For the second release, Expansion Unit returns with another three tracker of bass-heavy electro robotics, lush techno variations and beautifully tweaked Pro One madness.
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Rutherford – Singularis [BT006]
The second release of the year for Brokntoys finds the label returning to Sweden’s Ronnie ‘Rutherford’ Johansson. ‘Singularis’ represents one of the rare occasions the Gothenburg-based artist has released outside of Luke Eargoggle’s Stilleben label, and features some proper icy electro productions as well as more abstract fare.
DMX Krew – Abstract Forms Synth Funk Vol. 2 – Dogg Fungk [SYFUNK002]
DMX Krew continues to shine on Abstract Forms new Synth Funk offshoot. Like the first EP ‘Electro Worm’, ‘Dogg Fungk’ features more old school flavours and for Volume 2 Ed gets busy with some killer synth-driven Jazz and Funk grooves.
Calimex Mental Implant Corp. – El Saber Del Arpavor [NW003]
Danny Wolfers comes again with a new project, Calimex Mental Implant Corp., on his label Nightwind Records. 13 summer cruising tracks very much in the style of Legowelts PPU release from last year. Gold plated cassette in faux plastic luxurious case.
Leonardo Martelli – Menti Singole [ATN021]
Antinote introduce Leonardo Martelli who’s Menti Singole 12″ again proves what a vital and interesting label the Paris concern has become under the tutelage of Quentin Vandewalle. Leonardo Martelli is a relative newcomer from Foligno in Italy, with just one prior cassette behind him, which appeared on Drvg Cvltvre’s New York Haunted label. There is a distinct electro flavour hovering over Martelli’s Antinote debut. Of course there is still plenty of room for the kind of leftfield meandering that Antinote has made its name on, but with a more forthright club purpose beating at its heart.
Pulse One – Illusive Reality [FP022]
State side Influenced techno from Argentinian Pulse One on Fullpanda Records. Check that 4th track if you’re into E.R.P. styled electro!
June – Renate Podcast 016
214 – Lyle At Dawn [FR031]
While the drama continues and we keep fighting the demons of our daily struggle,.. a man from another place locked himself down in a black lodge, conceiving new material to share with the world. 214 isn’t just a number, it’s music from an extradimensional place, high up the North Bend mountains. Frequencies coming from a red room, filled with electronic circuitry parallel connected to our inner soul. Lyle At Dawn is Chris Roman’s third offering for the Frustrated Funk familia. Setting the pace for more to come, as we connect to the Shipwrec multiverse for a full album release to follow shortly after this mind bending EP. You have been warned..
Scape One – Recombination [CPU00010010]
Scape One’s penchant for Sci-Fi is reflected in Recombination; an electronic adventure through space time, stopping briefly for an atomic war. Kurt Baggaley’s vast experience and collection of analogue synthesizers can be heard to full effect with crushing bass, bubbling leads and arpeggiated sweeps throughout. Strong artistic influences on the EP from John Foxx, Vangelis to Autechre (Incunabula-esque). All in all a cocktail for the perfect electro cut.
Overlast – What’s Your Planet? [RHD009OVERLAST]
Gauss – Quadratic Forms EP [GAUSS003]
Gauss Ltd presents the third release called Quadratic Forms EP, produced by Natan H & Owen Jay.
Olivia – UV Podcast 029
Mono Junk – Skudge White 010 [SKUDGEWHITE010]
Cool new material from from Kimmo Rapatti. It pitches the 303 against colourful, synth fuelled-backgrounds and rattling drum machines programmed in a manner that don’t sound tried or retrospective.
Beau Wanzer – Untitled [BW002]
The next installment from Beau Wanzer on his self-titled imprint, more electro-wave induced tracks for the freaks. Sure to get the floors shaking and everything else along with it.
Intergalactic Gary @ Viewlexx, Zahara Cocktailbar (Scheveningen) 22.03.2015
Stingray 313 @ Panama Racing Club 06.05.2015
Sync 24 & Morphology – Low Pass Gateway [CE017]
Here is the second in a series of collaboration EP’s which sees CE label head Sync 24 team up with other artists. The Low Pass Gateway EP is with the Finish duo Morphology. Written over 3 trips to London in Sync 24’s studio and finished in Finland, the guys serve up 4 tracks of dance floor aimed electro goodness.
The Pagan Rites – Every Mauser & Browning [RAT004]
Rat Life returns with The Pagan Rites on Catalog Number 4. Little is known about the band from Sweden, first Signals were received in 2010 when they submitted their track 03 to the IFM Demo Contest. In October last year Rat Life sent out a submarine to search the Swedish coast line for the small Hut where the duo records their songs (Apologies to the Swedish authorities at this point, who confused our research with a Russian military threat). All four tracks are packed with bittersweet melancholia, reflecting the neverending darkness of cold Scandinavian winter, still the midnight sun is always in sight on the horizon.
