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.
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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.
Les Graciés: Low Doses
Veiled under the name of Les Graciés, Paris-based sound artist Gaël Segalen and half of the Deepblak core Afrikan Sciences break down cultural barriers to pull an unique and cohesive output off their own singular heritages. After honing their skills for four years the pair is eventually taking the leap of releasing their longed-for debut joint effort ‘Low Doses‘, due out on Lindsay Todd’s Firecracker Recordings on 25th October.
Various Artists: A Fiction Universe (EP Stream)
On 4th November Dutch imprint Taped Artifact will inaugurate their debut VA compilation, which we’re no short of excited to share with you in full. The four-track ‘A Fiction Universe‘ gathers contributions from Allergy Season’s Physical Therapy, Italian duo Hiver, Arnemann and Elmer – the techno project of Bepotel members Sagat and Walrus.
Call Super: New Life Tones
Call Super’s “New Life Tones” demonstrates Seaton’s lessons learnt in (de)constructing his album and ability to piece together the disparate influences of techno into new forms.
Skudge: Balancing Point
With Elias Landberg and Gustaf Wallnerstrom fine techno output over the years, expectations have been set high for Skudge’s follow up to their debut album ‘Phantom’. Executed with clinical precision, ‘Balancing Point’ feels almost effortless in its excellence.
Florian Meindl: Orbital Resonance EP
Berlin can be a blessing or a curse. Though an ocean of talent likely inspires one artist to another, the all too real likelihood of getting
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Baleine 3000: The Nap
This EP – or whatever you want to call it – is indicative of Vlek’s deconstructive/reconstructive spirit. The Nap is a product fusing just about every beloved vinyl-based format: Its 7 tracks gives the sense of an LP, the 20-minute duration suggests otherwise, and an 8-minute track on the entirety of the B side whiffs strongly of a 12” single.
Nautiluss: Reflections EP
Nautiluss makes his debut on Ghostly International’s Spectral Sound imprint. Expertly constructed, the word “solid” is not strong enough to cover it.
Flaty: New Suggestions (Album Stream)
Named “New Suggestions”, the St. Petersburg force is joined by Gost favourites OL and Lapti, as well as John’s Kingdom head honcho Buttechno among others. And while many of the records these artists are associated with are rooted in more functional house and techno, much of the music on this album isn’t anchored to any conventional beat.