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Aurora Halal – Passageway [MD001]
Passageway is the debut solo EP by Aurora Halal, producer, video artist and creator of Brooklyn’s Mutual Dreaming party series. Four shadowy and intimate dance landscapes of shifting subterranean textures, backed with a hallucinatory remix by Detroit Techno legend Terrence Dixon. Minimal, metallic and pulsing with hazy sensuality, these tracks offer an exciting first glimpse into a unique emotional world.
Crystal Maze Live @ Prologue Label Night, Planet Rose (Nijmegen) 26.10.2013
TX Connect – Real TX Jaxx EP [MUMS002]
Juanpablo – Lost Series (Part 2) [FRV013]
Lost Series (Part 2) is the continuation of the series started by Juanpablo last year and as in part one, the music grows out of the darkest recesses of the natural world. These series are dedicated to creatures that are disappearing from this planet because of human colonization of their territory. Four tracks have been skillfully constructed by the Colombian artist, each one leading the listener deeper into the mindset of the Frigio boss.
VA – Sunken Guidance EP [APPIAN005]
Leonid, Joey Anderson, DJ Spider and Natan H contributing with beautiful and deep techno tracks on Appian Sounds.
VA – Detroit Beatdown Vol 2 The Final EP [3EEP201403]
Third Ear’s Detroit Beatdown series was instrumental in redefining the perception of Detroit electronic music abroad. Now we come to the final Detroit Beatdown release. Four Detroit artists giving us as good an ep as any of the releases in the series. The tracks by Mike Clark and Rick Wade rank amongst their best, for sure. DJ-T1000, a Detroit producer and DJ known for some of the city’s hardest Techno, surprises with a stripped-back groove that is pure electronic Funk. Wrapping up the ep is Scott Ferguson’s A Groove, a heavy skanking groove with that classic Beatdown rawness.
Legowelt – Crystal Cult 2080 [CRCD010]
New album by the irrepressible Dutchman… The ‘2080’ part of the album title is taken from the Roland JV2080, a legendary digital synthesizer from the nineties that was used a lot in the making of the album. Bought second-hand in Tokyo for a couple of hundred dollars, it lends the record a very dewy eyed soul, whilst the ‘Crystal’ part of the title stands for the self-made ‘DIY germanium crystal compressor’ Legowelt used throughout the writing process. The album itself features ten new tracks of pure Legowelt music mainly recorded in De Hague in the past year, but also on the road during tours of LA, the Californian desert, Tokyo (which spawned ‘Crystal Cult 2080’) and Tejada Gran Canaria (where ‘The Future of Myself’ was written.) Where his last album The Paranormal Soul was an organic trip into misty forests, this one seems more concerned with medieval spirits; it’s deeper, darker and the whole thing is tied together by a more coherent sense of ancient alchemy. Given the use of a DIY germanium crystal compressor during production, it’s no wonder everything feels warm, fuzzy and mystic in a way that draws your attention in like that fabled philosopher’s stone… glare too long and you might just turn to stone. Right from the opening track the mood is so encapsulating you are drawn right into Danny Wolfers’ mysterious electronic world. From there various different tempos are explored and plenty of famed synthesiser work comes to the fore, wrapping grooves in trippy themes, impish spirits and plenty of organic lushness.
BLM – Easy Knocking [SAS009]
Achterbahn D’amour – Odd Movements [ATLP003]
The debut full-length by Achterbahn D’amour (Johannes “Iron Curtis” Paluka and Jurgen “Jool” Albert), captures two artists coaxing the most emotional sounds to date out of classic Roland boxes. The album is the natural extension of the duo’s live-rooted sound, further defining the oblique dance moves contained on their three Acid Test EPs. They demonstrate a true reverence for the 303 and 606. On “Odd Movements”, lush pads and abrupt toms create a literal pedestal for the bassline machine. The duo have hit on a sound well-suited for dark rooms and towering sound systems.
Villa Abo – A Ruff Swing Below [RHYTHM008]
Bio Rhythm seems to be spiraling deeper & deeper into the rabbit hole… Six brand new tracks by Villa Abo (a Frak side project) and his first release since the 1997 Borft releases. Fix yourself the full-length audio package and get lost on the other side through these six little Scandinavian fairy tales full of desolate techno mysticizm, pressed on 2×12” for maximum dj delight.
Myriadd – Time Will Tell [CR1267]
Myriadd is Craig Stainton, a producer that has also released as Acid Phreex and Mantra on labels such as Pinkman, Signals and Creme Organization, to where he returns now with a new four track EP that explores plenty of mystic house and techno territory. Kicking off the release is Time Will Tell, which is a nicely frayed, rough round the edges bit of house music with a deep and lashing bassline as well as some rich and rounded melodic hooks. Forever Yours kicks that bit harder and more insistently but bares the same sense of misty melodic lushness. Various lines fly about like spirits in the night and bring a haunting sense of melancholy to proceedings before B1 Gold Section hiccups and stutters pleasingly. Like everything here, its a fairly rich, dense track that layers everything on top of each other with little break for breath. Final track At One is backed with the sort of serene pads that have you day dreaming about the future as jacked up beats kick below and all manner of synths whip around in the foreground. House music never sounded as magical as when in the hands of the talented Myriadd.
VA – The Early Sounds Collective Vol.II [EAS004]
Placid – Six Axle Podcast 041
VA – The Power Of Hydrogen EP [SUBV001]
The Power of Hydrogen EP collects three of Subspec’s finest Acid tracks as the label’s debut vinyl release, including a Hardfloor remix.
Terrence Parker – Life On The Back 9 [PLE65361-1]
Classy Detroit house tracks drenched in funk. Soulful tracks ranging from downtempo to more classic Detroit house tracks and disco injected cuts. ”This album is about moving forward through hard times in life to see something beautiful on the other side of difficulties.” quote Terrence Parker.
Juju & Jordash – Waldorf Salad / Third Planet From Altair [DKMNTL016]
Aner and Czamanski helped shape the Dekmantel label to what it is today an ever expanding fortress of futuristic house and techno – by releasing two acclaimed albums and various singles on the Amsterdam based imprint. Now the duo prepared two of their out-flooded tracks in the form of their double a-side single ‘Waldorf Salad/Third Planet From Altair’.
Chez Damier – Classic EP [SG004/MOJUBAGOD003]
Second official repress from the ever so beloved Serious Grooves label in Detroit. Its time for the Classic EP.
VA – Ten Years Of Phonica LP [PHONICALP001]
Phonica announce the arrival of their celebratory compilation marking ten years of the shop. A triple LP pack, where some of their favourite artists produced a track for an eclectic yet cohesive compilation, which will hopefully go some way towards sonically unfolding the ‘Ten Years of Phonica’. The triple LP features tracks from: I:Cube, Trevor Jackson, Raudive, Discodromo, Joe Claussell, John Morales, Henrik Schwarz, Massimiliano Pagliara, Iori remixed by Steve Moore, Juju & Jordash, Legowelt & In Flagranti.
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