Good news from Chicago when Stilove4music, an offshoot of the city’s own Still Music, has decided to unearth a few gems from the golden era of acid house. Essentially it’s a Chris “Bam Bam”‘s Westbrook EP with one exception: The opener comes from late Armando Gallop whose “Land Of Confusion”Read More →
The year 2013 saw the birth of the Estonian label Frotee Records, which is in search of the Balearic beat of the Baltics and does it with vinyl pressings of long-lost compositions. The label debuted with an EP by a band called Tornaado, thus going back to the year 1979Read More →
In 1992, the same year when Drexciya debuted with “Deep Sea Dweller” on Shockwave, they launched another alias on Hardwax, a label from Detroit techno’s rougher sonic area that had been set up by Robert Hood. Hardwax sound was much harsher than the one of M-Plant, Hood’s main platform across theRead More →
Offering a cross-section of electronic styles, “Border Disorder Vol. 1” is a living room recording covering several new and unreleased tracks along with some older fare. Introductory sounds come from Sweden with Ulwhednar‘s macabre experimentalism “V” and “Aksum 2” from Abdulla Rashim‘s new journey in lunar dust. “Ivy” by TheseRead More →
A drawing from Fantastic Universe, December 1954 It’s not quite that the grass was greener in the 1990s but it can’t be denied that today the BPM rate of even harder, industrial tracks goes rarely over 130. It’s like a border line between serious electronic music and cheap hardstyle productionsRead More →
One can’t deny the unique aura of the Chicago house heritage and those archives seem endless, as tracks from the scene’s very young years resurface time after time. Still Music owner Jerome Derradji is on a mission to explore the vaults of the Windy City, now continuing the tour inRead More →
Something for the class of 1988. The Belgium-born new beat phenomenon has remained, surprisingly, largely untouched by the high tides of revival. Now exactly a Belgian label We Play House has launched a series of mini compilations on the theme. “Agent Orange” is killing us softly with classic new beatRead More →
From 1995, an intense blast on Alan Oldham’s Generator Records (Detroit): “Interferon”, grinding proto-rave monster and the label’s iconic track, was remixed by several influential faces of the mid-1990s scene. It jump starts with Dave Clarke’s in-your-face deconstruction, squeezed between the original’s evil riff and angry breakbeats with loud ‘X-313!’ shouts of thundering kickRead More →
Technically taken it’s a reissue but not of the type of glossy deluxe editions people are fooled with. The 12-inch, now out on Porridge Bullet imprint, is a reproduction of the material released in 1991 as a friends-only run of 20 cassettes by the Estonian act Hypnosaurus with Aivar TõnsoRead More →
All these old school ravers and racers complaining about insufficient amounts of monotonous techno are well served with a great dose by the late Swedish artist Ü aka Joel Brindefalk. As a long-time affiliate of the Börft clan, Brindefalk has filled the LP with the sound of rave-era tapes fromRead More →