Palace: Codex/NRG (Hot Shit Recs in Effekt!)This 1-2 punch from Palace packs in a lot of joy in just over 10 minutes of music. “Codex” is a spry garage-house track with a tight perc organ...
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Tropic of Cancer: Permissions of Love (Mannequin) Camella Lobo is the woman behind the gloomy sounds of Tropic of Cancer, no longer aided by Juan Mendez (a.k.a. Silent Servant) who left...
Valance Drakes: A Fatherless Child (Detroit Underground) Valance Drakes (aka MusSck) created this collection of tracks as a farewell to his deceased stepfather. He posted his own artist...
Free download: Jumberlack & The Cobra: Photographic (SoundCloud) I’m proud to present the latest collaboration between Charles Fenech (AngelTheory) and yours truly. Once a year...
Lussuria: The Truth Begins in Lies (Hospital Productions) Lussuria is one of the dark horses running with the Hospital Productions label. His/her/their sound is dark and severe, with a...
Ruskin & Broom: Bites (Blueprint) It’s hard to go wrong when two techno heavyweights like James Ruskin and Mark Broom are combining their talents. Each of the three tracks on...
Unbroken Dub: Checkpoint EP (Delsin) Deep tracky goodness courtesy of the Delsin label. “I Want to Make This Louder” is perfectly named, a nice deep rolling groove that would...
Luke Abbott: Modern Driveway (Notown) The first of 2 new(ish) EPs from leftfield techno producer Abbott. This one came out several months back, but I missed it until recently. (I...
Shadows: Where There Is Only Light EP (Avian) The title cut is full of deep and dirty, distorted breaks, with looping patterns of noise and bleeps — aggressive mid-tempo stuff for the...
Nico Purman: The Bubble (Vakant) Vakant used to be such a sure thing for me. At the height of my vinyl buying days in the mid 00s, I would pretty much assume anything on the label was...
v/a: Field 07 (Field) Yet another entry into Field’s sterling techno compilation series, this time featuring the talent of Duplex, Conforce, ESHU, and Counterpart. I’m really...
Barker & Baumecker: A Murder Of Crows (Ostgut-Ton) This one’s been in irregular rotation on my headphones since the spring. I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about...
Jimmy Edgar: Sex Drive Remixes (Hotflush Recordings) Three remixes of this cut from Edgar’s last album Majenta, turning the chunky electro original into more dancefloor-ready techno...
Olafur Arnalds: Two Songs For Dance (Erased Tapes) Short and sweet, these two understated pieces suggest movement in a far less obvious way than what one might expect. Both have an elegant...
Cardopusher: Goldo State EP (Iberian Records) Luis Garbán has certainly come a long way since his early gabba/breakcore roots, and he’s been busy. Of all the various Cardopusher...
Rrose x Bob Ostertag: The Surgeon General (Eaux) Rrose reigns supreme again with this 12" kicking off his/her own new Eaux label. (I already reviewed the second Rrose record on the...
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