This is the second Lockertmatik release. Another small DIY release in a small run with advanced acid techno tracks with a sharp edge. Challenging and fresh release for true school Acid House jackers.
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Myles Serge – Azul [REFORM008]
Uncompromising deeper trippy tracks Techno gear from Myles Serge and Reform. The release includes thee original cuts and a remix by Ozka.
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VA – Field 07 [FIELD007]
Keeping up the Detroit sound with high-class contributions from Dutch artists, Field strikes with another exciting collection of tracks. This seventh EP provides deep cuts by the likes of Duplex, Conforce, ESHU and Counterpart.
Trus’me – The Red Remixes [PN014]
As Trus’me steers himself further into techno territory after his emergence as a champion of funk-rooted house music, this latest set of remixes further highlights how the man has impeccable taste to match his production abilities. DVS1 creates a cavernous beast out of “In The Red”, as a sumptuous metallic reverb provides the centrepiece for fluttering hats and flat kicks in a masterful exercise in techno restraint. Meanwhile Terrence Dixon proves his worth in the world of leftfield Detroitisms with a mesmerizing melodic hook and an insistent yet restrained bassline as he tackles “Shakea Body”.
Marcelus – Super Strength EP [TRESOR251]
Marcelus serves further notice of that prefix with an EP on heavyweights Tresor and this four track Super Strength EP finds him in superb form. Leading with the title track, the 25-year-old Parisian launches with menacing intent, huge waves of post apocalyptic pressure swirling around the stereo expanses atop a thick set techno chug. Alongside it “Falcon” ascends with a slanted progress – all detuned chimes and shifting percussive touches jostling urgently for attention in mind-bending fashion. This sense of organised chaos seeps all the way to the runout groove on the flip with “Rachel’s Groove” fizzing manically throughout its entire duration while “Suspension” imbues proceedings with the faintest sense of melancholy amidst the cacophony of rattling rhythms.
Forward Strategy Group – Labour Division EP1 [TPT052]
Companion EP to Patrick Walker and Smear’s imminent debut album as Forward Strategy Group, featuring two of its heaviest cuts, one exclusive track and a brace of remixes from Factory Floor. ‘Labour Division’ is a low-slung but shark-eyed warehouse number with shades of Luke Slater’s LB Dub Corps project, while ‘Mandate’ explores darker, more minimal territory, with killer snare edits and scruffily dubbed-out chords, and ‘A Greyed Out Life’ is lush synth dreamscaping a la C2, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and even early Human League. Factory Floor’s remix of ‘Nihil Novi’ is an interesting synthesis of post-DFA dub-disco drum patterns, analogue synth spurts and industrial accenting; better still is the version of the same track by the band’s Nik Colk Void, a compelling, skin-crawling work of beatless and bass-heavy electronic abstraction in the spirit of Suum Cuique, Mika Vainio and TG.
Keith Worthy – Moments In Rhythm Volume 3 [AES014]
Moments in Rhythm vol 3. was inspired by an in-depth conversation that questioned the level of importance that today’s society does or does not value it’s critical art forms, most specifically music … the universal language, as a means of free expression. From this passionate discussion spawned the composition of an opened ended letter, written in 4/4 format that captures and shares the passion of this conversation, and ultimately asks some questions such as … Is It In You?
RA.310 Shifted
Alden Tyrell – Rush / Tntus [CBS007]
Fierce peak time techno tracks from mr Tyrell on the lost catalogue number of the Clone Basement Series.
Skudge – Skudge Remixes Part 6 [SKUDGE006R]
Skudge Records presents a remix package from Marcel Dettmann and bubbling talent Answer Code Request aka Patrick Gräser.
Mechanisms Industries – Antikythera Mechanism Remixes [M1991]
Remix package on Spanish label Mechanisms Industries, including reworks by Oscar Mulero, Henning Baer, Subjected and Fanon Flowers.
Svreca – Vilna / Hagagatan [SEMANTICA033A]
Semantica drops a new release with Svreca’s two-tracker “Vilna/Hagagatan”. By title sounding like a tribute to the Baltic Sea region, its A-side features a galvanized treatment of “Vilna” by Orphx, an industrial-rooted collective knowing no mercy. This is honest techno with echoing thunder and distortion-coated bass, in Spanish-Canadian collaboration. Dark rhythm and noise exposure also in “Hagagatan”, which takes to the throat of a foundry with all exit doors blocked.
Marco Bernardi – The Burning Love Ensemble [ROYAL012]
Marco Bernardi is back on Clone Royal Oak with a beautiful three track ep! Tracks that are a nice blend of his roots in Glasgow and Detroit techno stirred into a nice personal outing that show his talents. The Ep features slowly building tracks that keep the tension high with Bernardi’s trademark melodies layered over basic house rhythms with a raw edge.
Delta Funktionen – Traces [93DSR]
After four years of techno EPs for Delsin and Ann Aimee, Niels Luinenburg aka Delta Funktionen has finished his debut full length, Traces. Though still very much couched in techno, the album sees the Dutchman explore plenty of new sonic territory, as he often does in his long ranging DJ sets. It’s adventurous, basically, and is an album that doesn’t loose itself in intricate sound design, but instead pairs a raw, machine made aesthetic with plenty of real human soul and palpable earthly emotion.
“Traces is about my long time research into electronic music. It covers tracks that make reference to my favourite subgenres within electronic music: techno, house, electro and (Italo)-disco. There was no specific idea behind it because the album contains tracks made over a long time. Some are 3 years old, others were made this year, but in the end I think it sounds like a coherent piece of work.”
Made using a mixture of drum machines, FM and digital synthesizers, various bits of hardware and digital FX units, the whole thing was sequenced in Ableton with plenty of sample use to finish it off. From the atmospheric openings of blissful electro joint “Frozen Land” through the sultry and searching acid of “Enter” and on to more forceful cuts like “Redemption”, this is an album for listening to as much as it is for dancing. Mood driven landscapes like “Onkalo” prove that, but you’ll have to check it out for yourself to get a real appreciation of the story Delta Funktionen is telling.
Mike Dehnert – Fachwerk 25 [FW025LP01]
Mike Dehnert marks a quarter century of releases on his own label with Fachwerk 25, a full-length album comprised of 13 tracks. This new album sees Mike experimenting somewhat. Away from the dubbed out, functional and raw techno funk of his usual output, Fachwerk 25 shows some concession to the album format, with more mysterious tracks of ambient buried amongst bits of acid, rave and plenty of unhinged sound design. After the dystopian and scene-setting intro, there’s the chugging house and nagging synths of ‘Fraction’ that are both dark and beautiful at the same time. From there, there’s slowed, melancholic dub in the form of ‘Modulat” and the beat-less, underwater sounding ‘Courant’ with its icy pads and wide lateral spread. The title track is more what you’d expect of Dehnert, with well-swung kicks and grainy synth chords rolling along like basement techno should, before the squelchy industrial madness of ‘Grundform’ breaks the stride of the album once again, taking you off to a different place entirely. The second half is just as varied and unpredictable, ranging from raucous peak time stuff to more nuanced and cerebral fair that always manages to bares the hallmarks of Fachwerk: quality, invention and unpredictability.
#.19.21.3.11.21.20 – Frozen Border [FB011]
Phat driving old schoolish analogue sounding techno tracks. Raw minimal Detroit infected Techno.
The Traveller – A 100 EP [OSTGUTTON055]
René Pawlowitz aka Shed returns to Ostgut Ton under the new moniker The Traveller and delivers the first 12′ of this new project. Under his new guise Pawlowitz picks up at his roots and delivers a deep techno record made for the floor.The beats on the A-Side ‘A 100’ are fierce, the melodic synth line lifts you up while everything around appears to be burning down. The experimental first track on the B-side ‘BER’ meanders without beats and full of broken chords around thatmoment of ecstasy without ever reaching a break. On the B-side’s second track ‘Bypass’ René says hello to the techno-heroes, rolls out a red carpet and shows them what he has learned.
Developer – Orgins EP [MODULARZ007]
Modularz presents a powerful release by Developer this time getting together with techno producer Jeroen Search delivering a driving remix of Orgins.
The Hipodrome Of Music 