The mysterious DJ Slyngshot has stayed rather low key since debuting in 2014, but his music has an alluring and unique charm that has made him a real underground favourite. He now debuts on the cult Workshop label with four dreamy, drifting breakbeat tunes for those in the know. The raw and rugged opener is simple but effective, A2 has thumping kicks and old school pads and B1 is a dreamy, acid laced groove full of physicality. B2 closes out with jungle samples and warped synths that cry to be played loud on a huge system. These cuts all sound at once retro but also as if beamed back from the future.
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VA – Workshop 28 [WORKSHOP28]
German label Workshop offers up a four track VA packed with gold. It kicks off with the lush and ambient-laced deep house of “Strip Down to E” before taking off with the wonky chord hits, off balance drums and withering sci-fi effects of “Grand Street Piano”, which is rave re-imagined. Things get as deep as you’d expect of a track called “Cerebral Repertoire” with its crystal clear and reflective pads, then “Zero” catches you off guard with its skittish rhythms and unusual arrangement. As always here, Workshop have cooked up some truly beguiling brilliance. Excellent leftfield House compilation.
Kassem Mosse – Workshop 019 [WORKSHOP019]
Strong release with advanced abstract house tracks. Exceptional killer leftfield House trips in true Kassem Mosse style.
Magic Mountain High – Live At Freerotation [WORKSHOPYY1]
The second release by Magic Mountain High on Workshop , featuring two long building and trippy tracks recorded live at Freerotation festival.
Ital – Workshop 18 [WORKSHOP018]
Marcellis – Workshop 16 [WORKSHOP016]
VA – Workshop 15 [WORKSHOP015]
Magic Mountain High – The Schnitzel Box Vol. 1 [WORKSHOPXX]
News first surfaced over a year ago of Move D collaborating with Juju & Jordash on an analogue heavy live project entitled Magic Mountain High with the added promise of Workshop released material to follow. Several illuminating festival appearances and many months later and the Workshop label finally present The Schnitzel Box Vol 1, with three untitled productions from the trio that ensure the wait was worth it. Granted the freedom of the A Side, the opening track is allowed the time and space to incorporate both brooding analogue drone and sprawling key laden melodic glisten. Flip over and “Untitled 2” is quicker off the blocks, swiftly settling into a fizzing house jam rich in warm colour and tone and driven by crisp Roland rhythms, whilst the final arrangement is surely the most eminently danceable with yet more warm analogue patterns and Hitchcockian synth drones worming their way around a skipping techno beat.
Marvin Dash – Workshop 14 [WORKSHOP014]
Marvin Dash aka Ronald Reuter lays down three authentically deep and heavy grooves for Workshop. A-side is suave, mid-tempo nod to Detroit Beatdown inspirations with that effortless sense of German finesse and soul control. Flipside there’s a disco-looping killer, before finishing on a weirder, left-field boogie-House number.
Move D – Workshop 13 [WORKSHOP013]
New release from Move D on Workshop. The A-side is a insinctively jazzy number he specialises in, working in a distinct Afro-rhythmic lilt with bobbling marimba-like patterns around sensually tingling strings and light-headed guitar licks. B-side finds a more muscular House groove powered by chunky Toms and seductive chords corralled with an unmistakable expertise, and tips out to a down-slow Boogie soul joint in his deeply charming style.
Kassem Mosse – Workshop 12 [WORKSHOP012]
Workshop 12 features some deep & dubby detroit influenced minimalistic techno coming from the German hero Kassem Mosse.
VA – Workshop 11 [WORKSHOP011]

Sub heavy exceptional left field house killer mini sampler with tracks by Even Tuell and Madteo and Midnight Opera.