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New collection of mostly chilled/blissed out electronics from the Funken brothers. Floating beats and widescreen synthetic melodies are the forefront elements. Most of the tracks of long, slowly developing sounds panned across the full frequency and touching on many emotions. Highlights are ' Zane' previously heard on the 'MAS Confusion' comp and the John Carpenteresque 'Scid' . A highly recommended album for people who think they are tired of idm. Next up for the Funken brothers : the Shadow Huntaz project for Skam - be prepared.

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Having delivered the goods for 3 weeks running now (with the Fuckarma 12" for the "On" label, the mighty Shadow Huntaz album for Skam and the Cane 12" for Arcola), the brothers Funcken of Funckarma fame return to these pages for the 4th week in a row, this time with their latest album under their occasional pseudonym - Quench. "Dyn" is an incredibly dense, dark journy through electronic sound structures that every so often stumbles into thick beats, squashed percussion and complex rhythms. You get the feeling with many of the tracks on board that much self-restraint was absorbed into the writing of the… Read more

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Oh yes, this is hot. Remember that anonymous twelve Skam released a couple of years back? You know, that fierce mashup of intricate electronics and a twisted acid mentality? Well, here's the follow-up for you, the return of these faceless operators for what promises to be an impeccable imprint judging by the first three releases made available to us this week. The production here is just utterly devastating, a squashed assembly of tight percussion and low undercurrents of mood and menacing melody, perfectly embodied by A-Side opener "Jinn", tumbling into a freefall of Gescom-ised beats a… Read more

Now then. Skam are seriously heading back to classic territory here, both in terms of sound and concept. What you need to know is as follows : this monster 2-tracker has been delivered by an artist who wishes to remain anonymous, pressed up on completely blank vinyl inside a completely blank sleeve - only the vinyl inscription, blank tracing paper insert and braille sticker on the cover give you some suggestion that this is another in a long and impossible to obtain line of Skam titles released under cover of annonimity with no fuss, no promotion and not even a whiff of an idea about … Read more

Coming to you exactly one week before the release of the Funckarma-produced debut album by the Shadow Huntaz on Skam (you have been warned kids - this album KILLS us), the brothers Funcken prepare the surface with a dark, squashed mash-up of electronics and wires in finest wrecked stylee. Four tracks line up by way of re-working material from Ontayso, Kero, Slemper and (Ulrich Schnauss / Xela occasional vocalist) Celine, beginning with a stretched wash of textural underlays and pounding bass-heavy percussive flexing. Ontayso's careful instrumentation is broken up, split into a thousand dead… Read more

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Fresh from their awesome Shadow Huntaz session for Skam, the Funcken brothers return to the DUB imprint with a brilliant 4-tracker of warm, dark, intricate midnight electronics. "Smizm" is far less dense and murky than a lot of recent Funckarma material - the production here focusing on a crisp clarity of sound and bass modulation that imbues proceedings with a more cinemascopic feel. "Spunge" offsets the intense beat intricacies with a reactive, almost Detroit-like use of strings, a contrast that works well in building form and structure around melodies that are designed to evoke an intense em… Read more

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The brothers Funcken choose Bourbon as their favoured tipple and head straight for the aftermath of a heavy drinking session with the opening 'Noir'. Oddly reminiscent of Autechre's classic mix for Kinesthesia's 'Empathy Box' - this is all deep structured electronica with a late night angle. The beats complex enough to fracture the attention but the underlying weave of strings and crackles lending to a massive, weighty, cinemascopic sound. Highly evocative terrain. 'Sphere' is much lighter and bouncier, employing a killer little modulated bassline, tweaking and bleeping at a slowly hea… Read more

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Legendary UK techno imprint B12 returns with this new Kirk Degiorgio 12", complete with a remix by B12 themselves. The original mix of 'I Do Not Exist' is complex, classic techno fare, with a bustling, generously stuffed arrangement. B12's dissection of the track takes out anything that might be deemed superfluous, substituting a simple, but well-placed bass riff in its place. Rounding the 12" off 'Accretion' softens things up with beds of spacey synth and good, old fashioned 303 bass designs.

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The Dub label once again, one of our favourite imprints and another surefire winner. Funckarma's fifth 'part' is their strongest to date - 4 tracks of advancedmusic at it's most tantalising. 'Strip' reverberates with a wall of melodies and echoes underpinned by a complex yet crisp beat structure, Autechre come to mind off course, but killer territory nonetheless. Head for the flip and 'Lignite' - a blue strip of gorgeous slow beats and staggered time signatures : a slight departure here for the brothers Funcken, a sublime jazz double bassline underpins the track as the accoustic(esque) percussion… Read more

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This is a highly intricate EP - squashed beats fragmented into underlays of evocative melody with DSP and analog generated ambience. As the Funcken brothers themselves comment - ' there is no particular style at all......The only essential element is that it has to feel like Isophlux . So it doesnt matter if it is danceable or not , DSP fucked up, or just cheap Casio preset based..The feeling of the music for us has to be the Isophlux sound, and that sound cant be described. Its more a feeling!' Say no more......Killer.

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