Monday, February 29, 2016
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Monday, February 22, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Echo 8 - Mike Dehnert (Clone Basement Series)
Title: Echo 8
Artist: Mike
Dehnert
Label: Clone
Basement Series
Cat Number: CBS020
Genre: Techno
A1: Echo 8
A2: Wokabeat
B1: Meckwiki
B2: Say How
Clone Basement
Series opened with Mike Dehnert’s Levon Vincent remixed ‘Umlaut2’, a much
warmer, fuller piece than any of the compositions here. That’s not to say this
quartet is in any way deficient, not way. Here Dehnert gets back to basics and
throws everything, including the kitchen sink, at the dance floor, raising the
bar for DJ tools as he does. This is basement music in a nutshell, each track
outmaneuvering each other in an effort to hammer home the funk. ‘Echo 8’ is the
only one here which doesn’t make use of some sort of disembodied vocal,
preferring functiong, along with ‘Meckwicki’, on a crisper plane to the more
dampened ‘Wokabeat’ and ‘Say How’.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Monday, February 08, 2016
Sunday, February 07, 2016
Day Is Done
Two Stories – B12
(Delsin)
Vapeurs D’Equateur
– Syracuse (Antinote)
The Idiot Track –
Morgan Geist (Environ)
Wave Patterns –
Fred P (Rex Club Music)
First Lucas –Yaleesha
Hall/X Malin (Will & Ink)
Flynn’s Rhythm –
Maxine & Cleo (Argot)
Slowcrash –
Pametex (Frustrated Funk)
Potion No.4 –
Tuff City Kids (Potion)
Mental Pressure –
Prika (Pressure Trax)
Mimilikestodance –
Merle (Stripped & Chewed)
Submission – Natan
H (Taped Artifact)
Aftertouch – Slow
Life (Slow Life)
A New Planet –
Delta Funktionen (Shipwrec)
Tell Me Where –
Joey Anderson (Dekmantel)
Tepco Cunts –
Jean Nipon & The Magendie High School (L.I.E.S.)
Discrepancia –
Retika (Nuestro Futuro)
High Jackin’ –
Zigg Gonzales (Power House)
Enter Select
Overwrite – Llewellyn (Kann)
Murked Off – Nick
Araguay (Peur Bleu)
Saturday, February 06, 2016
Thursday, February 04, 2016
Monday, February 01, 2016
History Of Gods EP - 30drop (30drop Records)
I decided to publish this on my blog, after it was pulled by Ibiza Voice. The artist and agent objected to the use of the stream on the IV site. The artist also wants to keep the fact that he lives in Barcelona secret, despite this information being freely available on his site.
Title: History Of
Gods
Artist: 30drop
Label: 30drop
Records
Cat Number: 30D-004
Genre: Techno
A1: Transversal Sight
A2: History of Gods
B1: History of Gods (Sterac Remix)
B2: Complex Entropy
‘History Of Gods’ wins the prize for the most grandiose song title
I’ve come across so far this year hands down, but I know nothing about its
creator 30drop. The label website is full of interesting context, not just for
the music, but the overall artistic stance, incorporating his base, Barcelona,
live performance and general label direction. So far so interesting, but does
the music offer anything radically different?
Well, all three original tracks in this release lean very heavily on
nineties Jeff Mills, but do nothing really to update the sound. This is neither
a bad thing, nor an original one; in any case 30drop makes no attempt to
conceal the influence Detroit has had on him on his website and seems very much
at one with his machines. Both ‘Transversal Sight’ and ‘History of Gods’ pulse
along on varying frequencies crisply and confidently and have consummate power
and depth. ‘Complex Entropy’ is the most obviously derivative piece here, but
again it’s eloquently composed. On the other hand, Sterac’s remix feels undercooked,
and isn’t as good as the original.
A solid release, but I feel there’s more to come from 30drop. I like
the ideas promoted on his website, there seems to be a real passion which
allows this release some room to manoeuver and keeps the overall concept from
sliding into the realms of the bombastic.
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