Dino Sabatini continues exploration into the dark side of the industrial techno Sonic Groove with his four track” Small Step EP”. Deep dark electronic music ranging from peak floor burners to dark deep mind burners that techno & industrial lovers from around the universe will surely love.
Second release from Färden featuring the debut from Splice, with some really pure and beautiful techno.
‘Beelines For Working Bees’ is a 12” that sees four of the most innovative artists in electronic music rethinking and reconfiguring the strands of Lucy’s forthcoming album ‘Wordplay for Working Bees’. The relationship between the point of origin and the end point is not a prescribed one: the beelines of Tommy Four Seven, James Ruskin, Peter Van Hoesen and Truss return to the hive of Lucy’s album taking the most experimental and cross-pollinated paths. SA008 acts as a case in point for techno, melding and fusing genre boundaries to reveal new hybrid sounds. SA008 presents a utopian vision that’s puckering at the seams. The artists chose the tracks that they wished to remix and fused their own defined sound identities with that of Stroboscopic Artefacts. In anticipation of Lucy’s debut album this is a delicious foretaste of what’s to come and a cryptic insight into four of techno’s leading minds.
Adventurous techno tracks with the basic and functional approach like all of the Horizontal Ground releases.
The Romanian Aeromaschine delivered a real versatile stunner release for Baalsaal Records. “Debunking Random Myths” stands out as a very unpredictable piece of live performanced like collage. “Not So” is an hypnotic acidy interpretation of past future old school with a present high roller coat. On the flip Bearweasel digs a little deeper with classy dubby elements and a journey to planet x dream dancing to come… The dark horse is “Serenades for Simple Brains” a beatdowner that nails it when it comes to non hype edit production.
Deep Detroit , basic channel inspired techno tracks. XDB delivers a cool bassline driven remix that goes somewhere between old Chicago and more atmospheric techno.
Other Heights Three introduces Ozka and Jakob Altmann. Belgian and German effectivity bound together in a strengthened and dub-begeisted EP.
An other release on the Spanish label Analogue Solutions, with some banging house and techno based on samples from Detroit tracks.
This two tracker is another slice of solid, atmospheric dub-techno that skanks and drives along with much attention paid to the basslines. Heavy bass driven post Basic Channel techno tracks.
The Exaltics are back with a new album on Last Known Trajectory. Short, sharp, electro styles in the form of ‘Irresistible’ and ‘Calculate’ devised to strike the target head-on, while the brooding, soulful, even graceful, techno gloom of ‘Relentless’ warns of impending doom. Dark times… dark vibes.
Local Action come correct with two debut productions by Contakt strapped with a killer Rolando remix! ‘Not Forgetten’ tips the balance towards boldly melodic and tranced-out motifs powered by a cool and clipped Funky roll, whereas ‘Rhodophyta’ is all about rugged, highly rinsable dub chord flares and staggered Funky rhythm construction for the movers. Detroit’s son, Rolando revises ‘Not Forgotten’ with a deft Latin tuck, savoring the build with a skilled restraint and teasing the rhythm like he’s loving it
This is the first full-length album on the It’s label for Germany’s Richard von der Schulenburg aka RVDS. It’s deep, acid, fragile, party, lonely, and special. Inspired by classic deep and acid house, old instruments such as the TR-808, Roland JP-6, Wurlitzer E-Piano and some others are combined with new accents, but always with a special bent towards Detroit music.
CRC, one half Morphology, returns to Heliocentric Music with two new blistering tracks in the vein of famous 90ies UK-IDM Techno. The contribution by Myon is a 9-minute cut with huge basslines and strings that will rock your socks of.
Doctor Vinyl announced the second release of Boubastar aka Sebastien Bourbonnais. A mixed bag with 3 distinctive colors and sounds. ‘Tesla Versus The World’ goes into E-dub techno versus melodic house mode, while ‘We-R-Reborn’ is as sublime menacing melodic techno cruncher, but the standout of this release is ‘Third Mountain From Our Last Encounter’.
Four tracks of deep techno and electro produced by Nick Dunton, one half of The 65D Mavericks. This EP represents a bit of a departure from his hard-edged 65d style, and brings four beautiful tracks steeped in soulful imagery. It’s all classic Detroit style techno on here ranging from solid sweet dub techno to more string laden electro tracks with beautiful spoken voices. ‘Lost Love’ is absolutely the winner but all 4 tracks are top notch
