The Finnish electro duo Morphology make their debut release on Diametric. “Zircon Affair” offers refined electro with lots of depth and funk and these four tracks will please open-minded deejays and the crowds on the dancefloor worldwide, combining the futuristic sound of electro with beautiful and haunting melodies to full effect
Seattle’s 214 (TwoFourteen) is next in line for some Harbour City Sorrow ear candy. His Miami roots are clearly present in his strong booming beat programming but Puerto Rico born Chris Roman has more tricks up his sleeve as his style crosses many borders. It’s a solid electro-techno affair on this EP.
No comment is a platform focused on sharing channeled auditive and synaesthetic / multi sensory perceptions. The concept was conceived to help the energy levels rise towards the transcendence of spacetime, entering the multiverse. The message is in the music, this is your last call.
Final part of the ”Evoked Potentials” series. No need to discuss Gerard Hanson’s work any further. One of the best electro/techno acts around, period!
This is the first output from the Cosmic Fox label. Baby Red Torres draws on his love of library records, film scores and the Detriot techno, specifically Gerhard Trede/Selected Sound and Fassbinder’s ”World on a Wire” to create these raw, stripped down beats and foreboding melodies.
Reclusive Chi native & member of Africans With Mainframes drop 5 tracks on Pittsburgh’s finest. The machine funk runs wild from the jumpoff, w/raw, jacking beats produced on real hardware.
This is the one and only ever release on Welovetoemerge. Six serious electro-techno grooves to capture your soul – check the aura of moody melodies of Hyboid’s ‘Jenseitsflugmaschine’, Telebot’s electronic love ballad, ‘Robot Messiah’ and the infectious lil’ groove that is Redcone’s ‘The Head’. Top drawer stuff and Interstellar’s album of the month!
Out of the 3 songs on this release, 2 were originally released on cassette in the 80’s by Danny Bosten of Das Ding via his own Tear Apart Tapes label. The other one (LAB 80) was a collaboration he did with his brother and has remained unreleased until now. This release was pressed in conjunction with PopWave301 to celebrate Das Ding’s live set at OT301 in Amsterdam on October 21, 2010.
A full length LP by Ruins, an Italian electro-wave duo. Ruins formed in Mestre in 1978 with the intention of experimenting with electronic devices and mixed media. They mainly created music out of self-expression without any intention of joining the mainstream. Ruins it’s where Italo meets Minimal Wave.
Downwards uproot a fine clod of propulsive drone noise from one Collin Gorman Weiland. He follows in the freshly trodden footsteps of Six Six Seconds to release a brilliant debut on the Regis-curated label. A-side ‘Price Of Leather’ attains a pummeling attack velocity of industrial rhythms and sludgy, crooked kosmische spirals and the flipside ‘Despair And Confession’ zones out to gunkjack machine throbs and walls of welting distortion.
The debut LP by Innergaze is chock full of rugged hand played analog synths lines, primitive drum machines, haunting vocals, and psychic jewelry. Call it synthwave, call it punk, call it “metaphysical body music” or at this juncture whatever one sees fit, but this duo’s music goes beyond naming names for the sake of it.The title track ‘We Are Strange Loops bubbles at a slow, hazy drug induced bpm, while Illusions, with it’s distorted almost guitar-like synth lines and stripped down 808 programming, brings things right back to the dance floor. The ideas and feelings executed here are a direct outpouring of what happens when the machines are turned on, played and recorded.
Kepeslap is the project run by ImiAFan and Makina Girgir. The “Power And Darkness EP” displays their recent work made thru Interweb between Slovakia and France. This time a 5 tracks presenting synthpop tunes with an electro and darkwave touch.
Rough electro boogieness in High Definition. Running Back unearthed a treasure from the UK Eighties art funk vaults: “Nature Makes A Mistake” – written and produced by Chris Bishop. The little diamond was given the treatment by those ueber-couturiers of electrical bliss-dom: Ame (teaming-up with Marcel Dettmann in the mix). The result is maintaining the spirit of the original and teleporting it onto the dance floors of the 21st century, the age this piece of futurist art always was destined to have its true rightful place in time.
Publicist is the brainchild of Sebastian Thomson, mainly known as the drummer for post-rock stalwarts Trans Am and punk band Weird War. Mixing live drums and vocoded vox with spacey, arpeggiated dance rhythms and funk-laden bass lines, Publicist’s one man band approach appeals directly to a spectrum of 70s kraut-rockers, DJs, dancers, and party people.
