Pic: The Cosby Sweater Project Massimiliano Pagliara / Roger 23 - H-EA-L (R'23s Healing Medicine & Anti Depressiva Dub) ( buy ) Roger 23 - Ain't No Dirty Games ( buy ) Searching through some records from the past few years the other night I happened upon a quality release by Belgian label Meakusma (a super label whose subsequent releases include work by Madteo [...]
Pic: Merijn Hos It's been a while since I put a mix together, so without further ado here is a classy selection of the deep, the dark, the weird and the wonderful. Enjoy! Tracklisting Perc - Choice (Walls Remix) Recondite - Haptic Francis Harris - Lostfound (Matthew Herbert's Let Yourself Go Mix) Marc Depulse - Oberwasser EZLV - Read This Yan Wagner - Turmoil OCH - Tears Crackboy - Back To The Future Hot City x LOL [...]
Pic: Jean-Pierre Hebert Pye Corner Audio - Electronic Rhythm Number Four ( buy ) The Head Technician of Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services returned last week with the 3rd volume of the Black Mill Tapes: All Corners Open . A sublime selection of Radiophonic-esque splendor. The Head Technician also just put together a great mix for xxjfg , well worth a listen. Stefan Robbers [...]
Pic: But Does It Float A chart of sorts, no order, just some of the very best tracks I've been listening to of late. Kareem Moser - OS2009 ( buy ) Answer Code Request - Escape Myself ( buy ) Wincent Kunth - Trickle ( buy ) Mark du Mosch - Reminiscing ( buy ) [...]
Pic: Slowboy Wolf Müller - Lagerfeuer Tanz ( buy ) Wolf Müller - Pflanzentanz ( buy ) Wolf Müller debuts in impressive style for Düsseldorf's Themes For Great Cities label . A vinyl release of 300 sees Müller draw heavy influence on world music and percussive tribal rhythms, adding some mysticism with vocals calling for world peace [...]
Pic: Manuel Birnbacher Anthony Rother - Thermal Tune ( buy ) Yet more stunning soundscapes from Anthony Rother, this time taken from his aptly titled 62 Minutes On Mars. Cuticle - Towel ( buy ) Not Not Fun's 100% Silk label certainly pushed all the right buttons this year [...]
Pic: Executive Suite Battant - Feverish (Ise8 Pre Demo) ( buy ) Painstakingly beautiful music from Battant and Ivan Smagghe. A track that finishes his inspired 'A Few Things...' compilation . Even Tuell - Mental Marathon ( buy ) Fuzzy house rhythms from Even Tuell on the Hula Vortex EP . dRUMMAN - [...]
Pic: FC Magdeburg in Europe Recondite - Backbone ( buy ) With just two releases to date and another one on the way shortly , the Plangent label has quietly put out some truly wonderful music this year. Backbone is taken from Plangent 002 but also features on Scuba's ever so good DJ Kicks . MCMLXXXVII - Work ( buy ) This is a [...]
The TransHumans - Interdependence ( buy ) Solid electro tinged techno by The TransHumans, taken from the Renaissance 12" out a few months ago. Altarboy - Crap ( buy ) Released earlier on in the year Altarboy's Who Is Who was the first release by new label Wonder Wet Records . The track Crap reminds me a lot of the first release on Don't Be Afraid by Semtek . Keep an eye [...]
Pic: Common Chant via Yessssssss Mario & Vidis - Illum ( buy ) Mario Basanov and DJ Vidis team up again, this time for their new label Best Kept Secret , set up to showcase the finest music from the Lithuanian electronic scene. They have set the bar pretty high with the first release entitled Staar Wars . Four luscious pieces of interplanetary dance music. Very, very good. [...]
Pic: Naum Gabo Death On The Balcony - Them 3 Words ( buy ) Death On The Balcony are a Leeds based DJ and production duo who recently featured this stunning track on the first of three compilations put out by Catz n Dogz Pets Recordings entitled Friends Will Carry You Home . Plenty more in store from the likes of Axel Boman, KiNK and Arto Mwambe. [...]
Pic: Wild Animals Dewalta - Keep On ( buy ) Keep On is the title track off a superb new release by Meander label head Dewalta . For fans of John Roberts no doubt. DJ Sodeyama - Stay To Get Her ( buy ) Taken from the Chinese label Acupunture Records 4 Year Anniversary release is this thumping techno [...]
Pic: A Fistful Of Dynamite Gui Boratto - Half Life (Patrick Chardronnet Mix) ( buy ) Exactly the right approach taken on this remix by Patrick Chardronnet. Proof that minimal techno can still hit the spot. Anaalivaihe - Nälkä 1 ( buy ) Anaalivaihe is a Finnish experimental side-project of Imatran Voima's Perttu Hakkinen . The 7" release Kolme Tutkielmaa Nälästä [...]
Velvit - Den-En-Toshi ( buy ) Velvit - Chic Anatomy ( buy ) A glorious debut on Exit Records by the unknown Velvit. Nostalgia filled electro grooves and spacious IDM melodies. Classy stuff. Will get on and post more regular soon.
Enjoy this little playlist. Taking in the experimental antics of Tom Fazzini, Anthony Rother and Tolouse Low Trax. The darker techno leanings of Developer. And the forward thinking dance rhythms of Ozka and Aubrey. Tom Fazzini - Cradle Song ( buy ) Anthony Rother - Säuger ( buy ) Ozka - Phantomz ( buy ) Aubrey - Power Of The Drums ( buy ) [...]
Maxim Lany - Cuncambias ( buy ) Belgian house music at it's finest with this killer from Maxim Lany that featured on We Play House Red. Immense. Kate Wax - Holy Beast (Holden Woolly Beast Edit) ( buy ) Things are heating up in anticipation of Kate Wax's Dust Collision album on Border Community. Label boss James Holden serves up a couple of dancefloor bound edits to whet the appetite. [...]
Pic: Evasion Zenker Brothers - Berg 10 ( buy ) Afrikan Sciences - Ways & Means ( buy ) Amir Alexander - The Abyss ( buy ) Neil Landstrumm - The Choke ( buy )
Pic: Kathy Grayson Adam Strömstedt - Feel ( buy ) Taken from Junk Yard Connections first release. The Swedish label has just dropped it's second 12" courtesy of Hannes Netzell, it's a bit good . Recloose - UHF ( buy ) One of Recloose's own tracks which features on Hit It And Quit Revue. A compilation that showcases the sounds [...]
Pic: Carly Waito Alla Farmer - Fortune ( buy ) Analog Solutions - My Own Transition ( buy ) Truncate - Concentrate ( buy ) Emmanuel Top - Dominos ( buy ) Wolfgang Voigt - Kafkatrax 3.2 ( buy )
Pic: Tabor Robak John Heckle - Life On Titan ( buy) Taken from John Heckle 's Life On Titan EP released on Mathematics . The talented Liverpudlian producer is making waves both with the Chicago based label to whom his analog house sounds fit right at home and also Tabernacle Records whose output has been oh so impressive since first forming a year ago. Mark du Mosch's Exegesis EP will be released on [...]
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