Posts Tagged ‘ UK ’
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 ]
Burial has released a new EP, much has already been written about it, I don’t think I have much to add that hasn’t already been said. It’s pretty cool. Here are what some other folks think. Pretty Much Amazing, The Quietus, Fact Magazine It’s at Gramaphone too. Visit or call Gramaphone Records today to hear this release! 2843 [ READ MORE ]
The glittering spiral arpeggios of the title track get Mr Beatnick‘s 12″ off to a summery start, and he maintains the somewhat Balearic house undercurrent throughout the rest of the packed EP. On this, his 5th 12″ and second for the UK-based Don’t Be Afraid imprint, he shows an assured hand in fusing lush electronics with beats straight-ahead enough [ READ MORE ]
Aesthetically apparently a studied exercise in subtle imperfections, the intentionally distressed full grey cover gives way to slightly mottled label art. All this could be a nod to the mention on the rear that indicates: “both tracks recorded 29/11/1994 onto a Philips pocket memo 596.” Indeed, this is a reissue of 2 of the 3 [ READ MORE ]
The rough, loosely tumbling sample collage house music of Gerry Read continues to hit its stride with this 12″, his first of 2012 and third on Fourth Wave. He has his own distinctive take, landing somewhere between between Falty DL’s barely restrained R&B chaos and Losoul’s slowly revolving lumpy house. It’s revved up and optimized [ 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 ]
Clocking in at around 120bpm on both sides, Actress may be using only the very most liberal definition of house music as a parameter on this two tracker. The A-side, assumed as the title track, is devoid of any percussive elements. Rainy Dub is populated exclusively by a squeaky midrange bassline that varies between a [ READ MORE ]
Staying true to their strict regimen of cultish detail and obscurity, Ruskin and O’Connor (also known as OVR, O/V/R and seperately recording as James Ruskin and Regis…) deliver a white 12″ for this latest purist techno offering. It is identifiable only via the catalog number etched between the runout grooves and the inverted black-and-white photocopy [ 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 ]