Next up to join the MOS Deep cannon is Stephen Lopkin, who serves up four new cuts on his The Haggis Trap EP. Lopkin is still something of an emerging talent having only started releasing in the last couple of years. The Glasgow based producer operates in the worlds of house and techno with a unique futuristic perspective. Combining elements of all the techno greats from Juan Atkins to Derrick May, this is an EP that surely announces the arrival proper of a very real new talent.
Hermopolis Magna is the first born of Amsterdam based Knekelhuis. Under the moniker Pagan Sector, two mysterious grandmasters (Danny Wolfers aka Legowelt and Cliff Lothar)of electronic music collaborated, resulting in this depraved love child.
Antoni Maiovvi joins the Crimes Of The Future family in a perfect match of Italo horror running out of the disco, leaving behind the gentle thud of dark techno in a dark Roman Alleyway. Junior Fairplay’s inaguaral remix takes us out of the darkness to a happy ending in sunnier climbs on a beach somehere in Portofino.
Roughneck psycho-house from R.B. on his first outing for Dog in the Night. Three moody ultra saturated wild-ass tracks made for the adventurous club dj. Jack is in the eye of the beholder, can you dig it?
Forbidden Planet goes from strength to strength with this 4 tracker by Dan White. Excellent house and techno workouts on a deeper tip.
Unstoppable youngster Innershades comes with a new limited four tracker on the Pinkman imprint. The Belgium based talent shows hes definitely not a one trick pony and continues to explore his sound even further. This time by releasing two phat old school electro inspired bangers, and two synthesizer (nu)disco tracks which already proved to be fully effective on the floor.
It’s only taken International Feel three years to get round to giving the brilliant “Adventure Party” a proper release. It first came out on white label in 2011 in stupidly limited amounts, and promptly sold out within hours. It’s arguably the best thing the label has released to date – a thrillingly over-the-top fusion of restless pianos, classic samples and riotous acid house that never fails to slay a dancefloor. Parada 88’s “You’re Gonna Miss Me” – a similarly Balearic chunk of house revivalism – is, if anything, even more rare (supposedly only 30 copies were ever pressed). It is, then, nice to see it included, particularly as it’s another stone cold killer. Added together, these two tracks made one killer release.
VernoN switches to Romansoff’s Raw Tools imprint. As you might expect, the Bud XXL EP is jam-packed with intense machine rhythms, body-shaking electronics and twisted acid lines. As a result, each of the three original tracks tiptoes that fine line between jacking analogue house and raw techno. There’s a vintage Chicago feel to “It Ain’t You”, while “Keep On Dancing” layers a flurry of cowbells atop a jaunty bassline and delay-laden machine grooves. The real killer, though, is “Bud XXL”, a spiraling, in-your-face concoction that sounds like a signifier of a coming apocalypse. Glaswegian-in-Bristol Marco Bernadi reworks “It Ain’t You”, turning it into a freaky chunk of alien funk complete with mutant Detroit synths and chugging drum machine rhythms.
Fred P immerses himself further into his techno alter ego, bringing more depth and insight to the saga, using sound to transcend time and space.
LAHJ on the Crow Castle Cuts label. The four tracks here more than match the calibre of previous CCC output, with title track “Miller SC” a wonderfully dark yet playful groover with some blinding organ stabs. “Womb” finds LAHJ dip into acid fried techno that feels like it was recorded straight to tape, whilst “The Tinley Effect” strips things back to a more minimal thrust that allows more of the analogue feel to seep through. This leaves “Gears & Greas” to close proceedings in a jerky, rhythmically unpredictable fashion that would appeal to the Pudel crowd.
As fantastic as anonymous Marvin & Guy deliver another amazing Marvin Gaye sample Italo edit.
Reissue of 1990 NYC house record. Ben Cenac aka Dream 2 Science with a master piece African influenced house LP. This sounds somewhere in between NYC band No Smoke (Koro Koro) and the Dream 2 Science’s signature sound.
Randomer aka Rohan Walder on the Russian Torrent Versions. Of the three productions, lead cut “Side Crack Lung” is the one the more adventurous selectors will gravitate towards, with a complement of vocal samples and degraded synth lines getting racketed around the channels by a tunnelling gutter techno rhythm. “Fun In The Sun” is pure screwface techno whilst the delicate sounding “Odd” ends matters on a suitably strange note.
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