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 →
Release date is in September 2013 Two pristine tracks made in Sweden by Bondegatan’s boss Abdulla Rashim and newcomer Axel Hallqvist. This is techno but because of purity and transparency “Skog” could be a World Wildlife Fund approved composition, reflecting Rashim’s recent soundwriting for own imprint. Crystalline pads enjoy theRead More →
A release that should not be overlooked. Cape Town native Alan Abrahams aka Portable emerged during the much-cursed minimal craze in the noughties, though being among most remarkable proponents that time.Since 2002 Portable has been running own imprint Süd Electronic that dropped this spring impressive “Albatross Remixes”, which is definitelyRead More →
Italian SNTS imprint taps into the saturated market of droning techno with another anonymous release to supply dark moments to the floor. Despite of several genre tropes “Chapter III” will find a place in respective DJ bags. Starting in “S7” with atmospheric loops and distant hum which reminds of recent Abdulla Rashim,Read More →
Launched in 2013, Berceuse Heroique is a vinyl-only label from London having already attracted an interesting set of artists. After Ekman from the Netherlands, to return soon with insane acid single, and Gesloten Cirkel from Russia, Detroit’s Manuel Gonzales aka MGUN has now parked at BH. On the A-side heRead More →
One of UK’s young techno guns, London producer Tom Dicicco launched his own Run Out Run imprint with a floor-friendly first installment of the “Under The Aquadrome” trilogy. The second outing mainly exhibits his dub-influenced side, with one remarkable exception. After being tested on the floor, at home and inRead More →
The Trilogy Tapes is wittingly engaged in cherry-picking of the young and promising – M GUN, Anthony Naples, Tuff Sherm, to mention only recent artists in the label’s catalog. Now it’s the turn of _moonraker, the act having debuted in the electronic scene in 2012 and made up of two artistsRead More →
Deep Sound Channel is a new vehicle of the Dutch Shipwrec posse from Nijmegen and the debuting double pack offers a number of color-themed techno variations.The opener claims the main prize: In “Grey” growling bass modulations are soaked in delays and noise particles, leading the track beyond the no-mans-land ofRead More →
Release date is in September 2013 At first instance “scjkn-13”, the standout track of the new EP on PoleGroup, sounds like Mike Parker. In fact Spherical Coordinates is a collab of Spanish producers, the label owner Oscar Mulero and Christian Wünsch. Earlier this year the duo appeared along Parker onRead More →