After an adulterous excursion on Macadam Mambo, Lyon-based duo The Pilotwings return to BFDM with ‘Les Portes Du Brionnais’, an eleven-track debut LP exploring a wide range of styles including syncopated weed-stank grooves, zouk and Japanese exotica motifs as well as other cosmic oddities.
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Luca Lozano / Ruf Dug: Massive 1
For the first number of Junglish Massive, Klasse Recordings boss Luca Lozano summons Rüf Kutz honcho Ruf Dug. A lethal combo on paper that reveals just as satisfying when the needle hits the groove. We’re not quite sure whether Junglish Massive will be exclusively coming in the form of such collaborations but one thing’s sure, ‘Massive 1’ sets exemplary standards.
Garth Be: Law Of Fives EP
Better known as BE, Manchester-based producer Garth Be isn’t one to make noise for nothing. Each track off his new ‘Law Of Fives EP’ for local house wonder-purveyor Rüf Kutz feels like a labour of love in itself, letting off a silky mix of jazz-tinged, disco-savvy house melters. Dope boogie vibe.
Peder Mannerfelt: Transmissions From A Drainpipe
Over a few years in the production game, fact is Stockholm’s offbeat techno warlock Peder Mannerfelt has been one of the few out there to consistently question the nature of stomping mechanics and its subsequent functional use. Picking up where ‘Controlling Body’ left off, Mannerfelt dishes out a four-track EP that works on alternating current voltage.
Lord of the Isles: In Waves
Lord Of The Isles has turned his hand to a full length, working closely with Californian based ESP Institute to distil a wide selection of tracks from the past few years into ‘In Waves’. For a man without any academically noticeable ‘talent’ for music the resulting album is, quite simply, excellent.
Bernardino Femminielli: Plaisirs Américains (Greek Limited Edition)
Initially released in May, Femminielli’s sixth full-length ‘Plaisirs Américains’ was recently re-issued in a one-off, buy-it-or-miss-it edition featuring two new unreleased tracks. Driven by a carefree, deliberately obscene attitude, the Montreal-based artist keeps on carving out his own lane, delivering yet another tight-laced symphony of hypnotic, unsettling lullabies.
S.O.N.S: Shinjuku One Night Stand
After making quite a splash with the widely praised inaugural transmission of the T.O.K.Y.O series, released via his own eponymous imprint two years ago, mysterious producer S.O.N.S is back with the just as massive ‘Shinjuku One Night Stand’ – a six-track double pack larded with acidic salvos, augmented jungle moves and irruptive laser-battle gunnery.
DFX: Relax Your Body
Trotting in at a brief twenty minutes, Ricardo Villalobos’ reworking of DFX ‘Relax Your Body’ is a perfect microcosm to demonstrate why he is one of the best executioners of minimal principles.
Todd Modes: Native Visions EP
For his debut incursion on Aaron Siegel’s FIT Sound, Todd Modes delivers what is without a doubt his most accomplished slab to date. Equally at ease with an unlikely elixir of ’80s hard-rock solos and ancestral drum patterns or more typical Detroit house tropes, Cochell proves if needed that the Motown’s still there to provide some of the most exciting dance music around.
Grant: Cranks
Grant deftly dances over the old adage of the “difficult second album”, following up 2015’s ‘The Acrobat’ in quite some style.
Roman Flügel: All The Right Noises
With a brave title like ‘All The Right Noises’, Roman Flügel’s third album for Dial should be hitting All The Right Buttons. The good news is that after, at least, twenty listens we’ve struggled to detect a wrong noise. All of it seems very right indeed. It’s so right that we think this is likely Flügel’s best work yet.
GAS: Box
GAS is a project in flux, appropriately matching the ethereal nature of the music itself, and with this latest effort Kompakt have created a refined take on Voigt’s grand vision.
Broshuda: Ooze Vector
Just as he does toy with shapes and structures through retro-laced, post-pop and graffiti-imbued collages, Broshuda has developed a sound that is steadily mutating from a certain ‘figuration’ to increasingly abstract forms. Moving from more calibrated formats to anti-normative fields of experimentation, ‘Ooze Vector’ is a striking example of this substantial evolution.
Shifted: Appropriation Stories
Appropriation Stories is one of the top Shifted works to date – providing everything fans and new listeners could want out of a techno album, while not trying to vacillate between the dancefloor and a headphone listen. It has terrific balance, exudes confidence and packs a mean punch with silk sheets surrounding it.
Johannes Reigner: Hilbert Space Remixes
‘Hilbert Space’ feels like one of those archival discoveries, released low key in the nineties and never dislodged from the collections of those intrepid jocks lucky enough to stumble upon it in some overlooked indie shop. From the second it hits your eardrums it sounds well-worn with warm familiarity, yet not over saturated through pastiche.
Mei Tahat: Dayworld
On their impressive debut for Berceuse Heroique, Czamanski and Shay weave a head trip of anarchic jazz-funk, opiated brass-laden grooves and warped kosmische motifs. The result is a deconstruction of functional dance archetypes and expected rhythmic forms through a digressive string of druggy, mind-altering jams of the finest ilk. Stream I:Cube’s disco remix within.