Musically, Florian Kupfer has experienced a lot in his young life. At eight he joined children’s church choir with rehearsals six times a week, he told in an interview for De:Bug. However it did not last forever when the fellow from Wiesbaden turned to hip hop in his teens, toRead More →
Release date is in July 2014 Four variations on the theme “Movement” by the Italian artist Edanticonf who has previously claimed a central spot in the roster of the Vancouver imprint Silent Season. Usually we can smell dub techno in Edanticonf’s productions and his approach on the EP for M_RecRead More →
This month’s selection is topped by an odd four-tracker by Chicago’s Beau Wanzer out soon on Nation Records. “Power Outage” is an experimental amalgamation of turbo disco, dark wave and viagra. Listening to Ekman‘s eerie new strike on Panzerkreuz one can understand all the fuss about the Dutch producer fond of dirtyRead More →
In “Gravrösens Bortglömda Band”, released simultaneously with S100‘s “Genesis” in Semantica’s recent Swedish round, Varg leaves the Northern Electronics hideaway for urban crowds targeted by the Madrid label. After the ambient intro “Lossning I Dimma, Kallholmen 04.53”, floor-minded “Västra Skogen” twins with ethereal fireballs produced by Abdulla Rashim, Varg’s pal inRead 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 →
A new home session for your listening pleasure. Again, I could not resist the temptation to mix new material with some older tracks. Tracklist with buy links:Air Liquide – If There Was No Gravity (Jammin’ Unit Remix) (Harvest)Mace. – Support Structures (Attic Music)*BMG & Derek Plaslaiko – The True StoryRead More →
Set up by Hound Scales and Divvorce, Brooklyn imprint Fifth Wall Records belongs to the bunch of US labels effectively averting current techno clichés. New mini compilation opens with post-witch house oddity by L’estasi Dell’oro, the man behind the labels Voodoo Down, Flaneur Audio and recently sighted on Berceuse Heroique. Inaugural GothicRead 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 →
This post is useless in promoting Berceuse Heroique’s fifth release as it sold out quickly. Featuring again politically charged liner notes, the BH 005 belongs to the best crop of Kemal’s London-based non-conceptual concept label. It’s a fierce affair produced by Grego Beato aka Breaker 1 2 and Ekman, whereRead More →