Super Rhythm Trax Schallplatten & CDs

Review: The Super Rhythm Trax label launches and who better to inaugurate proceedings than veteran UK producer Mike Ash, whose production collar stretches back to the early '90s under a variety of aliases and projects. Apparently founded with the intention of keeping the original acid house spirit in mind, Super Rhythm Trax get it just right first time around on this three track release which is very much in line with Ash's recent focus on acid and electro. There may be nothing particularly innovative here in terms of execution but Ash definitely knows how to bang his boxes with devastating results, with "Return To Acid" a particularly effective production.

Review: Barcelona's Cardopusher has released on a wide variety of imprints ever since his production debuts for the likes of Damage and London's mighty Hyperdub, so much so that it even allowed him to release an album in 2015 for Boysnoize Records. This week, he's up on Super Rhythm Trax - home to a vast array of jacking house beats - and his starter for ten is the 303-laden beast in the name of "End Local", a monster that is quickly followed by the heavy-bottomed, Trax-fuelled "Variant". On the flip, "Inequality" sticks to the acid, but the mood is lighter, less murky and full o' jack, whereas "Phase 1" slithers and winds its bass bot through slicing darts of percussion. For the DJ's...

Review: Barcelona-based artist Cardopusher continues on his high-pressure acid explorations for Jerome Hill's Super Rhythm Trax. The Venezuelan artist has had releases previously on top labels such as Tigerbeat6, Hyperdub and even Boysnoize, in addition to running his Classicworks inprint. The Mental Jobs EP features the gritty and hyperware acid house of "Trust Your TV" and the the electric boogaloo of "Never Fade Away" which had us similarly reminiscing on S'Express and the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack. On the flip, more retro flavours await you: from the strobe-lit, Trax Records inspired adrenaline of "Microbes" to the classic Stateside bounce of the title track on its "NYC mix"- it's all killer and no filler on here, trust us!

Review: Mainz man (sorry) DJ Arg is undoubtedly one of Germany's foremost purveyors of full-throttle, mind-altering acid tracks - a kind of one-man, 21st century Hardfloor, minus the bombastic techno drums. Here he brings his titanium-plated take on jack-tracks to Super Rhythm Trax for the very first time. He fires a volley of warped TB-303 lines and clanking Phuture drums towards hipster DJs on opener "Trend Cnuts", before offering a deeper, wonkier and even more trippy assault on the senses via the drum machine handclap heavy hypnotism of "Pervers". Side B opens with the ghostly bounce of thrillingly loose mind-melter "Kimmi", while EP closer "Strobo-Acid" does exactly what it says on the tin.

Review: G 23 has kept this calm and discrete when it comes to his releasing output, having only release a handful of EP's since his debut on Infinite Machine two years ago, but he's back on Super Rhythm Trax with a deadly three-pronged techno attack for the piste. "Kidding Kids" is a banging acid squelcher filled with short breaks and percussive shots, while "Mountain's Acid" is a no nonsense, kick-fuelled bruiser accompanied by subtler swarms of 303 action and scientific bleeps. On the tail-end, we have a remix of "Mountain's Acid" by Jerome Hill, who exposed the Roland tricks and comes out the other end with a wacky techno killer for peak time servings.

Review: Although he's probably travelled beneath most house and techno enthusiasts' radars, Germany's Andreas Gehm has released music on some of the most respected and coveted independent labels in the game. First and foremost, he debuted back in 2009 with an appearance alongside Steve Poindexter for Jamal Moss' mythical Mathematics imprint - having subsequently released a string of EP's for the dread-haired techno outsider - and then he landed on everything from Chiwax to Solar One Music alongside Helena Hauff. This week he's out on the ever-impressive Super Rhythm Trax and he's brought four jacking cuts with him. The flavour is steeped in the finest of Chicago flavours, boldly manifested by the 303-driven opener that is "I Don't Dance", but it's also one that verges onto the Berlin sound via "Control Your Mind". Check em', they're a squadron of killers!!

Review: Getting things back to basics and ramping up the ravey qualities in his productions, Jerome Hill is clearly having fun with these Super Rhythm Trax releases, letting go of anything too deep and focusing on loud and lairy bangers that make all the right moves in the biggest way possible. "Paper Bag Acid" positively masters delivery of 303 nastiness, ramping up the filter and firing off the drum fills with abandon and yet never sounding pastiche as opposed to straight up jacking. "Dustbin Acid" is a masterclass is working the drum machine for the ultimate energy rush in the time-honoured tradition, and then "Bully Beef" drops a much dirtier kind of sound full of guttural kicks and distorted vocals for the more deviant players in the acid game.

Review: Super Rhythm Trax brings you the freshest acid, house and techno with a hefty nod to the mid to late 80's originators. They're back with head honcho Jerome Hill, who serves up three old-school bangers for the 'nu-school' on "Cley Hill Transmissions". The dark and tunnelling warehouse techno of "Back & Forth" features some soaring and euphoric 303 acid that will make you feel like you're at one of Hawtin's Plastik parties at The Packard circa '94. "Weird Language" features a screwed up vocal hook above an overdriven/broken kick and 'percolator' style claps - which once again will truly appeal to '90s techno nostalgists. Finally on the flip, we have the bleepy UK rave of "Close Encounters" which is sure to create some added drama on the dancefloor when the strobe light comes on! 2017 has seen the label serve up releases by other like minded introverts in the form of John Heckle, Jared Wilson and the legendary Ed DMX.

Review: The retroverts at Super Rhythm Trax return with yet more acid madness courtesy of Matt Whitehead; he of Rebel Intelligence and Model Citizens fame. It's a pretty straight up affair on the Bombing EP, where opening cut "Crosstalk" batters you with 909 snare attacks and the hypnotic funk of 303 acid squelch. "Seeing Red" is a much more tunnelling affair where that little silver Roland box again does most of the talking. On the flip, the title track is one of the real highlights; this sleazy and bombastic electro-funk number is reminiscent of Jimmy Edgar's finer moments until "Birdland" hammers the message home in style with yet more vintage flair and those early rave style steel drum presets in full effect.

Review: Few labels have quite as successfully channeled the original spirit of Chicagoan acid house and early British techno than Super Rhythm Trax. They're at it again here, serving up a trio of 1990 style, rave-era British acid house/techno tributes from former Skudge Presents and Dixon Avenue Basement Jams man Jared Wilson. The three tracks could be considered riffs on a theme, as each - in different ways - reminded us of Orbital's early work. Choose between the bold acid lines and jack-track beats of "How Deep", the acid melodies and "Belfast" style chords of "Plate Mining", and the pleasingly alien acid-funk of "Idea of A Deep State".

Review: After a brief flirtation with Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Jared Wilson is back on Jerome Hill's Super Rhythm Trax imprint. Predictably, he's in a retro-futurist kind of mood, delivering tracks that tip a wink to a variety of vintage house and techno productions. He begins with the Larry Heard style warmth, Chez Damier percussion and Detroit techno cymbal lines of "Getting That Feelin", before diving headfirst into the world of classic Chicago jazz on heavyweight acid wriggler "It's The Message". The B-side begins with the ghostly chords, intelligent techno electronics and mind-altering acid lines of "Midnight On Ecorse Creek", before Wilson caps a fine EP via the Mr Fingers style deep house-jack of "Acid Feeling".