Electro House Recommendations April 2010

Review: Like a distant cousin of Donna Summer & Giorgio Moroder's I Feel Love, Human Life's We Won't Stop is a delicious synth-addled piece of electro that's both poppy and heavy - a perfect antidote to soulless and predictable dancefloor fodder. Tom Deluxx also gets his hands on it and twists it into a bleepy and tense raver, while Low Concept's mix has a lot of fun with the arrangement, as well as adding some bouncy vocoder stabs into the mix too.

Review: Showing off the dearth of electro talent that French label Boxon has uncovered has become an annual event. Last year's compilation, Boxon Makes Me Happy, showed off 2008's best in show and now they're back to show off their most recent discoveries with Boxon Makes Me Crazy. It's a global effort, with artists from around the world released on the label, and a lot of different styles to boot.

Bryan Shower's Intro kicks things off nicely with some heavy riffing distorted keyboards, similar to Daft Punk's Aerodynamic, and a break into what could well be a violin solo (heavily distorted too of course). Bernard Blade's Dogs Anthem again breaks out the distortion box to provide some fun and furious electro goodness. Andre Conde's From Jupiter To The Moon is a real highlight, complete with a kick ass 80's-styled vocal and oodles of sequenced slap bass bouncing up all over the track.

Elsewhere, the space-age sounds on Elomak's Biometric is well worth a listen, as well as the incredible walls of sound on The Louder Lads'

Full Throttle. United Chemical's Fidget Paradize is exactly that - a treat for fans of wobbly synths set against a tough 125bpm beat that features some huge chunky build-up's. Hungry Sam's Get Paper meanwhile has more of an indie club feel, courtesy of vocals by Punkin, while Breaking News' Get Ready For This is probably the most unexpected thing on the whole compilation - a cover of Dutch Europop gods 2 Unlimited! There are some really great electro nuggets on here though
- thank heavens Boxon have done the leg work and sought them out yet again.