In spite of 3 tracks on the original Transmissions that fell a little closer to what the heads would expect from Detrot Beatdown man Norm talley, on Transmissions, Chapter 2 he serves up two techno tracks.
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Kez YM – Stride EP Promo Mix December 2011
Tim Toh – Pandemonium [PHP058]
Ron Trent – Kids At Play [EB001LTD]
New label by Ron Trent who presents a amazing track as first release, taken from his forthcoming album. Lovely mixture of spiritual house, classic Chicago tracks and Ron’s jazzy side. Beautiful and hypnotic dance music that we could hear for hours in a row.
Linkwood – Secret Value [SHEV004]
Linkwood returns home to the Firecracker fold with a monumental EP for sister label Shevchenko. Containing three beautiful and timeless pieces of house music, the release also precedes the producer’s long awaited LP on Firecracker early in 2012.
Sailor Mood / Summed & Dot – The Brick Remixes [ALLINN0116]
New All Inn Records release, featuring a remix dream-team. “The Brick Remixes” sees two of the All Inn family, Sailor Mood and Summed & Dot, receive the remix treatment from DJ Qu and Kassen Mosse. NYC legend Qu gets to grips with “Brick Brick Brick” and builds this house from the very depths, up. Smooth atmospherics flow between rasping hats, gattling-snares and spine-tingling synth notes. Leipzig’s Kassem Mosse takes on the task of reworking “East Brick Wall” and with hi-hats taking centre stage again, turns in a beautifully deep, wintery soundscape of invitingly textured bass and considered keys.
Anton Zap – Background Series #6 [ES018]
The Social Background series on Ethereal Sound continues with another deep house 2 tracker from label boss, Anton Zap.
Serge – House Mix From Cassette (Around ’93’94)
Fudge Fingers – Mass X Remixes [FIREC008]
Two killer dub versions of ‘Mass X’ from Fudge Fingas. Vakula turns the original tropical cut into a brain-melting, dark warehouse soundtrack. Meanwhile, Juju & Jordash slow things down and get lost in a shimmering bass odyssey.
Volta Cab – Finale #7 [FINALE007]
Volta Cab present a new release on Finale Sessions, including 4 tracks. “Empire Times” is a throwback to the early nineties classic New York signature four on the floor sound with fuel injected synths and a great dance floor peak time get down groove. The other tracks differ from an 80’s disco sound to massive deep techno.
Soul System aka Nicholas – Lost Tapes I [WXC002]
Skylax Records present the 2nd release on Wax Classic, featuring 5 fantastic trax done by Nicholas’ new incarnation as Soul System. Deep and analogue synth heavy grooves.
DJ Kaos – Lovebomb EP [DISCOFIL808]
DJ Kaos’ debut on Discofil imprint, with some cool selection of tracks, ranging from slo-mo disco house to more jacking tracks with classic house grooves.
Legowelt – LWE Podcast 106
Arthur James Denton – An Odyssey [ENDLESSFLIGHT40]
The 2nd release of Arthur James Denton on Endless Flight. Title track “An Odyssey” is dark chicago house track, a2 “Loon” is funky rave house track. Legowelt remix on b side is more tech house style.
Matt Whitehead – Obsession EP [RI003]
Matt Whitehead returns with the 3rd installment on Rebel Intelligence. This time 4 tracks of finely crafted acid house in keeping with his acclaimed live sets of the past 2 years. From the Inner City inspired ‘Good Fun’ to the deep atmosphere of the title track ‘Obsession’, this EP captures a sound and feeling guaranteed to move both hearts and feet on the dancefloor.
Paul Mac & Mark Broom – Essex Acid EP [BMD005]
Paul Mac & mark Broom revisit those aciiied days to show us how it’s done with the four-tracker, ‘Essex Acid EP’ on Mark Broom’s own imprint, BeardMan. Joining their production forces for the first two tracks, Paul Mac then goes it alone for the second half of the EP. Originally recorded back in the day, ‘I Don’t Know’, ‘A Certain Era’ and ‘Knocker’ were first released on Mark Broom and Dave Hill’s seminal Pure Plastic label (PP066), while ‘Remember When’ was never previously released.
Cuthead – Brother EP [UV007]
The third artist-EP by Uncanny Valley comes from Cuthead and is nothing less than a proper power package. With ‘Vibratin’ things start off as deep as the bottom of the sea. Underneath Cuthead’s dense drums there is an intense and meditating synth line which is eventually complimented by an acid figure as if it was an evil twin. ‘Brother’ rolls in with a mighty kick drum, before a catchy sample and not less catchy piano motives prepare for a propitiating end. With ‘Transgressions’ and its bass line for the bigger floors things get down to House business once again. The remaining two tracks then give an impression of what happens, if Cuthead takes to the MPC for his liveset. In ‘Seram Lembah’ and ‘Heartless’ Cuthead combines his drumming with South East Asian disco-mantras und bittersweet Blues chants to heavy Hip-Hop-grooves.
A Drummer From Detroit – Drums #1 [FIT004]
Naturally for a producer who prefers to remain anonymous and call themselves A Drummer From Detroit and name their debut EP Drums, both tracks here veer into dextrously percussive house territory. Amidst the dizzying, jazz influenced rattle of Shake Shakir style rhythms that characterise the A Side workout our erstwhile protagonist weaves in desperate vocal strains and overtly dramatic piano and horn stabs which only serve to increase the panic inducing pace. The flipside treatment is slightly slower in its execution, yet increases the jazz funk melodic elements which make it the less a hectic and more involving production.
VA – Sound Sampler Vol. 1 [SSMPLR001]
Frank Timm aka Soundstream/Soundhack/half of Smith N Hack is one of Berlin’s most coveted producers of discohouse in the Chicago tradition. A substantial collection of four tracks. A-side there’s the swirling, filtered strings of ‘Just Around’ as Soundstream, beside the ruff-cut jack of ‘Vintage’ in his Soundhack guise. B-side he introduces a new moniker, T.S.O.S. with the smashing ‘Over And Over’ and ‘Over Beats’, plus four loops which will definitely get used and abused.
Arttu – Transfiguration [PHP057]
Lisbon-based producer Arttu Sellman release the second two-tracker for Philpot. Both the title track and flipside “Upwards” bear the aural hallmarks and raw drum machine sounds of early house and techno. While the latter is a driving fusion of drifting vocal samples, fuzzy beats and brain-melting acid bass, it still retains the analogue swing and evocative feel of the immaculate title track. While neither track could be described as revolutionary, both offer an attractive package of spellbinding grooves and intoxicating analogue riffs.
