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TRENTEMØLLER-The Last Resort

Atmospheric electronica on Pokerflat! Trentemøller moves towards home listening. Using live drums, guitars and other acoustic instruments like celesta, glockenspiel, melodica and even DJ scratching to create a more organic feel. The Last Resort is popular electronica that functions for its wide...

FAD GADGET by FRANK TOVEY

Mute are presenting a 2 DVD and 2 CD package featuring an exclusive new documentary about Frank Tovey, including rare und unreleased tracks and live footage of legendary performances, as well as classic songs recorded both under his own name and his alter ego Fad Gadget. A man at the forefront...

EXERCISE ONE-12 Years

Mind-blowing 12“ single by label founders Exercise One. ‘12 years’ is a morbid minimal chase with a drumming bass line like a prediction and a beating, as if you beat on anything with wooden sticks. An initiating strong signal appears and sudden threatening synthie-sounds. Then something like a...

AGORIA-The Green Armchair

Agoria’s new album is a mixture of melodic and energetic techno reminiscent of Border Community as in ‘Europa’, massive rocking and booming electro as in ‘Lips on Fire’ featuring Princess Superstar and an affinity for trip hop sounding electronica. Latter is gently translated into ‘Million Mile...

J DILLA aka JAY DEE-The Shining

James Yancey from Detroit doesn’t need any credits any more. He has provided his production talents to artists such as Common, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots and many others in this league. With The Shining he gathers again Common, D’Angelo, Madlib and others to creat...

HEIDI vs RITON-Vejer

Vejer works right from the beginning. It starts up with a dry beat and a bouncing loop and suddenly changes after a warm break, that produces an old sounding string, and ends up as something Chicago-esque with a seriously catchy riff. It has hit potential. The strings appear here and there and...

MAGDA-She’s a Dancing Machine

Don’t try to cull the tracks! You might end up looking for a needle in a haystack. Magda mixes 71 tracks using micro-edits, customized loops and effects to build a never-ending ‘Go-Go-track’. No sudden breaks, in particular stylistic ones. Metro Area, Larry Heard and Konrad Black’s disco infern...

LAURENT GARNIER-Retrospective

Somebody who perfectly lines up classic nineties rave anthems and cutting edge electronica, vintage hip hop and Detroit techno, disco hymns and reggae classics, is called a paradigm for a eclectic. Somebody who is the link between France and Detroit / Chicago is called one of today’s most acce...

MARC HOULE-Bay of Figs

Marc still makes you bounce. Still inspired by Detroit, DBX or Mika Vainio. Still dark, analogue and industrial like in 'Black Jack 13', clapping and bending with electro fever, rattling around erratic effects and synth lines. There is some sort of Plastikman touch in the elastic jumping beat o...

PHONIQUE-What I Play EP

What I play is a Chicago inspired demanding tune with a according beat accompanied by toms. Starting with a recurrent acid signal followed by a squiring flashy one and added by a subliminal bass line loop. Spiritcatcher don’t go far from the original. Very much Metro Area like and more bass dri...

BEN WESTBEECH - So Good Today / Beauty

Ben Westbeech is the first release on Gilles Peterson’s new label Brownswood Recordings. You can guess, where it will take us. Somewhere around soul and jazz with broken beats that’s always open for other influences. So Good Today is a feel-good tune with easy-going vocals that mixes acoustic f...

SOIL & PIMP SESSIONS-Pimp Master

This one is truly a slamming dose of punky, energy-fuelled jazz with attitude! This combo of six musicians come straight from Tokyo and include trumpet, sax, piano, bass and drums players plus Shacho - the agitator and spirit. Soil & Pimp Sessions are crazy, flashy and overdosed - just like...

PARA ONE-Epiphanie

Frenchman Para One created with his debut album laptop-music that fulfils the meaning of Epiphanie. Each track seems to emerge from a sudden craze. At times the process feels too fast though. Ephinanie attempts the sick disco techno, but at the end it sounds like a honed Mr. Oizo, who just left...

CONSOLE-Mono

It’s the sensed simplicity in Mono, in which its beauty lies. Martin Gretschmann created an album like the score to a film about the many shades of life, because it sounds so deep-rooted and it’s so diverse in melodies and atmospheres. Actually 6 tracks appear in a film called ‘Houwelandt’. You...

KLANG ELEKTRONIK V/A-Diamanten und Raketen

After the legendary Playhouse compilation ‘Famous When Dead’, its sister label Klang Elektronik starts a series on its own with not only last year’s highlights, but also classics like the industrial-alike and simultanously gentle Farben remix of Bergheim 34’s ‘Ding Dong’ or 2 Dollar Egg’s deep...