Steve Bug - Collaboratory

Entitled Collaboratory, the release comes in the wake of his recent
single compilation. But while this effort is Bug in full-fledged
collaboration mode-hence the title-it is also very much an album that
contains a variety of moods and sounds. Along for the ride on the
record are Cassy, Donnacha Costello, Cle, Simon Flower and more. To
sweeten the pot, Bug reportedly only used "the finest analog equipment,
outboard gear and an analog console" in the production.

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Sarrass - Home At The Sea / Breathe

Long playing and progressive deeper house from the Compost Black Label series, introducing newcomer Sarass with a cool two tracker. 'Home At The Sea' is built with long mixes in mind and develops some well poised crowd-teasing elements, while 'Breathe' on the flip is a classier Chicago via NYC slow burner, made for fans of Jerome Sydenham, Dennis Ferrer and the more sophisticated end of the spectrum.

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Architeq - Birds Of Prey

It's always a nice surprise to come across something that you honestly haven't ever heard before, so i'll start with a thank you to Architeq, er, ta! As far as we can tell this is the debut effort from Architeq's Sam Annand, here with a little help from Scott Donald and Jerome Tcherneyan on drums and percussion, but the production is entirely credited to Sam, which is impressive once you realise that the discordant grooves contained within have come from the mind of one person. The easist way I can describe this EP is as if Luke Vibert had attempted to consolidate each of his separate projects starting off with Kerrier District Disco for the basic groove and blending in his jungle, grime, and general freaky beat work into each each track, forming grooves bursting with energy and sprouting rhythms at seemingly random junctions to become a mass of disco bassed mentallism that will confuse, confound and delight a dancefloor in equal measures. Anyway, check the samples and get down yourself.


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VA - Veertein EP

Festival season is knocking on the doors and we've got the perfect record for the upcoming season - its "Veertein" with tracks by Plastic FM and Dole & Kom. After "Justice For Another World" Plastic FM again proove how to produce real shelves with "Deadline"!! Drive and punch paired with huuge amount of energy dominating the track and guides directly to the mainfloor!! Terrific follow up by the swiss!! On the b side we welcome a new act in the Ostwind-Camp! Dole & Kom from Berlin should be known by everyone in the league... They deliver 2 husky tracks with "On The Run" and "Boxed In". "On The Run" comes fleet-footed and avoids stumbling in off road territory - the one for the festival floors!! On point techhouse with Detroit roots. "Boxed In" comes a bit darker and marches as a steam engine - neither left nor right - max filled boiler, straight down the line. All in all an amazing new record in our Limited series...

"Kompakt"


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Xpansul & Imek - El Bienestar

El Bienestar is collaboration between one of the Spanish techno pioneers, Xpansul, and Imek. Their friendship started long ago: Imek’s first DJ set was in the club where Xpansul was the resident DJ, and 10 years after that their friendship generated a common musical project. This project started some months ago, when they composed together ‘23,’ a track that was included in the second NET28 compilation. It was a powerful and engaging experience, so they decided to join forces and produce a full shared release, El Bienestar, where both could explore common areas of their musical sensibility. ‘La Salud’ was the first track they produced for this release: a classic and emotive techno piece with deep chords and driving bass, followed by ‘El Bienestar,’ a 100% playable DJ tool made with the dancefloor in mind, and ‘La Alegría,’ a super danceable track filled with Xpansul’s characteristic percussion madness.”


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Mihalis Safras - Cry For The Last Dance

Safras has a long history in the electronic music scene of Greece, becoming one of his home country's most celebrated DJs over the course of the last decade. A few years ago, however, he decided that DJing alone wasn't enough, and jumped head first into the world of music production. He's since become quite prolific, with his techno and tech house tracks making their way onto labels like Soma, Great Stuff and Kevin Gorman's Mikrowave imprint.

It's Trapez owner Riley Reinhold who has taken most to Safras' sound, commissioning five singles for his Trapez Limited sub-label, and now releasing Cry for the Last Dance, which is his first album to be released on CD. It's also a first for Reinhold, as Safras' album will be the debut long-player on Trapez Limited rather than its bigger brother. Taking in minimal, tech house and techno, the collection compiles eleven previously unreleased tracks before drawing to a close with a new edit of the trance-tinged "Here Comes the Rain."


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