Buy vinyl from Bandcamp Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Decks (DE) Real deals with a barbarian touch One has to be careful for not missing Xerophkz’s output, because of the one-record-per-year publishing pace, the Dublin label may get lost in the mass of newRead More →
Shams Dinn – شمس دين by Smiling C Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Rush Hour (NL) Buy vinyl from Discogs Maghreb funk from a sufisticated mind On the album photo, Shams Dinn may look like another raï or pop singer from Northern Africa, only there isRead More →
Buy vinyl / CD from Dominance Electricity (DE) Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Clone (NL) Panoptic view of worldwide electro Dominance Electricity is far from being a fruit of the current electro boom, because the German label run by Matthias Weise kicked off almost 20Read More →
Propaganda by Automatic Tasty Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Decks (DE) Buy vinyl from Halcyon (US) Along the autobahn in a vintage Daimler A mainstay of Lunar Disko in his native Dublin, Jonny Dillon aka Automatic Tasty participated in a mini compilation in 2015 that marked theRead More →
Detroit’s technological belly dance Gary Martin and his Teknotika Records are a special phenomenon in the history of Detroit techno. Compared to the city’s traditional electronic sound – UR’s hi-tech funk, 430 West’s rolling house or Metroplex’s stellar electro -, the output curated by Martin aka Gigi Galaxy would ratherRead More →
Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Hard Wax (DE) Buy vinyl from Halcyon (US) Vmax convincingly signals the end of absence Set up in Michigan’s capital city Lansing, Vmax belonged in the 1990s to acclaimed imprints of the larger Detroit area. Over the years it hasRead More →
A diverse selection of nineties US techno With recent releases on Tar Hallow, Planet Rhythm and his own label Mechanism Industries, experienced US artist Fanon Flowers is not willing to send any signals about retirement. Born in Michigan’s Kalamazoo, a musically important location between Detroit and Chicago, current L.A. resident FlowersRead More →
Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Kompakt (DE) Paysages of persuasive beauty When about one hundred years later artificial intelligence is writing an anthology of the 21th century electronic music, it definitely will come across Emile Facey aka Plant43. The artist and scene activist with manyRead More →
Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Clone (NL) Buy vinyl from HHV (DE) Straight outta La Haya When a maxi single with three versions of fat bass and breaks touches down, it feels like time travel to the eighties, to Compton and Macola Records, to theRead More →
[SUBAPICAL02] The Pulse Projects – Black Catalogue Rituals (2004-2005) by Subapical Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Decks (DE) Buy vinyl from Rubadub (UK) Biting electro and Aphexian metallic melancholia ‘Eindhoven’s rave veteran’ Albert van Abbe is known for running own labels No Comment and VanabbeRead More →