Barcelonian underground BLD hits us with a new EP straight to the Club. Two versions of the monstrously acid and beautiful dub building track Crawling on the A side and the epic break beat Twisted on the flip side.
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Olivia – UV Podcast 029
Myriadd – Streetlight Soul [GNOSIS001]
Inaugural release on the new imprint Gnosis comes from Myriadd. This four track EP remoulds the template of vintage Chicago house, acid and deep house into his vision of modern house music.
Glyn – Youtube Rips [777003]
Ron Wilson’s 777 label delivering a strong EP with 3 spaced out techno tracks with layers of deep strings and warm bass lines. A fierce jacking rhythm with a rolling bassline and a contrasting atmosheric synth on top.
Weber – Zwei [HOLGER007]
On his second installment for Holger, Philipp Weber further expands the sounds and themes introduced on his debut Eins on Holger. Combining influences from early krautrock and minimal music to contemporary dance sounds.
JP Enfant – Dreaming Backwards EP [LET001]
Sophisticated deep and athmospheric techno by Les Enfants Terribles. An extra fine release number one to start this fresh venture by Dutch dj/producer JP Enfant. These terrible kids all ready made name in their local scene and are now ready to step over the border.
Frawl – Ep1 [KRISTIANA001]
The first release on Kristina Records, featuring four tracks by Frawl aka Cian Frawley. Nice deep, meancholic house tracks with fragile melodies and a lovely flow.
Function – Berghain 07
Civil Duty – Civil Duty [COR012]
The Corner presents Beau Wanzer and Shawn O’Sullivan with their Civil Duty self titled hard hitting album, not for the faint at heart.
VA – Ground Fault Interrupt Vol 1 (Part 2) [WCR007-2]
Weekend Circuit releases its first V/A series, Ground-Fault-Interrupt. Spread over 2 parts, the record’s eight tracks further showcase what the label has been become known for, a highly-focussed, well-contemplated brand with music to match. The second part includes tracks by Sleeparchive, Alderaan, P.E.A.R.L. and Coldgeist.
L/F/D/M – Psychopaths Eating Jelly [CGI010]
Laid down with authority by L/F/D/M are four no nonsense cuts blasting fresh air into that perennially en vogue phenomenon known as acid house. Opener ”Spare Ribs, No Napkin” is meaty and greasy with abandon, as rude and distorted as it is irresistibly syncopated. ”Cutting Fingers” contrasts with a slow burn with a deep kick anchoring shifting rhythms and unsettlingly hypnotic riffs. Flip this treasure over and get pummeled by the rolling stomp of ”Heavy Clouds with its massive 808s and just-off-the-nose acid cycles. Closing things out is the bright paranoid jack of ippos In Slumber” with its muted chords adding freaky color to steady and heady 707/303 workout that charms and overpowers with an electric stink that lingers long after the needle has reached the lead-out groove.
The Hieroglyphic Being Experience – Methods Of Transfer Book I [TABR031]
Few would argue there isn’t an old school spirit hovering around Glaswegian label Tabernacle.The next Tabernacle release includes are two original improvisations taken from a Hieroglyphic Being Live recording, and two versions from John Heckle, one which samples the live recording and one inspired by it.
Frak – Realismo [BORFT125]
Frak must be amongst the most consistent artists in techno. Realismo delivers three winding, twisting analogue techo tracks, kicking off with ten-minutes of mid tempo, acid-flecked, heads-down freakery, the brilliantly icy, but also strangely intense “Nerve Netting”. “Progressive Lattitude” is a little fuzzier and more distorted, but explores similar sonic territory. Things get more hectic on closer “Major Attack”, which is a typically wild interpretation of acid house with additional razor-sharp electronics.
Unknown – Wargames 122 [WAR122]
Legowelt – Creme Podcast #28
VA – DBA 019.5 [DBA019.5]
Following the release of DBA015.5 in 2014, DBA present another vinyl-only various artists excursion, once again mixing up new arrivals to the label like Detroit’s Radio Brovold, New Yorker Max McFerren and Paris’ Ben Cohen, with established label favourites like Halvtrak of Tampere, Finland.
Sneaker – Holistical EP [LUN004]
The Leipzig-based label Lunatic return with this new EP by Sneaker. The artist also known as Dunkeltier and spotted in the past on Uncanny Valley, Ratlife and Macadam Mambo, signs here three tracks of moody leftfield techno/electro with a hint of cold wave.
Mono Junk – Skudge White 010 [SKUDGEWHITE010]
Cool new material from from Kimmo Rapatti. It pitches the 303 against colourful, synth fuelled-backgrounds and rattling drum machines programmed in a manner that don’t sound tried or retrospective.
Beau Wanzer – Untitled [BW002]
The next installment from Beau Wanzer on his self-titled imprint, more electro-wave induced tracks for the freaks. Sure to get the floors shaking and everything else along with it.
Xamiga – Bohemian Grove [SNBV004]
Foggy dreamy tracks by The Xamiga duo. Xosar and Legowelt re-boot their production partnership. Given both artists passion of intergalactic electronics, classic synthesizers and creaky old drum machines, it’s little surprise to find Bohemian Groove packed with spacey techno rhythms, glistening electronics and almost suffocating chords.
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