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The Field Dirt Crew
Yesterday and Today Blow
Kompakt Moodmusic Richard Durand Serge Devant MSTRKRFT
Always The Sun Wanderer Fist of God
Dream house innovator takes off House redux Magik Muzik Ultra Records Geffen
His last album was 2007’s ‘From Here We Go Living, breathing, sleeping house music is Seamless trance ride Hands up for trance Bold but not brave
Sublime’, a despatch from leftfi eld indeed Dirt Crew’s modus operandi. Since their fi rst
and one of the most disorienting and releases on Cologne’s MBF Records in 2004, The debut artist LP from Russian Serge Devant’s star Coming on like a Justice/
beautiful records of that year. Since then, Peter Gijselaers and Felix Eder have been Tiësto’s wingman provides will ascend further with this Daft Punk mutoid and
Stockholm’s Alex Wilner has been refi ning ensconced in their Berlin studio blasting out a mixed listen, with the me- polished, pop-leaning col- hooking up with Ghostface
his strange take on house and ‘Yesterday and underground house missives and, after a lodic Mediterranean-minded lection of melody-washed Killah, N.O.R.E. and Lil’ Mo,
Today’ — with its aural micro snippets, frag- brief divergence into minimal, have gone hell strains of ‘Divine’ and ‘Into electro and trance-lite MSTRKRFT sound bigger and
mented samples and snatches of sound (all for leather back into funkier territories. Something’ only a small tunes. Okay, it descends badder than ever. But while
drenched in enough aquatic reverb to sink a ‘Blow’ is a record with no pretensions — smattering of song-based into pop-rock cheddar but it ‘Fist Of Good’ packs a heavy
small submarine) — serves up even spacier there’s no downtempo excursions or jazz offerings here, followed by would still raise thousands disco acid-fucked punch, it
sublime frequencies. wank odysseys. Instead, we have the kinetic the tougher tech-fortifi ed of arms at one of Tiësto’s isn’t the leap from 2006’s
From the mesmeric ‘I Have The Moon, You bass pump and tech-dub echoes of ‘Rough sound for which Durand is mega-concerts. ‘The Looks’ that we hoped
Have The Internet’, a psychedelic, propulsive Roads’, the US garage melodies, disembodied famous. Tim Stark Allan McGrath for. Allan McGrath
4/4 techno wave at original shoe-gazers vox, house preacher sermons and low-slung
Seefeel, to the stunning Korgi’s cover thunk of ‘Parade’ and the metallic, half-lit
‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime’, this is steel shimmers of the darker ‘Star’.
next level stuff. An absolutely blistering collection of
Call it techno for dreamers, house for Chicago-infl uenced future house with more
heads: The Field is one of the most exciting jack than you shake a stick at. Ben Murphy
producers working today and this is another
classic. Ben Murphy
Nathan Fake Dub Pistols The Emperor Machine
Hard Islands Rum & Coke Space Beyond The Egg
Border Community Sunday Best DC Recordings
Soft centre Sunshine in a glass Space trip on acid
Nathan Fake moves into Suffused with weed smoke Andy Meecham’s third
Kissy Sell Out Silicone Soul much tougher techno terri- and soaked in rum, this is album as one-man band The
Youth Silicone Soul tory. But despite the harsh possibly the Dub Pistols’ Emperor Machine catapults
Marrakesh Soma Recordings mechanical beats of tracks fi nest collection yet. The the listener into another
like ‘Castle Rising’, there’s sweet melodies of future sin- cosmic abyss of progressive
Youthful electro romp Spooky widescreen genius still a diaphanous melodic gle ‘I’m In Love’ (with rave psychedelia, robotic disco,
aura hanging here. Like chanteuse Lindy Layton) dramatic intergalactic rock
Kissy Sell Out’s rise has been one of the swift- Soma’s veteran housers, Silicone Soul are Monet spray-painting one and the steel drum funk of instrumentals and distant
est of the blog generation with his weekly just so damn good at working the allusive of his waterlillies onto an Rodney P guested ‘Ganja’ dream, sci-fi soundtrack-
show for Radio 1 pushing his already sparky dark/light divide — always weaving in such industrial warehouse wall. couldn’t epitomise summer ing. Allan McGrath
DJ career up another notch. Yet despite vivid imagination and creating brilliant Paul Clarke more. Ben Murphy
a clutch of buzz remixes and tracks of his futuristic vistas for you to engage. And their
own, his productions have been enjoyable eponymous offering brings this to the fore
throwaway club bangers and his live show with more clarity than ever.
REPEATTHE LPS WE CAN’T LEAVE ALONE...
failed to excite. Which all means plenty rides With its deep-funk bass and warped, reverb-
on this debut. charged guitar, the melancholic, psychedelic
And the aptly-named ‘Youth’ suggest he’s swirl of ‘David Vincent’s Blues’simply writhes
not going to grow old before his time. An in atmosphere, while follow-up track ‘Hurt
enjoyable romp, this has much in common People Hurt People’ — with its snappy fl ams, Hell The Black Dog Moderat
with the Wonky Pop crowd of Esser and Dan strutting bassline and sci-fi twinklings — is Teufelswerk Further Vexations Moderat
Black, not least thanks to the dominant masterful tech-house for home and fl oor. Gigolos Soma Bpitch Control
chirpy vocal presence of Danimal Kingdom The taught Death In Vegas pans and Depeche-
from Bolt Action. like riffs of ‘Seasons of Weird’ takes us to the A career defi ning and epic Chilling, cinematic, deep An LP that blends Apparat’s
It’s easy-going stuff that feels like Lily Allen’s triumphant close, which includes ‘Dogs of Les two-disc opus that proves and dark, the Black Dog masterful subtlety with
debut crossed with Frankmusik. Kissy’s got Ilhes’ — an unnerving yet uplifting track that Hell and the devil still have prove yet again that there’s Modeselektor’s renegade
‘Youth’ on his side. James Kendall tops of The Soul’s most cohesive and addic- all the best tunes. more bite to their bark than electronica and meets in an
tive album to date. Dan Kinasz expected. inspiring new middle.
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