MUSIC ONE STOP SHOP February’s tunes reviewed p.106 THE LONG GAME Albums arriving this month p.128 MIX ‘N’ MATCH Compilations not to miss p.132 IN SEARCH OF WARMER CLIMES Following a move to LA, Bonobo returns to Ninja Tune with new LP, ‘Migration’... p.129 djmag.com 105 HOUSE BEN ARNOLD QUICKIES Roberto Clementi Avesys EP [email protected] Pets Recordings 8.0 Sheer class from Roberto Clementi on Pets. The title track is brooding and brilliant, thick with drama, while 'Landing A Man'’s relentless thump betrays a soft and gentle side. Lovely. Jagwar Ma Give Me A Reason (Michael Mayer Does The Amoeba Remix) Marathon MONEY 8.0 SHOT! Showing that he remains the master (and managing Baba Stiltz to do so in under seven minutes too), Michael Mayer Is Everything smashes this remix of baggy dance-pop dudes Studio Barnhus Jagwar Ma out of the park. 9.5 The unnecessarily young Baba Satori Stiltz (he's 22) is producing Imani's Dress intricate, brilliantly odd house Crosstown Rebels music that bearded weirdos 8.0 twice his age would give their all chopped hardcore loops, and a brilliance from Tact Recordings Crosstown is throwing weight behind the rather mid-life crises for. Think the bouncing bassline. Sublime work. comes courtesy of roadman (the unique sound of Satori this year — there's an album dizzying brilliance of Robag small 'r' is intentional), aka coming — but ignore the understatedly epic Ewan Whrume for a reference point, Dorsia Richard Fletcher. He's also Tact's Pearson mixes of 'Imani's Dress' at your peril. but there's no vibe-biting FM Dreams EP co-founder, so presumably the here. This work is all his own. Sprechen whole 'sending in a demo' process Various 'Snowwhite' is deep trance for 8.0 was a breeze. 'The Wall' shuffles Interpretations grown ups, while on the flip, Another solid release from and swings its way into your life Aus Music 'xxx2003' grows from a few Manchester's increasingly with smooth pads and delicate 7. 5 mere chords into a piece of confident Sprechen. This time it's percussion. On the flip, '2% Dry' Will Saul brings in Catz N' Dogz to take on tracks cerebral, crackling house music Southern Fried and Loft Records is properly deep, enveloping stuff. from the Aus Music back catalogue. Their dark rave of singularly rare beauty, with alumni Dorsia. 'FM Dreams' plink- Little wonder that Larry Heard is a take on 'Hindsight' by George Fitzgerald is really percussion that strikes you in plonks (yes, that's a universally fan, then. worth the entry price alone. the chest. Bravo. accepted production term, thanks for asking) its metallic synths Ogris Debris METAMORPHIC RECORDINGS atop swinging drums and the Lazer Gun DAN CURTIN Red Rack'em mere suggestion of a hoover bass. Enigma Corporation Tomato Pope Oslo's fast-rising Karl Fraunhofer 8.5 Bergerac — aka Dortmund — turns in a crisp Big stuff here from Viennese duo 9.0 and punchy remix, flooded with Ogris Debris, an off-kilter piano No stopping Daniel Berman — blasts of '80s chords not entirely house anthem, but not as you aka Red Rack'em — just now, unreminiscent of 'Thriller'. know it. It's weird and wonderful. particularly since his 'Wonky Elsewhere, 'Mephi' positively drips The phenomenally busy Adesse Bassline Disco Banger' became terrace-style atmosphere. Versions pulls off a chunky one of the biggest dancefloor remix, no mean feat when the devastators of 2016. Here, he's Niro original does everything it has back on his own Bergerac label It Takes Two EP to do. This is chock-full of rolling (one would hope a nod to the '80s, PADS dub vibrations, a heads-down Jersey-based detective series), 8.5 chugger with cowbells. 'Moony and ‘Tomato Pope’ is built around Italian stallion Niro returns for a Me' crunches in some seriously a pretty demented vocal sample second, seriously classy release syncopated percussion and some and some gorgeous deep-rave on his own PADS label, following wonky electro piano. You're gonna 01. PURVEYORS OF FINE FUNK ‘Soul Message’ Metamorphic stabs and pads. Sounds like about on from his excellent 'Pieces love this. “Wait… how did this get in here? Ahh, just happy to bring this project back!” four tracks smashed into one. In a Of You EP' last October. 'Died 02. LUCRETIO ‘Classiq’ Crimecity Disco good way. Over, the wild 'Rhodes In October' couples pounding Clarian “Under-MF-ground — raw, tough, funky and nothing but edge.” House' is no slouch either. alt-garage percussion with Ankh EP Kompakt 03. GARI ROMALIS ‘Can You Dig It’ Chiwax Classic Edition swirling atmospherics, before “Uptempo, pure groove, bit of sci-fi element to it. Yeah — that’s house.” Kim Ann Foxman filling out with blissful pads. 8.5 04. SHIFTY SCIENCE ‘Blue’ Argot Energy EP 'Always Been Free To Fly' adopts Slick and gorgeous, Clarian trances “From the awesome album ‘Lab Work 91-96’, it was hard to pick a fave...” Firehouse a similar attitude, blending the out most pleasingly in this second rough and earthy with the smooth outing for Kompakt, the title 05. ADAM FEINGOLD ‘Ascension’ Apron Records 8.5 “Perfect blend of rough machine beats and warm melodies, elements of future The rave vibes are real with this and unctuous. 'A Song About track 'Ankh' weighed heavy with soul, elements of funk, coming together in a future-forward house record.” latest excursion from Kim Ann Whispers' pares things down to blissful synths and blasts of lush 06. GRANT ‘Outsider’ Lobster Theramin Foxman on her very own Firehouse clicky, wonderful weirdness, while pads. Prepare for spontaneous “Melancholy, organic, atmospheric.” imprint. Classic old school loops, 'Journey To Hyperion' wigs out outbreaks cuddling on the 07. ALDEN TYRELL ‘GETO5’ Clone Jack For Days 909s, churning acid, and spooky with beatless arps. Ace. dancefloor. 'Old Miami' also wears “Nothing but hard-jacking beats with fat, warm production.” bells; this four tracker has it all, its, erm, ecstatic credentials on 08. CHARLES NOEL ‘Untitled’ Indigo Aera short of giving away a free boiler roadman its sleeve, a building groove which “Floating between house, techno, breakbeat, but firmly rooted in soul.” suit with every 12-inch purchase. The Wall EP drops into disorientating arp 'E4 Energy' burbles, with echoes Tact Recordings synths, while the massively trippy 09. BOYARD ‘Cycle Wrap’ Melodymathics “A solidly good reproduction of the NYC/NJ house sound from the ‘90s.” of 'Drum Club', before breaking 8.0 'Alienated' is a wilfully wonky ride into ecstatic pads. 'U & Me So classy it should launch its into the deepest unknown. Totally 10. FRANKLIN DE COSTA ‘Good Day Bad Day’ Green Village Electricity' is the killer, however, own brand of cravats, this bleepy ace. “Organic future-funk with drive, from the depths of underground Berlin.” 106 djmag.com Untitled-1 1 13/12/2016 14:40 TECHNO RICHARD BROPHY RICHARD QUICKIES Andrew Red Hand Dear Goddess MOS Deep [email protected] 7. 0 Romanian techno isn’t all about click-heavy minimalism, as this release from Andrew Red Hand demonstrates. Focusing on floaty synths and waves of gurgling acid, he deploys jacking rhythms to deliver an assured release. Transparent Sound No Call From New York Electrix MONEY 7. 0 SHOT! The long-standing UK duo return with a grinding, Folamour acid-heavy workout. Remixes come from Larry Shakkei McCormick — a droning, dancefloor reshape — and All City steely, buzz-saw, riff-heavy interpretations from Mr 9.0 Velcro Fastener and Sync 24. 2017 has only begun, but it will be hard to find a greater Redshape tune this year than Folamour’s Best Of Live Vol.2 ‘Shakkei’. This is despite the Delsin fact that there’s not much to 7. 5 it. The drums and percussion As its title suggests, these tracks were recorded are forceful without being during Redshape’s live shows; ‘London’ is a heads- tough, but it’s all about the down, driving affair that centres on a muddy bass, melody that evolves from while ‘Paris’ is more rarified and sees the man in flowing, beautiful piano keys. the red mask add a mysterious synth flourish to his 'Maybe I Did Burn Ya Place' grainy techno armoury. sees Folamour deploy tight beats and wind-swept synth squiggles of ‘Wave ID’, his track tribal drums and sensuous melodies as a backdrop for the with Jensen Interceptor and the ECOTONE CONSTANT VARIABLES chords, while ‘Each Day Is A Italian producer’s bittersweet broken techno of ‘Tri-Gate’, a First Day’ has a groovy, disco vocals. Uabos from Bitter Moon workout forged with Truss. influence, but it’s all about the rounds off the release with a bass- shimmering, sublime ‘Shakkei’. heavy take on ‘Lenticular’. Juju & Jordash What About Tuesday? Heinrich Dressel Dekmantel Purveyors Of Fine Funk Space Wave Shaft 8.5 Soul Message EP Slow Motion As always, Juju & Jordash Metamorphic 8.0 bring a highly distinctive take 8.0 With a multitude of releases on to house/techno on ‘Tuesday’. Apart from a one-off return his own Minimal Rome label, ‘Monday Mellow’ uses minimal three years ago, it’s been a long Barba and Bordello A Parigi, beats as a basis for the duo to time since Dan Curtin worked as Dressel is one of Europe’s finest explore mysterious soundscapes, Purveyors Of Fine Funk. While this electronic producers. This release while ‘Wednesday Something’ comeback EP does not teem with on Slow Motion gives full vent to features trails of chiming guitar 01. BARKER & BAUMECKER ‘Senden’ Ostgut Ton “It’s really difficult to choose only one track from Barker & Baumecker’s new the raw unpredictability of vintage his ambient tendencies.