Rating: 9/10 The best moments for enjoying The Voices From The Lake come after the sunset, when dark shadows are cast over a deep-blue lake that is locked between heavy rocks, still carrying the warmth of the sun. Natural ultramarine would sound like this, if transformed to the music. IRead More →
This is a little provocation. Firstly, for well-scented audiences that share the passion for opera and Wiener Symphoniker and despise anything that sounds even a little bit electronic. Secondly, a provocation for club kids who may accept dub techno, but believe that classical music is crap. Two different worlds couldRead More →
Rating: 8/10 Firstly, there was a shock: The record sleeve that emerged from the mailer looked very much second-hand and a merry couple, who did not look like electronic artists, smiled at me from the illustration. Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams, what the … Then I flipped it over and, to myRead More →
Tony Allen, a long-time companion of afrobeat icon Fẹla Aníkúlápó Kuti and drummer in his bands, does a gig at Rock Café in Tallinn, on 9 December. Along with Kuti, Allen has been a great influencer of African modern rhythm music. In the same, the gentleman who turned 70 thisRead More →
I don’t have any idea what kind of offices does the label Delsin have, but can imagine a brass coated plate at their doorsteps saying “Detroit consulate in Amsterdam”. Also Ann Aimee, Delsin’s department for more intellectual output shares the values of the mother “company”.The newest by Delta Funktionen inclinesRead More →
Pablo Bolivar, a Spanish producer behind several minimal house releases, and Aphro Sainz have teamed up as Pulshar. The original “Sacrifice of Love” is a soft-couch-song with subtle dub techno lines, and “Mantistyle” (Deep’s Edayar Remix) is not much different, reminding of the output of Sub Static and other German labelsRead More →
Lingerie girls on the sleeve and bargain price were the drivers behind the purchase of this 2009 record with three interpretations of “Fragment One (…And I Kept Hearing)”. A-side is filled with a remix by Sweden’s Style Of Eye, a family-friendly pop track with hints of shuffle and minimal house, that wouldRead More →
A drop-dead serious session by Rohr and Schoenemann, and by their remixing friends. It’s music of November, sounding like the moments when you have stayed inside and hear whirlwind trying to unroof your den. And the weather forecast tells it will not be any better.The original is a creeping andRead More →
Luke Slater, techno man in business for almost 20 years, puts his remixing hands on the track called “Gmork” and does it with passion. Definitely he returns to his roots here with a solid floor stuff and we can forgive him diversions to average-sounding breaks and electro productions (“Wireless”, 1999).Read More →