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Monday, 21 May
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More weirdness here from Comeme’s Isaac Johan, and this latest self titled groover is just the kind of unpredictable post-everything grind we’ve come to expect. It’s all here, rock n roll (‘Isaac Johan’), electro (‘Sally Wants Silver’), Detroit techno (‘Every Time I See Your Face’) and stoner blues (‘Under The Bridge’) and everything is frozen into the kind of substance addled haze you’d usually find on a ‘freak folk’ record. This is mercilessly divisive stuff, and all the better for it – just make sure you don’t indulge alone, who knows what could happen.
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Sunday, 20 May
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PUPKULIES & REBECCA
Looking for the Sea in Remix Pt. I
Rotary Cocktail
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Cat. Number: 0827170278387
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Sei A sets your summer season in motion with dubbed Balkan horns and pendulous rhythms on his Speicher debut. 'Hawk Tone' is essnetially a take on Villalobos' 'Fizheuer Ziheuer', all parp and push condensed for the DJs, whereas 'Play My Mind' is made to work up-for-it bodies with jagged, swingeing dub chords and tightly tucked New Jersey-via-Glasgow drum edits. Winner.
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Thursday, 17 May
12" // £6.49The much in-demand closer to Boratto's 'III' LP is reworked for 2012 and comes backed with a finely tranced Michael Mayer remix. Heavily indebted to classic New Order, 'This Is Not The End' is a prime piece of big room and indie-disco pop music balancing melodic jangle with a sleekly tuned techno chassis and a proper Hooky-style bassline. The Michael Mayer mix blurs the vocal back into the mix whilst bringing forward the hypnotic, acidic bassline and chiming glimmers of the original synth melodies sure to get a lip-smacking response at 3am.
Monday, 14 May
Mathew Jonson, Danuel Tate and Tyger Dhula's sexy TechnoHouse unit in great form for K7. There's a summer storm brewing on 'Who's Future?', drizzling plush subs with warm acid rain and velvet chords with signature sophistication. 'Across The Nation' is better yet, like some extended and sleekly reduced take on UR-style Hi-Tech Funk with extra subbass pressure.
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JAMIE JONES
Our Time In Liberty feat. Art Department
Crosstown Rebels
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Cat. Number: CRM094
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One of Germany's premier House exports presents the follow-up to their eight-year-old debut album. Strictly speaking, it's not an album proper, but a seamlessly segued selection of their own productions, remixes and collaborations, blurring the distinctions between "live" album, compilation and LP. Short of catching one of their now-legendary takeovers of the Robert Johnson club in Offenbach, or a marathon session at Panorama Bar, this disc is surely the best place to experience the Afro-aware, Euro-polished and Balearic-friendly Âme sound. It comprises 14 tracks total, cycling from a tantalising rem… Read more
Sunday, 13 May
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San Fran's Dave Aju steers Circus Company on one of their freshest rides since the Nicolas Jaar album with his sophomore LP. There's a distinctly rich and expressive musical consistency to 'Heirlooms' largely thanks to his use of vintage recordings and instruments inherited from his late father. It's still sophisticated party music, but it's also one of those "dancefloor" albums that's just as comfortable on headphones and sunk into the couch, wending its way through ten subtly morphing and spaced-out productions poised with a cool funk and tingling sense of psychedelia. He's joined by fellow … Read more
Thursday, 10 May
Sei A sets your summer season in motion with dubbed Balkan horns and pendulous rhythms on his Speicher debut. 'Hawk Tone' is essnetially a take on Villalobos' 'Fizheuer Ziheuer', all parp and push condensed for the DJs, whereas 'Play My Mind' is made to work up-for-it bodies with jagged, swingeing dub chords and tightly tucked New Jersey-via-Glasgow drum edits. Winner.
Monday, 07 May
CD // £13.99**Housed in tip-on, LP-style heavy card gatefold jacket** One of Germany's premier House exports presents the follow-up to their eight-year-old debut album. Strictly speaking, it's not an album proper, but a seamlessly segued selection of their own productions, remixes and collaborations, blurring the distinctions between "live" album, compilation and LP. Short of catching one of their now-legendary takeovers of the Robert Johnson club in Offenbach, or a marathon session at Panorama Bar, this disc is surely the best place to experience the Afro-aware, Euro-polished and Balearic-friendly Âme sound. It compri… Read more
JAMES KUMO
Metamorphic Recordings
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Cat. Number: 0827170277083
Smooth, upbuilding and atmospheric TechnoHouse from James Kumo on 'I Understand', backed with a more detailed and kinetic neo-Detroit remix from Dan Curtin.
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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARP
Lunar Disko Records
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Cat. Number: ldr09
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Thursday, 03 May
12" // £9.49Four fine Teutonic Tech-House remixes of tracks from Console's sweet Indie/Electro-pop LP. Marek Hemmann's remix of 'Leaving A Century' uses a rhythm uncannily alike Snoop & Pharrell's 'Drop It Like It's Hot' but fitted with dreamier vocals and synth washes, and the brilliant Wareika give 'A Homeless Ghost' a bumping, jazz-riffing polyrhythmic overhaul. B-side Dirty Doering gives 'Cutting Time' a sparse, springy House makeover, leaving Douglas Greed to turn 'Bit For Bit' with a crisp and propulsive groove.
Monday, 30 April
Folk-jazzy electronica backed with a grooving House remix from Arkist on Ben Watts' (EBTG) Buzzin Fly label. Their 'Last Page' appears in frothy, sanguine original, and tenderly organic live versions, while their jazz-fractured 'Keep Your Eyes Closed' is redrawn along clipped 4/4 lines by Arkist of Applepips' 'Rendezvous / Fill Your Coffee' fame.
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