John Heckle live @ Moondance Festival (Trogir, Croatia) 13.08.2016
techno
LVRIN – LVRIN [PBD003]
Dark minimal elektronix by Russian based LVRIN on Broken Dreams, the white label series of Pinkman Records.
Robert Bergman – B03 [B003]
Aqua Matrix – S/T [CRWDSPCR013]
Aqua Matrix from Portugal delivering strong deep techno that nods to mid 90s Detroit techno like Carl Craig, Kenny Larkin, Reese etc.
Head Front Panel Live @ 10 Years Of Substance, The Bongo Club (Edinburgh) 28.10.2016
Sterac – Scorp [TOKEN066LP]
Compilation of remastered tracks from the defunct Scorp label, operated from 2000 to 2004 by Steve Rachmad. Includes one unreleased track from the same period. Steve Rachmad’s extensive collection of projects over the years has provided a wealth of inspiration in its many forms. Although much of Rachmad’s music has been influential on the development of Token from the beginning, there is one body of work in particular that encapsulates the essence of the label, in a classic and inimitable form. Scorp was a self-contained label project operating between 2000 and 2004. Although not the best known of Rachmad’s many aliases, its importance was not overlooked by discerning tastemakers at the forefront of the techno movement at the time. Token 66 contains nine tracks in total selected from these releases, plus one track previously unreleased from the same period. All of the music has been remastered and will be available digitally for the first time as well as on a 3LP vinyl compilation. These ten tracks clearly demonstrate Token’s alignment with this classic sound, exhibiting Rachmad’s mathematical precision in employing bare-bones percussion to captivate, doing away with the formality of a lengthy introduction and urging a hypnotic state with immediate effect.
Cosmin TRG – In Your Body, Kapotasana [SPORTIV001]
Relax your eyelids Focus on the darkness This is your time to relax You don’t need to think about anything Except being right here, right in this moment With me. Don’t think about tomorrow, or yesterday, Just be here In your body. Sportiv is a dexterous white label operation that brings you heavy-weight rhythmic performances from the world of techno athletics.
Truncate – 7_1 (remixes) [TRUNCATE014]
The A-side gets remix treatments by Ambivalent and Silent Servant as well as an extended version of the original. Ambivalent takes a more jackin approach while Silent Servant brings his EBM & Wave informed techno mixes.
VA – Monsters EP [GRTW003]
DJ Nephil steps up with the third self release on his Gravitational Waves label, featuring new artists from across the Atlantic as well as one experienced American producer. Dark jacking hypnotic 707 wavey techno tracks by Chris Mitchell, Dj Nephil, Vault & Retrograde Youth.
The Holy Fix – Tracks & Traps [PB002]
The Holy Fix stands for the solo project of Camil Dumitrescu, co-founder of Future Nuggets and the Delusion Men project together with Ion D (Utopus). With this second release of the Future Nuggets’ clubloving child, the fresh imprint P-BALANS, The Holy Fix delivers a highly personal bass-driven, dub-flavoured and psyched out blend of electronic sounds in a solid attempt to define the labels edgy technodelic profile. Tunes for depth divers and tormented dancers.
Antonio – The 069 – 085 Connection [DPTX004]
Antonio from Italy, Pescara, now living in Frankfurt Germany, is doing the 4th EP on Deeptrax. Heavy hitting ‘tape techno’ tracks, some with pace, others with that charming Italian passion into it. Harsh groovin’ but deep basement tracks for these wrenching, pumped up, club nights in abandoned warehouses. Raw Chicago house and Detroit techno on a twist.
Route 8 – Mental Murder EP [FARB003R]
The third from Farbwechsel and the first one from Route 8 is back on vinyl. ‘Mental Murder’ EP is a lo-fi jack gem with four original tracks and a remix from the Houston-based house wizard Miguel Flaco. ‘Mental Murder’ is a fateful stab wound with a blunt, rusty knife straight to your brain, which causes a kind of lobotomy happiness.
Umwelt – Days Of Dissent [BOIDAE001]
Veteran Lyonnais producer, Umwelt, has a new album to launch the LP focused sub-label of Killekill – Boidae. “Days Of Dissent” is a polished 8-tracker loaded with bold electro stabs, acid riffs, epic, subtle melodies, drama and funk. “It is emotional, it tells a story, it is easily recognizable and it is not interchangeable”. The talented producer is one of a kind as he produces without computers in a single take, without any edits or mixing and cut to dubplates directly in his home which he uses to play out during his sets, conjuring up a insanely vast backlog of productions. Umwelt predominantly releases on his own imprints, however recently made appearances on legendary electro label Shipwrec and Helena Hauff’s Return to Disorder imprint.
DMX Krew – Escape-MCP [AFSLP003]
UK wave funk veteran DMX Krew returns to Abstract Forms with his latest double album project. Escape-MCP features 13 tracks of synth drenched electro and elastic techno grooves drawing inspiration from a 1983 computer game where the player is trapped inside a computer by a rogue processor. Fortunately DMX Krew isn’t trapped inside a computer and is still with us making killer grooves.
VA – Muscles From Outer Space EP [BOSS001]
”In a time of peace and prosperity on Phantom Planet, three unwanted heroes arrive home to seek justice where there is none to be sought. Shunned by modern society, Forsh gets a job at the electricity board, Red Defender snoozes through work at the local news and booze, and Bin Man finally finds his dream job… as a postman. With no evil to lay waste to, they put their dinner money together to create the world’s greatest record label, BOSS TRACKS. Using broken dustpans and Dance Ejay ’98, they create what will go down in history as the most seminal and brilliant piece of musical forgery known to Merseyside. 4 tracks packed full of pure dance floor steroids for your love-pump; this is interstellar muscle music at its finest, let it reach out grab you by the tenderloins! Thank you Phantom Planet Outlaws. Once again the world has been changed forever, for the better.”
Nick Klein – Tourism Industry [LIES089]
Four tracks showcasing a wide range of production styles, each effective in their own right. From side-chained jack to peak red drum work outs to computer based minimalist bit destruction this ep proves to be a crushing statement from an artist coming into his own. US import price.
Personator – Personator’s Primordial Tracks Vol.1 [LSE008]
This is the first volume in a series of release showcasing the analog hardware experiments of Michigan-raised, New Jersey raised Michael Alan Rogers aka Personator. Running the gamut from raw, springy machine rhythms propelling the snarls of modular synths to softly pulsating white noise adorned with lullaby-like melodies, two of the tracks were recordded straight to DAT in the artists studio, while a third was recorded live at a late night loft party in Chinatown.
Paolo Iocca – RA-1 001 [RA-1-001]
Paolo Iocca debuts with two crafty and iridescent House anthems plus two superb remixes by Nick Anthony Simoncino.
Betonkust & Palmbomen II – Hotel Breukelen [PNKMN017]
Betonkust and Palmbomen II are back with their second collaborative effort. This time on the Dutch Pinkman label. Six brand new tracks that seem a lot darker than their previous work. Somewhere between Belgian new beat from 1988 and the West Coast Sound Of Holland. A lo-fi nightmare that turns out to be reality. Pounding drums, paranoid acid patterns and angsty out of control synth choirs.
The Hipodrome Of Music 