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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fine deeper tech house minimalism from Italian Rio Padice for Metroline, contributing three tracks of swirling deeper housisms with a sprightly technofied edge and a wicked remix from Ray Okpara, setting to work on the bassline and padding the subs out into spongy cyclical shapes to find your groove in.
01. From Karaoke To Stardom - Hometown Bulkk Klubb (Dapayk Remix) 02. Marek Bois - Bed Boi Pill 03. Butane - All Out Of Ice 04. Kleinschmager Audio - Audio1 05. Christian Dittmann - Dub 1 (D.Diggler Remix) 06. Lump - All In Your Mind 07. Staffan Linzatti - Steal The Medical Supplies 08. Marek Bois - Kimpton 09. Ortega & Stavstrand - Spiral 10. Marcel Knopf - Narain 11. The Suffragettes - Ukin 12. From Karaoke To Stardom - Dors-La-Pilule
Cool and deeper modern (in)house mix from the Get Physical imprint with a 14 track selection of cuts from the labels finest operators. Jona opens up with his screwy tech house tribalisms on 'Blackened' and there's a general vibe of deeper polyrhythmic house followed with tracks from Daniel Mehlhart, Einzelkind vs Meat, Gavin Herlihy, Patrice Baumel, Lopazz and the rest. It's a prime cross section of the state of fresh, modern, and deepstyle tech house and it proves to be in rude health. Get your pumps on and break a sweat.