GENTLE GIANTS Hercules & Love Affair Expand Their Sound on Thoughtful New Album, ‘Omnion’
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MUSIC RATE THAT CHOON Reviewing the month’s biggest tracks p.110 LENGTHY BUSINESS August’s albums analysed p.144 COMPILATION COMPETITION Mixes and collections broken down p.148 GENTLE GIANTS Hercules & Love Affair expand their sound on thoughtful new album, ‘Omnion’... p.144 djmag.com 117 SOONEY HOT CREATIONS DJ DEEP DEEPLY ROOTED HOUSE HOUSE BEN ARNOLD as the title might suggest, has echoes of raves gone by, dropping QUICKIES into a clattering breakbeat in the mid-section. Meanwhile, 'Drug Will Saul & Tee Mango present Dilling' finds label-chum DJ Tennis Primitive Trust [email protected] on the vocals, tripping out over Power On EP deep, throbbing tech, while the Aus Music legendary DJ Bone takes things 7. 5 on a friskier, more angular tip with Highly recommended, this new collab between his remix. Millionhands boss Tee Mango and Aus main man Will Saul. 'Power On' is all lovely pads and bleeps. Sebastopol Nothing not to like there. Gahalowood Kompakt Matuss 8.0 Absence Seizure 008 Frenchman and Hypercolour Absence Seizure alumnus Sebastien Bouchet 7. 5 returns to Köln's most stately Beautifully crafted, cerebral house music from New Kompakt under his new alias, York via Ukraine's Julia Matuss. With its warbling Sebastopol, with three tracks Rhodes, 'Fairy Dust' is a delight, while 'Faramant' of largesse. ‘Gahalowood’ is delves deep. something of a monstrous proposition, with shoe-gaze Inland Knights vocals coupled with epic, big-room Subway reverberations. On the flip, there's Drop Music the wonderfully tripped-out ‘Flash 8.0 MONEY Pool’, a wonky, off-kilter mash-up Two tracks of irresistible funk from the legendary Letherette SHOT! of pulsing synths and cowbells. Inland Knights, who have scarcely put a foot wrong EP4 Wulf Records ‘Heaven’, however, is the pick over 84 releases on Drop Music. This is devastating 9.0 of this accomplished bunch, a disco indeed. The inimitable Letherette bubbling concoction of blissful — formerly of Ninja Tune bleeping arps to bathe yourself in. Zopelar and Eglo's spin-off Ho Tep — Origini wallops it out of the park for Luciano & David Endless the fourth sonic excursion heavy on the glockenspiels with Morales 8.0 on his own Wulf Records the tribal groove 'Shango' here Esperanza Two quite beautiful remixes of Brazilian producer imprint. 'Feel It' clatters for his own Dirt Teck Reck imprint. Cadenza Zopelar's ‘Origini’ from Swiss don Ripperton here, together muffled pianos, deep, It's a banger, no question, but 9.0 his 'Bubbles dub' being the one to take home to unctuous funk and soaring it's on the flip where things get A clashing of titans here, with meet the parents. Hot. gospel soul. 'Flowatch', interesting. 'Better Late Than the venerable New Yorker locking one minute all filtered and Never' is a robotic groove, layered horns with the Swiss-Chilean don. TEN THOUSAND YEN understated, soon transforms with shimmering space pads and Composing the track together, XXXY into winsome boogie, while popping arps. Winston's 'Midnight they then split to bring together 'Side Fade' and 'Give My Love' Disco' is the victor, however, with their own remixes, and the results shuffle their way through dusty Carl Craig and Mark E all over its are predictably epic. Luciano's house percussion, the latter brassy stabs and burbling bassline 'Flow Latino' mix is, even by punctuated by some heart- like a cheap suit. And rightly so. his standards, a lengthy affair tugging vocals. Spectacularly at nearly 17 minutes, almost good. Pandreas half of which is weighed heavy H+P EP with hypnotic Latin percussion. Belters Morales' magnificent mix is Arrtu 8.0 perhaps the best thing he's Walking On A Fine Line Pandreas — aka Norway's Andreas turned out in over a decade; a Accidental Jnr Kleven Rasmussen — makes spine-tingling, trance-inducing 8.5 his debut on Glasgow imprint masterpiece reminiscent of the Philpot, Clone and 4Lux artist Huntleys + Palmers spin-off glory days of Boy's Own, Sasha (not to mention his own Cyblo Belters with aplomb. Opener 'Slam and Underworld. Records) Arrtu tips up on Jam' is thick with classic Balearic 01. SOUL REDUCTIONS ‘Got 2 Be Loved’ Take Away Herbert's dancefloor imprint vibrations, ghostly stabs and Deniz Kurtel “Slamming disco house for the lovers.” Accidental Jr for a masterclass in pulsing bursts of bass. It's a joy The Fifth House 02. SWEELY ‘The Time Has Come’ Bokhari jacking. Just a snatched guitar to be around. 'Den Litle Tromme, Crosstown Rebels “It’s an acidic booty-shaker.” riff, a straight four-four kick, some Gut', meanwhile, is all firm 9.0 03. DALI ‘Voynich’ Hobbes Music loose hats and Roberto Q Ingram dancefloor gear before it stops While Deniz Kurtel would “Ripping, hip-swinging techno from Scotland.” on the mic, 'Walking On A Fine to go Boards Of Canada ambient ordinarily be the main event on 04. CLANDESTINO ‘Quiet Storm’ Clandestino Line' is a minimal masterstroke. come the break. Closing gambit her own release (and her work “Retro, heads-down Detroit vibes.” 'Bass Trakk', meanwhile, is as 'Ding' has that house-music- here is indeed excellent), she 05. MARCIN KRUPA ‘One Per Customer’ Astropical Tapes one might expect; laden with a wading-through-treacle vibe, a would doubtless wish to defer that “It’s a Polish disco-house groover.” rolling bass and some white noise languid, shuffling groove for the honour to the late Marcus Kaye, 06. NO MOON ‘I Left My Dial In Pirovac’ Lobster Theremin interference, while 'Debris' will late nights and early mornings. aka Trevino, who died suddenly “Deep tripping acid tune from the Lobster Theremin camp.” send you into a glorious trance. last month, shortly after turning 07. PEPE ‘Motorface’ Renascence The good kind. The/Das in this remix for Crosstown. “Percussive, uplifting shoulder-lifter.” Drug Dilling EP Shimmeringly, impeccably Life and Death 08. TOM BLIP ‘Sentimental Strings’ Blip Discs Waajeed produced, it puts into stark relief “An emo 909 thumper.” Shango EP 8.0 just what the electronic music Dirt Tech Reck Anton K. Feist and Fabian Fenk's community has lost now that he's 09. AIBY AND THE NOISE ‘Hit The Dancefloor’ Red Panda Music “Banging acid dancefloor igniter.” 8.0 first run out on Manfredi Romano gone. All proceeds to charity. RIP. Detroit's Waajeed (of Platinum and Greg Oreck's Life and Death 10. DOC DANEEKA ‘Save Me’ Ten Thousand Yen Pied Pipers fame) goes hot and since 2013 is thrilling. 'Top Vibes', “A swinging gospel banger.” 118 djmag.com DJ572.Music_House.indd 118 04/07/2017 13:03 VOTE FOR ME DJMAG.COM/TOP100DJS | | WWW.FTAMPA.COM | /FTAMPA /FTAMPAMUSIC Untitled-1 1 17/07/2017 14:15 Untitled-1 1 13/07/2017 15:50 TECHNO QUICKIES Woo York Frozen Lake Semantica 7.5 Woo York are the latest signing to Svreca’s label. The Ukraine duo impress greatly with the driving [email protected] spacey techno of ‘Atlantis’, the acidic electro track ‘Ghost’ and the menacing, bass-heavy title track. Various Artists Split Excursions Vol 1 RICHARD BROPHY RICHARD Cultivated Electronics 8.0 Label owner Sync 24 hooks up with Privacy for two uncompromising tracks, of which the EBM bass and horror synths of ‘General Data Standard’ will get the most DJ attention. MONEY DeFeKT takes care of the flipside with the dense, murky funk of 'MG1’ and ‘MG2’. Floorplan SHOT! Let The Church EP Kara-Lis Coverdale M-Plant Grafts Stu Crosbie it comes from emerging German 9.0 Boomkat Editions Dark Arts 8 producer XYO815, who excels Hood has just put out an 8.0 Dark Arts at making proper mood music. album for Dekmantel, but ‘Grafts’ is a wonderful piano composition that 8.0 From the hypnotic soundtrack that hasn’t stopped him flows and ebbs magically over its 22-minute Stu Crosbie’s Dark Arts series opener, ’Cygonic System’, to from releasing this great new duration. It’s the ideal soundtrack to soothe is one of the most consistent the dark bass-led roller, ’Tool Floorplan record. On the title frazzled heads who have been subjected to a techno projects — and Matter’, and the pared-back track, the approach remains night full of punishing, repetitive beats. number eight is no exception. pulses of ‘End Of Your Orbit’ the same as usual, with a ‘Blueshift’, with its clicking and ‘Octogon X’, ‘Exahertz’ is tracky rhythm underpinning percussion and brooding a masterclass in understated a screeching gospel diva. AMBIVALENT DELFT chords, will satisfy those who menace. ‘Made Up In My Mind’ and a prefer locked-on linear grooves, new ‘Lyric’ remix of ‘Never but Crosbie also reveals a more Delta Funktionen Grow Old’ see Hood loop adventurous side; ‘Radius’ is Junior High School Excursion To similarly euphoric vocals a slinky, moody electro track, The Parallel World around celebratory piano while on ‘Furtherout’ he Radio Matrix keys. The only deviation delivers a stripped-back house 8.0 is the discordant, jarring groove with echoes of the early It’s been a few years since ‘He Can Save You’, but this '00s glitch/deep interface. Niels Luinenberg released as release offers conclusive The downtempo ‘Final Orbit’ Delta Funktionen, but clearly proof that Lucifer doesn’t completes Crosbie’s finest this hiatus has not had any have a monopoly on all the release yet. bearing on his signature sound. best tunes. ‘scitiloP’ is a brooding electro Various Artists workout, while at the other end Jheri Tracks Volume 2 of the spectrum, ‘Welcome To producers like Conan, who Jheri Tracks Our Timezone’ sees him deliver drops the wiry Detroit techno of 01. ALDEN TYRELL ‘Vormvariate’ Clone Basement “A load of killer grooving techno tracks, coming on Clone’s Basement series in 8.0 a deep but driving techno track.