techno
Zadig – Lost Tape [CRF010]
Perm – Shtum 008 [SHTUM008]
Leipzig’s Perm delivers a fine quality Techno EP on shtum with a nice versatile selection ranging from harder and jacking to deep and atmospheric. Deep Acid driven Techno tracks that will stand out in big dark basements.
Baz Reznik @ Panama Racing Club 09.07.2015
Noah Gibson – Jazzpod 016
Gene Hunt – Living In The Land Part 2 [MD6002]
Killer Gene Hunt double pack from 1995, with 9 killer tracks spread across 2 discs. Heavy duty jackers. Released in conjunction with Trax and MAAD records.
Art Crime – Renessense EP [CR1286]
The mysterious Art Crime is back with a new EP on Creme Organisation. It is a four track affair that continues to showcase the producer’s knack for ravey, texturally rich house and techno sounds with a rather haunting edge. ‘Anxiety is Always Here’ is a high tempo stomper with spooky pads and jangling, energetic melodies that reverberate in a dark night sky. ‘The Owner’ is rooted on firm kicks and has dark, lo fi atmospheres percolating all around as paranoid stabs and gothic keys rain down from above. ‘Renessense’ is then a rather more stripped back and groovy, deeper cut with slithering and icy hi hat patterns and sombre bass notes. Still, it retains a trance inducing sense of freakiness before closer ‘Intention’ close out the EP in lithe, soulful and hi tek techno fashion.
Pvre Matrix – Burning Sulfur [LIES027.5]
Danny Moore aka Pvre Matrix is from a generation of young techno producers out of Brooklyn who come at the music without preconcieved notions or boundaries in their approach to production and playing live. Impeccabily produced without losing its sense of urgency or brutality and clocking in at breakneck speed, Pvre Matrix is out for blood, and his three track debuts prove as such.
ASOK / Neville Watson – Scenery White 001 [SCNW001]
Scenery Records presents the first release on a new sub label “Scenery White”, featuring 2 tracks a piece from ASOK & Neville Watson.
VA – Let It Be (Acid) [CUR002]
Cologne Underground Records, a Label runs by Elec PT.1, proudly presents V/A – Let It Be (Acid).
International Acid Affairs. No smooth ChikkieChikkie. Straight in your Mind. And your Azz.
Mark Verbos – Walk The Distance [BK013]
The Bunker New York presents a surprise EP from veteran techno producer Mark Verbos – a man whose discography stretches back over 20 years – fits that remit. Flitting between acid-laden psychedelic intensity (“Just A Little Late”), high-octane loop jams (“In The Back Room”) and sweaty, all-out assaults on the senses (the metallic madness that is “Start Up Drive”), it portrays Verbos as a masterful producer of no-holds-barred dancefloor techno. Interestingly, he diverts a little from the script on the EP’s final moment, “Walk The Distance”, combining sparse dub techno rhythms and ghostly electronics.
Tense – Disconnect Myself (Beau Wanzer Adjustment) [MNQ067]
Back in 2011, Chicago’s Beau Wanzer reshaped the angry body-music of the now-defunct Houston duo Tense with an 8 minute claustrophobic TR-909 workout. The track never saw the light of day on vinyl… until now.
Magas – Heads Plus [MW002]
Midwich Productions presents James Marlon Magas’ Heads Plus. For the past several years, Magas has been concentrating on instrumental production, eschewing vocal histrionics of previous work, in favor of moodier, more open-ended composition. This focus has resulted in the bombastic and hallucinatory Heads Plus, an all-instrumental wallop that fuses howling ARP Odyssey, capricious Juno funk and fuzzed Rhodes anchored to the ever-present throb of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. Freed from vocal constraints, Heads Plus conjures a cinematic ambience where light and dark wrangle for dominance in a dystopian post-techno near-future.
Rutherford – Singularis [BT006]
The second release of the year for Brokntoys finds the label returning to Sweden’s Ronnie ‘Rutherford’ Johansson. ‘Singularis’ represents one of the rare occasions the Gothenburg-based artist has released outside of Luke Eargoggle’s Stilleben label, and features some proper icy electro productions as well as more abstract fare.
Abayomi – You Sleep, They Live! [ABAYOMI001]
Jesse Abayomi is a DJ/producer who uprooted his London residence and settled down in Berlin to be an integral part of the avant-garde of the electronic music scene. Abayomi’s sound is significantly influenced by deep, raw Detroit Techno, dirty Chicago House music all with a twist of edgy UK bass heavy flavour to boot. With one foot in Techno’s past and one foot firmly stepping into the future, his passion for music goes far beyond conventional ideas of what music can do – listening to his hypnotic sets and productions, he elevates crowds to unimaginable places.
Tadeo – Circles Inside Circles [BELIEF005]
Tadeo does it with style and grace on the new Belief System release. Deep trippy techno tracks.
Takeshi Kouzuki – Technique Mix Series 037
Matrixxman – Homesick [GI245LP]
Matrixxman uses his debut album to evoke visions of a not-too-distant-future with music made both for the dancefloor and the early morning zone-outs that follow. These are the real world applications of Homesick, though Duff comes to it all from an entirely different mindset. “We will have the technological capability to fully map out a human brain in its entirety within 30 years,” he starts. “The implications of such a possibility are deep and far reaching. We will be crossing a rubicon towards a new phase in human consciousness. I am one person that is prepared to take that step.” Once you emerge on the other side of Homesick, it seems possible that Matrixxman already has.
Andreas Gehm / Elec Pt1 – Yes Or No [HAPSKL007]
Cologne based acid maverick Andreas Gehm dons his Elec Pt1 guise for his debut 12″ on Bristol’s Happy Skull. The A-Side see’s the German producer take us deep in to jak-beat territory with ‘Yes or No’, a riotous fusion of scatter bomb 707’s, hard hitting claps and undulating acid lines. ‘Summer Time in Coloniae’ lightens the mood slightly, a misty eyed homage to his hometown complete with melancholic synths and yearning melodies. Rounding off the 12″ is ‘Going By’, possibly the most adventurous cut of the three. A dense pulp of saturated drum machine noise, destined for only the wildest of dance floors.
WC0016 / Abono – Untitled EP [AIAN001]
The first release on Allisandnot label is a split EP between WC0016 & Abono. Gritty, lo-fi acid techno.
The Hipodrome Of Music 