Techno News

Autoreply offshoot Stuga returns with a highly playable 12" that's perfect for the outdoor party season. For this release we welcome back Ben Rourke who has previously recorded for Autoreply, his Blue EP collaboration with friend Pier Bucci having sold out instantly and going on to receive critical acclaim. His tracks effortlessly build without the aid of well known formulas always using high end sound design but never forgetting that house and techno music is essentially meant for dancing. "Tahiti" is one of those tracks that's perfect for the big room or after-party alike featuring bouncy percussion, an analogue bass-line that will properly drive the sound system and one of the most infectious synth-sequences of the year. In fact the man's developed a whole new genre, "Desert Island Techno" ! "Sharpie" explores the deeper realms of dub driven techno with a very liquid approach just so slightly tipping its hat to the 90's Detroit vibe and still very much aimed at the floor. Enjoy.

Following on from the Ummo EP, which featured tracks from Quantec et al, Area 51 drops it's 4th release.

Superb mini album from BNJMN.... TIP!
After debuting earlier this year with 'Plastic World' album, BNJMN returns with his second long player 'Black Square'.

Black series is the first EP on the Eleve label, formed by several underground collectives based in Madrid (Including people from Downbeat and Area 51 labels), and focuses to on the deeper experimental side of Techno Dub.

If you are going to run an remix series of any worth, then you better be coming with the goods....Skudge have done it again, with this beast of a 12". Berlin dub king, Substance (Chain Reaction), fires off a huge side; overturning 'Overture' brilliantly. October & Appleblim do it Bristol fashion with a gritty twist up of the album track 'Real Time' ! TIP!

Aquatic underground affair from Dutch producers Mohlao and Mi-24 (aka B. Bunnik), along with Kowton from the innovating Bristol-scene. Think of techno, think of electro, think of experimental dubstep.

Here comes the new Echocord Colour. After some big releases with Luke Hess, Skudge, Sebastien San, Mikkel Metal & Resoe here comes the next bomb, this time by Mike Dehnert.

Borrowed Language returns with their third installment of genre agnostic electronics.
Following the explosive release of UNLTD & Israel Vines' "Distance No Object" EP (featured in Millie & Andrea's superb LWE podcast, and charted by the likes of DJ Pete & Grovskopa) was no easy feat, but Jeff Pietro proves to be more than up to the task with this brilliant 2-track 10''.

The much-anticipated album from Jonsson/Alter, the new project from Henrik Jonsson (Porn Sword Tobacco/Gunnar Jonsson) & Joel Alter (Joel Alter/Jor-el), has finally arrived. If the very well received preceding EPs, Olidan (km019) and En Livfull Skildring (km020), are future classics, the album Mod, sets a new standard of what a dance music album could be.

Since two years, ZeECc has delivered many EPs and LPs available on best digital stores and it's now time to present our first release on vinyl and continue our dub-techno explorations on other format. For this one, we have chosen to combine 4 tracks from 2 dub-techno pioneers from the East (Mr. Cloudy & Grad_U) and 2 others, discovered or revealed by ZeECc (The Nautilus Project & Axs).
[A] A1 | MR. CLOUDY - DREAM OF YOU [5'44'']
[B] A2 | GRAD_U - UNNAMED ONE [7'29'']
[C] B1 | THE NAUTILUS PROJECT - EBB & FLOW [6'54'']
[D] B2 | AXS - OUT OF SIGHT (DUB II) [6'47'']

27. Sicko Cell [Pearson Sound Remix] - Joy O
28. Andrew Coltrane - Systems of Chaos
29. How To Dress Well - Escape Before The Rain

Ann Aimee goes darker and more minimalistic than before with this debut release by Area Forty_One. This unknown producer gives us his personal interpretation of modern techno. This double pack contains five solid techno cuts, filled with spacy and robotic sounds, together with one imminent ambient track. Discharging Clouds gives us tracks, each one containing it's unique vibe, and will please anyone with a preference for the dark, sinister techno sound. The mysterious Area Forty_One is one to keep an eye on...

Deepchord follows recent album release Hash-Bar Loops and sell out 12 inch Amsterdam Remnants, with even more luscious, flowing and atmospheric dub techno.

Brendon Moeller, aka Echologist and Beat Pharmacy needs no introduction. His work with numerous fine labels such as Francois K's Deep Space Media, Ann Aimee, Rekids, Mule, Echocord, Third Ear, Electric Deluxe, Ostgut Ton, to mention but a few, speaks for itself. Whether it be serious dancefloor bizniz, or dubbed out bass-scapes and experimentalism, his music has always possesses a quality and signature that continues to captivate a worldwide audience. This is his seventh full length album.
01. subterranean
02. slow burn (filter dub)
03. lunar cycle
04. ritual (phased rework)
05. deliberate
06. swell (modular take)
07. junkyard
08. creation

Dumb Unit returns with an energetic four tracker from our man in NYC : ELon. inkl. Exercise One Remix!

In addition to the "Best Of Ambient" compilation from John Beltran, two remixes are made to honour one of our favourite electronic music producers of all time. The a-side gives us a reinterpretation of "Brilliant Flood" from rising star Kassem Mosse together with his studiomate Mix Mup. This remix smoothly pimps up the track whilst leaving the atmosphere of the original intact. On the b-side, Sven Weisemann made a composition as a tribute to John Beltran, which contains elements of different original cuts. The result is Sven's Glorify Tribute Mix, a dreamy epic adventurous nine-minute masterpiece in three parts.