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Svreca: Narita
While it gathers memories and emotions from Svreca’s travels to Japan, the four-tracker is a textbook example of contemporary minimal techno. Simple, yet utterly effective structures enhance every minute building up different climaxes.
Nina Kraviz: DJ Kicks
With 29 tracks on display, there is little room for showcasing. Instead elements drift in and out over the top of a never faltering kick as it shifts from wooden to throbbing to boxy.
Aphex Twin: Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt2
A warm and intimate collection that is a worthy follow up to Syro, the timbre of the instruments matching the faintly captured fragments of home life in the background; barking dogs and the colourful chatter of children.
STL: Dubs Etched Into Relief
STL has grown to become one of the most consistent artists delivering powerful parcels of production each and every time. Laubner has stamped his mark on 2015, and it is a relief that he is continuing forward as one of the most unique producers out there.
Traumprinz: All The Things
It seems that everything that Traumprinz touches turns to gold, and All The Things with its gold-coated cover artwork is of no exception.
Barnt: Magazine 13
Barnt’s debut LP is not funny-sounding, it’s not barely cool or assuming any particular stance towards today’s music industry. No, this is nothing of that but most certainly, this album is a subtle game-changer and hopefully, a matrix opus.
Torn Hawk: Let’s Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time
Using a technique he calls video mulch Wyatt blends found footage with cuts from popular films and scenes recorded by the artist himself. You could always sense an ironic approach in Wyatt’s visuals but his LP feels on the contrary – candid and emotional.
Moomin: Time Circle
Moomin’s latest foray is a three track offering of his typically dreamy and unique take on deep house, as well as switching up genres for good measure.
Robert Hood: M-Print: 20 Years Of M-Plant Music
This compilation is a monumental summary of the relatively short life of minimal techno as well as being a career-spanning anthology for one of dance music’s all time greats.
Various: LL.M.001
Blending together the art of the shape and the replenishment of the matter, LL.M.001 assumes its position with sleek style and unquestionable taste.
Les Sins: Michael
Michael is a solid release but still Chaz Bundick’s weakest to date. It needs to be said the palette of sounds on the album is very rich…yet as a whole the album feels a bit mundane and tends to lose momentum.
Shifted: Arrangements in Monochrome (Part 1 & 2)
Shifted’s commitment to relentless, uncompromising sound is distinct, and as these EPs prove, the results are thrilling. There is a slight sense that they’re serving as a transition to the next Shifted full length, but their clarity and intensity is a reminder of the potential still held in dark, hard, techno.
Mark Forshaw: Explorer EP
Mark Forshaw’s Explorer EP doesn’t depart from the tentacular and daring approach that characterizes his sound. It’s perhaps even the most representative example of his well-tried technique and wide-scope of influences to date.
Tallesen: Stills Lit Through
Tallesen’s debut album ‘Stills Light Through’ is refreshing in that it doesn’t easily fall into the category of being either ‘light’ or ‘dark’, but neither is it sterile.
Eric Truffaz & Murcof: Being Human Being
Like Bilal’s paintings and drawings, the elegiac and mournful overtones of this record finds its influence and informants in the unsettling aspects of our own historical moment. And like Bilal’s art, it shapes these influences into something that speaks back to them, making for a very human response that is almost impossible not to connect with.