Debut EP by Slugbug, with four tracks of dark electronic hybirds made for the open minded dj and club-goer. Somewhere between the blurred lines of new wave tinged beat tracks, off-kilter electro and psycho-house this record is made to make you work and the club sweat.
The New Zealand brothers, Chaos in the CBD’s second helping on Amadeus Records, ‘No Signal Found’ is built for an intergalactic warehouse soiree.
The hotly tipped Glasgow based imprint presents a selection of live edits from The Burrell Connection, driving drum sequences with atmospheric synth lines creating a nicely balanced club record that can be enjoyed from your living room.
Smoking house jamz from Bucharest’s best kept secret. Romansoff made his introduction already with the powerful Raw Tools series. We’re happy to present his debut on Bitter Moon with this amazing four tracker.
With the sixth record, shtum continues to introduce fresh artists with different perceptions on what Techno is about. “Detitled” starts a trip to the dirty corners of your city. The track is loaded with punchy drum attacks and despite its dusty basses and synths, it doesn’t lose its slightly melancholic vibe. “Davos” runs in the same vein with Jaures squeezing floating sounds out of their machines for a wild ride through the urban jungle. On the flip side “Nascent” starts gloomy and uncompromising before it builds up slowly until Jaures’ rusty trademark synths are revealed. Finally, you’ll get a “Reprise” to highlight all their sound research elements.
A solid piece of wax with different weapons including already known ClekClekBoom producers and extended family. For this first volume, French Fries teams up with NSDOS on a hypnotic jam, bringing Chicago’s percussive legacy in a 90’s NYC ballroom. Then we got Aleqs Notal going deep with a new batch of his lunar material where tripping synths meet spaced out hi-hats. On the flip Jean Nipon provides his drummer background to display some infectious rhythms colliding with a shuffling syncopated bass, while Barbara Ford takes us through a heavy mesmerizing acid jam tunnel. Overall a deep and yet club-material experience representing perfectly what ClekClekBoom has to offer today.
An inestimably valuable and definitive collection of 1988 Belgium club classics anthems produced by Rembert De Smet including hard-to-find, unreleased and rare materials. Two black vinyl sleeved into a reversed silkscreened cardboard, including a CD version.
Levon Vincent chose to announce the release of his long-await debut album by drip-feeding information on social media. The subsequent meltdown among the online techno community may have been amusing to watch, but is testament to the Berlin-based New Yorker’s impact over the last 10 years. Typically, concrete info has remained thin on the ground aside from the fact it stretches across some four slabs of vinyl and features a homage to Levon’s cat Mona. Just before the physical copies were due for release, Vincent elected to give out the 11 track LP digitally for free so it’s highly likely you know how it sounds already. If you are a true advocate of his output you’ll want this quadruple wax edition! Next-level house and techno dedicated to the “ugly ducklings of the world”!
The art of omission is a craft New Jersey native Joey Anderson masters like few others. After releasing an acclaimed debut album in 2014, Anderson returns to the Dekmantel label serving up the signature sound we love him for. With the 1974 EP, he continues his modern day techno odyssey investigating the outskirts of the genre, while focusing on details and unexpected twists. Serving up dense melodic structures, intense chord progressions and unique but relentless drum programming and sounds, Anderson shows that the future of techno is bright, original and full of energy.
Garrett David presents his sophomore solo release on the Chicago Gramaphone label. While bouncing deep house and crystaline keys dominate the release, a slow-motion reprise collaboration with Adam Rowe closes out on B2. Tunnels from his debut release on Stripped & Chewed is also revisited for this dancefloor-aimed EP.
‘White of the Eye’ is the first release under “Nothing but Blood” from Scott Fraser, a direct link back to Scott’s earlier 90’s work and sound around the darker realms of techno and harder-edged Chicago house. The EP title refers back to a favourite Donald Cammell film of Scott’s from 88′. ‘White of the Eye’ on the A-side is an 11 minute extended mix of the lead cut. Silent Servant on remix duties delivers an amyl fuelled techno bomb landing somewhere in an 80’s new york basement. Diving deeper on B2 it features Atlanta resident Claire Elise Tippins on vocals.
Svengalisghost makes his eagerly anticipated return to wax after spending the better part of last year, crushing gigs throughout Europe with his high impact live set. On this slab we get four tracks of industrial strength machine electronics put through the filter of the Chicago native….equal parts EBM and dare we say half time techno. This EP drives and hits hard as only the energy king knows how.
Paris veteran DJ Deep joins the L.I.E.S. roster with a new three track EP paying homage to the days of old when house and techno were a fresh and exciting music revolution. This EP perfectly balances the sounds and energy of the past with renewed vibrance and resurgence of what’s happening now in Paris.
The new Macadam Mambo Dj’s project by Sacha Mambo and Guillaume des Bois is now ready to strike the world. Weirdo Italo-influenced sunshine disco for optimistic minds.
Mark E with his first offering for the ESP Institute. ‘Laurentian Abyss’ undoubtedly conjures narrative images from the depths of a man’s soul, trudging through an array of rhythmic pulse, percussion and arpeggiation that resembles the inner workings of a grandfather clock, based on a disorienting 5/4 timing yet culminating in a singular stroke. On the flip side, the title track ‘Emergency’ begins with the formula for which we know Mark E best, the ultimate tease winding us up for the big payoff, yet here we’re forced into a cyclical trance which diverts our attention so effectively that we never actually receive what we’ve been waiting for, Mark’s elusive drop.
Lets Get Lost vol. 26 … this time Jacques Renault steps up to the plate with 4 quality edits.
Michigan’s D’Marc Cantu has long been a revered house and techno craftsmen with a misty analogue sound that has spawned killer EPs and LPs. As well as also being part of 2AM/FM with JTC, the jackbeat proponent now steps out on Tom Dicicco’s Run Out Run label for the first of two upcoming EPs.
Imbued with elements of the North’s industrious past, but flecked with hints of Birmingham and Detroit techno, Reflec manages to squeeze every ounce of life out of his machinic workings, presenting them in a progressive and extended form that couples as a club journey in the truest sense.
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