London based label and party Butter Side Up follow-up a sold out debut release from Christian Jay with another helping of atmospheric house music, this time from Leeds based rising star Midge Thompson. The long time BSU associate serves up three tracks that are complemented with a rare remix from the legendary Titonton Duvante.
Opener 'Destination 2242' is a slick and spaced out broken beat groover. Sci-fi motifs wither next to a sprinkling of garage percussion and rubbery drum programming is brilliantly loose and body popping. 'Delta' gets even deeper, with skeletal drums knocking out an infectious late-night rhythm while dreamy pads flesh things out. Spacecrafts drift in the background to add some cinematic stylings and make it perfect for the more close-knit dance floors.
On the flip, 'Beeston Lights' picks up the pace with perfectly rolling kicks pulling you in as keys twinkle up top like a distant metropolis at night. It's smooth and breezy house music to carry you away on a blissful vibe. Remixing is Titonton Duvante, a long time influence on the Butter Side Up crew and a cult figure in heady house circles thanks to definitive work on his own Residual Recordings, Mosaic and many others. His chunky take on techno is hard to beat, as proven here with a remix that re-works the drums into busy, restless things that work the feet while the Americans's typically ethereal pads bring real depth.
Original artwork by Sophie Douala.
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DOMINA TRXXX welcomes two legends to the Family. Mr Neil Landtsrumm and The Horrorist.
Both don't need any introdution. Their great collaboration comes around with an additional remix by Tobias Schmidt!
Producing under his techno moniker 'NEUMANN', Tobi Neumann delivers his first WCF release - a four track EP - available in vinyl and digital format - titled 'Coaster' which also includes a remix by club's resident Kyle E.
Beginning with the prowling track 'Coaster', its slow and steady pace eases the listener into a sultry sound from NEUMANN, evidently making a clear divide between his usual house/disco induced productions as 'Tobi Neumann'. A rolling groove entails with a clear cowbell and tinkling melody, smoothly layered over a subtle kick drum and moody bass line.
'Broken voices' opens with a mean kick leading to a significant change in tone from 'Coaster' with a sense of urgency entwined through an undulating melody. A blend of scintillating synths over a menacing bass shows the spacey side of NEUMANN, who's not afraid to explore the muddier side of electronic music.
The third track 'Atlantis' revolves around an accelerated rhythm accompanied by thundering modular-percussion. Woven with broken bleeps and high-energy synths, it's a powerful track appropriate for an intimate, sweaty and weird rave.
Finishing off, a remix of 'Coaster' from Egg's and label's resident Kyle E. The burgeoning producer and selector puts his own uplifting stamp on NEUMANN's venture into murky techno. With a throbbing bass and crisp bells, it's the rich analogue use with shades of euphoria that make it a perfectly atmospheric track to end NEUMANN's first WCF release.
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Oleka aka Forest People is back on Mindcut with a full EP of heavy distorted drums and broken beats. The perfect selection for the peak time.
This EP contains 5 tunes incl. a remix from Berlin based producer Swarm Intelligence
Supported by
Sunil Sharpe, Dave Tarrida, Dj Ze MigL, Patrick DSP, Perc, Randomer, WIRE, Another Alias, Antonio De Angelis, ArchivOne, Datapimp, Deep Space Helsinki, Diarmaid O Meara, Droidpanik, Drumcell, Dubtek Leeds, Electric Indigo, Fear Effect, Ike Dusk, Jeff 23, Joseph Capriati, iFormat, L.A.W., Luigi Madonna, Mark EG, Matt TDK, Millhouse, MTD, NOMAD, Paco Osuna, RVDE, Unconscious Laws
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The next release on Mindcut is just around the corner and shows up with a very special duo.
Rendered (14anger and Daniel Myer) known for their ground breaking releases on Aufnahme + Wiedergabe and Body Theory are now joining the Mindcut stable.
This e.p includes 3 powerful techno tracks laced with an EBM and Industrial flair; to round of this excellent package it contains a heavy remix from no other than Max Durante (Sonic Groove).
Rolling drums and evil synths is the philosophy of this deadly e.p which finds its way directly into your mind and sure to destroy every dance floor.
Early Support by:
Dax J, Rebekah, I Hate Models, VTSS, Tommy Four Seven, SPFDJ, Manu Le Malin, Endlec, AnD, The Panacea Official, Patrick DSP, None of the Above, ?????? - hkkptr, Philipp Strobel, Thomas P. Heckmann (OFFICIAL), Zanias, faux naïf, Gijensu, Fractions, Ike Dusk, EXAL, Dave Tarrida, Paul Birken, Paco Osuna
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DJ Support
Ben UFO - "Thanks" 4/5
Tom Findlay (Groove Armada) - “ALWAYS dig this guy's grooves.....” 5/5
Black Madonna - “Great!” 5/5
West Norwood Cassette Library - “Clairvoyant's got the funk” 4/5
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Deep and space-rubbed techno-not-tech house drifters from a top don and a fresh face! Story About You comes forward with a precision cut split release between Smallville Records mastermind Christopher Rau and SAY constituent Pearla.
Rau fires up the deep space super telescope and takes us into the most functional part of a black hole with his side, while Pearla's debut tracks skew the tech with some electro funk flavoring suitable for easing the mind and schooching the body onto the dancefloor.
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There is something about the groove on DJ Mau Mau’s early releases that just gets me and everyone within earshot moving wildly each and every time a track of his gets slammed in the club. His tunes go hard for sure, but the rhythm and vibe seems to be something hits people universally.
Hell’s Club has been on my want list on Discogs for years and that prohibitive price really left me no choice but to reissue the damn thing. I have played it every single set since I got the new masters back and it is so effective at getting a crowd moving. Tech house at its absolute best.
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Global Dialog's second release comes from the troubled mind of Extimacy. Recorded during a time of profound turmoil, poorly cut
drugs and even poorer career choices, "Temporary Distractions" comes as a despaired, yet hopeful, yet "ugh still a little despaired"
attempt at Catharsis™. The record's intense and uncompromising blend of techno, noise, musique concrete and neo-classical aims
at hitting harder than a little toe against the wall, or an overarmed policeman during a raid at a peaceful dance gathering. These three
hypnotic cuts should work splendidly as the soundtrack of the inevitable demise of our species, or any illegal european warehouse party after 3 A.M.
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Milan based collective Just This continue their mission into the darkest territories of electronic music with the Evolution EP from Hill Of Vision featuring an Alex.Do remix, due February 22nd.
Title track is a bleak, disorienting journey through muffled acoustics and gloomy surroundings narrated by an eerie vocal. For his remix, Alex.Do reinterprets the tension of the original into a floating dance floor weapon.
'Signs' is a stripped back swirl of strange melodic inflections and cyclical effects, whilst 'Land Of Vision' dissects the framework of atypical techno into an immersive doomsday soundtrack.
Evolution EP delves deeper into the blackened acoustic world of Just This, repurposing references from gothic tales and electronic music culture into a singularly murky aesthetic.
Patrick Mason and Rekids boss Matt Edwards return for their second appearance as SRVD with two cuts entitled 'RAW FILES'.
Not confined to a single art form, Patrick Mason is a young creative at the forefront of Berlin's art, fashion, dance music and LGBT scene; an influential club kid who developed a friendship with Matt Edwards after a chance meeting in Panorama Bar, resulting in numerous studio sessions and improvised live sets.
Joining forces in 2018, the pair adopted their SRVD moniker - an alias inspired by New York's vogue scene - before dropping their debut release on Rekids, playing at various clubs (notably Panorama Bar), not to mention an unforgettable performance at Boiler Room x Pornceptual.
'The Yard Man' presents rattling drums, piercing vocal chants and a tormenting melody that SRVD has been destroying dancefloors with over the last year. On the flip, 'Brotha' presents a compelling groove as a shuffling rhythm joins abrasive synths and Mason's penetrating voice.
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Applehead (Sam de la Rosa & Katrina Fairlee)
Sam De La Rosa. Austin, TX musician, artist and DJ. Main composer of the cult New York band, Led Er Est, which he edited in Sacred Bones, Wierd Records, Captured Tracks and Mannequin. Currently working solo has published in Mannequin and Burka for Everybody. He is half of the wild experimental project Samaritan Quell (with Bill Converse) and in a more soundtrack oriented band, The Coombe (with Karen Sharkey). In recent collaborations in 2019 we found him working with Kyle Dixon (SURVIVE / Stranger Things), Joshua Cordova and Katrina Fairlee. We had it in solo live format on the label's first anniversary and it left us all with a great taste in our mouths. Katrina grew up in the small electronic scene in Austin, TX. It started playing more than a decade ago. A member of the now defunct Intergalactic FM radio show Timelife Methrave. More than 100 of his tunnel dive podcasts incorporate sonic obscurities that deepen the expansive realm of electronic music. He has collaborated with Sneaker DJ and Joshua Cordova, these songs can be found on the labels Uncanny Vally and FIt Sound.
Neud Photo
Nico Nightingale, prolific producer of electro / experimental / wave with a discography that goes back to 2010, and that removes the hiccups. A native of New York, his solo project Neud Photo features a dossier of releases on several labels including VEYL, Return to Disorder and Rat Life to name a few, along with a formidable catalogue of additional projects, including INTRZN, XEROX, Polymer, Ceci N'est Pas and Wall $ treet. Neud Photo is a talented artist with an unhealthy addiction to hardware that offers live performances that are hard to forget if you've ever witnessed one, his ability with synthesizers is captured from the first minute of it.
Julio Tornero
He has been involved in a great variety of projects and groups (the best known Old Regime and Astral Hindu Polygon). July has also been publishing excellent references in recent years in stamps such as Conjunto Vacío, Cintas Chromo (subseyo of BFE records), Verlag System or Demonodrome. His last 12" in Fémur "Despojos Cósmicos" is a genius of dark electronics that drinks both from the freshest industrial EBM and from travelling experimentation. He has just published a compendium of old themes in cassette format for Fill-lex in which he unfolds styles, the height of very few producers, as well as his live performances.
Lex-Or & Go5
Lex-Or His journey with electronics began six years ago with sporadic dj sessions in electronic pubs close to ebm, dark-synth, minimal-synth and minimal-wave sounds. At the moment he captains the label Fill-Lex Records, electronic label based on the edition in vinyl of sounds next to the EBM/Dark Techno, happening through the darkest Electro and the Minimal Synth. He has just published his first song for the magazine Industrial Complexx in a compilation of artists in cassette format. Go5 for its part, is the project in music production and in constant evolution of Gorka Undersound vinyl distributor, dj and agitator of the northern scene since the beginning of the century from Cybertech. Collecting and producing syncopated sounds with textures and dark atmospheres of difficult cataloguing, he has been developing musical projects caressing and extending his knowledge in electro, techno and industrial of diverse nature. Throughout these years they have contributed to shape their abilities giving birth to their first vinyl cut together with their great friend, partner and founder of the label Lex-Or combining and adding joint energies in him.
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Proper acid rave dynamics on this third vinyl release out of the Acid Cask series all with pure Acid cuts, fused and matured in a barrel between FirstCask and Breakin'records ! Cheers
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Vinyl Box-Set limited to 500 copies + includes the Compilation on CD
Vinyl Box-Set ist auf 500 Stk. limitiert + beinhaltet die Compilation im CD Format Cocoon Recordings presents - Q' - the new edition of one of the longest running techno compilation series worldwide! We do not want to start again by mentioning how unbelievable it is that we have reached letter Q already ... and we do not even want to imagine how fast we will probably arrive at XYZ, if time continues to fly like this. The actual thrilling part of this compilation series is simply the fact that Techno seems to not grow any older in this form - isn't this amazing Here, in the truest sense of the word, we have a compilation of timeless material before us. With a broad bandwidth ranging from - futuristic-deconstructive' compositions such as 'Da Dang' by Alex & Digby and 'Fragile' by Carlos Nilmmns or the many contributions to Q that fancy almost anachronistic acid and trance influences: Everything sounds fresh and forward thinking! The vocal parts and the arrangement of 'All I Can (About you)' by Baba Stiltz appear like electronic singer songwriting. The musical approach of Baba Stiltz is slightly similar to big Pepe Bradock productions and their Dada aesthetic. In contrast to this, 'Anno Domini' by Kamran Sadeghi follows the sound approach of early Maurizio / Basic Channel records and reminds us that modern techno does not always have to be impulsive and kicking, and certainly does not define itself over the most extreme 'drops
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Deep'a & Biri curate a bevy of much-respected underground techno specialists to further unravel and reimagine the vital and sophisticated sounds of 'Dominance', their full-length LP released earlier in 2018.
Midnight Operator, the collaborative project of Mathew and Nathan Johnson, begin the set with their trippy and transcendent take on 'False Memories'. A rare remix from the pair, their return has been worth the wait; an expertly executed techno excursion, it simultaneously burrows deeper into the psychedelic textures of the original, while providing a club-centred kick.
Further blending the experimental and the physical, Peter Van Hoesen provides a typically complex and compelling take on Voltage, deconstructing the original and expanding each element in myriad, rave-specific directions.
Deep'a & Biri enlist rising Dutch DJ-producer Deniro contributes a rolling, hypnotic version of Dominance's spectral centrepiece, 'Alpha Cephei', while Z.I.P.P.O. charges down a tense, big-room industrial tunnel for his interpretation of 'Seeking Solace', hitting on a cathartic groove after a passage of uncompromising noise.
Concluding the EP, Steinlac'h Records founder Wice reimagines 'Theories of Loneliness' in dubby but propulsive fashion.
The DJs Pareja have been flagging they’re a DJ duo in love long before the recent trend. ‘Pareja’ literally translates as ‘couple’, and that is just how Diego and Mariano do life; in tandem. It may not seem so radical these days, but the Pareja’s have been unapologetically queer trailblazers in their hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina - throwing raves and putting out pop dance records for decades. It took us years to get these boys to come play for us in San Francisco, but when they finally did, minutes off the plane we were hugging and shedding a little tear in front of the Castro theatre sign. I always knew that one day we would get them on the label, and this EP is a product of how far this new gay techno underground has come. So it is with great pleasure we present 4 tracks produced south of the Equator, mixed for the gods, with some signature vocals and some sounds we’ve never heard from these Argy boys sleeping in a Queen bed.
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Warsaw’s newest imprint – Dom Trojga – launches with these
four acid-drenched, trance- inducing space-funk excursions by
Jaxe. Recorded in its entirety during an uneasy transitional
period in the summer of 2018, the EP plays out in a jittery void
between hope and despair. Employing his beloved vintage
electronic palette, Jaxe has created a record that combines
sincerity, elegance and depth, a vehicle for both introspection
and escapism. That being said, however, his tunes may also
simply cause you to wiggle, prance or trip the light fantastic.
The label art is by Sasha Zakrevska a.k.a. Poly Chain – look
out for her and other mavericks on forthcoming releases.
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Juxta Position returns to his own Failsafe imprint with 4 post-modern techno pieces, exploring minimalist themes performed on more traditional sound sources, relying on pure sequencing rather than patch programming to convey moods and atmospheres.
Opener "Five Four Piano" recalls the work of modern classical composers such as Steve Reich, but reengineers the aesthetic to fit on techno dancefloors.
Likewise, "Orchestral Manouvers" continues this theme, whilst introducing a Millsian twist, and "Icicles" takes the idea even further into more looped techno territory.
E.P. Closer "Crisp Cold" concludes the record, with a cinematic and serious tone and almost gothic sensibility.
Four tracks which are a break from the usual, expected timbres of contemporary techno.
Leifur James released his debut album A Louder Silence in October 2018 on Late Night Tales original artist label Night Time Stories; home to Texan trio Khruangbin and the iconic Late Night Tales series. The record attracted immediate support from Pitchfork, KEXP, XLR8R, Mixmag 8/10, Future Music UK 9/10, Electronic Sound 9/10. In April 2019 ‘Wurlitzer’ was the first piece of music he revealed from a new creative period after those sessions. The video was created by animator/director Balázs Simon, premiering on Boiler Room and was nominated for the BMVA Berlin Music Video Awards in the experimental music category, airing at the British Film Insitute BFI Southbank London.
Now in September 2019 he has prepared a remix EP 12" of the debut album A Louder Silence, featuring a slew of the finest musicians in electronic music today. Blueberry Records founder FaltyDL aka Drew Lustman comes first with a deep, skipping 2-stepping reversion of Mumma Don’t Tell. Bruce coming off the back of his hugely well received debut album for Hessle Audio has a “resymph” of Osho in typical mind-bending austere electronic style. Whities producer and Tirzah/Mica Levi collaborator Coby Sey reconstructs Suns of Gold with his sampler, and also accompanying it, is Leifur’s own remix of suns of Gold.
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Almost two years of holding the breathe is enough - EXHALE now, techno from the island is coming back on our label. The success of the previous - Inhale EP from Owen Offset speaks by itself: entering several sales charts as well as having the breakthrough and receiving attention because of stated as a brilliant artist from many sides. The new - Exhale EP boasts now with three originals and two remixes, among others by DJ Rush
No doubt, the original track - Exhale is the next amazing piece of quality techno. Raw beats and a subtle arrangement are made for slamming the floors. Layered and arpeggiated synths are generating a shaded but positive mood. Nobody less than DJ Rush, the colorful figure who has been in the techno movement since the early years, delivers an outstanding remix. And it comes differently as expected: deep out of jungle, the percussions hypnotizing the techno tribes and bring it on the Major-way with a heavy knocking beat - welcome to Rush's Jungle Love remix. A second one is provided by label head honcho Dominik Vaillant with reliable stomping techno, as we are used to.
On black wax too, Owen Offset's - Breathe steps up to another level until the red lights burn. With hooks turning into acidic-like sounds, the heat is fully on for a wild freak-out final. Digitally bonus, the track - Golden Cat exposes to be real rave monster. Bang on!
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After making his initial mark with a grinding fog of slowed Techno on Sigha's Our Circula Sound label, Michael Jefford aka Positive Centre has traversed the electronic BPM scale with a sonic signature of ghostly synthetics that make the switch between industrial aesthetics and illusory sound-scaping.
Within this nucleus, Jefford's recorded history as a Live Performing Artist, DJ and Producer has always reflected what at once can be microscopic, whilst still being the largest object in view. Each track on Forever Optimum sets a different location and perspective on an active set of mechanics - like watching fragments in motion, reacting to different forces.
Having previously released for a range of Techno's more adventurous labels including SNTS, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Opal Tapes and not forgetting his own In Silent Series label. Positive Centre's 3rd Album 'Forever Optimum' stands as a beautiful anomaly in the 2018 HORO catalogue. Continuing the point of the HORO label: being open to the beguiling musical arcs that keep us redefining our sound.
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UK based Tecwaas background is in the early Yorkshire rave scene, which makes you understand his music on a deeper level. His tasteful turning of knobs on the Roland 303 takes you back to in time to an early morning somewhere round 1990 with a diesel generator pushed to the limit roaring somewhere in the background. But Tecwaas music is a lot more than a trip in time: the sound is modern and extremely well produced where the few but exquisite sounds hook in to each other naturally and creates a round solid groove. The sound varies from airy and light in ”Xentaeh” to warmer and heavier in the other track ”Ci”. What goes for the sound overall is the somewhat surprising elements in how the songs develop, both in rhythm and sound wise. Teecwas music bare traces of trance, rave, early techno and so on but you could call it ”uplifting, psychedelic leftfield house” and this is his first release on Höga Nord Rekords.
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Ascetic Limited is shifting gears, focusing on solo EPs dedicated to the artists that form the collective. To kick it off they present an EP from renowned Milanese techno producer Wrong Assessment, who throughout his career in techno has proven himself to be one of the most interesting producers coming out of Italy. From his collaborative works with the late Max_M as Overall Severity to his solo works as Wrong Assessment, his tracks are always unique. Influences ranging from minimal to hard pounding techno bangers, through house grooves and ambient arrangements, he still is able to transmit his sound and vision with his music.
Wrong Assessment's 8th Floor EP is comprised by (A1) Asceta - an ambient downtempo immersion that washes over the listener in preparation for what's to come. (A2) Empire, is a clear example of the great sound that Wrong Assessment has developed throughout the years, winding synth lines and driving techno beats with a great minimalist approach to sound. The title track, (B1) 8th Floor - a bouncy, playful track filled with great ambiance that can fit into any DJ set and will drive the audience to the dance floor. Ending the EP on a heavy note, (B2) Radial brings heavy kicks and strong ambient works mixed with intense techno beats and brooding synth lines that will have the dance floor going insane.
Ascetic Limited presents Wrong Assessment's 8th Floor EP as their 5th release and second EP on the label
The Vault is opening with an ambitious 7 part series, carefully selected from enigmatic artist Karapapak. Since producing music for 20 years, this is the rst time his analog creations have been made available to the public! The rst of these vinyl only releases, begins with a techno tribute to the legendary Teddy Riley, who in the 90's invented a production style called 'The New Jack Swing'. The other side is a deep techno journey, named after an ironic salute to modern producing... Limited to 200 copies, pressed on white vinyl + maxi picture
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Arriving unannounced in November of last year, Nocturnal Sunshine dropped her ‘Foundation’ EP; a bold move from an artist firmly front and center, in control of her own creative destiny. Premiered by Billboard, lead track ‘Foundation’ now receives two remixes from Canadian duo, UNDERHER and Trance Wax originator Ejeca
Curating an EP with a clear B-line for the dancefloor, Nocturnal Sunshine welcomes each remixer in such a way, that we see each exercise their own creative prowess to its fullest potential. Ejeca brings uncompromising, body-shuddering kicks with the initiation of his suspense-filled and in places, harrowing rework; this one is in the locker, destined for big rooms and warehouses worldwide.
Alongside Ejeca, from across the pond, Canada’s UNDERHER hit the sweet spot with a bumping house inspired retake, laced with attitude.
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After Heading Up The First Three Releases Of His Akoya Circles Label, Look Like Brings A Brand New Name Into The Fold.
On The Motorsport Ep, New Swiss/ Serbian Talent Parco Palaz Takes Familiar Club Sounds And Reanimates Them Through His Own Prism Of Rhythm And Sound Design, Presenting An Unconventional And Sophisticated Debut Release. The Tracks Show A Mouth-watering Combination Of Heady Textures And Impulsive Movement That Mark The Young Producer As One To Watch For The Future.
The Lead Track, Motorsport Takes An Acid Trip Through An Imaginary, Nocturnal Landscape Of Hissing Percussion. Raw And Hypnotic, The Track Has A Looseness And Swing To It That Tempers A Tight Rhythmic Focus, Swelling And Pulsing For Sure Fire Dance Floor Heat.
On The Flip Side Palaz Steps Away From The Peak Time With A Pair Of Spacey, Ambient Leaning Electronic Pieces. Prelude To A Dream Is Wandering And Cinematic, Tinged With Psychedelic Melodrama. Slow Motion Is More Upbeat But Similarly Wide-eyed And Explorative. The Young Producer Experiments With Junglist Rhythms Against Soft Keys, Creating A Meditative Rave Homage To Round Off The Ep.
Returning for his third appearance on Frigio, Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ, Most Significant Beat and permanent member of Clock DVA since 2010) introduces one of his darkest works to date. Forged in his studio/lab in Amsterdam, the Italian artist casts three works of industrial paranoia with none other than Clock DVA delivering a very special remix.
The same intensity, the same fevered energy that permeated Dusk, is plain to hear in this production. Pulsating drums are pierced by metallic groans and choking voices for the alienating assault that is “Amna.” Clock DVA take on this factory floor demon, soothing and reworking the original. Keys cascade against throbbing basslines and stuttering rhythms, vocals by Adi Newton taking the form of a poem that circles and swoops in a track of brimming with a primal force. Stalking chords introduce “Dene.” A lancing beat lashes a lone string, static and resonance building as layers of machine noise make their inhuman presence known. The end comes from the hull of an abandoned ship, or so it sounds. Aquatic echo swirls around a spread of sunken snares, shrieks and slicing through the crash and squeal of wrought iron. Primordial music from the mind of Pragma.
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The debut release from US label Perpetual Rhythms comes in the shape of an EP of collaborations and single drops entitled Secret Elements. Firecracker boss Linkwood provides some extra Chi-Town edge to the sombre melodies and science fiction synths of Specter & Chicagodeep's "Sonic Pulse" on his opening edit, whilst Chicagodeep's "Restless Nights" generates a mix of spacey, laid back vibes. The bleepy pulses of Taelue's "Social Anxiety" sounds close to what an Aphex Twin and Jerome Sydenham & Kerri Chandler house collaboration would result in, while the single rimshots and wallowing pads of "Rough Access Point" give the track a distinctly lonesome ambience.
This one has taken too long to lineup, but then again hasn't it arrived right on time? Unknown Mobile flies out of the gate with Clocktower, maintains momentum through Felled Birch, and cools down as Starstruck enters: a real whirlwind of a record for the main room and chill-out room alike. One could say that the artist is influenced by their location in place and time, but its feels as though UM's sound has been shaped by powers more distant. While the choral harmonies, low-end arps, and melodic meditation transport us through a late 90's discogs dig, the modernity in production guides us to the future. Long time friend, first time releaser, Unknown Mobile we are happy to have you.
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