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Elite Force Jackpot (Electric Soulside Electro-
Techno Mix) U&A
6.0 A simple little ravey remix which takes Elite Force’s bass biggie from last year and leads it into a slightly more throbbing and dirty direction.
Jaydee
Nonstop Ink Records 6.0
The ‘Instrumental Club Mix’ version sees Jaydee, who you might know of from his house output in the Nineties, knock out an impressively retro big room thumper.
Peter & The Magician
Memory Kitsuné 5.0
The second EP from producers Yuksek and The Magician is a light piece of housey prog rock that could have been made anytime over the past thirty years, but not in a good way.
Wetdog
Press Play. Enter EP Black Hole Recordings 6.0
The whole EP kicks off all prime era Justice meets MSTRKRFT and makes you realise how long it is since either of those two have released anything worth more than one play.
Zodiac Cartel
Sometimes U&A
8.0
Sometimes it’s good when a release doesn’t have much accompanying PR blurb, you just listen a bit more clearly without being prejudiced by some words usually written by someone totally unconnected with the music itself. ‘Sometimes’ is fucking great. Kind of like a ‘Play’-era Moby track performed by Congorock, or Riva Starr produced by Diplo on a good day. ‘ReVoL’ is the other bit of what would have once been a double A-side release, and is probably even better.
Aerofustan
Divino Sound Plasma Torus
7.0 Much in the way that the recently reviewed Beijing Gang melded traditional Chinese music with a modern electro vibe and last issue Casino did the same with Northern soul, this month’s hybrid is a weird world music-ish mix up, named by its creators Carolina Niño and Leke Garcia as ‘Experimental Tropicale’. It’s a heady brew in which you can pick out a whole range of different cultural influences that don’t logically sound like they’d make a good fit, but undoubtedly do.
Blackstrobe BRODINSKIBROMANCE
01. GESAFFELSTEIN ‘Belgium’ Bromance “The new Bromance by the man himself. Really nasty on this one!”
02. SKRILLEX & DAMIAN MARLEY ‘Make It Bun Dem (Brodinski
Remix)’ OWSLA “My new remix for Skrillex. Can’t wait for people to hear this one, I started to play it out really recently.”
03. NAUTILUSS ‘Troubleman’ Turbo “Turbo just released a compilation. The whole selection is great, but this is
my favourite one.” 04. TEETH ‘Percolator Meme (Lazer Sword Remix)’ Sound Pel-
legrino “The future is right here, Teeth & Lazer Sword are making the perfect combo.”
05. BAAUER ‘Harlem Shake’ Jeffrees-Mad Decent “Please someone tell me what kind of music this is? It’s one of my club tracks
of the year so far.”
06. HIGH POWERED BOYS ‘Mind Games’ Marble “110bpm is my favourite tempo, difficult to play but the groove is strong!
This track is a must!”
07. BEN SIMS ‘New Blood (Robert Hood Mix)’ Theory “The kind of track I love to play while I’m DJing. Perfect techno vibe.”
08. GREEN VELVET ‘Preacher Man (2012 Remix)’ Cajual “It’s such a great idea to remaster all his old tracks. Green Velvet is a genius
and people need to know that!”
09. THE FINGER PRINCE ‘I Do Drugs’ Motorik “Full support on this new Australian label. Check the entire EP, it’s worth it!”
10. SPACEGHOSTPURRP ‘The Black God’ 4AD “Really good album from SpaceGhostpurrp on 4AD, a young rapper from
Miami.”
Boogie In Zero Gravity Blackstrobe Records 8.0
As accomplished as you would expect from Arnaud Rebotini, but this super-smooth groover is an altogether different beast from the norm. Laden as it is with George Benson-like flowing lead guitar lines over a reptitive, simple bassline and swish synthy strings, the extended version mix really does come on (as the old cliché goes) ‘like a breath of fresh air’. Equally wonderful is the ‘Drop Out Orchestra Remix’ which sounds even more like Nile Rodgers.
Chordata
Resist EP Tudor Beats 7.0
Apparently inspired by “the rugged industrial beauty of Glasgow”, Scotland’s capital of hedonism, the four tracks that make up the EP do have a classic ‘soundscape’ feel to them, all jittery beats and jagged basslines. Dancefloor fillers they’re not,
unless you’ve got a room full of people who dance like the late Ian Curtis in his Joy Divison heyday, but a kind of freeform lunacy prevails in the same way that Aphex Twin has often excelled.
Filth & Splendour
Lazer Birds Molecule Recordings 7.0
Sometimes you’re not neccessarily looking for an epoch-busting, pushing the envelope kind-of track, but simply a good, solid floor-filler that does what needs to be done with the minimum of fuss and maximum effect. That’s what Oli Cassidy and James Trystan have provided here, a bubbly acidy four to the floor workout that does what it is intended to do. Not much more, but certainly no less.
Hideous Insideous
Fermi Bubbles UnterMusik 8.0
Expect the unexpected is always a good motto, but sadly searching for it often results in disapointment, as so many releases featured on blogs and the various digital download stores just bring the same old. So when someone just sends you something that defies description, that’s very cool. An attempt would be to say it’s a cosmic disco tune mauled by a rabid dinosaur and then remixed backwards by Alex Ridha. Yes, it’s that good.
Matt Tolfrey
Turn You Out feat Ya Kid K Leftroom 7.0
With over thirty releases on his label, Matt Tolfrey has built Leftroom into a solid modern
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house label and it’s a natural home for his own debut album, ‘Word Of Mouth’. Here, the lead single features Technotronic vocalist Ya Kid K and is much more interesting than the straightforward housey affair you might expect. A funky bassline gives a rolling rhythm that is used to the fore on the Dub mix and it all kicks along rather nicely.
Muzarco, Nirshoshani, Yariv Bernstein
Compounds 0.1 Punch Music 7.0
This EP is the first in a series which aims to get various artists collaborating together and simply seeing what comes of it. Yariv Bernstein has had a couple of remixes highlighted on this page over the past few months and on ‘Lionize’ he teams up with Muzarco to create something that sounds as if electroclash had been invented ten years earlier in Berlin. Think ‘Fade To Grey’ made by Alexander Robotnick and you’ll have it.
Surtek Collective
Vertical BNR Trax 6.0
The first release on BNR Trax from the German/Chilean pairing of Atom and Grammy award winner Vicente Sanfuentes, ‘Vertical’ is a hypnotic growler based around a short wordless vocalised sample, the repetition of which builds through being intriguing to becoming annoying and finally ends up as an earworm. Diegors’s remix has a more teutonic Nineties house stomp, and second track ‘Shaker’ sounds like something Bobmo might knock off as a quickie. Not bad, but not great either.
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