A new chapter in the Something In The Sky Series from Jeff Mills.
minimal techno
Matador – Kingswing EP [MINUS116]
Matador aka Gavin Lynch is a new Dublin artist on Minus. All bleeping soft focus melody lines and cantering kicks, it’s a slowly building bomb. Elsewhere there is shimmying, suggestive minimal coated in warm tape hiss on ‘Mambo’ and brooding, heavily-weighted backroom sounds speckled with rasping, rising synth lines and glistening percussion on ‘Hitbox.’ ‘Nomans Land’ is a bouncy, with wispy hi-hat ringlets and a buried-in-the-mix, undecipherable vocal running through it. The little details around the edges are what bring the groove alive. Coming from a different angle altogether is Korrado’: its melancholic notes hang above firm, pulsing kicks and bittersweet overtones.
Jeff Mills – Star Chronicles: Orion [TW010]
New series of work by Jeff Mills based on stars and constellations. For this release Mills sets his sights on Orion. Superb sounds from a master with a vision.
Robert Hood – XLR8R Podcast 218
Jeff Mills – Fantastic Voyage [AXCD044]
New double CD inspired by the motion picture “Fantastic Voyage” (1966) and artist Osamu Tezuka. The soundtrack was initially made for the cinemix event at Cite de la Musique in Paris in May 2011. Composed and produced by Jeff Mills.
Staffan Linzatti – Assembler [SIGHTS001]
Staffan Linzatti presents 4 tight minimal techno tracks, with pitched percussion, contrasting time signatures and heady cold atmospheres. This is the first release on Searchlight Records.
Damon Wild & Echoplex – Niteworks VI [SW099D]
Planetary Assault Systems – Deep Heet Vol. 2 [MOTE022]
Luke Slater’s Mote Evolver drops the gears with the second installment of Planetary Assault Systems’ “Deep Heet” Series. Comprising three state-of-the-art expeditions into deep space techno, “Deep Heet Vol. 2” takes techno back to its primitive roots, adding details inspired by yet-tobe-explored points in the galaxy.
Disco 1 – Disco 1 [DISCO001]
The first release of a new mysterious label from an unknown artist. Three edits from techno classics.
Rod – Malmok [KLOCKWORKS007]
The latest addition to the Ben Klock’s Klockworks series comes from the mysterious Rod. Three tracks of stripped down, motorik techno that stays true to the Berghain sound associated with mr Klock.
Robert Hood – Alpha / The Family [MPM011]
The exceptional music mechanic Robert Hood is firmly back in business for 2011, kick-starting the new decade with more M-Plant excellence. James Ruskin takes a break from an impressive release offensive on his own Blueprint label to remix ‘Alpha’, the first single that was taken from ‘Omega’, Robert Hood’s concept album of last year. The remix adds a touch of Ruskin magic to this A-side. While maintaining the essence of Hood’s initial track, James provides a fresh outlook that is sure to be as well received as the original. Over on the B-side Hood delivers a brand new track called ‘The Family’. This is classic Robert Hood with its unrelenting rhythm, powerful bassline and a good dose of the funk. While most of us struggle through the cold, this will be firing up dancefloors the world over.
Jeff Mills – The Beatmaster [AX057]
The third installment to “The Good Robot” series from Jeff Mills. This record focuses on the ways humans interact with machines to create anything, even something as simple as a drum pattern – machines can be precise on their own, or altered in the way humans can program and utilize their functions.
Jeff Mills live @ Dommune, Tokyo 23.12.2010
Pacou – DJ mix November 2010
Charlton / Jeroen Search – Kuudes Runo [POH006]
New release on the Swedish label Pohjola. Proper techno from Charlton and Jeroen Search, with two cuts for each.
Jeff Mills – Something In The Sky Pt. 5 [SITS005]
Fifth 12 inch in Mills’ ongoing series inspired by UFOs, strange night lights, and other unexplained airborne phenomena. Four un-named tracks this time, super limited pressing with instant sell-out a certainty, so tape an X to the window if you want the Smoking Man to deliver.
Kevin Gorman – ssg special mx
Jeff Mills – Something in the Sky Part 3 [SITS003]
Tadeo – Series 02 [CT014]
Tadeo´s cosmological concept continue in Series 02, this time playing with the essential forces involved in the idea of Universe. This release also includes a great remix by Marcel Dettmann, a very interesting point of view signed by this respected artist from Berlin. Cyclical tracks continues researching new sounds together with cosmic ideas.
Terrence Dixon – Room 310 [MEA003]
One of the rare new Terrence Dixon releases… this time on the nice Meakusma. The two original tracks are two deep space jams with and from a Detroit mindset, the remixes on the flipside by Upperground Orchestra take the ‘Room 310’ track into deep jazz territory. The original ‘Room 310′ has one filtered and repetitive synth melody at its core, Dixon’s own voice marking a conflict between the reality of everyday life and the expanded reality of what he sees in the sky. ‘Who is That’ explores the same territory.
The Hipodrome Of Music 