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Damon Wild – The Mood Machine [SW126]

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Damon Wild steps up to Synewave with The Mood Machine, a thrilling exploration of some sleek and stylish techno. ‘Make Believe’ opens with a dancing line of hi-hats over pulsing sonar-like blips and driving bass. It’s a future take on Detroit techno that leads into the mystic sounds of swirling pads of ‘Reflection’. ‘Elevate’ slows things down with a more moody blend of pads and glitchy beats over rolling drums and ‘Starliner’ then melts theming with intricately woven layers of sheet metal snares and linear kicks. All four of these are timeless and high-quality techno tools.

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Damon Wild – The Mood Machine [SW126]

Industrialyzer – Analog Planet [SW121]

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Ricardo Rodrigues hasn’t been active as Industrialyzer for some years, but if there was ever an occasion to revisit the uncompromising techno alias, a release on Damon Wild’s legendary Synewave label must surely be it. The Portuguese artist goes in on “Analog Planet” with fearsome intent, serving up that Robert Hood-flavoured mechanized, weaponised loop goodness that gets the business end of the night shaking the way it should. “Multiple Walls” is a funkier affair with a playful organ line, but then it’s back to the darkside with the devilish “Orbit X”, rounding out an EP of no-nonsense techno like momma used to make.

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Industrialyzer – Analog Planet [SW121]

Damon Wild – Subtractive Synthesis [SW120]

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Damon Wild’s Synewave label is still going strong, plunging ever further into the hinterland of looped up techno and dragging your consciousness with it. On this new release Wild is pinging bleeps around the sequencer grid through the course of “Timelapse”, and highly immersive it is too. The “Timemachine dub” of the track is even more seductive with its Sleeparchive-style synth oddities and sparse arrangement. Function comes on board for an un-easier remix of “Timelapse” that veers towards the full-blown paranoid, and then Postscriptum drops a killer version to finish the EP off, all jagged off beat kicks and heavy textural swells.

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Damon Wild – Subtractive Synthesis [SW120]

Function – Synewave Reissues Part 1: 1995-97 [INF016]

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Back when Dave Sumner relaunched his dormant Infrastructure New York label at the start of the year, vague allusions to some sort of planned retrospective were made as a means to tantalise and excite. With the label now fully up and running thanks to a series of great techno 12″s from Function, Campbell Irvine, Inland and a select reissue or two, it seems those plans for a retrospective are a lot firmer. Synewave Reissues Part I: 1995-97 is the first of two 12″s that will precede the release of the 28 track Recompiled: Various Works & Pseudonyms, 1995-2012 compilation in 2015 and draws from material Sumner committed to Damon Wild’s Synewave label. Both “F3” and “F4” are some of the earliest productions Sumner committed to tape as Function and are complemented by a new edit of “Shift F1” from his Infrastructure pardner Inland.

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Function – Synewave Reissues Part 1: 1995-97 [INF016]

Damon Wild – Avion Return [SW100]

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This is a special 100th release from Synewave Records. Damon WIld’s classic from 1993 with new & special remixes from Marcel Dettmann, 88UW, Echoplex. This release will be released in different packs and will include other remixes by Orlando Voorn, Pacou, Dave Ellesmere, Mark Morris, Ascion, Staffan Linzatti, Terrence Fixmer and others to date.

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Damon Wild – Avion Return [SW100]