Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Rush Hour (NL) Buy vinyl from Gramaphone (US) Buy vinyl from Halcyon (US) Thunder over Chicago The arrival of a heat wave is proclaimed with Slaying Medusa’s first release, when especially the A-side recalls Relief Records’ days of glory. TheRead More →
Detroit’s technological belly dance Gary Martin and his Teknotika Records are a special phenomenon in the history of Detroit techno. Compared to the city’s traditional electronic sound – UR’s hi-tech funk, 430 West’s rolling house or Metroplex’s stellar electro -, the output curated by Martin aka Gigi Galaxy would ratherRead More →
Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Hard Wax (DE) Buy vinyl from Halcyon (US) Vmax convincingly signals the end of absence Set up in Michigan’s capital city Lansing, Vmax belonged in the 1990s to acclaimed imprints of the larger Detroit area. Over the years it hasRead More →
A diverse selection of nineties US techno With recent releases on Tar Hallow, Planet Rhythm and his own label Mechanism Industries, experienced US artist Fanon Flowers is not willing to send any signals about retirement. Born in Michigan’s Kalamazoo, a musically important location between Detroit and Chicago, current L.A. resident FlowersRead More →
Undetected Act from the Gloom Chamber by The Mover Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Metabanana (D) DOOM reborn, as a computer warfare edition When in 1993 The Mover’s debut album “The Final Sickness” came out on Planet Core Productions (PCP), a new video gameRead More →
Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Decks (DE) Buy vinyl from Downtown 304 (US) Buy vinyl from Bent Crayon (US) From raver’s bliss to abstract beats Schmer may not be as well-known as the parent label Serotonin, but the return of both to the vinyl cratesRead More →
Buy vinyl / digital from Hard Wax (DE) Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from aufnahme + wiedergabe (DE) Buy vinyl from Bent Crayon (US) Neo trance missile from the Ancient Methods base One would expect another dose of industrial pounding on Persephonic Sirens, a label setRead More →
Buy “Give Your Body” vinyl / digital reissue from Delsin (NL) Buy vinyl from Discogs Buy digital from Juno Download Frank de Groodt’s recent Sonar Base reissue led my thoughts to the output of Random XS, one of the projects he has been associated with. When I retrieved “Give YourRead More →
Down With Us by Westcoast Cruisers Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Clone (NL) Buy vinyl from HHV (DE) Straight outta La Haya When a maxi single with three versions of fat bass and breaks touches down, it feels like time travel to the eighties, toRead More →
Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Hard Wax (DE) Classic techno from ‘a veteran’ in top form The nineties caught up with us once again, this time in the person of Steffan Robbers aka Terrace. Already more than 25 years ago he was a regularRead More →