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Format: B - Steam Circuit

Minimal techno has had a fair bashing recently. The backlash against the genre has been wide ranging, and hard hitting. Now, very few wish to associate themselves with that particular sound, even those that are still effectively making it. Format: B, an act often linked with the ‘minimal’ sound...

Sisters Of Transistor - The Don / Pendulum

Sisters of Transistor are a 5 piece outfit hailing from Manchester, creating spooky organ electro which is seriously inventive, full of humour and weirdness – the sisters themselves describe it as a ‘contemporary take on 1930’s occult parlour music’ – that is not remotely like anything else Gra...

Jacopo Carreras - From Bed To Couch

Boom Chk Boom Chk Boom Chk. Some people cannot understand electronic music. All they here is that. I personally now feel that way about guitar bands. I would rather clean my bathroom than listen to most ‘indie’ outfits. I find them turgid and boring; whereas, I am still excited and intrigued by...

Peter Dundov - Escapements

I am attempting to review this without using the phrases ‘space’ 'cosmic’ or ‘disco’. It is very hard. Peter Dundov hails from Croatia and has been prolific on the techno / rave / scene over there for quite a while………… This is intergalactic mood music. Soaring arpeggios, throbbing electro...

Roots Manuva - Slime & Reason

Living in Berlin, but hailing from London (kinda), there are often things that I miss that you just can’t easily get here. A decent cup of tea, bacon, fluffy white bread, Bovril, newspapers, overheard snippets of conversation that make you smile, casual violence….. well maybe not the last one b...

Pole - 1-2-3

In the 10 years (yes 10 years…) since Pole, aka Stefan Betke released the first part of his groundbreaking trilogy of albums, a lot has changed in the world of electronic music. The most obvious being the recent domination of minimal sounds and aesthetics. However, as is often the case you need...

Alloy Mental - We Have Control

You know, sometimes things start of so well, you know deep down that whatever follows is just not going to be as good, even though you want to be proven wrong… Alloy Mental is a case in point. Ever since the collective sore on our memories that was electroclash died a death, I have been wary of...

Danny Tenaglia - Futurism

Danny Tenaglia’s first new mix for 5 years, Futurism is named after his latest residency in Ibiza’s infamous Space Club, and it’s a tribal tribal tribal affair. Very percussive and very trippy this is a return to form for a DJ who can wander off down some very obscure paths when the fancy takes...

Drums Of Death - Drums Of Death

Release number four from the eclectic and slightly hit and miss Greco Roman stable. Some kind of project involving blog favourite Curses, and a nefarious looking Tin Tin extra it would appear. Breathe is suitably voodoo like, picking from the bones of a few old hardcore records and regenerating...

Bomb The Bass - Future Chaos

Is it realy 21 years since Bomb The Bass bought us ‘Beat Dis’? Yes it would seem, and now they’re back with new album; Future Chaos. Combining some business like beats, squelchy Minimoogs and rumbling bass lines with guest vocalists including the modern day Marlboro Man – Mark Lanegan, this is...

Munk - Cloudbuster

Third album from New Yorkers Munk. Full of nice little touches, and a sound that is both current and retro, this is taking the whole disco / electro sound where Headman should have gone. However, to call this either disco or electro would not really be accurate. Electronic music for nightclubs...

Jon SaTrinxa - Balearic Beach Sessions

Summer is here! (Or it is at the time of writing) So it must be time for some sunny, summery, easy on the ears compilations right? Right. Jon SaTrinxa has been resident on Ibiza’s Salina’s beach for some time now, 15 years in fact. That’s a long time playing at the same place more than once a w...

Various Artists - Nobody Knows Anything - DFA Presents Supersoul Recordings

Nobody knows anything, eh? Well, it would seem that the combined forces of DFA and Supersoul certainly know how to put a killer compilation together so maybe I will be on to the trades descriptions people…. Or maybe not. Released for the first time digitally, these songs / tracks have all been...

Betty Botox - Mmmm Betty!

Amazing compilations seem to be the order of the day right now. Betty Botox may or may not be familiar name – the alter-ego of JD Twitch of Optimo, a Glasgow based musical collective, who produce music and throw parties under various monikers. This selection of edits, explores some of the more...

Riton - Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Or, if you don’t sprichst Deutsch; A Little Night Music. This release is the latest from one of the most versatile and consistently interesting producers around – Riton. The project has gestated from his recent interest in what the English call, rather crudely, Krautrock – the spacey, ultra exp...