MUSIC REVIEWS 128 ALL THE TOYS Bulgarian tech obsessive, KiNK, offers up genre-hopping club cuts on new album, ‘Playground’... 108 SULTA-N OF SOUND 114 PERFECT SCORE 120 TALK THE TALK Denis Sulta is back with his second ‘Sulta François K gets top marks remixing Mark Tumble Audio welcomes DJ Madd with Selects’ release and it’s fl ipping massive... Barrott’s ‘Cascades’ for International Feel... bass-heavy new single, ‘Badman Talkin’’... 121 GAME OF TONES 129 MAKE MUSIC, NOT WAR 132 WATER WAY TO CELEBRATE! Ever wondered what “medieval funky” Levon Vincent sends a message of peace Berlin’s revered Watergate club marks 15 sounds like? E.M.M.A has the answer... and positivity on new album ‘For Paris’... years with a 25-track compilation... DJMAG.COM 107 DJ576.Intro-Music.indd 107 20/11/2017 16:12 REVIEWS>HOUSE Bugsy Svegsy EP feat. QUICKIES Astroloop Dexter Kane Freerange Box Clever 9.0 Shadow Sanctuary Hailing from Milan, where 7. 5 Bugsy presides over the Firm firmness from Dexter Kane on his own Shadow persistently top-drawer Sanctuary, the pick of the ‘punch’ being the EP club-night Take It Easy, closer ‘Return Ticket’, though the pun-tastic this is a glorious hook-up ‘Schrödinger's Hat’ is no slouch either. with co-pilot Astroloop for Freerange. 'Svegsy' Lola Purple couples sluggish, dragging Drift Deeper EP percussion with dulled yet Ebb&Flow spine-tingling strings. 'New 7. 5 Vision' ups the definition, Manchester's Lola Purple drops soothing strings dropping in a positively atop a stuttering kick-drum in ‘Drift Deeper’, while flatulent bassline, but the earthy dub of ‘Taste Of 5’ is an unctuous affair, it's the majestic 'Ghost thick with atmosphere. Song' that's the killer, all stuttering percussion and DJ Octopus vocals you'll want to bathe House Crime Vol. 7 in. Unsurprisingly, Chicago House Crime don Boo Williams's mutedly 8.0 acidic mix is pretty special A veritable embarrassment of dancefloor too. weaponery here from DJ Octopus, with seven tracks and two 12-inches of murky, lo-fidelity house music. Fall over and roll around in it. Oliver Way an end-of-night anthem par rumbling bass to hold down the Music Is So Special excellence — a disco loop, a wispy top notes. 'Aur Wurld', EPM Music hefty clap and a feeling. 'Aglio more a rework than a remix, is a AUSTIN ATO 8.0 e Olio' drops a filthy bass loop touch less grand, but nonetheless PHONICA WHITE Oliver Way — aka Mr O, one half with acoustic drums for the captivating for that. Very exciting of the Detroit Grand Pubahs head-nodders and wall flowers, business indeed. — proffers this thunderous complete with a frisky, off-kilter slab of percussive, peak-time remix from Laurence Guy, who Mallard/J Deep madness, the first salvo from his injects some spooky space funk. Common Era forthcoming album. Ripping vocals Continuing the food references, International Black from the Larry Levan-produced 'Big Plate Chicken' rattles and 8.0 New York City Peech Boys' Paradise rolls with aplomb. All killer here, Bradley Zero's excellent Rhythm Garage classic ‘Life Is Something people. Section drops the third release on Special’, it grinds, pumps, thumps, its spin-off imprint International humps and writhes. On the flip, Florian Busse Black, drafting in Mallard, a the one and only Felix Da Housecat Jamieja EP 19-year-old jazz student, and J sticks his Aphrohead head on and Connected Deep for the vibrations. Mallard turns out a moody dub mix for dark 8.5 has a deft touch for the ethereal as corners. The clattering Afro-drums of the well as the jazzual, it seems, and towering ‘Jamieja’ are difficult the fragile 'Common Era' is a joy Luke Solomon enough to resist in this sterling to be around. On the flip, J Deep Light You Up feat. Queen effort from Berlin's Florian Busse fucks with some samples and then Rose & Amy Douglas on Stereo MCs and Terranova's humps in some dirty 707-type loop Classic Music Company Connected label. Once New York action to devastating effect. It's 8.0 percussionist and vocalist Lisette a game of two halves here, both No point denying this; 'Light You Santiago brings the fire, it's nigh- scintillating in their own way. Up' is an irrepressible anthem on impossible. The original is hot 01. AUSTIN ATO ‘Song For Mr Lewis’ Phonica White for the ages. The first original enough, but in case more building, Fantastic Man presents “From EP of the same name. Possibly the best full 12-inch I’ve ever made.” production from Luke Solomon simmering intensity is needed, P.M.T.C. 02. MIM SULEIMAN ‘Mwaitoma’ BubbleTease Communications on his and Derrick Carter's Classic employ the 'bouncy version'. On P.M.T.C. “Absolute jam! Fantastic vocal by Mim and production by Maurice Fulton. 808s!” imprint in three years, it's been the flip, 'Royalty' drops rasping, Superconscious worth the wait. Bringing in disorientating synths to admirable 8.5 03. GREYHOUSE ‘New Beats The House’ Dark Entries “Excellent Kraftwerk-sampling, cut & paste house reissue by the San Fran Queen Rose and Amy Douglas on effect, whipping the late-night/ Fantastic Man — aka Melbourne's label.” vocals, plus Andy Neal on bass and early morning floors to a frothing Mic Newman — busts out two 04. SOWETO ACES ‘I Need Some Money (Perdu Edit)’ AM Records Solomon's Powerdance project frenzy. sublimely dreamy tracks, both “Excellent tune given a pretty nice edit.” muchacho Moodymanc on disco embracing the emerging vogue drums duty, it's an abject lesson for trance-esque vibes. 'Cool 05. SLAVES OF NOTHING ‘Sake Of Nothing’ Jolly Jams Denis Sulta “One of Chicken Lips returns with a mate to make loose, drum machine, in deep funk layered liberally with Sulta Selects 2 Waters' chugs at a frisky clip, saxophone jams.” positive vibes. Pay attention at the Sulta Selects dropping emotive pad chords 06. AQUAPHRESCA ‘Smooth Track’ Soulsity back, class is in session. 8.0 around a burbling, relentless “It’s a loop. For 10 minutes. And it’s near perfection.” Trancey and tropical (in the bassline. 'Reality Change', with 07. MARK SEVEN ‘The Promised Land EP’ World Building Nebraska best senses of both), Glasgow's its B-movie-style sample, sounds “First two tunes on this 12-inch are ridiculous.” Metaphor To The Floor EP Denis Sulta drops some Balearic like something lifted directly from Heist Recordings rainforest action on his recently William Orbit's classic prog imprint 08. AUSTIN ATO ‘Restless Snare’ 2020 Vision “Me making dubby house that drops on 2020 Vision.” 8.5 minted Sulta Selects label, and Guerilla, like a Leftfield or Drum Solid and accomplished house vastly impressive it is too. 'Our Club production found lost and 09. TOBY TOBIAS ‘Aouta Gabon EP’ Resista “One Afro edit and one rework. Both excellent.” music from Alistair Gibbs, aka World' boasts tribal singing, wandering in a field since the early Nebraska, for Detroit Swindle's twittering birdsong, wonky synths, '90s. Superb. 10. OMAR-S ‘Nikademas’ FXHE Heist imprint. ‘Affirmation’ is life-affirming pianos and a dark, “It’s a B-side beat Omar released over 10 years ago but I love it.” 108 DJMAG.COM Send promos to BEN ARNOLD [email protected] Untitled-1 1 20/11/2017 17:27 Untitled-1 1 20/11/2017 12:33 REVIEWS>TECHNO Heinrich Dressel The Styx Swamp QUICKIES Barba Boneless One 8.5 6 Minimal Rome founder Heinrich Ride The Gyroscope Dressel follows 2015’s ‘Lurking 8.0 Underwater’ on Barba with this The sixth instalment on this Tabernacle sub-label mesmerising electro/techno starts with the mellow strings and piano of 'Cross- hybrid. The title-track brings Field', but quickly moves into tougher territory together mysterious synths with thanks to the tough drums on 'Whirlpool Of Acid' a lurching electronic rhythm that and the fuzzy groove on 'Pulsative Glow'. unravels against doubled-up claps and cavernous filters. It’s Dressel’s Veyg most dramatic but dancefloor- Mutual Romance EP friendly track. As its sub-aquatic Veyg Times title suggests, ‘Sailing The Nether 7. 5 Waterways’ takes its inspiration Tom Dicicco unveils a promising new project, from Drexciya, both in name and Veyg. The title track is a cavernous stepper, full of style, building to a climax with menacing chords, ‘Filling Pieces’ is a deep, Detroit mysterious synths and a booming groover, while on ‘Virgo Love Affair’ he shifts into bass. ‘Gray Slope’, which resounds warm, acidic techno. Nice work from an underrated to a menacing low-end, completes producer. this fine release. Neil Landstrumm Various Artists Alessandro Adriani A Death, A Mexican And A Mormon Real Sound 2 Enter The Fire CPU Real Sound Stroboscopic Artefacts 9.0 8.0 8.0 Neil Landstrumm has had a long association with bleep techno Killer tough techno release that moves from Fran Until recently, Adriani was best — going right back to 1997’s ‘Bedroom & Cities’ album — and he Hartnett’s distorted drums and brooding bleep- known as the brains behind the re-kindles this connection on ‘Tomorrow People’. Revolving around a heavy ‘Know What I Mean’ to Jon Hussey’s bleakly on-point Mannequin label, but he stuttering vocal, rolling drums and a woozy, tone-shifting bass, it’s evocative stepper, 'Motiv' and Rory St John’s woozy is increasingly gaining recognition a great tribute to Sheffield, the city that is home to CPU and which but relentless ‘Ex Battery’. Hard tracks full of soul. for his own productions. ‘Fire’ is a was instrumental in the development of the bleep scene.