The infamous Sneaker delivers 5 tracks of acid and ghetto house for ULM Records. Rough and dirty and material … straight down to the bone. ULM Records is run by an old guy. He loves to collect records from genres like boogie, modern soul and disco, but he also loves house, techno and acid. From time to time he’s hanging around in his home studio.
Since establishing the illicit My Rules imprint earlier this year, New Yorker Justin Vangdervolgen has used it to deliver a mixture of sneaky edits, hush-hush remixes and sly, sample heavy original productions. “Sketch 2” is towards the rougher end of Vandervolgen’s output, and sees the former man laying down some seriously tough, twisted beats, jagged analogue motifs, bleeping melodies and mind-altering acid lines. It sounds like the sort of sweaty machine jam that will get dancefloors in a frenzy of flailing arms and legs.
High Mobility Weapons Unit sets off from an unknown location on Earth, making its maiden voyage beyond our solar system and towards a distant galaxy. The ‘Transverse Velocity EP’ is the debut release on the self-titled imprint, serving up four original tracks that are heavily influenced by mechanical cycles and deep space concepts.
Fang is a rough house journey on Dj Deep’s Deeply Rooted House that are crossing over between classic stomping Chicago house and modern techno.
Subjected with his debut EP on Sleaze Records, featuring 4 quality original tracks and a great remix by new Scottish talent Deepbass.
Louis Haiman returns to Abstract Forms with some seriously deep underwater vibes….and who better to co-pilot than Heinrich Mueller himself.
Swedish doomed out techno with a firm EBM influence. Sequenced basslines, lots of 16th note drums and some dark sounds from this debuting Stockholm producer!
Andreas Gehm makes his Super Rhythm Trax debut with a 4 tracker of on point Acid House music that sounds both modern and classic at the same time. Ranging from the crooning 303s of ‘I Don’t Dance’ through the lush Detroitesque strings of ‘There’ to the box working ‘Fire Department West’ and the almost DBX like modulation on ‘Control Your Mind’, There’s something for all fans of real Techno and Acid music on here.
BAKK presents a new 12inch by Legowelt from the darkness of the Scheveningse Pier. Hypnotic swirling synths, moisty hi-hats and dirty kicks welcome you to the Laundromat Of Your Mind. An EP with both dark peak time techno and beautifully orchestrated symphonies. A four tracker bound to get your stuff clean or to leave the club filthy at the end of the night.
Crimes of the future are proud to present the first recorings from Bulb. Bulb are Willie Burns, Scott Fraser and Timothy J. Faiplay. Side A combines ghetto techno breaks with something from wayward Kosmiche studio experiments in deepest Germany. On side two dark ambient synthesis and stabbing drums combine to drop you somewhere in a world of psychedelia and cavernous cave dwellings.
Ride The Gyroscope is a new effort from Tabernacle, the UK label known for its ramshackle hardware workouts. The newly established offshoot will launch next month with material from Finnish artist Boneless One. Rotating around the harder edges.
M//R aka Billy Werner delivers the goods through 4 stylistically diverse tracks we see him move through techno, electro, slow beat head nod cuts, and psychedelic broken beat UK cut ups. Usually a record of such would be a head spinning genre disaster of ransom note proportions but M//R pulls it off with style and power, each track strongly standing out on it’s own.
First Vinyl of the fresh new Label Pantruche, this Label has been created to extend the musical ressources of the Label D.KO Records, heart of the Parisian young generation of producers and Djs. This Various Artist presents new comers as Pieuvres, Bad Rey & Mezigue with the participation of Tin Man on Villettion Acid. Detroit inspiration, Parisian determination.
Amsterdam-based producer Jeff Rushin’s Mote Evolver debut opens with “Coda,” which flawlessly builds anticipation as a shivering sequence slowly creeps in and out of the listener’s headspace, accompanied by sharp claps and huge subterranean kicks. “Facing the Truth” combines the same commanding kick sound with busy cymbal shivers. “Enigma” applies Rushin’s calm but forceful approach to what feels like a journey through a forest of translucent filaments. “A Figment of His Imagination” has the EP’s hardest edge, with intense hydraulic pumping and titanium-plated industrial pounding, yet Rushin’s deft programming and arranging skills elevate the track beyond a rote exercise in aggression.
Liverpool’s Binny debuts on Monnom Black imprint, a label reserved for the darker of techno joints. In apt style, “Mispress” kicks things off in a menacing fashion, blasting out heavy kicks, minimal melodies and rough shots of percussion, followed by the bouncier but nonetheless charged belter that is “Outline”. Over on the flipside, “Quarantine” is a dirty squelcher in the style of Surgeon and Regis, while “Event Horizon” recalls Jeff Mills at his poignant and would sit incredibly well in a set by the man himself.
Another release from Spencer Parker’s Work Them imprint. It’s brutalist peak time techno from Sam Coates. The A side features “Man Ray” a bleak, peak time monster and “Movement’ which channels that old grating, loopy. On the flip is the cyclical madness of “Ulterior Motive” with its mesmerising synth melody and kicks on the clap. Finally “Menifesto” is more restrained with its warped style melody and true roller of a groove.
San Francisco sorts Honey Soundsystem largely stuck to offering up fairly experimental albums and cassette compilations. Jackie House’s “Skydive” certainly fits into this category, offering a spacey, synth-wave influenced take on early Chicago house. It swings, jacks and pumps in all the right places, with the action focused around a killer bassline. Matrixxman delivers the flipside remix, turning the loose and cheery original into a dark storm of thunderous kick drums, woozy chords and late night techno intent.
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