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Model 500 – Digital Solutions [MLP002]

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‘Digital Solutions’ is a culmination of a 35 year relationship with music production for the mastermind behind Model 500, techno pioneer Juan Atkins. Marking the 30th Anniversary for the first label in a genre that has taken over on a global scale, Digital Solutions is only the second full length album ever to be released on the seminal cornerstone of dance music, Metroplex Records. Definitive Detroit is what the world has come to expect from Atkins, and this selection of tracks delivers just that. Exploring both electro and straight four on the floor, Digital Solutions gives a glimpse into what will be deemed a blueprint for the next 30 years. Model 500 and Metroplex welcome you to the future with Digital Solutions.

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Model 500 – Digital Solutions [MLP002]

Asok / Baldo – The Guide EP [GRM006]

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ASOK – aka Liverpool-based producer Stu Robinson – pops up on Good Ratio Music with two more far-sighted and fuzzy sci-fi-tinged jams. There’s a delicious shuffle to “The Fifth Book” – all bubbling Motor City electronics and foreboding chords – while “Probability Drive” joins the dots between vintage techno and sparse, otherworldly deep house. Flip for two tracks from Barcelona-based Good Ratio regular Baldo, who impresses with the fizzing analogue rhythms, chords and subtle acid of “Axel Nebulae”. His other contribution, “Seventh Dimension”, comes on like the soundtrack to a drunken late night jog through desolate, post-industrial landscapes.

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Asok / Baldo – The Guide EP [GRM006]

Echologist – New Strains EP [PLR1404]

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Techno in his pure form! New amazing Planete Rouge by Brendon Moeller aka Echologist. Four trippy and dark techno athems. Opening with the Millsian ‘New Strain’, its rotational vibe continues on the dizzying techno of ‘Confusion’, before the tougher ‘Crystal Days’ leads on, ending with bleeps and sweeps of ‘Yellow Sands’.

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Echologist – New Strains EP [PLR1404]

Kit N C.L.A.W.S. – Desertofsameness [ET037/GOOILAND018]

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Kit n C.l.a.w.s. is a project by two experienced musicians in the fields of dance and psychedelic music. Teaming up was probably one of the better ideas they had for a long time as the music this duo serves us is simply amazing. Deep trance indulging moody house tracks with acid influences.

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Kit N C.L.A.W.S. – Desertofsameness [ET037/GOOILAND018]

VA – Trust XV-II [TRUSTXVII]

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Trust’s anniversary series continues with its second of three chapters: Six far-fiction electro tracks by DJ Stingray, Dez Williams, Scape One, DJ Glow, Microthol, and Biepang continue the story of a human mining operation on 61 Cygnus e, a remote planet orbiting Bessel’s star.

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VA – Trust XV-II [TRUSTXVII]

TX Connect – Trixxter EP [DABJ1213]

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Gavin Guthrie returns on Dixon Avenue Basement Jams with a full record as TX Connect. There’s a strobe-friendly feel throughout this final DABJammer of 2014, as the producer joins the dots between acid house and fluorescent techno, with a few hints of early ’90s rave thrown in. This is most obvious on the title track, which expertly fuses a wobbly acid line, ricocheting drum machine hits and a nagging, early ’90s riff. “Intramountains” comes swaddled in stormy sound effects, cloaking its hissing rhythms with foreboding techno stabs and backwards samples. As for “Xanadu”, it’s a deliciously rough-and-ready chunk of late night acid jack.

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TX Connect – Trixxter EP [DABJ1213]

VA – Creme Organization Valley Of Shadows x LIES EP [VOS003/LIES023.5 ]

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To remain in biblical territory “The last shall come first”. Such is also the case with the 3rd in the Creme Valley of Shadows series which will come out before part 1 & 2. So yeah this 3rd installment is a collaboration with NYC’s by way of Paris L.I.E.S. Records. Six tracks by Legowelt, Randomer, Simoncino, Innershades, Ron Morelli and Wilie Burns.

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VA – Creme Organization Valley Of Shadows x LIES EP [VOS003/LIES023.5 ]