techno
Vakula – SHEVC006 [SHEVC006]
After a small Shevchenko break, the Slavic Spiritual Warrior is back! Expect the usual mind-melting psychedelic dub warfare from all angles. ‘No Music’ is proper warehouse gear – intense, dark and cut at 45rpm for maximum damage. Flip over for two more abstract, analogue voyages into the Ukranium.
Marco Bernardi – Cosmodrome [RAWAX010.4]
Felizol – Our Team Never Won [NTROP021]
Felizol comes with his 3rd EP for Ntrop recordings. “Our Team Never Won” of 3 tracks, attempts to bridge experimental hardware music with programmed club-oriented grooves. Randomness and roughness straggle with elegance and balance. Our team Never Won is a deep techno song with foggy vocals, aggressive kicks, distorted bass and side-chained melodies. “11 Years” minimize latin harmonies and guitar timbres while the dry house beat and the warm poly-analogs follow the repetitious vocals. “The Promise” is an experimental dub with jazz fragments and minor piano chords constructed around the field recording of a Finish lunatic old man talking to himself.
VA – System Failure [CHAVAL005]
Spanish Chaval records with their 5th release show casing the talents of a group of spanish techno producers. A sharp energetic selection of tracks by Groof, Tadeo, Architectural, Retrovision, De Felipe, Ausdrucke. The future for the iberican techno looks bright!
Robert Hood – Torque One / Movement [MM161]
As a first taster of the upcoming Nighttime World 3 album by Robert Hood, Music Man presents Torque One (taken from the album) and an exclusive & vinyl-only track to this 12”, called Movement. As a first taster of the album we now present to you ‘Torque One’ (taken from the album) and an exclusive & vinyl-only track to this 12”, called ‘Movement’. With this release, mister Hood delivers 2 timeless pieces of electronic music inspired by a jazzy, dreamy ‘Nighttime World’. Quality.
Eduardo De La Calle – Suprawax 004 [SUPRAWAX004]
Effective dub inspired house/techno tracks by this Analogue Solutions offspring by Eduardo De La Calle.
Regis – Death Head Said [DN050]
Raw banging techno racks by Regis. ” the tracks from the Death Head Sessions were originally dub-plates used for Regis Live Actions at the End of the 90’s. They were used to layer over live electronics and are all interlocking pieces that were constructed to be played back to back. They have now been reclaimed from the earlier decoy release * ,re- mastered and arranged in the order they appeared on the original dub plates.”
Markus Suckut / Marcelus – 10 inch01 [REPITCH1001]
Repitch presents the new 10inch series. For the first time Repitch is releasing original tracks from new artists so it won’t be stuff from D.Carbone, Ascion and Shapednoise. The artists featured on this new 10inch series are Marcelus and Markus Suckut. On the A side, Markus Suckut delivers an epic techno track in a full oldschool spirit. The stomping broken beat is marked by a dark melody and a groan which take us back to 1995’s R&S golden age. Marcelus, on the B side, mantains the oldschool spirit of the release with a raw and mechanical floorburner that sounds like a powerful studio-session between an Industrial band and a modern Techno producer.
Inigo Kennedy – Vignettes (Two) [SEMANTICA036]
A techno man for over 15 years, Inigo Kennedy was initially associated with labels like ZET and Missile in the second half of the 1990’s. Thereafter he took it easier until making a return to the studio some years ago. Formerly known as a backer of harsh 4/4 beats, Kennedy now explores new directions and follows up the first “Vignettes” experimental single released last year on Semantica. The second installment sees Kennedy moving closer to the floor again. Made for club charts is “Shapeshifter”, a mid-pace techno cut with abstract notes and occasional deep bass rave stabs, sending fluorescent sinusoids flashing through time and space. “Disquiet” bombs protons in thin air in an electrofied exercise. The B-side concludes with digital ballad “Ihana”, which feels like picking the summer’s first strawberries. Different from what I remember Kennedy doing, but contains a fair amount of excitement.
Vatican Shadow – September Cell [NAILS001]
New 12″from Vatican Shadow on Dominick Fernow’s own, newly minted Bed of Nails imprint. Operating from his recently consecrated L.A. compound – the label will focus on his reorientation towards industrial dancefloor rhythms and seductively isolated electronics. Fernow christens the label with ‘September Cell’, a four track 12″ loaded with some of his most direct dancefloor assaults to date. The A-side breaks down into two parts: ‘September Cell (The Storm)’ pistons a martial machine coda, all hollowed Industrial percussion and gloaming synths shot through with visceral traces of his power electronics; while ‘September Cell (The Punishment)’ realigns the rhythm with a rigid swing and insurgent, caustic swipes of noise timed with exacting accuracy. On the flip, ‘Cairo Is A Haunted City’ opens with a nightvision panorama of furtive pads before rapid-fire steppers’ rhythms find formation under cover of pitch blackness. ‘One Day He Heard The Call’ resolves the label’s first session with a bleakly evocative vision polluted by Vangelis-like synth-brass flares and toxic synths…
The Transhumans / Arcanoid – Theory And Practice Of Domination Vol. 1: Hidden Establishment [TH004]
A new series by Transhuman Records, Thematic: A Manual Of Domination. Arcanoid melts again breaks, gears and epic melodies, creating a new substance, being himself the only owner of its formula. Two tracks of The TransHumans. Hypnotic and intense techno. Energy and rawness in Birmingham’s way. Experimental noisy ambient finish this release. Industry and asphyxiating atmosphere. A cry for help by the oppressed.
Snuff Crew Live @ Berghain (Berlin) 04.08.2012
DJ Spider & Marshallito – Hyper Chaotic Dimensional Presence [SUBBASS001]
Raw intens analogue Chicago tracks opening the catalogue from Marshall Hansen’s new label done by himself & Dj Spider. 4 tracks bass heavy, deep, techno, layered with warm synths & driving beats.
Gerry Read & Kevin McPhee – Demolition Man [64768]
Bouncey House track by Gerry Read & Kevin Mc Phee, somewhere between Dance Mania and KDJ. Demolition Man is a premium slice of bass heavy, dark and dirty Tech House really hits the dance floor hard. With a healthy splash of piano stabs and moody vocals to top the track off, it keeps your ears open and your feet shuffling.
Jared Wilson – Unknown Desires [DABJ1201]
Straight outta Glasgow comes a fresh new label with a mindset aimed squarely at the dance floor! The first release comes from Detroits Acid House maestro Jared Wilson. Three trax of raw analogue emotion, kicking off with the A-side track ”Why Trust”, an epic and futuristic acid builder, cut loud for maximum effect, it gets more insane as the track progresses.
Andrew Grant & Lomez – 3rdwave [EDEC006]
Andrew Grant teams up again with Lomez for the sixth release on EDEC Music Outlet. “3rd Wave” definitely nods to the Stateside influence with its classic touches, smooth synth chords and spoken vocal drops. New Jersey´s DJ Qu with his signature cut ups and splices delivers a rework to completes the package.
Jan Schmidhofer – Platten Filet 0812
Alexander D’niel – Klona EP [ETG004]
ETG004 the ‘Klona Ep’ introduces new Argentinean talent Alexander D’niel to EarToGround Records with his first EP. The original tracks ‘Klona’ and ‘Tetroid’ both come with different vibes. One dark and atmospheric using classic
Techno elements the other more chord based with a brighter tone. Stepping up for remix duty we call upon Californian
based Techno producer ‘Truncate’ and rising UK talent ‘Tom Dicicco’. These outstanding remix and original tracks are
getting serious attention and questionably could be called some of their best work to date.
Ben Sims – In The City [THEORY039]
The prolific run of Ben Sims and his Theory imprint shows no sign of stopping, this time it’s a tough but DJ friendly 3 tracker featuring remixes from 2 of Holland’s finest. Orlando Voorn, a bonafide Techno legend, graces the E.P with a firing and typically quirky, funked up, analogue drenched reworking. While ‘Ritzi Lee’ returns with another no nonsense, raw as fuck, balls to the wall monster.
The Hipodrome Of Music 