The Romanian Cosmin TRG returns with this sweet maxi and a slightly new direction. The lush sounds of ‘Vertigo’ sees a tentative swelling melody saunter over brooding beats and claps, whilst ‘Sommer’ tinkers with reduced metallic techno textures.
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Hardrock Striker – The Skylax Connection Mix (2012)
KiNK – Hand Mad [RH123-12]
New single by KiNK and it’s his first solo release since early 2011 and his debut for Rush Hour. The title track is a typical KiNK work out, which is based around an infectious disco loop and is blown to summer anthem proportions by the anthemic break-down which features Rachel Row on vocals. On the flip we find ‘Express’. A sleek groove that rides around all sounds that train: horns, whistles, train tracks, you name it..
Eros – Eros 03 [EROS003]
Third and final EP from Eros, and it’s another great ep with some rare lost classics from the raw, decadent and formative birth of club music re-programmed for modern floors. Naughty, haughty edits coming with the proper late ’80s Sheffield-Chicago warehouse vibes. Rocking drum machine chops and Inner City vibers on the A-side, Hardy-esque edits and amyl-huffing happy-happy vibes on the flip.
Norm Talley – Travlin EP [LANDEDREC056]
Three tracks by Detroit’s Norm Talley for the German Landed imprint. Smooth, laid back to driving, warm House EP.
Andy Blake – Cave Paintings 4 [CP004]
Cave Paintings 4 arrives with two tracks. 4x flies into hypnotic techno territory. big drums, big bass and big synth strings creating a rollercoasters in outer space vibe. 4y brings some house/garage swing and wild pitch atmosphere into the Cave Paintings equation, introducing elements found in Andy’s recent contribution as Slazenger’s People to the Spargel Trax release into a long, tracky Cave Paintings workout.
Fudge Fingas – Amaranthine Labyrinth EP [MAZE004]
After three releases of darkened house, proto rave and weird techno, Holland’s boutique Purple Maze label takes a detour into funky disco territory with Prime Numbers and Firecracker craftsman Fudge Fingas at the helm. His Amaranthine Labyrinth EP is lively, bright and sugary, but still features plenty of complex analogue machinery to get you dancing.
George Fitzgerald – Child EP [AUS1240]
London producer George FitzGerald with a four track EP entitled Child on Aus Music. His productions combine the lush, melodic sides of house and garage with the more intense, jacking rhythms of dubstep and techno. His second EP for Aus fully explores the 4/4 end of his production spectrum to devastating effect with four tracks that are all designed with the peak time dance floor in mind.
Gerry Read – 90’s Prostitution Racket [90PROSTITUTIONRACKET]
Strong Bakey Usti vibes with that nice bouncey house beat on this Gerry Read release. Sample driven track with nice female vocals. Double sided release. Same tracks on both side, so you don’t have to worry about scratching one side…
The Rhythm Odyssey – Celestial Vibrations EP [REKIDS063]
Dean Meredith, a veteran of dance music bestows the ‘Celestial Vibrations EP’, a flawless package of original material under project alias The Rhythm Odyssey that’s all acidic analog rawness and fuzzy vintage synths. Kicking off with ‘Ride On This’, a distant cowbell is soon engulfed by a marauding acid bassline. Tough and sexy, rich in rhythm and analogue drums, it’s no doubt got that air of warehouse nostalgia. Next up, Detroit-inspired ‘I Need It’ journeys into a deeper realm of hiss and noise, ‘get on and party’ vocals and the melodic synth line, soon melting into lush chords. On the flip, more raw percussion collides with a cosmically funky edge. B1 ‘Corner Of My Mind’ combines synth stabs and soaring string chords, with a hint of bassline funk creeping in alongside shimmering shakers. Further on the trippy, cosmic tip, the stripped down grooves of ‘Raw Nerve (Dub)’ are immersed in warm, spacey FX and quirky pitch bending synths.
Hieroglyphic Being – FACT mix 333
“FACT mix 333 is a similarly giddy, similarly cliché-capsizing outing from Moss. Recorded on March 15, 2012, at the Musicbox club in Lisbon, it captures Moss across 2 hours and 45 minutes of live PA performance, vinyl DJing and editing on the fly. It’s by some distance the longest FACT mix we’ve ever hosted, but we couldn’t bring ourselves to edit it down: Moss’s exhilarating narrative, at times improvised and free-associating, at others coolly controlled, simply demands to be consumed as a whole.”
Alden Tyrell – CS Podcast 072
Claude Young @ Honey Soundsystem 29.04.2012
Capablanca & T. Keeler – Acido [GOMMA173]
Gomma records’ Berlin posse is busy. Hugo Capablanca joins forces with Swedish amigo T. Keeler. The second one for Gomma. They started with an epic Flamenco Percussion Disco track last summer – now they go deep into proto electronica.
Octo Octa – Oh Love [SILK023]
Brooklyn’s Octo Octa pushes all the right buttons on his 2nd solo EP for 100% Silk. A-side stars the Aaliyah-sampling winner ‘Deep Hurt’, economically putting an over-used sample to fresh use in a percolating House context beside the Jersey swing of ‘Oh Hurt’. Flipside, the lights are dimmed for the warm chords, choice vocal samples and woozy subs of ‘Night Out’, and ‘I Can Feel You (Dub)’ rides that heat-hazy, sticky House vibe all the way to the middle of the floor.
La Vampires By Octo Octa – Freedom 2K [SILK031]
LA Vampires aka Not Not Fun & 100% Silk matriarch Amanda Brown returns alongside Octo Octa, on a sterling clutch of sensual, elegant House trax backed with a Malvoeaux remix. She suits the dreamy vocalist role beautifully contributions to ‘His Love’, and the raving request ‘Whereever, Boy’, and works best sailing high above the sweetly off-key ‘Freedom 2K’.
H-Fusion – H-Fusion EP [FIT006]
New 12″ by Detroit’s own Howard Thomas, aka H-Fusion. Howard has previously released on Sound Signature, and this is his first 12″ for FIT Sound. The A side “Wicked Bitch Witch” features contributions from Marcellus Pittman. Twisted, psychedelic dance music that defies genres!
Isaac Johan – Isaac Johan [COMEME014]
Comeme has resurfaced sporting a new artistic look and brandishing the same devilish approach to causing dancefloor chaos. The label’s latest EP comes from Isaac Johan, described in fanciful fashion as the “first genuine ghost” to join the pan continental Comeme fold. Believe what you want but lead track “Everytime I See Your Face” does sound like there’s a spirit careening around the inner workings of some Roland drum gear. Despite his apparent spectral state, the following triplet of tracks finds Isaac Johan to be a perfect addition to the Comeme fold.
Mark Forshaw – DJ Mix B May 30
Earl Flint – People Hold On [PANDA4Z905080]
A limited chance for you to get your hands on this achingly-rare Panda Records track ‘People Hold On’. Originally released in 1984, this stylishly classy record feels like undiluted house brought to you from before house even existed! Super-tight production skills from Wuf Ticket’s James Mason pull together a goosebump-inducing bassline, deeply hypnotic synths and tantalising handclaps topped off with Earl Flint’s elegantly sexy, meltingly cool vocals to deliver a masterpiece in early 80s NYC groove. Backed with a much in-demand killer instrumental version, this record is almost impossible to find out there on the wax market.
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