Track Of The Day: Domenic Cappello -- Time (Analog Concept)

Great track of the just released ‘The Retroactive Future’ by Domenic Capello which, in my mind, can currently do no wrong. He’s been posting some mixes recently which make me want to visit the Sub Club after an absence of thirty years, and has stepped up his release schedule. So we have not only this tune and three others to play to death, but also ‘Dream Of You’ on Clone Royal Oak coming out this Monday. ‘Time’ is a track which reminds me of ‘Outta Limits’, mainly because the voice intoning “Time” sounds not unlike Timothy Leary. It also has some flourishes which could have come from mid eighties Cabaret Voltaire, as well as a veneer of sophistication which can only come from someone who knows how to twiddle their knobs. This is boss, as is the rest of the release. 

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Track Of The Day: Exercise One - Steady Pulse (Mobilee)

Easily the most interesting of the Mobilee artists, Exercise One used trance as a weapon, blending it with the minimal aesthetic prevalebt at the time. I remember going to a Mobilee party Off-Sonar many moons ago on the roof of a hotel. It was full of Eurotrash cadging free drugs. Exercise One weren’t there, but Radio Slave was, amongst others. This track is more minimal then trance, and feels very much influenced by Ark and Akufen. Sliced up micro house using spoken word samples as an instrument.

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Track Of The Day: Stephan-G & The Persuader - Kaos (Untitled A) (Svek)

You want something minimal, before minimal? And funky? I’m sure that what put a l,ot of people off minimal when it was dominating around 20 years ago was its lack of funk. This tune, one of the earlier and better on Svek however, was ahead of its time. Great production values spanning techno and house, brought together by dub. And it’s that which acts as the sauce on the meat and veg. The B side has been featured on these pages, although I can’t say how long ago. Long ago. And for my money it’s slightly superior to this all because of a steel drum sample. This is the dog’s bollocks though. 

Track Of Yesterday: SIT - Magnetized (Adam's Bite)

SIT are Cristi Cons and Vlad Caia and ‘Magnetized’ is a superior piece of deep house that crosses over into trance and had requisite phantom voices to make things feel messier than they actually are. My theory, and it’s been tested, is that all tracks of this ilk can be put on a family tree that starts with ‘Raptures Of The Deep’. A track so seminal that it precedes itself. This, and tracks like it, are being churned out at the moment. And while it would be wrong to say that I love them all, there’s something about that bass in conjunction with layers of spectral sound, that gets me shape throwing. This is a keeper.

Track Of The Day: Nicolas Barnes - Vision Expectations (Luck Of Access)

‘Vision Expectations’ is one of four tracks that make up the latest release on Andrey Pushkarev’s consistently good Luck Of Access. Not all dub techno swings as much as this. But I do try and search out what does and feature what I can in this blog. Anyway, what is certain is that this label is reliable as far as that sonic g spot is concerned. 

Track Of The Day: Cahl Sel - Blink (Reflective Records)

Here’s a random pick from the new Cahl Sel LP ‘Traces’. ‘Blink’ is another tune I’ve recently comes across which sounds indebted to early Autechre, well third album vintage. It’s all in the layers innit. What sets this apart is it also feels like it could have been used in ‘Close Encounters’ as an alternative to the five tones. Well, bits of it anyway. Maybe a bit too suny for Autechre as well. Because if there’s one thing this puts me in mind of it’s summer days and staring off into the middle distance. Always a good thing.

Laseech - Astral Destiny EP (Cosada)

 

Title: Astral Destiny EP

Artist: Laseech

Label: Cosada

Cat Number: COS002

Genre: Deep House

1: Astral Destiny

2: Dreams

3: Abyss

4: Evolving Depths

I guess this is deep house. An umbrella term innit. However, it crosses genres into genial electro jazz and broken beat. ‘Astral Destiny’ and ‘Abyss’ both have that Larry Heard hallmark. The former a very danceable, uptempo piece of sparkling, reflective mood music. The latter a low end journey into parts unknown. Slower and more deliberate than the title track, but united with it in its dense, cosmic approach. ‘Dreams’ is an off-beat shuffle draped in spoken word and with an abstraction that works within its limits very effectively. And there’s a slight French Touch feel about ‘Evolving Depths’, its downtempo highs and lows nicely tying up this varied release.

Track Of The Day: Tarta Relena - Mille risposte (Dopplereffekt Isotopic Filter Re Structure) (Latency)

I came across this track the other day. It’s not really what you might expect from Dopplereffekt, but then what is? Having said that, their touch has often been deployed to the weird and the wonderful with the outcome being even weirder and more wonderful. I thin that soon synths will be made with a Dopplereffekt button. Which, when pressed, will instantly Dopplereffekt whatever is in your head at that time creating a parallel world overseen by dystopian, minimal, electronic flourishes. Here, the original is time stretched across a solemn electro strata which uses space as a weapon of acoustics and alien communication. The result is a stunning symphony of disembodiment and haunted ambience. A piece of genius.

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