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 →
Buy vinyl from Metabanana.airforce (DE) Buy vinyl / digital from Bandcamp (DE) Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Electro barbarian at the gate Only a few months ago I added to my wishlist BS-1’s debut release “Machine Of Hate” (Marguerita Recordings) from 2010. The tracks are about roaringRead More →
Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) For a while, Dmitry Distant has been producing electro and wave tracks and in 2017 he was often visible as a contributor thematic compilations, recently for Helena Hauff’s Return To Disorder. After appearing on labels like Mechatronica, Bass Agenda andRead More →
MTRON004 EP by The Exaltics, Drvg Cvltvre, Le Chocolat Noir, Kluentah Buy vinyl from Redeye Records (UK) Buy vinyl from Decks (DE) Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Mechatronica discovers its wilder face Incidentally I started Mechatronica’s new compilation with the B-side that stands for the sound the labelRead More →
The wallets of classic electro addicts have been challenged around the Christmas time when several reissues have showed up. Detroit’s Direct Beat recalls early days with “Bass Magnetic”, the only album of James Stinson’s Lab Rat XL is the newest addition in Clone Aqualung series, mysterious Scopex material was reissuedRead More →
The second part of what is becoming a tradition: After listing my favourites from 2005 and from 1996, the time is ripe for another end of the year selection from the archives. The first part is here. Silicon – 4 L.L. (Vmax Records) In 1997, Vmax founder Heath Brunner releasedRead More →