It’s the most ‘floor-friendly we’ve heard Koze for a while, and paired with the brave A-side this 12” makes for a most welcome return for one of our scene’s most singular producers.
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DJ Spider & Grey People: Service Elevator
A very convincing first instalment and an interesting addition to Grey People and DJ Spider’s fine catalogue, this first EP also marks Public System’s entrusting of its future to confirmed producers.
Heathered Pearls: Body Complex
From start to finish, “Body Complex” is a work of art, full of imperfections and beauty, to be digested and viewed from differing angles. **ALBUM PREMIERE**
Hidden Spheres: Waiting
A winning debut for Lobster Theremin’s fresh label and a particularly impressive showing from Hidden Spheres, who shows he can bring the chill with the best of them without ever straying too far from the club.
Sean Khan: Samba Para Florence
Both contributions on this 12” look set to lend a funkily idiosyncratic and offbeat edge to all the right dance floors.
STL: Simply Positive
STL offers two effective and dynamic tracks which will undoubtedly find themselves appearing in the bags of DJ’s far and wide.
Inigo Kennedy: Requiem Remixed
This selection of remixes from last year’s “Vaudeville LP” by Inigo Kennedy is an absolute delight, drafting in four producers (Efdemin, Kangding Ray, Regis, Dasha Rush) who are terrifically on point.
Aleks: Low Definitions
Bathed from head to toe in a cloudy pool of tape-saturated, binary rhythms and grubby, hissy textures, this debut slice from Aleks…offers 4 elevated grooves laced up with some more prosaic, dancefloor-aimed cuts.
Laurine Frost : A Fading Virtue By Passing Time
Frost is a producer with an ear for unusual compositions and Marionette a platform for those with ambitious vision. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait another year until we hear what Marionette have for us next.
Hunee: Hunch Music
Hunee’s appetite for music is pantagruelian and Hunch Music makes for a superb celebration of both sides of a musician’s work: the never-ending matrix and the punctual accomplishment. A masterpiece.
Mark E: E-Work #1
One of those deeply visual productions where you can close your eyes and visualise LEDs moving across an 808, the lick of a smile coming with the tangible shift in patterns.
NY*AK: Laid EP
Phonica’s offshoot Karakul reemerges this summer with a deeper than deep four-tracker, courtesy of Newcastle-based Andrew Scott aka NY*AK.
J-Zbel: How I Made My Mom & Sis’ My Sexbot Slaves
With its chopped-up percussive groovers and hat-laden shufflers ready to set ablaze any sleepy dancefloor, this debut EP from the mysterious J-Zbel entity doesn’t fail at pushing things even further in terms of old-school brute-force.
Journeymann Trax: Smoke Tape
The ‘Smoke Tape’ sound is as much that of floating across a late night city landscape as it is a sun dappled walk through a rain forest. It’s no easy feat to serve up these sounds in new contexts but Draino and the 1080p team deliver perfectly here.
Lifted: 1
Lifted’s debut is the rare album, which feels purely next-level, like music beamed from an idealised future. And on its best moments, like Mint or the sparkling chill of closer Medicated Yoga, that future is very jazzy indeed.
Lakker: Tundra
Dara Smith and Ian McDonnell confidently depart from the restricting confines of the extended player to present a 10-track album composed of over fifty minutes of IDM induced dystopian electronica harnessing an outstanding result.