Continuing a musical style inhabiting acidic sci-fi techno and dark-side Detroit leanings, Posthuman return with the five track Nebula EP on Acroplane plus a follow up remix selection from Datasette, Kirk Degiorgio, Nightwave and Boxcutter (under Planet Mu pseudonym The Host). With a discography going back to 2000, a rave CV that covers club nights [...]
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Chris Moss Acid :: Bay of Cadiz (030303)
It was never too clear what Bay of Cadiz was going to be about. There was a chance of 303 bedlam, a chance of house pastiche. Instead Moss Acid delivers a measured and modern sound using the vintage acid box. There’s a definite slice of AFX to the sound. It seems that wherever you turn [...]
Claro Intelecto :: Reform Club (Delsin)
It becomes clear that the “reform” in Reform Club points not only toward tighter, slicker production but also to the combination of tech house and dub oriented beats that has evolved so much since his 2008 release Metanarrative. There are multi-insturmentalists in the more physical world of music but in the world of electronic music [...]
LUMEN :: Drawn Recordings Mix
An eclectic mix of leftfield, downtempo, dub/step, grit, dark ambient and bass music from UK’s Lumen—courtesy of Drawn Recordings. Sometimes you just have to loosen up and let the grooves take over. This mix by Drawn Recordings resident DJ/VJ Lumen is a syndicated mix for igloomag.com. “…Lumen has been knocking out some cracking sets of [...]
Feedback :: Walk The Line (MRX)
Walk the Line sees Minimal Rome enter the club, chin up and shoulders back. The MRX label has sought out sounds for the 1210 zealots, and Feedback’s latest is just that. Clever and powerful, with some armchair appeal from Mr 66. The MRX wing of Minimal Rome has lay dormant since Solvent poured his squalid [...]
Crump :: Chiaroscuro EP (Slime)
A bouncy, rolling batch of minimal house tracks with a somewhat understated feel. It’s solid though, infectious and persistent, like a puppy needing a walk. I have to admit—Crump (aka Alex Crump)—is a producer that I’ve not come across before. He’s a Bristol lad with a bit of form and has just had his EP [...]
Fabrics :: Refabricated (From A Tree)
Shards of twisted bass, left field tape recordings, broken synthesizers, blistered techno wrangling and an affinity for surreal auditory manipulation keeps Refabricated on its edge as it leans on mysterious iterations of past and future. Skimming our review from July 2011 of Fabrics and the same duo (Greek purveyors of music technology, Vasilis Kesalidis and [...]
Simoncino :: Werehouse EP (Echovolt)
There are some gentle techno thoughts coming through, but it is warm and layered house that is at the heart of the Italian’s sound. Simoncino has been building his credentials for several years now. Since 2008 the Italian has been serving up his take on the Chitown sound—having pushed the house envelope on labels like [...]
FURS :: Anti-Node EP (Detroit Underground / eBoy)
Overall an enjoyable EP that segues from quaint electronics to well-oiled rhythm blocks while retaining its bright lit canvass of melodic shuffles. The smothered 8-bit audio bubbles of the early 00′s rings in the air on FURS‘ extended player with dBoy (a collaborative effort between Detroit Underground and the German graphic design group eBoy). The [...]
Shawn O Sullivan, Below Underground, Steve Moore :: 3View (L.I.E.S.)
Every time the label dives into the vast oceans of house, techno and electronics it resurfaces with another pearl from the depths. Function, form and flawless execution. Ron Morelli’s L.I.E.S. label has only been on the go for two years, but has been receiving serious acclaim from DJ’s and electronic zealots across the world. Do latest [...]
Bleupulp :: Small Places (Pertin_nce)
Bleupulp conjugates dub and techno in his own special way, fastidiously and inquisitively. [Release page] Maxime Tanguay from Lévis, just across the St. Lawrence River from Québec City, has a substantial amount of music available online, most of it under the name Bleupulp, his abstract dub project. Abstract, but far from haphazard or sloppy. Bleupulp [...]
Meschi & Echo 106 :: Double EP review (Lux Rec)
Take a breath. Check your change. Once more Lux is setting off on another journey into the shadows of 808 monuments and Chitown inspiration. Lux Rec is a label to follow. It started off on the right foot, some muscular acid from Detroit’s Jared Wilson, and since the Swiss imprint has dipped its pen into [...]
Release your ears 2.0
A list of some recent, current and forthcoming titles that are piquing our ears lately—it’s our attempt to point you to some notable releases worth investigating. Following up from earlier this month, there’s still plenty of music to digest among dangling wires and digital waveforms. Here’s another batch of titles worth investigating—each dipping into new [...]
S. Crosbie :: Dark Arts 01 (Dark Arts)
Dark Arts is born from “the culmination of close to twenty years spent on dance-floors, in DJ booths and in record shops across Europe.” Dark Arts 01 sees S. Crosbie dish up four tracks based on this two decade history of electronic submersion. [Purchase] From Britain comes a new label espousing a blend of subdued [...]
Myk Derill :: Relocation (RE(FORM))
Myk Derill has done the Berlin techno scene proud on Relocation—the tracks adhere to the formula, but the tough slant gives them some extra girth. Electronic music has quite a rotary quality to it. Styles and genres come in swings and roundabouts. The past decade saw a resurgence in disco and italo. At the moment [...]
Lost Trax / The Connection Machine :: Lost Machine (Tabernacle)
The sound espoused in Lost Machine are echoes of the almost forgotten UK techno scene. Lost Trax mesh some modern moments with reflection. TCM serve up recollection. The evenings are getting longer. The temperature is tipping double digits. Spring appears to be in the air. Best get some techno on the turntable. Tabernacle Records return [...]
Bitwise :: Better Luck Next Time (System)
Elements of clean-cut techno, downtempo and ambient are smothered with a layer of instrumental pop, loosened synths, emotive strings and lyrical lava-flows that form wide foundations holding more than one theme or trajectory. Albums usually paint foggy audio pictures connected to themes or concepts revolving around the artists’ interpretation of life events. Recollections of current [...]
Perispirit :: Spiritual Church Movement (Digitalis)
For a record as borderline obliterated as this there’s a strange warmth that envelops Spiritual Church Movement, much like the sable trimming surrounding the oddly mechanical looking and richly ornamented gold filigree of the Russian Tsar’s skullcap on the front cover. [Release page] What exactly are the ingredients that work together to create a great noise [...]
Sean Byrd :: Always Was (Plastic Sound Supply)
The emotional swells and transitions Byrd builds into his tracks sometimes lead to moments of pure transcendence, too, as on the album’s aptly-titled closer “Something That Pulls,” where a buzzing, churning bass tone fights, counters, and ultimately yields to a high, harp-like melody. The announcement for Sean Byrd‘s new album Always Was immediately caught my [...]
Shemale :: Hell Transformation Screens (Last Known Trajectory)
Shemale explores the margins of electro, probing the floor and the backroom of the analogue world. Over seven tracks the Northerner paints in shades of black and grey, producing 808 infused beasts and ashen eyed ambience. Shemale is an artist who has been beavering away in the shadows of Newcastle’s empty factories since 2006. . [...]
Legowelt :: North Sea Spectrum EP (Signals)
For the 12” Legowelt has created some deep house sounds, jacking floor pelters and laid back electronics; an artist going strong, and getting stronger proving this one to be an excellent release. Europe may be in the grip of a cold snap, but there’s enough of a thaw in the UK to keep the vinyl [...]
Shawn O’Sullivan :: Free Flight (W.T.)
O’Sullivan has taken a number of styles and ran them together. It is not a coarse blend of techno with some house and electronic elements. Instead the Led Er Est member uses aspects of each, utilizing slow techno structures to sculpt electronic vistas with some Chicago influence. [Release page] It was roughly around this time [...]
V/A :: Kollektiv Artists Volume Six (Music Kollektiv)
Making Russia safe for underground electronica, Music Kollektiv is a burgeoning Moscow – and web-based powerhouse dedicated to “finding unconventional rhythms and telling their stories.” [Release page] Making Russia safe for underground electronica, Music Kollektiv is a burgeoning Moscow – and web-based powerhouse dedicated to “finding unconventional rhythms and telling their stories.” All albums and [...]
Tаlоs :: ∞ (Self-Released)
As Talos displays their visual-audio skills through this inaugural release, they’ve not only balanced stunning graphical works in the form of a TDR-styled book, but have also detailed an audiometric world exposing infinite bits of electrical data. [Release page] Keeping the delicate craft of electronic art and visual abstraction intact is Талос (pronounced Talos) with [...]
BROKEN20 :: 3View
These three releases (10-20′s Magnet Marsh, Isodyne’s Dreams Torn From The Sky and Nanorhythm’s Beyond the Green Wall) show Broken20′s faculties very much intact in their drawing together of fragments across the electronic spectrum from washed out wonk-tronica to headf**k techno. (February—2012) Broken20 is a nearly new label run by Marcia Blaine School for Girls [...]
Materia :: Komatiite EP (Slime)
Tight drums, deep bass, melodic and harmonic mastery wrapped up in intricate and evolving atmospheres and textures. Swedish born Bristol producer Materia has worn a lot of hats during his years producing music—which incidentally number quite a few now—from Drum and Bass to Tech House, and more recent forays into the steadily deepening black hole [...]