house/techno tracks
Track: Jamie XX – Idontknow
It seems an age since we last had music from Jamie XX as a solo entity. In fact its 5 years or thereabout since his Brit and Grammy nominated album ‘In colour’, but now he’s back with a new release ‘Idontknow’. In fact he’s been busy of late, hosting parties, and a recent collaboration with Headie …
Track: Michael Mayer – Belle De Lune
Despite running the famed German Kompakt label, Michael Mayer hasn’t released anything on it for the last eight years. That’s not to say he hasn’t been busy – anything but. He DJs around the world, has released a DJ Kicks, the collaborative full length album ‘&’, plus remixed for the likes of Metronomy, Weval, Arthur …
Track: Giraffage – Basketball
San Franciscan producer Giraffage, aka Charlie Yin follows his recent track ‘Workout’ with a new track based on his love for Basketball – taking that as his title. On the topic of “Basketball”, Giraffage explains, “Basketballs and sounds associated with basketball have such a distinct timbre in my mind and so I knew that I needed …
Track: WheelUP – Vitruvian Man
Danny Wheeler -DJ, drum & bass producer and head honcho of W10 Records has released Vitruvian Man under his broken beat alias WheelUP, named by none other than Bugz in the Attic founder Afronaught. It’s art the darker end of broken beat, but bubbles and fizzes away with a dance floor pull about it, its …
Track: Lorenzo Senni – Discipline of Enthusiasm
There’s lots of talk about Lorenzo Senni’s style and sound, with phrases such as Rave Voyeurism and pointillistic being banded around, not least than in the press release. Listening to Discipline of Enthusiasm, a new track from his forthcoming fifth (and first for the legendary Warp Records) album ‘Scatto Matto’, is he’s a very clever …
Track: Enyang Ha – Plastic Run
The debut release on Visitant – the new imprint announced by Phantom Limb as a means to introduce people to electronic producers from across the globe, is a split release featuring South Korea’s Enyang Ha and Mexico’s Luz González Torres aka Damian Licht, and is out on March 13th on 12” vinyl. Enyang Ha has …
Track: Moby – Power is Taken (Felguk Remix)
Ahead of the release of his forthcoming All Visible Objects album, our on May 15th via Little Idiot, Moby has shared a remix of the track Power is Taken by Brazilian production duo Felguk, featuring D.H. Peligro of the Dead Kennedys. Its a whipped up ball of buzzing, day-glo Techno, with Peligro’s lyrics hitting home …
Track: Darkstar – Wolf
On their new track Wolf, the first new music from Darkstar (aka Aiden Whalley and James Young) since 2015’s Foam Island, the pair say “Wolf if is about something ominous catching you back up. Bills, the big bad wolf. Who knows? We wanted to have some fun with how brazen the lyrics are in comparison with how …
Track: Joney – Owl School
Taken from his forthcoming album Bananarchy, out this summer via Audiolith / Anette Records, Hamburg based producer / DJ Joney, aka Jonas Schiefferdecker has streamed the album opener Owl School. Full of vocal cut ups and waves of bass, alongside this almost garage backing, it mixes up house with bass, (approaching) grime with UK garage …
Track: 808 State – Tokyo Tokyo, plus EP news
“We’re trying to make a future for other people to immerse themselves in. It feels a bit like an imaginary landscape. That’s always been a big part of 808 State, when you go back through the music: these kind of landscapes of futurism.” so says Grahm Massey from the legendary Manchester acid house duo 808 …