Ed Banger and Laurent Garnier work together to give birth to a new remixes EP of the track “Jacques in the Box”. The first remix, signed by the french-germanic Gesaffelstein and Brodinski, offers a rythmed and delicious heady collaboration strongly inspired by german influences. On its side, Chicago Bordelo delivers a clearly dynamic and electric sound giving new techno impulsion to the track of french electro Grand Master.
The Emotiv Rational Machine is in full effect and gives the unnecessary things no attention and focusing only on its own distinct goal, which is to make you dance. No fancy melody, which are distracting you from being one with the bass and the 4 to the floor. No distraction from overloaded ego spilled arrangements. Ganser Syndrom; A 808 and a handfull fx with a growling synth that sees no high frequencies, maybe a little bit here and there. Vitamin B12; We give you a boost! Your brain won’t be disappointed with fantasizing on what to do next on the floor. Prodromal; It’s a 909 groove and that’s it! It’s a conclusion of many circumstances that many love that sound of this machine. Obession; It’s an obession to go out at the weekend and move like freak on the floor in your favorite club
MNTL TRX first release by Mental Model comes on strictly limited handstamped vinyl. Track 1: Delta Waves. We push you into the Delta Conscious State while grooving! Shivering Jupiter pads and a perfect slowly rising squelching 303 pattern riding together on the 909. Kick by kick it’s pushing you into the state where magic happends. Track 2: Soul Algorithm. An eleven minutes afterhouer pusher straight recorded from our machines. A perfect tool to decelerate the floor and to push the limits. Track 3: Remission. A swarming repetitive pure acid groove. A wired tool wich we juiced out of our gear just for you. Perfect for abuse on your decks. The remission sets in any moment you want it to. Track 4: Hyperthym. The Tr-909 meets Re-502 missusage garnished with a endless 303 bassline.
Legowelt & Xosar team up to deliver 3 tracks of deep aquatic techno and freaked out house jams for M Division Recordings. This 3 track super limited edition 10″ on blue vinyl starts with the title track “Oceania”. Breakbeats meets ethereal chants and hazy aquatic synths, like a lost AFX record from the early 90s. Next up, “Atlantis Force Code” – euphoric house chords submerged by a wet blanket of swirling pads. Lastly, one strictly for freaked-out late night dancefloors – “Xosheeba” – jacking beats, a tough bassline and a gnarled phantom vocal stabs.
Neville Watson’s original ‘One Four Green’ is the obvious highlight, a wiggly bottomed but robust jacker with hands-on drum machine tweaks and lovely melodic developments working just the right side of proggy. Remixing, Deep Space Orchestra beam it into more ecstatic cosmic house zones and Perseus Traxx has his tracky way.
In it’s third year of operations Vatican Shadow became an unavoidable issue on the international noise and techno agenda. Following Type, Blackest Ever Black and Modern Love editions, Dominick Fernow aka Prurient aka Vatican Shadow ploughed forth with his project, resulting in three tapes ‘Jordanian Descent’, ‘Ghosts Of Chechnya’ and ‘Atta’s Apartment Slated For Destruction’, collected here on vinyl for the first time. Disc one features both sides of his extended ‘Jordanian Descent’ meditations, some of his longest in this guise and given to incredible, unfurling loop repetitions; Disc two holds ‘Ghosts Of Chechnya’, one of his most concise and varied issues, eight tracks wide and tending towards gloomy, urgent, cinematic arabesques including the outstanding ‘Voices Came Crackling Across A Motorola Hand-Held Radio’; Disc three comprises the four parts of his amazing ‘Atta’s Apartment Slated For Destruction’ including the impeccable darkness of ‘Once This Fire Gathers Strength’.
Shifted unveils yet another cloaked figure with his Covered in Sand project, the first release on the Avian sub-label Mira following two impressive turns from the mysterious Bleaching Agent. The title track to Heavens Gates Suicides is saturated in overdrive with cloudy Regis and BMB influences evident. Vatican Shadow remixes “Heavens Gates Suicides” adding subtle musicality to his version, almost throwing the track out of sync with it’s awkward snare hits – if you can call them that. “Russian Gold & Blood Diamonds” is like a beatless Severed Heads piece pulling desperately at your heartstrings while “Pale Skin” is another electronically shambled scuzz of hollowed hisses and jittery sound design.
Wild Oats is proud to present the KMFH debut album The Boat Party. After a year of collaborative releases, Kyle Hall, under the alias KMFH, has produced a debut album; a fusion of original work, sample tracks, and raw edits. The Boat Party album artwork pokes fun at European summer boat parties and juxtaposes the destitute state of Detroit and its recent proneness to discarded luxury in financial crises. Mainly, the inability to leave and the sometimes pleasant isolation of a boat party is what the album exudes. The listener has a certain commitment to the material which definitely has its place on the dance floor. You can find tracks that have soulful, funky, and organic feels, while others have a more abstract, mechanical, and robotic sentiments. The Boat Party was carefully constructed which makes the album a cohesive mix of soulful etherealness and roughly raw sounds; KMFH’s cueing into the true aspects of Detroit.
New Marcelus 12” on his own label.. forward thinking advanced techno tracks with a little of that jacking chicago drive in it.
The second EP in their new “Lost Archives” series stands out in it’s clear dancefloor direction and it’s recognizable oldschool feel. On the A side Makam brings in a typical oldschool techno track which resemblances a mixture between old Jeff Mills material and Robert hood’s Floorplan output. The title of the B track simply points out it’s purpose. Roch and Pacou were resident DJ’s at Tresor, when they recorded this track for Roch Dadier’s Label Portrait in 2002. However, short afterwards it was recorded, Roch stopped his label, so this gem never saw the light of day. Pacou and Roch Dadier show us that tribalistic techno is still actual these days with this rhythmic piece of music.
Jeff Mills ventures further into unknown extra terrestrial worlds in the eleventh installment of his Something In The Sky series.
The third of M_Rec Ltd’s vinyl only Grey Series comes from Asma, a new collaboration between Ascion and M_Rec boss Max_M. Supposedly inspired by Dutch experimental filmmaker Frans Zwartjes’ 1968 short film of the same name, “Birds” offers some expectedly atmospheric techno; opening with tribal, rolling, warehouse-sized drums and foggy strings in the background, the track soon gives way to a heady concoction of bristling static and plucked textures played over a sonic void. Sandwell District alumnus Silent Servant’s remix is a stark contrast, pairing some vintage chord stabs, snare rolls and drum machine percussion to create a basement ready house jam laced with spectral atmospherics that is possibly one of the more club-ready tracks he has produced to date.
Mike Dehnert with a new 4 tracker, including a massive live version of Drehimpuls. The rest is slightly lighter with Eigenzeit as serious contender for winning the election of favorite tracks on this EP. A proper peak time techno monster. However b2 track Isolant is another one of Mike’s seductive grooving techno tracks in the known Dehnert style.
Minimal stripped down jacking Chicago rooted tracks. Parts 1 and 2 already managed to create a small buzz, and so will this one. Basic tracks that are proper dj tools and are deadly accurate in the right hands.
‘The Green Series’ is the continuing art and music project from Bleep.com, GiveUpArt, and photographer Shaun Bloodworth. The project will be a series of tracks exploring techno music released on limited 12″ with deluxe art prints as well as on digital formats. The second 12″ release in the series is called “BLPGRN002”. The double A-side single features the pairing of Objekt and Cosmin TRG and brings you raw techno.
Prologue with a double pack delivering 6 tracks of deep trippy dark techno. German duo Cassegrain take the name for their latest release Tiamat from the Babylonian chaos monster. If anything, though, this six-track EP is the embodiment of their take on dub-techno after Hüseyin Evirgen and Alex Tsiridis have buffered out the edges of a heretofore scabrous discography — chaos has very little to do with it.
Sweden’s Bleak is fast becoming an essential part of his country’s techno new school. Through releases on Deeply Rooted House, Sudden Drop and Traut he has emerged as a producer of funky, loopy techno a la countrymen Skudge. Here he debuts on Delsin with a fierce two tracker, Origins of Chaos. The first track ‘Sixteen Crude’ is a cantering techno cut with searing, warbling synths racing along above lazier, underlapping kicks. It’s a nice contrast that gives the acidic track plenty of depth, before the flipside, ‘Subject Target’ deals in more convoluted, whip-snap lines that thrash about like cables in a storm. Industrial yet human, it’s timeless techno that wraps you up in its midst and never lets you go.
After years of playing and working together side by side, in 2011 Dario and Marco Zenker emerged in official collaboration as Zenker Brothers with ”Berg 10 EP”. Now, they are back with their first release for Tresor, brandishing a matured sound and level of sensitivity yet displayed by either before. ‘Lion In Mars’ is like a fresh breeze billowing through the Tresor vaults. Honing in on signatures from the archive and repackaging them in modern sentiment.
The second part of Shifted’s The Cold Light series maintains a frozen and mechanical approach.
The Hipodrome Of Music 