The opening track on this exceptionally good 4-tracker from Merck's offshoot label "Narita" is one of those rare dancefloor destroyers that crops up every so often, and not nearly often enough. "Snaffle" obliterates everything in its way and in its wake with a rampant nod to Detroit, breaks used...
After the solo debut “satellite city”, this is the second 12“-release this year from Blome – maybe biding his time accounts for the record sparking with a gently relentless electrical charge. Blome plays with high and low frequencies in a way that is direct and decisive - permeating the night and...
Toronto-based Tomas Jirku introduced his variant of the popular Berlin minimal-techno sound via Montreal labels No Type (an MP3-oriented Internet concern), and Alien8. Jirku's reliance upon digital splices to disrupt SEQUINS's gridwork of beats and basslines aligns him with the "click-house"...
FROM KARAOKE TO STARDOM - Beat Zen, Square Zen & Zen
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FROM KARAOKE TO STARDOM - Magulladura
Second twelve from Jeremy Herpe on Mo's Ferry offshoot Rrygular - opting to dedicate again to the abiding hegemony of minimal techno, there's still enough rave and darkness in these cuts to raise this consistent label a cut above on this release. "Elastic time bubble" particularly stands up with...
Proper "wow-factor" techno, K2 number eleven is serious, classic Kompakt-style minimal techno, the kind you just don't want to take off the deck. "Part Time" opens the A side with a bubbling middle region, that somehow sounds like the missing link between Tiësto and Sähkö. Hervé Ak is a...
Super obscure double pack release, with remixes from Martin Buttirch and Adultnapper. "'From a time when there were few 'rules' in the production of dance music, this track combines all sorts of elements that were heard in the music of the time. Subtle use of a sampled breakbeat, layered over...
U.S. producer in Berlin Jay Haze saddles up his trusty Fuckpony steed once again to go on a journey through the moodier end of house and techno music. Dark Side Pt. 2 is dance music with a raw, old school attitude but with all the benefits of modern production. "Flower" takes inspiration from...
