Ekman returns to the Berceuse Heroique imprint with another formidable chunk of acid rave sorcery. “GMMDI” brilliantly blends relentless techno rhythms, recorded-in-a-cement-mixer synths and dancing rave melodies into the sort of throbbing techno banger that could have been recorded at any point over the last 30 years. Ekman’s old pals Breaker 1 2 (aka Greg Beato) provide the B-side remix, simmering things down whilst retaining the original’s foreboding chords and thumping beats.
Discos Capablanca present the definitive Keita Sano collection. After months of listening to demos, label and artist came up with a tight selection of tracks that represent at its best the Keita Sano sound and simultaneously have the potential to slay the bravest dancefloors. With a clear flair for industrial and raw sounds but not forgetting his House influences.
Dark and trippy sounds on a label straight from Berlin. In The Dark Again brings out music between Acid, New Wave/ Minimal Wave and psychedelic Techno and Dub. The second release comes with tracks by In Aeternam Vale and Ekoplekz.
Swede Daniel Andreasson has been tickling our fancy with his particular brand of clandestine techno and world-weary electronica since 2009. Here he makes an appearance on Frak’s long-running Borft label. Pressure ticks a number of boxes. While there’s plenty of loopy, atmospheric techno – see the title track and the winding, woozy, slightly psychedelic “100 Hours” – the EP’s strongest moments are arguably those where he takes a slightly stranger path. Opener “Inside” – a kind of dark ambient piece interspersed with a distant bassline and occasional heavily filtered rhythms – is particularly special, while closer “Nov 41” is a near perfect chunk of slowed-down Detroit futurism.
Celldöd is the solo project of Anders Karlsson, well known in the EBM scene for his involvement in the band The Pain Machinery and as a live member of Severe Illusion. Celldöd strips EBM down to it’s core, eliminating vocals and any superfluous details. Celldöd offers a raw, minimal, and purist vision of EBM; hardware tracks recorded live to tape using just a handful of machines. Celldod’s bare bones dance cuts are dirty and primitive, but manage to steer clear of retro trappings, sounding fresh and contemporary.
Maoupa Mazzocchetti’s industrial-esque debut for Unknown Precept questions the primary inconstancy of music through five slices of jacking proto-techno experiments; ranging from pile-driving kicks to rumbling bass, Maoupa’s boiling mental activity vibrating and twitching in a very specific manner resulted in the live recording of A-Tranquility, which we could define as an EBM-styled extended-play browsing random directions while exploring muscular deconstructed grooves as well as metallic stodgy rhytms and noisy-atmospheric synth lines.
Italo Deviance’s boss Marcello Giordani strikes back with a wonderful and stylish piece of real Electronic Disco. Danza Meccanica is a bass driven, snuggy slice of sexy early ’80s Disco. Azione Motoria is an hybrid between Disco and Detroit Techno, Spacey, with analogic arpeggios and melodies from other dimensions
Following the debut 12-inch Wild Rites for Details Sound imprint, talented artist Matteo Viani returns under his Black Seed guise with a condensed noise-filled techno formula, revealing a spectrum of dark energy experiments.
2 Different sides of pure drummachine techno. Minimal and functional. Two artists, M. Jupiter and Villa Åbo, here share a vinyl 12 inch with two tracks each.
Swedish label Virgo Rising presents a new release featuring 4 raw techno cuts by Daniel Araya.
Ann Arbor-based producer D’Marc Cantu will next land on Richard Fearless’ fledgling Drone imprint with the ”Decay” b/w ”Rival” 12”. The two-track record will serve as Drone’s third release.
For its third release, French indie label Rave Or Die introduces two dystopian & dark tunes with haunting atmospheres from Drvg Cvltvre & Umwelt. A serious release for smoking dancefloors.
Timothy J Fairplay returns to Emotional Response with a mini-LP of brooding intensity, looking at the deeper, more introspective sounds his solo mission were known for.
Pluralist industrial jackin utopia that is Grey People from the crunchy, dissonant piano stomp of ”Trench Foot, and the equally crunchy, driving, new wave dirge of Moonstruck, to the cosmic drift and thump of ”Lock the Box” and the funked up FM slap-bass of ”Wild Intentions.”
Uncanny Valley techno sublabel shtum just released a FREE 4 tracker compilation with tracks released on the label by Monomood, Kryptic Universe, Yør and Leibniz. You can download the tracks from their bandcamp or soundcloud pages bellow.
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