Floorplan aka Robert Hood – Paradise [MPM16LP]

Paradise sees minimal Detroit techno icon Robert Hood exploring the Floorplan concept in more expansive style. The Floorplan project was founded in the mid 90s, as Hood looked to merge his minimalist approach with elements of house, disco, funk and gospel. Explored intermittently over a six year period, Hood put it to one side and it was a reissue of the Floorplan debut by Rush Hour that inspired him to revisit the project in 2011, scoring a bonafide gem in “We Magnify His Name”. Explored in album format here, Paradise is a mixture of all new material and tracks culled from these recent M Plant 12″ releases, lending the album a sense of continuity. It’s all the more impressive when you consider the fact Hood’s been releasing one highly conceptual album a year since 2009.

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Floorplan aka Robert Hood – Paradise [MPM16LP]

R-Zone – R-Zone 03 [RZONE003]

R-Zone is a new label launched by Global Darkness. Who is involved isn’t exactly a secret, those who feel so inclined can piece the information together quite easily. It is however irrelevant to the concept of R-Zone, which would like to shift the focus away from namedropping and perception based on hype around individual artists and bring it back where it belongs; in the lap of the music.

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R-Zone – R-Zone 03 [RZONE003]

VA – Bosconi Stallions Athena [BOSCONI025]

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For the fourth and final round of the Stallions compilation, Bosconi Records closes in style with Athena: muscular four tracks that run between Detroit and Chicago sounds, Dub and Ambient aiming at the discovery of new, unexplored horizons. The Oliverwho Factory with a rousing Mind Free, Nick Anthony Simoncino of an entrancing and picturesque Tramonto Techno, Nicholas with a soaring and disruptive From Somewhere Else and Ennio Colaci on beautifully nuanced Hinterland.

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VA – Bosconi Stallions Athena [BOSCONI025]

VA – Bosconi Stallions Teona [BOSCONI024]

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Teona will lead the third and penultimate Stallions gallop along with home Bosconi Records. Starting from Dry Scream by Alex Picone, a forest full of warm sounds and rough that only analogue instruments and a tape recording can give. Follows, always on side A, Quanto tempo ci rimane a track of the mysterious matrix Nightdrivers edited in terms of house by label boss Fabio Corcos. The vinyl rotates, thoroughbred gallop in the B side, where they find themselves in a syncopated bassline with Dirty Vibes of I.F.Ms, aka Marcello Napoletano and Fran Mela, and a broken rhythm and essential characterized by a hypnotic groove that aims at creating an atmosphere featuring in Dark Clouds, produced by young people from home Bosconi, Herva and Marco D’aquino aka Life’S Track.

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VA – Bosconi Stallions Teona [BOSCONI024]

Stellar OM Source – Elite Excel [RVNGNL019]

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“Elite Excel” is the lead track from Joy One Mile, the new album by French visual artist and musician Stellar OM Source. Furthering her sound from the formless soundscapes of her earlier work by digging into the roots of Detroit electro and techno primitivism, Christelle Gualdi’s version of dance music is unpredictable and inventive. “Elite Excel” pits a puckish synthline against a morose 303 bassline and icey arpeggiation, sharing a similar frequency with LFO’s classic output. The b-side features a top-notch remix by techno recluse producer Kassem Mosse, who also arranged and mixed Joy One Mile.

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Stellar OM Source – Elite Excel [RVNGNL019]

Andy Ash / Circular Rhythms – Dub 2 [SCN003]

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A heavy lead rhythm provides the foundation from which spiralling elements project. They coruscate, pulse with light and collapse inwards, until just the echoes of Dub2 are left. Rising from these depths, the sharpness of Distribution Theorys crisp hi-hats and snapping claps provide forward momentum to a series of stabs. The house element. Beginning as a mystery but ending as a certainty, the ethereal theme that opens Untitled Document gives way as it increases velocity, shaking and rattling under the strain. The apex. Hands reach, seeking, The elusive moment has already passed, all left is pure. Bliss. Circumflex kicks hard, a final statement of intent. Powerful. Corrosive. This is late night techno, played over a system on which the squelching acid-lines converge within the mind. The body jacks.

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Andy Ash / Circular Rhythms – Dub 2 [SCN003]

The Sun God – The Nine Billion Names Of God EP [RHYTHM007]

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Four mindbending & spiritual acid sessions by mighty mr. Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being, reconnecting the children of earth once more with the ongoing bio rhythm of Dharma, the regulatory order of the universe and the ever & omnipresent sacred spirit of jack.

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The Sun God – The Nine Billion Names Of God EP [RHYTHM007]

Violet – The Chain EP [EYED004]

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One Eyed Jacks with the 2nd EP from portuguese DJ, producer, rapper Violet The remx is by the anonymous and enigmatic portuguese producer from Cascais, Ursa’s Reef. Violet’s The Chain EP, powers through the space-time limits of your usual clubbing experience, overflowing with noospheric soul and surfing your naive raver brain while seeking to manifest itself outwards, in the form of empathy and air-fisting, ultimately revealing the great lie of separation and time-binding objective “reality”.

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Violet – The Chain EP [EYED004]

Antoni Maiovvi – Mater Proditus EP [JAMTRAXSPECIAL001]

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J.A.M. TRAXX presents a new release from Antoni Maiovvi with influences from the 80s italo disco, electro, horror disco. On remix duties we have Against Dave, ’88Redux and Drvg Cvltvre.

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Antoni Maiovvi – Mater Proditus EP [JAMTRAXSPECIAL001]

Steven Tang – Disconnect To Connect [SMALLVILLELP007]

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“Every producers dream is to one day complete and release a full length album. After a string of well received 12inch singles on my own label, Emphasis Recordings, and most recently, on labels like Aesthetic Audio, Machining Dreams, Syncrophone, and Dolly, I thought now is the time to start realizing that dream of the full length album.”

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Steven Tang – Disconnect To Connect [SMALLVILLELP007]

VA – Bosconi Stallions Neged [BOSCONI023]

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For the second installment of the Stallions saga, Bosconi Records entrusts the fate of the muscular thoroughbred Neged. The stallion is flanked by five stallions at an older age and with four tracks have a responsibility to drive the seductive ride, set synergy between Uk, bass and balearic sounds. The first maximum weight is A Guy Called Gerald, with a melodic and other times The Diehold Thu, following close behind Altered Natives that lay snares for between environments dreamy and epic of The Legend Of Neglect. The B-side turns on a wide range of positive feelings derived from spatial Testacorta melodies, written by Alex Picone and Mass Prod aka Brothers in Low, and Virata Rupa by Eduardo della Calle, who is a great travel companion for a ride reached only half of the final goal.

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VA – Bosconi Stallions Neged [BOSCONI023]