For Foto/s second vinyl release Liverpool-based producer and swept fringe sporter Andy Ash supplies 2 tracks of dancefloor pressure. The A-side ‘Dance’ combines deep detroit synths with driving house rhythms to devastating effect, whilst on the flip Andy gets his sample chopping gear out to cut up an 80s soul number into a grooving pitch-down banger for ‘Mason In My Basin’.
For the first smaller jubilee of the Nation Podcast we were not sure what we should do to quench the thirst of those who are in constant need of Jakbeat.
But then Traxx was getting booked to play alongside Gene Hunt and Sadar Bahar in Amsterdam for a celebration of the early blueprints of Chicago House, and to take the people attending the show on a journey through time and space, deep into the vaults of what is considered to be the greatest musical revolution of all time.
Our own excitement for this historical event, made us go down into the basement-archives to unearth a session that was thought to be forgotten. Ripped directly straight from tape, with all artefacts and soundlevel-changes intact… Lifeless Future will draw a disturbing image of the future, when Mankind is not anymore, and all there is left in the world is sound.
We hope you will enjoy this session, and give it a repeated listen…
“Always Twirling” spins into action with driving 16th note hats, compressed pads and soaring strings. 808 snare fills rattle throughout and a warm, dubby bassline provides the speaker-troubling low end. “Twirl And The Beanstalk” goes for a more heads down, bare beats and bass approach resulting in an intense, floor friendly track that grooves extra hard. Finally, we have “Whispering Twirl”, a sumptuous slice of mid-tempo deepness with a hint of boogie and a dash of soul.
Session Victim are back with yet more 21st century explorations into the thing we call house. It s been a busy 12 months for the German duo maintaining momentum by releasing some of the most inventive, warm, deep and soulful music on a host of vinyl orientated labels. “Million Dollar Feeling” comes with a remix from the Dutchman Gerd.
“To an End” is a glittering soul essence that guarantees for a perspiring spell of hopping and swaying, and ”I Wonder” bursts with funk euphoria, screaming for confetti to pelt the dance floor. This release comes with a hypnotic Tuff City Kids – remix. Tuff City Kids are Phillip Lauer of Arto Mwambe fame and Running Back’s Gerd Janson.
The legendary cosmic troubadour DJ Harvey under his alias Locussolus wi ll be shooting out another highly anticipated 12″, on the Uruguayan label International Feel this fall.
The Spatial Disco series continues with the best of the library albums, and Automation from the legendary Tele Music label. After the hype about the cult disco album Sauveur Mallia needs no introduction. Volume 2 focuses on his electronic productions from 1981 to 1984. Artwork by the Berlin based artist Remy Mouton! All tracks written by Sauveur Mallia…
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We missed out on the first volume, but we’re certainly not making the same mistake with ‘Spatial Disco 2’! It’s the second in a series of library records compiled by the Austrian Electunes label and entirely drawn from the legendary Tele Music catalogue, this time focusing on the electronic productions of Saveur Mallia between 1981 and 1984, most specifically the ‘Cosmosynthetic’, ‘Percussions Modernes’ and ‘Automation’ albums. The styles rove between early Art Of Noise or Arthur Baker alike electro on ‘Smurfissimo’ to Robotnick-esque jaunts such as ‘New Wave Sequence’ and urgently uptempo breakdancers like ‘Robot Scratch’. Our favourites have to be the Italo propulsion of ‘Macadam Locomotion’ and the atmospheric bassline arpeggios of ‘Rectangle Astral’. A must for anyone who got a kick out of the Tangerine Traume compilation or fans of Riechmann, John Carpenter etc.
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Apiento & Co follow up their 7” for Claremont 56 with a new 12” for Leng. This again has lush, mellow ibizian mood about it but could work wonders on the dancefloor late at night. The slow arpegiated groove leads us into a hooky piano with the strings and then a lovely piano solo drifts along and completes the package. Pete Herbert turns it round and aims straight for the dancefloor in true disco Herbert style.
Mike Simonetti takes an edit to three very obscure 90s house tracks. A track was modified for better club use… extended so it builds, builds and builds… The two tracks on the b-side sound like 90’s Japanese piano house and a happy house rave track flipped on 33.
Meakusma broadens its label profile with another brave and free-spirited release. [sic!] is a modern disco band with members Jules Etienne, Alessandro Tartari and producer and DJ Massimiliano Pagliara. They all share a passion for warm synth sounds, poignant melodies and groovy structures. Far beyond typical or retro-kitsch, [sic!] have composed 4 wonderful disco songs full of summer, with timelessness firmly stamped on them.
Stefano e Bene with their own definition of the Italo Disco sound. Remixes by the jackers from Snuff Crew, Hard Ton himself and Katzbatz.
Sensual, tripped out vocals from Nesreen Shah and a monstrous remix from New Yorkers Still Going, the B Side is Coyote’s remix of International Peoples Gang’s ‘Second’,…a clear nu-balearic classic!
Golf Channel’s leading light and producer / engineer extraordinaire Justin Vandervolgen strikes again! For the label’s tenth release Justin hits us with a wicked double header.
The Hipodrome Of Music 