Dusseldorf based Digital Prophet releases his first EP on MNTLTRX this year. His Transdimensional Communication Systems EP is a pure techno romance in a future retro apperance.
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Mick Wills – Demo Mix #19
VA – DBA015.5 [DBA015.5]
The first of a number of various artists eps from Don’t Be Afraid. The Room Below debuts with the crisp, low-slung acid gyrations of ‘Work’, and Manuel Gonzales aka MGUN rubs out the bright, creamy Detroit lather of ‘Risqué’. Ali King also debuts with the warm, sub-heavy swing and jazz-wise palette of ‘Session 24’, and Italy’s Deep88 drops the breezy pipes and Rhodes chords of ‘Sunday Morning’.
Florian Kupfer – Florian Kupfer [LIESBLK006]
Cold summer drop on the limited black series from Florian Kupfer. Heavy jackin floor tracks, mellowed dubs, and some strange nod to a 90s rapper. Essential club gear. This one will not last.
Ratchett Traxxx – 003 [RAXXX003]
Flexi / Blendi / Adopo – Wirr 1 [WIRR001]
Industrialized and stripped techno tracks from the Atelier Records/General Elektro based Adopo, Blendi and Flexi. The four spacious, industrial riddims all come with hints of new beat and acid, ghost synth sounds and male & female vocals entering and leaving the mix as if recorded in a parallel world. A steady run from the underworld of General Elektro.
LA-4A – Cobalt [DELFT003]
Delft is delivering more sick acid tunes. This time its Delft’s chief LA-4A on duty and providing some advanced modern acid jackers. Good old traditional tracks with a contemporary twist.
Woody McBride – When Good Times Turn Sour [FN018]
Classic 90s acid unleashed again in the 21th Century, Forced Nostalgia revisit choice tracks from US DJ and producer Woody McBride. These four tracks, remastered for this release, appeared on several of the veteran’s releases two decades ago but are every bit as urgent today. ‘The Head Is Not Longer Than The Body’, unrelenting in its forward motion, takes a simple acid riff and keeps on pushing until the pressure is unbearable. ‘Pasture’s Star Route’, with its scattered snares and pounding techno kicks, throws down a haunting acid riff that pans through the body, let alone the speakers. There’s just as much terror in ‘Out Of Reach’ and ‘Pure Ideas’ even if the latter is slower and more delicate in its approach.
Robert Crash – Friends To Friends EP [DIN003]
Robert Crash again delivers with the kind of house music that was informed by the disco of the past. Reconstructed and re-imagined off kilter beat tracks, mixers and wacked out cuts that will turn the party out.
Gavin Russom – The Purge / Entropy [ET0001]
Entropy Trax, is the new sister label to Kompakt’s Walls helmed Ecstatic imprint. Expect limited edition hand artworked white-label 12”s from a variety of artists, focussed on experimental dance floor sounds. The debut release comes from DFA’s Gavin Russom (The Crystal Ark/Black Meteoric Star) with a titanic double-header that announces the first of a series of releases for the label. Recording under his own name for the first time since 2011’s ‘Night Sky’, this material finds Russom creating visceral and hypnotic dance floor tracks.
VA – Masse Box [MASSEBOX001]
May 2013 saw the premiere of the choreography ‘Masse’, a co-production between Berghain and the Staatsballett Berlin. A whole evening of contemporary dance which has been set up by three different choreographers is in need of three different sound producers. The painter Norbert Bisky has been chosen to create the stage design. At the core of the dance night lies a tryptichon made out of pure sound: the music of Henrik Schwarz, Marcel Dettmann & Frank Wiedemann and DIN aka Efdemin & Marcel Fengler was taken as the starting point for developing the choreographies.
Marcel Dettmann – Seduction [OTON076]
For this remix EP Dettmann lets Deuce, Anthony Parasole and Ryan Elliot take control of the temptation.
Credit 00 – Juno Plus Podcast 90
Rødhåd @ Nuits Sonores (Lyon) 31.05.2014
Synthek & Audiolouis – Unwise [NTCLP001]
The debut album by Synthek & Audiolouis can be seen like a precious gathering of different approaches to Techno, made in order to create a meaningful and elaborate piece of work. The opening tracks Miasma and Intro:spection are just a glimpse into the atmospheres which costantly surround the whole album. Strong rhythmics and overwhelming soundscapes never abandon the ears, modulating intensity and brightness along the journey through a sea full of dark acid waves. Unwise is a bold sequence of powerful tracks devotedly written for the dancefloor, but still keeps a certain emotional aspect made of few melodic Detroit-rooted cuts, standing as a tribute to the author’s primary inspirations.
Dario Zenker – Morsin / W3 [TTT024]
Cassegrain – Blood Distributed As Pure Colour [PRG036]
Since Cassegrain entered the techno consciousness back in 2010 with the final artist 12? on Kevin Gorman’s Mikrowave label, the Greco-Austrian pairing of Alex Tsiridis and Huseyin Evirgen have carved out their own corner in the world of foreboding, bassline driven, deep techno. The title track’s power electronics fall somewhere between a Regis, British Murder Boys and Donato Dozzy production, while the focus of “Hexagon Fifteen” is steely ambience, oblique drums and ghostly textures. The final track, “Yokai”, is what real Prologue fans will associate with most thanks to its floating hypnotisms and extreme feedback loops.
MGUN – Digital Tsunami 039
D’Marc Cantu – Parisian Summer [DSR112]
Desire presents a new release, featuring 5 jacking tracks with sleazy 303’s frantic synths by D’Marc Cantu.
Roberto Clementi – Bonton EP [ECHOCORDCOLOUR028]
Heavy deep techno tracks from Italian Roberto Clementi on Echocord Color. The release comes with a Marcel Dettmann remix.
The Hipodrome Of Music 