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Inland – Wayfinder [NONPLUS032]

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Ed Davenport aka Inland steps up on Boddika’s Nonplus; and delivers the goods as always. “Overpass” is a full frontal peak time weapon that reflects his experience playing in the worlds best techno club and brilliantly executed in all its nine minute glory. The title track is more suited for the pre peak time moments; a hypnotic slow burner but still retaining some intensity. Finally “Dromolaxia” is a sturdy and slowly evolving stomper with some real sinister dub chords lurking in the background.

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Inland – Wayfinder [NONPLUS032]

Ed Davenport / Ozka – Mosaic Split Series: Part Three [MOSAICSPLIT003]

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The Mosaic split series is beginning to gather pace and is throwing together some interesting names of old and new vintage with truly compelling results. Volume three of the series draws for tracks from Ed Davenport and Ozka with the resultant tone most definitely one for fans of techno with a darker hue. echno veteran Aubrey turns in a storming techno monster of a remix of Ed Davenport’s unreleased “Islands”. Representing the new school is rising Belgian techno talent, David Nizet (aka Ozka) comes with the wonderful bass line driven dub-stab-fest “Thirteen Years”.

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Ed Davenport / Ozka – Mosaic Split Series: Part Three [MOSAICSPLIT003]

Function / Inland – Odeon / Rhyl [INF012]

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Long time colleagues David Sumner (aka Function) and Ed Davenport (aka Inland) have teamed up to relaunch Sumner’s esteemed imprint, Infrastructure. They kick things off with a collaboration under the guise Function/Inland with this new EP, Odeon/Rhyl.

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Function / Inland – Odeon / Rhyl [INF012]

Cassegrain – Painter-Palette EP [MRECLTD011]

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CASSEGRAIN - Painter Palette EP (Front Cover)

M_Rec Ltd is proud to welcome on board Cassegarin, Greek-British producer Tsiridis and Berlin/Vienna based composer and producer Evirgen. Both interested in exploring the territories where dark, raw techno meets UK-influenced sounds. On this new vinyl for M_Rec LTD, they bring two original tracks and a remix by Ed Davenport.
The A side opens with A Painter Of Modern Life, a track laying the perfectly disturbed rhythm of modern life. A sequence of hypnotic techno where the rhythms are never heavy, the sounds antiseptics. Around this base, a brilliant and affective melody emerges. A touch of class that only few can sustain. Completing the A side there’s a remix by Ed Davenport. He throws the original track into a vortex of syncopated rhythms and deep atmospheres: the groove that comes out is amazing.
 On the B side Cassegrain showcase one track. Palette is true techno, with its rhythm straight and direct. There is no stopping, even with soft sounds rising slowly from deep below. Everything transforms into a pleasant trip, exciting and alive.

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Cassegrain – Painter-Palette EP [MRECLTD011]

Ed Davenport – Counterchange [NRKCD046]

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Berlin based Brit Ed Davenport presents his debut LP on NRK Music. Counterchange has plenty of concessions to filmic home listening rather than straight up dancefloor fodder. Notably, breakbeats feature heavily up the spine of the album, as does subtle vocal sampling and plenty of atmospheric tension. Starting with the brooding drums and moody voices of “Of Light & Shade” the album unfurls through the barely restrained rave euphoria of the title track, the beautifully re-worked melodies of “New Yorkshire” and “More Red Lights” as well as touching on some sombre downbeat bleakness, bold concrete funk and under-lapping deep techno. The penultimate track, “Somewhere,” is to be the album’s forceful first single: an obvious choice for its deeply hypnotic rhythms and train-track grooves.

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Ed Davenport – Counterchange [NRKCD046]

Roberto Bosco – Good Lover EP [FALKPLATZ005]

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GOOD LOVER EP (STEFFI REMIX)

Falkplatz present the new EP from Roberto Bosco. For Falkplatz Roberto produced two tracks, that catch the ears of Housefanatics (Good Lover) as well as the hearts of the Technolunatics (Untitled). Remixes this time come from Panorama Bar resident Steffi, who gave the original a touch of Oldschool and sadness and from The Falkplatz Conspiracy (Oliver Deutschmann & Ed Davenport) who mixed a crafty acid influenced warehouse banger out of the original.

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Roberto Bosco – Good Lover EP [FALKPLATZ005]

Ed Davenport – Verdantin [FALK02]

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Cover art - Ed Davenport: Verdantin

Verdantin is an epic 13 minutes long burner. Moody synths, haunting vocals, and a sub-sonic kick drive the slowly evolving structure forward. However… b-side track Siebzehn is at least as good with its lush dubby chords and its echo-ing vocals layer over a classic house groove.

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Ed Davenport – Verdantin [FALK02]