Filippo Bena with an EP on Amazing Stories. Intriguing and engaging moods, accompanied by spatial rhythms.
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H. Russell-Ashe – KL 04 [KL04]
Kavalanic Languges number four comes from the discredited psychologist H. Russell-Ashe. A suite of hypnotic acid love songs, with the twisting 303 lines and hypnotic ~20 minute runtime of “Vanderbilt” causing serious dance floor psychosis, while the more even-keeled “Kivaaluun” coasts on a bubbling sea of snare drums and bass hits.
BLΔCKMOON77 – Psychicbody 006
Lokier – Phormix Podcast #141
Empfänger – Schwarze Kohle [LXRC37]
It’s Swedish New Beat, and Industrial craze. TowLie and Dj Sling are making music together as Empfänger. Releasing first time on Lux Rec. The EP is wild, raw, body heating, uncompromising. Four tracks which explore the deepest, slowest physical feelings.
Marc Ash – Litanies For The Self [BSLK005]
The fifth issue of Blacksilk sees the return of label head Marc Ash. He comes forth with a work that reveals a deeper side of his obscure and multifaceted vision of electronic music. Rejecting any fixed musical categorization, the listener is left free to decide how to deal with these compositions, each one exploring different areas of Marc’s approach to existence through seductively articulated synth lines. A work of self-reflection and a stark celebration of controversial times of uncertainty and doubt.
Chino – Electronic Explorations 509
VA – The Orbitants [FU-ME008]
The Orbitants run into galaxy exploring the unknown. Space ambient track from the electro soldier The Exaltics, explores the parallel worlds with his iconic sound. The electro duo Faceless Mind, straight outta North Europe kicked it with ‘Viggen Formations’: heavy bassline, highly evocative and hypnotic synth. Follow up the B1. Keep on going with the well-crafted formula DJ Vietnam and Haterparisi. Generated arpeggios by modular square-waves with syncopated beats reminding their techno background tells the experience of an alien abduction. Discover the raw surfaces of the B side which feels both organic and apocalyptic. ‘Intergalacid’ by Umwelt, a mix of acid-rave and electro to create some high impact sonic weaponry.
Jensen Interceptor – Activated EP [BP005]
The “Between Places” Saga continues. This time with non other than powerman Jensen Interceptor. 5 tracks of icy electro which definitely burn down every dancefloor. Including a special collab with “Das Muster” from Germany.
Stef Mendesidis – Valley Of Machines [KLOCKWORKS23]
Ben Klock introduces Greek-grown, Moscow-based artist Stef Mendesidis for the next Klockworks release. Mendesidis delivers 3 original tracks utilising solely analogue gear to produce soundscapes inspired by cinematic scenes.
Anthony Linell – Sculpting Energy [NE56]
Anthony Linell’s latest suite of tracks cruise and drift with their head up. With a dizzy palette of terse and winding melodies, ‘Sculpting Energy’ feels like another new avenue for Linell on his unbreakable run of EPs. Drone surveillance-style patterns remain intact this time around, hinting at the unmistakable frozen planes of his previous works, yet with the opening track there’s the smack of bustling heat, as its title ‘Therme’ alludes to. The EP’s closing piece, ‘Vision of the Imminence’, presents a familiar sullen theme. Perhaps the measure of his latest work’s difference is in the modulating barbed wire-percussion and birdsong- synths that wrap the track’s cold core?
616 – Amor Amor Amor EP [SSL-007.1]
Stephen Lopkin – Imitator EP [DWT005]
Glasgow’s Stephen Lopkin presents the “Imitator EP”, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the golden era of techno. Four tracks covering a broad range of styles from Detroit to the classic UK sound of the 90s. Serene electronics abound though every track packs a considerable punch making this EP as at home for home listening as it is for packing out the dancefloor.
I-F @ Dekmantel Selectors 26.08.2018
Lectromagnetique – Artificial Sources EP [EMCV003]
Lectromagnetique is back with renewed forces and his well recognizable electro-acid sound forms. Sonic waves of ‘Artificial Sources’ will take you to ionized radiation areas of Chernobyl where radiation dosimeters and heat strain monitors will be hobbling by unknown reason. Be careful, discovering this dystopian soundscape of radioactive area, where nature poisoned by humanity – still looks alive and dangerous acid flows may cause side effects.
Jensen Interceptor & Assembler Code – Kinematics [CPU01000011]
Jensen Interceptor & Assembler Code deliver another four tracks of deep hitting electro on CPU. Dancefloor electro, gleefully sprinting between dark, angular and angry fare (punishing but brilliant opener “Abstract Model”), rush-inducing peak-time anthems (the glassy-eyed, fuzz bass-driven bliss of “Kinematics”), Drexciya style workouts (“Extraction”), and buzzing, late night contortions (“VR Escort”). In other words, it’s another killer collection of cuts that should be on every electro head’s shopping list.
Wax – No.60006 [WAXNO60006]
Mick Wills @ Delta (Gamma Festival) St. Petersburg (Russia) 17.11.2019
PNKMIX-26 | Borusiade – Decembrie
Silent Servant – Shadows Of Death & Desire [HOS613]
Now-legendary producer, DJ, and art director Juan Mendez arguably reset techno at least twice. Once with his surreal and Europe-by-way-of-LA ’80s surrealist apocalypse culture aesthetics for Sandwell District, and again–as Silent Servant–with his “Jealous God” imprint that captured the youth-driven mutation of crossover electronics and dark parties churning in the American underground, which followed directly in the wake of his game-changing modern classic, Negative Fascination. Mendez has evolved to more aggressive and stripped-down acid punk electro dance attacks on Silent Servant’s equally vital follow-up, Shadows of Death and Desire. While many would stall after the success of a now contemporary cult classic, Mendez took his time to deliver a more raw–yet refined–brutalism in his second album.
The Hipodrome Of Music 