Posts Tagged ‘ electro ’
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 ]
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 ]
It’s unclear how to categorize this, it’s a new pressing of older tracks, but they have never been on a record together before, so it’s not exactly a classic, nor a reissue, but it’s certainly not a new record either. Together at last, Autechre and AFX (aka The Aphex Twin, Richard D James) on the [ 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Gunnar Wendel’s KM guise is hitting while the iron’s hot, and shows no sign of running out of material soon. Here with his second EP for the detail-oriented and eclectic Nonplus imprint, he comes with a couple of skeletal electro tracks, a reverberant slow-house joint, and one straight up heroin house groover. Opening with the [ 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 ]
The strongest and most techno-leaning offering from Blawan lands with a double-mullet: party in the front and the back. On the black side, the title track will catch the most ears, support, and controversy for the recognizable (though thoroughly mutated and mutilated) KDJ vocal. Still, this is the antithesis of the Oliver $ crib – the [ READ MORE ]
The always creative Danny Wolfers is hard to pin down on this release. Recording as Legowelt (which bears mentioning, as this fellow uses at least a dozen other monikers) he opens the record with a muddy Chicago-sounding house joint, with mumbled vocals, bits of diva crooning, and rippling, swirling melodies reminiscent of Larry Heard. The [ READ MORE ]
Aroy Dee’s Beauty And Life hints at the sublimity of simplicity. Classic drum machines, melancholy rolling chords, and slow arching development mark this as an easy favourite for fans of Mr Fingers, Steffi, and Tevo Howard. The tracks show the more subdued side of Aroy Dee’s sometimes abrasively analog style, the strings are ambrosial and [ READ MORE ]