Succeeding a promising debut EP on the excellent Russian Torrent Versions, ‘The Old Candelabra’ marks Domenico Crisci’s first steps on L.I.E.S…an opaque and smouldering string of knotty techno tracks, slamming back and forth through industrial machinery and totemic grooves
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Jeremiah R: Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit
While Drexciya made no mystery of their fascination with the aquatic world, Jeremiah R clearly has the great void and milky way as his obsession.
Anthony Naples: Zipacón
Returning on Will Bankhead’s The Trilogy Tapes imprint after his excellent “El Portal” EP, it seems like the perfect moment to check where Naples is at.
Rawaat: Day Laborer EP
Day Laborer abolishes frontiers, stomping on labels and etiquette to help Rawaat build a compelling hybrid of tape-saturated house and drone-inflicted beats that’s driven by nothing but the urge to clear out new paths for Detroit’s music.
DVS1: Black Russian
DVS1 delivers yet another well-rounded, inch-perfect techno record but also adds some welcomed warmth to his groove discipline with a title track that’s just on the verge of turning world’s most exigent dance floors upside down.
Submerse: Slow Waves LP
Steeped in nostalgic memories of travels in Japan and Europe, Slow Waves was written in London and serves as a hazy collection of musical mnemonics…a soporific, blunted journey through instrumental hip hop.
Leon Vynehall: Butterflies
Less than 4 months after his debut album ‘Music For the Uninvited’ on Martyn’s 3024 imprint, Leon Vynehall returns with a two track EP on Clone’s offshoot Royal Oak. Relentless, most definitely.
Paume: Transalpine EP
Both intimate and epic, Transalpine is the perfect balance between high quality production and melodic sense, emotionally spellbinding and musically spot-on.
Julius Steinhoff: Flocking Behaviour
Julius Steinhoff raises the bar with ‘Flocking Behaviour’ and delivers one of the benchmark album releases of the year.
Lone: Reality Testing
Matt Cutler is back with his sixth studio album and his music’s still fresh as ice-cold lemonade in the hot, dry air.
Luke Abbott: Wysing Forest
“Luke, take off that thing on your neck, your sweater, your t-shirt (if you want) and play some good music we could dance to. Whitebox Stereo,
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Floating Points: King Bromeliad
Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points returns with a hugely listenable and danceable two track 12″ on Eglo Records.
Covered In Sand: Crescent Shaped Scars
Shifted returns under his Covered In Sand moniker with a three track plate of brutal, black mess music.
M.E.S.H. : Scythians EP
M.E.S.H. plays with a downright weird combination of genres that in less able hands would fall apart at the seams yet here gains multiple listens in an attempt to fathom its obscure depths.
Valerio Tricoli: Miseri Lares
The focus of the album is sound, pure and simple. Both musical and non-musical sources are treated as equal objects to be manipulated into a new expression.
Pev & Kowton / Asusu: Raw Code (Surgeon Remix) / Sister (Nick Höppner Remix)
The fourth instalment of the Livity Sound remix series shows Birmingham techno’s living legend Surgeon and Ostgut Ton label founder and Panorama Bar’s resident Nick Höppner in action.