Ep includes 2 tracksfrom label owner Johannes Albert and 2 remixes / edits delivered by Iron Curtis and Edit Piafra.
Simian Mobile Disco – Bodytonic Podcast 104
Murphy Jax – Masters Of Meta Space EP [MFR034]
Murphy Jax with an Ep of 80’s synth drenched electronica. Incl. mixes from Jori Hulkkonen/Dance Disorder.
