Here is Volume Five in the Vanguard Sound Crews vinyl series! This time DJ Spider, Dakini9, Amir Alexander and Hakim Murphy step up to deliver pure mental techno and acid laced jack.
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VA – VA01 [FARB011]
The Hungarian Farbwechsel’s first vinyl release has arrived, and it’s a real international effort featuring five artists from four countries on four tracks. Gazing through the Venetian blinds, it’s the label’s promising talent, Route 8 kicking it off with a vibing, 90s inspired house cut. Next up, Lumigraph and Patricia reset with a slow-churning, acid-flavoured techno. It’s the sort of track you would expect to be played on an endless loop in all coal mines 500m below ground level. On the back side, Farbwechsel’s founding father, S Olbricht gets in motion with the weirdly melodic. To close it off, it’s another label head, Basic House of Opal Tapes fame testing your stamina with the EP’s most direct, uptempo track.
Tornado Wallace – Kangaroo Ground / Ferntree Gully [BIS018]
Australia’s one-man storm of tropical funk Tornado Wallace returns to Beats In Space Records with the acid-flecked two-tracker, Kangaroo Ground / Ferntree Gully. “Kangaroo Ground” shares the buoyancy of its spirit animal namesake, but grinds in high-gear with a shredded 303 line and monstrous groove more akin to a possessed croc. The record’s flip, “Ferntree Gully,” sheds its scaly acid skin for softer sines and sirens signaling Italo productions past and built to last.
NGLY live @ Odd Fantastic, Batofar (Paris) 12.02.2015
Secret Studio – Grime Time [SCS002]
Secret Studio releases their second 12″ on SS Records, “Grime Time” with a remix by D-Wynn. SCS02 is a tough, dark, acid bassline track that rolls over slightly distorted 707 drums. A heavy kick fills the room with echo like tones coming from somewhere deep below the surface. D-Wynn’s remix brings the original to a classier place in time. Big throwback strings, original bassline work and classic House drums. For Donna Mash Up is inspired by a Secret Studio Dj set. Recreating a live mash up moment that rode Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” over the dark acid bassline and drums of Grime Time.
Obsolete Music Technology LIVE @ Panorama Bar (Berlin) 31.05.2014
Debut live performance in Berlin, Germany. Recorded on May 31, 2014. All tracks written, produced & performed by Obsolete Music Technology (a.k.a. Steven Tang).
VA – Dark Acid IV [CDR12012]
Glasgow’s Clan Destine Records present the fourth volume of the essential Dark Acid series. As you’d expect, the included material is as trippy, intense and left-of-centre as you’d expect. Canadian producer Khotin kicks things off with “Tsoi”, a deep, psychedelic acid shuffler that builds incessantly towards a breathless climax. Varg’s “Ultra Acid” takes things up further via ghetto-tech inspired beats and icy melodies, before Kid Who drops a twisted chunk of midtempo acid chug (the delightfully claustrophonic “Gap Related Injury”). Finally, Becoming Real’s Toby Ridler and Golden Teacher/General Ludd man Richard McMaster join forces for “Terminator”, as intense an acid track as you’re likely to find.
Slugbug – LIES 024.5 [LIES024.5]
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.
Chaos in the CBD – No Signal Found [AMA015]
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 Burrell Connection – Articulate [WEC003]
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.
Romansoff – Overdose Alert [BM002]
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.
Jaures – Shtum 006 [SHTUM006]
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.
VA – Various Cuts #1 [CCB12018]
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.
Ro Maron – Collected #1 [MPLD001]
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 – Levon Vincent [NS009] FREE DOWNLOAD
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”!
Joey Anderson – 1974 [DKMNTL023]
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.
Garret David – A New Room [GRAMAPHONE002]
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.
D’Marc Cantu – Little White Earbuds Mix
Nothing But Blood – White Of The Eye [COTF005]
‘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 – Russian Torrent Versions 15 [CCCP015]
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.
The Hipodrome Of Music 