Wednesday 7 December 2016
Louisahhh!!! - Ready
Your average techno purist will likely stab me metaphorically for calling this techno, but the deep bassline, darkness and risers just about qualify it - the talking Nina-esque vocals probably take it away but it's an interesting listen.
Tuesday 6 December 2016
Daniel Taylor - M.O.R.D. (Loco Dice Remix)
A quick flashback to the original mid-2000's minimal days when Loco Dice was smashing things at Circo Loco and this chuggy, minimal sound was the coolest thing around - this is an overlooked track in my opinion and deserves some more attention.
Thursday 1 December 2016
Scuba - Black On Black (Len Faki Goes Black Remix)
Growling acid-influenced remix from the master Len Faki - it doesn't sound much to start but it gets almost pensively angry - in a joyous way.
Thursday 24 November 2016
DJ Sodeyama - Miles Pt 2
Rough-edged dark techno track about something miles and miles and miles and miles away.
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Nitzer Ebb - Join In The Chant
Not exactly a new track, being from 1987, but I've been having a week of listening to 80's only tracks to see what I missed out on and have become rather enchanted at this super groovy, yet angry, shouty classic.
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Baeka - Right At It
One of those tunes that I've known and loved for ages, yet only just worked out what it is. A very summery house track but full of quality.
Thursday 10 November 2016
Fathers & Sons Productions - FAS Souls
This gave me that kind of sicky coming up feeling, with its low tones of emotion - quite sad and mournful yet hopeful at the same time - and a wonderful cut back in of the beat.
Wednesday 17 August 2016
Ricardo Villalobos - Ferenc
Controversial but Dependent And Happy is my favourite Villalobos album. There is so much undiscovered beauty in it including this spaced out dreamy taxi-beeping New York trip. Even more controversial - the track is less than 5 minutes long.
Tuesday 16 August 2016
DHS - I Am Your Control
Slightly cosmic, bleepy underground house track with an old feel to it.
Thursday 11 August 2016
Ralphi Rosario - You Used To Hold Me (Kenny's Mix)
A proper old school track with elements that wouldn't be dreamt of nowadays yet I just want to get up and dance to it.
Wednesday 10 August 2016
24 Hour Experience - Together
A flashback to my 90's US garage days, reminded to me by a young lady called Sophie. This has that slight two-step thing going, exuding warmth and glory. If you don't know it - you need to.
Tuesday 9 August 2016
Ricardo Villalobos - Das Leben Ist So Anders Ohne Dich
Dependent And Happy is such an under-rated album, so full of beauty and wonder that it is easy to overlook certain tracks, which for me, this has been an overlooked beauty - full of delicate charm and a gruff German vocal line that I am happy to never know what it means.
Friday 5 August 2016
Mr G - It??
A lesser-known yet tough and uncompromising track from Mr G, who rarely fails to provide.
Thursday 4 August 2016
Alex & Digby - Crowhurst
A sombre, gloomy track - almost perfect to play towards the end of a wonderful drug-fuelled holiday in Ibiza. With enough serotonin depletion, this would make you cry.
Tuesday 2 August 2016
Nami - Melinda & Gatto
Too often in dance music, vocals are meaningless bullshit, but this chuggy underground house track is a story about a woman's need for her man, above meaningless consumption. Heart-warming.
Thursday 28 July 2016
Melodie - Justa
It never fails to amaze me how you can listen to a track once, think it is ok, then listen again and think it is amazing. Maybe it is because I've recently seen an excellent set by Melodie - this track is a warm, gentle bassline-friendly groover.
Wednesday 27 July 2016
iO (Mulen) - Flute
iO (Mulen) are putting out a rash of really good minimal tracks and this is the pick of them for me, it has quite a lot of energy for a minimal track and grooves along very nicely.
Tuesday 26 July 2016
Silat Beksi - Rumble
Crunchy electronic minimal.
Thursday 21 July 2016
Master C & J - Don't Let Love Pass You By (D'Julz Edit)
It's a bit gloomy but has an important message within the dark house beats.
Wednesday 20 July 2016
Zefzeed - Control Yourself (Cristi Cons Remix)
Super smooth hypnotic wonder - even my 50 year old Scottish desk-neighbour likes it.
Thursday 14 July 2016
Richie Hawtin - No Way Back
I was listening to my playlist and thought, oooh this is a bit good. And then I saw it was by Richie Hawtin. Temporarily discombobulated, it is easy to forget with all the bullshit that he encircles himself with, along with the wanky loopy digital 'DJing' that he is actually an excellent producer, and this is a return to form with a brooding, 13-minute long techno beauty. More please.
Wednesday 6 July 2016
Eduardo De La Calle - I Think I Love You
Gentle meandering track like a quiet country stroll. I really cannot get enough of this - so beautiful.
Friday 1 July 2016
Tuesday 28 June 2016
AMDX 71 - Virtuality Continuum
It's difficult to know exactly what this is - some kind of dark, brooding warehouse of bass-heavy sound.
Monday 27 June 2016
Marco Shuttle - Sing Like A Bird
This caught me a little off-guard. It encompases unusually soaring vocals whilst gradually building into quite a long, gloomy techno track. It wasn't until the gloominess kicked in around the 5 minute mark that it all made sense - especially with the seagull noises.
Wednesday 22 June 2016
Vid Vai - Aloft
Like swimming through a gloomy soup whilst on mushrooms.
Tuesday 21 June 2016
Donor - Us For Them (Sleeparchive Remix)
I've always liked Sleeparchive, this has has trademark scratchy kind of noise at times, along with some powerful drums.
Wednesday 15 June 2016
Josh Wink - Denial (L.B. Dub Corporation Remix)
I'd just had the most frustratingly thick customer on the line then I heard this track, I just love the rolling bassline that kicks in after the breakdown, it makes so much sense. A techno track but with a hint of tech-house about it.
Thursday 9 June 2016
Heiko Laux - Dry Me
Gently rising, throbbing being on Klockworks.
Wednesday 8 June 2016
Tuesday 7 June 2016
Volkan Akin - Voltage (Villalobos AC DC Remix)
Twisted, growling remix from the king - watch out for the mid-way switch.
Monday 6 June 2016
Cobblestone Jazz - Hired Touch
At first I had no idea this was Cobblestone Jazz - it is after all, another cracking hypnotic Romanian-sounding minimal track. But it has that haunting edge and musical groove to it that makes it stand out - and it makes sense by the end that of course it is Cobblestone Jazz
Friday 3 June 2016
Nina Kraviz - I Believe I Can Fly (KLM Delayed Flight Version)
Perfectly encapsulating Nina's sound with this flight through space in trippy techno format.
Thursday 2 June 2016
Theo Parrish - Friendly Children
I've been searching for this track for about two years - a percussive element with a very catchy la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la la la la over it. Necessary.
Wednesday 1 June 2016
Hiem - She's The One (Circles In Time Mathew Jonson Remix)
A funky little techno track to start featuring a compulsion-driven bass guitar. And then after 5 minutes that bassline kicks in. Oh yes. I say no more.
Thursday 26 May 2016
Andre Bratten - Trommer Og Bass
It sounds like a track I should have known a long time ago, instead I had to read about it in a Mixmag album review, of all places. All about the bassline - something Tale Of Us would play. Dark and bassy.
Wednesday 25 May 2016
Honeydrop - Inflatable Armchair
This track oozes class. The title of the track is very representative of the feeling, I am just imagining laying on an inflatable armchair after a long night out. Musically - think deep and dubby.
Affie Yusuf - Rinse & Dry
A simple, fairly slow beat, but with a very catchy hum-along melody, and plinks of a xylophone. Effective.
Tuesday 24 May 2016
Enzo Siragusa - Desire
A really under-rated track from the east London maestro - went down an absolute storm when I played it recently.
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Lil' Louis - Clap Your Hands (DJ Q Re-Groove)
This is a minor re-edit of an absolute stone-wall house classic from the 90's, which makes you feel good and with a slight tribal sound will make you want to dance.
Tuesday 17 May 2016
Robert James - Soul One
I've listened to quite a bit of turd today, so this made a refreshing change when the warm, subtle tones inserting themselves into my ears. It's a nice warm-up track, a casual piece of deep house, with occasional vocal inflexions.
Monday 16 May 2016
Secret Society - Our Society
Quite simply a funky-ass house track.
Thursday 12 May 2016
Luc Ringeisen - Glance At The Other Side Of The Rejected Mirror
Slightly glitchy minimal track with various odd drums over it, and a variety of nonsense.
Wednesday 11 May 2016
Dopplereffekt - Plastiphilia 2
This reminds me of all the extravagances of the electro-clash era, a short electro track about wanting to fuck a mannequin.
Tuesday 10 May 2016
Takashi Himeoka - Ludwig
I've been after this for some time, since I was back at a friend's flat and managed to persuade them to swap X Factor for minimal techno seeing as it was 5am and we were out of it. It is just a hypnotic groove with this enchanting English fellow occasionally saying "Yes that's right, exactly".
Thursday 5 May 2016
Levon Vincent - Fear
This is a typically classy track - kind of hard to pigeon-hole, somewhere between dub techno and tech-house. It reminds me of a whirling painting of an industrial landscape.
Riccardo - Lapiuta
Such an infectious track, simple rising repeated cleeps - absolutely rammed-packed full of charm. Julietta recently finished a mix with it, and it was played at Fuse on NYD. Minimally massive.
Wednesday 4 May 2016
Seuil - Al Capote
Gangster minimal. Live by the gun, die by the gun. Or live by the ket, die by the ket. It has a groovy beat to it too.
Friday 29 April 2016
The Galleria - Calling Card
A cross between disco and old house music, with slightly camp soft-pitched female vocals. Just on the side of very cool - this could easily have been awful and maybe you think it is too.
Thursday 28 April 2016
Borai - Anybody From London
I heard this on a mix by Pinch. It has a real rave kind of energy to it, it tells people from London to fuck off and just has this rawness all through it. Quite possibly influenced by Special Request.
Wednesday 27 April 2016
Cristi Cons - Bird In Space
Hypnotic beauty from one of the stars of 2015, with strains of a deep house classic.
Tuesday 19 April 2016
Benjamin Damage - Cosmonaut
It’s trance, Jim, but not as we know it. This breaks down into almost semi-cheese trance territory before bypassing back into a straight-forward techno track. Solid.
Cracking album too.
Cracking album too.
Thursday 14 April 2016
French Fries & Bambounou - Mizu Ni Idou Suru
A gorgeous piece of plodding dub techno.
Wednesday 13 April 2016
Samu l - Bella Mattina
A quiet plodder, with the huge exception of some hauntingly beautiful piano twists. Superb.
Tuesday 12 April 2016
Frits Wentink - Blaise Montoya
Classy sounding garage track - kind of straddling a deep house/garage divide. Very, very nice.
Thursday 7 April 2016
Vid - Camelie
Hauntingly beautiful piano-laden minimal track - Vid is going to be a massive star in a very underground way.
Tuesday 5 April 2016
Schaa - Masquee
Chuggy minimal that grates along a bass-driven floor.
Friday 25 March 2016
Galcher Lustwork - I Neva Seen
Slow, luxurious deep house. It isn't helping my low motivation levels, I just want to lay down with my eyes closed and listen to this repeatedly.
Thursday 24 March 2016
Naeem Johnson & Koffee TheFirstFloetress - Zanzibar Days
This is a bit of a grower, a house track with a woman singing over the top about how good the old days were - yet this track is good enough to replicate the classic house sound.
Groovy.
Groovy.
Tuesday 8 March 2016
Mathew Jonson - Marionette (The Beginning)
Did you know that you needed a new version of Marionette in your life? Neither did I but this is just beauty in smaller and more subtle packaging that the original.
Thursday 3 March 2016
Silat Beksi - It's All About Feeling
It is indeed all about feeling and this oozes hypnotic warmth.
Wednesday 2 March 2016
Einzelkind - 808 Rhythm Traxx 3
A really stripped back piece of percussive house - back to basics in more ways than John Major managed.
Tuesday 1 March 2016
Ricardo Villalobos - Sieso
Sometimes tracks take a few years to grow on you, and this certainly has with the waspish strings and the impulsive inserts.
Tuesday 16 February 2016
Cliff Lothar - Ringleader
Dark, gothic and slow techno like the rumblings from your belly after a heavy weekend and no roast dinner.
Wednesday 10 February 2016
Liem - If Only
I don't feature much soulful house but I defy you not to like this. A simple beat, a lite of charm and a touching vocal. Give it a chance.
Monday 8 February 2016
Sucio - Tactile Sense
This has so much simple charm to it, a kind of broken, stucato beat, pulsing along for 15 minutes.
Lumieux - Mirror
Minimal squidginess with scaffolding poles dragged along the pavement briefly sampled. Probably.
Sadly recently removed from Youtube.
Tuesday 2 February 2016
Funk E - Half Past Gr8
A few clicks, a few bleeps, the odd whail and this breadbin-style minimal hypnotism.
Friday 22 January 2016
L.B. Dub Corp - Roller (Len Faki Interpretation)
There is a real undercurrent of energy here, with rolling bass and the occasional dark synth stab - Mr Faki remains one of my favourite techno producers.
Wednesday 20 January 2016
Delgado - Keep Lifting
I really like this. It's just a simple garage track, it almost reminds me of speed garage with it's repetitive soulful vocals and straight-forward beat.
Thursday 14 January 2016
Atom TM - Riding The Void
I'm becoming a really big fan of Atom TM and their ability to engineer industrial noises, gorgeous basslines and minimal-esque features into a very unique sound. Beautifully industrial.
Wednesday 13 January 2016
Timo Maas & James Teej - Thingzz
Gritty, moody tech-house track for establishing the darkness of winter.
Tuesday 12 January 2016
Konrad Black - Sycho Te Alyn
I think there is a lot more depth to this track than comes over on my earphones - it's typically dark of Konrad, with a slightly broken beat pattern, a minimal structure and a lot of bass.
Monday 11 January 2016
Ada - Faith (Koze's Grungerwomen Instrumental Remix)
Sometimes I can go 10, 20 hours of tune-hunting without finding anything I even vaguely like. Today I've loved 3 tracks in a row.
This is outstanding - slightly uncomfortable, darkly warm with a variety of clicks, high pitched noises and a deep bassline to meld it together - it does sound like a Grungerwoman. Whatever that is.
This is outstanding - slightly uncomfortable, darkly warm with a variety of clicks, high pitched noises and a deep bassline to meld it together - it does sound like a Grungerwoman. Whatever that is.
Eman & Doc Link - Not 4 U
House track with a hip-hop attitude to it, and a nice bass-driven beat. Not on Youtube at the time of writing.
Sunday 10 January 2016
Gri - Archaeos Penn
A pensive piece of hypnotic minimal, almost slightly mournful in its beauty.
Saturday 9 January 2016
Loco Dice - Like In The Movies…Yeah I Want Sum
I've been listening to a few tracks from Loco Dice's new album and this is a real stand out - a gently rising tech-house monster with techno drums and energetic percussion. I used to think he had perhaps lost it but if he had - then he is right back on form with this album.
No video on Youtube as it stands.
No video on Youtube as it stands.
Loco Dice - Keep It Low
This is just about a big fat dirty bassline, it also has a bit of a hip-hop influence, amongst requests for people to smoke week and finishes on a mini-rant about forum bitches in a high-pitched vocodered voice.
Monday 4 January 2016
Alex & Digby - Kudlak
Minimal track with charming calling card and hypnotic Spanish place names repeated over and over, possibly with children's voices. And a gorgeous 14 minutes long.
I spent about an hour of one set recently trying to remember what it was called as it just kept going around in my head.
I spent about an hour of one set recently trying to remember what it was called as it just kept going around in my head.
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