Posts Tagged ‘ acid ’
From his Chicago roots spring ties to 5 Magazine (where he contributed to their DJ mix series) and his edits on Partehardy Records, and he shows off a full range of sound on this installment to the Phonocast series. Stretching from raw electroid and industrial sounds to lush r&b and gospel house, to beatdown and funkadelic styles, [ READ MORE ]
While admittedly a pricey collection, this is a real gem of a package. It was originally put out as a free / donation-based digital only album, but happily (perhaps due to strong listener response) Legowelt has self-released the beautiful, rough, personal recordings in vinyl package. Danny Wolfers describes the original project thusly: “Ok people here [ READ MORE ]
The Analogue Cops tend to bang it out and get a bit rough around the edges, in an almost antique-sounding way. Blawan tends to give rough, floor-ready superficially rough-hewn beats as well. The intersection of the two acts is all in-your-face handclaps, dry snares, scuffed shoes, half-samples, and droning changeless chords. All about atmosphere and [ READ MORE ]
New artist SVENGALISGHOST debuts with a 12″ of acid house powered by intense naked synth workouts. Deep Into Memory takes up the long side of the record with pad cushioned slow house groove (well under 120 BPM) haunted by spaced out squelches and punctuated by handclaps. On the other side, dueling arpeggiators take up the [ READ MORE ]
Housefactors (aka Larry Heard, aka Mr Fingers, aka Fingers Inc) keeps it raw and uptempo on this full re-issue of his 1988 Blackmarket 12″. Originally titled “Play It Loud,” this EP has been repackaged with updated labeling but contains all of the original material from the seminal release. In the intervening years, house music has [ READ MORE ]
Prolific Chicago-based producer & multiple-label owner Hakim Murphy releases his latest full length on his own Machining Dreams imprint. “There is just yourself, thoughts, and phrases” he blurrily imparts in the album’s opening monologue, before launching into his characteristically stark yet warm dry beat craft. He has slowed things down for this collection, and tempo [ READ MORE ]
Hardwax says “Jacking minimalist Techno;” Clone says “Four proper techno tools in the vein of Robert Hood and early Jeff Mills.” This is the third release on the Decabaret label, founded just in 2011 and focusing on techno for parties. With that in mind, this debut for Studyman is an uptempo heavy drum programming workout, [ READ MORE ]
This Nangka 12″ marks the opening of Tony Ollivierra‘s new Northside District imprint (more info available on the label’s facebook page.) Not to be confused with his brother, Neil Ollivierra of The Detroit Escalator Co., Tony Ollivierra has recorded eponymously for the Dynamite Soul label and more extensively under the Ibex moniker for Planet E, Rush Hour, [ READ MORE ]
A placid, almost drifting release, even by Tevo Howard‘s standards, The Drapes In The Living Room introduces Howard down under on the Australian-based Thug Records. The A side tracks have a slow, continuous lethargy to them, the bigger washes of melody on the B side lend the second pair of songs a compellingly warm liveliness. [ READ MORE ]
Frigio records founder Juanpablo opens Mother Mountain with a collaboration with Chicago’s Josh Werner. A reverberating gonzo acid track with murmured vocals and ascending arpeggios, the title track is a science fiction experiment. Sea People follows this with a straighter industrial acid-house groove over conspiratorial vocals and a slow build of twinkling keys. The flip [ READ MORE ]
Only the third artist to have an album released on Jamal Moss’ Mathematics imprint (not counting those under The Sun God‘s various aliases), John Heckle more than meets the high expectations involved. The album’s strength lies in its ability to jump from one style to another while remaining confident and commanding. On “The Charge,” “The [ READ MORE ]
Marcellus Pittman of Three Chairs fame presents the Midwest Advocates EP Part One, hopefully in earnest because it certainly deserves a continuation. These are raw-as-nigiri drum machine workouts. The two cuts’ skeletal vision is to Detroit house what Jeff Mills‘ The Drummer series was to techno. They’re excellent tool tracks that manage to eke a [ READ MORE ]
Recently emergent Ukranian producer Vakula revisits his Yuri Shulgin collaboration “Saturday” on this crowded EP. Vakula closes out the EP with a revision of his own work, a blurry and moody blue joint that is too enchanting for its short running time. Sharing the B side with him are Fudge Fingas, who submit a melody-heavy downbeat house [ READ MORE ]
Omar S‘ sophomore album continues the prolific and outspoken DJ & producer’s current reign of lo-fi supremacy for the Detroit region. Slowly tweaking the acid, the filter resonance, the levels throughout, these are tracks that slowly build and groove with just a handful of elements. Opening the release is a heavily filtered r&b loop with [ READ MORE ]
D’Marc Cantu, probably best known for his work with Tadd Mullinix as 2 AM/FM and with Tadd & Melvin Oliphant as X2 , delivers the goods with this solo release. The strongest track here is the contemplative B side, “A Second Earth.” Taking notes from B12 and Stefan Robbers, the track balances the thick, squared-off techno drums with [ READ MORE ]
Snuff Crew delivers an intense, relentless acid workout on this one. Dry drum machine mechanics and a few layers of monophonic synth riff over a building squelched midrange acid line works the trick; this is an effective updated take on the classic Trax sound, recommended if you’ve been following Redshape, Noleian Reusse and the like. On the [ READ MORE ]