techno
Savas Pascalidis – Nuclear Rawmance [SWSH004]
‘Nuclear Rawmance’ is soundwise very different from Savas’ Pascalidis previous albums, so it can clearly be seen as his first Longplayer in a new sea of sounds. Over 12 masterfully produced cuts, all created in his studio using a veritable bank of hardware, Savas pours out his musical heart. From tough, old school edged house, to raw, jacking techno, dub atmospheres and smokey warehouse epics.
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VA – Music From Mathematics Vol.6 [MATH040]
Volume 6 represents the label’s harmony, balance, sincerity, love, & truth. This is conveyed with this release’s composers who come from all sides of the electronic music spectrum – avant garde, nu disco, house, & industrial. 4 tunes of honest Mathematics music!
Aubrey – Evacuation [SYNCRO005]
Official re-release of the 1997 Off Shoot Records Evacuation (Marathon EP) & 1995 Solid Groove Shimmer (Presents EP) done by Aubrey. Skudge, who caused quite a stir with the first two 12’s on his own label, revisited Evacuation for a new update!
Octave One – Dema / Meridian (Revisited Series) [4WCL001]
430 West Records embarks on an epic journey revisiting classic tracks from it’s 20 year history with 2010 reworkings. First in the series are remixes of Octave One’s seminal techno track “Meridian” and their absolute floor killer ”Dema”.
VA – Environmental Radiatin Dose On The Moon [ZA000LTD]
Deep and minimized acid techno rubs from a consortium of Giorgio Gigli, Obtane and nAX_Acid. ‘The Child That Was Watching The Moon’ perhaps warrants the acid tag more with its detuned and grumbling low end modulations occurring under streamlined layers of modern classical techno drums. ‘The Moon That Was Watching The Child’ on the flip serves a groovier function with a tech-house swing anchored by a fat bass yet still keeping focussed on pristine synths.
SP-X – Signal Path Experiments EP [KOMISH05]
Komisch is honoured to release the debut EP by SP-X. Combining lean, snappy percussion with evil bass sounds, SP-X also brings slamming, skipping beats and insane filtering to each track.The ominous chords of ‘SP-14’ is the track that has received the most DJ support, but both ‘SP-17’ and ‘SP-10’ are functional but distinctive club tracks whose panning riffs and hissing percussion will destroy any club.
Rau – The Blessing [STAUB02]
Stripped down basement techno tracks on the Giegling sub label Staub. Two tracks with a touch of that post basic channel sound with a gentle steady groove.
Ed Davenport – Verdantin [FALK02]
Verdantin is an epic 13 minutes long burner. Moody synths, haunting vocals, and a sub-sonic kick drive the slowly evolving structure forward. However… b-side track Siebzehn is at least as good with its lush dubby chords and its echo-ing vocals layer over a classic house groove.
Basic Soul Unit – Night Heat [MULE071]
Title track of ‘Night Heat’ on a side is a melodic and playful detroitish house track. On the b side, we invited our favorite underground house producer Fred P aka Black Jazz Consortium to the remixer. He almost cuted off the melody and made more dj tool version, it fits perfectly for dark club.
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Altered Natives – The Bitch / Crop Duster [3024009]
The Bitch’ bounces a cheeky square bassline into play with old-skool ruff-house vibes pivoting about shoulder dropping syncopation. On the flip ‘Crop Duster’ takes it down low with crouching subs and skittering percussion showing the lineage of Afrobeat through house and broken beats to end up in Natives territory.
Furreshu – Untitled [PSQ002]
Industrial stripped techno with some dubby berlin techno influences and straight on dubstep percusion.
Fabrice Lig – Genesis Of A Deep Sound [FA019]
New full length CD from the man, Fabrice Lig. Nice combination of downbeat tracks, electro and classic Detroit techno as we know of Fabrice Lig! Perfect versatile Nice price CD release with all the extra’s, beautiful artwork!
Don Williams – Dynamic Rain [BAUD003]
Don Williams provides two deep and tricky Detroit jackers for Baud. ‘Dynamic Rain’ is lead by future-tribal tom patterns and sparse, abstract synthlines. The idiosyncratic ‘Glis Groove’ on the flip reminds of Redshape (who coincidentally mastered this 12″) with deep shuffling arrangement tinged with a sci-fi house vibe. Lovely heavy card sleeve and top class cut & mastering job.
Claudio Mate – Trippin Dub EP [SNEJL016]
Snejl 16th release faces the italian Claudio Mate with a wonderful 3 tracker oozing Detroit techno with a blend of chicago and house. Deep, driving techno from Snejl.
Samuli Kemppi – Kosmos EP [KOMISCH04]
‘Kosmos’ and ‘Massa’ cuts are mesmerizing and sophisticated techno. PVH’s remix of ‘Massa’ shreds some of the tense rhythmic muscle to leave an unstable undercarriage of delayed bass kicks and ‘Suunta’ adds a cold thrilling melody to frost any room it’s deployed in.
