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The down-tempo opener ‘Music for You’, with blues guitar riffs and waves of lush Fender Rhodes intertwining with hypnotic female vocals, sets the sound essence of this album and evokes Fin Greenall’s releases on Ninja Tune or Ntone. ‘You’ve changed Dub’ emphasises the strong Dub influence in ad...

FRIVOLOUS

Reinterpret ‘Midnight Black Indulgence’, if you want, as deep black, Jazz-rooted Deep House. However, Daniel Gardner has always produced warm and deep minimal-house with addiction to Jazz and Funk as on Karloff Recordings. Frisky and kinky dance music. Unlimited and untamable, frivolous but cha...

4 Hero - Play With The Changes

In 1998 their highly acclaimed ‘Two Pages’ was an innovation in deep experimental fusion: modern Jazz with broken beats. A true meditation. Follow-up ‘Creating Patterns’ (2001) became even more effective as a statement of art and music making. Drum’n’Bass with poetic soul- and jazz-rooted music...

RESTRUCTED LAYERS-MIXED BY MARTINEZ

Labelboss Martinez blended parts and pieces from the Orbit catalogue. Somewhere over 30 tracks put together in one unstoppable hypnotic mix close to Richie Hawtins DE9. In contrast to M_nus, the Orbit sound is actually warmer and less dark. Including amongst others tracks by Phil Stumpf, Rober...

RELISH-V/A COMPILATION

The first Relish label compilation mixed and compiled by labelfounder Robi Insinna alias Headman/Manhead presents forthcoming tunes and the highlights of the last years on two CDs mixed and unmixed. Featuring David Gilmour Girls (currently support band for The Rapture), Franz & Shape, Den...

KATERINE-ROBOTS APRÈS TOUT

Phillipe Katerine is considered one of the main figures of the Nouvelle Chanson (besides actor, director and ex-basketballer!!!). Dreamful and romantic. But not this time! On his seventh album he faces the rising power of the machines. For the first time producing electronic music support...

HOMECOOKING-SOULFOOD SERVERD

Jazzanova has collected appropriate music for improvisational cooking. A good dose of cool jazz with Third Eye or spiritual kind with Meitz, loads of soul with Micatone, Georg Levin or Clara Hill and heavy Downbeat with Fat Freddys Drop for instance. Actually Jazzanova takes you on a culinary...

CABINET CLASSICS & UNRELEASED

Thanks to Richie Hawtins relentless search for the perfect beat! To reanimate Berlin-based label Cabinet Records have created deep and pure techno since the mid-nineties. No cross-reference. But the meaning of minimize to maximize got to the point. Label founder Daniel Paul, DJ Zky and DJ Trik...

JAMES HOLDEN-THE IDIOTS ARE WINNING

James Holdens new album continues on his own imprint with a related sound that once shaped a label such as WARP through artists like Plaid, Aphex Twin or Autechre, just to name few. Frisky, tricky, complex, overloaded in sounds and noises. Beyond electronic dance music. Rather a huge collectio...

SKREAM-SKREAM!

Dubstep is Londons most exciting new musical style and Skream has hepled build the foundations of it. Actually stripped and slowed down and drumnbass with strong reggae influences. Very mythical and often dark as in Tortured Soul with those Shining-reminiscent strings or kind of housey and...

CAPPABLACK-FAÇADES & SKELETONS

Cappablack is a duo comprised of iLLEVEN (programing) and Hashim B. (programing & scratching). Highly advanced Samurai Hip Hop with strong IDM-alike patterns like Dabrye for instance. Tricky and heavy beats, modulated samples and vocals and sort of back-street soundscapes. Any reference to...

SYSTEMATIC COLOURS VOL. 1-MIXED BY STEPHAN BODZIN

After more than two years, more than 25 releases and some long-players the German tech-house imprint Systematic Recordings puts out its very first label compilation. Including amongst others Sebo Ks anthem-alike remix for John Dahlbäck, Marc Romboys Acid House flickers Freakin featuring Bla...

HUSKY RESCUE-GHOST IS NOT REAL

Rescues second album sounds like the score of a film set somewhere in snow-covered Scandinavia, probably directed by Aki Kaurismaki. In fact Marko Nyberg loves Akis films and comes from Helsinki. First on his own with his debut album, now together with a band and the beautiful fairy tale voic...

SPOOKY-GARGANTUAN

A lost classic is back: Gargantuan was produced by Charlie May and Duncan Forbes. Released on William Orbits Guerilla Records in 1993. Typical early 90s UK-Acid-House with 808 beats, modulated vocal samples and uplifting chords. Nowadays the vocals might be sometimes cheesy. But event...