Review: Diesco & Vince Void pay homage to the early 90s golden era of house music while channelling the spirit of progressive, Euro house and classic rave on this new four tracker. Each piece captures the warmth and euphoria of that formative time while pushing the sound into fresh contemporary territory. With a clear reverence for the past, 'El Tigre' opens with some big rave horns and lush prog beats a la Sasha & Digweed. 'Untitled C' is another retro-future prog sound with widescreen pad work, '8-Bit' is an unabashed revival of 90s rave with prominent horns and pianos leading the way and 'Jobby' is a trance-tinged closer full of Ibiza energy.
Review: If you're thirsting for more of that horror soundtrack house then you're not going to want to miss out on this one. BOOOoo! is a new French label debuting with four protagonists in this buoyant sound, leading in with PO tapping into some serious scientologist vibes on 'Self Deception' before Venetia demonstrates the theory that the longer the note, the more the dread on delightfully creepy workout 'Fat Man'. Eliaz tips a bucketload of acid into the mix on 'Weuweueoou' and BOOH completes the picture with the throbbing jack track 'EVIL'.
Review: Six dance tracks skillfully blending old-school vibes with contemporary sounds, spanning acid, breakbeat, electro and house, inviting listeners to dream of underground raves and enigmatic gatherings where ethereal battles against soulless algorithms unfold amid nocturnal dance. Highlights include Trabuco's 'Happy Spliff, a vibrant mix of New York house and early 90s-inspired techno, setting a nostalgic yet fresh tone. Trabuco's 'Signals' follows, delivering a spacey techno experience that feels both futuristic and retro. Yepecc's 'UFO Camp' seamlessly combines electro and acid for a sci-fi romp that transports listeners to otherworldly dimensions. Kevin Kendall's 'Volca Three' stands out with its rich analogue bass, adding depth and warmth to the compilation. The album closes with Victor Reyes' 'Inspired By Nature,' which offers a cool, bouncy finale that leaves a lasting impression. Overall, The Sciences of the Artificial is a refreshing take on retro styled techno and it is perfect for those seeking a blend of nostalgic and fun.
Review: Armand Van Helden's classic 'I Want Your Soul' returns with a fresh update, including an impressive remix by UK duo Prospa. Van Helden's rework retains the original's iconic essence, while Prospa injects their signature euphoric energy and melodic flair into the mix. The result is a modern twist that stays true to the original, yet feels invigorated for today's dancefloors. Prospa's take on the track brings a new dynamic, blending nostalgia with the duo's unmistakable uplifting sound. A must-have for fans of both artists.
Review: Monica Venturella is a rising talent from Sicily who is fresh off a much talked about performance for System Error on the MS Hoppetosse. At just 22 years old, Monica has already won over knowing audiences with her self-produced tracks and slamming sets. Now, the self-taught musician develops her sound further with elements of high-energy electro, raw emotion and smart melody. 'Arabian Nights' marries tough drums with whimsical melodies, 'Expectations' is a real crunchy house stomper with blazing synths and 'Respect Your Fantasy' is stiff but playful with 8-bit synths bringing colour. 'Dans Avec Moi' shuts down with more rough and tough tech beats.
Review: Vicari brings some superb machine funk to this new EP on OGE. 'Angela' opens up with wobbly low ends that, to our ears, pay little tribute to a classic Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine riff, that are offset by snappy drums and some lush swirling melodies. After the fleshy and deeper dub comes 'My Spell' which is more bubbly, trippy and loose with its glistening sci-fi- pads and squelchy bass. The third and final original is a third different sound - 'Isolated From My Self'. This one is a jumbled of off-grid hits and detuned keys that brings great unbalance to the dance floor.
Review: The latest edition to top up Belfast's Duality Trax label is the quixotically quality 'Time Out' EP by Voodoos & Taboos, a dream pair of underground stalwarts whose efforts are heard here alongside rising talent Bertie. Following the tried, tested and proven formula of pairing both established and upcoming artists on the same discographies, Voodoos & Taboos qualify for the latter category; the pair have released several EPs in the latter half of the 2020s so far, though this is their first to appear on Holly Lester's label. Though the title track urges time to stop, it hardly does; 'Time Out' and 'Endless Game' nail that sweet mixture of rubbery sound design and gurgly audio alienage, both so prevalent in today's sonic zeitgeist. Bertie's B-side version is phatter and brasher though no less technical and it brings a nifty breakdown with it too, making for an almost Ibizan isthmus between two forward groovier sections, just in time for some closing 'Action'.
ODESZA - "This Version Of You" (feat Julianna Barwick - Joseph Ray extended remix) (6:31)
Parra For Cuva - "Mimose" (3:47)
Agents Of Time - "Zodiac" (7:10)
Gorgin - "Heartbeater" (4:58)
Tao Andra - "Dream On" (6:42)
ANNA & Rebuke - "Ignite" (5:42)
Binaryh - "Daemon" (6:17)
Paul Roux - "Baby Baby" (3:45)
Review: Global Underground present the next release from the nextmost DJ to grace their City Series. ANNA's dynamic sound encompasses multiple styles and genres, from ambient through house to techno, and encapsulates the effortless chic and vibrant nightlife of one of the coolest cities in Europe - Lisbon. This modish Portuguese metropolis has always enjoyed a certain notoriety, but this has perhaps not been felt so intently more than in the last five years or so. ANNA now fleshes out Lisbon's essence, capturing its descending narrow streets, castellated jetties and glorious sunsets with a progressive house, trance and techno mix that satisfies all possible ends of a newfangled tourist's dream.
Review: Techno mainstay Marc Romboy has always made sounds that betray his love of space. He recently made that more explicit that ever with the start of a new compilation series titled Music From Space and after a fine first volume comes a second, called Dimension B. It features the music he has used to open his latest podcast and radio shows series, eight tracks in all from artists such as Thodoris Triantafillou, Til Fussman, Nicolas Masseyeff and Romboy himself. There is plenty to love her from sleek and serene outings from Captain Mustache to Kiberu's lush 'Your Eyes.'
Ivory - "Could You Feel The Love?" (feat Filippo Nardini)
David Kochs & John Falke - "(Ego)"
SKALA - "Don't Let Them"
Musumeci & Dodi Palese - "The Party" (feat AI)
Hardt Antoine - "Inside Your Mind"
Cipy - "Trip"
Samantha Loveridge - "The Pusher"
Hard To Tell - "Last Forever"
Alisa Filatova - "Melting Wax"
Esin - "You Gave Me Love"
Jimi Jules - "Power House"
Skatman - "Depressed"
Stereocalypse - "Perspective"
Denis Horvat & Skarn - "Sknof"
Colossio & Luke Garcia - "Fatum"
Review: Innervisions is one of those house labels that has become synonymies with a certain lifestyle. It has a distinctive sound - emotional, synth-laced house, always with an artful edge. It always offers up well-crafted sounds, never more so than in its on going Secret Weapons series. This 16th volume is a bumper collection across four slabs of wax that takes in the deep, dramatic, rising tension of Ivory's 'Could You Feel The Love?', the more grizzled broken beats of David Kochs & John Falke and Hardt Antoine's slow burning synth house epic 'Inside Your Mind' as well as much more besides.
Review: While there's no over-arching concept behind the series, it's always safe to assume that any new Selects compilation from Global Underground will be packed to the rafters with brand-new house and techno that tends towards the melodic, atmospheric, glassy-eyed and tactile. Volume eight certainly ticks those boxes, with 12 highlights from the (more expansive) mixed version stretched across two slabs of purple vinyl. Our picks of a predictably strong bunch include a delightful deep tech-house tweak of Fulltone & Parallel's 'How Can I Resist' by Patrice Baumel, the Space Invaders-goes-trance throb of 1979's 'Vulcano', the bleeping brilliance of Captain Mustache's retro-futurist rework of O.N.O's 'Gran Music' and the ambient soul beauty of Yotto's 'Silhouette'.
Review: Global Underground has always been right up there with some of the most esteemed mix series brands in all of dance music. It is long-running and has many seminal entries from top names soundtracking various hotspots around the world. This new one widens the remit and is a more broad collection of beats for the after-hours setting. It's the tenth volume in the series and is another well-curated one with a blend of deep, late-night, twisted and freaky sounds from names like ARTBAT, Dino Lenny, Ede & Seth Troxler, Cagedbaby & Dorothys Fortress and many more, all on nice blue wax.
Hannes Bieger & Tara Brooks - "Fear Is Gone" (feat Cari Golden) (7:44)
Mariano Mellino - "Ringaro" (7:46)
Biesmans - "Fugazy" (3:38)
Victor Ruiz - "Trippin Ballz" (feat Echo Romeo) (6:42)
Musumeci - "Trig Your Mind" (5:16)
Brian Cid - "Astro" (7:43)
Review: Global Underground will always have a place in the hearts of dance music lovers. Their long running mix series is up there with the best of them and this latest entry into it finds the long running label presenting Unique #2, on which they have selected 12 of what they say are "the most exciting producers in electronic music to create exclusive tracks for this release." Big names like Pig&Dan, Victor Ruiz, Spencer Brown, Johannes Brecht, Musumeci, Helsloot & Rose Ringed, Mariano Mellino and Gorgin are amongst those offering up a smorgasbord of house and tech styles.
Review: To mark the label's eighth birthday, the crew behind Paris's Pont Neuf Records has put together a fifth Hexagonal Club compilation. The series is rooted in the imprint's desire to showcase the best French dance and electronic music has got to offer, hence a line-up containing a mix of rising stars, scene stalwarts and heavy hitters. There's naturally plenty of high-grade material stretched across the two slabs of wax, including the sun-splashed, piano-sporting Mediterranean house heaviness of Maison Blanche's 'The Best of Times', the heady deep house smoothness of Tour-Maubourg's 'No Purpose Groove', the spacey synths and chunky low-end pressure of 'You Can't Understand' by THEOS, the breakbeat-powered dreaminess of Dylan Dylan's 'On My Mind' and the head-nodding beauty of DJ Psychiatre's 'Mister Rhodes'.
B-STOCK: Sleeve damaged but otherwise in excellent condition
Marvo Genetic - "The Reprise" (5:01)
Space Trax - "Aura" (5:10)
Rachmad Project - "Summer Breeze" (6:45)
Land Of Fantasy Tales & Myths - "And They Lived Happily Ever After" (3:51)
EC Groove Society - "A Fish" (4:07)
Quadripart - "La Musique Des Enfants Joyeux" (8:29)
Faceless Techno Bastards - "Go Mellow" (5:26)
Marionette - "No Strings Attached" (6:56)
Ramon & Theo - "A Quest Of Thousands" (5:44)
The R - "Higher"
Dream Company - "Space Page"
Boom Generation - "Flageo"
Review: ***B-STOCK: Sleeve damaged but otherwise in excellent condition***
Amazing! has put together a very specific and worthwhile compilation here with Music For The Radical Xenomaniac Vol 1: Hedonistic Highlights From The Lowlands 1990-1999 offering up a wealth of zoned out and dreamy electric gems from lesser known artists. everything from house to trance, ambient to downtempo to progressive all comes through from these tunes which are unified by their subtle sense of uplifting joy and hopeful melodies. Dream Company's breaks-lead 'Space Page' is one standout as is Ramon & Theo's lush and percussive 'A Quest Of Thousands.'
The Connection Machine - "Echoes From Tau Ceti" (5:13)
Direct Movement - "Natural Chemistry" (6:42)
Paradise 3001 - "Surfin The Cuban Waves" (5:48)
Exquisite Corpse - "Strange Attractor" (6:02)
Orlando Voorn - "Delphi" (6:34)
NYX - "Glider" (5:42)
Stefan Robbers - "Afridisiac" (Jumpy mix) (7:10)
Fluxland - "Fluxland" (7:07)
This Side Up - "Glider" (4:29)
Georgio Schultz - "Trance" (4:59)
Quazar - "Cycledrops" (4:44)
2000 & One - "Crystal" (6:36)
Review: Dutch label Amazing! has been hard at work on a pretty sizeable project that now finally sees the light of day. Music For The Radical Xenomaniac: Hedonistic Highlights From The Lowlands 1990-1999 is a three-part series with each one offering up four sides of lush post-rave electronics that dips into influences from techno, electro, progressive, dance, pop and downtempo. Plenty of these artists are new names to us but the music is quality - from the lush deep house of The Connection Machine's opener 'Echoes From Tau Ceti' to the slick and emotive tech of 2000 & One's closing cut 'Crystal.'
Stealth Sonic Soul - "Stealth Sonic Soul" (Apollo 440 remix) (7:15)
Sublime - "Transamerican" (5:25)
Mukkaa - "Neebro" (Floor Federation remix) (6:32)
Strawberry Bazaar - "Bingo Specs Boogie" (6:20)
Havana - "Shift" (7:05)
Havana - "Shift" (Ready For Dead & Stuart Crichton remix) (7:13)
Harri - "Skelph" (6:11)
Ready For Dead - "Ready For Dead" (6:20)
Review: Limbo celebrates three decades in the business with a special 30th Anniversary Edition of House Of Limbo Vol 1, a definitive collection from back in the day, pulling together the progressive house, tribal and 90s sounds that we all still love. Listening back now, it's lost none of its edge. Slam kick off with a remix of Havana - 'Schtoom' that is full throttle and heavily textured, Ritmo De Vida melts minds with the warped synths and prickly 303s of 'Taboo' and Gypsy's 'I Trance You' is a bright and twisted synth overload powered by loopy breaks. Just some of the highlights among many here.
DJ Oyster - "Ricci One" (Gerd Janson remix) (6:10)
Lauer X Johannes Albert - "Mokka Paradise" (6:27)
Cinthie - "Set Me Free" (7:08)
Wolfram - "Macho" (4:44)
Lui Hill - "With You" (3:49)
Phonk D - "Medusa" (6:05)
Levitation Venue - "Calippo" (Super mix) (5:21)
Sound Support - "Subway Location" (6:38)
Accent Circonflexe - "Manipulation? Non!" (7:48)
Lukas Lehmann - "Pull Up The Blinds" (6:18)
Move D - "Dance On" (5:12)
Terry Lee Brown Junior - "Mono Mono Mono" (6:38)
Retina Dreams - "Strachelrochen" (6:01)
Review: For its tenth anniversary, Galerie Kurzweil shows why it has such a well-earned global reputation in the electronic scene by releasing a special compilation no multicoloured vinyl. This limited edition of 400 features exclusive tracks by taste-making house artists like Gerd Janson, Cinthie, Lauer x Johannes Albert and our personal favourite, Move D, alongside residents such as Thomas Hammann and Terry Lee Brown Junior. The sounds are a blend of old-school love and fun and new school techniques from the piano bounce of 'Ricci One' to the psychedelic and worldly grooves of Levitation Venue's 'Calippo.'
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