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DJ561.Music_Intro.indd 123 15/08/2016 16:05 HOUSE BEN ARNOLD [email protected] QUICKIES Gameboyz Of The Wall EP 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 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. 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, - 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 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 out there, the fine craftsmanship on display. 'Summer Riot' from Futureboogie foot wrong — delivers a , 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 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 been holed up in 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 . '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 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 ‘’ 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, -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. 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.”

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Untitled-2 1 14/12/2015 11:44 RICHARD BROPHY 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. 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 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. Combining the power synth pieces and throbbing, bass-heavy grooves. technique to vivid life. Bienvenue A Bord of EBM with the functionality Bordello A Parigi of linear techno, the Leaders 8.0 Of The Wild Hunt version of BASIC FRAME EPM Alessandro Adriani Bijou is the work of Belgian 'Blood Is Truth' sees a gnawing Crow producer Ken Dutrieue, who has bass connected to relentless Death Of Machines come up with the perfect summer claps and heavy drums. The 8.5 release. Casting aside the shackles 'Metaphenethylamine Mix' is more Alessandro Adriani is best of techno gloom, it sets sail to understated, but the cold synth- known for running the excellent 'Offshore' and 'La Sirene Avec line that rides subtly itself over the Mannequin label, but in the past Des Dauphins', where reflective juggernaut bass ensures that it has few years has stepped from the synths and beautiful, atmospheric the requisite measure of suspense shadows to put a spotlight on his melodies prevail. That's not and force. It’s no surprise then own productions. Fittingly, ‘Crow’ to suggest that 'Bienvenue' is that I-F and Helena Hauff have launches the Mannequin sub- exclusively a head-nodding affair; already championed the release. label, Death Of Machines. ‘White as the buzzing acid and cymbal Swan’ revolves around a murky crashes of 'Reine Des Plages' Project STS 01. BASIC FRAME ‘Nks’ EPM Music rhythm and waves of frazzled and the dark pulses of 'La Maree' Hubble Telescope Series Vol. 3 “Propulsive, driving and cerebral.” percussion that support an eerie demonstrate, Dutrieue knows how Solar One 02. ATEMPORAL ‘Att2 (Audio Injection Remix)’ ATT Series synth-line. Adriani has handed to conjure up potent electronic 8.5 “Obscure and funky, with an awesome bassline.” over his track ‘Crow’ to the like- disco. Project STS is a collaboration minded Mick Wills, who doesn’t between feted producers The 03. DAVIDE NANNINI ‘Sketch 52’ Unreleased Material “Simplicity, punchiness, pounding.” disappoint with rolling tribal Modular Exaltics and Gerald Donald and is drums and noisy electronic wails. Alliance the third and final episode of the 04. BASIC FRAME ‘Ing’ EPM Music It’s an impressively bleak slice of Art EP 'Hubble Telescope' series. The pair “An abrasive, evolving techno tool, ready to serve.” Art techno noir. have ostensibly written the music 05. DAX J ‘The Wonk’ Monnom Black 8.0 as a tribute to NASA scientists, “A dirty tunnel with techno at its core.” Shinichi Atobe 'Wireless' kick-starts this and this theme fits with the music. 06. DEVELOPER ‘A Matter Of Time’ Developer Archive World debut release from LMA with From 'Supermassive Black Hole', “Stoned melodies from outer space, hypnotic and deep.” DDS a cavernous bass and eerie, which does indeed sound like 07. DAVIDE NANNINI ‘Antracite’ Unreleased Material 8.0 nightmarish synths. It's the what it must feel like to be sucked “Rude and nasty peak-time techno.” Recorded during various sessions perfect accompaniment to a backwards towards a dead star, to 08. DIEGO HOSTETTLER ‘Sector’ Wall Music over the past two decades, the 4am drive through silent streets. the woozy electro bass of 'GJ 1214 “Heavy funky. A compact and relentless track.” tracks on ‘World’ largely live 'Moonbase' is stripped-back b' and the spacey electro of 'NGC 09. TADEO ‘Checking Controls’ City Noises up to the hype heaped on this and metallic, but also resounds 253', this release aims for and “A beautiful techno tool, sci-fi and trippy.” reclusive Japanese artist. From the to a powerful bassline, this time reaches the stars with effortless 10. VEGIM ‘Digital Fracture (Jochim Siepht Remix)’ Dead Cert swinging, upbeat house and wide- dipped in an acid coating. 'Pusher' ease. “Mecahnical rhythms, industrial atmospheres - a solid platform for structures.” eyed chords of ‘World 1’ and the edges closer to stepping techno,

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Untitled-1 1 15/08/2016 15:08 ELECTRO/PROGRESSIVE ANGUS THOMAS PATERSON [email protected] breakdowns and rolling are some of the best we’ve heard in a long time, QUICKIES while its build-up is teased out for just the right amount of time. Infi nitely more euphoric Running (Âme Remix) than euphoric trance. Monkeytown 8.5 Josh Wink Tale of Us might have won the ‘Money Shot’ Shoelaces with their remix of Moderat’s ‘Running’ last Boysnoize month, but Âme deliver something even more 8.5 transcendental with their rework, taking things Josh Wink paired with even darker and deeper for a slow burn journey Boysnoize is an exciting towards its unwieldy, noisy crescendo. proposition, and ‘Shoelaces’ delivers on this promise with an & acid-electro record full of sleazy Follow the Light broken beats and mischievous vocal samples, bringing cheek 7.0 and grit in equal measures. Two bigroom Anjuna maestros put their heads Wink cannily channels his together for a record that’s predictably fi tted heritage as a serious producer, out for the stadiums, with its harsher industrial MONEY while bringing enough fun that strains giving way to traditional trance SHOT! it’ll slot easily into a Boys Noize theatrics. David Hohme party set. Fear Less Sahar Z & Navar (Jody Wisternoff Remix) Matt Nouveau feat. Breathe Deep Where The Heart Is Billie Fountain Lost & Found 9.5 & Ashamed 7.5 Wisternoff arrives from Nocturnal Nouveau At this stage, Lost & Found has established nowhere to deliver a remix Raise Your Hands Up 7. 5 itself as one of the most consistent and that’s disarmingly good. Musical Freedom Trance veteran just dependable sources of deep progressive you’ll Essentially progressive 8.0 keeps on trucking and delivers fi nd anywhere, and its latest release from Sahar masquerading as , A tight offering that somewhat an unexpected delight under Z & Navar keeps this consistency rolling. Deep its punchy appeal doesn’t bridges the divide between the his Matt Nouveau alias here, and hypnotic, with a seductive melodic peak. undermine how excellent it club and festival mainstage, straddling melodic progressive, is, with Wisternoff taking a ‘Raise Your Hands Up’ cleverly edgy techno and main-room HENRY SAIZ NATURA SONORIS sample of Hohme’s original welds slamming tech-house vocal house. As incongruous as ideas and weaving them with mass-appeal electro, this might sound, Darey pulls it in with his own surplus of before Doorn and Chocolate off as he mashes accomplished musical inspiration for a Puma bring it to a peak with a studio trickery with the more hypnotic peak-time offering. noisy tech-trance riff. We’ll take crowdpleasing moments. Flashes of moody melody more of this kind of thing in our evolve into a rich synth mainstage records, thanks. Secret Cinema & harmony that functions Egbert as a repeating musical Dezza Maximaal motif, guiding Wisternoff’s True Drumcode luxuriant soundscapes, Silk 7.0 before he strips everything 9.0 One of the more raucous back in the fi nale to allow Canadian producer Dezza is offerings on the new 'Drumcode 01. HENRY SAIZ ‘Lucero del Alba (Moscoman remix)’ Suara the harmony to take the really coming into his own as A-Sides Vol. 5' compilation. “I’ve been working with Suara on of release with them for months already, and fi nally this is taking shape. I love Moscoman and this will lead as its bassline. Superbly one of the fi nest sources of While ‘Maximaal’ might lay its be released later this year.” executed. classic progressive you’ll fi nd groundwork with a streamlined anywhere. ‘True’ demonstrates techno pulse, Secret Cinema 02. LAUER ‘Jetdentist’ Live at Robert Johnson “The whole EP is great. I love this label and what Lauer is doing lately!” again that he knows exactly and Egbert audaciously steer Harry Romero feat. what it takes to assemble a into tough main-room territory 03. FANGO ‘Cortex’ Degustibus “One of my fave new labels, always very interesting stuff, pushing the Robert Owens storming emotive record. An with its electro stabs and a boundaries of what you can do in house. Risky and fresh, love it. Avant-garde Back (Kölsch Remix) early breakdown establishes its brash, gaudy . One for house with a cool, weird Latino infl uence.” Subliminal ethereal spine-tingles, before the techno A-league during the 04. JMII ‘Thrills’ Hivern Discs it slams into its bassline after moments when things really get “My mate John Talabot´s label always delivers great stuff, the whole EP is 9.0 pretty amazing!” Kölsch isn’t afraid to merge the drop, dashing in and out out of control. the dancefl oor’s esoteric of euphoria. Just when you 05. NICONNE ‘Cause I Want You’ Stil Vor Talent “Haunting vocals and techno beats that really work on the dancefl oor. Playing appeal with its more dramatic think you’ve got it fi gured out, Paul Woolford this a lot!” moments, and this unexpected ‘True’ diverts to a masterfully- Heaven & Earth Aus 06. FEW NOLDER ‘One’ Needwant remix of Romero and Owens’ executed broken-beat that “This became one of the tracks of the year for me. I’m playing it in every set record on Subliminal from over twists, turns and messes with 8.5 and it always gets amazing reactions. Amazing tune.” a decade ago showcases this dancefl oor expectations. Lush A thematic extension of 07. BUFI ‘White Tambourine’ Discotexas to full effect. It’s an ingenious and driving. Woolford’s recent emotionally- “Bufi is one of the most interesting producers coming from . This track is part of his new album for the Discotexas label. A great collection of intelligent mix of its different elements, charged ‘Mother & Child’ on and fresh disco-house tunes.” polished techno embellished Grum Hotfl ush, ‘Heaven & Earth’ is a with tight percussion, which You'll Know similar halcyon-era dancefl oor 08. MARC MARZENIT ‘The Enemy Inside Me (Rafael Cerato Anjunabeats Remix)’ Natura Sonoris draws us towards Owens’ vocals epic that comes with all the “My talented friend Marc Marzenit released his fi rst album on my label Natura Sonoris, we’re releasing a remixes album in a few weeks. Rafael Cerato’s remix taking centre stage for some 8.0 trimmings. ‘Part 1’ offers a is a total killer!” explosive dancefl oor moments. Grum delivers one of his biggest leaner experience, while ‘Part Make sure you check out the records to date. While he’s still 2’ draws out the string sections 09. BOB MOSES ‘Like It Or Not (Joris Voorn remix)’ “Joris never disappoints!” 11-minute extended mix where drawing on early dancefl oor with a mellow three-minute Kölsch really delves into the glories, ‘You’ll Know’ is intro before the four-four fi nally 10. JEREMY OLANDER ‘Roots (Henry Saiz Remix)’ Vibrant “A remix I did for my friend Jeremy, very happy about this one. A 10-minute ingredients he’s assembled in nonetheless progressive trance arrives to elaborate into a deep techno trip with a warm analog sound and a retro ‘90s trance touch. all of their glory. at its fi nest. The euphoric 10-minute epic. Can’t wait for this to be released!

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DJ561.Music_Electro.indd 128 10/08/2016 16:19 DISCO Vercetti Technicolour Golden Taurus EP QUICKIES Crimes Of The Various Artists 10 1996 / 2016 Scott Fraser and Tim Fairplay’s Versatile Crimes Of The Future label 8.5 yields another crushing, mid- Has it really been 20 years? French label Versatile tempo, EBM-powered blow via starts the celebration with twisted disco and house shadowy nom de plume, Vercetti from Zombie Zombie, I:Cube and DJ Sotofett. Technicolour. Backed with a rather inspired ‘kosmiche’ remix from Playgroup Minimal Rome’s Heinrich Dressel, Previously Unreleased ‘Golden Taurus’ ploughs into Yes Wave delirious VHS-era nostalgia with 9.5 sharp synth phrases that could

JONATHAN BURNIP [email protected] Over the next couple of months, Trevor Jackson will have soundtracked Carpenter’s plunder the exhaustive Playgroup archive to release science fiction or Cronenberg’s his previously-unheard, metal-dance gems. body horror. Long Live The New Flesh! Jorkes Thank You Solar Bears Freeride Millenium Separate From The Arc (Andrew 7. 5 Weatherall Remixes) Munich pair, Jorkes, add to fledgling Freeride Sunday Best Millenium label with the ardent post-club Balearic 8.0 comedown of ‘Thank You’. Manchester’s Ménage Every few years, pioneer of the à Trois offer further comfort with remix and indie-dance, Andrew Weatherall, instrumental versions. takes on an unsuspecting new route in his production and Homeless feat. Len Sander surprises us all. Since relocating Homeless from a lengthy period in his MONEY Homeless notorious Scrutton Street Kiwi SHOT! 7. 5 studios in East London (where ThrowDown Festival-friendly synth-pop number from Homeless he produced recent post-punk that accompanies two clattering, Optimo Music — a new project from a couple of established and death-disco classics as The industrial-pop mixes from the 10 producers who prefer to operate in the shadows Asphodells alongside Timothy Peaking Lights duo, who add For those of you searching rather than prance about on a Lovebox stage. J. Fairplay), Lord Sabre has the vigorous energy of EBM, in vain for that elusive, ‘86 explored the electro tradition overhauled with their own lyrical block-rocking electro- JD TWITCH OPTIMO once again (note: the mid '90s translation. A strong release, but 12” by Carmen, here’s an Haywire sessions) as heard in it’s Moscoman’s beguiling original authentic cover from plucky recent remixes for the likes of that will draw the most attention. London producer, Kiwi, that’ll Craig Bratley. Here, he focuses more than suffice. Tastefully those crisp electro rhythms toward C Scott reproduced, the drums are the dream-pop instrumentals of The Pittsburgh Diaries squeezed a little tighter and Sunday Best’s latest signing, Solar Lumberjacks In Hell even Ciara Haidar’s vocal is a Bears, with a couple of remixes 9.5 touch gutsier that the original. that hark back to the Two Lone Marcel Vogel’s ever-reliable, Backed with a killer, old-school- Swordsman era. disco-centric Lumberjacks In worshipping freestyle mix, Hell label rolls out an EP of ‘ThrowDown’ is your immediate Bryan Ferry Detroit-style beatdown house/ ‘86 to ‘16 party-starter. Avonmore (Remixes) disco from unknown, C Scott. BMG 01. KIWI ‘ThrowDown ( Mix)’ Optimo Music Disco Plate Reminiscent of those mid-'90s “Hoping this one kicks off the Latin freestyle revival.” 8.0 Three Chairs releases (the a bonus version from Salon Des 02. TESTPATTERN ‘Techno Age’ Yen Records A bewildering amount of new rotating duty of Theo Parrish, Rick Amateurs resident, Tolouse “1982 Japanese proto-techno that works equally well at 33 or 45.” remixes and additional production Wilhite and Moodymann) using Low Trax, who works a freaky, weigh this extensive collection of classic disco loops, cemented mechanical dub version. Killer. 03. SORDID SOUND SYSTEM ‘The Baron’ Invisible Inc. “Solo project from one of the mixing geniuses behind Green Door studios in new material taken from Ferry’s by that hallucinatory, Detroit- Glasgow. How to dub properly.” last album. Notable talent taking style production touch. Scott’s Craig Bratley feat. 04. ILO ‘Hidden Lane’ Rebirth Ferry’s distinct croon to the technique drifts from the mid- Danielle Moore “I only found out after playing this loads that this was recorded in Glasgow and features a friend of mine on vocals. Icelandic goodness.” dancefloor are Justin Robertson, tempo fusion of ‘Hands Free’ to the Play the Game (inc. Andrew PBR Streetgang, Ray Mang fast-paced, filtered disco bounce Weatherall & Heretic Remixes) 05. UNDERSPRECHE ‘Invito Alla Danza’ Optimo Trax and Ulrich Schnauss alongside of ‘At Ease’ and swings in all the Magic Feet Recordings “From their epically-widescale forthcoming album, this is the sound of Southern Italy, Summer 2016 but still works in rainy Scotland, and beyond.” excellent dub versions from the right places. 8.0 Idjut Boys, slo-mo house fixes Bubbling arpeggios and 06. O YUKI CONJUGATE ‘Californium (Charles Webster re- mix)’ Staalplaat from Leo Zero and leftfield disco Wolf Müller & Cass. chugging disco-noir have become “Forgotten 4am vibes classic.” mixes from Prins Thomas. Quantity The Sound Of Glades (Remixes) synonymous with Craig Bratley’s and quality. International Feel sound and ‘Play the Game’ 07. FELIPE GORDON ‘Mosaico Andino’ Forbidden Cuts “I have a feeling the piano on this is borrowed from some Colombian 9.5 succession of strong releases classic, but it works so well in this new context. It has been a festival hit all summer long.” Moscoman Following a couple of for the likes of Tsuba, his own Mexican Cola Bottle Bab indispensable releases for Magic Feet label and Weatherall’s 08. TECHNO BERT ‘Neue Dimensionen’ Target Records ESP Institute affiliated label Themes For Great collectible Bird Scarer imprint. “Ridiculous artist name, ludicrous track. I always thought this was Belgian but it seems it is Italian. Synth-power overload that steals from The Human 9.0 Cities, Wolf Müller (and German Not too dissimilar to the rousing League, Nina Hagen and Siouxsie & The Banshees.” Moscoman returns to ESP Institute sound designer, Cass.) released electronic finale to Vangelis’ ‘Blade 09. SWEET LITTLE BUNTY ‘I Who Have Nothing’ Ackee with the cryptic ‘Mexican Cola their new-age/ambient opus Runner — End Titles’ the rippling “1975 UK torch song produced by the unsung legend that is Mike Dorane. Should have been a top 10 hit.” Bottle Baby’, sounding like on reliable Balearic imprint, ‘Play the Game’ is accompanied it’s been made up of random, International Feel. Two highlights by a feverish remix from Timothy 10. GEINOH YAMASHIROGUMI ‘Ecophony Rinne’ Invitation modular chirps and an assortment lifted from the album, ‘Glade Clerkin (Heretic) and one from “Japanese collective with several hundred members best known for doing the Akira soundtrack, this is my go-to after-the-club album. Nothing sounds of sampled rural chatter. It’s a Runner’ and ‘Aiolos’ are remixed Andrew Weatherall, who drops an like this.” catchy percussive dub-disco tool by the artists, respectively, plus oddball, fizzing electro version.

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DJ561.Music_Disco.indd 129 09/08/2016 09:27 Untitled-1 1 15/08/2016 16:01 TECH-HOUSE Alex Kennon vs. Joyfull Family QUICKIES The Party Is Over Terranova feat. Stereo MCs Yaww Recordings 004 Remedy 8.5 Connected A collaborative slice of deep 8.5 and grooving tech-house Moody and building techy brilliance from Terranova from rising Italian production and the Stereo MCs on the latter's clever label, outfits, Alex Kennon (Saved, Connected. Snatch!, NONSTOP), and trio, Joyfull Family. This lands on the Carlo Lio Romanian label Yaww Recordings iLL Shit and gets a brilliantly trucking and Kaluki Music twisted remix from Kellerkind, 9.0 who takes the smooth and vocal A typically high-octane release from Carlo Lio. 'iLL original toward a moody, vox- Shit' is trippy and intense with a tearing dubby styled sluggish groover. The EP LEON CLARKSON [email protected] B-side. Both get remix treatment from Pirate Copy finishes with a revision (‘3rd Club and SHADED, respectively. Mix’) and the energetic, subby and dubby, ‘State of Mind’ that’ll Nick Behringer ensure the party definitely is not Transit EP over. Käse Kool MONEY 8.0 SHOT! A thrilling, deep and grooving journey from a man Go (Loco Dice Remixes) on the ascent, which drops on 's Käse Kool. Desolat 9.0 Oliver Schories If you’re going to mess about Artik EP Melohman & Javi Bora with a timeless dance track, then Chapter 24 Records Stronger EP anything under level ‘Nailed It’ 9.5 Tribe Trax is considered failure. Loco Dice Cruising at the deeper end of 7. 5 can rest easy then, because he’s Raxon the tech-house spectrum, with This EP's highlight comes from the remixes by Ifa got his take on the seminal 'Go' Formulate EP melodic flair in abundance, the Aye, who turns the infectious funk of original track spot on. Sculpting a loopy tribal Sincopat oh-so-good ‘Artik’ oozes some 'Stronger' into a deeply techy instrumental and rhythm that builds energetically, 9.0 brilliant techy synth work, and dub mix. he teases the originals most iconic The leading arpeggiating synth receives some killer remixes. element — "Go" — to create a on ‘Formulate’ combines with From the experienced Marc trip that leads into the inevitable a building rhythm to form a DePulse, a revolving and infec- CERA ALBA MADTECH/AVOTRE outcome... breakdown bliss. It mesmerising ebb and flow; it's tious tech'd-out masterpiece; only takes — a tentative and deft and impactful, and why high-flyer Third Son and his satisfying — six minutes. If you Raxon’s reputation is in full ascent emerging, cosmic tech sound; can’t wait then his ‘Mo Strings right now. ‘Elevate’ is a funk-laden and Atapy, with his minimalis- Remix’ gets there a lot quicker. stomper with '80s electronic drum tic, groove-laden techy cut. The fills and lingering electro pads, entire package is an insane trip Marco Carola which retract for the drops to leave to behold from start to finish. Play It Loud (Mihalis Safras a dancefloor buzzing bassline Remix) hook. Sincopat label , AFFKT, Circus Recordings takes this blueprint, widens the feel-good, sun-drenched techy 8.0 dynamics and nudges it towards house cuts from the experienced The techno godfather and his the tech-house/techno crossover Canadian native, AD/D. The 2011 minimal hit, ‘Play It Loud’, with some typically nimble former of the pair gets a double get a tasty 2016 modification from adjustments. remix from Art Department the excellent tech-house don, (Jonny White), and both remixes 01. POINT G ‘Balea’ Point G “This is still one of my favourite records of all time, perfectly balanced with Mihalis Safras. It’s been given the Kim Ann Foxman add dynamic value, although groove and a touch of emotion.” sort of facelift that will see it slot It's You That Drives Me Wild fail to really take the original Firehouse Records 02. CASSY ‘Black (ItaloJohnson Remix)’ AUS Music perfectly into a modern Carola set, to unexplored realms, a point “When I first heard this record it brought me back to those classic tech-house whilst appealing to the broader which shouldn't mar an otherwise records from the mid-, the bass just grabs you as soon as it comes in!” 8.5 tech-house peerage also. Play it The delightfully powerful and uplifting, quality dance EP. 03. ISAAC TICHAUER ‘Higher (Bicep Remix)’ Loft Records loud, quite literally! emotive ‘It’s You That Drives Me “Following on from there smash ‘Just’, this sets the bar even higher.” Wild’ drops on Kim’s very own Emery Warman 04. TREVINO ‘Ojak’ 17 Steps Leftwing & Kody Firehouse Records and showcases Soulthing EP “Always been a huge fan of Trevino, and he does not disappoint here. Simple MadTech Records and effective, the claps on thirds work so well.” Metron EP a wild, bass-focused deep house VIVa Limited sound that's full of energy. Maya 8.0 05. CERILLO ‘Warehouse Vibes (Cera Alba’s Future Treat- 7. 5 Jane Coles gets ahold of the This rising producer is firing on all ment)’ Strictly Deep “Probably one of my favourite records I’ve written recently, I tried to The UK tech-powerhouse of remix for a desolate alternative- cylinders right now, releasing on combine the tough techno sound with the emotive vocal hooks, I think it Leftwing & Kody continue their sounding cut, replacing the Stereo Productions, VIVa Limited, works well.” relentless release pace, this time emotive edge of the original to Deeperfect and now Madtech, all 07. MATT SASSARI ‘Within To Me’ Deeperfect Records stepping up to a full EP on VIVa play on the vocal really well. The within 2016. In this EP he offers “Been following Matt’s music closely, always delivers a solid track. This is one for me — straight-up tough-rolling bomb!” Limited, for whom they recently EP is balanced nicely with the up tribal rhythms and jacking combined with Mark Jenkyns -inspired ‘Magic Window’ and percussion on ‘Simple Mind’, 08. NOIR ‘Obscurité.chno (Paride Saraceni’s Vocal Reinterpreta- on the 'Warriors Season 5' Maya Jane Coles-sounding ‘Give It sub-grooving power on ‘Do Tha tion)’ Noir Music “Absolutely brilliant remix by Paride, I love the use of arp and pads to create compilation mix. The 'Metron' EP All You Got’. Music’ and a zonal trip on the the emotion. It’s never too much with Paride, which is what I like about his music.” is standard L&K fare; high-energy eponymous, ‘Soulthing’. Overall tech-house with flourishing stabs, AD/D it’s a little lighter if compared 09. MARCO FARAONE ‘Rotaryknobs (Radio Slave Remix)’ Uncage “Radio Slave, for me, is one of the best on the planet. This tracks shows how FX and frantic, chunking bass that Motorcity Sunrise to that of ‘Heavy Duty Dolls’ you can make something quality with only a few specific parts.” they've made their name with. No.19 Music or ‘Evolution’, but shows his Pick of the bunch is the vocal, but 9.0 versatility and, importantly, drops 10. MR. G ‘Binky’s Groove’ Planet Rhythm Records “Another classic from the G. This one is pure no-messing groove, the sweep- zonal, ‘Retract’. ‘Motorcity Sunrise’ and ‘High on one of the scene's most revered ing vocals keep it interesting but it’s the bass that gets you dancing!” Harmonix’ are two sublimely imprints.

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What [email protected] Ram Records 8.0 Definitely not radio-friendly, Wilkinson's back to his old tricks and reminding us all how to he tears down the club. It's a metallic and gritty stomper, with sharp stops and twists. Something that themselves would be proud of.

Random Movement Climbing In CIA Deepkut 8.0 As the tune begins, you think we're going down the road of hybrid, glitchy, clicky, liquid tech until the drop gives way to an unexpected bassline. Great release. MONEY SHOT! Soul Intent Kolectiv Bad Boy Timelines Dope Plates Dispatch Recordings 8.5 9.0 Classic jungle with a modern twist (or "future There’s something about a very delicate, adding a shot of That's no mean feat, but totally jungle" as it has come to be known) will always be soulful vocal that just propels warmth beneath the ethereal unsurprising when you think a winner in our eyes. Here, we find nostalgic breaks a track into a different and pads. The piano adds a radio- of his production quality. 'War' layered with, dark new school samples and haunting very much higher class. This friendly vibe making it easily takes us into down a murky accents. dark and seductive Lothario of accessible. If you're looking for path, with a low-rumbling sub, a track starts off with a silky something harder check out the battling lasers and thundering half-time beat decorated with 'Unreal Remix'. drums building the body, and TC DON’T PLAY RECORDS dancing pianos, an understated classic female vocals between sax and a collection of metallic Maztek & June Miller the sections. This track has got sounds, while the atmospherics Blaffer some serious power, as the old are reminiscent if ’s early Eatbrain saying goes: "It's a banger!" works. At the drop, the drums 8.0 double and we are introduced Stepping up for his first Pythius feat. to the deep, skulking bass. full EP on giant Kryptomedic Exquisite track. Eatbrian, Maztek works with Driveyard June Miller to create the Blackout Music rough, tough floor-destroyer 7.5 War that is 'Blaffer'. This track's This is one for the mosh pit. Invisible energy is intense and insanely It’s a call to arms. It’s a creepy, Methlab Recordings claustrophobic, packed full of sinister track with a beat which 9.0 twisting, fast-paced knocks and can be likened to the march of This is a stunning piece of zipping lasers, with a close and a slow, steady, threateningly- music from French producer, brooding underbelly. Rumour oppressive mutant army. The War. A delicate balance of real, has it, the EP was written as vocal provided by Kryptomedic rough, raw grittiness and a the sonic diary of a mechanical has been brought down and calming undertone. It’s a track and terrifyingly-murderous distorted to the point of 01. TC ‘Next Hype (Crissy Criss, erb N dub & Malux ‘Brexit’ Remix)’ Dub which is constantly changing: monster's journey to death. Bit becoming evil. The drop is “First official remix from ‘Unleash The Wolves’ and these boys KILLED IT! I gave drum patterns, the sub, the dramatic, eh? equally monstrous, leaving away all the parts of my album for people to remix. Check tcdnb.com.” synths — everything changes. a trail of relentless gunshots 02. JAM THEIVES ‘City On Fire’ Playaz Recordings This emotive track works a bit The Upbeats dancing over pounding drums “Been opening my DJ sets with this one for months.” like a sonic metaphor — an Mediums and broken by scratches. empty echoing space, slowly Vision Recordings 03. NOSIA & THE UPBEATS ‘Dead Limit’ Vision Recordings “They’re just so sick! I know it’s been out for a while but I can’t stop playing it!” building to show the crushingly 8.5 Was A Be powerful, yet breathtakingly This one has been so massive this 4 To The Floor 04. TC FEAT. METRIK ‘The Light’ 3Beat Shogun Audio “I love working with Metrik. Sometimes we sit on Skype for a day and just make beautiful harshness of life. An summer, it’s hard to believe it bootlegs for our DJ sets. I had to team up with him for my new album.” absolute gem for the second hasn’t been released yet. It starts 8.0 instalment of the BNKR series. with empowering atmospherics Italian duo Was A Be have 05. UPGRADE ‘More’ Serial Killaz “Another older track, but I’ve been drawing for this loads recently. Really cool and some funky, hollowed seemingly blown up out of jump-up from Upgrade.” Hybrid Minds feat. percussion, moving towards nowhere, and it’s due to their Grimm an intense build up before the immensely-versatile and 06. ‘Rocket Guns Blazing’ Get Hype Records Skeletons almighty drop. Switching beat equally-excellent production. “Wicked tune from The Prototypes on their brand new label Get Hype Records.” Hybrid Music patterns and throwing in some This is a slow-moving stepper 07. FRICTION & FOURWARD FEAT. JAKES ‘Battle Scars (Alix 7.0 half-time keeps everything with an ongoing and absolute Perez Remix)’ Shogun Audio The track starts off very much vibrant. killer of a bassline, which “Alix has absolutely smashed it with this remix. Love dropping this one.” in the realms of One Direction, switches to a pulsating throb 08. PHACE ‘Lit Up’ Neosignal the soft and candy-coated Hamilton after the first breakdown. “Biggup German engineering, each and every time!” vocals provided by Grimm talk War Bright clicks, dark, quick Ram Records 09. METRIK ‘Terminus’ of reoccurring dreams of his snatches of warbles and “My boy Metrik smashing out a killer on Hospital. MASSIVE!” lover's face. The drop reveals a 8.5 futuristic flurries of music-box tempo we are more accustomed It's amazing to think that notes make up the layers of the 10. TC ‘Hold On’ 3Beat “This is the most personal track on my new album. It’s a song about the life of to on this page; the breaks Hamilton has been big in the track, but the allure lies within a travelling DJ and it’s also the last track on ‘Unleash The Wolves’.” are tight and crisp, the sub is game for two decades now. the sub.

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Ash Turner & Jade Marie [email protected] Act Stupid (Hybrid Theory Remix) Four40 Records 8.5 Brummie bass heroes Hybrid Theory step up with a booming 808 bass-fuelled slice of . This one's all about the sinister, shadowy atmospherics, spiky snippets of rap vocal and raw, relentless low-end.

Crawford Life Punks Music MONEY 8.5 SHOT! Cornwall-based newcomer Crawford drops a heavy Barely Royal, dose of rip-roaring 808 bass on the Stanton Bunnie & Mij-Mack Warriors' mighty Punks imprint. This one's a Trust minimalistic booming bass groove topped off with BRØKEN an incessant female vocal refrain, classy percussion 10 and cool rising FX. There are not too many times a year you hear a track that Nina Wilde grabs you by the solar plexus Hype and begins rotating your Hollaphonic building a unique brand of urban Project Allout Records cerebellum round its little Surrounded by Lions (FooR cool, 3am warehouse action for 8.0 finger like a nuclear-powered Remix) the hipsters and true believers. The prolific Brummie bass queen goes in hard with spinning top. 'Trust' from Yosh a brooding slice of atmospheric 'dungeon'-style Londoners Barely Royal and 9.0 Smalltown DJs & Peep breakbeat bass, featuring sick pitch-bent FX and a Bunnie, plus Gloucester man Southampton quartet FooR bring This crystal-clear kick-and-clap combo. More evidence Mij-Mack, does just that with the heavy, heavy four-four bass Complete Madness/Bout To Go that Wilde has this sound sewn up. effortless flair. Sumptuous music vibes to Hollaphonic's Down female vocals and lush piano eccentric original, featuring a Hot Cakes MC Shantie & Joedan chords blend with deep, deep posh chap talking about surviving 8.5 No Verse Two sub and simply glorious strings in the jungle, using the power Coming atcha straight outta Tumble Audio before the drop sends the of low-end to take out the local Canada is this double dose of 7. 5 bodies flying round the room wildlife. You'll know this one chunky floor-filling beatmongery. Cultured, -y from the mighty Tumble with glitched-out vocals, raw when it comes firing out of the Festival heads Smalltown DJs Audio, packed with sinister atmospherics and bass motifs and classy two-step bassbins: the raw and rugged deep team up with Canuck powerhouses booming low-end. Shantie's madman-in-the-rave . There's another frequencies are guaranteed to Peep This for their debut collab lyric is frenetically delivered and never lets up. dose of atmospheric future cause mayhem in the rave. on Hot Cakes. 'Bout To Go bass, this time with rougher, Down' is the big winner here, MARCUS NASTY RINSE FM grime-y vocal stabs, on the Smash HiFi smoothly combining four-four more heads-down, brooding Bombs n’ Beartraps feat. and breakbeat drops with brass roller 'Wasteman', and remixes Legionaires hits, rap vocal licks and rugged come from the likes of Midnight No Limits bass for a peak-time monster Phullin', Negativ and Sugar and 9.0 mash-up of epic proportions. Shake. But to be completely Smash HiFi are a partnership On the flip, 'Complete Madness' honest, it's all about the between ex- man Leeroy throws brooding, heavily reverbed original. This is the debut Thornhill and German guitar work, blippy organ and far release proper from BRØKEN, superhero Marten Hørger, and this out snatches of psychedelic vocals the nascent imprint from Texas- collaboration with London rap over wompy b-line energy. Two based Left/Right and Zander, crew Legionaires delves heavily very solid cuts. and we all really had better be into 'Fat Of The Land'-era Prodge, hoping it's the shape of things all rock-rap-dance eclecticism B-Phreak & Philly Blunt over fearsome breakbeats, searing Ass Clap/Bungle 01. TAIKI NULIGHT ‘Duck & Cover’ Dub “This will make you headbutt ya desk.” noisenik synth stylings and punky Klub Kids Hypho attitude. The first single from the 9.0 02. BORN DIRTY ‘Check Your Bell’ Dirtybird “This is like consistent but good head.” Takeshi duo's forthcoming album 'Order Proving that thousands of miles Menu Music More Disorder', it's a track full of and a serious time difference 03. SIRMO ‘Kill The Beast’ Dub 8.5 future-retro grit and machine- can't stop the creative juices when “This one gave me a boner when I first heard it.” Perennial breakbeat heroes Menu honed muscularity just perfect for they're really flowing, German 04. PVC ‘Levitate’ Fly Boy Music place one foot tentatively big room sets. renaissance man B-Phreak teams “A new favourite for me.” in the future here with a classy up with Australia's Philly Blunt 05. DJ Q ‘Sonic’ Local Action dose of brooding, percussive bass KC Thorpe feat. for a double dose of superior “Every time I play this, it’s a reload.” music from Russian producer Dee. Leslie P George 808 boom. 'Ass Clap' is pure 06. WITTYBOY ‘Tiger Style’ Dub Rocking a heavy UK-influenced You're The One For Me (Leda Stray hipster booty breaks, all trappy “I am so glad this bassline legend is making UK bass.” vibe, this is a long way from the Remix) rhythms, devastating low-end DeeVu Records 07. INKLINE ‘Carbon Play’ Audiophile XXL more 'trad'-sounding breaks and massive synth-led build-ups “This isn’t his only banger, and won’t be his last, so look out for him, please.” the label has been putting out 9.0 disintegrating into the severest 08. HYBRID THEORY ‘Yes Yes’ Punks Music recently, and it's all the better Londoner Leda Stray drops a heavy of killa drops, while 'Bungle' adds “My theory on these fellas is that they are some sort of hybrid human/music for it. On remix duties, My jungle and garage-influenced junglistic breakbeats, sick brass programme cheating their way to success, LOL.” Selecta steps up with a muscular bass music banger, all rinsing hits and wonky bass mayhem, 09. JOOK ‘Sypher’ Dub jungle-influenced four-four drumwork, judicious use of the then conducts a major switcheroo “So heavy it’s nearly made me destroy the Rinse FM studio a few times.” workout that's chock-full of 'Think' and 'Amen' breaks and to send us all into glorious, lush 10. KACHINA ‘Flute Riddim’ Dub rudeboy attitude and atmospheric classy use of George's soulful synth hedonism. Do not let these “Possibly the most refined and calm tune out of the lot. An absolute delight to soulfulness. vocal. Here's a producer who's pass you by. mix and listen to.”

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DJ561.Music_Breaks&Bass.indd 134 10/08/2016 16:26 Untitled-3 1 14/06/2016 14:06 GRIME [email protected] MARTIN FELICITY QUICKIES Lean Low Zelda’s Workout Bad Taste Records 7.5 Tropically-dipped instrumentals from Bad Taste boss Lean Low, who puts out four funky-leaning bombs just in time for ice cream season. It’s ‘Plane Trance’ that commands our attention the most, though.

Scrufizzer Vibe On This Stay Fizzy Records 7.5 goes for the summer banger flex with this UKG-led single, the sonic equivalent of dousing yourself in Lilt or something.

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MONEY SHOT! Spooky No Days Off EP Ransom FA feat. the city on the map, calling Ghost House Records Shogun on production by local Baza as 8.5 Wake Up well as vocalist Chelsey Jade The ever-prolific Spooky iTunes for a cut that won’t quite get 12 Bizzle lays out four solid 7.5 reloads in the dance, but will instrumentals on his own Shogun shot to fame with hard- no doubt get more eyeballs on Ghost House Records label. er-than-hard freestyle ‘Vulcan’, what he’s doing. Junglist anthem ‘Rest In putting Scottish grime on the Peace’ is packed to the raft- map, and now guests on a Rocket & ers with breaks and rude bass Ransom FA joint with J Lo-sam- Rocket x Scorcher EP wobbles, but it’s really the pling production by Polonis. Creating Monsters Ltd/PAP funfair-after-dark trap bang- 7.5 er ‘Devil’s Paradise VIP’ that feat. It’s north meets south as the 01. MEZ FEAT. ‘Lex Luther’ Unreleased warrants repeat rotation. Sort It Out Sharon Splurgeboys’ Rocket teams up “This collaboration is like honey in the headphones. Mez and Stormzy coupled with a Davinche beat is a sonic boom combo, this drew me back to 2010 — Universal with Scorcher for an eagerly 2012, which is never a bad thing.” 7. 0 awaited eight-track EP. Backed Wallwork & It might not be the most by that trademark trappy 808 02. SIR SPYRO FEAT. TEDDY BRUCKSHOT & LADY CHANN ‘Topper Top’ Unreleased Nico Lindsay obvious pair-up, but the bass, hops on ‘Super “Hearing ‘Sounds of the Sir’ at the beginning of a tune is always a good sign godfather of grime has joined Leng’, and the pair draft in Tee, but this is beyond good, it’s so dirty. The beat is gully. I feel like I’m going to Facts/Fyah war fully loaded when I get this out at a festival.” Black Acre forces with house duo Dusky Fabien Secon and Kadey James 8.0 for a cut on forthcoming album too. Don’t sleep on this one. 03. FEAT. ‘Lyrics’ “So much has gone into this song that I don’t even know where to begin. It’s London MC, Nico Lindsay, heads ‘Outer’. And, d’you know what? short and sweet but contains the wickedest lyrics, trippiest beat and Novelist. onto Bristol’s consistently on- ‘Sort It Out Sharon’’s grinding Emotional.” point Black Acre, following the industrial tech somehow gels Whippin’ Excursion SN1 Records 04. LAST JAPAN FEAT. AJ TRACEY ‘Ascend’ Coyote Records release of Commodo’s blistering with Eskiboy’s flow. As someone “How can AJ say, ‘Pull out the pumpy, let a man have it’ in his opening line ‘How What Time’ LP. Here he’s online mentioned: “This means over a Last Japan intro that sounds like it’s about to teleport me to space in 8.5 complimentary Fenty Puma Slides, and expect me to not find it incredible?” teamed up with Nervous we get Wiley and Gary Numan Even during a year when a new Horizon co-boss Wallwork for on the same album, weird times grime album seems to come 05. CAPO LEE FEAT. ‘Mud’ Rinse FM two UK funky-referencing cuts, we live in.” along every hour, we’ve had “Capo has managed to create a one of a kind grime song that demands your attention. It’s sing-along, conceptually solid and includes a presidential assisted by TSVI and Nan Kolè. itchy fingers for Hollowman’s feature from D Double E.” You’ve likely already heard Abra Cadabra feat. ‘Landlord’ — ‘Whippin’ 06. NICO LINDSAY ‘Demon (Muttley Remix)’ Unreleased ‘Fyah’ but it’ll be doing the Krept & Konan Excursion’ is our first taster. The “Stylistically this is a freestyle. There’s no chorus, just Nico MCin’ right up to rounds without a doubt. Robbery (Remix) road-rap veteran also recently the end. I love it because he’s saying so much and the beat is doing so much Unreleased unveiled the tracklist and with that whenever it ends I’m always left disappointed wanting to hear more.”

J Hus 8.0 it the LP’s feature slots, which 07. SKITZ, K9 & PHAZEWHAT ‘No Help Or Handouts’ Trapstar x Clean It Up Up-and-coming MC Abra include Stormzy, Donae’O, Unreleased “When you re-vocal a song that was already huge it’s always risky, but Cadabra from Tottenham had a Youngs Teflon, and CasIsDead. this 2016 version of ‘No Help Or Handouts’ is beyond match fit. Skitz, K9 and Phazewhat came to roll heads on this one, it’s unapologetically gully. 8.0 hit with ‘Robbery’ back in 2015, Wave emoji. Unapologetically grime.” Having recently signed to and if you missed it the first the Black Butter stable, East time round, now the single gets Ice Kid 08. YGG ‘Don’t Talk Like That’ YGG “Saint P, Lyrical Strally and PK are dangerous when it comes to flows, you’ll London’s man of the minute J a healthy re-rub from Play Dirty 11 literally get your head spun trying to keep up. So this tune comes with a Hus moves away from his unique pair Krept & Konan. Sonic Records deeper auto warning. Don’t listen to it while you’re driving, you’ll be sliding all over the motorway.” and stylings 8.0 to release something slightly Eyez feat. Chelsey Jade One of the highlights of this 09. TREBLE CLEF FEAT. KODER ‘Trumpet Boom’ Bandcamp more grimacing and decidedly What’s Real year’s Red Bull Culture Clash “It’s the flow on this tune that sells it for me; it almost sounds like Treble Clef made the beat for Koder to vocal, his flow just wraps around it. I love that grime-facing. ‘Clean It Up’, Unreleased was Taylor Gang bringing out it was recorded in Auckland with an audience of grime fans too, who’d have with production coming from 6.5 Ice Kid, a rare sighting that thought that was even a thing?” Jae5, draws straight for creepy Derby grime talent Eyez drops shocked the most. The 10. NEWHAM GENERALS ‘Locked In’ ??? synths, orchestral flourish- this smooth-as-butter, melodic elusive MC’s new project ‘11’ has “There’s no way you can listen to this tune without your whole body moving. D Double E and Footsie always have the formula when it comes to tracks that es and Hus’s trademark wit. slice of rap, with a low-lying guest slots from Wiley, Chip and will have you singing along, reloading and bussing a at the same damn “Oooooh my!” bassline. And he’s fully putting Say Naye. time.”

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DJ561.Music_Grime.indd 136 10/08/2016 14:35 Untitled-2 1 20/06/2016 11:12 HIP-HOP & TRAP NEIL KULKARNI hip-hop album coming out was the (Van Damme) 'Streetfighter' soundtrack. Hip-hop: never QUICKIES not wondering how to get paid. Gensu Dean & This bass-heavy monster BANGS Broken Petal

Mello Music Group [email protected] by the way, in a real WC Madd 7.5 Circle/retro g-funk kinda way. Was I gonna check out Gensu's new 'Whole Heavy fucking manners. Food' set? Yes, but this got me scurrying for it faster. A free DL from his bandcamp and a lovely wee of strange, unplaceable (seriously, Future WTF instrument is playing it?) loops and heavy On Me hitting drums, together with some shared A1 verbals with DV that are spot on throughout. 4.5 Cop it for yourself soon as. I think I'd like auto-tune if Analog Brothers it didn't remind me of Bros More Freaks MONEY so much. Y'know that gurgly, catarrh-laden grunt Matt Goss 8.0 SHOT! Analog Brothers are Kool Keith, Ice-T and Giggs used to do? Proto-auto-tune. other assorted psychopaths. They dropped the Whippin Excursion Future always sounds like he's legendary 'Pimp To Eat' set in 2000 and MMG are SN1 Records juggling a big fat greenie in reissuing it with this single (accompanied by a 9.0 his throat and so all of his genuinely fucking nuts video) as the first salvo. What I love about this massively liked, massively It's as brilliant a track as you could imagine given the protaganists; spectacularly freaky, is that even though the popular projects this year have offensive and addictive, yet almost attitudinal chassis is pure trap, there's not lingered in my affections and aggressive with its wild horniness and all- no attempt here to cop for long. 'Guap On Me' is an round general unpleasant weirdness. Haven't anything American or old track freshly leaked and I heard Keith so animated in a long while. Superb stuff. try and reconfigure trap have to say, yet again it entirely dynamics for an English of the way through into this eludes me why this mediocrity Child voice. This could've sounded horribly hopeful EDM-style is being hailed as some kind of Creeper Par Excellence ugly, could've sounded like chord-sequence, I was flailing avatar of hip-hop progression 9.0 an attempt at Southern- at the stop button in a frenzy. and heat. No really arresting "Line up your poo and get your shit straight..." style phraseology with an bars, no really stunning — fucking hell man, when Problem Child get English accent. It doesn't. feat. production, just a faintly dull round to dropping their next album it's going It sounds entirely fluid, and competence all round. Would to be utterly astonishing, and if 'Creeper' is on it consider it essential already. Twisted gratifyingly more touched rather hear the instrumental, production, hysterical and massively incisive with a kind of European Bad Boy Entertainment/Epic and if I hear him trying to flob rhymes, you know the score. Absolute fucking sense of glacial dynamics 7.5 something nasty at me again dons. and textures than anything on the mix so the I'm just turning the fucker off. from the buckle of the Bible bass is in just the right place, SOUNDCLOUD Belt. Consequently, Giggs' under your feet, right up your Jehst x Lee Scott brilliantly clipped, terse ass, and the beat is a doozie — a Campbell & Algar and menacing rhymes suit little more uptempo than I've Blah Records it perfectly. Pretty amazing previously heard from him and 9.0 to create a track so touched designed for maximum neck- "...like Hunter S. at his blunted by that Southern heat, but snappage. Yet again though, the best..." — Morriarchi's that sounds so rainswept and lyrics let the whole thing down 'Buggsville Sessions' is cool — analogous to what with way too much laziness, and probably the greatest set the drill-folk from have quelle-sur-fucking-prise, Drake inestimable Blah Records have been doing, but shot through YET AGAIN deciding the best ever given us and this is the with an even deeper sense of way he could rap is to insinuate single pulled from it, a real London loucheness. Superb, yet more disses 's highlight. Sublimely effective 01. BRO SAFARI ‘Follow ( Remix)’ SoundCloud “I’m obviously biased because I wrote the original, but this remix is a shining and a good pointer to what way. Rap's degeneration into production from Morri, a deeply example of what makes Zomboy stand apart from other bass music producers.” will obviously be one of the sports-entertainment isn't dubby bass-heavy slice of neon UK of the year, the necessarily a bad thing and if I glide touched with little details 02. OSKI ‘Keep It Going (UFO! Remix)’ SoundCloud “This remix is crazy. The original had such a great vocal and UFO! isn’t shy soon-dropping 'Landlord'. was 10 I'm sure lyrically I'd find of held notes and drones, about flipping it around and putting his own twist on things.” this entirely satisfying. I'm not perfect for the home smoke-out though, I need more than this or the late-night drive 'n' drop, 03. JAUX X ‘Get On Up (Crystalize Re- mix)’ snarly vaguery to get my teeth Lee and Jehst dropping crisp yet “I don’t know if this is official or not, but if it isn’t, then it should be. Absolute into. Good signs for the soon- hugely suggestive rhymes into banger with pristine production.” Getting Out Our Dreams/Def Jam dropping 'MC4' set, though. the swirl. Make it as big as the 04. X NGHTMRE ‘Need You (Champagne Drip 5.0 pictures it draws in your head. Remix)’ SoundCloud “Another remix. Again, I’m unsure of whether or not this is official, but I abso- Oh fuck, it's an XXL Freshman The Game lutely love the forward-thinking direction that Champagne Drip takes this in.” (guaranteed tedium ahead), Get High but hold on! He's 'gothic'? n/a JoHn Muir 05. & ‘Killa ( & Aryay Re- mix)’ OWSLA Arf. 'Tiimmy Turner' is actually 8.0 “I’ve been following Boombox Cartel and Aryay for a while now, and this may musically kind of interesting Had got used to reviewing songs 8.0 be some of their best work yet. Riddim vibes.” — the rubberiness of the for the hip-hop page that are 'Blank Face' I'm just dipping 06. ‘Destroy Them With Lazers (Herobust Remix)’ Big bass and the strange baroque essentially leaks, diss-tracks, into, but it sounds like Beat Records “I might as well keep the remix hype going. Not much to be said here, but melodic twists of the hook lend unofficial releases but right alongside Royce's 'Layers' it Herobust is on a roll lately, and this is a great example of why that’s the case.” it, yes, a kind of goth vibe. now reviewing, I think for the could be the non-auto-tuned 07. LUX IMPALA & INFUZE ‘Collapsed’ SoundCloud Unfortunately, like much of first time in my writing life, a masterpiece of the year. ‘JoHn “This tune has been overlooked, but it is an absolute banger. Infuze is going to what you'll be assured is the track only made to promote an Muir’ is on one level an odd be huge, and you can quote me on that.” hottest shit out there, the track app (The Game's new 'virtual- single choice, but pumped 08. BARELY ALIVE ‘Jungle Demon’ Barely Alive Music rapidly turns into cold diarrhoea reality Compton gang-life game loud with the windows open “When it comes to dubstep, Barely Alive seem to be putting just about every- as soon as D starts talking/ for tablets and mobile devices you won’t hear a sharper, one else to shame. The sound design is unbelievable.” singing, a lot of auto-tuned called 'Block Wars'). Weird. sweeter, more soulful slam of 09. BRO SAFARI X UFO X ETC!ETC! ‘Baddest’ SoundCloud nursery rhyme-type shit that Actually not that weird when I spirit all summer. Propulsive “This is a track that will be on my next EP!” goes nowhere. When the whole think about hip-hop. There was lunging beats come courtesy of 10. BRO SAFARI ‘Snap (G-Buck Remix)’ SoundCloud thing changes three-quarters a week way back when the best . “G-Buck did this remix for me and he smashed it. Goes off every set!”

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Carbon Crush Versions [email protected] deadboy.net 6.0 A collection of five straight-up house bootlegs from Deadboy, released for free on his own website, Carbon Crush Versions sees the producer returning to some very familiar territory, chopping eerily reminiscent R&B vocals over chunked up house drums. MONEY Wallwork & TSVI feat. Nico Lindsay SHOT! Facts Black Acre Spooky & Boylan 7.5 Low Rider/All Black Winter All marching drums and incessant kick-drums Oil Gang ‘Facts’ is a hard-ball tune that's been made 9.0 out of decisively minimal elements. Plus Nico Blunt, direct, heavy, growling Swindle constructed but it's kinda cold Lindsay’s freewheeling chatter really works on grime music that comes Connecta EP out and I need down. top of the clatter of a drum troupe. backed by Oil Gang? I’ll have Butterz a lot of that please. I’ve 7.0 Soccer96 FaltyDL feat. Rosie Lowe written a lot before about Swindle’s journey of Megadrive Lamborghini Drugs how Oil Gang’s producers collaboration seems to be Slowfoot Blueberry carve their music perfectly continuing apace as the 7.0 7.0 for maximum impact in small producer travels the world Channeling an infectious Proving that most anything can sound fantastic dank basements and big to connect with musicians line of high-squalling over Kuedo-esque trap programming, the well rooms alike, and Spooky & from all corners of the globe. into their mixture of slow-mo established FaltyDL collaborates with Rosie Boylan’s new collaborative Word has leaked that Butterz house and hip-hop smack, the Lowe, whose vocals seem to drip and gloop 12” is the perfect example will be releasing a trilogy Soccer96 duo’s debut for the straight through the percussion gaps on the of how to go stadium-sized of EPs as a document of his south London Slowfoot label is pensively plump ‘Drugs’. grime with the kind of explorations and the first plate, as much a statement of intent beats that would slay any the 'Connecta’ EP, tackles the as it is a contextualization. The 100-capacity subterranean producer’s Brazilian adventure. wryly infectious four-four pulse WALLWORK NERVOUS HORIZON club, in any city, worldwide. Infused with samba and of ‘Megadrive Lamborghini’ swagger there are a couple of gets reworked by figures like outwardly carnival cuts and Scratcha DVA, Simbad and Bruce Trail then the unsettling highlight, Crewdson, offering the world Ravine Dream ‘Villa Mimosa’. some idea of where to shelve Magicwire them (i.e. next to innovative 8.0 Adjowa figures and accomplished Sitting on a cloud somewhere Headstrong producers). over The Aegean Sea, Bruce Happy Skull Trail looks down over the 8.0 Lixo feat. Trim hordes of humans gathered on Life can be quite quick, quite Writer’s Block the shoreline, all huddled on brutal and quite instant GetMe the shaley concaves of island sometimes, so it’s nice to be 6.0 coves and beaches. Noting afforded the room to grow with Trim’s latest LP '1-800 Dinosaur the severeity of some of their a label and have an unwavering Presents Trim' found him dayglo swim shorts and the way trust in its A&R. Letting things honing his narratives and the sun behind him glints off gestate and develop at their perfecting the act of letting his their sweaty frames in exactly own pace is also something verses hang in the spaces in- the same manner, he plugs his Bristolian’s know a lot about, between the production work. equipment into the cloud socket so Adjowa’s return to the As good as it is to hear him 01. PRIS ’Whatever’s Left to Say’ Avian and starts to rip into an array of Happy Skull label feels quite back, riding on top of a rolling ”Great new record on Shifted & Ventress’ Avian, the drone cuts are very good bumpy house music. timely, yet well overdue too. His kick-drum line, I really feel like I as well.” stylistically sci-fi boogie wins connected better with Trim ‘the 02. SCRATCHA DVA ‘Dafuq’ Djrum out on ‘Sylvie Always Goes In’. album personality’ rather than “Scratcha’s new album is going to blow everyone’s mind.” Space Race EP the guesting MC. It’s his own ‘Man Like Me’ 1-800 Dinosaur 2nd Drop 03. TRIM Galtier fault; he’s so good he leaves you “A breath of fresh air; impeccable bars and beats!” Bambooman 7.0 Myth Codes EP needing the full 360 panorama. Feel EP The last piece of his 12” trilogy Infinite Machine 04. TSVI & DJ JM ‘Aziza’ Nervous Horizon Accidental Jnr “A solid percussive dancefloor tool. Love the slow progression of the track.” 8.0 for 2nd Drop has finally landed, 5.5 Bryan Kessler I’ve made no secret of my love of the work of 05. FIRMA DO TZIGA ‘Carnaval’ Principe demonstrating yet another I’m absolutely positive that 10,000 Suns “Love the drum sounds and on this tune, it’s so catchy!” Bambooman. His music toes a fine line between facet of Djrum’s palette: the in this life, there’s a time and Numbers cleanliness and impact that I’ve always found double-time flip. The title a place for everything. Like, 7.0 06. SECOND STOREY ‘Sludge’ Nervous Horizon interesting enough to put my own money behind “The massive build up in this track is next level, it takes ravers by surprise it, and this step out with Matthew Herbert’s new track sort of click-clacks its at some point, someone in Scottish party collective every time.” Accidental Jnr label feels like a found sound match way through a head-nodding this world has really enjoyed Numbers will be dropping a slew (in a field somewhere in the Yorkshire countryside). 07. WALLWORK & TSVI & NICO LINDSAY ‘Facts’ Black Acre tempo before it switches listening to The Vengaboys, of percussive rave fodder from “The single from my latest 12” for Black Acre.” ‘Foundations’ is the hip-hop tip but it’s the title proper at the drop into unironically. And that’s totally the Cologne-based beatmaker track that’ll have dancefloors grooving. 08. ADDISON GROOVE & DIE ‘Standard Affair’ Gutterfunk Autonomic-style ambient drum cool. Do your thing, mate. So Bryan Kessler very soon and it “The usual bass explosion you’d expect from these two veterans.” & bass. ‘Sometimes I Share’ whilst I understand the genetics sounds exactly like the kind-of- is unadulterated d&b though, of Galtier’s three original well-made functional techno 09. DJ JM ‘KGS’ Unreleased “Dancefloor banger. Expect big things from him next year!” vocal-driven with brittle- productions on his 'Myth you’d expect from all parties. sounding percussion that Codes’ EP, it leaves me feeling Heavyweight. 10. DJ DORAEMON ‘Outro Mundo (Tarraxo)’ Unreleased sounds refreshingly delicate. unexcited. It’s solid and well “A young kuduru and moombahton genius from Portugal.”

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ACTI Too Much To Tell QUICKIES Subground Denza On Fire 7.5 Dirty Workz The pioneer of alternative hard 8.0 dance sounds, ACTI, delivers a Uplifting banger with a great original full EP of experimental beats male vocal from Denza here, perfect for the as part of his ‘Ketabeat’ EP, summer festival season and ticking all the right boxes for this genre! slowing down the bpms on all of the tracks even further than Mizel & Wilson the usual subground tempo 14 Billion Years for an EP full of hard dance TWR 8.0 tracks, perfect for warming My pick of the latest EP from the South Coast- up. This will be a tough sell on based UK hardcore duo. No-nonsense, bouncy, mainstream dancefloors but the bleep, ravey hardcore! Simple and effective. subground sound was always about creativity and boundary Geck-o Tripper MONEY breaking so it’s great to see the Funky Cat movement go back to its roots 8.5 SHOT! in this way. One of the most inspired artists in the hard MOB & Enemy dance scene, Geck-o’s latest offering is a fresh fusion of techno and hardstyle. This is pure feat. Nina Dany BPM creativity without a rule book, check it out for Iron Heart new release on one of the Eternally sure. Lethal Theory bigger labels in mainstream Fusion dance music! But don't expect Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs. Ummet 9.0 8.0 Ozcan It’s doesn’t feel too long ago much compromise from the Spanish freestyle master Dany The Hum (Andres Fresko & Skellism Remix) since MOB was a new face Italian legend as he delivers a BPM delivers this monster CDR picking up 'Best Newcomer' supercool 150bpm hardstyle debut release on Fusion records 9.0 at the Hardcore Heaven monster. Vocoded vocals featuring a harmonically- This catchy EDM hit gets a harder rework from this collection of American producers, with Awards, but since then he and gliding melodies build twisted vocal, uplifting heavy hardstyle and trap influences. Always gets has gone on to become one throughout the break, before melodies and an EDM-esque a reaction on the dancefloor. of the leading forces in the dropping to a minimal, techy build and drop even with a UK hardcore scene. His latest hardstyle kick and bleeps. “one, two, three jump” vocal WASTED PENGUINZ DIRTY WORKZ single, a collaboration with Certainly not as brutal as some for extra EDM effect! Dany has his long-time partner-in- of his other recent work, but been the leader of the harder crime MC Enemy, 'Iron Heart' still very much one for the hard sounds in Spain for sometime so reminds me why I love the floors, and as a fan of the full it’s great to see his work being happier hardcore sounds the spectrum of the harder styles, released on the top labels now. UK is renowned for. Euphoric this is personally my favourite Superb blend of styles here for a melodies, catchy vocals Zatox release in some time! peak-time track! and energetic beats are the Don’t sleep on this one! qualities that will have you Transfarmers humming this one long after The Pitcher Here We Go Again 2016 the lights and lasers at the Symphony Dirty Workz parties are turned off! Fusion 8.5 8.0 This tongue-in-cheek The Pitcher has been a name track may have you thinking of synonymous with Fusion the last time you saw the Alton 01. WASTED PENGUINZ ‘Make It One Day’ Dirty Workz DJ Potato “This track, like most of our tracks, is a real translation of our feelings into Street Kombat records for quite some time Towers TV commercial, but there sound. The message of the lyrics are clear. We love to use the reversed bass CDR now, moving his sound towards is no denying how big a hit the more and more lately and it goes off every time we play it!” the rawer sounds of hardstyle original mix of this was out in 9.0 02. WASTED PENGUINZ ‘Locked Out’ Dirty Workz Growing up as a youngster, I this year with an epic recent Europe. Here we have a 2016 “Our favourite to date. Very emotional lyrics performed really well if you ask us, followed by a typical Wasted Penguinz melody and lead sound. We’re proud had three loves in life. Video collaboration with Titan. This update, with all the modern of this one. Play it loud as hell and enjoy, especially the breakdown!” games, rave music and Leeds new release features a similar conveniences applied, such as United. This track takes heavy haunting vocal to the previous the obligatory trap break and 03. WASTED PENGUINZ & CRISIS ERA ‘Take Me Away’ Label TBA “Finally we did a collab with Crisis Era. When sitting in the studio, this track influence from two of the three collab as well as sinister updated techy hardstyle kick was born fast. Usually Crisis Era like the more ‘EDM’ kind of drops, but they were totally in love while writing this melody so we finished it together like and thankfully DJ Potato has no melodies, distorted kick drums drum. Those looking for a bit of this.” interest in first division football. and brutal twisted drops! Not light-hearted fun for their sets, This track is a hardstyler for the faint-hearted but this check this one out. 04. CRISIS ERA ‘Party Up’ WE R dripping in retro beat ‘em up one will certainly keep the “First class party banger. This one crashes dancefloors worldwide.” samples, from a rendition of harder dancefloors happy. Dirty Bastards 05. CODE BLACK ‘Wild Ones’ We R 'Guile's Theme' on the first Back To The Oldskool “A typical Code Black track. Really nice vibe, original melodies combined with breakdown, to the classic Da Tweekaz Hardcore Blasters his badass lead sounds.”

Mortal Kombat movie theme on Game Of Thrones 8.5 06. WASTED PENGUINZ ‘It’s Our Moment’ Dirty Workz the second drop. Add in some CDR As a lifelong fan of rave music, “This was our first release of this year and it still goes off every time we play it. The lyrics and original lead sounds do the trick on this one.” "hadouken" and "fatality" 9.0 any track that references vocal samples and you have a There have been many attempts ‘oldskool’ in its title instantly 07. ZATOX ‘Sunlight’ Mainstage Music borderline tongue-in-cheek to remix the theme to iconic catches my attention. Here “Really original track by our Italian friend Zatox. Really nice build up to a very distinctive drop, real party track.” party track that somehow just TV series Game Of Thrones, but the politely-named Euro works majestically. none have really hit the mark hardcore act deliver an upfront 08. AUDIOTRICZ ‘Inception’ Speqtrum Music “This track has some kind of anthem feeling in it. It brings an original and in taking the full effect of the production sound, laced with energetic vibe which we really like! Nice one!” Zatox melody. However Da Tweekaz nostalgia for yesteryear. Sunlight have absolutely nailed this one Breakbeats, erratic, stabby 09. ANDY SVGE ‘Gravity’ Speqtrum Music Mainstage “Some magical atmospheres happening right here. This is the proof that hard- using gliding leads and a furious hoover riff and classic hip-hop style with a darker atmosphere and feeling can still be very .” 9.0 build-up to absolutely destroy rap samples will have ravers of Here’s an interesting one: the dancefloor, delivering all generations bouncing along 10. WILDSTYLEZ ‘Encore’ Speqtrum Music “A real piece of art from Wildstylez. In our opinion, this is real music. Wild- one of the pioneers of the raw bundles of energy on the drop to this one! stylez shows his technical and musical skills once more with the original sound hardstyle sound, with a brand with a nice bouncy feel. design and melodies. Great (listener’s) track!”

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LEFTFIELD QUICKIES Resolution 88 Raios Do Sol Splash Blue Records 7. 5 Tight and smooth jazz-funk from this London- based four-piece. Rhodes piano is their keystone sound here. Love Herbie? You’ll love this. Lahun Slow Love EP FOUND SOUNDS [email protected] Apollo 7. 5 Slo-mo electronic ethereal soul from Lahun. Have a peek at ‘Nana Chan’ to see what Kirk Degiorgio was doing all of those years ago. Clipping MONEY Baby Don’t Sleep SHOT! Sub Pop/Deathbomb Arc 8.0 If ever there was a cause for the inclusion of Floating Points hip-hop on a Leftfield page, this, my friends, is Crooked Man play we say, and even though Kuiper EP it. Harsh, uncompromising, musique concrète I’ll Be Loving You none of the tracks here may Pluto oddball-inspired hip-hop. DFA Records reach the heady heights of 9.0 8.0 the aforementioned BBNG Two sides of the same Kiwi Richard Barrett is on somewhat track, this is a great intro to an incredible coin, this latest EP Throwdown of a roll at the moment with undoubtably creative young from the irrepressible Sam Optimo Music Disco Plate this, the fourth (albeit more talent. Shepherd once again goes 8.0 club-focused) single to be lifted to show what a gloriously Bona-fide killer electro-disco courtesy of the from his forthcoming album. Alex Smoke unique and talented chap ever-inventive and reliable Optimo, who offer up Utilizing the soulful refrain of Love Over Will Remixes he is. The first new material this brilliant cover version of Carmen’s cult and the underrated Pete Simpson, R&S since the release of ‘Eleania’, in-demand 1986 electro-funk track. they re-vamp (what we 8.5 lead track ‘Kuiper’ speaks presume is) the Soul Brothers Still aging like fine wine, one of a penchant for dense, PATTEN WARP RECORDS Six Northern soul track of the of our favorite complex, free-thinking jazz; same name. Don’t expect a producers gets to sit back for whilst ‘For Marmish Pt II’ (a Daptone-esque remake though. once in his prolific career. This continuation of the LP track It comes in ‘Love Bleep’ and time the hard work is done by of the same name) belies an ‘Dub’ versions. That should give a team of remixers including entirely less intense side to the game away. Can’t wait for Lakker, Tale Of Us, Tessela, his music, with a beautiful, the LP. and CW/A who dismantle laid-back, Rhodes-inspired and reconstitute his ‘Love ode to . Mehmet Aslan & Dario Over Will’ album in deep and Rohrbach/Alma Negra dubby fashion. Try the tribal Gazel EP percussion of ‘Manacles’ for a certainly sets out his stall in a Fleeting Wax taste of the depth on this great most unusual and intriguing 8.0 record. way, but in all honesty that only If Henrik Schwarz re-rubs tickle really tells half the story. The 01. DJ SINCLAIR ‘Ricky’ Keysound “Fire track. Keysound on point as per with this one.” your fancy, then Gonjasufi rest of the story becomes clear you could do worse than to The Kill/Prints Of Sin when you hear his music. Take ‘Ruby Fifths’ Fractal Fantasy 02. ZORA JONES Warp “Great one from Zora Jones. Hits just right. Excited to hear a lot more from the check out this gem from the this single for example; a truly Fractal Fantasy crew.” Swiss-based Fleeting Wax camp. 7.0 beautiful, heartfelt and emotive 03. HUERCO ‘On The Embankment’ Proibito Full of exotic spice, whilst being I can still remember Gonjasufi’s missive that speaks of loss, fear, “The new album is total earworm from beginning to end. Bold move from underpinned by a deep house first single, clear as day. It death, vulnerability, strength Huerco S on this release. Really beautiful tracks.” accent, it’s definitely music to was a proper sit-up-and-listen and honesty. Alternative poetry

04. DJ SAGEPAY ‘Almost Devil’ Soundcloud stroke ones beard to. But, all moment. Since then he has for a future generation. “Sounds like audio-graf to these ears. Architectural but twisted and crypto. the more rewarding for it. Hit up been quietly knocking out Hi-tech.” the Eastern magic of ‘Oriental the goods for Warp, albeit The Woodentops

05. LAUREL HALO ‘Nebenwirkungen’ Honest Jon’s Strings’ as the bonus and slightly under the radar. Back Why Why Why “We’d love to hear this out really loud. A slow tripped-out build into this funkiest of the outings. Nice. with his fourth album ‘Callus’ Wall Of Sound melted-down, whirring industrial clank.” (how did that happen?!) the 8.5 US producer-vocalist and Low It’s celebration time for The 06. MGUN ‘Don’t Hurt Yo Self’ Don’t Be Afraid Charlotte Day Lewis “This one’s so deep. That low bit-rate slo-mo fractal murk.” CDW EP End Theory protagonist once Woodentops as WOS tip the cap CDW again unleashes his trademark to their seminal indie/dance 07. HELEN ‘Motorcycle’ Kranky “Hard to choose from this flawless album. Perfect endless summer music from 7.0 brand of dark, dense, heavy and crossover ‘Why Why Why’ hit, Grouper’s band.” Having featured on politically-charged psychedelic with a triple decade overhaul. BADBADNOTGOOD’s sublime soul. As ever WOS present a gazillion 08. FUTURE ‘Ain’t No Time’ Epic blue-eyed soul-funk cut ‘In Your remixes to cover all bases, and “Everything here’s heavy — just slightly clipped-out in the red. ‘EVOL’ is end to end gold, but this is the one.” Eyes’, this young, unsigned, Lando Chill indeed there’s some interesting Canadian soulstress goes it Save Me re-hashes here. Leo Mas & 09. DJ SPALDIN ‘Flame Up’ Soundcloud alone for her maiden voyage. Mello Music Group Fabrice lead the modern charge, “Incredible juke track from Chicago producer. Super-raw.” Self-penned and self-released, 9.0 but there’s some more faithful 10. FHLOSTON PARADIGM ‘Nimoy’ Hyperdub you have to hand it to her; The tagline on this guy’s renditions including Balearic “Weird-out sci-fi odyssey from . His whole catalogue is full of she ain’t content with riding homepage reads “A normal kid stalwart Trevor Fung, who rises diamonds. Total visionary.” on anybody’s coat-tails. Fair with abnormal words.” That to the occasion blissfully.

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DJ561.Music_Leftfield.indd 145 09/08/2016 16:27 TRANCE TIM STARK [email protected] Skool' mini-series refocuses on some early Dutch hardcore items, which were influential QUICKIES to his most formative times. Outside of Holland, Offshore (Grum Remix) 'Dominator' is by far the best Modena known and sets 'Old Skool's 7. 5 tone. Latterly, other more Grum rework of Chicane’s debut is a faithful, personal faves like Speedy J's respectful take on a classic so timeless it’s almost 'Pullover' and The Ultimate impossible (and potentially indecent) to update. 's self-titled debut Thus, his tweaks are subtle, bordering at times more likewise benefit from his fleshed on straight-up edits. out/beefed up recalibrations. Kyau & Albert John O’Callaghan & 20 Years EP #3 Clare Stagg Euphonic Lies Cost Nothing (Will Atkinson 8.0 Remix) With Chris Schweizer's 'Megashira' revision and Subculture Recordings Pingpong's take on 'I’m Not With You', there’s a 7.5 fair bit to enjoy on the third of K&A's '20 Years' Man-of-the-moment Will EPs. Nothing's going to top Ferry Tayle's exuberant Atkinson does a remix slide- upgrade of the as-fresh-as-ever 'Be There 4 U' tackle on John's latest vocal though. outing. Previously, I've found Clare's vocal style a touch Big Topo & Omar Diaz MONEY too folksy. On 'Lies Cost 1969 SHOT! Nothing' though there's far Above All Records less whimsicality and more of 8.0 Knock Knock a conviction and statement to Stylistically, you never quite know what Topo Who’s Afraid Of 138?! her song delivery. This gives and Diaz are going to serve. Deep and moody is a 9.0 Atkinson edge enough to bend definite first for the pair though. Slowly unfurling No apologies for having two of the track to his more robustly melodies and finely-crafted sequences go a long WAO138?!’s number amongst natured production ends. Not way to making this the somewhat buried treasure our review flock this month. as out-there as last month's that it is. Their current form really That's what JOOF's professing 'Pat Butcher', but a very is that rich. In a singularly on 'Altered Senses', but its efficient, later-night treatment positive fashion, Signum have usage is highly qualified, when nonetheless. CHRIS BEKKER VANDIT RECORDS always made great stock from charted against the average. positioning themselves in the The lord of the underground Richard Durand genre’s artistic middle ground. does find his own type of Always The Sun (Remixes) Getting the best of all worlds, elevation on the track, but its 'Knock Knock' typifies this stirring tones remain checked 7.0 stance. Shifting with supreme halfway up the keyboard. They Expectation levels were high for fluidity between sound-styles, do, though, come packing some new versions of Durand's and bound together by Ron punch aplenty and with an arguably finest, yet surprisingly Hagen’s apparently effortless infectiously 'Rez'-like sub-riff. lesser-remixed, production production engine, this release moment. Three re-fashionings delivers thrills from first minute Sneijder & The Noble are on offer. Ahmet Atasever’s through last. Six is the coolest-heeled variant, Far From You opting for a leanly-produced Afterdark cruise up to its reasonable post-

Greg Downey 7.5 break payout. More eager to 01. NALIN & KANE ‘Beachball (Chris Lake Remix)’ Kontor Smoke & Mirrors/Rushin’ The freshly-minted Afterdark impress are Astuni & Manuel Le “SUMMER! When I listened to this one again, after a long time, I could almost smell the sunblock.” Kearnage Recordings/Subculture Recordings label hits its stride, as honcho Saux, who raise the tempo, tone 8.0 Sneijder and The Noble Six and impact aggregate. Best by 02. CHRIS BEKKER, CHRIS MONTANA & ‘Berli- Two tracks in two years and now (creator of last month's brilliant a nose though are Eximinds, nition (Flashback Remix)’ VANDIT “This hook will definitely not let you go this summer, no matter which of the two in two months… steady 'Oddworld') collaborate. 'Far who you sense have the tightest remixes you go for. I decided on the ‘Flashback Mix’, which has a little more on Mr. Downey! Ribbing aside, From You's title sounds like grasp of/feel for the source ‘fiesta’ style to it.” it's always good to see Greg it should be carrying a vocal, material. 03. ORKIDEA ‘Nana (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix)’ “I think nobody is using a straighter, more reduced kick/bass balance com- back at the production forge. but that's not the case. Its bined with a snare than Jerome does. In my eyes, simply adorable.” 'Smoke & Mirrors' — Kearnage's melodic-to-euphoric arc is Exis slice of this industriousness faultlessly structured, with The Count 04. GAI BARONE ‘Love Stimulation’ Afterglow “Gai put his hands on a classic and reworked it in an outstanding and — is a midfield general, which each instrumental element Who’s Afraid Of 138?! unexpected way.” stylistically contains a bit of given space to acclimatise and 8.5 everything and allows sets to subsequently catalyse the track. Continuing Who's Afraid Of 05. JASON ROSS FEAT. LAUREN RAY ‘Me Tonight’ Anjunabeats “A new Anjuna smasher with such catchy, goosebumpy chords after the drop, branch off in almost any trance Its harmonics fire the synapses 138?!'s recent form, 'The Count' you can’t stop listening!” direction. A more concentrated and the mainline is a precision- is another that's high up on this 06. ALEX M.O.R.P.H. ‘Not All Superheroes Wear Capes’ VANDIT acidic, techy number, there's guided goosebumper, which month's curve. What the track's “Already now one of my faves of this month. Alex’s tracks always have such a no prizes for guessing which never overclocks its uplift. title refers to, you best discover super intense break. A hit for the summer forecast here!” vocal's sampled on Subculture's for yourself (clue: it's not rocket 07. JEROME ISMA-AE & PAUL THOMAS ‘Tomorrow (Chris 'Rushin''! vs. science!). It's real pull though Bekker Remix)’ Toolroom Records “Still unreleased, but it will definitely go LOUD when it’s out! I ‘Bekkered’ this Human Resource — which is considerable — is in one good and proper!” John 00 Fleming Dominator its music. As with last month's Armind 'Silent Cartographer', it's 08. WRECHISKI ‘Diamond Eyes’ Zerothree Altered Senses “What a tune! Gimme more of these breathtaking harmonies please!” JOOF Recordings 7.5 once again bold in how it uses 8.0 In terms of remixing/reworking psy techniques (in this case 09. WOODY VAN EYDEN ‘Nominication’ Universal Nation “Woody nails it with a super-emotional lift-off break.” Everything is relative in tracks of yesteryear, Armin's over-ramped volume/quick-cut trance, but no more so than taking the path less travelled sequencing/madcap vocals) to 10. HEATBEAT ‘Aerys ( Mix)’ Captivating when it comes to 'uplifting'. here. Across five tracks, his 'Old further its thrall. “Peak-time track that’s in almost all my sets at the moment.”

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ALTHOUGH still only in tracks. Although physical his mid-20s, DJ Earl has and in your face on the been associated with surface, with loopy vocal the Teklife crew (which, hooks and snappy snare until 2010, was known patterns taking the as Ghettoteknitianz) for headlines, there is a sombre almost a decade. One of the musical subtlety to many of second wave of producers the tracks here. Synths are to join the collective’s often woozy and pained, ever-evolving ranks, he is wistful and gooey deep- now very much at the heart down below the surface, of the operation which was lending real emotional originally birthed on the impact to the unmistakably streets and dancefloors of visceral patterns up top. his native Chicago. Since There are hundred-mile- then the sound an-hour affairs that race has grown around the world through a shiny metropolis — with outposts now found as sirens blurt and blast in everywhere from Tokyo to all directions (‘Drumatic’); Berlin — but still a devotion trumpet-laced, sub-heavy to intricate shapeshifting and soul-infused groovers routines and dancefloor (‘Let’s Work’); fractured battlegrounds remains at melodic efforts with tongue its core. in cheek vocals (‘Lotta Ass’) This is only Teklife’s second and more lazy, lurching release ever after the first, efforts like ‘Smoke Dat ‘Afterlife’, paid tribute to Green’. All of this proves DJ Earl the scene’s late godfather, footwork has matured into Open Your Eyes DJ Rashad, earlier this year. more than just a frantic It reportedly took two years drum pattern: it is a genre Teklife to make and every track is a with real breadth and depth collaboration, but that does and one that is only likely nothing to dilute Earl’s to continue to confound 9.0 mesmeric footwork rhythms expectation as time goes Footwork comes of age across eight devastating on. Kristan J Caryl

9.5 8.0 7. 0 9.0 Eli Escobar Skudge Vinyl Williams It’s A Fine Line Happiness Balancing Point Brunei It’s A Fine Line Classic Skudge Company Kill The DJ Full of joy Drifting hypnosis Past & present psychedelia The line of best fit

Eli Escobar’s new album is aptly Despite opening their dance music LA-based artist/musician Lionel Parisian dream duo Ivan Smagghe and titled — it sent DJ HQ into a state of account in 2009 and starting their Williams channels his musical visions Tim Paris’s electronic worlds collide ecstasy when we spun it on our office eponymous techno label a year later, through his Vinyl Williams project, for this finely-crafted masterpiece. stereo earlier this month! A masterful Swedish duo Skudge are still wildly and on his third album here he’s Time is no object — since both residing fusion of bubbly disco, classic house underrated. While their about-to-land concentrated his sound into a spacey in London they’ve been working on and more modern sonics, it’s out sophomore album is unlikely to see mix of psychedelic ‘70s rock, and ideas of the album for years, and it on Defected-owned Classic Records, them headlining Hakkasan anytime equally psychedelic synth flourishes finally came into fruition in the last though it’s far from Escobar’s first fast, it’s definitely going to pique the and droney soundscapes. It’s certainly three. It’s seductive from the outset — release. He’s been plugging away interest of discerning lovers of proper more sonically-focused than the sultry tones from Olivia de Lanzac on steadily in the underground with deep, spacious techno, and pick up a freewheeling space adventures of ‘Cardiogram’ are gracefully laid across releases on Planet, Get Up and Twirl few new followers along the way. It’s his previous ‘Into’ LP. The sound grainy synths. ‘Redelivered’ reminds for two decades, but ‘Happiness’ feels the sort of lush dub techno LP that palettes Williams is working with of the on-trend indie-pop of the early like the record that’s set to (finally) falls somewhere between listening are beautifully formed, as an album 2000s. Plucked guitar riffs slide over propel Escobar to well-deserved and dancefloor material, while that draws on the different eras of subtle drums on ‘Disco Cluster’ and a stardom. Standout records include somehow still managing to satisfy the psychedelia, with its template set divine French-inspired melody line to ‘Chaka Khan’, a fizzing electro jam needs of both. Opener ‘Immersion’ is early with the standout ‘Riddles Of The boot. Their original notes six years back with pumping vox and elongated seething soundscape fit for a bleak Sphinx’. Alongside later offerings like read: ‘It’s a fine line between reference claps, and ‘I Need U’ which features sci-fi film, while ‘Polar (with Samo ‘The Cloud Of The Unknowing’, there’s and cliché’; an interesting musing a smooth-as-silk piano lick and jazzy DJ)’s clipped four-four could be used all of the mystical allusions that you’d that Ivan and Tim advocate, defiantly bass riff. Tracks like ‘Winter’s Anthem’ to warm up Berghain. ‘Drifting’ has a expect. However, while conceptually showing off their far-flung, impressive and ‘Happiness Reprise’ are a more more punchy tech-house groove and Williams has hit a home-run, the musical knowledge. Genre references laid-back affair — they show off ‘Air Walk’ injects fidgeting acid over songs on ‘Brunei’ are lacking the on the album span across eras; Escobar’s more sensitive, progressive- early ‘90s airs. A rave album with a requisite gripping songwriting to go electronica and rock & roll are fused sounding side. Buy it. Charlotte Lucy drawn-out tempo, its charm lies in alongside it, resulting in a beautifully- with moody disco, psychedelia and Cijffers balancing big-room sounds with thick sounding record that’s a touch hollow obscure punk — making for a rebellious headphone textures. Adam Saville at times. Angus Thomas Paterson and captivating journey. Anna Wall

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8.0 9.0 7. 0 8.0 Dusky Grant Motion Graphics Outer Cranks Ultra Motion Graphics 17 Steps/Polydor MÖRK Hyperdub Domino Outreaching Crank it up Nearly (un)dead on target Spot on!

Dusky have consistently bridged the The mysterious Grant (The Lauren At his best, Zomby tracks are models Opening with noises that could easily gap between the underground and Bacall) delivers the latest MÖRK of exactitude: with no element either be confused for your phone ringing, mainstream notoriety, so ‘Outer’ release, titled ‘Crank’, and sees the unnecessary or wasted. The same the Domino debut from US producer represents a tough fork in the road for club-focused Lobster Theremin sub- couldn’t be said of his third album Joe Williams — whose stomping the London duo. The album starts in label gifted with a deep, steamy trip ‘With Love’, which featured 33 tracks grounds include New York, Baltimore familiar territory with the euphoric through rugged house and broken, which often felt like demos that and LA — is nothing if not awash with ‘All We Ever Needed’ leading into the house-tinged techno. The often should have stayed on his hard-drive. unique sounds. main room sound of ‘Tiers’, through grainy-edged, unrefined, loose/ This follow-up isn’t flawless — surely It also couldn’t be more timely. The the tech-inflicted ‘Runny Nose’ and tight, unconventional, spacious he could have come up with something score is immediately inviting and into ‘Trough’s’ emotive vocals. and weirdly chaotic sounds which better than just pitch-shifting an R&B soaked in the aura of long, late Wiley collaboration ‘Sort It Out emanate from the Lobster Theremin vocal for ‘Fly 2’ in three years? But summer evenings. ‘Forecast’ and Sharon’ follows, which is solid as a stable have succeeded in garnering a for anyone who had Zomby pegged ‘Mezzotint Gliss’ nod to the artist’s stand-alone single, but where Jamie loyal, seemingly cult-like following, as a ‘poor man’s Burial’, the thuggish penchant for jazz experimentations. xx’s urban flirtation resulted in the who opt for vinyl as much as they do ‘Sweetz’ — an actual collaboration As do the abstract snare beats triumphant ‘I Know There’s Gonna digital. Brooding groove structures with that Hyperdub label-mate — underpinning lush, tropical tones on Be (Good Times)’ last year, this is are unleashed in tracks, ‘The Limit’, sounds less like Burial than usual, ‘Softbank Arcade’. ‘City Links’ takes one of the only parts of the album ‘Frame Of Mind’ and ‘Outsider’; hazy and there’s also great hook-ups with the project into glitchy electro-soul to feel disjointed. There are motifs atmospherics from ‘Different Ways’; Darkstar on ‘Quandary’ and Rezzett territories. ‘Minecraft Music’ comes of ‘In Colour’ all over ‘Outer’ too, and the occasional hands-in-the on the ‘90s -grade drum & over like the pop soundtrack to dawn and whilst the trio of ‘Long Wait’, air hedonism of ‘Around The Edge’ bass of ‘S.D.Y.F’. Plus, with ‘HER’ and breaking across some beautifully- ‘Songs Of Phase’ and glorious Gary and the drowsy ‘Bend’. It’s a broad ‘Thaw’’s elegiac ambient he evokes a animated vista; staccato drums Numan collaboration ‘Swansea’ house and techno record with that melancholy more profound than the pad out a loose rhythm; strings form the album’s highlights, ‘Outer’ archetypal Lobster Theremin sheen, slight frustration that he still hasn’t offer short, rapid arpeggios; vocals ultimately falls just short of adding wild and ‘imperfect’ dynamics. A real quite made the album we know he’s are breathy and reflective. Lovely an impeccable full-length to their treat. Leon Clarkson capable of. Paul Clarke stuff. Martin Guttridge-Hewitt enviable discography. Rob McCallum

Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve The Soft Bounce Phantasy Sound

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IT has taken the best part of a decade the airy opener ‘Delicious Light’. for Erol Alkan and Richard Norris to This multi-dimensional approach deliver their debut album as Beyond The showcases their roots in both dance Wizard’s Sleeve. Thankfully, ‘The Soft music and music in general, and as you Bounce’ has been worth the wait as the dive deeper these influences become duo meticulously fuse dusty pop, acid even more pronounced. ‘Black Crow’ house, ambient obscurities and ‘60s smoulders like the dying embers of psychedelia together for a joyously- soul’s once great dominance, while textured debut. the gloomy ambiance of ‘Tomorrow, The ‘60s were all about rising up, and Forever’ feels like a forgotten you get a sense of that rebellion with soundtrack to a cold war film. the thrashing ‘Iron Age’ early on. But Moments of despair flicker into feelings it’s by no means a protest record — the of elation, and back again, as the duo ‘60s, after all, were complex times — deliver their final parting shot with and the album’s other ace up its sleeve cultural historian Jon Savage sampled is raw emotion, showcased by the over metallic-sounding melodies and positive defiance with ‘Creation’ and lonesome, icy drones. Andrew Rafter

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7. 0 8.5 Bob Moses Machinedrum Days Gone By (Never Enough Human Energy Mike & Rich Smash HiFi Acid Arab Edition) Mike & Rich Order More Disorder Musique de France Domino Man-made music Planet Mu No Limits Crammed Discs Disconnected Domino debut 8.0 7.5 8.5 The term ‘underrated’ is now used to Big kids Ordered chaos Melting pot music New York-based duo Bob Moses’s describe everyone and their dog, but second full-length opens with ‘Like for bass hero Travis Stewart it seems Now amongst the On-point production After a string of EPs, It Or Not’ and ‘Talk’, which both bear warranted. A household name to the elder statesmen of and energy from the these Parisian DJs hallmarks of Ian Brown’s downbeat underground under his Machinedrum, UK electronica, Mike get-go within this debut have expanded into a euphoria, before an otherwise solid Sepalcure, JETS, Dream Continuum Paradinas (aka μ-Ziq) album. Several tight full production entity. album’s flaw is revealed. Occasionally (and more) aliases, his latest LP for and Richard D James vocal/MC features from It fights against the the lyrics on ‘Days Gone By’ leave it Ninja Tune should see him reaching (aka Aphex Twin) Kym Mazelle, Terror appropriation and hard to connect with its otherwise higher ground. While earlier releases sounded more like Bliss, KA, Lexie Lee, MC cultural cliché traps gorgeous compositions, highlighted such as 2013’s ‘Vapor City’ mined the sniggering toddlers Sirreal and Legionnaires many others fall into by the rhyming of “on”, “gone”, footwork and jungle corners of the when they collaborated sit atop hefty basslines, who rely solely on “wrong” and “strong” on ‘Before bass spectrum, ‘Human Energy’ gently on this album in thumping beats, wild sampling. Instead, Acid I Fall’. Followed with the soaring turns towards the pop sphere; with 1994. Now remastered synth-etics for this Arab collaborate with synth-led slow pop of ‘Too Much Is tracks like ‘ Speak feat. MeLo-X’ with extra tracks, it seasoned duo’s better Franco-Arabic, North Never Enough’, rhythmic expertise on and ‘Tell U feat. Rochelle Jordan’ hasn’t lost any of its late than never debut African and Middle ‘Tearing Me Up’, and ‘Days Gone By’, consisting of trance-like, saccharine goofy funk or cheeky album. Worth tracking Eastern musicians. which takes the album into full flight, melodies and breakdowns that could charm. Paul Clarke down. Leon Clarkson Fab. Zara Wladawsky the delicately-crafted high points do easily be selected by a Radio 1 bod for outweigh its flaws. But the rhyming their A-list. While the dizzying ‘Dos of “wall”, “fall” and “for” on closer Puertas’ (with Kevin Hussein) and ‘Writing On The Wall’ bookend a series ‘Do It 4 U’ (featuring Dawn Richard of glorious with another as D∆WN) abound with Stewart’s smattering of lyrics that disconnect warming touch. One of electronic from an otherwise phenomenal late- music’s biggest and brightest night soundtrack. Rob McCallum stars. Felicity Martin AFFKT Marconi Union Portable Son Of A Thousand Ghost Stations Alan Abrahams Sounds Just Music !K7 Sincopat 7.0 9.0 7.5 Not pulling a fast one Tantalising, troubled Sounding good Marconi Union sound Fittingly presented The Sincopat boss more banging than ever under his own name, delivers a robust on their ninth album. Portable strips back 9.0 8.5 long-player that largely Only in relation to their the layers to reveal sticks to his dancefloor previous free-floating his inner soul on his Moscoman Cristian Vogel roots, getting there ambient, of course: latest full length. A Shot In The Light The Assistenz by working with some there might be higher Vulnerability rules ESP Institute strong vocalists, tempos and more as swooning strings, Fresh and freaky Graveyard shift trimming down a percussion but the supple synthetic few recent bangers album as a whole still sounds and dark-pop You can spot a Moscoman tune a Cristian Vogel completes a trilogy of like ‘,’ plus seems to progress as songwriting mesh mile off: they are somehow taught, stunning albums with his new eight- ensuring there’s slowly as Joey Essex on with his own stylish mechanical yet playful electronic tracker for Shitkatapult. Finishing off enough diversions ‘Mastermind’, although vocals. Absorbingly affairs with proudly metallic synth themes begun on 2012’s ‘The Inertials’ from straight-up house these jazz-soaked melancholic, it is sounds, curious hooks and a very real and continued with 2014’s ‘Polyphonic to impart it with a soundscapes are heartbreakingly honest dancefloor appeal. Seemingly taking Beings’, the Copenhagen producer’s cohesive feel. Angus obviously significantly throughout. Kristan cues from EBM and as much latest is a lesson in what can be achieved Thomas Paterson deeper. Paul Clarke J Caryl as techno and macho disco, they have when the rule book is shredded and found him quickly rise from obscurity forward-thinking sound design principles to the top of the underground pile. are applied to techno. Grittier and REPEAT THE LPS WE CAN’T LEAVE ALONE... This debut album confirms his arrival more maniacal than the previous two in some style. efforts, but in a way that feels naturally Shades of the artist’s Middle Eastern progressive, ‘The Assistenz’ presents roots lend tracks like ‘Greasier’ a coarse, fractured and often brutal spooky melodic element, rasping environments (see: ‘Snowcrunch’ and drones and chugging drums on ‘Vessels’), alongside jittering, paranoid ‘Redelivered’ make your tingle works that niggle at the consciousness, and the punked-out funk of ‘Titre occasionally bordering on terrifying — Factory Floor Konx Om Pax Dele Sosimi feat. Prince Fatty and Original’ will have ‘floors in a sweat. rather appropriate for an album named 25 25 Caramel DFA Planet Mu Nostalgia 77 Essentially, each track is as inventive after a graveyard. Over his multi-decade 9.0 8.0 You No Fit Touch Am and original as it is enjoyable and, spanning career, Vogel has never been The overall experience The latest on the In Dub overall, ‘A Shot In The Light’ sounds one to follow formula, and for those confirms what a on-point Planet Mu, Wah Wah 45s triumph this is for both ‘Caramel’ is a heady 8.0 like little else. Kristan J Caryl willing to take on a challenge, it serves as Pretty much the whole act and imprint. gorge on E numbers. a refreshing remedy to the cut-and-paste thing is gold. slop so often encountered. Ben Hindle

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Various Various Various Various Cocoon Compilation P Medallion Sounds — Rob Roar Presents Ibiza 1-800 Dinosaur Presents Cocoon Compilation Vol. 1 Night & Day Trim 6.0 Medallion Sounds Phonetic Recordings 1-800 Dinosaur Alphabet soup 8.5 5.0 Taking the trophy 24-hour party people In its 16th year and still 9.0 going strong, Cocoon Loose London collective Another year, another continues its techno Medallion Sounds go slew of Ibiza compilations, THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE with this of Leeds techno lad doing very expedition with the latest for gold with this new as the old saying goes. LP from London collective 1-800 good, Happa. Glittering but in the alphabet series. You bumper pack of glitchy, Phonetic boss and veteran Dinosaur is working out what part distorted, sample-fuelled alt-pop guessed it, after last year’s funk, jazz-led of the White Isle, Rob Roar is most impressive. From one angle, on ‘Among The Living’ suggests ‘O’ comes ‘P’. It’s peppered hip-hop, cosmic dubstep, recreates the nighttime it’s a collaborative collection of Bullion, another Briton, is also with stripped back acid folk and sample-heavy vibe with two hours of forward-thinking urban beats present. from Wouter De Moor, footwork from the likes varied, if fairly mediocre, fronted by UK MC Trim, whose James Blake, Airhead, Dan a deep space groover of Deft, Tehbis, Chimpo house, the highlight being reputation for making you shut the Foat, Boothroyd, and Klaus are from La Fleur and an epic and Aurora Dee Raynes. Leigh ’s chilled out fuck up, listen and dance precedes representing too. Each push sonic builder from Jacob Korn. It sounds bonkers on ‘Day Mix’ — Ibeefa to the him. From another, it showcases boundaries. Ultimately, though, Bring on ‘Q’. paper, but it might just be bone! just how ripe the UK’s bass-grime- that would all be for nought without Anna Wall the best Sunday morning Ben Hindle electronic underground currently is. the right voice, wit and delivery; soundtrack you could Calling on elements running the on all counts Trim supersedes imagine. gamut from sparse hip-hop to high expectations set by previous Felicity Martin glitch and rave, the names involved work alongside 1-800 Dinosaur. are intimidatingly talented and Worthy of the hype that preceded impressively relevant. Menacing air its hugely-anticipated release, it’s horns cast pitch darkness over the potent, hypnotic, powerful stuff, foot-stomping threat of ‘Before I refusing to let up from the off. Lied’, nodding to the involvement Martin Guttridge-Hewitt

Various Various Various Marini’s On 57 — Sunset Shir Khan Presents: Permanent Vacation 4 Hours Vol.3 compiled Dancing & Romancing Permanent Vacation by Simon Mills Exploited 7. 5 Secret Life Records 8.0 Happy holidays 7. 0 Larger than life High life Want to know what A labour of love for label beach parties will sound 8.5 9.0 The vibe of, and view from, boss Shir Khan, Exploited like in the year 3000? Marini’s — Malaysia’s Records has built its name Merging the digital with Sonzeira Gerd Janson highest rooftop bar sat by releasing danceable, the organic, the latest Tam Tam Tam Reimagined 89: Gerd Janson atop a Kuala Lumpur hard-working records. instalment in Munich label Brownswood Recordings fabric Records skyscraper — is what sets Their latest compilation Permanent Vacation’s self- Reworked rarities “Ermahgerd!” the tone here. Sun-kissed reflects this ethos; there’s titled series offers serene, beats, slo-mo grooves bangers from Claptone, intergalactic house Sonzeira is a project from ultimate crate Frankfurt’s Gerd Janson has been a and sexy tones from Adana Twins, Kyodai and spattered with tribal murk digger and DJ, Gilles Peterson, that mainstay in dance music since his early Chris Coco, Jose Padilla, more on the tracklist. and drenched in neon reworks some of his favourite Brazilian 2000s residency at the legendary Robert HNNY, Mr Fingers, and Big, ballsy and bumping haze. Oh, and a spot of music. ‘Tam Tam Tam Reimagined’ is Johnson club. He co-founded the in charge — one half — basically, this is tech- funk for good measure. Gilles’ reinterpretation of José Prates’ Back label, a pillar in the scene and home of Bent — Simon Mills, house to die for. Ben Hindle legendary ‘Tam Tam Tam’ LP that eluded to a host of top artists. At the heart of aka Napoleon. Martin Charlotte Lucy Cijffers the collector for many years — he even everything he (co)produces, DJs and Guttridge-Hewitt gave a live plea on Channel 4 News for it! releases is a strong sense of storytelling Once a copy was finally in his possession, and melody that makes for fluid yet tender Gilles joined forces with some members dancefloor experiences. His official mix THE PICK OF OUR LATEST of LV, 2 Banks of 4 and the Orquesta for Fabric is the epitome of this; Gerd uses ON THE POD PODCASTS & EXCLUSIVE MIXES Imperial of Rio to pick the LP apart elements of cosmic, Balearic, acid, rave djmag.com | soundcloud.com/djmag and put it back together in a new way. and house tracks to create a fully-formed Musically, ‘Tam Tam Tam Reimagined’ is journey that’s deeply emotive yet club- just as exciting and interesting as the oriented and propulsive. Each track carves story behind it. Elements of dub mesh with out its own space and deftly segues into Afro-Brazilian rhythms, modern electronic the next: there’s the shimmering warmth production and killer vocals and brass. of Luke Abbott’s remix of Todd Terje to Sonzeira elevates certain elements of the open, Boddika & Joy Orbison’s searing production and style to match with the machines, the infectious and classic funk times, but the original sounds still shine of a Glenn Underground remix and lilting through and provide a thrilling snapshot euphoria from Scott Grooves that dissolves into a moment in culture. into a unreleased Prins Thomas remix of FRESH KICKS: PODCAST: PODCAST: KIT PROUDFOOT DJ ZINC MONKEY SAFARI Zara Wladawsky Caribou. Zara Wladawsky

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