Optimo NTS

The Trilogy Tapes NTS

Jim Thomson

Cera Khin

Zaltan

Burning Heretics EP - Oliver Ho (Blueprint)

Title: Burning Heretics EP

Artist: Oliver Ho

Label: Blueprint

Cat Number: BP045

Genre: Techno

A1: Burning Heretics

A2: Worship

B1: Control

B2: Genuflect

Techno has become as much about mixing antique, organic influences with the modern as it has with being obsessed with the future. The funny thing is that no matter where it tends to get off, the resonance is the same. This latest release from Oliver Ho straddles all points in time and space. The title track blends industrial weirdness, a digeridoo, deadpan metallic and gaseous infinity. ‘Worship’ could soundtrack any bit of ‘Game of Thrones’ when the lights are off, with ‘Genuflect’ a sinister dwarf jiog on the side. Next to this lot, ‘Control’ sounds pretty conventional, which it is, but its dense technoid loop doesn’t take any prisoners either.

Ron Morelli

Benedikt Frey

Regis

Move D

Crimes Of The Future

Gerd Janson

Space, Fire, Truth EP - Giorgio Luceri (Uzuri)

Title: Space, Fire, Truth EP

Artist: Giorgio Luceri

Label: Uzuri

Cat Number: UZURI 023

Genre: Deep House

A1 Along came Ra

A2 Doorway to another dimension of Being

B1 Universal Language

B2 World is the Space Ways

It’s a game of two halves this one; the A side being jazzed-up, percussive-led and sprawling but structured eloquence. It strays into the abstract ever so slightly, but has cohesion and backbone, which allows it to link up perfectly with the more obvious house overtones of the flip. These two tracks channel mid-nineties Prescription Underground, as well as giving free rein to a gamut of deep spiritual nuance. And even though there would appear to be more going on in the busier first pair, the second half continues where it left off, the complete release being a deep ride across various shades of stellar tenor.

Santiago Salazar

Solar

Exchange Place

Jorge Velez

The Sugar Cane Chronicles Vol. 1 - Gary Gritness (Hypercolour)

Title: The Sugar Cane Chronicles Vol 1

Artist: Gary Gritness

Label: Hypercolour

Cat Number: HYPE051

Genre: Electro Funk

A1: Working Girls

A2: Stayin’ Strong Hand

B1: Preachin’ Some Tight Game

B2: Fly Shit

Gary Gritness, a name which, if I’m honest, brought to mind a similarly -monickered glam rock nonce adds more range to Hypercolour’s already very varied roster and also takes it in a direction much less travelled. There’s a whiff of g-funk and that slowed-down 1980’s throwback weirdness, popularized by, on the one hand artists like Wolf & Lamb and their various attachments, and on the other Games, the briefly surreal, slowed-down melancholic arm of Daniel Lopatin and Joel Ford. This stuff sort of falls in between the two and emits nothing but solar vibes, a piece of cake for this session instrumentalist.

Mark Foreshaw

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