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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Mark Broom - Deal Or No Deal

Dublin's ace D1 imprint gets the honour of releasing the best Mark Broom 12" we've heard in a very long time with a hugely recommended 4 tracker of sumptuous slowhouse and dubby techno. While his DJ sets are consistently ace, his productions of late have fallen short since the late 90's Pure Plastic heyday, but 'Deal Or No Deal' and 'Runners' on the A-side mark a return to form with a combination of heavyweight dub techno/house aesthetics with swollen subbass swoops that we can't get enough of right now. Think Marko Fuerstenburg with added Reese bass and you're pretty much there. The B-side flips the styles into a more sedate tempo with sub 120bpm house rhythms licked with vintage analogue synth chord sequences, done simple and proper for the perfect effect. This is probably one of the best deeper techno records you'll hear this week and comes well recommended!

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Burnski - Draw Your Sword

Fine tech-house minimalism from Burnski making his debut appearance on Poker Flat. Made for larger dancefloors, 'Draw Your Sword' is maximised for impact with a crowd appeasing climax and heavyweight kicks.



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Basement Freaks - Gypsy Breaks (Typsy Edit)

Natalia Clavier - Nectar

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Fatboy Slim & Koen Groeneveld - Rockafeller Skank

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Matias Aguayo - The 99 seconds

Soul Jazz and Kompakt's Argentianian hero Matias Aguayo aka one half of Closer Musik offers up another plate of confoundingly immense and oddbal rhythm experiments for fans of his indecipherable style. '99 Seconds' is a very odd construction, built from a tumbling Latin/Villalobos debted percussion pallette, castrated horn bleats and the occassional bell hit, you never quite know where you are or where you're going on this little trip but we can assure you it's some very strange fun. 'Bondhi' on the flip drops the tempo to a sub 120bpm shuffle with rippling conga lines and a pared back approach that places the track somewhere between raw Chicago house and something from the Uwe Schmidt/Atom TM handbook, while final track 'Rita' should really spin your head full circle on a 113bpm slo-jak groove through spherical bell rubs, pop flavoured basslines and a subtle taste of avant garde new wave style from the likes of Arthur Russel or Moondog. Awesome.

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Marco Carola - The Tribe

Marco Carola revisits his M_nus sublabel 2M with two warm and tribalish house cuts for the stylin' Europhiles. 'The Tribe' uses a palette of warm and analogue sounding drums with rolling bass and non-synthetic horns to work up a very crowd friendly vibe, while 'Drumming' on the flip strips back to the essentials with a minimised groove gradually developing layers of live percussion into a useful tracky house DJ tool.

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Jay Shepheard - Compost Black Label #43

Glamorous euro-disco and Balaeric influenced deeper house from Jay Shepheard on where else but Compost Black Label. The most interesting cut here would have to be the 105bpm 'Absolute Voltage', set to cruise control with slowly arpeggiated bass rolls and a warm boned Balaeric sexiness, or 'International Carpet' with a deep house meets twilight disco vibes for the jet setters.

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Ben Klock - Before One EP

Functioning as a prelude to his impending LP, One, Ben Klock releases the appropriatelt titled Before One. The tone is uncompromisingly focused on streamlined reductionism, with the filtered, somehow ghosly title track proving especially wonderful for its pared down simplicity and delay-spun melodicism. 'Init Two' takes on a grander feel, and although the looped structure retains that all-important minimalist aesthetic, the production occupies an orchestrally proportioned amount of bandwidth. It's a majestic production - one of those tracks that always feels as if it's teetering on the edge of something big without ever feeling the need to go beyond the brink. Excellent.

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