Rating: 7/10 Some good ones on this Groove compilation. Let’s start with a Mexican who loves machines and combines them with traditional instruments: like a godchild of Liaisons Dangereuses, Rebolledo rocks big time in “Steady Gear Rebo Machine” with monotone percussion – a pretty angry track that makes curious aboutRead More →
Rating: 8/10 First it made me think of UND, the duo that produced theatrical tech-house with tongue-in-cheek attitude. MD0 turns an eye to Asia having captured voices from the life on young Japanese ladies who are fond of designer clothes and chic jewellery. Sound wise it is quite eclectic mixRead More →
Rating: 7/10 “Diskoveri” (“Disco Blood”) is an album one can not easily ignore. Either you like it or not, but it is an intense melting pot of 20-odd styles. You arrive to a hectic party with Count Dracula, Pokemon, Donkey Kong, Hänschen and Gretchen and many other luminaries of theRead More →
Rating: 5/10 This twelve lines up with dozens of other edits and unofficial releases exploiting the life and legacy of the King of Pop. Difficult to believe it is a honest tribute release, although the title track “Thank You Michael” tries to bow down before M.J., featuring a preacher’s addressRead More →
Rating: 6/10 No doubt the artwork is a failure. Don’t think the robust a** on the sleeve belongs to the mag’s cover boy Nicolas Jaar who in the song “Keep Me There” hums along on electronics. One track is not enough to assess if it’s a ingenious work or not.Read More →
When the 1980s arrived, Neue Deutsche Welle – teutonic counterpart to the British new wave – swept across Germany. Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF) was the group that personified this movement. But then NDW became gradually popular music to make it to the charts with Nena, Falco and others. Also associated withRead More →
1980’s coming back again, signals Villa Nah, a Finnish duo to support Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s comeback gigs in the UK this autumn. Group’s first album, “Origin”, is just out and current seven-inch gives a taste of the larger format, both songs found also in the album version.A-side’s “RunningRead More →
After a diving session in the deep waters of exotic disco and funk, Dom Thomas has brought to the daylight a selection of more and less glittering corals. It’s not the return of golden oldies but a parade of unknown cuts and edits mainly smelling so end-1970’s. The man fromRead 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 →