G-String @ Framework, Cruquiusgilde Warehouse (Amsterdam) 09.05.2014
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Jordan – Divison Point [FS023]
Finale Sessions brings to the family a new producer from the rising cast of New York underground. Jordan is a special producer bringing a vibe like no other with his mix of house and techno attributes . ‘Night Mask’ is a nasty raw down to the ground dance track with sub like kicks and percussions and its flawless arching synth give this track its basis to move like no other. ‘Division Point’ is part deep and raw and it gives the EP its depth that it needs to transpire on different dance floors everywhere with its floating pads and it deep drums . ‘Return’ has that peek time feel to it with its techno undertones and its great drum programming which really sets this track apart from all other.
VA – Corndogs #2 [CORNDOGS002]
Strong sounds from the Sly Fox Records camp. ‘Corn Dogs’ is their compilation 12′ released for the 2013 Movement festival in Detroit.
VA – Ethos Series [OS001]
Cult label Nous with a mystery release… tracks from the NOUS catalog you might recognise re-flipped by producers you most certainly would.
Common Series – Common Series 3 [CS003]
It is claimed that Three is the perfect number. Many fields of human thought have reasoned concerning this number: Religion, Literature, Philosophy. It’s an easy number to reach but difficult to cross. Once you cross the Three everything takes other forms. It’s a pass, there are those who will perish and those who stops and observe. Some believe that their work is finished there. But there are also those who consider it the closest point to the sky and the stars and draw the strength to continue their work.
Imre Kiss – Raw Energy EP [LT006]
Lobster Theremin release the vinyl debut of yet another artist in the form of Budapest cosmic explorer Imre Kiss. The ‘Raw Energy EP’ sees Imre on schizoid form, shifting from drugged-out proto-ambient works such as ‘Stellar 0102’ and the super-slo house jams of ‘Spellbound’ and ‘Belief’, to the Hague-inspired ‘Non’ and a rip-roaring arpeggio-driven techno epic on ‘Raw Energy (ARPOS Session)’.
Mark Forshaw – Sequester EP [IIIR-III]
Mark Forshaw on Ill Rivers. Change Request – rides a glistening, arpeggiated crescendo of luminescent goodness. All eyes-wide-shut dancing under industrial backdrops. Fantastic Flake – could well be what happens after smoking one of Ron Hardy’s sherm sticks at Islington Mill. Muzik Box-inspired repetition and a concentric acid bassline mean this baby is crying out for a 2-copy, extended workout and destined to send dancers spiralling out of control into the speaker stacks. Track 3 occupies the whole of the B-side-Where Did You Go – a cavernous 303 workout which lends itself to ADHD-levels of smoke ‘n’ strobe abuse. Journeying deeper and deeper into the rave cave as the track progresses, expect a hoard of lysergic gremlins and machine-elves leading the charge.
CCO – Eliminiation By Illumination [HOTJAM003]
CCO aka Florin Büchel with 4 tracks of pure analogue oldschool deepness. Another fantastic very limited outing from the Hot Jam camp.
VA – Paris Club Music Vol.2 [CCBLP003]
Last year saw French label ClekClekBoom cement its burgeoning reputation with a compilation showcasing the local talent it had been championing since starting up in 2011, including such luminaries in wild-card bass music as French Fries and The Town. There has been a swarm of left-leaning club bangers issued out since the first volume of Paris Club Music, and so it doesn’t feel rushed to be welcoming the second volume with a stack of choice cuts from the past twelve months. There’s a strong unified vibe to ClekClekBoom, from the tight but slippery electro of Manare to the off-kilter techno of NSDOS, while 50Weapons staple Bambounou sounds right at home with his primal and utterly head-spinning “Idem”.
Die Roh & Okee Ru – Beam Boom Bum EP [MLE004]
3 craggy dancefloor cuts of disco infected technoid shuffled 808 beats and quirky samples. Lucretio (Restoration/Machines State) on remix duty has delivered a methane-fuelled remix of ”Non la Rai”, adding illicit 90s happiness to the original beats. A remix that could easily cross-refer to his hard-to-find tunes on Warm Sounds.
I-F @ Boiler Room x Expedition Festival (Rotterdam) 28.06.2014
John Heckle – Desolate Remixes [TABR027]
A new John Heckle release on the Liverpool-based Tabernacle Records. This time around it’s Heckle’s 2013 album Desolate Figures which gets remixed and first up is Greek producer Vercetti Technicolor, who supplies a vamp-heavy and empowering Italo remix of “Inhuman Nature”. Peoples Potential Unlimited artist Moon B goes tropical with a choir of synthesised vocals in his ‘re calc’ of “Power Of Two”, while Call Super proves to be this record’s wild card adding a gorgeous ‘Cyan Stain’ to the track “Love Lies”.
DJ TLR & Innershades – Hot Haus Radio Episode 4 (07.07.2014)
VA – DBA015.5 [DBA015.5]
The first of a number of various artists eps from Don’t Be Afraid. The Room Below debuts with the crisp, low-slung acid gyrations of ‘Work’, and Manuel Gonzales aka MGUN rubs out the bright, creamy Detroit lather of ‘Risqué’. Ali King also debuts with the warm, sub-heavy swing and jazz-wise palette of ‘Session 24’, and Italy’s Deep88 drops the breezy pipes and Rhodes chords of ‘Sunday Morning’.
Florian Kupfer – Florian Kupfer [LIESBLK006]
Cold summer drop on the limited black series from Florian Kupfer. Heavy jackin floor tracks, mellowed dubs, and some strange nod to a 90s rapper. Essential club gear. This one will not last.
Ratchett Traxxx – 003 [RAXXX003]
Robert Crash – Friends To Friends EP [DIN003]
Robert Crash again delivers with the kind of house music that was informed by the disco of the past. Reconstructed and re-imagined off kilter beat tracks, mixers and wacked out cuts that will turn the party out.
Gavin Russom – The Purge / Entropy [ET0001]
Entropy Trax, is the new sister label to Kompakt’s Walls helmed Ecstatic imprint. Expect limited edition hand artworked white-label 12”s from a variety of artists, focussed on experimental dance floor sounds. The debut release comes from DFA’s Gavin Russom (The Crystal Ark/Black Meteoric Star) with a titanic double-header that announces the first of a series of releases for the label. Recording under his own name for the first time since 2011’s ‘Night Sky’, this material finds Russom creating visceral and hypnotic dance floor tracks.
Black Merlin – Amazing Exotics [COTF003]
For Crimes of The Future number 3 presents the ubiquitous Black Merlin, Trevor Horn heads to Berghain at 3am Friday and stays til Monday. Completing the release Timothy J. Fairplay and Scott Fraser remix together for the first time in the Adrian Tripod mode, taking amazing exotics back deep into early 1990’s New York and kicking it out bonesbreaks style.
The Hipodrome Of Music 