With a debut release on his newborn eponymous imprint still fresh on everyone’s minds, we asked outsider house don Madteo for a special podcast. In return the New York-based producer laid down a killer 2-hour long mix full of bouncy house gems, dusty disco melters and infectious boogie groovers. We sat back to discuss his relationship with the Big Apple, industry matters and forthcoming projects.
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Blood Room: Dendera Lite EP
Following up to excursions on Cloud Bank and Speaker Footage, Blood Room makes his debut on rising intercontinental outlet SØVN with ‘Dendera Lite’, a nine-tracker featuring fellow Seagrave affiliates Graham Dunning, A I W A and 99LETTERS and more on remix duties. Stream the full release within.
Kito Jempere: BAH029
Kito Jempere’s new slab for Bahnsteig 23 – the edit-focused imprint helmed by sphinx-like character Ziggy Sternenstaub, follows the steps of eastern European funk-punk and disco through four astutely re-arranged tracks aimed to enhance the original mixes’ bounce. Premiere the EP’s highlight ‘Melnaa’ within.
Out of the mist: John Daly talks up his new album as The Smoke Clears
John Daly returns as The Smoke Clears with an eponymous second album of spacious electronica and cosmic ambient – due out 12th September on Dublin’s All City Records. We caught up with John to find out more about his creative process, analogue dependence and asked him to collate some of his all-time favourites through a ten-track playlist.
Tolouse Low Trax to release vinyl triptych on Antinote
Over Düsseldorf’s multifaceted bastion for arts Salon des Amateurs hovers the shadow of Det Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax, eternal pathfinder and crafty sound twiddler in his own right; a
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Premiere: Killawatt – Livewire (Ossia Remix)
Over the past five years, Matthew Watt bka Killawatt polished his roily dub and droney techno sonics through a constant influx of choice releases for various imprints. Released last year via Simon
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Premiere: Mathis Ruffing – Celeste Undressed (feat. Strip Steve)
Mathis Ruffing ‘Celeste Undressed’ – featuring Boysnoize affiliate Strip Steve, works a fine balance between African polyrhythms and a velveteen lo-fi house boogie, exuding its particularly rousing tropical feel throughout the grooves. The sonic equivalent to exploring the vivid aquatic fauna from some mysterious underwater caves. Superb.
Premiere: Baltra – Tears Drop
Baltra’s ‘Tears Drop’ is a lethal floor tempter, seductive yet redoubtable with its siren-song-like vox samples and heady synth hooks, luring you into the sunny belt of some rapturous exclave in one nostalgic caress. Optimal coastal house stunner.
Premiere: PeteMartell – Digital Dave
Brought to prominence by labels like Morelli’s torch-bearing L.I.E.S. and Stephen Bishop’s Opal Tapes, the tape-saturated grit of the “lo-fi” aesthetic has gained massive impact on the underground tech
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Faster Action: Soki Loka
When Ron Morelli asked Interstellar Funk and Robert Bergman for a release as Faster Action, the latter felt it wasn’t the direction he wanted to explore next so he left Olf full room to express his “darker” side. In return the Rush Hour affiliate delivered a pair of weatherbeaten big room mover-and-shakers that shall leave a durable mark in L.I.E.S.’ modern classic catalogue.
Neubau announce new EP by Leo James
Following on from a killer founding release by Aufgang B – the alias of Berlin pair Alexander Arpeggio and Cid Hohner, shortly followed by another grade A delivery
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Premiere: Hidden Turn – How To
Hidden Turn’s first incursion on Doc Scott’s 31 Recordings came two years ago with the release of ‘Big Dirty’ – Today we are glad to present the transcending ‘How To’, a deep spiralling cut built around a forcible broken-beat backbone, as dubbed-out synth whirls, riffling organic echoes and wailing distorted layers keep swashing in suspended motion.
Watch the music video to Antenna “Primavera May” on Beats In Space
Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space imprint have shared a music video for Antenna’s ‘Primavera May’, directed by Serena Forghieri – Made up of video glitches re-arranged in scrolling mosaics of pixelated colours then superimposed over actual paintings, the pastel imagery suits the pair’s melancholic yet resilient elixir of vaporous house perfectly.
Gang Of Ducks: A trip inside Paradisia
After premiering Lovers Rock boss Ital’s banging contribution a couple of weeks ago, enigmatic Turin-based crew Gang Of Ducks come up with a proper track-by-track breakdown of the full ‘Paradisia’ compilation. Take a plunge!
Premiere: Kerri Chandler – Turn Off The Lights (Satoshi Tomiie Remix)
Satoshi Tomiie’s remix of Kerri Chandler ‘Turn Off The Lights’ on Kaoz Theory is “a no-nonsense, chiselled club delivery from two of the ’90-to-’00s house game’s most beloved figureheads.”
A Made Up Sound closes self-titled label with double CD compilation
For the occasion, Huismans gathered all his tracks in a bulky double-CD compilation that does not just assemble the pieces of an intricate, next-level puzzle, but also puts his off-kilter body of work in perspective.