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*Truly intense album from this incredible band - bringing together visceral noise components and drone pop for their last ever studio album - Initial copies of this limited vinyl edition come with a bonus full-length CD album 'Being There' - miss out at your peril.....* Legendary American noise unit Yellow Swans return with what is purportedly their final studio album and without doubt their most devastating collection of noise/drone recordings yet, a majestically defining album of collapsing supernova psychedelics. The announcement of their split in 2008 was met with shock from a commun… Read more
Exploring the Minimal Wave catalogue is like entering a secret crypt of 1980s electronic underground treasures. Under the co-ordination of Veronica Vasicka, the label has tirelessly reissued a stream of obscure synth-pop and vintage cold wave classics from both sides of the Atlantic, exposing a DIY network of analog synth and drum machine enthusiasts operating below the surface of pop perception. By sourcing original tapes from clandestine networks like the Canadian fanzine CLEM (Canadian List Of Electronic Music) and faithfully transferring them onto vinyl and CD, the label has provided exposure for a well hidden number of pos… Read more
Hyperdub digs deeper into the UK Funky undergrowth to uproot two tribal-tek killers from DVA aka Scratcha packaged in a resplendent spot-gloss sleeve. There's been no small amount of commotion over this 12" from those in the know, receiving plays from Kode 9's inner circle - Cooly G, Ikonika etc and players like Oneman to Marcus Nasty and Jackmaster. The bare-bones soca-riddimic construction of 'Natty' is the perfect hush-up to any Funky naysayers who feel this style is a step in the wrong direction, craftily augmenting the dynamic production levels of European house and techno for ruder London-centric and Afro-Futuristic purpo… Read more
We all know about Erik Skodvin's activities outside of Deaf Center - he's carved out quite a solo career for himself as Svarte Greiner - but what of the Norwegian duo's other member, Otto Totland? For the past couple of years he's worked as part of the duo, Nest, with Huw Roberts, releasing their eponymous debut EP in 2007 on Roberts' own Serein label. Now the two artists at last follow up that release with this wonderful full-length, which lifts its first six tracks from the EP (with one newly reworked) and adds a further five new compositions. Retold is something of a masterpiece within its field. Even on early inspection… Read more
Album of the Week
*Extremely Limited Heavyweight Vinyl Edition - just 500 of these have been made. If you're into vintage Boards of Canada - make sure to check this out without delay* Asura is a gorgeous new project from LA's Ryan York, set-up to explore Kenji Miyazawa's concept of the same name, exploring the dissolution of self and environment in the face of strong emotion. York works within this remit to produce thirteen tracks of detailed ambient drift and pusling elctronics reminiscent of everyone from Boards of Canada to Blue Daisy. 'Asura' is structured as a continuous blend of tracks intended for i… Read more
We all know about Erik Skodvin's activities outside of Deaf Center - he's carved out quite a solo career for himself as Svarte Greiner - but what of the Norwegian duo's other member, Otto Totland? For the past couple of years he's worked as part of the duo, Nest, with Huw Roberts, releasing their eponymous debut EP in 2007 on Roberts' own Serein label. Now the two artists at last follow up that release with this wonderful full-length, which lifts its first six tracks from the EP (with one newly reworked) and adds a further five new compositions. Retold is something of a masterpiece within its field. Even on early inspection… Read more
Finally re-pressed! After a bit of a break the Type label return with this long awaited album from the enigmatic Peter Broderick, an artist who has already been courted by more high profile labels than we care to mention. By the time you'll have finished playing through this incredible album once you'll already feel like you've somehow known this music all your life. Broderick has an inimitable ability to score work that's both technically complex and effortlessly archetypal, so much so that listening to it now im convinced I've heard this music in films, adverts, documentaries - I just can't place exactly where or when. Piano, … Read more
*DIGITAL EDITION INCLUDES AN UNRELEASED REMIX FROM ROSKA* Ben Klock and Illum Sphere complete the double-headed Martyn remix series with two sick revisions. The Ben Klock mix of 'Is This Insanity' was a prominent feature of the recent Fabric 50 mix, standing out from a very respectable crowd with a serving of prime-time Berghain techno functions offset by the loping flow of MC Spaceape. As always, Klock's production is built for the most cavernous techno temples with terrifying kicks balanced by agile percussion and the perfect amount of reverb to epic effect. We can see this becoming a real touchstone for the cross-fertilisati… Read more
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*Indispensible 94-page Hardcover book and 2XCD limited edition focusing on Mika Vainio's intense and truly jawdropping work for installations and site-specific works - making for one of his most priceless collections of material complete with beautiful images and essays - do not miss!* Raster Noton is never short of opulent hi-end concepts for sound and design, but they've truly excelled themselves with this book + 2xCD (one disc of unreleased material and a reissue of the amazing Ø + Alva Noto collaboration 'Mikro Makro') retrospective, documenting Mika Vainio's installation and perform… Read more
Re-press now in stock. After four sellout twelves and a barrage of critical acclaim - Deepchord's full length Echospace excursion "The Coldest Season" is at long last available on CD and Download - featuring material not featured on the EP's and different versions of familiar tracks - all expertly blended and mastered by Rod Modell for your enjoyment. Produced using nothing but vintage analog equipment : Roland Space Echo, Echoplex, Korg tape delay, vintage signal processors, noise generators, Sequential Circuits 8 bit samplers & numerous analog synthesizers - this project goes back to the heady days of Berlin-based proto dub/te… Read more
Sylvain Chauveau is one of those artists we hear mentioned a great deal, yet he has proven strangely elusive when it comes to tracking down his work. Best known (and easiest to get hold of) is his seminal Fat Cat album 'Un Autre Decembre' which set him up as one of the world's premier exponents of the electronic/classical sound, but Sylvain had already been releasing records long before that album hit the shelves. 'The Black Book of Capitalism' originally appeared in 2000 on the French DSA imprint and sadly never hit UK shores, but Type (Sylvain's new base of operations) have managed to put together a gloriously remastered and … Read more
D1 makes a very welcome return with an outstanding new twelve for Dub Police. Shockingly, one of dubstep's most underrated producers has been off the radar since '08's seminal 'V3' album, but it's obviously been time well spent as the thunderous shock of 'Jus Business' makes clear. We roll in off the back of a tense, dialogue packed intro and into a maelstrom of cross-bred dubstep-hardcore styles, cherry picking the finest elements of 20 years of rave, from euphoric piano chords to face-melting mentasms and junglistic percussion twisted with a dubstep torque. This is what Rufige Kru should sound like if they were still buildin… Read more
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*Beautiful interpretations of Hawgood originals delivered by The Remote Viewer, Danny Norbury, Library Tapes, Hannu and others...* The Home Normal label boss Ian Hawgood released an album in 2008 called 'Soundtrack To A Film In My Head Which Will Never Get Made'. This album is a companion piece to that (now deleted) body of work, which calls upon a host of Hawgood's friends and colleagues to contribute remixes based on his original tracks. The assembled artists include The Remote Viewer, Danny Norbury, Hannu, Library Tapes and Chihei Hatakeyama representing a multicultural yet in many way… Read more
D-Bridge's Exit Recordings puts another foot right with two remarkable feats of D'n'B minimalism from Russian duo, Abstract Elements. 'Wrong Way' on the A-side crafts a hi-tech-stepper from Frank Bretschneider styled percussion and ultra-heavy yet agile subbass movements while 'Abysmal Depth' on the flipside marries stoically dark atmospheres with Alva Noto-esque steppers rhythms and a crafty tempo switch embedded in the breakdown. Fans of Raster Noton and recent movements from Kontext, Data or Instra:mental should be all over this!
Since the impact of the anthemic 'Memories' and 'You & I', the weight of expectation has been lumbered around Pangaea's neck. Now after a brief hiatus he returns with an assuredly exemplary artifact of dubstep soul, maturing six tracks of moving rollidge, modern classical inflections and tech-stepped beat science. In a way, it's possible to label Pangaea as the Sven Weisemann of dubstep, as he approaches the style from an elevated angle of musicality and production values which lends his sound a timeless sheen of quality. But unlike Weisemann, Kevin McAuley is all about the future lurch, creating rhythmic engines tuned with th… Read more
There's been a huge buzz doing the rounds about this release over the last few weeks, and judging by the volume of queries we've had about it we can only assume that you lot are already aware of the sheer brilliance of the latest and most anticipated album from Andreas Tilliander yet. 'Persona' is an intense and multi-layered exploration of reduced dub, drone and hauntological elements realised on a truly epic scale, referencing everyone from William Basinski to Thomas Koner, Mika Vainio, Vladislav Delay, Tim Hecker, even Akira Rabelais along the way. Opening track "About last step and scale" edges into existence with an almos… Read more
We've been waiting for this one to drop for a while, collecting some of the most obscure, eye-popping electronic pop/funk/psyche recordings made in Iran in the 1960's and 70's before the revolution and the overthrow of the Shah. Finders Keepers once again manage to educate and amaze with a prime selection of mindblowing obscurities - the production on so many of the tracks here just beggar belief. The music reflects Iran at a time when it was undergoing massive change, partly due to the influx of Petrodollars and the pervasive influence of modernity which created a tension between mystical Eastern traditions and the freedom … Read more
The unrivalled beat picker, breaker and maker known as The Gaslamp Killer contributes his hyper-colourful blend for the Japan-only 2009 Low End Theory Tour mix series. In typically ADD GLK style, our man murders a cartoonish cross-section of riddims, balling between dubstep rave, Nine Inch Nails, outré psyche jams, futureproof Hiphop wonk and psycho-active soul with an unbridled febrility that borders on the clinically insane. It's not worth your brain time to work out how he gets from track-to-track as quickly and succinctly as he does, just understand that he's a don and this mix-manna from Japan-ah won't last 2 minutes round here. Quick finger time!
Forever keeping heads on their toes, Werk Records dash this curveball from the brilliant Nochexxx and marmite MC extraordinaire, Sensational, into our path. We really don't know what the f*ck is going on with 'Smashing Your System', it's like a folder full of Philip Jeck, Throbbing Gristle and Anti Pop Consortium has been corrupted with live protein enzymes, resulting in one confounding bit of beaten oddness. 'Sinbliss' is a little easier to grasp, if a mesh of Belgian New Beat with swampy Dub subs and the most disjointed MC in the business is nothing out of the ordinary to you. For us it's one of the best WTF moments we've had in months. Fans of V/Vm and High Priest, it's all yours!
Single of the Week
Detroit's brightest light shows no sign of dimming with the awesome 'Plesetsk Cosmodrome'. He's had a superb run of form over the last few releases, further developing blend of rough house functions with increasingly sumptuous synthlines. Following the Russian cosmonaut theme of the title, 'Kosmos 1402' features physically thrusting jackers rhythms accompanied by Larry Heard style keys while the stunning title track crafts elegant chord progressions and lush pads in a charmingly retro-futuristic style that's just melted our heads on the first 5 listens. 'Skynet 2B' closes the 12" with a … Read more
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*STRICTLY LIMITED WHITELABEL COPIES* Astral gangsta disco business from Floating Points! Dropping ahead of the full release, Eglo records spurt out 500 copies of this one-sided, heavyweight pressing of 'Peoples Potential' in hand stamped whites. Thankfully this is one of the tunes that can happily justify the 1-sided delivery, bearing a magical synth trip of heavenly harmonised contours and simple but irrefutably funked percussion, drawing on the spirits of Stevie, Sun Ra and Four Tet to guarantee floor melting results every time. No messing with this one, blink and you'll miss it. Y'all been warned!
Album of the Week
*Incredible, studious electronics from Kevin Drumm, reissued for the first time since its 1999 release - DON'T MISS* Another precious Kevin Drumm reissue from Perdition Plastics, this album first emerged in 1999 and marked a giant evolutionary step for the Chicagoan experimentalist. Following on from his self-titled debut with its clinical, lowercase guitar improvisations, Second feels like a bold new direction, pulling together three compositions built from analogue synth, guitar, organ and accordion, all eventually treated and pieced together via computer. The twenty-three minute lead… Read more
Finally re-pressed! Having hit the shelves running with last year's piano-sodden 'Corduroy Road', the hard-working Keith Kenniff has slipped out of his Goldmund guise to reassume the Helios mantle and put together this lambent LP of expansive instrumentation and froth-flecked electronics. A student at Berkley College of Music in Boston, Kenniff's style may benefit from a firm understanding of what is required under-the-bonnet in terms of technical considerations, but never does he let the more austere elements of formal musical training encroach on the utterly sublime compositions that stretch as far as the eye can see. Openin… Read more
Back in stock! With the label's hiatus well and truly over, Type Records follows up Peter Broderick's amazing 'Float' with a brand new album of midnight Shoegazer classics from Portland's Liz Harris - and it really is one of the most special albums you'll hear this year. While the filtered, tape-fuelled obfuscation of her signature sound remains, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill is far more resonant up front about the songs at the heart of her work. Opening track 'Disengaged' offers a segue from the cloudy, amorphous Grouper output of old and this current strain of more easily deciphered writing: it's a mass of mesmerising magnet… Read more
Original Skweee Gee, Tatu Metsätähti aka Mesak presents his debut album of concatenated electro-autistics for Harmonia. 'School Of Mesak' is an exemplary tutorial in the art of Skweee beat building, using the tightest of ingredients to make bare bones riddimic contortions that ooze funk from every pore. In a similar manner to Disrupt's digi-dub productions, Mesak's electroid spasms are incredibly efficient, sticking to his themes, but morphing forward with every bar to keep opening kinks in the repetition. The brilliant 'Omega Jam' is a case in point, clasping the riddim with nimble fingers to rearrange it rubiks cube style unt… Read more
In his earliest days as a recording artist, Peter Broderick assembled two CD-Rs based on sketched recordings committed to tape with old, worn-in microphones. The discs were labelled "4 Track Songs" and got bundled off to Type Records' headquarters. This was a first taster of the work that was just around the corner for Broderick, and the music gathered together for these two volumes encompassed all areas of Peter's work; you can hear the building blocks of both the Float and Home albums in these sketches, accounting for the full breadth of the young polymath's creative endeavours - as a composer, pianist, guitarist, violinist… Read more
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Dubstep don TRG presents a tweaked and righteously updated sound for Tempa with a powerful doublepack of reinforced Funky and teched-out dubstep. The big-room house shunt of 'Twilight Riddim' sets the pace with a blend of killer Basement Jaxx-style party house hardened with tuff bass bumps and jungle-rave synths while 'Siberian Poker' juts back up to 140bpm for a bleeping tribalist roller. The biggest source of attraction for us has to be 'Purple Lights', tucking into a technofied killer reminiscent of Karizma's shuffle-tek anthem 'Groove A K Ordingly' with a defined Berlin slant. Followi… Read more
*For all intents and purposes, this is the great 'lost' Deathprod album* 'Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night' seemed to go fairly unnoticed by the great listening public when it was initially released on a small cd-only pressing by the French DSA label back in 2004, but has since become the stuff of legend. To many this has become one of the great 'lost' death ambient albums, and an all too-rare full-length excursion from one of the most revered producers of the century - Helge Sten, aka Deathprod. As a producer, Sten molds the source material into the kind of menacing analog atmosphere established on his classic 'Morals & Do… Read more
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*LIMITED TO JUST 200 COPIES* Last seen on the delightful Cotton Goods label, Dave Horner's Relmic Statute follows up his album Sitting Under The Lantern's Glow with another helping of beautiful, grainy soundscapes. The Leeds-based artist assembled these compositions from field recordings made on 1/4 inch tape and cassettes, adding loops and various instrumental snippets along the way. Apparently the material has been compiled from nearly a decade's worth of production, yet over all this time there's clearly been a presiding theme hanging over Horner's work. The music on this album is s… Read more
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!! All profits go to the Haiti appeal !! Debruit puts his world trekking style to good use on a charity tribute for the troubled people of Haiti. 'Changement' swings out a cheeky Caribbean number with crushed wonk beats and stuttering FX while 'Battement' slices up a prime hi-life guitar refrain over taut R'n'B rhythms and 'It's Bigger Than Kom-Pa' slews it with a slo-banging and wickedly dischordant electro killer. Finally 'Souvenir' leans on a phat post-Dilla style with choppy electroid synths and enough weight to make you invest in such a good cause!
His full-length follow-up to the Eingya album, Keith Kenniff's Caesura finds the Type veteran exploring electronic arrangements to an even greater depth than ever before, blending an incredibly detailed approach to beat making with exquisite harmonies and instrumental melodies derived from an array of acoustic arrangements. Caesura is the sound of electronica grown up: no longer is the sound palette restricted to a few soft synths and plugins - here Kenniff takes guitars and recordings of percussive found sounds, blending them all together in a highly organic and textured mix of synthesis, sampling and conventional composition… Read more
Following his tremendous Fabric mix last week, Martyn offers some of his best beats to Zomby and Redshape for the first part of a killer remix package. Quite unusually, Zomby's mix spills beyond the five minute mark, giving us extra time to enjoy cruising alongside his Lazer-etched R'n'B synths and swaggering Kwaito/Funky percussion before we hit the rewind button another ten times. If you're of a dancing persuasion, this sh*t totally vital! Meanwhile, Redshape does himself proud with the raw kink of his 'Seventy Four' remix, embellishing the warmest Detroit aspects with his arsenal of vintage FXs while keeping a rooted afro-rh… Read more
*Strictly limited hand stamped vinyl edition - 400 copies only for the world!* Lovers of Dark Ambient's shadowy recesses take note: this latest Type release brings the haunted New Mexican soundworld of William Fowler Collins to the world - and it's one of the most relentless collections of dense and harrowing midnight music you'll likely have the pleasure of hearing. Flicking through this record - skimming the surface of these crumbling, derelict sonic constructions - feels like intercepting a shortwave broadcast from the hereafter. It all points towards something sinister and most unwholesome, but to give all this context, it… Read more
Four tracks of heavy garage soul from Duncan Powell on one of L2S records' strongest releases to date. Compared to many of the future garage upstarts, Powell is a relative veteran, producing and remixing for MJ Cole's Prolific imprint since the early 00s. It's easy to hear this experience on the laidback and lush flow of the title track and the string-lead opulence of 'Hold You'. The tuffer drums and sweeping strings of 'Wombat Nite' should appeal to fans of Joy Orbison or Sully, while 'Need Love' flexes a Wiley-gone-soft vibe, with great results.
From the same Finnish scene that gave us Clouds and Tes La Rok comes Desto with his debut for the brilliant Ramp recordings. 'Disappearing Reapearing Ink' comes across as a melancholy counter to Joker's synth driven style, using a similar blend of arpeggiated keys and drawn-out chords while adding a trickier undercurrent of clipped post-garage percussion reminding of Ikonika or James Blake. Meanwhile, the balance of fluttering synths and shoulder swinging dubstep on 'Broken Memory' comes across like a slower version of Brackles' bristling 2-step and should sound smart when smashed into a set of the similar ilk.
Guided by an Afro-futuristic spirit and the mystic co-ordinates of Sun-Ra, this week's assortment of astrally inclined producers touch on jazzed electronic hiphop, hi-life disco and re-wired electro-soul to create deeply rooted music with two eyes on the past and a third fixed firmly on the future. Next to more obvious nods from Theo Parrish's gorgeous 13 minute mix of 'Saga Of Resistance' and Lone's shape shifting 'Waves Imagination' we find Legowelt immersing himself in cosmic Afrobeat as Nacho Patrol and come over all lush with Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson's sublime 'Extended Hands Of Giving'. On the squashed and psy… Read more
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Dave Huismans aka 2562 unloads the second release for his A Made Up Sound imprint. Compared to the outright Detroit ebullience of AMS 001, this plate acts as an outlet for his more esoteric leanings, constructing three tracks that don't feel like immediate 'floor hits, but burn with a more cosmic and atmospheric abstraction while still driven by incredibly efficient and well-tuned rhythmic engines. 'Sun Touch' scopes the scene's minimalistic radar bleeps and Radiophonic synth textures carried by an itchy Shake-styled rhythm, while 'Drain' enters a sombre zone of hazy grey drones and sprin… Read more
Oh Rassss! Another deadly drop from the Low End Theory Japan tour mix series, this time courtesy of astral beat superhero, Ras G. His mix is also vol.2 of his massively well recieved 'Beat Soup', following up with a bleeping selection of mellow-tempered and dub-weighted hiphop and R'n'B with interjections of spiralling synth-driven wonk and nuff blazing siren action. As expected, there's no tracklisting to accompany this, but you can almost certainly trust a man tipped by everyone from Philip Sherburne to Kevin Martin and Flying Lotus to turn in something special, innit?! Limited copies only...
Night Slugs tighten their grip on UK floors with the oversized release of Mosca's 'Square One' and the epic 'Nike' backed with rmxs from L-Vis, Roska, Bok Bok, Julio Bashmore and Greena. Pretty much all of these cuts have become essential staples in the sets of Bok Bok, Ben UFO, Jackmaster and co over the last few months and we'd be hard pushed to pick a favourite between the two headline joints; do you draw for the R'n'B meets dub'n'Roll Funky of 'Square One', or the visionary clubscape of 'Nike', morphing from squirming boogie to convective Funky over 10 minutes? Either way, you're onto a major winner. For the remixes our mo… Read more
Erik Skodvin, the crown prince of nefarious Nordic doomscapes, returns with another incredible dark ambient grimoire for the Type label. Kappe finds the Deaf Center member peering yet deeper into the sonic abyss, concentrating his efforts on four lengthy compositions, each one following its own distinct subterranean tributary. 'Tunnel Of Love' opens the set with a blurry swell of dense tones and funereal howling before eventually throwing in a metallic clamour that cuts through the murk in a brilliantly discordant fashion. Disfigured guitars hum and fray in the background, but it's not until 'Where Am I?' that more substantia… Read more
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Latest single to be lifted from the inescapably addictive XX album features suitably weighty remixes from Untold, Falty DL, The Blue Nile, Nosaj Thing and Delorean. From the bloodied edge of the Dubstep vanguard, Untold's remix is the certified highlight, using his bone-dry palette of percussion and eye-quivering subs to turn 'Islands' into an exceptional XXXX'step anthem. Just add those vocals and let the shivers commence. In an inspired move from the band, the second mix comes from enigmatic Scots The Blue Nile, who live up to their mystical status with a wee dram of economical post-pun… Read more
The relentlessly prolific Rutger Zuydervelt returns to Type Records following his Lenteliedjes 7", this time in collaboration with American multi-instrumentalist Aaron Martin, whose cello performances form the central sound source for this project. The two pieces on this disc are based around a gallery commission which saw Martin recording improvisations ready for Zuydervelt's digital processing, the original piece 'Cello Recycling' is an extremely disciplined ambient composition, rewarding the listener's patience by the time you reach its mighty crescendo. From a silent beginning the piece ever so slowly goes through an auditor… Read more
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The highly anticipated 'Minimal Wave Tapes' compilation of obscure synthwave essentials has arrived - and boy, it's completely floored us. As the label states, "This is the first official volume (available on CD, LP, and Digitally) of Minimal Wave music from Europe and America recorded in the 1970's and 1980s". Most of the songs were released on limited edition cassettes or vinyl by the artists themselves with distribution limited to underground mail order tape networks, hence their practically unknown status in the much pored over history of post-punk and electronic music. Minimal Wave l… Read more
Asura is a gorgeous new project from LA's Ryan York, set-up to explore Kenji Miyazawa's concept of the same name, exploring the dissolution of self and environment in the face of strong emotion. York works within this remit to produce thirteen tracks of detailed ambient drift and pusling elctronics reminiscent of everyone from Boards of Canada to Blue Daisy. 'Asura' is structured as a continuous blend of tracks intended for involved consumption, subliminally shifting from gravelly digital textures to sweeping post-electronic statements like 'Asura II' via mindswells of heavenly harmonics recalling classic BoC and folksy jazz fu… Read more
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*Probably the most sought-after Levon Vincent twelve, finally available again...* In the world of real heavy house music, the last 12 months have belonged to Levon Vincent. The 'Six Figures' EP showed the first signs of something really special from this cat, in particular the blinding title track. It's fusion of incessant NYC strings, gut wrenching bass and physically gripping jackers patterns is still one of the most thrilling cuts we've heard in years. To be totally honest it took us a few months to actually discover the other tracks, after spinning that track on repeat, but flip over … Read more
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London's dance music powerhouse Fabric commendably takes up the role of curator for the current explosion of producers reforming the whole dubstep/garage/house + techno thing right now. Accompanied by an impressive clubnight lineup, 'Elevator Music' shelters Hot City, Mosca, Martyn, Starkey, Untold, Doc Daneeka and many more under a future sounds banner, helping those listeners who are too lost within narrow generic bandwidths to get a grip of it all. The hugely tipped Hot City leads out the troops with the post-Todd Edwards flex of 'If That's How I Feel', before XXXY makes a stylistic de… Read more
Nu-skool garage prefect Sully drops his hugely anticipated winner for Blackdown's Keysound crew. Sully's been rolling with the best of them in the last few years, building a rep with neo-classics like Fact mag's fave 'Phonebox' and the choice 'Jackman's Rec' both for the Frijsfo Beats label. He's blatantly produced some of his best work yet for Keysound, stepping up a remix of J Treole's 'The Loot' with the kind of tool-sharpened percussive swing that makes limbs twitch uncontrollably while stuttering garage vox and coolin' rhodes chords give that signature London feel (despite hailing from Norwich). In our opinion, though, 'In… Read more
Even by his prodigious standards, four separate releases in a single week is probably a record for Machinefabriek's Rutger Zuydervelt. Having already offered up three incredibly limited 3"CDs, here the Dutchman appears in collaboration with a group of musicians he's no stranger to: Leo Fabriek, Wouter Van Veldhoven and Soccer Committee's Mariska Baars. Zuydervelt is the common thread between all of the players - he's the only one who appears on all three of the tracks here. All you more earnest Machinefabriek completists out there might recognise the sleeve, or indeed the tracks themselves from their prior outings on awkward… Read more
