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EFDEMIN

Efedemin’s new album is outstanding! A Techno-House-hybrid: a crossover between straight Techno with Deep House and a strong addiction to Ambient without exuberant excess. Far from it! Efdemin reduces his music to the essential and treats his few elements skilfully and with timing. His versatil...

BADUN

Badun is the product of three Danish guys – Oliver Duckert, Aske Krammer and Brian Moller – and the result of a few years of experimentation and search for a unique sound and loads of live gigs. This is their debut album and the opener ‘Turban’ proves already that the prudent waiting has paid o...

CHIN CHIN

These guys must be a real blast on stage! You will believe that after hearing the bass-driven opener ‘Miami’. Chin Chin is where Funk’ n’Jazz meet contemporary R&B and Disco with 70’s sex-appeal, falsetto singing and Soul indeed. A dance album straight out of Brooklyn, even when they slow d...

RETINA.IT

In 2001 I bought their outstanding ‘Volcano Waves 1-8’ album, but somehow lost track of this intriguing electronica act from Italy. ‘Semeion’ now offers a fine collection of rare, previously released original works, as well as exclusive, unreleased tracks. The ‘Volcano Waves 1-8’ LP is compared...

THE TOUGH ALLIANCE

Eric and Henning – that already sounds kind of innocent. Together they are TTA. The biggest Indie happening in Sweden this century? I don’t know about that, but they’re fun and they sound rascally and easy-going, kind of devil-may-care. TTA are charming. Inspired by the crossover sound fusing I...

MICHAEL FAKESCH

‘Dos’ is called the Funk of the 21st century: cool, deep and rough. I can confirm that. Michael Fakesch who has been one half of the German IDM-duo Funkstörung, presents his second solo album, that he has written together with Hamburg-based singer Taprikk Sweezee. The result is extremely funky!...

STATELESS

Stateless are a gang of five from Leeds. Chris is the 25-year-old singer, David plays the drums and Justin is the bassist and backing singer. Next to the musicians, the integral technology boys: DJ Kidkanevil – the turntablist – and Rod Buchanan-Dunlop, who plays the beautiful keys and does fet...

APPARAT

Berlin-based Sascha Ring considers the album more as a ‘last-two-years of Apparat compilation’ than a focused and conceptual production. Yet the album sounds fluent and keeps a sustained mood: calm and peaceful. From the opener ‘Not A Number’ with its balmy Cello and vibrating vibraphones to th...

STUDIO

What’s the magic about Sweden? How come they’ve become musically so important, so inspiring, so intoxicating? Much of the music coming out of Sweden is leaving a very satisfying feeling these days. STUDIO are Dan Lissvik & Rasmus Hägg and the music is crossover sound at its best: Krautrock...

V/A BOX OF DUB

Who else than London-based Soul Jazz Records could attend to a new genre, that has become so stimulating for electronic music and especially for the concept of ‘Minimal’, than England’s most exciting export, that we now call Dubstep?! In a time of annoying and random Minimal-labelling (although...