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MY MY-Butterflies & Zebras EP

Butterflies & Zebras is made for the small hours at Panorama Bar. For those moments, when they open the sun-blind for a couple minutes. An uplifting deep house tune with a Pepe Bradock-alike beat pattern, a bass-hookline and a resounding soundwave like a magic carpet and streaming organic s...

GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW-Olesi: Fragments of an Earth

She is 22 years old, does her own vocals, background vocals and the beats! She might be a mixture of Jill Scott, Erykah Badu and some Lauren Hill. But she’s already so independent, because of her strong and beautiful voice, her familial background full of creative musicians as well as for extra...

JIMPSTER-Amour

Jimpster takes us into more home listening from downtempo or some broken beats to chill house grooves and gently dancefloor focussed deeper house as in ‘A love like this’. The sound is very warm and clean and totally undisturbed. The mood might remind of Café del Mar, thus widely accessible and...

UNDER BYEN-Samme Stof Som Stof

Under Byen remind me somewhat of Portishead. Especially regarding the vocals. The music is beautiful for its non-linear harmony. A mixture of tender melancholy as from an ancient music box, and stoic insanity because of those curiously sluggish drums. Something harsh is in the wind, something n...

Various Artists - The Kings Of Techno (compiled by Laurent Garnier and Carl Craig)

In ‘Kings of Techno’ we plunge in eclectic Detroit and get to know early electronic dance music and its further developments. Herein Garnier offers little history of Mo’town from The Stooges to Aretha Franklin and The Temptations to techno classics like Carl Craig’s ‘No more words’, even futuri...

CASSIUS-15 Again

15 Again is like a wet dream. Electronic dance music infiltrated by 80s and 90s Pop, Funk and Rock. Cassius created natural-acting dance music hybrids. For instance ‘This Song’ mixes it all up: Blues, synthies, a falsetto, tonal fragments and Soft Cell-alike beats. ‘Eye Water’ featuring Pharrel...

ALEXKID-Caracol

Alexkid seems to long for minimal techno. But instead of getting too reduced, he uses minimal aspects as a basis and creates progressive tracks that function mostly through their catchy synthie hook lines and bass lines. Starting with Keith Thompson’s vocoder voice and ending with a pixie balla...

DEETRON-Twisted

Swiss-born Deetron created a pure Detroit/Chicago inspired debut album, covering the many shades of techno and house. For instance acid-loop-based techno with old school Chicago vocals as in ‘Life Soundtrack’ featuring DJ Bone; Robert Owen-esque vocal house as in ‘Let’s get over it’ featuring J...