Orlando Voorn has been credited for being the first Dutch producer who created the link between techno communities in Detroit and Amsterdam about 20 years ago. Ever since Voorn has been tagged as Detroit producer putting out tunes in the spirit of Motor City. A prolific sound writer under numerousRead More →
Jeremiah R. from Rotterdam is a dreamer, pursuing the sounds of electro’s atmospheric side, if to decide by his EP for the Italian label Enklav. [yes there is a full stop at the end]. It gets a cautious start with harmonic layers in „Interdimensional Beings“, to fit the loungy ambienceRead More →
The EP “Esoteric Systems” marks AnD’s return to Repitch with rampant acid techno, slightly revealing the duo’s experimental mind clusters on the flip.The A-side hammers well above 130 BPM, the crowd firstly being served by blasting “Dusty Artefacts” which stands for AnD’s usual hard side tools, backed up by fretfulRead More →
“Dynasty” used to be a TV soap in the 1980s, featuring housewife idols John Forsythe and Joan Collins and none of those long-haired eccentrics keeping the contact to the ordinary world. The attitude of the UK producer Koehler is just the opposite when creating his own “Dynasty” and landing on Berceuse HeroiqueRead More →
It’s the grande finale of Fabrizio Lapiana’s three-EP series on Attic Music. It opens with “Antimatter”, by name the trilogy’s title theme, which is a bruised cut with loudest bass in the series. Suitable for dark big room action, it taps into recent escapades by Gaja or Device Control. The pounding,Read More →
Oil shale is the Estonian gold, excavated in the underground mines in the Eastern part of the country – exactly how it is depicted on the CD cover. A band rooted in death metal, grindcore and punk, the three-member TIC was part of the region’s musical underground in the beginningRead More →
The agent #007 in the Inner Surface roster is Angus Tarnawsky, a drummer, sound artist and composer born in 1988 in Tasmania, Australia but currently based in Brooklyn. A techno EP by nature, Tarnawsky’s dark-coloured debut is loaded with a number of bass variations. However the opener “Pitched”, which chugsRead More →
Having appeared in Semantica’s Nonnative series, Stockholm Ltd artist S100 revisits the Madrid label with a solo EP. The dance mob gets instant satisfaction in “Revoke”, a floor-testing exercise with droning vibrations and acidic synth stabs, that clearly overshadow “Pygmalion’s” linear simplicity.The B-side opens strong with limping and shaking outdoorRead More →
Sanys, a producer from St Petersburg (Russia), uses own outlet Downfall Theory for floor action and has reached his and the label’s sixth EP. Mid-paced title track “Dominance” does many things right with hints of Ferox funk, low-pitched vocal sample and clattering drums but it’s dwarfed by following cuts. ARead More →
Release date is in May 2014 “Permanent Affinity” is another split release on Par Recordings, Montevideo. Label head George Paar embarks on a fast-paced night flight with stringent and sterile sequencing in “The Song That Never Ends” where the noisiness dominates over the grooves.The B-side belongs to Italian artist ClaudioRead More →