Techno
Re-Issue: Mark Archer – Songs For Einna
In 2007 an EP entitled ‘Songs For Einna‘ was released on the DS93, first as a White Label/Test Press as seventeen copies and then as an official DS93 release as ninty three copies, DS93 (a off-shoot of Dust Science Recordings) was set up with a strict release code: No Represses, No Downloads, No CD Compilation. Over …
Album Review : Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
Venetian Snares have been releasing unsettling and dischordant music for 20 years – it seems crazy to ask, but are they becoming familiar and cosy. Particularly as the new album is a collaboration with Canadian super-producer and friend of U2 Danial Lanois. How would a collaboration between guitar based perfection and uneasy listening work? It’s …
EP: Jónbjörn – Isms EP
Lagaffe Tales co-founder Jónbjörn drops four tracks on Iceland’s FALK Records beat driven sub-label, FALK Disks. Since 2008 FALK (Fuck Art Lets Kill) has become a creative hub for Icelandic and international artists involved in experimental and electronic music, spanning noise rock through to power electronics, underground hip-hop to DIY techno and electro. 2017 saw …
Track: Drum Thing: Warp Skin
Warp Skin is the title track taken from the new EP by East London producer Drum Thing, which drops on 26th January via emerging club collective Super Kitchen. On the five track EP, Drum Thing set out to ‘explore the percussive dark side of dance music’, and the track is a cool, stripped back slice …
EP: Helena Hauff – Have you Been there, Have you seen it
Ninja Tune have dropped a new EP from master DJ Helena Hauff, titled ‘Have you been there, Have you seen it’, which finds her building on what she has achieved in the last two years, which, at her core is her commitment to, and innate talent for, the craft of DJing. Acclaimed for her skill …
Album Review: DJ Hell – Zukunftsmusik
After the successful release of first single ‘I Want U,’ an enthralling collaboration with L.A. based Tom of Finland Foundation and new single ‘Car, Car, Car,’ DJ Hell announces his 5th album ‘Zukunftsmusik,’ set for release on May 12th (physical: June 9th) via International Deejay Gigolo Records. The techno revolution 30 years ago, where boundaries and walls crumbling down. …
Classic Compilation: Orbital – Back to Mine
The ‘Back to Mine’ compilations premise was simple. After pummelling your brain to mush in a sweaty club, with four hours of repetitive beats, the DJ in question would invite you back to his pad, where he would show you his gentler side by playing you chilled-out choons, as you melted into his couch, the …
News : Bureau B to release Moebius Story Leidecker album ‘familiar’
Dieter Moebius (1944–2015), was one half of German experimental Krautrock pioneers ‘Cluster’, along with Hans-Joachim Roedelius. The pair collaborated widely and released various other albums; the Moebius & Plank (as in Conny, legendary producer) album ‘Rastakraut Pasta’ being one of the more interesting and bizarre. Now Hamburg indie label Bureau B will release in October, recording sessions …
EP: Victor Norman – Hymn
Some nice laid back action here with DJ and producer Victor Norman. The Hymn EP is a warm deep-house/techno welcome to the coming winter months. Hymn sets off with simple beats and a mellow floating piano line, building up slowly with some well executed percussion and melody and with the introduction of a Gregorian type chant vocal it …
New Music: Pangaea – In Drum Play
Label co–founder of Hessle Audio Kevin McAuley, releases his Debut LP under his guise of Pangaea. Ten tracks of stripped–back techno venturing through realms of club floor fillers to more experimental ambient Zones. Fluttering frequencies greet us in the opening of the LP with ‘Mutual Exchange‘, a warm kick drum, sizzling percussion and a subtle melody carry us …