A grimy, distorted and oscillating four tracks offering for the Athens imprint. Continuing their global search for talent, Lower Parts is trekking all the way […]
Tag: Acid
Qnete :: Grey City Anthem (ZCKR)
Subtle changes, a rinse or decay, allows for new avenues of depravity to open. Trebles knobs are ripped out as melodies are sent spiraling into […]
Kat Channel :: Beauty of Sadness (aDepth Audio)
This latest offering from aDepth is definitely a break with the past. I’d come to associate the dutch imprint with clever techno and a touch […]
Stephen Lopkin / DimDJ :: Split EP (Endless Illusion)
An unlikely pairing of North and South, but a definite winner. Just before the new year was rang in Endless Illusion put out there third […]
V/A :: Various III (030303)
So what are you getting with this third compilation? You’re getting what 030303 have been doing since the doors opened, expanding the acid and braindance […]
Boneless One :: Hazard Bringer (ProForm Series)
Music to blister eardrums and break speakers; in other words proper dark and mean techno. I was surprised when Tabernacle Records announced its Ride the […]
DROWNED RECORDS :: From Bremen with bite
Drowned Records has some similar characteristics to ZCKR. Both labels have released music from Qnete, a homegrown talent with a penchant for raw and thumping […]
777 :: Breaking from the Bonds of Berlin (Interview & Mix)
Perhaps I was wrong about Berlin and survival of the fittest. New and exciting imprints, like Wilson’s, are flourishing. Maybe “THE capital” has enough shelve […]
Savage Grounds :: Unpleasant Music for Unpleasant People (Lux Rec)
The style of techno that Savage Grounds are exploring isn’t the conventional type. Their form adopts the underproduction of Chicago house, the bursting rage of […]
Born in a less than likely place :: Vielspaß
Born out of basement space, described by Prioux as a “bargain underground club,” underneath the DMA Vielspaß has all the attributes of an arts college […]
Drvg Cvltvre :: The Right Knife In The Right Back (Poverty Is Violence)
The EP is very drum focused and other sounds are reined in by either percussion or static. But on several listens the subtlety is laid […]

















