Posts Tagged ‘ Detroit ’
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 ]
Lady Blacktronika‘s vigorous variety of raw cut-and-paste deep house music seems to have really hit its stride with this release on her own Sound Black imprint. Braiding strands of gospel house, Detroit beat-down, and trippy deep grooves together for a sound signature all her own, her three solo tracks here each center around vocal textures. [ READ MORE ]
For a genre steeped in masks, aliases and anonymity from its onset, it’s impressive just how exceptionally enigmatic the duo behind Drexciya were among their Detroit techno contemporaries. Blending science fiction, mythology and, um, marine physics and biology, the pair crafted vivid portraits of a universe deep within the sea that came across like Bladerunner [ 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 ]
Though he is known as one of Detroit’s distinguished underground producers and DJ’s, Alton Miller also wears the hat of vocalist. He admirably exercises a natural control in the vocal delivery of his latest release entitled “Something 4 You” on Whasdat Music. The words advance perfectly leaving little opportunity for the vocalist to over play [ READ MORE ]
Robert Owens takes center stage here with this remix single taken from his eponymous album for Compost records. While the original was a Larry Heard production, labelowner Kai Alce reworks the tune in his own manner for the 12″ version. In parts of the release, a certain Aaron-Carl mantra-like quality shines through, looping plaintively over [ READ MORE ]
Sect has been carving out a midwest-inspired -rooted niche for itself, cemented early on by contributions from DJ Bone and Fannon Flowers. But it seems to be a label open to likeminded producers from across the world, broadening that frequently localized heritage. Making some sense of that interplay, there’s the 2xCD compilation “It’s All For [ READ MORE ]
This split EP kicks off with Jackson Lee (one half of Agents Of Woe) revisiting some classic techno sounds and structures with “No Mind.” This one would not sound out of place on a mid 1990′s Hybrid Records release and definitely takes me back to the days of sound bouncing off the cement walls of [ READ MORE ]
While completely mysterious in its presentation, Axis attributes this new release to The Wizard, placing it either as the latest in his Something In The Sky series, or as the continuation beyond that project. The work here is unmistakably in the minimal, psychadelic, alien form of techno pioneered by Mills. The tracks are heady and dense [ READ MORE ]
Steven Tang’s Obsolete Music Technology guise returns for a third time to his own label. His Emphasis imprint has been a quietly consistent Chicago outlet for melodic techno, focusing mainly upon his own work under various aliases. For this outing, he’s allied with Uzuri’s Chicago Skyway, another strong DJ and producer who’s been making waves [ READ MORE ]
As previewed here, Machining Dreams’ Hakim Murphy came through with a set on Monday January 30th, 2012. Digging through the crates, expect a trip through beatdown Detroit house, warped acid techno, Chicago jack and beyond[ READ MORE ]
Fans of techno AND dub-techno, rejoice: the master has returned. Following up on his well-received Hash-Bar Loops full-length, Rod Modell’s Deepchord project returns with his foggy Dutch field recordings and re-invigorates them with weighty rhythm work. In this second of the two installments, the pair of tracks here take up the full pressing. They seem [ 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 ]
The trio that makes up Pittsburgh Track Authority has been gaining steam via releases on Uzuri, Further, Love What You Feel, and now their eponymous Pittsburgh Tracks imprint. To begin the label-launching EP, they open with an untitled track that drifts between an agitated arpeggio reminiscent of Chicago Skyway or Tevo Howard and freestyle synth riffing [ READ MORE ]
Second release from Richard Zepezauer’s promising Nsyde imprint comes from Detroit-based beatdown artist Kevin Reynolds. While he only releases sporadically, Reynolds’ music always demands full attention. In the case of Liaisons, the title track trundles along with a lopsided tumbling bass motif until the beatific roller-rink chime melody lightens the mood. On the reprise of [ READ MORE ]
With Radio Slide, Santiago Salazar records his second release under the Seldom Seen alias. His first was on Underground Resistance in 2004, and as the subtitle for this 12″ indicates, this is a kind of short anthology of what he’s been up to in the interim. These are funky, feverish, and a bit unhinged, the loose [ READ MORE ]
The conspicuously consistent quality of Sistrum label head Patrice Scott comes to bear both in compiling this compelling compilation and in his sonic contribution. His suggestively titled “3AM” starts off unassuming, but builds into a cascading metalic riff that forms the 12″s most vigorous jam. But he’s also assembled an excellent team of veterans, and [ READ MORE ]
One of my favourite Mike Huckaby joints is happily revisited here on his own S Y N T H imprint. Regardless of the critical backlash against the term “dub techno,” this is a 12″ that stands up well, even a few years after its original limited release in 2007. The long side hints at the [ READ MORE ]
I’m a huge fan of Omar S and this slab of really refined, yet raw house with former Detroiter Kai Alce is just more support that he has something really good going on in The Motor City. Kicking things off is “Not Phazed” in which the pair revisit classic Detroit stylings with thoughtfully programmed drums, [ READ MORE ]
So stick with me here as we do a bit of globe trotting… Italians Lucretio and Marieu now live in Berlin where they run their Restoration Records imprint and produce under the name The Analogue Cops. For this release on Restoration they have recruited the help of Yorkshire England’s Blawan for 2 cuts and Detroiter, [ READ MORE ]