The EXIT line Up was already confidently basking in the Balkan sunshine, however with the recent additions it is now positively strutting its stuff for all to see. Joining an already epic line up that includes New Order, Guns N' Roses, Richie Hawtin, Luciano, Laurent Garnier, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Maceo Plex , and Art Department , are Claude VonStroke, Jacques Lu Cont, Eats Everything, Space Dimension Controller, Benoit & Sergio, George Fitzgerald and Sigha among others. Needless to say [...]
Don't be fooled by the ambient start to this EP. It's just a gentle way of getting you ready for the build up through the gears. Proceedings start off light and dreamy for "Something In Between Us" before moving into stripped back glitch on "Where I Come To Forget". We then get the 4/4 pace going with the hypnotic "How To Disappear" before a final comedown with "Drown". Its another impressive package from both Sigha and Hotflush who continue to lead the way in underground electronic music. You can grab this [...]
Sample Sigha's (James Shaw) new four-song EP, Abstractions I-IV, below. Hotflush releases the...
[Hotflush Recordings] Over the past year the music released by Hotflush has become ever more imposing. Grandiose techno such as Paul Woolford & Psycatron's "Stolen," Scuba's own driving and melodic "Adrenaline," the recent Locked Groove 123 - all have seen the imprint grow ever more suited to the biggest rooms while, thankfully, never straying too close to lurid territory. But while the imprint's output has remained high quality, there has also been an encroaching gloss - and conservatism - that [...]
The final hurrah for Ann Aimee's Inertia compilation sees four modern techno heavyweights add their exclusive sounds to the fold. Recent album stars Skudge are as economical yet efficient as you'd expect with their booming 'Pollution,' before Conforce designs yet more lush sounds with his deep technoid cut 'When It Appeared.' Restless Romainian Cosmin TRG confounds expectationst again with his rusty, rolling cut 'Plaisir Interdit' before Fachwerk co-founder Sascha Rydell gets a little spaced out on his kinetic and melancholic effort, 'Rainy Days'. Stand out on its own, but peerless when paired with the other three parts, Inertia 4 ends [...]
In all honesty the Brodinski phenomenon has always confused us slightly, whilst he's always been a good DJ and a really nice guy we've never quite felt that his productions quite delivered up to his perceived reputation. This is not to say they were bad records, just not as big as we wanted them to be. However despite this he has continued to carve himself a distinctive techno influenced niche that has enabled him to survive the collapse of his parisian peers French Electro scene and continue to climb the DJ Social ladder reaching the recognised pinnacle - [...]
Jasper Goodall , "Desert Mirror" [ Hotflush Recordings ] ( buy vinyl ) ( buy mp3s ) Plenty of producers migrate away from the sound that initially made them famous, but James Shaw, aka Sigha, has been drifting from dubstep practically from the moment he burst onto the scene. It's worth noting, of course, that Hotflush and Paul Rose, the label and mastermind who launched his career, have been following a similar trajectory. But while the high-end peak-time tunes Rose makes as Scuba/SCB and [...]
Stuck on Repeat simply collects together a load of tracks over an un-specified amount of time that we consider essential listening. As always with these types of things there maybe certain tracks you've already heard, tracks we've missed or accidentally overlooked, so please feel free to hit up the comments with anything you think is indispensable. In no particular order.... Pearson Sound - Stifle (Hessle Audio) Instra:Mental - Pyramid (3024) Boy 8-Bit - Phase IV (This Is Music) Disco Of [...]
Dalliance #2 by Albient on Mixcloud Dalliance #2 is the second in a mix series under the curatorship of LMYE for dalliers with an oblique alliance to dance forms - compiled by MixCzar ' al '. The Dalliance mission continues a caliginous trajectory across the periphery of dance-related genres, taking in ambient techno, bass, and IDM. Some of the plays and players in Dalliance #2 are sampleable below. Lend those [...]
Woah look who's still alive. We are! And just to prove it, here's a brand new mix fresh out of the over. Featuring stellar cuts from the likes of Tony Lionni , Session Victim , Julio Bashmore , Sigha , Martyn , Midland and Lone . Here are a few words from RTYPE on the mix: "With this mix I wanted to create something that really captured the sound of summer - that festival vibe, partying outdoors with your [...]
Buy These Tracks Download "A great new straight forward Techno release by the highly aclaimed Sigha, this time a quite raw collection of tracks where he pushes the filters and sets a perfect ambience for a sweaty club night. Personal fave here is the deeper "Between Here & Yesterday" a great track ! (PeterG) " [...]
[ Our Circula Sound ] ( buy vinyl ) (buy mp3s tk) The debut release on Sigha's Our Circula Sound label was an exploratory take on ambient techno, showing how the London producer's slowly intensifying techno-oriented sound could still be different from the legions of "Berghain" copycats even as it began to fit nicely into that universe. Almost a year later the second release finally lands, further solidifying Sigha's sound into an intriguing hybrid of continental efficiency and classic UK brutality, miles removed from the "bass music" associations he appeared from. [...]
Hotflush are at it again with another high quality release and this time we have Sigha following up on a release on his own label Our Circular Sound last month. For his Hotflush EP we have more ghostly techno that varies between the peak time acid chugger "A13 to more expansive and deeper tones on "B23. What's even better is that thanks to XLR8R we have my favourite from the EP as a free track. Sigha - HF029A1 [...]
Hotflush Recordings have always maintained a high standard to their releases and have remained on the thought-provoking side of contemporary club music. This is their fifth release from Sigha, and it is certainly no deviation from the pattern. He presents 4 deep and dark techno tracks, which meander in and out of driving kick drums and echoing synth [...]
Sigha aka James Shaw is a London based Techno producer who we have been aware of for quite a while, however it wasn't until we heard his ' Fold ' track on last months Hotflush Recordings 'Back And 4th' Compilation that his sound truly started to resonate with us. Fold twisted his more reserved echo'y Techno formula into a slightly more dance floor focused direction with crisper beats and percussion, and its this approach that takes the fore in his soon be released self titled Sigha EP. [...]
(Foto: Jimmy Mould) Ähnlich wie Scuba mit seinem SCB-Projekt ist Sigha ein Produzent, dessen Sound sich von Release zu Release immer mehr zu einem monochromen Amalgam aus Techno und Dubstep vermischt hat, ohne dabei in allzu bekannte Dub-Techno-Nostalgie abzudriften. Ganz im Gegenteil. Sehr schön nachzuhören auf der ersten Maxi seines gerade gestarteten eigenem Label Our Circula Sound . Für die konstant zuverlässige Mix-Serie von mnml ssgs hat der zwischen Berlin und London pendelnde Produzent einen ziemlich großartigen Mix abgeliefert. Zum Download bitte hier entlang. [...]
Illustration by Charles Bergquist [Our Circula Sound] (buy vinyl tk) (buy mp3s tk) With the boundaries of dubstep still wide open to new interpretations, Sigha has pursued novel ideas and embraced varying influences in a manner that's similarly difficult hard to categorize. His tracks encompass elements similar to the brackish, sub-aquatic tones of Norman Nodge, reflect common ground with the minimal-esque production of Ben Klock and draw intense parallels with the SCB project of Sigha's sort of [...]
via Dutch Uncle What a nice weekend. Plenty of dance music, street festivals and even a farmers market I was fortunate enough not to sleep through. Now I'm remembering why I continue to trudge through the Chicago winters.. Future Classic released a stunning nu-disco EP by Worst Friends . Wonderful music for equally wonderful weather I've been experiencing. Seriously digging this Eddie C remix. Peep the full EP here . Worst Friends - Nerves For None [...]
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