The 13th Skudge White release, and a welcome return of Daniel Andréasson. Going a different route than his previous 12″ for the label, this time it’s four melodic/braindance tracks.
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Mono Junk – Skudge White 010 [SKUDGEWHITE010]
Cool new material from from Kimmo Rapatti. It pitches the 303 against colourful, synth fuelled-backgrounds and rattling drum machines programmed in a manner that don’t sound tried or retrospective.
J Velez – Intramuros [SKUDGEW009]
Jorge Velez comes to Skudge White to drop a proper dose of relentless subterranean Techno. 4 tracks created with the adventurous dancefloor in mind. This is the sound of Velez at full command.
TM404 – Skudge White 08 [SKUDGEWHITE008]
Mister Andreas Tilliander under his TM404 monniker, the man with more machines than you drops 3 tracks of syncopated science on Skudge.
Daniel Andreasson – EP 9 [SKUDGEWHITE007]
Mono Junk – Skudge White 06 [SKUDGEWHITE006]
Mono Junk from Finland with a new four-tracker on Skudge White. The affair starts off in a most evil fashion with “Electric Chair”, an industrial creeper with rolling minimal acid bass-lines. Next is “Yhteys”, a deep cut with Detroit cues and a highly 80ies romantic flavor, a haven before next the stage, “Jupiter Acid”, a night driving noisy banger that’ll turn your batteries acid, peak time ecstatic action followed by the contrast-full “Härinähouse”, a moody piece filled with a somewhat eastern charm to close this tense journey.
Cliff Lothar – Skudge White 05 [SKUDGEWHITE005]
Cliff Lothar’s new record on Skudge White. After his wonderful entry for the Viewlexx camp earlier this year, our friend comes clean with a somewhat darker take on his trade sound. With “Murked Out”, we’re reminded of “Dro Friday”, but the halloween version. “Tangaxuan II” is equally funky but dwells further in a deep and bleepy fashion that invokes the early Warp catalogue spirit while “Audiomess” even enhances that felling, adding an eerie edge familiar to the more continental Bunker rooster. Concluding this four tracker comes the mostly gruesome “Darkhole Gloryroom” that uses high contrast to convey schizophrenic moves on the dance floor, a perfect testimony to what Skudge stands for after a year of unusual journeys.
Fishermen – Patterns And Paths [SKUDGEWLP001]
After their wonderful EP from a year ago, the Fishermen are ready to take you on a diving trip with their very first album, an accomplishment in itself With “Patterns and Paths”, Thomas Jaldemark (YTA) and Martin Skoggehall (MRSK, Smell The Flesh) have crafted a rather mesmerizing story of abstract and figurative tropes altogether, and eerie is probably the best word to describe the general mood of this, but hard and raw eeriness! The affair starts with “Green Horn”, a gentle foreplay setting the tone for an imminent journey into the lightless abysses. “Hope Is gone” further enhances the incoming grim turn of events in a coil-like fashion before “Serpents” makes our feet and hips take over our fear of the unknown. The trance has indeed begun and we’re soon entering a hidden warehouse rave cave of un-earthy shamanism, the unforgiving stomp of “Get None”. “Dyspnea” manages to find a path into deeper regions the groove shift towards a darker funk with “Lost Teeth”, a caribbean techno banger that’d wake any zombie in the making! “The Four Skulls” suddenly hints of a safer journey with healing percs and melancholic pads, but “Rise” soon shatters those false hopes with an evil lurking motoric groove. Then, you hit “Scurvy” where the pace slows down a little only to introduce the seductive side of this gloomy adventure, a challenge to you feet inducing lascivious moves. Keeping you in trance, “In Solitude” kind of combines both previous tracks strengths with an added Twin Peaks value. Now finally reaching the far bottom of the ocean, the mood gets even more claustrophobic with “Sunken Mosque”, the last stage of this trance before maybe getting back to the surface. Indeed, if “Torments” might let you catch a breath of air, it is filled with minerals, the world above has changed, and you might very well feel safer back under the water, a reverse mirror to Mike Ink’s old Gas project.
Smell The Flesh – Smell The Flesh [SKUDGEWHITE004]
Skudge introduce MRSK’s latest project, a journey beyond techno that almost takes a shamanistic turn. In his new Smell The Flesh guise, the man delivers six cuts of eerie beats, challenging his western esthetics with a nonetheless complex yet primal approach.
Innerspace Halflife – 1000 Light Years Of Acid [SKUDGEWHITE003]
Hailing from Chicago, the latest entry from our new Skudge White series sees Innerspace Halflife venture into some of house and techno’s eeriest realms. When Ike Release and Hakim Murphy joined forces sometime last year, we immediately thought that their very own cosmic take on jackin’ house would be a perfect fit for our label, and boy did they deliver! We won’t bore you with any further description of those four tracks, but we sincerely hope you’ll enjoy the modernity and lushness of what the boys’ve been cooking us!
Koehler – White 2 [SKUDGEWHITE002]
Koehler brings a malfunctioning technoid monster to Skudge via an out of the blue white label.
Fishermen – Fishermen [SKUDGEWHITE001]
Skudge presents the first release in a new series called Skudge White. Fishermen is a new project created by Martin (MRSK) and his friend Thomas. Inspired by the sea. The EP includes 5 tracks of industrial edged slo-mo electronics.
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