techno
VA – 100DSR/VAR2 [100DSR/VAR2]
o mark the occasion of Delsin hitting 100 releases, the label is to release five new various artist EPs throughout the rest of the year. Besides a special collector’s box edition, all EPs will be offered separately, with limited edition colour runs and unlimited black copies. All fifteen tracks will also be compiled onto one CD. Following on from the first EP that included tracks from Claro Intelecto, Gerry Read and Unbroken Dubs comes the second offering, which features Mike Dehnert, Conforce and CiM.
Lords Of Midnite – Drown In Ur Love EP [UTTULEGORAVE]
Unknown To The Unknown step once again where many have feared the Unknown! This time on a quest to unearth the Lords Of Midnite, a sect of humanoid aliens lost for generations and almost erased entirely from the history books. US military droids were tasked with an expedition to discover the lost rhythms that some consider the key to existence. Discovering that all that remained were 3 lost audio maps & shocked to discover the messages hidden within.
VA – Espacio Profundo [LWYF005]
Love What You Feel is back, and the family is expanding! LWYF-005 is a various artists EP featuring jams by four master craftsmen of house and techno whose music has been a mainstay in the record boxes of the label heads for years. Santiago Salazar, Lerosa, Moonstarr and J Fine.
RA.379 Juju and Jordash
Murphy Jax – Teleport: Echo City [CHIWAX002LP]
Murphy Jax delivers a fresh full length EP entitled “Teleport : Echo City”, via the Frankfurt based Chiwax imprint. The album embraces a variety of styles, ranging from Chicago House, Classic Deep House, Movie Theme style cuts and raw Acid workouts. The mood of the records goes from child like melodies to dark, hypnotic and brooding synth heavy tracks.
Jax tells us the story of the album “Imagine a pre-apocalyptic generation of robots on a planet of machines. This is the last generation before the big war against the darkness, slowly coming from space. Some groups are fighting each other in chaos, others party before everything seems to end and lots of them don’t know – yet, but they all dream of Echo City. The one and only safe point, founded by Dr. Nigel Echo in the deep, cold and blue core of the planet. Dreams, desires, rebellion and chaos. They´re all going to fight the coming darkness, united by the prince of nanomagica. Taking place at several different locations, we are looking into the last hours before it all begins and ends at the same time.”
D’Marc Cantu & JM De Frias – I Have No Eyes, And I Must See [SEQ008]
Nicolas Cantu makes a welcome return to Sequencias with The Lost Tribe—a brisk 808 workout with lush synthwork and psychedelic acid stylings. This is a more breezy approach compared to his work on other labels yet spares none of the imaginative or emotive qualities. On the flip side, label head JM De Frias offers up the dissonant groover The Light as a follow up to his debut track from Levon Vincent’s acclaimed Fabric mix CD. Brash percussion collides with staccato melodies awash in echo and organ, sustaining an intensity that never quite boils over. The two team up for the closer The Last Light, an atmospheric epic of growling strings, breathy ambience and melancholy stitched together with creaky, decrepit acid stabs and brittle percussion. This is the beginning of an on going collaboration between the two, keep your ears open in the near future.
Xosar Live @ Boiler Room, Dekmantel Festival (Amsterdam) 23.08.2013
VA – LGBT Rights for Russia Now!
Russia’s official policy and attitude towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people has fallen down a slippery slope. This is a compilation by 24 left-field techno producers to raise money, awareness and show our support to the Russian LGBT people.
Beau Wanzer / Svengalisghost – CCCP 02 [CCCP002]
After totally missing the incredible CCCP 01, we are happy to have finally tracked down some of this illusive heat.. get it quick. blistering tracks from Chicago’s Beau Wanzer and Svengalisghost.
VA – Dark Acid II [CDR12002]
The Glasgow-based label Clan Destine Records with the second release in the series Clan Destine Traxx. Optimo Music’s Golden Teacher are heavily involved, contributing a track in “Cedar Eels” that feels like an extension of their polyrhythmic endeavours for JD Twitch’s label. In addition some of the band appears under the Tropic Of Capricorn banner with the straight up acid techno banger “Helen Gilgrist” whilst Stefen Blomeier might just steal the show with the K’ed up Daphni stylings of “They Have No Place In Paradise”.
VA – Dark Acid [CDR12001]
After a catalogue of experimental, industrial and band-related releases, the Clan Destine label moves into techno with Dark Acid. The first release is a five track mini-album opened by the cagey Chicagoan bass and Marcel Duchamp-referencing Detroitisms of Dungeon Acid’s “Nude Descending A Staircase”. Sharing the two-track A-side is the “Subway Antlers” by the unknown cheek of Ron Hardly, featuring some ’90s house percussion and a melody that sounds distinctly like the Doctor Who theme. Torn Hawk introduces some charged gothic techno with his Fast Throne mix of “Black Rain”, while Tuff Sherm opts for a minimal and slow ghetto house approach in “Idle Engines”. Recent One Eyed Jacks remixer Worker/Parasite brings the mini-album its most lieral representation of ‘dark acid’ by drenching the 303 workout that is “Angkar Loeu” in heavy reverb.
Orlando Voorn – Flight EP [ST004]
Orlando Voorns Flight EP features four tracks of pure electronic funk. The Flight 313 track was already released by Orlando on his own label but only digital. Due to high demand we’ve put it on limited black gold for all you fans out there! It comes with a special beatless version as well. As if that ain’t enough Flight EP also features Cheater. A bold house track with that special Voorn funkyness in it which will move everybody on every dancefloor. Last but not least is Strings. With its beautiful strings and continuous drive this is a track you will play to the last minute over and over again. All in all, a highly recommended release which deserves a special place in every recordcase.
Charles Cohen – Morphosis Reworks [REDOSE002]
Morphine label boss, Morphosis, presents the music of electronic composer, Charles Cohen, kicking things off with these two deadly interpretations of ‘Dance Of The Spirit Catchers’.
D’Marc Cantu – Alternate Frequency EP [CR1265]
18 Months after serving up his debut LP ”Fallen”, D’Marc Cantu returns to his other home from home, Crme Organization. He’s back with a six track EP, Alternate Frequency, that sees him explore the same prickly analogue house and techno that has made him into the revered producer he is today. The title track opens up the EP with fizzing analogue synth lines and a nervous, howling melody before acid, muffled vocals and coarse claps all get chucked into the dense sci-fi mix. ‘Size And Shape’ is a more propulsive and dancefloor facing track. Surfing along on a lively kick drum, repeated vocal phrases interact with choppy percussion, glowing pads light up the backdrop and a delightfully lively melody runs amok at the centre of it all. Like an old school garage house track in overdrive, its full of charm. ‘Straight Shooter’ is then a zithering, 100 mile an hour piece of skeletal acid techno that grows ever more frantic and ‘Tazakuro’ is a lively analogue brew of cowbells, freewheeling synths and tumbling drums. Titanium Control Arms lurks deep in outer space with the humdrum of intergalactic space travel gurgling all around the central melodic motif and ‘Speed Freak’ is just that, a hyper-driven bit of electro with frantic percussion and riddled with unnerving synth lines that makes you want to jiggle every bone in your body.
Beau Wanzer – Beau Wanzer [LIES031]
Chicago’s Beau Wanzer known for his work with Mutant Beat Dance and Streetwalker makes his debut on L.I.E.S. with his first solo EP. Wanzer who has been involved in the underbelly of American electronic music for many years, cut his teeth working at Magas’ now defunct Weekend Records and Soap. Through that time Wanzer constantly worked on music amassing a sizable studio where he worked in various electronic strains creating an impressive body of work. These tracks come from different points of his career and are stripped down functional pieces made for the dj even if that was not their initial intention.
TX Connect / CT Trax – DABJ Allstars Vol.1 [DABJ1207]
Dixon Avenue Basement Jams present their first various artists release, the self-explanatory DABJ Allstars Vol 1. Two unheralded names share the billing for this one, TX Connect and CT Trax; the former delivers “TX Acid”, a tuff 303 jam for sweaty basements, and “Ghetto 972”, a slamming piece of house with its eye on the more raucous end of the 90s, while CT Trax presents “Redline”, a driving techno belter filled with phased synths, and the standout “Jack Attack”, which distils classic Dance Mania down to its most primal rhythmic elements.
Fancy & Spook – Fiends Without Faces [TABR020]
Glasgow duo Fancy & Spook make their long overdue return to the label with an intriguing Mini LP, packed full of electro oddities.
Seldom Seen – Catwalk EP [FRV011]
Frigio proudly presents one of the best producers from the Detroit techno academy, now based in L.A, Seldom Seen aka Santiago Salazar delivers the amazing Catwalk EP. Fierce, extrava, glamorous, attitude, fabulous, drama…. All these words could describe what you will find on this record of one track and two versions.
Ideograma – Geographic Ascending EP [FRV010]
Madrid based artist Ideograma (aka DJ F) gets released on Frigio for the first time and delivers the most intelligent and elegant techno tunes you can find at the moment. Geographic Ascending EP comes with 4 unique tracks full of class and emotions. All tracks were done with 100% analogue gear to create sophisticated melodies and a raw texture that make the final result very warm.
The Hipodrome Of Music 