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THE KINGS OF ELECTRO

‘The Kings Of…’ series goes in the ninth round. Always aiming at bringing the diversity of dance music to the people. Each compilation focuses on a genre and basically tries to bring you forgotten and neglected gems along with evergreens and contemporary sound of that genre, which is quite good...

THE SEASONS

Both Ambient and Jazz. An Electronica-Jazz-fusion launched by Phil Stumpf and Sam Rouanet aka Reynold (Trenton Records), together also known for Duplex 100. They both do the programming, play analogue synths and Sam the guitar as well. They are joined by Sam’s father Jaques Rouanet on rhodes, J...

STEVE REID ENSEMBLE

Steve Reid (born 1944 in New York) is an Amnerican Jazz drummer who has played with a wide range of notably artists including Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Fela Kuti, even James Brown, and as a session drummer for Motwon Records. He affirms ‘Africa is the heart of drumming’. That’s wher...

KEVIN GORMAN

Kevin Gorman lives and works in Manchester, where he runs his own Tech-House label Mikrowave: 6 releases old, featuring own productions with remixes by Mark Broom, Mark Ashken or Alex Under amongst others. Now Gigolo releases Gorman’s debut album, which has been produced at Mikrowave studios in...

POLE

‘Steingarten’ is definitely Pole’s most odd-sounding album up to now. Totally in shambles somehow, sort of bizarre, and abstract since concrete references are subtly hidden or hardly stand out. The analogy to Dub in Stefan Betke’s music has always been given though, because of the approach behi...

BUGGE WESSELTOFT

‘IM’ is gentle Piano Jazz – melancholic, mature, sublime. Yet pieces such as ‘Fo(o)t’ or ‘Joi’ are quite easygoing, both with a laidback groove. The latter comes along with a short drumloop, a tambourine and a lush E-Piano. It could be a Sade song, but in fact it features Mari Boine – Bugge Wes...

PREFUSE 73

Guillermo Scott Herren aka Prefuse 73 is back with a previously released longplayer. He wasn’t really gone, just on the road from Moscow to Mexico City and then... Well, back into the lab, crafting a water-tight set of masterfully composed instrumental tracks, resulting in ‘Preparations’. Still...

EFTERKLANG

‘Parades’ starts like opening a fairy-tale novel with the legendary phrase: ‘once upon a time…’. The wind section, a fairy-alike choir, strings and keys, many undefined tones and sounds put you in another time and place, beyond this world. A miscellaneousness of music appears wondrously disharm...

V.A. EXPANSION

The new wave of Minimal Techno explores the relationship between sound and silence; between expanding and contracting sound. On this V.A. compilation M_nus seeks for ‘inspiration from a sonic molecule or the inaudible space around that element’ which by this means is the nature of EXPANSION | c...

GUILLAUME & THE COUTU DUMONTS

Guillaume Coutu Dumont from Montréal offers a debut album inspired by travels for several months in Senegal. He’s classically trained as a percussionist, but obviously Africa left its marks. ‘Face À L’Est’ is a mixture of Trance in a way and Tech-House, very tribal, partly oriental. Fundamental...