MORE DEEP TECHNO ESSENTIALS
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Over 50 releases Freude Am Tanzen have been cultivating their own brand of deep minimalism. '5zig' features amazing contributions from all of the labels mainstays: Brittle electro by Robag Wruhme, wobbly house by Mathias Kaden, deep techno by Daniel Stefanik, Taron-Trekka, Monkey Maffia, and many more!
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Compilation released 11-04-2011 on Echocord
Danish dub techno giants at Echocord celebrate their jubilee with this premium grade compilation of ten exclusive tracks. All deep, dreamy, dubby killer and no filler from the likes of Fluxion, Deadbeat, Luke Hess, Mikkel Metal, Quantec, Onmutu Mechanicks and Echospace's Stephen Hitchell. Bravo!
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Poker Flat is feeling the old-school vibe with 15 brand new and exclusive tracks from a nice selection of artists. Kink & Neville Watson hit it Sheffield bleep style, Deetron takes cues from Derrick May, and Redshape actually reminds us a bit of Wolfgang Voigt's Love Inc. projects. Plus Steve Bug, Ribn, The Revenge, Sasse. Excellent.
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Maxi-Single released 11-04-2011 on Phonica
Fresh from touring the world with Carl Craig, Paul Woolford unleashes a stunning single on Phonica. Incorporating sounds from UK funky and dubstep, 'Can't Do Without' is a killer skewed house number with a cheeky bassline while 'Bareback' is a crushed-up moody rhythm driven jam. Heavy!
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On a roll since his brilliant Emerald Fantasy Tracks album last year, Lone appears with more old-school electro inspired tracks with a ravey UK edge on R&S. Rich and grainy synths, gently primed house beats and his knack for effortlessly blissful moods prevail. Dynamite release, don't miss!
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The Dirtbombs have become everybody's darlings over night by covering electronic music classics in a garage rock style. Remixes by Omar S, Kyle Hall and Ectomorph take this one step further, with Kyle Hall's take on 'Bug In The Bassbin' and The Dirtbombs' own version of 'Sharevari' proving particularly delightful.
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Maetrik makes his debut on Cocoon Records with a dark, dubbed out house monster. Both tracks represent Estornel's unique style, using hallucinogenic vocals, hypnotic beats and a power that is deep and latently noisy at the same time to put the dancefloor over the edge of insanity.
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Audio Werner returns in 2011 on Hartchef Discos with this slick and grooving single. 'Can you scratch' is a reduced shuffly house track with a driving bass force and a cheeky bit of scratching whilst '?' is a smooth, jazz-sprinkled deep house number. As ever, wonderful top-notch productions. Hit!
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Moustache Records start a new techno subsidy and unleash an infuriating EP by the mysterious Gesloten Cirkel, who already kicked up some dust with their previous release on Murder Capital. Four dark techno tracks sitting somewhere between Moscow subways and Chicago basements. Big EP!
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Frederic Moering-Sack & Christian de Jonquières aka Piemont return with their second long-player on their own Suchtreflex imprint. Their slick and sturdy techno house reaches out to grainier terrains, incorporating field recordings and instruments in this solid yet tactile album.
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Voom:voom's Christian Prommer and Jazzanova's Axel Barck follow up their recent singles for Permanent Vacation and Gigolo with an entire album of their techhouse/soul/pop explorations, working with a range of vocalists for quite a unique listening and club music experience. Check.
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Ray Okpara's releases on labels like Oslo and Deep Vibes span deep house and minimal techno and his sound sits perfectly in his Mobilee debut. 'Booty' opens with a great shuffly, tropical vibe, 'Crabapple Road', 'Modern Dance' and 'Coyoacan' continue the housey warmth amidst subtle textures. Nice.
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Dresden's Uncanny Valley crew strike again, One Day In Metropia in a slow-rolling synthetic electro funk, Credit 00 dishing out some Drexciyan moves, Stefan Lohse going deep with a bubbling acid tinge and the mysterious 'Projektname Unbekannt' rounding off with a very fine space rhythm jam. Brill!
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Maxi-Single released 15-04-2011 on Soma
Silicone Soul's 'Right On, Right On' is destined to be a hit in the open air party season, with five of Ibiza's finest regulars supplying remixes: M.A.N.D.Y., Ramon Tapia, Fergie, and, our favourites, Nick Curly with a somewhat restrained house take and ex-Underworlder Darren Emerson adding a Detroitish touch.
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Maxi-Single released 04-04-2011 on Soma
Welcoming Glasgow's seminal Soma label's twentieth anniversary, this first release of the series sees East Men's 1994 classic 'U Dig' reworked by Loco Dice and two superb Universal Principle cuts remixed by Italy's DJ Santos and Chicago's Decimal respectively. Swell updates!
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Funk D'Void under his Francois Dubois guise contributes two heavy hitters to Komplex De Deep: Both 'Back 2 Raw' and 'Uprock' are based on the interplay of lush pads and creaking bass-lines, which works exceptionally well on two of the best tracks we've heard from Mr. Sandberg in a while.
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Essen house meets Essen avant-pop when Manuel Tur and Markus Worgull remix Festland. Tur applies diverse trippy vocal filters and pitch effects to 'Welt Verbrennt's original vocals, while Worgull opts for a prime time chord-driven club hit approach. Nice.
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Chilean-born Panorama Bar resident Dinky serves up two luscious slices of floor-filling deep house. 'Take Me' rotates hypnotic vocal loops over warm bass and experimental jazzy designs while 'Polvo' features a more haunting vocal with a delicate piano over a brassy bass. Stylish moves.
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Derived from Stefan Goldmann's commissioned ballet 'The Grand Hemiola', the title track sees dramatic orchestral and percussive fragments formed into winding complex rhythms. The remainder are excellent delicate and hypnotic rhythmical compositions, emphasizing the fine acoustic textures. Superb.
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A wonderful EP by Heidelberg's deep house king Move D on Uzuri: 'Your Personal Healer' is almost exclusively driven by rhythmic piano chords, interspersed with subtle guitar licks, 'Things Will Come...' is a short, percussive jazz house interlude, and 'Sur un Bateau' features Eric D. Clark for a funked-up piano acid epic. Great!
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Philpot Records is one of those buy-on-sight labels for us, and 'Fear Diluted' by Lump's Arttu Snellman is certainly not a record you'll regret blindly purchasing: Two super-minimal and immensely funky Chicago jackers, built from hard-hitting 909 drums, bleepy analogue synths, and sparse vocals. Fantastic release.
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Second release by Art Bleek on the so far highly collectable Sharivari imprint. Three excellent tracks of up-tempo, pad-heavy techhouse, balancing Detroit and modern influences, and the oddball 'Deep Hop' thrown in between, which fuses house and '60s easy-listening grooves. Very nice EP.
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Two fine Detroit-style techno tracks by Dutch producer Jeroen Search, taking a deep and minimalistic Robert Hood inspired direction. Do not miss the added Conforce mix, which is an absolutely bad-ass dub techno monster and comes highly recommended.
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Known as a member of the seminal 3 Chairs, Marcellus Pittmann's solo work is equally as essential. Three tracks for Seventh Sign begin hot and heavy in 'The Mad Underdog', soothed by lush soulful house grooves in 'You Want Me (Never)' and sparse, shuffled house abstractions rounding off a brilliant EP.
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EP released 21-03-2011 on Infiné
Infiné label head Agoria once again brings together the finest artists in the neo-classical, house and techno worlds to remix his and Kid A's 'Heart Beating'. Sylvain Chauveau delivers a Björk-style pop opera, Argy opts for tech-house dancefloor appeal, and John Roberts goes for free-style square-dance indie charms. Lovely.
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Ghostly assembles remixes for Matthew Dear's 'Slowdance' (by How To Dress Well, Todd Edwards, and Bear In Heaven) that do a great job in deriving various flavours of drag and electro-pop from the original. As an added bonus you get all versions of 'You Put A Smell On Me' and 'Little People (Black City)'. Essential.
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Remixes for Trentemøller's 'Shades Of Marble' have the man himself going first with a version that sounds like a 1979 Human League teaming up with the London Symphonic and, well, Trentemøller. Kink delivers a less controversial, nicely chord-driven take, while Kasper Bjørke goes for moody slowed-down disco.
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Album released 04-04-2011 on CLR
Tommy Four Seven comes armed to the teeth when it comes to technique in the studio. Utilizing a host of found sounds and vocals from field recordings to cultivate his distinct sound, T47's debut full-length for Chris Liebing's CLR, 'Primate', displays the muscle and depth of field that comes from a mastery of the tools of the trade.
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zero" podcast #023 artist, CosminTRG, has delivered a series of highlight releases on Hemlock, Tempa and 50Weapons, developing his own unique strain of bombastic, bass-infused house and techno. Follow his latest exploits here in this essential 4-tracker for Rush Hour's Direct Current series.
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