It’s difficult to slip away from any release where Scan 7 is involved. Especially when the Detroit collective is seriously in the business. Last year, they launched own imprint SCAN with an update of the 2012 “Resistance”, including a striking remix by Underground Resistance. For the label’s second instalment, theyRead More →
A triple strike of party starters by a maverick startup called Diners Club International. Allegedly from the 313 area, the creators of three simultaneous records are playing hard in and around Detroit. Be it booty bass, electro, techno or house, they can handle them all. All three volumes are aRead More →
On “Spektrum”, the Estonian artist Marko Sula aka Out-Or examines various sides of techno and IDM. By accommodating an array of styles into the album, he travels through different artistic identities, to bring us a diverse and well-crafted LP. At one moment, Out-Or is an eco-futurist in the Estonian homestead,Read More →
A new sci-fi interpretation from Detroit. “Alien Invasion” is the second release of Jessbeatz for Electrostatic, which belongs to the Escaped Distribution family, formerly known as Submerge. What seems like a new generation of Detroit electro, is a comeback of Jesse Anderson. Under the Frequency alias, he co-wrote with KeithRead More →
From the faculty of funk appears Swoze, a disciple who time travels to the bass-laden 1980’s. “Church EP” is a thumping and grooving four-tracker on Dresden’s Former City Records, a label known for fat beats repertoire. It’s the first solo release by Swoze, who debuted on Casa Voyager a fewRead More →
Since the end of 2020, DJ Godfather has dropped three (digital) albums with over one hundred tracks. Still, such an industrial scale of music seems not to be enough. Accordingly, the artist follows up the compendiums with a stash of EPs that feature full-length versions, alternative mixes, acapellas and instrumentalsRead More →
For me, it was a well spent Sunday. Listening to Wackies sampler in the morning and pre-ordering “Tikiman Vol. 1”, a new album by Paul St. Hilaire in the evening. The artist’s former alias in the title looked like an invitation to the mid-1990s when the Dominica-born master of rhymesRead More →
Dopplereffekt’s magic has been accompanying us from the mid-1990’s, when the extraordinary Dataphysix releases by Gerald Donald aka Rudolf Klorzeiger and Kim Karli appeared with sterile mechanics and a bit of sleaze (“Pornoactress”). Since then Dopplereffekt has remained Donald’s core project, in recent years in collaboration with his wife MichaelaRead More →
Margus Löve launched the Processed imprint ten years ago in Tallinn and marks the anniversary with a various artists EP. The A-side belongs to Löve’s own 1DERL& alias, the first two tracks picked from the CD album “Reflection” (2012). “Float Boat” is on a par with mid-paced funk of VogelRead More →
Current nostalgia wave is not limited to numerous reissues and wide usage of decades-old sound templates. It also means that simultaneously several well-known names from the past are around. Among them, with a new album “Lethal” on Kniteforce, is Liquid – known from early 1990’s superhits “Liquid Is Liquid” andRead More →