Posts Tagged ‘ acid ’
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 [&hellip[ 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 [&hellip[ 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 [&hellip[ 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 [&hellip[ 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 [&hellip[ 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 [&hellip[ 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 [&hellip[ READ MORE ]