After catching a breath over the holiday season the music world gradually returns to its usual state of frenzy. 'Pop Ambient 2012' and Pinch's Fabric mix continue two of electronic music's best-loved series, while John Talabot, Gonjasufi, Leila, and Benjamin more...
Manchester's AnD surface on Horizontal Ground with an excellent dub techno track that balances experimentalism and dance floor appeal. The B-side is divided between Rob Hood techno with a peg-legged beat and ambient drones. Recommended.
Two fiercely jacking, Chicago-flavoured tracks on Horizontal Ground, as always delivered anonymously. Taking cues from the likes of DJ Funk or Cajmere, this is a killer pair of tracks, bound to devastate any techno and house floor.
March has marched on by, but not without pouring a vernal cornucopia of fantastic releases upon us. As usual our newsletter is filled to the brink with our personal favourites of the month, neatly split into genres for your browsing comfort.
In techno and more...
We survey the state of club nation this week with Lucy's stunning album debut, Marc Romboy and Stephan Bodzin's massive 'Luna' project and DJ Koze and Portable remixing Efdemin. Fans of the latter should also check our new podcast by Dial's Rndm, Efdemin's more...
The seventh release on Horizontal Ground comes from Birmingham's DJ Skirt. The title track is a beautifully sculpted slice of experimental techno, feeding off a haunting drone throughout, whilst 'Ikaros' pulses with subtle industrialism and the beatless 'Six Hours' is a spine-chilling end. Brilliantly intense.
Compilations have been the big thing this November, and no matter whether your poison's techno, dubstep, juke, or hip-hop, this month had something in store for you: Ostgut Ton's 'Fünf', Modeselektor's 'Modeselektion', Ghettophiles 'Overkill' and Listen Up's more...
For this month's Crew Picks Koko has delivered an inspired mix of techno and house, which is surely one of the finest sets we've hosted so far.
Starting out with Atheus' dubtechno bomb 'Deploy' and Art Department's current floorburner 'Vampire Nightclub', more...
Techno takes over the big screen - if anyone could ever be trusted to bring the club experience to a cinematic format, it is Richie Hawtin, and this is just what he did. 'MAKING CONTAKT' is the documentary film of his Minus label's monumental 10-year more...
More anonymous techno from the Horizontal Ground / Frozen Border camp, this time dropping two rough techno jams with a dubstep feel: The bleepy, below-120bpm 'Snakes Cave' and the reverb-heavy 'Thirteen Step'. Highly recommended transmissions from the electronic underground.