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Omar Souleyman: Heli Yuweli
The most interesting results of artistic collaboration often come from a willingness to tear it up and start again.
Tolouse Low Trax: Rushing Into Water
Tolouse Low Trax’s first instalment on Düsseldorf Themes For Great Cities spawns its own frame of significance; scripting industrial tempo automatisms and duplicated instrumental close-ups all the while shaping unexplored sound-dimensions from scratch.
Nehuen: Urban Transformation EP
In the wake of their Grafiti Tapes collection, Klasse Recordings return with KFAX, a fresh and bold new series of releases coming in the form of a riso-printed zine + QR code download. Thought-provoking dance music is in good hands.
Samo DJ, Baba Stiltz & Tzusing: A Slice of Heaven
Samo DJ, Baba Stiltz and Tzusing join forces for a collab EP on Munich’s finest Public Possession. On the menu of this alluring new slab: four digressive cuts of outlandish house material and entrancing afternoon groovers. What else?
HOM: HOM-002
Following up to the success of their enticing first outing, the secretive Berlin imprint serves up an opulent second platter that’ll rejoice everyone wishing for utmost seasonal contrast.
Isorinne: Recollections Of Forgotten Dreams
‘Recollections Of Forgotten Dreams’ serves as a dignified finale to an understated success.
Michal Turtle: Are You Psychic? / Astral Decoy
Melodically overwhelming, technically outstanding, both sides make for one of last year’s most extraordinaire records.
Mall Grab: Alone EP
The sincerity felt behind each track is echoing in its danceability: square-shooting and aimed at waking up house music’s elementary ‘let-go’ nature.
Gradual: Ipseity
‘Ipseity’ is exactly the kind of stuff you want to hear at 4am in a darkened sweatbox with nothing but a flashing strobe and a punchy sound system – an excellent and extremely assured debut.
Aufgang B, Benedikt Frey: Demo 2 / Drop The Funk
Aufgang B and Benedikt Frey band together for two bold groovers of the purest essence. An elixir of dirty funk and elastic synth-y figures dispensing soulful brightness and murky atmospheres in equal measure.
Tolouse Low Trax: Porcelain and Volcano
‘A Song and a Photo Novella’ is way more than your umpteenth arty variation on a dogmatic, ultra-codified genre such as techno.
Anthony Child: Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1
Anthony Child has created a record of modular synth experimentations, which resides in a world of sparse arpeggios, deep tone meditation and clashing saw and sine waves.
Moon B: Measure Pleasure
The aptly named ‘Measure Pleasure’ EP delivers the effortless groove that Wes Gray has become known for, but carries extra baggage in the form of two lukewarm remixes.
Kask: Periferia
Periferia ultimately satisfies and leaves you begging for more. A delicious juxtaposition that bodes well for the fledgling X-Kalay imprint.
Oskar Offermann: Le Grand To Do
Oskar Offermann’s second album ‘Le Grand To Do’ delves into the delicate house terrain of Mule Musiq auteurs Lawrence and DJ Sprinkles. Such comparisons are fitting for an album that is a worthy addition to the Mule cannon.