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Achterbahn D’ Amour – Odd Movements The Remixes [ASD024]
Achterbahn D’Amour’s machinefunk opus, “Odd Movements.” gets reworked with 4 sonically diverse remixes. Detroit don Marcellus Pittman kicks things off with a massive, unsettling flip of “Holy Roman Empire.” The Italian producer Chevel is up next with a virtuosic take on the LP’s title track. His cubist, artfully restrained version ends with over a minute of icy techno snap. Convextion, as well, chooses to hold back for maximum impact, infusing the moody “Passagen” with subdued electro bounce. Finally, SW. imbuesthe duo’s “Konigstr” with dubbed-out breakbeat pressure, occasionally allowing the original acid line to seep through a skittering rave rhythm.
G-String @ Planet Delsin, Trouw (Amsterdam) 21.11.2014
Seixlack – Feitico [BLIQ011]
On a debut release for BLIQ, Seixlack unleashes his unique fusion of intoxicating gear-crunched cuts and Miltiades provides a remix.
Mark Du Mosch @ BAKK, HOOP (Rotterdam) 31.12.2014
Juanpablo – The Hideout [FRV017]
Frigio label founder Juanpablo is back, this time with a full five track mini-LP. Darkness gathers above the needle’s edge as the Colombian artist delivers the shadow strewn The Hideout. Abstraction is balanced against dancefloor clout across this quintet of underworld electronics. Rhythms curve and bend, scattering into the blackened chasms of “Chrome Light” and “Shadow’s Color,” before resurfacing into the light of “Indumorg.” The title piece burns with a slow intensity. Sinister coils of Acid drip, skies bruise and ash rains before “They Watching You” closes.
Dramatis Personae – Blasphemie [Vß004]
Design A Wave – International Journey Of Synthetic Emotion [AJ002]
Design a Wave aka Tom Hirst has been making music since the late 90s, via bedroom synth, dictaphone collages and coldwave guitar textures. Since then, he has developing his distinctive blend of experimental synth-wave. This latest EP, International Journey of Synthetic Emotion, comprises of three tracks, introduced by experimental synths and drum patterns of track I. The EP delves into electro dance territory with track II, moving towards off-kilter house on the B-side.
Bodem – Grondmonstermix
Asok / Baldo – The Guide EP [GRM006]
ASOK – aka Liverpool-based producer Stu Robinson – pops up on Good Ratio Music with two more far-sighted and fuzzy sci-fi-tinged jams. There’s a delicious shuffle to “The Fifth Book” – all bubbling Motor City electronics and foreboding chords – while “Probability Drive” joins the dots between vintage techno and sparse, otherworldly deep house. Flip for two tracks from Barcelona-based Good Ratio regular Baldo, who impresses with the fizzing analogue rhythms, chords and subtle acid of “Axel Nebulae”. His other contribution, “Seventh Dimension”, comes on like the soundtrack to a drunken late night jog through desolate, post-industrial landscapes.
Ike Release – 33ème Pulsation
HNNY – Noth-ing [LT055]
HNNY seems to save his best for Local Talk. “Noth-ing” is a single-sided salvo shot through with the sort of breezy sweetness we’ve come to expect from the Swede. The track itself fuses bubbling flutes and impassioned vocal samples with typically fluid deep house beats, a languid (but heavy) bassline and just the right amount of cosseting pads.
Takuya Matsumoto – EKR’s Galactic Dance [ROYAL025]
Takuya Matsumoto’s debut release for Clone Royal Oak. A beautiful 4 track EP with unique tracks from this talented Japanese producer.
VA – Creme Organization Valley Of Shadows x LIES EP [VOS003/LIES023.5 ]
To remain in biblical territory “The last shall come first”. Such is also the case with the 3rd in the Creme Valley of Shadows series which will come out before part 1 & 2. So yeah this 3rd installment is a collaboration with NYC’s by way of Paris L.I.E.S. Records. Six tracks by Legowelt, Randomer, Simoncino, Innershades, Ron Morelli and Wilie Burns.
X – X [RHD-X]
Bleaching Agent – Sun Spool EP [TSAR003]
Bleaching Agent returns for a spot on the TSAR label. Unique Techno experiments & straight-up floor slamming business.
Le Matin – The collective At Play EP [MATH077]
Le Matin returns with an eclectic selection of ambient and classic underground structures with a some off kilter sonic expressionism and a deep beat on Mathematics Recordings.
VA – Bitterness of Soul (FREE DOWNLOAD)
“A free compilation from the Pinkman HQ to thank you ALL for the support over the last two years. And keep an eye out on Pinkman in 2015, lot’s of good things will come!”
Will & Florian – Will & Florian [RHD018WAF]
Low lit mini album from Willie Burns & Florian Kupfer. Recorded together in Brooklyn, New York 2014.
Credit 00 – Basement Toolz Vol. 1 [RAT003]
Three is the number, Basement Toolz the titel. Once again Rat Life Records is taking Mickey on a night out to the sewer. Here are two tracks made by Credit 00 with a borrowed TR 909 drum machine. Side A is called Korg the Groove, as the title already reveals, it’s inspired by Aril Brikha’s classic Detroit Techno cut. On the Flip side you will find 909ish, one drum machine and one synthesizer, which is not much but all you need and more, plus there is extra noise on the clap to amplify your face slapping pleasure.
The Hipodrome Of Music 