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Legowelt‘Star Gazing EP’ Unknown To The Unknown legowelt.com


ON a hot streak, Danny Wolfers is knocking out jewel after jewel at the minute. After his gargantuan album for Clone, which managed to squeeze the Dutchman’s many influences into a smelt of tough electronic funk, comes this EP. ‘Stargazing’ is just as space-strafing as its title suggests, off-key, offworld discords colliding with breakbeats


and Detroitian atmospherics, intricate electronics the burblings of a robot examining the earth of an alien world, before huge bass enters the party. ‘Visions In My Mind’ is Legowelt’s take on the disco-tech vibe. Imagine Lee Foss on a deeper, dark tip, with a techier flavour. ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ completes the picture, a slamming acid jacker.


Justin Martin‘Ghettos & Gardens Remixes 2’ Dirtybird dirtybirdrecords.com


AN embarrassment of riches in this second bumper pack of remixes of tunes from Justin’s recent debut album. Shadow Child’s ‘Riding Spaceships (In Search Of ‘94 Remix)’ is the instant hit to our ears, wherein Dave Spoon goes full-on jungle, clamping samples of the original to raw Amen drums and subs; Pezzner’s ‘Molokini (Water Mammal Remix)’ is a great deep house nip ‘n’


tuck, with a disgustingly dirty, guttural two-step/bass drop and Flipper the dolphin chatter; Eats Everything’s take on ‘Ruff Stuff’ is a hybrid of technoid house and US garage keys, and the most eminently playable thing here, while further great versions come from Leroy Peppers (slammin’ d&b), LOPAZZ & Willis Haltom (tech house) and Kill Frenzy (useful house edit). Bonkers package.


Luca Bacchetti‘Bloom EP’ Saved soundcloud.com/lucabacchetti


IT might be bleakest winter but ex-Zombie Disco Squad man, Luca Bacchetti, is in late bloom. Dropping two tracks for Nic Fanciulli’s label, ‘Grab Ya Hips!’ is funk-fuelled hip- house filled with drum rolls and guitar feedback, while ‘In Bloom’ is equally floor ready with a wiggly bassline taking charge beneath dubbed-out FX and vintage vocals during


the break. Check out ‘KLSUNDERGROUND002’ in January too, a comp from Bacchetti’s Klasse Recordings, for seven more fit for purpose house stormers including the ravey breakbeat-driven ‘Mo Murda’ by Deo & Z-Man and DJ Kool Dek’s hefty jackathon ‘99.9’, alongside further joints by Kris Wadsworth, Dudley Strangeways, Lemieux and more.


Serge & Tyrell‘House Countdown’ Clone Jack For Daze soundcloud.com/clone-nl


CONTINUING Jack For Daze’s run of raw Chicago-inspired tracks, Clone boss Serge hits the studio for the first time in 15 years alongside Alden Tyrell, the Italo-obsessive whose technical nous has made him Clone’s in-house engineer. Coming in two versions, the ‘EPS Dengt Mix’ of ‘House Countdown’ is as simple as it is large, an elastic


analogue bassline, kinetically minded claps and stuttered vocal stripped of any excess fat. The ‘Eighty Nine Mix’ then loosens things up, adding a bongo pattern and complementary synth line to provide more texture. Best, though, is the Dance Mania indebted ‘Pump-O-Matic’, with its rave stabs and incessant forward motion.


S&M‘In My Mind (Medlar ‘86 Remix)’ Principal soundcloud.com/medlar


COMING up off the back of an illicit, low-key remix of Steffi’s ‘Yours’ that recast the Dutch DJ/producer on a fresh UK garage flex, Medlar is the next hype producer to blow up. The heaped praise is already deserved, but this wicked remix proves this newcomer, known for his work on Wolf Music, is no one-trick pony. The A-side is OK, but flip it and Medlar re-imagines ‘In My





Alexis Raphael/Marc HouleBrickwall/You Can Do It Jackathon Jams soundcloud.com/heidi-dj


THE next jams to slam on Heidi’s new label — following the excellent Maya Jane Coles and Miss Kittin double A-side — see two great producers going head-to-head again. Most impressive here is Marc Houle’s remix of Alexis’ ‘Brickwall’, a house juggernaut 10 times tougher than its name. Starting funky and lowdown, with Houle’s trademark technoid geists filtering through the strobe-


light, Kraftwerkian voices echoing, it becomes a moody tech killer of dark, sexy synth bass and posterior-wiggling groove. Great to see this techno producer moving closer to house while keeping his menacing, mechanistic soul intact. Alexis’ ‘You Can Do It’ is more conventional, but slams just as hard, its techy keys floating in a clapping, jacking house rhythm. Great EP.


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Mind’ as a primitive, stripped bare acid laceration, a Phuture-style percolator of cascading 303s that opens up into warm pads and oscillating synth bubbles, a little reminiscent of Arnold Jarvis’ ‘Take Some Time Out’. Classic house, done right. S&M’s flipside cut ‘£4£’ is also cool, a disco houser that reveals S&M have got the skills to pay the bills, too.


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