Posts Tagged ‘ tech house ’
This week’s iteration of the Gramaphone Smartbar residency features Ross Kelly and Ike Release alongside regulars Michael Serafini and Scotty Brandon. These disk jockeys are sure to bring a healthy dose of the house music that Smartbar is revered for, and there’s a good chance of some deeper twists and turns as the night drifts [ READ MORE ]
Maybe it’s imagined, but there’s something about the tracks here that feels distinctively British. As much as they’re all quite within the realm of contemporary techno, there’s a certain cheerless frustrated energy in the detailed high-end of Tom Dicicco’s opening cut, and likewise for the static energy he has flitting around the top of his remix [ READ MORE ]
Producing heavy underground dance music since the mid-90s, Norm Talley comes highly recommended for fans of Rick Wade and Mike Huckaby as one of the key defenders of the deep house world. In this latest offering via New York’s Thema imprint, he starts off with a dark and propulsive, techno-leaning track. He backs the record [ 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 ]
Luke Hess drops his 3rd 12″ on the FXHE imprint and it is a stab-happy slab of very Detroit techno. His allegorical track titles don’t give away too much of what’s going on musically, but the track positions do. Narrow Road is the long side, and it is easily the most dynamic, big-room tune of [ READ MORE ]
Falling somewhere between John Tejada and Lawrence territory, this new 12″ should appeal to fans of either, as well as to followers of Endless Flight, Future Classic, and Best Works. Those happen to be the other imprints that have released records this year for the suddenly prolific Lithuanian duo. Kicking off the newly founded Best [ READ MORE ]
The always elegant presentation of Germany’s Ornaments label is paired with similarly elegant productions on this remix compilation of previously digital format-exclusives. Marko Furstenburg’s usual near-transparent studio technique is brought to bear first on D.Diggler’s Nitronome, the original bouncy deep tech-house released on the 2006 album Empulse. Furstenberg’s submerged interpretation integrates many of the original [ READ MORE ]
This is Chris Mitchell’s second EP for the NYC-based Plan B imprint. For fans of the march-tempo, square-wave, clean and heavy tech-house approach of Areal, Catenaccio and Brouqade, this will come as a welcome addition. Contrarily, it cuts a bit against the grain of the dirty, off-kilter sound that DJ Spider has been culitvating for the label, [ READ MORE ]
Kieran Hebden has revived and revved his Four Tet alter-ego for this clubby 12″, this “clubby” quality of it is noteworthy as he hasn’t always veered uptempo when using an alias. The rumbling, stumbling drum breaks on Locked should be well-familiar territory to those aquainted with his early album work, the analogish keyboard twiddles and [ READ MORE ]
The title track from this relatively new Australian producer shows shades of Telefon Tel Aviv & Terre Thaemlitz in its light chromatic microsampling. The melody feels right at home in the autumn colours outside; while I have no idea what weather the producer had in mind, the three versions sound to me like three different [ READ MORE ]