MUSIC TRACKS AND FIELDS This month’s gold medal productions p.124 BULK BUY Breaking down the latest album releases p.148 MORE THE MERRIER September’s compilations analysed p.152 DIAL D FOR DINOSAUR UK rapper Trim dominates beats from the 1-800 Dinosaur crew... p.152 djmag.com 123 DJ561.Music_Intro.indd 123 15/08/2016 16:05 HOUSE BEN ARNOLD QUICKIES Gameboyz Of The Wall EP [email protected] Sprechen 7. 5 Sprechen comes with the second banger in as many months, this time from Spanish triumvirate Gameboyz, who drop some serious acid, alongside a sturdy remix from Fabrizio Mammarella. SG Lewis Holding Back (Audion Remix) MONEY PMR SHOT! 8.5 PMR's Sam Lewis gets a truly glorious re-rub from Audiofly the singular Matthew Dear, under his Audion guise. feat. Georgia Lewis It shuffles, it breaks, it tingles the spine. All that In The (Last) Moment good stuff. Crosstown Rebels 9.0 Leftwing & Kody “What emerged was a sunrise Squaring Circles moment,” say Anthony Mobilee Middleton and Luca Saporito of Radu Munteanu (of Crosstown and Deeply Rooted label — is a 7. 5 making 'In The (Last) Moment'. Gigolos fame), pitches up, hurling stripped-back treat. 'MKS1' is a Pulsing, hypnotic, relentlessness from the super- Never a truer word was spoken. in tension. Stabs and firm, dance- surging, hard-edged “straight-for- hot duo of Leftwing & Kody, leaping aboard the This sprawling epic, featuring floor vibrations. Essential stuff. ward house track”, as he calls it. most eminent Mobilee for this heavyweight slab. vocals from Georgia Lewis, It's nonetheless impressive for Tip! (as they say on the continent). creeps slowly into the room, Jacob Korn that. On the flip, 'New Horizons' before shafts of light pierce EP3 builds and clatters its way to a Various the dark. If it were not already Uncanny Valley blissful plateau, before descending Summer Riot V a thing of beauty and a joy 8.0 into trippy 5am dancefloor mad- Futureboogie forever, the inimitable Robag There's more than enough hu- ness. You can feel the quality here, 7. 5 Whrume — never known to put a mourless house music out there, the fine craftsmanship on display. The annual 'Summer Riot' from Futureboogie foot wrong — delivers a wonky, thanks, so this from Dresden's The dubs too just ooze class. does the business as ever, with classy selections mechanical take, filled with just Jacob Korn goes straight in the of thoroughly modern disco from PBR's Bonar as much magic. There's another box. It's pumping party music M.A.N.D.Y. Bradbury and Steve Cobby. track here, but you'll have long that deftly avoids tipping over Friends Kiss since fallen in love. towards cheese. 'Goodbye' is a Get Physical distilled disco groove which really 8.0 HUXLEY AUS/NO IDEA’S ORIGINAL lets loose, while 'Holiday' boasts And so here it is, the first evidence Pic: ravey stabs coupled with some of the inaugural album from KiNK BETH CROCKATT Chorus heavyweight congas. 'Thru The M.A.N.D.Y., to be titled 'Double Midnight Shift Eye', with its meandering spoken Fantasy'. One might say they've 8.5 word, is thoroughly bonkers (for taken their effing time. Philipp Majestic work from the Bulgarian the right reasons, of course), while Jung and Patrick Bodmer have titan KiNK, hooking up with the 'The Happening', an abstract jazz been holed up in Berlin with sterling Midnight Shift for this disco jam, smashes it out of the long-time production partner exploration into deep, elemental park. Bravo. LOPAZZ (lots of capitals in THAT euphoria. 'Chorus' is a noisy studio), and these are the first peak-time affair, all built around Niro fruits. 'Friends Kiss' is full of those a scything, brassy off-beat chord, Pieces Of You EP spooky, atmospheric arps and before hurling in a Juno bassline PADS skittering percussion, while over, just when you think things can't 8.5 'Jupiter' is moody and massive, get much better. He's joined On the tip of Fred P or Move D (but tough snares and claps crackling by hometown collaborator without that crucial lone initial), through darkness. The bar has KEi for ‘Madame X’, a moody, Niro Perrone helps launch the been set high. acidic mistress if ever there was PADS imprint with an impressive 01. HUXLEY ‘Grinding’ No Idea’s Original “Kind of narcissistic here, but it’s been going down well when I’ve played it!” one. 'Emotional Breakdown', flourish and a steady hand for Raam meanwhile, is a clattering robotic the epic. There are, as you might Raam005 02. PHYSICAL THEORY ‘Bakadust’ Work Them electro odyssey. expect, smooth and unctuous Raam “This label is so good, and this release is no different.” pads, Detroit-esque stabs and 8.5 03. OUTSTRIP ‘Yopta’ White Siddeffects gently swung percussion vibes to More heat from the increasing- “Love the groove on this one.” Epilogue cloak yourself in here, nevermore ly white-hot Stockholm, this 04. JORDAN ‘In2me’ No Idea’s Original 22 Digit apparent than on the glorious time courtesy of the somewhat “Jordan is definitely a name to watch. Jacking vibes here.” 'Inner Space'. 'Pieces Of You' goes mysterious Raam Records. What 8.0 05. JEROME HILL ‘It’s Time For The’ White 22 Digit continues to impress, unexpectedly gangster before we lack in information is made “Love the chunkiness to this. Large.” following its blinding 50th release ushering in pulsing white noise. up for by purest house on 'Ment', 06. HUXLEY ‘Unconscious Competence’ No Idea’s Original from the superb Tom Ellis, with this 'Hands Of Shadow', meanwhile, is littered as it is with vintage Roland “Probably the weirdest track I’ve done. Big synths and that.” from Siddhesh Sardesai. 'Unspace' surging and masterful. drum sounds and pads you can 07. GALLYA ‘Loading (Hatzler Remix)’ White is all soothing, blissed-out pads, get lost in. In contrast, 'Lipslide' “Hatzler is really doing it for me at the moment!” offset by a grumbling bottom-end DJ Deep is weighed heavy with deep disco 08. JONAS KOPP ‘Androgeno’ Spectral Sound and some pleasingly off-kilter DJ Deep Cuts Vol. 3 vibes, the synths muddled with “Love the bassline on this one. It’s big.” percussion. Very smart indeed. Deeply Rooted House Records distant cowbells. 'Ask' slows the 'Epilogue' perpetuates the moody, pace down, while a solid, heads- 09. ARJUN VAGALE ‘Let Me Lead You’ 100% Pure 8.0 “Absolute roller. Really feeling this guy right now.” vaguely Balearic vibes, dropping A third instalment in Parisian down re-tooling of 'Ment' comes in soaring yet mournful strings. mainstay DJ Deep's ‘Deep Cuts’ via Samo DJ and Alexi3d. Bring on 10. YALEESA HALL & MALIN ‘First Carol’ Will & Ink The Model, aka Romanian don series — on his own venerable number six. “Rough and ready house music. Just as it should be.” 124 djmag.com DJ561.Music_House.indd 124 10/08/2016 16:21 ADV DJMAG INGLESE_flyer generico 19/11/15 18.06 Pagina 1 THE MOST READ DANCE MUSIC MAGAZINE IN ITALY DISCOVER THE SPECIAL OFFERS RESERVED TO THE SUBSCRIBERS ON DJMAGITALIA.COM Untitled-2 1 14/12/2015 11:44 TECHNO RICHARD BROPHY RICHARD QUICKIES The Advent & Industrialyzer Evil Bee Kombination Research [email protected] 7. 5 Combining malevolent dub chords with firing snares and ticking hats, Cisco Ferreira and his trusted sidekick the Industrialyzer lay out a foreboding stall on 'Evil Bee'. Throw in the kind of horror sirens last heard on Luke Slarer's reshape of 'Forklift' and it is clear that they've created a jaw-clenching monster. Federico Leocata Zunachst Central Processing Unit 7. 5 It's no surprise that Italian artist Federico Leocata is a fan of Gerald Donald; this release sounds like MONEY it was inspired by the darker iterations of the US SHOT! producer's sound, in particular, the eerie, creepy pulses of 'Meta-Vision' are like something that Bill Converse escaped from a Bavarian lab late at night. Warehouse Invocation Dark Entries Lok44 9.0 Bous Following his debut on Dark En- Trust tries earlier this year, Converse 8.0 drops another mesmerising heads-down, clicky dub techno of courtesy of a chainmail mesh of It's been 12 years since the last Lok44 release, but release. There are elements of ‘World 2’, into the hazy ambience metallic percussion, while 'Fallow' not much has changed. From the grainy beats of acid, IDM, electro and noise of the intro and the clipped guitar ends this largely menacing maiden 'Roll The Ugliness' through the deep techno flour- on this follow up, as the US and chimes of ‘World 3’, ‘World’ voyage in dream-like form. ishes of 'Wry', this is wonderfully understated. producer uses the same stream sees Atobe go completely across of consciousness approach as the board. While there are a few Mirror Man Marco Segreti before. The title track, which stumbles — most notably the Blood Is Truth Elisabetta veers from jittery techno into nondescript ‘World 4’ — it’s not Bio Rhythm Bordello A Parigi liquid 303s, the muddy rhythms hard to overlook such occasional 8.5 8.5 of 'Riverbank' and 'Consulted weaknesses when the overall There’s no information about who Segreti composed the music to ‘Elisabetta’, an Acid', a throbbing groove un- release is so vivid and colourful. is behind this release, but it’s one obscure '80s Italian movie about lost love. Now it’s derpinned by sharp percussive of this year’s biggest underground been remastered, reissued, and is full of plaintive shards, all bring this heady Bijou records.