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Steve Hauschildt: Where All Is Fled
“Where All is Fled” is an album that sounds like it has formed from months of intricate work, deep consideration and obsessive tweaking.
Waxwood: Sahasrara
Brooklyn based label, Styles Upon Styles, deliver a second offering in their Memory Foam cassette series with fellow Brooklyn-ite and mystery producer Waxwood on musical duty.
Chaos In The CBD: Midnight In Peckham
Chaos In The CBD’s ‘Midnight In Peckham’ EP doesn’t offer much in the way of variation, but if you dig house at its smoothest and most tasteful, there’s plenty of accomplished grooves on offer.
Bookworms: Bookworms EP
New York producer Bookworms returns to Long Island Electrical Systems with a concrete 12” that sets the tone from the opening track. Unadulterated, unhinged and hypnotic: this techno E.P. goes through the motions with mechanical certainty.
Marreck: Yuda
Yuda captures a refined sense of experimentalism beneath it’s intense exterior. It sits in a unique place, somewhere between the abstract techno of the Stroboscopic Artefacts label, and the sound experiments of Beatriz Ferreyra.
Slack DJs: Glasshouse Mountains
For their first outing as Slack DJs, French producers Low Jack and D.K. come up on The Trilogy Tapes with a beefy menu full on sliced-and-diced, tape-saturated analogue whirls and scrappy audio fragments
Isolée: Floripa EP
This is melodic House music at it’s absolute finest, euphoric and subtly driven it reaches a climax as a highly filtered series of punchy chords flutter between kick drums. It’s a lush sound built for the morning dancers, enticing, addictive and seductive.
Monolake: D E C
Relative to the other output under the Monolake alias, this is definitely not his most accomplished release. Relative to electronic music as a whole? Well, this is still a Robert Henke record.
Loosewomen: Nobody
Grade10 launched with the dreamy release from Kollaps, flagging attention from Boiler Room and Rinse FM. With this second release from Loosewomen, it proves that there is indeed fire where there is smoke.
DJ Richard: Grind
A collection of kinetic electronica on the border between house and techno, its moods and rhythms in constant flux, the product of a mind that churns like the sea…this is narrative techno, and in typical artistic form, the narrative of conflict draws us inexorably towards reconciliation.
Tambien: Ondulé
When looking for a couple tracks that encompass both heliotropic grooves and challenging deep-house scapes, Tambien counts amongst the finest production groups out there.
John Roberts: Orah EP
The overall feel of this EP is of experimentation and expansion, much like that night when you drank too much, slipped a little of this ‘n’ that, and went off with your oh so good friend…
J Tijn: Mor
Adding a pure, early hardcore dash to current techno formulas, ‘Mor’ certainly counts as one of the London producer’s most accomplished records to date and makes for a seriously impressive benchmark release in Bedouin’s growing catalogue.
Hauschka: 2.11.14
Recorded at Artegio, in the southern city of Yufu, the off-the-cuff pieces – perfunctorily titled Part 1 and Part 2 – were performed on a piano prepared with a “handful of artifacts” and hooked up to 12 microphones and a sub-mixer.
Nathan Melja: A.C.I
Allowing itself to drift from regular cannons to explore more mind-intrusive grounds, Melja’s sophomore release succeeds hands down in unifying an assertive taste for sweat-inducing club tunes with more clouded and scopious synth harmonics.