After years of reluctance, finally a new album from Dada Pogrom. The Icelandic musician Kenneth Walter Balys has created a masterpiece of elaborated synth passages with wonderful pop melodies. His performances are few and far between, but in March 2024 he had already played some of the new songs in front of a full sold out house at the Kernkrach Festival. The audience was thrilled and demanded encores.
Way back in 2007, Mike Huckaby released an EP that joined the dots between Detroit deep house and dub techno all made exclusively on his Waldorf Wave synthesizer. Some nine years on, he’s finally got around to releasing a follow-up. My Life With The Wave Volume 2 eschews the dub techno influences of old, instead focusing on the fluid, rich, soul-flecked Motor City deep house he does so well. He begins with the looped, minor key melodies and strutting grooves of “Let The Dancer Do His Thing”, before increasing the rhythmic intensity via the cymbal-heavy waviness of “Phuture”. Flip for the sun-kissed breeziness of “Baseline 313” – all repetitive electric piano motifs, handclap-heavy percussion and tribal vocal samples – and the fluttering, picturesque deepness of “Another Fantasy”.
Mike Huckaby returns on SYNTH with a reissue of two of his most sought after productions. “Flashbacks” from M3 Records (1997), and his very own remix of Precession “Sandcastle,” taken from the Adventures Of Techno Soul LP on Ferox Records (1996).
Two tracks on Huckaby’s own label SYNTH that complete his “Baseline” series (the first being last years Baseline 87′ on Sushitech, which quickly sold out). Two jackin Detroit house tracks that will also quickly sell out as usual!
The Hipodrome Of Music 