LUKAS WIGFLEX & IVAN SMAGGHE - CAN YOU FELT IT AGAIN?

 

ivan smagghe · LUKAS WIGFLEX & IVAN SMAGGHE - CAN YOU FELT IT AGAIN?

Track Of The Day: Patrice Scott - Motions (Sunrise Dub) (Sistrum)

Another one from the genius that is Patrice Scott, this time on his own label, Sistrum. It’s a dub, which means the euphoria and transcendentalism is ramped up even more. ‘Motions (Sunrise Dub)’ definitely does what it says on the tin. It’s an incredibly impressionistic track, the light and shadow playing across  the groove in a constant embrace, until things rapidly crystallise and everything flies. Amazingly euphoric.

James Shinra - Shinra Electro Company Vol 2 (Shinra Electro Company)

 

Title: Shinra Electro Company Vol. 2

Artist: James Shinra

Label: Shinra Electro Company

Cat Number: SEC002

Genre: Electro

A1: Acid Every Day

A2: Back

B1: Blip

B2: 1310Clap

While I can’t claim to have listened to everything James Shinra has produced, ‘Acid Every Day’ does seem to be a little bit tougher than what we’re used to from him. It’s more the ‘Acperience’ side of things than ‘Eiffel’, if you get my drift. The 303 is ramped up and underpinned by a bottom heavy foundation  The floaty ‘Back’ changes the mood completely., and straddles the thin line between electro and braindance (whatever THAT is. I read about it  somewhere.) Because like house, braindance is a feeling. ‘Blip’ contrasts with what has gone before due to its stripped back, almost industrial beats. There’s an undulating feel to it, mainly due to the various sonic embellishments which dive in and out of the background and become what you chase over time. And then there’s ‘1310Clap’, the doom-laden piece of break beat science overlaid with robotic fervour. In spite of my best efforts to confuse, this is a great  release that showcases James Shinra’s talents. He makes it all sound so easy. And carving out your own niche in any place, as he has, isn’t. 

Trommel.227 - Desyn

trommel · Trommel.227 - Desyn

Domenic Cappello - Radio Buena Vida 16.01.26

 

Radio Buena Vida · Domenic Cappello - Radio Buena Vida 16.01.26

Track Of The Day: Patrice Scott - Rain Dance (Visions Inc)

‘Rain Dance’ is pure Patrice Scott and in saying that a sort of jazzy tribalism embellished by keys that sound both futuristic and classic at the same time. I went through a big Patrice Scott phase a while back while searching for meaning at the deeper end of the soul spectrum. He’s very much overlooked, slept on, under a lot of peoples’ radar. I can’t quite understand why. Everything he’s turned his hand to is class. And he’s also not the first name on the list when discussing Detroit artists. I guess everyone knows each other there as far as the scene is concerned, yet he seems to keep himself to himself. I’m probably wrong; but who cares anyway. He’s one of the best.

Track Of The Day: Jeff Mills - Step To Enchantment (Axis)

A track that sounds, according to a Youtube comment “like the fabric of the universe being torn apart”. ‘Step To Enchantment’ is just that. Firing on all frequencies it also sounds like a live eq workout. It’s hard as hell but it is multidimensional and has so much depth. There are two tracks with this name on the ‘Mecca’ EP, and this is the ‘Stringent’ version. At around the length of a classic pop single,  if there’s one techno track with perfect symmetry, then this is it.

Track Of The Day: Claude Young - Soundscape (7th City)

Hidden away on the B side of the more well-known ‘Acid Wasyh Conflict’, is this amazing piece by Claude Young which, strangely enough, has more in common with a lot of the IDM that was being produced in The UK at the time than Detroit. It’s also possible that this track was influenced by said stuff which had, in turn, been influenced by Detroit techno. Cyclical innit. Brilliant tune that could go onboard forever and has that immersive dawn-of-time ambience that draws you in and holds you.

ALFOS EBS53 - Sean Johnston (16-01-2026)

 

Nathan Dawidowicz – Scintilla (feat. Hannah Schraven)
Körperkonsum – Dream Baby Dream (Nathan Dawidowicz remix)
Shok – Uj Pa Gaz
DJ Oil – Jesus (feat. Reverend Hill)
Antaares – Desayuno
Ghost Assembly – RESIST! (Utter Kunt Mix)
Daniel Avery – I Feel You (Midnight Version)
DJ Chrysalis – Oog in oog
FBNM – You Can't Fight It (Riccio Rerub)
Automat – Am Schlachtensee (feat. Blixa Bargeld)
Zombi – Totem edits 14
EL EF OH – El ef oh (Jona’s Gleadless Valley Acid edit)
Instruments Of Rapture – Do It 2 The Max
The Oddness – Faster than you Think
Thrashing Doves – Je$u$ on the Payroll (Instrumental Version)
Talking Heads – Houses In Motion (Monk remix)
Andy Bell feat. Dot Allison – I'm in Love… (Justin Robertson Deadstock 33s remix)
GMV026 – Full Circle Sharp Water
Pigeon Steve – Gusto Galactica
Unknown – Ain't Nobody Dub (SJ Boost)
Rayko – Electricity
Hermetics – High 
Bernard Meyer
Baxter Dury – Return of the Sharp Heads (Paul Epworth 12” instrumental)
Red Snapper – Sound and Vision
Age of Chance – The Beat of NY (Niv edit)
The Slits – So Tough (Party Nails dub)
Simon Shackleton feat. The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter (Just a Shot Away)
Duncan Gray – Rolling and Boiling
Totem Projects – Totem edits 10 – Go
Lady Blackbird vs Crooked Man – Whatever His Name (Part 2)
Hugo – Field of Dreams (Hardway Bros Cosmic Interpolation mix)
Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy (The Reflex revision)
Spyder – Better Be Good to Me (Kalidasa’s Slight Touch)
Tribe of Heroes – Disco Cutie
Codenzi & Planet Caravan – Fast & Slow
Feed Me Groove – Lets Smoke Inside
Vanessa Daou – Naked Hunger (Quiet Village spoken version)
Troels Yuri – Alien Bells
Jimmy Somerville – Jimmy’s Nova (Hardway Bros remix)
Esmaeili – 911
Niv Ast – Jungle Marvin (Sean Johnston ALFOS edit)
Duncan Gray – Five Fathoms (Meat Katie remix)
Chappell & Apiento – Naked in the Orange Place
Concret & Kate Stein – Pull Up (Mike Simonetti remix)
Koenig Cylinders – Koenig Cylinders 118
Sean Johnston – Sean 118 ARP!!
New Order – True Faith (Medlar edit)
The All Seeing I & Crooked Man – Return of the Crooked Cat
dOP – Don’t Stop
SIRS – Woman (Extended mix)
Lorenzo Morresi & Maria Chiara Argirò – Acid Delirio (Cosmic take)
Mamacita & Persona aka Roman S – Problemas de amor
Verdo – Let In The Light (Fango remix)
Bar_Low – Ba-Ba-Low
Fango – North
Kenneth Bager & Anders Ponsaing – You Don't Fool Me
Aleksandir – Yamaha
The Grid – Floatation (Made By Pete extended remix)
Phil Weeks – Jack To My Groove
Four Tet – Into Dust (Still Falling)
Sunscreem – Perfect Motion (Patrice Bäumel Renaissance remix)
DJ Minx – Turn It Up
Fango – South
Crooked Man – Don't Leave Me This Way
Annie & The Caldwells – I Made It
Marmion – Schöneberg (Abe Duque remix)
Le Carousel – We're All Gonna Hurt
Radio Slave feat. Kameelah Waheed – All Rize (Revolution mix)
Tom Rowlands – We Are Nothing
Benjamin Fröhlich – Love Loop (Sound Support remix)
The Mighty Zaf & Linkwood – Yokai
Jezebell – Turn It Yes (Hardway Bros remi

Colin Dale - Abstrakt Dance Show - 15.01.2026

Track of The Day: Conforce - Charlatan (Delsin)

A real talent is Boris Bunnick, aka Conforce. And ‘Charlatan’ is a great and symphonic piece of electro that thrives on its ever-so-dissonant spinal column. It’s the break beats of the spheres. The urgent and fidgety organ music that Captain Nemo plays as the Nautilus torpedoes icebergs for fun. A strangely optimistic piece, it feels like it’s composed of various musical tectonic plates that grind against each other in an effort to produce some sort of pre-programmed electronic orchestration. One of many that he’s produced. Everything deserves your attention.

Track Of The Day: Dopplereffekt - Rocket Scientist (International DJ Gigolos)

Not the transcendental, dystopian electro that we are used to from Dopplereffekt, more like a ruptured take on techno. The music of the machines going full on metronomic. The frequencies are at play and we are the casual bystanders. There’s echoes of Mills in the background. The atmospheric synth lines creating a 1950s sci-fi ambience last seen in ‘Gamma Player’. It burns itself out all too quickly and is, as a consequence, a fleeting post-industrial escapade that makes the most of its time on Earth. 

Track Of The Day: J. Dahlbäck - The Lonesome Dub (Svek)

This may have been the first Svek release I bought, backtracking to pick up some of the earlier ones, and full steam ahead to pick up what followed, although what did follow is, I think, often overrated. Anyhoo, this for me is what I think of as far as the label’s signature sound is concerned. A loping groove with plenty of space between the beats. Absolutely amazing mixing fare. Almost anything could be overlaid and be improved by the cubby foundation. Like a house interpretation of Basic Channel. It’s a groove to get lost in, and doesn’t seem long at 13 minutes. Anything can happen in the next half hour.

Track Of The Day: Drexciya - Aquarazorda (Submerge)

From ‘Drexciya 4 – The Unknown Aquazone’, it really doesn’t get better than this, and it was a hard job. This entry should have been album of the day. I could have posted everything from said LP here, just because selecting one is impossible. Electro has never been so intense or well-produced. There’s so much space between the different layers which are themselves single emissions that carry unknown messages. I guess it’s up to you and me to decode them.

Track Of The Day: Robert Hood - Master Builder (Tresor)

Robert Hood really wrung out the essence of techno in tracks like this. ‘Master Builder’ is classic minimal. A gathering of frequencies coalescing over a kick. It’s far too short at three and a half minutes, but does that really matter? It could be twice that length and the same could be said. When you’re talking about one of the most hypnotic pieces of electronic music ever produced, the present is elastic, the past is easy to remember and the future is reassuringly predictable. Functions well at all volumes, but comes into its own when blasted out.

Track Of The Day: Aleks - Pool Daze (HVL's Malfunction Mix) (Organic Analogue)

A great track from a great album which is already eight years old. HVL’s Malfinction Mix of this eponymously named double pack is a beauty. It takes the already excellent original and gives it a new leash of life, endowing it with some sort of cosmic energy that, at times, it feels barely able to control. The whole album is brilliant, and comes on translucent blue marbled vinyl. This stuff shouldn’t really matter, but it does.

Track Of The Day: Gina X Performance - Nice Mover (Crystal)

An absolutely stunning track that oozes atmosphere and confidence. 1079 you say? If it came out tomorrow it would still be ahead of its time. Like some sort of warped Weimar republic cabaret song slowed down so that its lyrics bite deeper. It floats in a cool bubble at level all of its own. I remember ‘No GDM’ being played out a lot at clubs I used to go to in Liverpool back in the early eighties, and the only reason I can imagine that this wasn’t is its speed. Will someone better equipped than me edit this please? Ta.

Track Of The Day: Reptant - Lizard Eyes (Kalahari Oyster Cult)

Great piece of robotic electro from Australia’s finest. Reptant is endowed with the funky stuff and knows exactly how to tickle your sonic g-spot. All great tracks come from relatively simple ideas, and the process of deconstructing them confirms this more often than not. Electroid break beats, some funky entrails and a vocoder intoning words all of which rhyme with /aiz/. Sounds good to me. Love the little electronic purr in the background too. The sound of an electric iquana going to sleep.

Recorded at Houghton - Konduku (2025)

Houghton Festival · Recorded at Houghton - Konduku (2025)

Recorded at Houghton - Grace Sands (2025)

Houghton Festival · Recorded at Houghton - Grace Sands (2025)

Recorded at Houghton - Reptant Live (2025)

Houghton Festival · Recorded at Houghton - Reptant Live (2025)

Technos for Totoros

Electronic Convergence -Verdant Session - Dec

 

verdant-recordings · Electronic Convergence -Verdant Session - Dec Xmas special

Yoyaku Instore Session with Danny Daze

Track Of The Day: Mr. Ho - Gagsteel (Klasse Wrecks)

Another shade of electro, only this ones a bot more ghetto flavoured. Simplicity is its middle name. A handclap, a kick, the occasional drumroll and a wonky motif that sounds like Egyptian Lover on crack, and that’s before you’ve got to the “vocal”, which is the souond of someone on the bog relieving themselves after a week of constipation. An unlikely, but effective coalition.

Track Of The Day: 214 - Lyle At Dawn (Frustrated Funk)

A truly wonderful piece of cosmic electro from 214 which I was reminded of today upon listening to Danny Daze’s in-store set at Yoyaku in Paris. I love hearing amazing tracks, wondering what they are, and then realising that I’ve got them. And on green vinyl no less (my favourite vinyl colour). Also on the peerless Frustrated Funk straight out of The Netherlands. FF reappeared last year with a release from Clatterbox, but these are currently very few and far between. 214 seems confined to digital releases via his Bandcamp page right now. All good stuff though. Very desirable.

Track Of The Day: Affie Yusuf - The Fine Line (Ferox)

‘The Fine Line’ comes from ‘Acid Waves 2’ the third Ferox release, ‘Acid Waves 1’ being the first. Generally the tracks on this release set a blistering pace, as does this one. However, it’s much more tolerable due to it’s depth and breadth. Plus it’s easier to imagine playing pitched down a bit. Affie Yusuf reappeared in 2025 after a five year hiatus on a split American label Archivio with a release called ‘Aventuraai’. He’s definitely one of the unsung heroes of UK deep house and I have the feeling that he likes it that way (I’m sure he’d also like shitloads of cash as well though).

Track Of The Day: Miles Davis - Prelude, Pt. 2 Maiysha (CBS)

The second track from ‘Agharta’ which, along woth ‘Pangea’, documents “ the second of two concerts he performed on February 1, 1975, at Osaka's Festival Hall.” Not having grown out of glam rock at the time this was released, and yet to feel the force of punk, I doubt that I can express the impact of this album/period better than this Discogs commentator: “There were plenty of Miles fans who threw their toys out the pram when they heard these concerts. “This is not jazz they would say” completely missing the point of what jazz is/was. As a 15 year old bought up on a diet of Zeppelin and Floyd hearing this on John Peels late night radio show where he played probably at least an albums worth it blew my mind . Of course I backtracked Miles entire career after hearing this. This is jazz but not as you know it Jim. Let’s be honest when Miles came back he was a different man and as good as some of his later albums were he never stretched people’s imagination like this again.” Could the Ottoman army have stopped fusion era Miles Davis? Not on this evidence.

Track Of Yesterday: THK - France (Mars Mix) (Warp)

‘France’ is, as has already been remarked on its Discogs page, “an odd track for Warp to license”. I guess that’s because it sounds so unashamedly commercial and could almost fall into the fromargerie section, depending on the time and the place. I guess that’s it though innit? Anything can within reason. What sets it apart from the field is its fearless and efficient use of established trance motifs, as well as the haunting voice over, which is straight out of the post-punk cold war playbook of disembodied radio transmissions.

Intergalactic Gary | Disco Církev 12-12-2025

 

Disco Církev · Intergalactic Gary | Disco Církev 12-12-2025

Track Of The Day: Giorgio Moroder - E=mc2 (Rodion Gran Manigheo Remix) (MB Disco)

A good example of a remix that improves on the original by making a great track longer and beefing it up with synthetic synth lines. Sounds even better in the mix, if you further add more of said synths. Important to let the vocals stand out though, don’t overdo it. “
Rodion is from Rome. He makes freaked out music that’s ahead of its time. Somewhere between the depths of Nordic cosmic music and the French synthesizer funk, mixed with the dramatic melodies of Italian horror movies.” That’s from his RA bio. Seems to have been a little inactive of late, but good enough for Giorgio Mortoder himself to play this remix during his first ever DJing appearance at 73 years old. Lovely stuff.

Track Of The Day: Fast Eddie - Acid Thunder (Fast Thunder - Fast Eddie Mix) (DJ International Records)

Arguably the most pulsating acid track evah, ‘Acid Thunder’, here sans vocal, is a masterclass of 303 restraint and detail. It’s one of those landmark tunes that is so full of twists and turns, the best of which comes at around the three and a half minute mark when a dramatic orchestral backdrop suddenly swathes in for no reason at all, and then it’s gone quicker than Keyser Soze. Four an a half minutes of absolute genius and still ahead of its time.

Track Of The Day: Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion - A Crippled Left Wing Soars With The Right (Steal This Record Remix) (Skylax)

Something brief to start the year with, but also something which made a big impression on me when I first heard it at the start of Marcel Dettman’s 2008 RA podcast. Incredibly short, but also incredibly funky and elemental. In this microcosm, Terre Thaemiltz works magic like few others and offers a sonic glimpse into a parallel world. Best of all, it's free on Bandcamp.