Electric Deluxe hit the US for the weekend Tour of May 23-24. The label hosts the opening party of Movement Detroit, linked to the launch of Jeff Derringer‘s Beat to Quarters EP.
Electric Deluxe hit the US for the weekend Tour of May 23-24. The label hosts the opening party of Movement Detroit, linked to the launch of Jeff Derringer‘s Beat to Quarters EP (see below). It sees EDLX supremo Speedy J line up with some of European and US Techno’s finest, incl. Derringer himself, Stroboscopic Artefacts luminary, Lucy, Mike Dehnert, Subjected, DVS1, and Mike Gervais (see here). Moving on to New York’s Verboten, Speedy J, Lucy, and Subjected are joined by Brendon Moeller, Oscar Mulero, and Verboten resident DJ, Brad Miller (see here). After this Jochem Paap and Lucy head back to Movement for the US debut of their Zeitgeber project.
As for Jeff Derringer, the Chicago-to man of the Oktave nights, his Beat to Quarters is a broody floor-pleasing thumper coming off the back of a previous EDLX EP with Raiz, Deception. It adds to a growing back catalog that kicked off on Subtrak, moved on with a trio for Perc Trax (see “Passenger”), and then a couple for M_Rec and Prosthetic Pressings. “Beat to Quarters” hits hard, hi-hats fizzing into an interstellar overdrive blip trip. EDLX mainstay Giorgio Gigli‘s re-tool is an epic hypnagogue workout with kicks pounding through inky string swirls. Flipping it, “The Stranger,” goes for itchy’n’scratchy clap’n’trap, deep-bleep and off-kilter kinesis, rounded off by a glacial percussive remix from Donato Dozzy/Neel’s Voices From the Lake (n.b. see here for further emissions from Techno’s Outer Limits).
Beat to Quarters is out on May 19 on Electric Deluxe. While you wait for it to hit, have some previous Derringer.
