Deep space techno tracks from beyond by Boston’s Deviere, approaching us like a time capsule from an alien past, reconnecting us with the ancient intergalactic spirits from beyond the celestial gate.
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Art Crime – Still Life [PNKMN015]
Art Crime delivers a four tracker of meltingly good music on Pinkman Records. Chords cascade, blending and reforming, in the warming wonder of ‘Still Life’, ‘Dead Carnation’ is from a similar place. Keys skipping down scales, dancing down them as percussion lends a touch of weight.’Distant’ is the mood changer. Rain falls, smoke whirls and the night descends in this dark and intoxicating encounter. But those clouds part for the close. Lush pads and soaring notes break through for calming currents of the less than aptly titled ‘Hectic’. An artist rewriting stereotypes, an EP of true quality.
Benedikt Frey – Out Of The Fog EP [LPSR004]
The mysterious Lopasura imprint is back with another release by Frankfurt hero Benedikt Frey who serves up the Out Of The Fog EP. This EP features some pretty functional and restrained techno, like on the mental title track. “Wolves” is equally hypnotic and cyclical with its grinding arpeggiations drawing you down into the void. On the flip “Lights” is definitely the most uplifting track with its rich layers of lush pads and glistening melodics made for some proper transcendental therapy on the dancefloor.
Mattia Trani – The Hi-tech Mission [PM015]
Pushmaster Discs presents the debut LP by Mattia Trani. ‘The Hi-Tech Mission’ is not just the usual techno album, it also represents a space travel around the futuristic techno vision of the Italian producer, that continues to push Detroit sounds, as well as venturing into some jungle rhythms. The shuttle reaches a mysterious planet, it seems that the mission is not finished yet.
To be continued…
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A Sagittariun – Oxidize [NT007]
After his exciting album ‘Elasticity’ on his own imprint Elastic Dreams, A Sagittariun delivers the equally fascinating three track Oxidize EP’ for german label Couldn’t Care More. While ‘Heights’ is a stripped-down basic-channelish techno ride, rough, edgy and with a hint of hypnotic melodies, the title track heads in a quite different direction: still it’s raw expressionistic techno, but the flow is ever-changing, mesmerizingly shifting and twisting between hissing beats and enlightened synths. For the remix of ‘Oxidize’ Golden Pudel Club resident and odd-house virtuoso RVDS fires up the acid machine and does it Detroit style, warm and cold, uplifting and melancholic.
DJ Deep – Cuts Volume 2 [DRH051]
Volume 2 on DJ Deep’s “Cuts” serie on Deeply Rooted comes with 4 tracks. “Steps” intends to bring a Funky beat into a darker and abstract territory. “Stressed” is a Raw beat with an old school flavor in today’s world. “Stressing” is a straight forward beat driven Techno jam. “Surge” presents a deeper maybe a bit dubbier vibe with a pumpin’ beat.
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Ngly – Ngly [LIES078]
NGLY makes a return to L.I.E.S. following his highly lauded “Speechless Tape” ep from 2014. Since then we have seen Argentinian producer taking his live act around the world to much acclaim. Luckily he’s also been in the studio recording and finally delivering this new three track ep. Here we get his signature dusty low slung sound full of basslines, creeper strings and driving drum programming. These are subtle yet effective funk-ridden club tools that are sure to move the floor and a precusor to even more from the in demand producer.
Nitam – Cancellate [UTON09]
New varied sonic themes with an overall fresh sound. Although still being young of age, Nitam outlines once again his interest in dance music from the late 80s and early 90s, presenting himself schooled by classic Detroit House as well as Chicago Acid House, but all without limiting himself to a restricted pallet of styles or catering towards musical expectations.
Front De Cadeaux – The Gift EP [SF008]
Mugwump’s Subfield label introduces its first signings with the Belgian-Italo duo Front De Cadeaux aka DJ Athome & DJ Hugosan. They expertly produced their own brand of “Supreme Rallentato”, which is a fucked-up slo-mo italo, acid, disco, techno and house hybrid that so rightly fits with Subfield’s mission statement of covering subgenres. This full Ep on Subfield features 2 original F2C obscene & dirty slo-mo tracks at their most playful, “Ouvre Ta Bouche” and “Front De Cadeaux Theme” plus the magnificent dub-house of “Killers”. Remixes comes courtesy of Factory Floor’s Gabe Gurnsey (DFA) in a quite brutal bleep-techno mood and Manchester’s nu-balearic kingpin Ruf Dug (Music For Dreams), getting into what he described as a ” 808 snare roll warehouse analog fucked-up version”
KORD and NEBULA – Pine Twigs Trax [BORFT138]
So far the most Punk release in the Borft catalog. This is the meeting between Johan Sturesson (KORD) and Petter Svensson (NEBULA). While Petter has his background as a punkrocker Johan has some years of experience in the Electronic vein this meeting result in a EBM/punk/technoEP dirtier than ever.
VA – Basement Genetics II [FRT002]
Forte Techno is a UK label ran by Ross Alexander and Steven McDonagh that has a firm focus on championing the underground, and we return with our second vinyl only package. This time there are 4 original tracks by all UK based artists including Paul Mac, Binny, Ross Alexander and John Mitchell.
Silent Servant – EGR45 00003 [EGR4500003]
EGR45-00003 features Silent Servant, a DJ and producer whose gloomy rhythms stay with the listener long after the music has faded out. These two brand new tracks, along with a live excerpt, are gritty, hyper-engaging and highly personal takes on techno.
Grace – Grace [AVN024]
Originally released via Ascetic House in 2015, Vereker’s Grace tape owes much to the canon of vintage anti-music, exploring catharsis via a transgression of traditional compositional & technical values. Working with the same thematic concerns of much of the more leftfield additions to the Avian catalogue – in it’s more subdued moments, anxiety & dissafection; in it’s more high energy – pure hysteria – the recording pairs basic synthesis with warped vocals in the same manner as Industrial progenitors Throbbing Gristle and Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound).
Yan Cook – XX LP [PRRUKBLK010]
It’s been a while since Planet Rhythm released an entire LP project. Who else to thread into album territories than Ukranian Planet Rhythm stalwart ”Yan Cook”. After releasing various efforts through the Rotterdam based imprint over the last few years, Yan Cook comes up with a double LP consisting of 2 discs with 2 tracks on each side. Whilst shifting between various sides of the Yan Cook identity the XX LP proves to be an effective and bulding package over mechanic Techno sounds with strong builds and exciting taints of FX.
Developer – Archive 6 [DEVELOPER006]
ASOK – A Mind Forever Voyaging [CRLP13]
Liverpool artist Stu Robinson aka ASOK steps up to Creme Organization with a debut full length offering, A Mind Forever Voyaging, featuring ten tracks of macho yet melodic, tender yet tense analogue house and techno. Something of a late starter, Robinson has fomented his own mystical, nostalgic, inventive analogue sound that makes you jack, as well as conjuring real emotions with his great knack for melody. This album was recorded live then edited down. “So if something doesn’t sound good it either stays in or I re-record the whole thing,” says Robinson, who used things like Maschine, tb303, analog RYTM, JX-8P, Microkorg, some plugins and “a shit load of old rave samples” to create his debut full length. All written at home over a period of a year or so, it proves the artist has plenty of ideas and more than enough skills to carry them off. All unified by a sense of emotion and kinked dance floor groove that has been picked up over the course of 25 years of living and breathing many different forms of dance music, it is an accomplished debut.
VFR – Trip Voyager [TPL005]
VFR aka Visitors For Reworks is back on That Place Records. He has taking time to cook new tracks, showing his deep side of House & Techno music. The result is Trip Voyager.
Jeremiah R – Interstellar [INST006]
Brilliant techno & electro release from Rotterdam’s Jeremiah R. Eclectic sound for a one way trip into the future…
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