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Glasgow producer Marco Bernardi has Planet Mu and Unabombers, while
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electro and techno, but he’s equally at From the lurching bass of soulful, piano-led remakes
home making more visceral electronics. ‘Massive Error’ through of ‘Get Myself Together’.
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Anguish’ is leaner and more introspec- twisted breaks and epic Big Dada
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Glasriket legowelt laurent Garnier Photomachine and EL-B
Lunar Disko Slompy Jitt EP Gnanmankoudji and Esser. The results bust
M.O.S PIAS through genre confines
The second release on the Dublin label and onto the dancefloor.
adopts a radically different approach Danny Wolfers has put out one of An African themed techno
to the debut. Gone are the trippy disco this year’s best albums but that track that adds Fela Kuti yuksek
grooves, replaced by the stark breaks doesn’t mean he’s taking it easy. styled horns to Garnier’s Extraball
and discordant breaks of Swedish duo ‘Slompy Jitt’, with its “No way am trademark dark basslines. Fiction
Faceless Mind. Stripped back and aimed I going to the Philippines” vocal
at the dancefloor, ominous synths sample and bleepy riffs, is one of chaz Jankel More big room electro that
inhabit the eerie ‘Visions Fade Away’, Wolfers’ more accessible tracks. The Undiscovered aims as much for chart
while the angular ‘My Machine’ is However, to understand what he’s
Remixes EP
success as it does the
delivered against a squelchy backdrop. really about check the lo-fi acid Nang dancefloor. Head for the
Lunar Disko deserves credit for going of ‘Police 303’ or ‘Loverstory’ and Breakbot, Pilooski and The
out on a limb. ‘Deerdrive JX10’, where the Dutch The disco pioneer’s ‘Call Shoes remixes for the radi-
producer merges rough acid lines Vision’ whirls through finely honed, Me’ gets the string-led cal rearrangements.
Various artists with prowling Bobby Konder-style intelligent and whimsical turns. If the
WB02 basslines. A-side is p-funk for the intergalactic
Wireblock generation, then flipside ‘Torque’ is
Go-Go for space travellers.
The impact of Wireblock’s small but Brooklyn’s excellent, if rather verbosely
perfectly formed catalogue is such that entitled, The Phenomenal Handclap Olivier Koletzki
they’ve persuaded German maverick Band. The five tracks here prove they are & roland clark
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Alex Cortex to contribute to this split no one-trick pony, but it’s hard to get Yes We Can
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release. ‘Reminisce’ is a busy stop-start past title track ‘15 - 20’ without continu- Hell Yeah
techno-electro affair. However, it’s ally jumping back for another ride. The
by no means the highlight; Bogger’s Tummy Touch bus is back in town — hop Italy’s boisterous Hell Yeah! label switch
wild, glitchy ‘Kompoter’ and the disco on board. tack to reacquaint themselves with
samples meets cut-up rhythms of Truffle Oliver Koletzki’s deep and techy house
Club’s ‘She Made Me’ bring a wilder, The Juan maclean vibe. Rippling with warm open acoustic
more freestyle approach — and suggest One Day piano chords, ‘Yes We Can’ rises through
that anything is possible from this label. DFA handclaps, swelling strings and building
bongos to an inspirational sermon,
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White maison The obvious single from The Juan Obama style. It’s heady stuff that’s
01. DeaD Prez ‘Hip-hop/The Squire Of Gothos (Bassline Warfare
Night Driving Maclean’s ‘The Future Will Come’ LP aimed directly at head, heart and dance- remix)’ Unreleased
floor. It’s the future, so do not resist.
“These two kids from Sheffield are beyond next level wobbly bass bad-ass!”
Love Triangle Music gets an early release. A cool slice of pop
in its original form, if the similarity with
02. SND-4 ‘atavism’ Raster Noton
“This blows my mind. A total nightmare to beat match but it sounds great.”
It must be something to do with Wil- ‘Don’t You Want Me, Baby’ gets too Nu frequency feat Snax
liams’ Scottish background that his heavy for you there’s no shortage of Passage of Time
03. DOSHy ‘Beat Plug’ Tigerbass
“Serious stomper that cuts through really well, like a tech-house ‘Flat Beat.’”
versions of ‘Night Driving’ feature epic options on the remix front. The Emperor Rebirth
04. KiD 606 ‘Dancehall Of The Dead (Kanji Kinetic remix)’ Tigerbeat6
stadium guitars — although it doesn’t Machine remix rolls the track into a “One of the best remixes anyone’s ever done for me.”
explain his use of a ‘Man With The Red pulsating Italo sci-fi wig-out, while simi- Shield and Cristiano, aka Nu Frequency,
05. Bruce STalliON ‘Walls’ Probuscus Records
Face’-style intro. The rock pomp is kept larly adroit re-workings come from team up with Berlin-based Snax to pro-
“A beautiful quirky track — 140bpm half-time schizotronic sickness.”
to a minimum on the original, with the Lazaro Casanova’s deep house cut and duce a rock-tinged electro pop outing. 06. DrOP THe lime ‘little Boots’ New In Town
Berlin act delivering a deep, tripped- James Curd’s glitchy dancefloor romp. There’s a plethora of on-form producers
“One of the best basslines I’ve heard in ages with a great vocal and bouncy beat.”
out, disco affair that keeps on building. called in for remix duty, with The Juan
07. BlacKfiNGer ‘umf (Supra 1 remix)’ Trouble & Bass
“Insane jack beat style basslines with chirpy General Midi horns and vocal samples.”
arcadian Maclean and Freeform Five adding their
The Phenomenal Handclap Fly Vision talent to the proceedings. The former
08. carDOPuSHer ‘i Need you Tonight’ Unknown
“This producer is gonna be huge with his new killer dubstep tracks — very original and
Band DC Recordings draws the track into edgy, acidic disco,
completely unique.”
15 – 20 while Freeform Five’s Anu plays the 09. meTrONOmy ‘Heartbreaker (Genuine Guy remix)’ Because Music
Tummy Touch Alan Dobson follows his debut ‘Ghost beats through subtle progressions.
“This remix is so damn good — haunting and ominous yet with a hands-in-the-air
chorus.”
Feeder’ with a psychedelic addled Finally, Chris Todd, of Crazy P, delivers
10. DOlBy aNOl ‘Tasty foreskin Teaser’ Unknown
Tim Love Lee makes use of his long-term Hancock-styled funk track. Built around a David Byrne inspired house remix “Amazing big beat style old rave revival.”
relocation to the Big Apple to snap up a spiky, flanged wah wah bassline, ‘Fly masterpiece.
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