Track Of Yesterday: Sound Of The Suburbs - Absolute Power

Well this is a radical move. However, it’s one that’s been brewing for a while. I buy most of my music on Bandcamp nowadays.Both vinyl and digital, but mostly the latter. The former having become prohibitively expensive at times, and also taking up too much space. I’ve got enough of it to last me a lifetime anyway, and I’m in the process of shedding, so some Discogs action coming up over the next few weeks. Bandcamp is also the best place to find great producers like my good friend Pete, aka Hursty aka Sloth aka Sound Of The Suburbs. Someone who has been moving within the shadows of most of the important South London/Croydon underground house scenes for a while. And, even though he now lives in Oslo he wields his funky influence from there like a drunken viking with a sword that’s too heavy. ‘Absolute Power’ is a banger, as dem yoot wood say. A ridden typical of the genre offset with a well-researched vocal sample cut and spliced as only a beat sensei like Pete knows how. Definitely one to keep the blood flowing over the winter months and the shapes being thrown. The whole EP is linked to here I think. So dive in on the advice of this not-at-all nepotistic post.

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.