MUSIC MERCURIAL MIXING DJ Harvey brings the White Isle to your living room with his comp for the newly-founded Pikes Records... p.146

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Pic: DAN REID djmag.com 121 HOUSE BEN ARNOLD [email protected] QUICKIES Urulu The Armadillo EP Amadeus Records 8.0 Taylor Freels, aka Urulu, drops some first-rate balearic house music in the gently marvellous 'The Nautlus', while the busted-up beats of 'Cold Ravioli' will warm the soul.

Dudley Strangeways & Luke Black MONEY Split EP Chord Records Iron Curtis SHOT! 7.5 Lights EP Proceed directly to 'Even Tides' from Dudley Hudd Traxx Strangeways here, via Luke Black's Chord 9.0 Records. It crunches and shuffles in all the right This is flawless work from places. Iron Curtis — aka Nürnberg- native Johannes Paluka — Gina Breeze delivered on the inimitable, from Scotland's Lord Of The own vinyl-only offshoot 22 After Dark EP Huddersfield-founded Hudd Isles and Frank T Butters are Digit LTD; a message of unity Classic Music Company Traxx. 'Lights', being the title excellent too. layered over bass thick enough 7.5 track here, is indeed a peak- to stand your spoon up in. Cracking debut on Luke Solomon and Derrick time colossus, all string stabs Felix Da Housecat Appleblim pulls out a brilliantly Carter's Classic from Homoelectric's very own and spine tingles. But there's Founders of Filth Volume Two disorientating, vaguely spooky Gina Breeze. Firm, acidic and percussive. so much else going on too. Founders Of Filth reinterpretation, which wanders 'Captured' rolls deep before 8.5 off on a psychedelic trip before Sven Weisemann dropping a rave breakdown Another outing for Felix Da locking back in with a clunk. The Bilateral Relations EP par excellence, while '22 Housecat's ‘Founders Of Filth’ epic Alland Byallo mix is equally Echochord Records Days' is an earthy jam for project, following a previous out there, while 'Pete's Track' is 8.0 the late night floors. 'My Money Shot on this page. 'The crisp, dark and delicious. Dreamy, glistening and understated production Humming Machine', however, Devine', under his Aphrohead from Berlin's Weisemann on Echochord. burbles and bubbles in ways alias, is an ethereal, trance- Cottam Mr. Heard would be proud of. house masterpiece — a I Can't Carry On ASQUITH LOBSTER THEREMIN Top drawer. perpetual, driving bassline FCR provides foundation, while pads 8.5 float above. Then Moonroom The legendary Fat Cat Records Karl Fraunhofer comes with the spooky 'Hold/ launches its new imprint FCR 'Santa Cruz EP' Release', a deep, dark and dirty with this unctuous number Sprechen Music workout for wrong'uns. Lifting from Cottam, a consummate 8.0 the mood are The FOFtréaL slow-burner made in Preston, Pulsating, life-affirming Quintet, with some spaced-out or thereabouts. It's gloriously house music from Oslo's very disco, imbued with blissful hypnotic, making the complex own Karl Fraunhofer via the bursts of synth gorgeousness sound stunningly simple, excellent Sprechen. Santa Cruz and trippy psychedelics. Bravo. spread over an epic 12 minutes. 01. VIOLET ‘Togetherness’ Naïve crunches together rasping Detroit's Todd Modes takes the “Violet is also an absolute production whizz. Breaks, jungle and hardcore get discoid synths with soaring Fort Romeau bones of the track and somehow spun through the techno washer and still come out scuffed and ravey AF.” pads and a throbbing bassline Emulators EP conjures further delights, 02. SLIM STEVE ‘Another Random Morning’ Blood Money Club Traxx to devastating effect. On the Running Back adding soothing pad chords and “A stomping ‘n’ hammering drum banger with rough breaks and chippering flip, ‘Tone’ slows the pace with 8.0 a mildly unsettling wonkiness acid lines. Any club, anywhere, every night. Play. This. Track.” some Space: 1999 blasts of joy, Fort Romeau has a new toy, it to proceedings. It's masterful. 03. DJ CENTRAL & ERIKA CASIER ‘Drive (DJ Sports’ Club building to a mucky, boogie- would appear — a vintage E-MU It all is. Mix)’ Regelbau “More miniature break-y, floating house music from Regelbau crew. DJ Sports esque climax. Remixes arrive II — from the '80s. And this, switches up a soulful number into a proper UKG pumper. Total bliss!” from Leo Mas & Fabrice, who for Gerd Janson's venerable DIY 1990 04. LUZ1E ‘I Wanna Thank You’ UGONGETIT retool ‘Santa Cruz’ for the late- Running Back, is the delectable Room 202 “One of the most startling producers to emerge recently, with an arsenal of night dancefloors, while Neil fruit it has offered up. 'Emu I' Lobster Theremin insanely banging power house. Her DJ sets are fully mind-blowing. Crunchy, Diablo lends ‘Tone’ a delectably is a shimmering, towering slab 9.0 deep NY house with a pop-y edge.” Balearic, robotic flavour. of epic house music, thick with It's another scorcher from 05. DIY 1990 ‘Room 202’ Lobster Theremin “A new producer from Barcelona who popped up on SoundCloud earlier this drama. 'Emu II' brings the arps the Lobster Theremin camp year. This is probably the only ‘festival’ track we’ve released. Huge.” Man Power and the emotions. So many which, along with its various emotions. 'Emu III', meanwhile, subsidiaries, is releasing 06. LOCKED CLUB AND RLGN ‘Bosozoku’ Private Persons Tropical Bastard “Full on badman electro and arpeggiated doom. Post-Soviet dance Tropical Bastard goes all sprawling slo-mo, scorchers with an almost experimentation straight outta Russia channelling the spirit of The Hague 8.0 before (you guessed it) 'Emu IV' eye-rolling regularity. Sheesh. and UK warehouses.” The man like Man Power — aka gets its dancing trousers back Just put something shite out, 07. DJ DIFFERENT ‘Doin It Differently’ 1Ø Pills Mate “DJ Different has a lot landing in terms of releases but this is probably the Geoff Kirkwood — delivers this on for a final, uninhibited wig for pete's sake. This is from peak in terms of epic atmospheres. Weekend warrior material.” utter tropical bastardry for new out. Buy on sight. Spanish producer DIY 1990, Not An Animal Records spin-off previously unknown in these 08. RIMBAUDIAN ‘Listen Up’ Meda Fury Records “Solid club fodder from DJ Seinfeld. Stomping power house. Breaks, pitched Tropical Bastard. 'Tropical William Welt & here parts, but doubtless not vocals and rampant house stabs all over the shop.” Bastard 1' goes arp-heavy with Moodymanc for long. 'Room 202' is bathed 09. VARIOUS ARTISTS ‘DJ For Drinks’ Mana All Nite a driving, majestically ‘80s Ideal World EP in emotional Italo-style house “Shufflin’, shakin’, sample-heavy house. Various up and comers tussle for VA house groove from the Vangelis 22 Digit vibes, while on the flip, 'La supremacy with Maus & Stolle’s lucid roller and Full Time’s Ital-tinged edit are standout amongst the four cuts.” School of Pulsating Synths. 8.0 Nuit' mashes together 'I Feel 'Tropical Bastard 2', meanwhile, Manchester duo Welt and Love' bass arps with echoes of 10. NIGHT FOUNDATION ‘Memory Bells’ Lobster Sleep Sequence “One of the most moving pieces of music I’ve probably ever signed for the pulls out the Balearic pan-pipes Moodymanc provide driving, Carl Craig's Paperclip People Lobster Sleep Sequence offshoot. Think Steve Hillage, Pink Floyd, Gilmore and some gentle acid. Mixes twilight grooves for Welt's alias. Superb. & Gong.”

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Ksoul & Muteoscillator QUICKIES 12 Inches Of Sinergy EP Uzuri D_Func 8.5 Where the Waves Break ‘Sinergy’ is this duo’s first release Konsequent in four years, but it's worth the 7. 5 wait. ‘Hang On & On’ is available Veteran German producer Alexander Kowalski in two versions, moving from the returns with a storming release. Seagulls shriek jazz and acid-flecked bass-heavy [email protected] over the clanging, relentless rhythm on ‘Waves original version into a more Break 1’, while ‘Break 2’ sees Kowalski corral wigged out, percussion and the listener and lead them through a hypnotic, chord-heavy second take. The tunneling groove. real highlight here is ‘That’s How It’s Meant to Be’. Underpinned by Albrecht La'Brooy tight kicks and sharp hi-hats, it RICHARD BROPHY RICHARD Escape Velocity moves into a beautifully mournful, Voyage melodic segue that then morphs 7. 5 into a trippy acid climax, like Larry Recorded in one take, this four-track release shows Heard meets classic Herbert. why Melbourne’s Albrecht La’Brooy are gaining a Uzuri’s ear for talent is as flawless reputation with their introspective techno. From as ever. MONEY contemplative piano keys into hazy dub techno and SHOT! the spaced out ‘Gravity Assist’, this is another fine L-R left-of-centre release. L-R Matt O’Brien Null & Void Heal and Come Again Litüus 8.0 Offkey Industries 2236 s Wentworth Ave Talk about a match made grooves — the former reminiscent 9.0 Avian in analogue heaven; Keith of Aril Brikha, the latter Kenny As comebacks go, 'Heal' 7. 0 ‘Radioactive Man’ Tenniswood Larkin — and will have the most doesn’t reach Bobby Ewing-like Shifted’s label descends into chin-stroking realms teams up with Simon Lynch from appeal. However, for a real insight proportions, but it’s still great on ‘2236’. Some pieces, like ‘05052015_2236_001’ London Modular Alliance and into the UK producer’s talent, to see Matt O’Brien reviving are inconsequential, tone-shifting experiments for Monoak for this razor-sharp look beyond these undoubted Offkey Industries. He re-starts the sake of it, but it’s hard not to be moved by the release. ‘Tiger Stripes’ resounds dancefloor burners. The the label in fine style with solemn bell chimes on ‘10212016_2700_001’. to steely drums, acid lines and mysterious synths and metallic 'And Through the Other Side', a junglist bass, while ‘Fruitcake’ drums of 'Machine Works' and where a prowling bass supports delivers a glitchy electro workout. the late night melancholy of frostily atmospheric synths and BEN LONG EPM MUSIC On ‘Land’ and ‘Aesop’, the focus 'Troglodytic' ensure this is a mysterious electro riffs without shifts, with L-R dropping chord- sublime, stellar release. losing any momentum. 'One heavy techno, as both tracks are Night in Old Street' is a slower underpinned by stepping rhythms Reggie Dokes & Brian paced, warbling acid workout, that punch with barely restrained Neal while 'Caru' is the standout brute force. Hopefully this marks Detroit Luv EP track, where woozy melodies the beginning of a beautiful Psychostasia and beautiful piano keys meet relationship. 8.5 with O’Brien’s tight drums and Dokes is not the most high-profile rhythms. It's great to hear HOLOVR Detroit producer, but these days O'Brien's off-centre sounds Split Infinity he’s certainly one of the city’s again. Likemind most consistent. Both 'Against 8.0 Me' and 'Tilt' resound to snappy, In the pantheon of early to steely drums and Dokes’ musical sees Yang lay down tearjerking mid-90s UK techno, Likemind piano and organ-playing. Italo melodies, spacey synths is one of the most sacred relics. However, it would be wrong to and techno blips. Meanwhile, Famously, the label only put out a assume that these are ethereal 'Stranger', featuring Nicole Ginelli few records, second hand copies arrangements and both are on vocals, outdoes Alden Tyrell in of which now trade hands online supported by powerful basslines. the electronic disco stakes. It's 01. MARK BROOM ‘King’ EPM Music “Mark’s music is always solid and fits well in my sets. ‘King’ is the more funky for princely sums. Unexpectedly, On the flip, Brian Neal pays tribute another compelling dark entry. side of his sound. I love it!” after a two-decade hiatus the to Chez Damier and Ron Trent with

02. BEN LONG ‘Calling Broadsword (Jamie Bissmire Remix)’ EPM label is back with its fifth record. two fine soulful cuts that inhabit Luxus Varta Music The work of Jimmy Billingham, the grey area between house and Aquamarine Puzzle “My partner in crime for over 20 years serves up a remix of dark moody Shipwrec techno, taking my original track to another level.” it does a good job of recreating techno. Both flexing their creative the atmosphere of the original muscles, this makes for another 8.0 03. DANY RODRIGUEZ ‘D’Visions’ RMR “Dany is on the rise. His productions are emotive and well-crafted.” releases; ‘Split Infinity’ is an acid- killer Psychostasia release. Luxus Varta’s music is rooted tinged breakbeat arrangement, in electro, but there are many 04. FLOORPLAN ‘Let The Church’ M-Plant peppered with soulful vocals, other reference points audible “Robert Hood takes us to church and serves up a serious techno sermon.” Bezier while ‘Hillraiser’ is a fine, dreamy Primes on this release. 'Tofsy' features 05. MARK FANCIULLI ‘Deviation (DJ 3000 String Mix)’ Motech affair suitable for home listening Dark Entries rave stabs over its soaring bass, “I’ve been playing this as the last track in my sets and it really fits as a last tune! Powerful strings that leave you wanting more.” sessions. 8.0 while 'Trup6' revolves around San Fran’s Dark Entries is primarily a heady combination of steely 06. BEN SIMS PRES RON BACARDI ‘Untitled Roller’ Unknown “Uncompromising machine funk from Mr. Sims, like only he can do.” John Shima known for its sterling reissue industrial drums and bee swarm Renegade EP work, but it has also cultivated bleeps. There are also moments 07. SPACE DJZ ‘Temple Ball Skank (Lex Gorrie Remix’ Advanced Black Distant Worlds “My favourite remix from our last Space DJz project. 100% techno funk.” some emerging talent like Cute when Varta veers into Detroit 9.0 Heels and Bezier aka Robert Yang. purism — most effectively on 08. BEN LONG ‘Device Disconnect’ Materia John Shima has been releasing While Yang is also connected to the resonating, Drexciyan snares “My latest offering on Marco Bailey’s Materia Imprint.” classic deep techno for the past label owner Josh Cheon through and subs of 'Brevlab' — but as 09. NIEREICH ‘Modern Soul feat. DJ Emerson’ Micro.fon seven years, but ‘Renegade’ looks their Honey Soundsystem the vocal traces left by Paris the “New collab from these guys. Pounding techno with that German twist.” set to introduce him to a wider parties, 'Primes' is rooted in Black Fu on 'Globb' demonstrate, 10. PASCAL HETZEL ‘Stutter’ Caduceus audience. Both the title track and the Dark Entries sound; based invention is the main piece in this “Simple but effective, Detroit sounding. It does what it says on the tin!” ‘Veloc’ are fine, melodic techno on a lurching, snaking bass, it complex puzzle.

djmag.com 125 ELECTRO/PROGRESSIVE ANGUS THOMAS PATERSON [email protected] QUICKIES Matt Fax Close 2 U Colorize 8.0 One of the teasers from the incoming debut album from the young French prodigy, ‘Close 2 U’ sees Fax trying his hand at big-room vocal progressive and doing a great job of it, far outclassing anything similar we’ve heard from Deadmau5 in at least a decade.

Llewellyn The Long Run Riotvan 7. 5 One half of the Lake People project, Llewellyn fi les MONEY solo here for a beautiful release on Leipzig imprint Riotvan, this being the standout record from his SHOT! ‘The Other Side Of You' EP. Grum Price Of Love Estiva Anjunabeats Doorlopen 9.0 Statement! Anjuna luminary Grum shows 7. 0 that a dose of nostalgia mixed The ever-prolifi c Estiva doesn’t have time for in with a dash of euphoria superstar DJ shenanigans, he’s too busy pumping can go a long way. In the case out the productions and he’s found the perfect of ‘Price of Love’, it delivers home at Statement! for his more progressive spine-tingling results. While it’s offerings. ‘Doorlopen’ ticks all the functional boxes somewhat inspired by the New but has a certain deepness too. Order '90s classic, Grum wields the original vocal more as an execution. Peak-time fun with a the starting point for another element in his arrangements — dark edge, the thundering electro conceptual project. ‘Breaking BRKLYN ENHANCED RECORDINGS as opposed to actually remixing bassline at the drop is prepped for Kind’ is indie/electro crossover the track — using its iconic mayhem. built for the slower dancefl oor chorus as a launchpad into moments, though it’s also a cut swirling progressive euphoria. Paul Thomas & White- above the norm when it comes to While it’s a predictable dance- Akre songwriting, featuring less of the fl oor weapon to a degree, it’s Goliath populist compromises his former guaranteed to bring the fi re for FSOE UV Mafi a brethren specialise in. a wide spectrum of DJs. 8.5 Egyptian euphoric stalwarts Aly & Moby Fila show they’re not all rainbows Porcelain (Timo Maas & James and unicorns with their new Teej's Broken China Dub) Coyu FSOE UV offshoot label. ‘Goliath’ Rockets & Ponies 1+1 feat. Thomas Gandey (Gerd is progressive trance of the 8.0 Janson Arp Mix) highest order, its menacing build One of the peak-time weapons 01. ODESZA ‘Line Of Sight feat. WYNNE & Mansionair’ Foreign Family Suara accelerating smoothly into the that slipped out over summer and Collective “So many feels. One of our favourite inspirations by far. This song takes you 8.0 chorus melodies that are tactfully might have been slept on by some. on a journey.” Suara boss Coyu is about to unveil largely kept on a leash, the vibes Timo Maas and James Teej deliver 02. FLUME ‘Helix’ Mom+Pop/Marathon his debut album and '1+1' is its underscored by a menacing vocal what’s both an explosive ode to “Seeing him open his live show with this was unreal. The drop makes your fi rst offering, nine-plus minutes loop. Dark, nasty and euphoric, all the release of the dancefl oor, as head explode.” of irresistible minimalist grooves in the same breath. well as a masterclass in restraint. 03. WHAT SO NOT & BURNS ‘Trust’ OWSLA that meld artfully with its simple The way in which the duo holds “Smash vocal with a unique and realistic concept. We’re big fans of both piano melody. Gerd Janson draws HI-LO back on unleashing the full sparkle producers.” upon all this with his remix, Alien Technology of the original ‘Porcelain’ piano 04. SLUMBERJACK ‘Fracture’ onelove while successfully taking it up Heldeep twinkle until a breakdown eight “The drop has so much emotion, we love this joint.” a notch with some extra added 8.0 minutes in is pure genius. 05. SAN HOLO ‘The Future feat. James Vincent McMorrow’ Sony moody synths, powered rhythmic One of those rare particularly BMG/Columbia elements, plus a few particularly weird and groovy numbers that’s RECONDITE “One of our favorite records of the year. The guitar in this is great.” decadent melodies. built for the EDM mainstage, ‘Alien Theater II 06. BRKLYN ‘I’m On Somethin feat. Jocelyn Alice’ Enhanced Technology’ is one also of the most Dystopian Recordings “We wrote this record with Jocelyn at a cabin in the mountains of Lake Third Party, Pete K & tech-infl uenced records that Oliver 9.0 Arrowhead, CA. There was an undeniable vibe and energy and the song came Cory Lesser Heldens has delivered to date Recondite’s recent EP on out naturally.” Like This (Club Mix) under his HI-LO alias. A bizarre Dystopian is a hypnotic collection 07. PORTER ROBINSON X MADEON ‘Shelter’ Popcultur Free Release “These guys are freaks. The drums are huge and the production is incredibly and wonderful fusion of EDM and of deep, dark excellence that clean.” 8.0 techno. is enough of a journey to be ‘Like This’ is one of those rare considered a mini-album in itself. 08. AUDIEN & MAX ‘One More Weekend’ Astralwerks “Love this chorus, it’s a huge tune.” crowd-pleasing house slammers Steve Angello Though it’s the title track ‘Theater that gets it just right, laying the Breaking Kind feat. Paul Meany II’ that hosts its biggest thrills, 09. ADVENTURE CLUB & THE KITE STRING TANGLE ‘Won- groundwork with a familiar vocal Size Records its brooding drive elevated by the der’ BMG “This infl uenced us heavily early on. This vocal is really nice, and we love the sample (courteous of Run DMC 8.0 arrival of a pointed string sample emotion in this joint.” this time around), which the Following on from his sprawling at its fi rst break several minutes in. 10. TRITONAL ‘Good Thing’ Enhanced trio of producers then capitalize 'Wild Youth' album experiment Menace, exhilaration and emotion “A well-written smash! We’re ever thankful for these dudes and all their on perfectly with their pumping from last year, Angello unveils are fused together masterfully. mentoring.”

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Untitled-2 1 18/09/2017 14:57 DISCO JONATHAN BURNIP [email protected] QUICKIES Criminal Element Orchestra Latino Party Music Made In Miami 7.0 Legendary NY producer, remixer and DJ, Arthur Baker revives his '80s freestyle alias, Criminal Element Orchestra for a single of new material for Oscar G’s Made In Miami label.

Marcel Vogel & Khalil Anthony Dance The Blues Away Lumberjacks In Hell MONEY 8.5 SHOT! Heavy disco vibes, as usual, on Marcel Vogel’s Prins Thomas superb Lumberjacks In Hell label. Includes Edmond remixes from BB Boogie and BBE records Full Pupp regular, Julien Dyne. 9.5 Epic disco session (clocking Joey Negro Presents RWL in at an album length of Various Artists You Know How To Love Me/Bad Mouthin' almost 30 minutes) from The Sound Of Mercury Rising Kolomensky Z Records veteran Scandinavian talent, Compiled With Love By DJ Harvey Recovery 9.0 Prins Thomas. Stretched out Vol. 1 Clandestino As part of his ‘Remixed With Love’ series, Joey over two parts, ‘Edmond’ Pikes Records 8.0 Negro works stunning new remixes of a Phyllis manoeuvres classic disco- 9.5 Sparkling, nu-disco euphoria Hyman’s soulful disco classic and a Philly-style dub touches and lengthy Boutique Ibiza hotel with from Kolomensky, who is disco cut from Motown Sounds. percussion breakdowns club launches its new label currently at the front of a for DJs to work or take a in conjunction with Harvey’s vibrant scene that’s happening REWORK MY FAVORITE ROBOT 10-minute break. If this isn’t regular ‘Mercury Rising’ spot. right now in Moscow. enough, then it’s heads down The DJ’s DJ picks key floor Representing the London scene again for another 15-minute favourites (all in keeping is Felix Dickinson, who weighs session via the tropical acid with the mood of the White in with a driving revamp of the disco freakout, ‘Montague Isle) from the likes of Elkin & title track, nodding back to the Grant’. Nelson’s classic ‘Abran Paso’, ‘progressive’ sound of the early re-edited; the Latin-disco touch '90s. In tow, and switching up of ‘Spanish Boogie’ by Van the mood somewhat, is a lush, Billy Bogus presents McCoy; pseudo Latin-rock from dreamy Balearic overhaul of the The Caribbean House the great Tony Esposito and aptly-titled ‘Santa Monica’ by Gong Bong the super-rare, Euro-disco holy Golf Channel’s Balearic Gabba Bear Funk grail, ‘She’s A Lady’ by Tore. Soundsystem. 7.5 Pizzico records’ Billy Bogus is L'Equipe du Son Jagwar Ma The Caribbean House alongside Liberté Every Now & Zen (Remixes) production pal, Ferderico Silhouette Music Marathon Artists Bologna. Released via Steve 7.5 8.5 Kotey’s Bear Funk label, the Dutch producer, L'Equipe du Indie/pop trio reappear with a duo’s classy, Balearic shuffle Son releases a three-track choice remix selection of tracks ‘Gong Bong’ has been getting special for Amsterdam Pride via from last year’s album release. 01. SHE LIES ‘Needed You (Asphodells Remix)’ Astrolab Recordings regular spins from the likes of his own Silhouette Music label. Andrew Weatherall dispenses “Still in love with this track we made with our friends and ex-flatmate from Horse Meat Disco boys, Justin Tough, driving nu-disco tunes with original audio material and Berlin. Happy to get this super Asphodells remix for dreams on the dancefloor.”

Robertson and In Flagranti. span the growling acid funk of produces a mid-tempo, bubbling 02. MATT TOLFREY & AJ CHRISTOU ‘Drama Queen’ Material Includes a lush, mid-tempo ‘Blue Oyster’ (a homage to the acid/Balearic mix; while “Had a talk with Matt about his first time playing at Fabric club on the same day when we had our first Rework gig at Fabric. ‘Drama Queen’ rocks with super version from the Mushroom fictional club or US proto-metal Kompakt records’ figurehead, synths and a cool beat. Love this track.” Project crew and heavy, tropical group?), the dizzy EBM trip of Michael Mayer, summons the 03. DJ DEEP ‘New Horizon (Roman Poncet Steps Remix)’ Deeply disco fix fom Kotey himself. ‘Pink Flamingo’, and the slow ghost of electroclash's past. Rooted 'n' sleazy, X-rated new wave The standout cut is Rebolledo’s “A track to get lost in at a party. You plan to leave but it’s not possible Craxi Disco grind of ‘Red Canary’. driving dub that picks key hooks anymore.” Brennero Express from the track ‘Ordinary’ and 04. LOUIE ANDERSON ‘La Radio (Original Mix)’ Chapeau Music Opilec Music “My favorite track for today. The weekend is over but I can’t wait for the next Superpitcher adds a signature amount of weekend to hear this track by Louie Anderson on a good club soundsystem.” 8.0 The Golden Rave Days 8 disco sleaze. I Robots’ fine Italo reissue/ Hippie Dance 05. REWORK ‘Talk It Off’ My Favorite Robot “Feels good to have our first release on My Favorite Robot with the kind of nu-disco imprint, Opilec Music, 9.0 Faze Action typical bass-heavy Rework track that reminds us of the first tracks we released releases new material from the Kompakt’s Superpitcher (and Vamos Pintar on Playhouse.” FAR London-based guise of Gianni one half of the Pachanga Boys) 06. LAUHAUS & ONNO ‘French 75’ Upon You Records Crucini, Craxi Disco. His take entertains with two way out 9.0 “Keeps rolling and rolling and...” on the tradition of Claudio west disco-not-disco tunes. The brothers Lee are back with 07. SEBASTIAN MULLAERT ‘Visitor’s Path’ Apollo Simonetti, Alexander Robotnik Taking inspiration from Wim the strong proto-house/disco “This is calm but still powerful. The sounds are perfectly balanced. Perfect track for coming down after a long night.” et al blends some up-to-date Wenders’ '80s classic, the lead vibe of ‘Vamos Pintar’. Max production touches with the track, ’Tuesday Paris Texas’, Essa remixes and simmers the 08. MYSTIC BILL ‘The Struggle’ Mint Condition “In German we say ‘verspult’ to this kind of track. Monotonous madness signature drama of classic Italo borrows a Ry Cooder-style tempo to a crawling, Balearic without getting boring.” disco. Paper Recordings’ and dustbowl blues guitar lick moondance — check the 09. ATAXIA ‘Time Original’ Play It Say It Midnight Riot’s James Rod layered over sparse, dubby glorious ‘Bubble Dub’! A real “Oh yeah, this bassline blows off my socks!” adds a touch of high camp with disco plod. It’s backed by the return to form. electric guitar wails and over- Badalmenti-inspired ‘Mirage’. 10. PATRICE BÄUMEL ‘Sorcery’ Kompakt “We love Kompakt. Almost every release is special. Long-time runner. A techno the-top breakdowns. Fun. Potent stuff. culture institution.”

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DJ574.Music_Disco.indd 128 13/09/2017 16:34 Untitled-2 1 18/09/2017 14:23 TECH-HOUSE [email protected] LEON CLARKSON QUICKIES Dudley Strangeways & Luke Black Split EP Chord Records 9.0 Dudley Strangeways and Luke Black offer two tracks apiece. Both deliver well-balanced, intricate minimalism. Dudley's 'Harvest' is surely heading straight into Ricardo's record bag? MONEY Herr SHOT! Emery Warman Sense Of Wonder EP Feel Da Bass EP No.19 Music Under No Illusion 9.5 8.0 Here's a very special release Emery Warman delivers for the high flying UNI from Barcelona-based, Records. Anek supply a dancefloor damaging Herr. A beefy, five-track EP remix of the title track 'Feel Da Bass', but 'The comprising of three diverse African Dream' is a belter. originals with groove and purpose — 'Sense Of Wonder' Various Artists pipping this trio, melding an perfectly attuned drops and fills three top drawer tech-house Outbound.2 intricate but progressive beat is 'Lost Memories'. Then, 'In originals and two remixes from Lossless structure against hedonistic The Zone' rolls a little deeper VONDA7 and Beatamines; 'Disco 9.5 atmospherics; a proper treat with tribalistic percussion and a Acid' supplying the... erm, acid; Over two years since the first 'Outbound' — and two remixes from the thundering bassline. CDC (Hot 'Blue Panther', driving a no- edition. Double the size but equally as majestic, Nitin (No.19) and Creations, Circus, Material) frills tech sound; 'Jungle Ride', impactful. Love Over Entropy's 'Land Before Hector (Vatos Locos). Nitin supply an unadulterated peak- a test for the bass bins. On Time' just about steals the show... at the time restyles the swung 'London time refix of 'Lost Memories' the remixes, VONDA7 supplies of writing. Express' groove into an by refreshing the bassline and a booming techno revision of electrifying, straight-sitting deconstructing everything 'Disco Acid', while Beatamines MIGUEL CAMPBELL OUTCROSS RECORDS roller that emerges toward during the breakdown with a translates 'Disco Acid' into a the middle and back again. mutating synth hook. rolling tech-house twister. A The Vatos Locos founder, wholesome pack to get your Hector, tackles 'Sense Of Maurice Aymard ears around. Wonder', shifting identity Into The Sun into harder realms. A whole InfraDigrecords Lauhaus new track in fact. Sparse 8.0 Smoke Screen EP percussion, a rock-solid kick, The label owner (Galaktika Danse Club Records and the fiercest arpegiating Records) and skilled DJ/ 8.5 synth-line emerges outward. producer, drops his first major The long time Danse Club- Peak-time plays only. effort since May, delivering an affiliate, Lauhaus, returns with emergent single called 'Into his fifth release on Austen/ The Sun'. With a tough, proggy Scott's carefully curated 01. FREAKY SECRET ‘Radiation’ Outcross Records Ceri construct and melody at the imprint. And since the label “This is a collaboration between Iain O’Hare and myself, and our first Truth EP core, it's a definitive sun- returned from a reflective eight- release under the moniker, Freaky Secret. The original mix is working on the dancefloors for me right now.” Decay Records drenched set-closer. Remixer, month hiatus in June 2017, it 8.5 James Teej, expands both the does so with a renewed sonic 02. JOSH TAYLOR & JUSTIN JAY ‘Pussy Pop’ Emerald City “I have used this to open my main room sets a few times and it always brings Ceri's return after a year behind drums and arrangement, adding identity, perfect for the heady, a good vibe and gets the party started so it has stayed in my Rekordbox since the scenes sees her supply lengthy string parts to make for rolling club music of this ace pre-release.” deep, no-frills, tech-house on an intensifying journey. While producer. The 'Smoke Screen' 03. MAM ‘Dance’ Outcross Records 'Truth' and 'Be Mine'. Julian Hobo switches the blueprint EP is a cauldron of dubby tech- “’Dance’ is one of my favourite tracks from the ‘Elektrospektive’ EP and has Sandre tackles 'Truth', upping up and goes in hard, with bold house to supply the warm-up found its way into all of my sets recently.” the pace, tightening percussion synth parts moving wildly into ('Smoke Screen'), late into 04. GORILLAZ ‘Andromeda (ZHU Remix)’ Parlophone “An epic remix that crosses the boundaries of style, with a big breakdown and adding an atmosphere the almost, but not quite, acidic the morning ('Dub Cage'), or able to chill things out for a moment. I’ve been playing this one at open-air original hadn't considered. OCH realms. anytime to keep the dancefloor events especially.” shifts 'Be Mine' up a gear with rolling ('Dub Face'). 05. KOLOMBO & SION ‘I Feel’ LouLou Records wobbling low-end, tight kicks William Welt & “This is a great peak-time track for me with awesome synth-work in the bass and pinpoint swung hat percs, Moodymanc Kalyde and build-ups. Really sounds huge in the club!” whilst haunting, slow-attacking Ideal World No Sleep EP 06. GROOVE ARMADA ‘Tune 101 feat. Slarta Jon (Jamie Jones swells help the track sway as it 22 Digit Sense Traxx Drip Drop Remix)’ VIVa “Massive track that has been doing damage on the dancefloors every time I wallops forward. A tidy package 8.0 9.0 play it. I really enjoy the rhythm chants and build-ups.” all round for artists and label. A very nice combined effort Kalyde turns in two powerhouse 07. LEXER ‘Hunter (AKA AKA & Thalstroem Remix)’ Der Turnbeutel from rising talent, William Welt, originals here. Remixes come “Such good vibes in this record. Great emotion and a somewhat old school Ben Jones & Ferher and seasoned producer/DJ, from rising talents, David feel. Reminds me of the feelings from ‘90s dance music. I love it. Perfect for the summer.” Lost Memories EP Moodymanc. But Alland Byallo’s Jackson — monstrous bass, Yaya Records remix steals the show with a raw hat-work, and wild synth 08. HCB ‘Can’t Speak (Remix)’ Outcross Records “A collaboration with my original music production partner TruLuque! This 8.5 beautiful, rolling tech remix of design reimagine 'No Sleep' — remix is driven by a heavy warehouse-style bass and lifted nicely by the The label's third EP comes ‘Ideal World’. and Tommy Vercetti, who coats vocals and key change.” from Liverpool-based cohorts, 'Eight Nine' in his trademark 09. BAKERMAT ‘Don’t Want You Back (Mat.Joe’s Crispy Snack Ben Jones & Ferher, who, Riven bumping percussion-and- Dub)’ Dirty Soul “This track has a little bit of everything. Slamming beats and a dope bassline. earlier in the year, delivered Disco Acid EP groove style. Kincaid & Sinal's One of my favourite tracks to play at the moment.” the bouncing, 'Deeper Things' Time Has Changed alternative reconstruction of (on Under No Illusion). 'Eight Nine' delivers sensuous 10. ANIMAL PICNIC ‘Tets’ Dark Stars 9.0 “I have been digging lots of different types of melodic techno recently and I Leading out this selection Riven's debut release on Time atmospherics and synthesised always enjoy the more electronic variety. This is one of my favourite tracks with captivating drums and Has Changed packs a punch with textures for the afters. Brilliant. right now.”

130 djmag.com GRIME QUICKIES Big H Space Man (feat. President T) Astronaut Music 8.0 Word on the street is that Big H has an album, ‘Oracle’, coming soon — here he links up with fellow grime vet Prez T, aka Mr. T on the Wing, for our first silky-smooth taster, ‘Space Man’.

Bugzy Malone We Don't Play

FELICITY MARTIN [email protected] Ill Gotten Records 7.0 Bugzy continues his rise with ‘We Don’t Play’, a laid-back trap that sees the Mancunian MC relaying some of his rags-to-riches backstory.

Last Japan Exhale/Teflon Circadian Rhythms MONEY 5.5 Last Japan employs a creeping, spooky melody AJ Tracey SHOT! line with some Eski clicks, with Killa P bringing LA4AWEEK his ragga vocals to ‘Exhale’. AJ Tracey 8.5 Murlo Abra Cadabra ‘For The Crime’, which has a AJ’s been known to take Wind Me Up Art Of War decidedly old school production his sound transatlantic Butterz Ounto Nation flavour, Fusion shells down previously, linking up with 7.5 7.5 some incarceration-themed Denzel Curry and Rick Ross on As ever with Murlo, it’d be wrong to label this The angriest-sounding MC in bars. ‘Knotty Head UK Remix’. On ‘grime’, but this new Butterz EP does nod to the the game is back, but this time ‘LA4WEEK’ he further mines genre in his typical genre-spanning fashion. not as a feature artist. Fresh Nu Brand Flexxx that UK x US vibe, drafting in from throwing his vocals onto Paid In Full Swoosh God and Sloan Evans Afrobeats cuts (see: Stefflon Unreleased for a collision of California, OH91 COYOTE RECORDS Don, Belly Squad, Kojo Funds), 8.0 New York, and Ladbroke this time he goes full drill on Ten years on from Channel U Grove. Apparently cooked ‘Art Of War’. The delivery on this classic ‘Anthem’, it looks like Nu up during Paris Fashion one is truly explosive and, as Brand Flexxx are back, having Week, the production is split one YouTube commenter puts dropped social commentary between Nyge and AJ himself it: ‘This makes me wanna rob track ‘Siri’ in August. Promising — and sees the jetsetter myself, then say sorry to myself, that “big boy connect”, clearly cementing his rise. then rob myself again’. members Meter, Brags and TK deliver a furious set of bars over Boofy & Ishan Sound Flexxx member Darq E Freaker’s his cheeky wit yet again on Roll The Dice/Cane Sword heavy, harpsichord-led beat. ‘Magnum’. The wiser-than-his- Sector 7 Sounds Not gonna lie, we really wanna years Nottingham MC pens a 01. MYSTRY ‘Impulse’ Stripes Records 9.0 hear those “kiss my cough” bars love letter to the fortified tonic “Anywhere I go, I bring this tune on the stick with me, it’s got so much energy. Done an Asia tour earlier this year, the way this tune just went off out there Bandulu affiliate Boofy & again, though... wine that promises energy proved to me I can’t put it down.” Young Echo collective member and sexual vitality, while the Ishan Sound step up for two Diamondz-produced beat spans 02. D DOUBLE E ‘Shenanigans’ Bluku Music Grim Sickers “Listen, this tune does bits! The beat is so sick, the bars, everything he’s instrumentals that dish out Open The Till (feat. Ghetts and dubstep, jungle and sinogrime saying — it’s all sick.” grime from a West Country The Darker The Shadow The all in one go. If you watch one 03. JAMMZ ‘Time’ Unreleased perspective — and it’s a rarity Brighter The Light) thing this month, give the Tim “Yeah, this one does bits on the dancefloor. The kick, snares, percussion — Last Gang Records everything just fits so perfectly, even down to the melody.” for Ishan to get grimey. and Barry-directed video five Anyone au fait with the deep, 6.0 minutes of your time. 04. FILTHY GEARS ‘Running’ Unreleased dark Bristol sound will love Credit to Grim Sickers, as he’s “Yeah man, this instrumental just speaks for itself. Filthy’s a G when it comes to reconstructing a sample and just flipping the fuck out of it.” this pairing, with ‘Roll The drafted in two huge artists on OH91 Dice’ boasting some delicate this one — Ghetts and Mike Shuttle ‘Twisted Future’ Unreleased 05. SPOOKY Coyote Records “This does damage everywhere. See with this tune, you gotta play with it sinogrime touches, while on Skinner, under his The Darker before it drops because you know it’s gonna get that wheelie. Large up Spooks every time!” the flip, the militaristic ‘Cane The Shadow The Brighter The 7.5 Sword’ is about as cold as it Light moniker (not a mouthful The mark of a good grime 06. DAPZ ON THE MAP ‘Mini Valet’ Self-released gets. Strap in. at all…). ‘Open The Till’ sees instrumental isn’t always how “Such a sick tune. The concept built around the tune fits everything, even down to the beat. It’ll always stay with me.” the trio go bar for bar over it sounds in its own right, but Fusion some trill trap beats, with also when it’s primed and 07. MAYHEM ‘Ride On This’ Self-released “My guy Mayhem always brings the energy, especially on this tune here. The For The Crime Sickers boasting “I ran past oiled for an MC to ride. OH91 video is sick, the beat is mad, and this one does it again for me.” Self-released every MC that I rated", paving has struck this balance quite

08. REEKO SQUEEZE ‘Stereotype’ Self-released 7.0 the way for the release of his cleverly on ‘Shuttle’, making his “I’ve been following this guy for a minute now and when I heard this I was like, North Woolwich’s Fusion ‘Intercontinental Champ’ EP. return to Coyote Records after ‘Yeah, this tune’s me’!’ It’s catchy, and the production is tight.” enjoyed one of the biggest 2014’s split 12” with Chemist. 09. AJ TRACEY ‘LA4AWEEK’ AJ Tracey endorsements you can possibly Mez Frantic strings and perfectly “I think I first heard this tune on someone’s Insta story as a preview. I was like, ‘Jheez, what’s this?!’ I heard it again after I saw it was out and played it like 20 get early on in your career; a Magnum placed handclaps abound; and times. The beat did it for me, then the vocals just patterned it up.” slot on the Lord Of The Mics Last Gang Records with a re-rub from Dutch grime 10 year compilation. The East producer JLSXND7RS on the flip, 10. NINES ‘Stacey Adams’ XL Recordings 7.0 “Don’t even get me started, even if I’m just walking into town to pick up some End MC turned heads with his Off the back of April’s ‘Normal it’s another weapon to add to things, this tune just puts me in an instant mood. Very, very cold.” experienced delivery, and on Shoe’, Uncle Mez brandishes Coyote’s ever-growing arsenal.

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Neurons To Nirvana Pic: HAPTIC WORLD Mutation Audio [email protected] 7.0 We can see why this track is named after a high state, it’s a deep, warm and techy roller with dark mutated bass and soft twinkling highlights. Definitely check out the entire EP,

WHISKY KICKS there are some crackers.

Ghost Warrior Hollow re:st 7.5 This one is so minimal there’s almost nothing there. Except there really is; layer upon layer of delicate sound placed on top of tiny shuffles of quiet beats. With the odd thud of deep MONEY darkness, this is eyes down 5am music. Chimpo SHOT! 1996 Dub Concept Box 'N' Lock Ichnusa 9.0 Soul Deep Recordings Starting off in the realms 7.0 of smooth '90s R&B, before Who needs the actual sun when we’ve got the dropping into some soft Sol-soaked beats of Dub Concept. Tumbling vocal jungle, the track drifts Amens and twinkling shimmers, signify the beautifully, like a melodic, territory we’re wondering in from the off. The summer breeze. The whole theme continues throughout with a warm sub track is dripping with a beneath. sweet, nostalgic nectar, and we are more than happy to Hybris soft vocal provided by Jorgie indulge — from the classic WHINEY HOSPITAL RECORDS Say Hello To The Future promises of grey turning to Amens, to the time travelling Pseudoscience blue, and we certainly felt our lyrics, which repeat “In 7.5 soul being transported to white 1996…” But our favourite Hybris has launched a new label sandy shore, watching glints of nod is the two introduced saying “I'm starting my own the sun shimmering on the sea switches, one heading into label to do whatever I want. like tiny dancing stars under a a ragga tip ablaze with I'll be doing some drum & bass perfect azure sky. This young dub-sirens and the second tempo stuff, and some other producer has been steadily adorned with a delicate stuff”. Intriguing! ‘Say Hello rising to prominence but we piano. To The Future’ is the lead track think this release on RAM’s little from his first release and sets sister imprint may be the one to the precedent for the tone of really get him noticed. tracks with melodic vibes of 01. WHINEY ‘Talisman’ Med School the label. An open soundscape love, hope and fun. The label's “The title track from my debut LP and the tune which has defined my productions up to this point. It started off with the vocal sample in the intro full of clicks, pops and whizzes Soul Intent head honcho BCee is hitting us before turning into a fully-blown club roller.” with an eerie glow and sci-fi No Anwsers (Concealed Identity with his fourth studio album, whirls. Remix) 'Northpoint', and the lead track 02. HALOGENIX ‘Blej’ Critical Music “Outrageous. Not much else to say. Listen.” Exkursions is certainly brimming with that Mitekiss feat. Mr Porter 7.5 same spirit. A mix of old school 03. ILL TRUTH ‘Discover’ Symmetry Recordings “Wicked roller from these guys, who’ve cropped up on my radar over the past Empire This is a beautiful muddle of piano chords, squeaky hardcore year. The flow grabbed my attention straight away and after hearing other Shogun Audio music. Its backbone is a harsh influences and catchy vocals; new bits from these guys they’ve got a lot more to show.” 9.0 and strong jungle beat, while a track so bouncy and easily 04. WHINEY FEAT. INJA ‘Flashlight’ Med School Wow, this EP is a must. Mitekiss the flesh of the track is a accessible it could be popped in “The tune I finished quickest on ‘Talisman’ by far (three hours), which soon became a staple of Randall’s sets. Inja killed it the lyrical wizard. My mentions “I wanted to make mostly soft and wavey nod to the crossover box. favourite tune to play out from my album.” a more grown-up record, the melodics of techy liquid,

05. DRUMSOUND & BASSLINE SMITH ‘Odyssey VIP’ Prototype something with a bit more with ethereal pads and the Killbox Recordings restraint…" and we would odd sharp, shining shard of Neverwhere “The perfect set switch-up tune. Groovy and rude, it always gets a good Ram Records reaction.” agree that the all four tracks metallics, which cut through ooze a sexy, soulful adult the cloud-like atmosphere. This 8.0 06. BANKS ‘Fuck With Myself (Ivy Lab Remix)’ 20/20 LDN “Chock full of attitude and that infectious Ivy Lab sound I can’t get enough vibe. With rolling piano loops, track certainly has a dark and This is a duo that need little of. They inspired me a lot on ‘Talisman’ and continue to with nearly shuffling drums and a deep brooding heart. Wax junkies introduction: heavy weight everything they write.” warm understated bass it’s our take note, it’s being released on pioneers Audio and Ed Rush 07. HUGH HARDIE ‘She Moves’ Hospital Records favourite type of track and the a limited edition marbled pink make up the (relatively) newly “Couldn’t write this list without including my favourite tune from one of my favourite albums in the last five years.” sultry tones of Mr Porter just and black vinyl. formed powerhouse, Killbox. take this track to the next level. Not even a year old, the 08. NU:LOGIC ‘Somewhere Between The Light’ Hospital Records “A masterclass in songwriting once again from the Gresham brothers. Will BCee collective are at the epicentre forever be envious of their drum processing, so so good.” Aperio feat. Jordie Keep Moving On of some serious shockwaves to Grey To Blue Spearhead Records the d&b universe, and this track KEENO ‘Empath’ Hospital Records 09. Program “Everything I love about Will’s music encompassed within one tune. 7.5 will show you why. Ed Rush’s Suspenseful and beautifully uplifting.” 8.5 Spearhead is a label that deep, rolling, infectious groove 10. WHINEY ‘Beyond Reach’ Med School A gorgeous, glistening everybody loves, its ethos and pair seemingly effortlessly with “Couldn’t leave out what I think is the best track I’ve written so far and is droplet of rolling liquid gold, output encapsulates the dark Audio’s aggressive mutative a personal favourite from the LP. It combines everything I love about d&b: musicality, rolling drums and an inviting bassline. I was really proud how transformative, uplifting and and rugged roots of our beloved sound. The track is perfect for this one turned out.” simply beautiful. The stunningly genre, while accentuating the seasoned dancefloor.

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Scott Diaz [email protected] Lock Down Your Arial (Doctor Nick Remix) Strictly Flava 8.5 Fearsome garage lick from the ever-reliable Nicholas Savva, aka Doctor Nick, who twists the original up into a fluid, silky little number undercut with muscular bass and strident drum work.

Hybrid Theory Big Deal feat. Trilla MONEY Four 40 SHOT! 8.5 Combining rave-y garage licks with ridiculous bassline wobbles across the frequency spectrum, Freestylers Unreal Endor goes in hard on Hybrid Theory's grime-y Mama's Pie original, smashing out an absolute freak of a 9.5 remix that won't fail to have 'em moving in the This one had me from the dancehall. moment it dropped, with a blistering chopped breakbeat combining with brooding, Khesis fizzed b-line energy to light Rico Tubbs reworking, throwing four-four Unstrategy up the dance. 'Unreal' simply 94 Business EP beats, bassline silliness and Broken has modern classic written Hot Cakes Bass all over it, from the gorgeous select snatches of the original's 9.0 filtered strings and piano 9.0 frenetic ragga vocal into the mix Hungary’s Khesis shows exactly why he’s of the breakdowns to the Here's some rambunctious for a natty little floorfiller. The punching holes in the architecture with a spun-out vocal sample that future-retro nuttiness from South Coast boys boast a clarity glorious slice of atmospheric breakbeat, all diva provides the hook. These are melodies for festival fields Finland's rowdiest bass music of production that simply stands vox, rugged b-line attitude and killa drums. and major arenas, beats to producer. '94 Business' throws out in the crowd. get the hairs on the back horns, junglism and speed of your neck standing to garage licks over the rudest TC4 DRYMAN & DENOIR FUNK’D UP attention. Riot music sent by of b-lines, while 'Addicted' Chopper/Savage the angels. plumps for a silky two-step vibe Four 40 with diva vox, wistful Rhodes 9.0 Murder He Wrote keys and fearsome Reese bass. Yet more evidence that the West Flavored Vol. 2 Finally, 'Air Max' delivers Midlands is where it's at for bass Roska Kicks & Snares A-grade ragga energy, ravey music comes in the form of this 9.0 sirens and horns-a-plenty over cultured double-header from What a find that perennial the finest in chunky breakbeats. Tom Calder and Kate Turley, tastemaker Roska has made in aka TC4. Lead track 'Chopper' James Ongley, aka Murder He Said Who X Pelikann is a relentless dose of dubwise Wrote. This second ‘Flavored’ Cardiac EP tribalism, all carnivalesque selection is just as astoundingly Gully percussion, ragga licks and curated as the first — ‘Never 7.5 bumpy low-end, while 'Savage' You’ is all gorgeous, organic Two of UK bass' more eclectic plumps for a synthy 2-step vibe, tribalism peppered with producers combine for the combining snatches of grime cultured flecks of diva vocal, debut EP on new Bristol-based attitude with Metalheadz-style 01. TS7 ‘Hotter Than Hell’ White Label “Weapon of mass destruction with hands-in-the-air breakdowns, aka the ‘Smoke & Lazers’ is a smokey, imprint, Gully. Lead track pads and oddly off-kilter beat ultimate peak-time track for bass(line) sets. Big up the big bad TS7!” piano-led coffee table rave 'Cardiac' is like a visit to a work. Serious talent is at work 02. DRYMAN & DENOIR ‘Fall Back feat. Scrufizzer’ Funk’d Up anthem, and ‘Club Soda’ is particularly scary emergency here. “Unofficial anthem of our Funk’d Up events. Look up the official video for this percussion-led, next-level ward, blending beats, bass and track to get a taste of the amazing vibes at Cross Club Prague.” electronic soul. The closest bleeps to offbeat effect, while Dryman & Denoir 03. MIKE DELINQUENT & P MONEY ‘Fabric’ Zeus Sound thing here to a peak-time 'Palpitate' treads a similar Some More feat. Scrufizzer “Latest MDP banger featuring the grime king P Money. Minimal breaky banger is the rousing UK funky atmospheric furrow, keeping it Hot Cakes Bass groove + expertly programmed basslines = win.” flex of ‘Seed Riddim’, but there’s dark, dangerous and distinctly 9.0 04. TC4 ‘Brukout’ Crucast “This funky roller has been a staple in our back-to-back sets for a while, not a single bar of music here disturbing. On remix duties, Czech duo Dryman & Denoir always just a matter of who is going to be the first one to drop it. Massive.” that won’t have you wondering Gully leaf through their Bristol- go in hard with a four-four at the sheer brilliance of the based little black book to recruit riddim that's somehow cheekily 05. DRYMAN & DENOIR ‘Some More feat. Scrufizzer (Lucent Remix)’ Hot Cakes Bass man. Sobad main men Distro and insouciant and blazing all “Lucent completely flipped the original and came up with one of the rawest Bromley; the former turning in at once, as grime kingpin and grimiest drops this year = instant reload.” Proxy + Embassy a slamming 145bpm half-time Scrufizzer turns the whole thing 06. BASSBOY ‘Blush’ Rebreathe Virgo (Left/Right Remix) reworking of ‘Palpitate’, while into a proper anthem with some “Easily the most musical bass(line) producer, always brings out the funk and Audiophile XXL creativity in his productions. You definitely need to follow his social media, the latter reimagines the same firing big-room lyricism honed Bassboy’s a pure comedy talent as well.” 8.5 track as a slice of downbeat to take the dance to the next 07. SPOOKZ & DRYMAN ‘Funky Bass’ Low Pitched Records Texan maestro Left/Right squat party breakbeat. level. 'Pon the remix, Killjoy “Does what is says on the tin — UK funky meets bass. Straightforward brings his trademark washed reworks the original into a dancefloor material.” out euphoria to this heady Andy M driving, dead-eyed breakbeat 08. DISTINKT ‘Chinatown’ Crucast little reworking, which seems Pums Huffle feat. Amnesia & Slick x bassline combo, Night Bass' “Club killer, crowd destroyer, heartbeat stopper.” designed to slip seamlessly into Don (Foor Remix) Jay Robinson sends down a Four 40 09. JAMIE DUGGAN & BOODA FEAT. BRU-C ‘Savage’ Crucast stretched out back-room sets bumping, sinuous house effort, “Prague has a massive grime fanbase so you can’t go wrong with dropping an of low-slung breakbeat leftism. 8.0 and Lucent delivers a fearsome MC-led bassline stomper. Easy money.” Sit back and immerse yourself in Pick of this package on the slice of brooding, nasty-as-all- 10. SAMMY VIRJI ‘Never Let You Go’ free download the gilt-edged synth-work and mighty Hybrid Theory's Four 40 hell dancehall attitude. This is a “Yet another certified Funk’d Up party tool with a great drop and some serious vocal chops.” searing low-end brutalism. Records is Foor's brazen little very big EP indeed.

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FLAVA D Happy (Murlo Remix) Butterz 6.0 As a prelude to a forthcoming release on Butterz, Murlo dropped his take on Flava D and MONEY Ms Fire’s ‘Happy’, which feels a lot more like an SHOT! edit with additional panpipes. I am hyped about Airhead that Butterz release though. Tenderhooks. Shaded/Antipolo Hemlock Joker Crump Facto’ is because it's got that 9.0 Mad Night Ice & Spheres dissonance. Fuck me, I do love Airhead makes a VERY Kapsize Idle Hands dissonance. welcome return to the 6.0 7.5 Hemlock Recordings Part of me just wanted to write “‘Mad Night’ is Having been bedded into the Lokane catalogue with another duo the equivalent of the comment ‘just do you’ on a fabric of Bristol’s musical Wings of wildly understated but millennial girl’s Instagram profile” and leave it vibrancy, Idle Hands has always Nervous Horizon impeccably produced tracks. at that. But this isn’t FACT Mag’s Singles Club. Or operated as a barometer, on 9.0 ‘Shaded’ incorporates a is it? HELP ME. several levels. One of the most I see a lot of 2014 era Night level of syncopation we’ve important has been co-signing Slugs in what Lokane is doing; not heard from the lad in a new talent by releasing their from the 3D diamond of the while — it’s got this Latin LOKANE NERVOUS HORIZON music and these two cuts from artwork to the pummeling, kind of romance and shuffle Crump introduce a dude who's post-'Club Constructions' to it — whereas ‘Antipolo’ evidently big into his bumps monstrosity of his bass stabs. has his trademark minimalist and shuffles. This is minimalistic I’m not saying it's a bad thing, thing going on where he does house music with a garage-y everything here is perfectly so much with what appears to swing in its step and a penchant sculpted and primed for be so little. Brother, I missed for testing the low-end regions impact. The very architecture you and I’m glad you are of any soundsystem. Crispy. of it feels like it’s built from doing well. these globulus, T-1000-esque Emra Grid formations of liquified metal. Shays Vacation House The contrast of those panpipes Gang’s ‘Murder One’ — an aural Opal Tapes on ‘Royale’ are the EP highlight. slap in the chops that says, 8.0 "Hey boy, remember me!?" I can actually taste the Kernel Beatrice Dillon & Call Elsewhere on the 12", Rebore IPA in my mouth as I listen to Super explores similarly emphatic Emra Grid’s shifting board of Inkjet/Fluo machine gun percussion on 01. LOKANE ‘Wings’ Nervous Horizon Hessle Audio “This one tested my sanity. But I’m happy it’s finally coming out.” undulating drones and bass ‘Campaign’ and Fallow tears stabs because bits like this 8.0 out on ‘Rearmament’, but it’s 02. LOKANE ‘Blocked feat. Dai Burger’ Nervous Horizon are, to me, forever associated The brittle percussive elements “A different take on ‘club-style banger’. Simple but effective in its own right.” ‘Moroccan Squares’ from Logos with Cafe Oto in Dalston. Those and spongey bass stabs of & Slackk that really stops, stuns 03. STRICT FACE & TARQUIN ‘Afterparty feat. Yayoyanoh’ NLV summer nights when me and ‘Inkjet’ make this collaboration and grabs me, because well... Records “Vibes all day. You can’t not groove to this.” Rob would sit inside and be between Houndstooth’s Call I’m that dude who likes over- challenged by onslaughts of Super and Beatrice Dillon intellectualized grime music. 04. IGLOOGHOST ‘Bug Thief’ Brainfeeder “Beautifully interesting — he wanted to keep each bar different and noise and texture and not perfect for a juicy soundsystem. continuously changing.” ever really say anything to The fact that they’ve got a Dolenz each other. There was a lot of skronk jazz lead line on the flip EXIT074 05. GORILLAZ ‘Saturnz Barz (Cadenza Remix feat. Popcaan, Exit Records Assassin, Mad Cobra, Teddy Bruckshot & Killa P)’ Parlophone enjoyment in that isolation. ‘Fluo’ probably makes it perfect “The original was huge. Cadenza has taken it to a heavy level with the help of for Hessle Audio, a label whose some big MCs.” 8.0 Werkha footprints have often lead Debuting on Exit Records, 06. ARIANA GRANDE & NICKI MINAJ ‘Side To Side (Lokane For All Hands the way. If that means more Dolenz’s brand of agitated Remix)’ Unreleased Tru Thoughts people poke their face into a hip-hop and frantic double-time “Flipped some pop stars on their heads with this: distorted basslines and a heavy drop” 7.5 late-Coltrane, free-jazz rabbit work seems to fit perfectly with Mate, the 40-second space-jazz hole then I’ll be a very vocal the future-forward attitude of 07. ZORA JONES & LA ZOWI ‘Money Hoe (Xzavior Stone VIP)’ Fractual Fantasy skit called ‘De Facto’ in the advocate for a long while yet. the imprint. Reportedly taken “Put flutes on top of bass and I’m happy.” middle of this new Werkha EP is from a full-length on the label, my new jam. And I’m okay about Various Artists these first three cuts outline the 08. LIDO ‘Tell Me How To Feel’ Because Music “A real journey all the way from mental to blissful.” the fact it’s just a skit too; BOXED004 types of styles we can expect Lord knows I’ve weirded out Boxed and from the taut fissuring 09. DZZ & HALPE ‘Ghost’s Lullaby’ Record Record “I love the combination between pretty-sounding synthesis and weird-as-fuck enough people with rare Sun 7.5 arpeggios of ‘Some Drum’ to beats.” Ra live versions. ‘So London’ Sometimes subtlety gets you the siren wound boom-bap of

10. DAWN ‘Vines (Hi Tom Remix)’ Local Action bumps too. Everything on the nowhere except overlooked and ‘Evesdrop’ (plus the other stuff “Hi Tom found a great way of flipping Dawn’s vocals into something more EP is silky and pleasant but perhaps that's why 'BOXED004' I’ve already heard) it’s going to beautiful and combining some hard-hitting drums.” I think the reason I dig ‘De opens with Boylan and Oil be ruddy excellent.

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DJ574.Music_Bass.indd 135 13/09/2017 16:32 HARD [email protected] KUTSKI DJ QUICKIES Jack Of Sound This Sound Created Us Scantraxx 8.0 There are so many amazing raw releases around at the moment and this one from Jack Of Sound really stood out from the vocal sample which stands for the unity of the hardstyle scene, combined with a slightly euphoric breakdown and nasty-as-hell, hard-as-nails drop featuring heavily distorted stabs and sounds!

MONEY E Force Psycho DJ Potato SHOT! A2 Smack Ya Face 8.0 POW! E Force delivers a brand new raw release 9.5 featuring the familiar psycho vocal, combined Dutch freestyle fanatic, DJ with sinister synth lines, nasty raw kicks and Potato, is here to deliver ferociously fast beats! another unique hard-hitter. With hardstyle sitting at Luna a constant 150bpm and Hang Out hardcore a conventional TBC 170, 160 is the bastard 7.5 offspring of the harder The Dutch hardstyle legend returns with a ‘beats per minute’. It’s hard bouncy dancefloor track. Luna is well know not to produce a track that for repping the rougher end of the hardstyle sounds like its too fast or too hitting kick and bass drop with certainly keeps the energy spectrum but here he delivers a cooler, more slow, but Potato nails this a bouncy edge. Of course, it moving on the dancefloor and freestyle-influenced banger. perfectly with a phat and wouldn’t be a Warface track has catapulted Neroz into the bouncy kick drum, percussion without a sprinkling of his raw spotlight. MYST! NIGHTBREED to move dancefloors, and sound mixed in. It’s always a stompy, memorable good to hear established artists Marc Acardipane & The melody reminiscent of the push the boundaries with their Stunned Guys milleniumcore sound. A great sound, check this one out for a Gloria 1996 tool for bridging styles, but bit of variation. Traxtorm also a monster of a track in 8.0 its own right too! Solstice feat. Elizabeth New oldskool! Let me explain Free Me a little more: here we have a Scantraxx Silver pioneer, Marc Acardipane, the D Block & S-Te-Fan 8.0 man quite literally responsible Antidote Amazing new original vocal for the trend of distorting 909 Scantraxx release here from Scantraxx, kick drums in hardcore, teaming 8.5 combining beautiful melodic up with the legendary Italian It’s great to see these guys female vocals with uplifting gabber act, The Stunned Guys. back fully immersed in the melodies. This track builds with They go back to their roots on hardstyle scene where they the vocal in the first breakdown, this one with that slower and are meant to be. After a recent before dropping with a ferocious tougher vibe of the mid '90s. statement on their socials, rolling bassline, giving bundles Rather than a new style track they have fully committed back of energy and power leading with oldskool influences this 01. MYST ‘Never Look Back’ Nightbreed to the harder styles and are into the main breakdown. one would not sound out of “My latest solo release which includes everything I love about hardstyle!” focused on much more music Then the vocal comes back place in the mix with the hits of 02. HIGH VOLTAGE ‘We Are Dust’ Nightbreed and a brand new hardstyle in full force, combined with yesteryear, giving oldksool DJs “Just received the first album by High Voltage and it’s amazing. Very album! This new release focuses the main melody and a more a rare treat to add something impressed by this one!”

on the catchy melodies these uplifting hardstyle drop to keep fresh into their sets. 03. MYST ‘Before You Go’ Nightbreed guys have always been about, dancefloors happy! “Currently my most popular track. The crowd response is insane when I play it! This is MYST.” keeping things euphoric, but Pat B & Miss Puss not generic, with a complex Neroz Catnip 04. DEGOS & RE-DONE ‘Release Me’ Nightbreed “These guys are making hit after hit. All produced with great quality!” original main melody layering Pinsir TBC Heart for Hardstyle up towards the drop, keeping 8.5 05. DIGITAL PUNK & MYST ‘Destined To Shine’ Unleashed “I teamed up with the legendary Digital Punk and made this real dancefloor the energy high throughout! 8.5 This Dutch duo are back with party bomb!” I never thought that I’d another crisp and clean jump- Warface be writing a review about influenced club banger. Pat 06. ENDYMION ‘Rise As Wolves’ Nightbreed “The Nightbreed Records pack leaders made an incredible piece of music with Welcome To The Jungle a rawstyle track based on B’s production always stands a great message!” End Of Line Recordings Pokémon, but this track could out for its spacious mixdowns, 07. B-FRONT ‘EVP’ Roughstate 8.0 not be missed off the radar which makes them sound all the “This one makes you want to turn over to the darkness (laughs). What an After years of releasing some of after hitting number one on more powerful in the club. With ambience.”

the roughest and toughest raw hardstyle.com and smashing Miss Puss adding the classic 08. D-STURB FEAT. EMESE ‘Legacy’ End of Line tracks, Warface has a fresh take dancefloors everywhere. This Belgium jumpstyle influence, “D-sturb is my favorite next generation producer. And this track is confirming just that.” on his new release… well, for unique vocal cut up into the together they deliver a quirky the intro anyway! An uplifting track works on a simplistic dancefloor banger unlike 09. MYST FEAT. SNOWFLAKE ‘Hear My Breath’ Nightbreed plucked synth introduces the nature with a very catchy hook, anything on the scene currently. “Listen ‘til the end!” track with a Balearic-styled followed by a heavy electrifying The simplicity of this track 10. PHUTURE NOIZE ‘Chaos & Order’ Dirty Workz vocal leading into a heavy- hard kick on the drop. This makes it a standout for me! “This man is doing such a great job lately and this is my favorite song of his.”

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Skylex QUICKIES Elantris In Trance We Trust Markus Schulz pres. Dakota 8.0 In Search Of Something Better Jockeying for position in the Coldharbour Recordings crowded and hard-to-stand- 7.5 out-in euphoric fi eld, there Stylistically, ‘In Search Of Something Better’ defi nitely feels like there’s occupies the nexus established between ‘The something a-cut-above to Nine Skies’ fi rst two ‘enlightenments’. Retaining Skylex. Following fi ne recent much of ‘Mota-Mota’'s thrillingly ominous turns remixing The Thrillseekers

[email protected] STARK technotic underbelly, latterly it balances out and Alex M.O.R.P.H., ‘Elantris’ MONEY with a tenacious payday. is another able demonstration. SHOT! Whether it’s extra vigour to the David Forbes feat. Emma Gillespie bass, inspiration to the note Shadows arrangements, punch to its Johan Gielen, DJ Subculture Recordings backing or spatial separation Energy & Tatana 7.5 to its parts, he’s defi nitely End Of Time (Johan Gielen ‘Shadows’ is David and Emma’s third for getting it right more often (and Rework) Subculture. Better than the fi rst, though not as affectively) than most. High Contrast catchy as the Money Shot-bagging last, this will 9.0 still make short work of more up-for-it fl oors. Lange Presents Umpteen producers — trance Firewall the music itself. Taking a look and otherwise — have Kyau & Albert feat. Adaja Black The Great Silence at the artist collective names channelled Vangelis’ 'Blade Love Letter From The Future Create Music on ‘The Chronicles’, you can Runner'. I reckon DJ Energy’s Euphonic Records 8.5 probably guess what follows. In the only one who’s opted for 8.0 In the fi nest possible way, and amongst its exotic Eastern 'Chariots Of Fire' instead. Here’s more vocal treasure surfacing from K&A’s ‘The Great Silence’ is a bit fl ourishes, well-written note Johan, bless him, leaves 'End ‘Matching Stories’ trove. Adaja Black's polished nuts. Inside the confi nes of arrangements, driven beats and Of Time''s epic, moving- song and better-yet vocal on ‘Love Letter’ plays a fairly conventional trance acidic asides, Karim Youssef's beyond-words doucement out brilliantly against K&A’s rousing backing. framework, it is also never short hailing, azan-ish vocal call strings and slo-mo pad of a riveting sonic or three to stands out. centrepiece respectfully sling at you. Over its runtime, intact. As it transitions back PAUL VAN DYK VANDIT RECORDS those come to include rock Dark Matter into trance, he tips its scales guitar chords, amped tech riffs Girl From Sacred Land/Flashback with a pianoforte overlay and church organ drama. That Create Music and just the right measure of these are not deployed for 8.5 additional uplift to its notes. ostentatious/novelty effect, Ostensibly this release’s lead but organically assimilated into track, the evocatively titled ‘Girl the track is probably ‘Silence’s From Sacred Land’ isn’t Dark Gaia greatest achievement. Matter’s best. Its hardly sonic Saint Vitus anthrax either mind — just Armind The Thrillseekers a bit too tonally uneven and 7.5 In These Arms (The Thrillseekers tech-bangy front-end, given Imagination appears be in 01. PAUL VAN DYK & PIERRE PIENAAR ‘Stronger Together’ Vandit pres. Hydra Remix) the elated nature for what high supply this month. Armin Records Future Sound Of Egypt follows. ‘Flashback’ gets Jack & Benno’s latest isn’t quite “It’s more important than ever to support each other, and in every way possible. By doing so we can all become stronger together.” 8.0 Aiman Hoye promptly back in as front-end grab-you as ‘In Thrillseekers applies some the business of being brilliant. Principio’ and a couple of 02. PAUL VAN DYK & LEROY MORENO ‘From Then On’ Vandit Records Hydra magic to the ambient Interesting, well-defi ned others. Give it a little time “I produced this in collaboration with Leroy Moreno, whose last 18 months of overture from last year’s percussion, cool bass actions, though and it’ll get its hooks in VANDIT releases have been lighting fi res all over. This track is a pretty good benchmark for what kind of tip ‘From Then On’ is hitting.” ‘Escape’ album. Doing so true production depth and good and proper. The creativity does, of course, play to Steve wonderfully desolate synths all here centres predominantly 03. PAUL VAN DYK ‘I Am Alive’ Vandit Records “This was the fi rst track I started work on after the accident. The title probably Helstrip’s greatest strength. No take you to a drop that’ll leave around its vocal components. says much about where my mind was at after I was discharged from hospital.” one converts the chilled out/ your jaw all saggy. Didgeridoo FX cleverly warped beat-free into the danceable into words, spoken intonations, 04. JAMES COTTLE ‘Delphic’ Vandit Records “I’ve worked with James Cottle for a track on ‘From Then On’, but ‘Delphic’ is with quite the same measure Above & Beyond feat. psy-ish Eastern wails and female the one I’m currently playing every gig. Big, lifty synths with just the right melodic counterbalance — this one smashed Amnesia all summer long.” of precision, texture and Marty Longstaff harmonies all play their part, dynamism as he does. Its Tightrope (Above & Beyond Club while its express train leadline 05. CHRIS BEKKER ‘Episodes’ Vandit Records “Chris never stops delivering with his music. I premiered this on VONYC underlying bottom-end power — Mix) drives relentlessly. Sessions back in August and the feedback was incredible. To my ears, just all but hidden outside of a club Anjunabeats the right balance of the trance and the progressive, fi nished with a drop that delivers original thrills every time.” system — means it holds its own 8.0 Jase Thirlwall next to tracks with (ostensibly) There’s zero slacking in Lucent 06. ALEX M.O.R.P.H. ‘It Is Full Of Stars’ Vandit Records Who's Afraid Of 138?! “Alex and I go back a long way. ‘It Is Full Of Stars’ is his current solo one for twice the uplift. In short, it’s ‘Tightrope’s engine room, with VANDIT though and I hear something new in it every time I listen.” vintage Thrillseekers. its bold drums out-rigged by 8.0 taut, progressive riffs, metallic WAO138?!’s cup runneth as over 07. THE THRILLSEEKERS VS. M.I.K.E. PUSH ‘Meraki’ Future Sound Of Egypt Aly & Fila with Philippe FX and beatifi c piano. There’s as ever this month, with the sift “Its taken too, too many years (seven!), but these guys have fi nally followed up ‘Effectual’. No expectation management required. Every bit as good as El Sisi & Omar Sherif also noticeably less chop and landing the fabulously named you’d imagine.” feat. Karim Youssef more fl ow to its course than Jase Thirlwall on top of its The Chronicles many a recent A&B outing. Good pile. ‘Lucent’ has all the label’s 08. STEVE ALLEN ‘The World’ Universal Nation “Steve’s been fl ying in 2017, but ‘The World’ is the one I’ve found myself Future Sound Of Egypt as it is though, the song/vocal usual staples in place, with playing the most. Tech grit, edgy 303, masses of drive and there’s even a bit of a message to its vocal.” 8.0 is its crowning glory. Co-written plenty of hard knuckled tech Nothing if not economical, (brilliantly) by Tony and Marty grit, 303 pitch and drum-bang 09. C-SYSTEMS ‘Gravity’ Digital Society Recordings “For me, it’s all about ‘Gravity’’s midsection pads and melody — irresistibly this release celebrates both and realised with Longstaff’s for your buck. It also develops emotive and stirring.” the FSOE’s 250th release and profound, accomplished voice, real heart, genuinely appealing the 500th episode of the FSOE it’s another straight-aces male/female choral refrains, a 10. SIED VAN RIEL ‘The Reason feat. Jennifer Rene (Skylex Remix)’ Rielism Records radio show. Egyptian culture winner. workhorse of a sub-melody and “Sied and Jennifer’s original from last autumn was already a winner for me. is oft referenced in A&F’s an equally grafting euphoric Skylex’s one-year-later treatment kicks it up an extra notch though.” presentation, but less so in kiss-off.

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Text Ur Number [email protected] Koch 0.0 A whole new nadir for hip-hop. Apparently this heavily features a 'Jersey Club' sound. If so, remind me to NEVER go to a Jersey Club cos they sound like some kind of shite mix between a happy-house night and a fucking adult soft-play zone. Fuck this prepubescent dogshit. MONEY Lil Wayne SHOT! Like A Man No Label/Self Released 5.0 Madison Washington Wayne is still a compelling voice, even when Royalty trickling with autotuned overspill as he is here, Def Pressé but fuck me — the Disclosure/Clean Bandit-style 9.0 Da Flyy Hooligan is possibly as far-out fucked half-fat house he's backing here is an absolute One of the highlights from Romero Bryan as Lee has got since the days disgrace. Get back on something decent please. the utterly scintillating 'Code Gourmet Deluxxx of 'Tourettes Camp' — Farma Switchin'' EP gets pulled 8.0 laces some slo-mo psychedelic Chairman Maf from the pile and released More fi re from the 'Fucc Ya grooves with some exquisitely Sugar digitally and oh, let's cling Life Praise Mine' EP which I'm fucked up tempo-drops and Bandcamp on to summer a little longer choosing to see as a stop-gap icey strangeness, while Scott 8.5 with its sunkissed grooves, before the 'S.C.U.M' project and Salar appear to be monged Chairmen Maf's sublime 'Alcoholic Soul' — gorgeously lush Coup-style drops later in autumn (a full- out on Fentalyn and gurgling an 11-track suite of lush and gritty hip-hop soul textures and thrillingly length album with promised gibberish-gospel like they've sampladelic soundscapes — is sublime. This righteous rhetoric. Attacking cameos from Hus Kingpin and seen the light in the sirens of release from the album has the rugged-yet- hierarchies of all kinds, Westside Gunn that have already the Black Maria that's come to spacey vibe of an Alchemist production. Superb. pulling a real sense of pride got me frothy in the gusset). take them away. Stupendous. from standing outside of Here, DFH rides a guitar- DVBBS UNIVERSAL the corrupt games now heavy groove from Agor that The Mouse Outfi t swallowing politics and sounds like it was culled from feat. Black Josh & music alike, what's always a particularly incendiary long- TrueMendous so gratifying about MW's lost Zamrock bootleg from 1975. It's Just Like That work is that mix between As with the other tracks on the No Label/Self Released

Malik Ameer's light-speed EP, rewinds are essential just 7.0 JOHNSON Pic: MATT scalpel-sharp rhymes and to wrap your brain around all Brand new heat from the ThatManMonkz' unerring the tangents that DFH bullets ever-reliable TMO, here joined ability to fi nd beats and loops himself down. A total blast. by two brilliant spitters, Black that give Ameer the space Josh dropping some customary and the punch that he needs. Ty brilliance and a new voice to If you've not got 'Code Brixton Baby me, TrueMendous, bringing Switchin'' yet, consider it an No Label/Self Released some real female venom and essential part of your exit- 8.0 verve to proceedings. As ever pass from 2017. Superb. Suddenly from out of nowhere from Mouse Outfi t the music is the master returns! Had no subtle and chilled but also laced forewarning that Ty was on his with that little edge of tension Nomad way back — in fact, when you that stops things being mere 01. SMOKEPURPP ‘Glock Inside My Benz’ Soundcloud Preludes realise how long ago his last headnodic escapism and locates “We’re good friends and in the process of doing a very special project with SFDB Records drop was (2010) you realise it it fi rmly within the warp and him.” 8.5 might be an idea to send out weft of your day. Excellent. 02. NESSLY ‘Falling Down’ Soundcloud The welcome return of one of word that anyone who's not “Worked with him a few times. Very talented in the booth. Special things with the UK's greatest ever imprints heard 2006's 'Upward' should Open Mike Eagle him in the works!” with this beautifully appointed consider themselves unschooled 95 Radios 03. LIL UZI VERT ‘YSL’ Soundcloud slab of vinyl: fat-assed brutally in British music at its best. This Mello Music Group “Hope to work with him one day. Feel like we would have a crazy energy together.” minimal beats courtesy of the is a glorious celebration of Ty's 8.5 brotherly team of Mark and home that manages somehow The lead-off single from OME's 04. DVBBS ‘Parallel Lines’ Universal “We are really excited about this summer record!” Daniel Richardson, delicious to match Roger Robinson's new album 'Brick Body Kids Still little licks and loops to augment unforgettable 'Dis Side Ah Daydream' is a refl ective slice 05. NAV ‘Lonely’ Soundcloud the pulse and fantastic verbals Town' in terms of being moving, of nostalgia with none of the “Another Canadian. Love supporting talent our side of the border.” throughout from Nomad. About thoughtful, observant and still comfort or security that term 06. PLAYHOUSE ‘Hollywood’ Soundcloud “We found this kid in California. He’s signed to the same management Nomad I wish I could tell you thrilling about SW9. Can't wait implies. Rather Mike seems all company as us and he’s incredible.” more, but I'm kind of equally for full LP 'A Work Of Heart' . too aware of the actual pain of gratifi ed to fi nd an MC about true nostalgia, the horrifying 07. FUTURE ‘Mask Off’ Dundridge Entertainment/Unlimited Business “Love his wave. One of the biggest records of the year.” which I know nothing and who Antiheroes moment when you snap back actually seems keen to keep Godnose/Disasterpiece from an immersive memory into 08. DVBBS FEAT. BELLY ‘You Found Me’ Ultra Blah Records “One of the most talented people we have ever got in the studio with. An things mysterious rather than the harsh present. Couched in absolute professional in every sense of the word.” unpacking himself in 20 seconds 8.5 radiant keys and simple minimal 09. 24HRS ‘Whatever’ Soundcloud fl at. Even the Richardson Antiheroes are Lee Scott and beats, it's a deeply suggestive “Worked with him out in LA. Have known him for a while. Have something big brothers admit they 'only have Salar, this track is produced by and enormously moving track. planned with him.” an e-mail address' for him and Farma G and yes, that coterie Mike, like MMG, continues to 10. LIL PUMP ‘Movin’’ Soundcloud have no idea who he is, or where of oddballs should tell you that absorb and progress every time “Lil Pump is the new wave. We love staying current with new up-and-coming he’s at. it's an unhinged classic. This he drops. Essential. artists and he’s one of the most exciting out there.”

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LEFTFIELD FOUND SOUNDS [email protected] FOUND QUICKIES Blind Prophet feat. Tenor Youthman Marijuana Burns Capitalism Dub Stuy Records 8.0 USA and Russia unite in this dubwise meeting of conscious minds. The message is clear, the riddim is true. Get involved people!

Zara McFarlane MONEY Pride Brownswood Recordings SHOT! 9.0 Washed Out Quite frankly this makes some of your better- Hard To Say Goodbye known crossover jazz musicians seem a bit (Lone Remix) redundant. Can’t wait for the album. Stones Throw 9.0 Mike Schommer Something for the dying Anamnesis embers of summer and those Mosaic Records crisp autumn mornings. whimsical material that can Vocalist Wolof adds the 7.5 Lone pulls it out of the bag often be churned out from the rhythmic Afro chant resulting The hidden gem on Mike Schommer’s return? with this gently euphoric yet category. in a perfect hybrid. Flip to the ‘Remember When’. Naturally. Spacious and hazy take on the original, title-track ‘My People’ and you perky at 122bpm — great leftfield electro soul. which begs discovery in Resonators have a premium slice of Balearic its own right as it’s lifted Right Time (Radio Mix) heaven. Based on a smoother, Son Of Sam from Ernest Greene’s Wah Wah 45s more recognisable structure Flying Fist feat. Prince Po self-proclaimed 'visual' 9.0 it packs the texture, sights Tea Sea Records 'Mister Mellow' album, One of the leading lights in and sounds of the White Isle 8.0 whereby each track has an the UK Reggae scene further with precision. Echoes of early Sounding super fresh, Organised Konfusion's animated representation. their quest with this beautifully Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Prince Po rides a library funk backing track Although that sounds formed slice of lovers rock. prevail. Great artwork too. courtesy of John & Joe Sam. Hark the Golden awfully like a 'video' to us. Production is key here as they Era calls. In the meantime, enjoy this weave together a perfect K-Lone sunshine-tinged slice of storm of rhythm and harmony, Old Fashioned MEETING BY CHANCE APOLLO break-led blue-eyed soul. although if you prefer it a little Soundman Chronicles more upfront then try Ash 8.5 Walker's more defined versions. Theres always time for a Basic Pharaohs All-in-all though, another Channel-inspired groove in your In Oeland great outing from the Brighton life. Thank your lucky stars then International Feel contingent. Hunt for the third as three come along at once on 8.5 album ‘Imaginary People’. one moody downbeat outing As with many International Feel from K-Lone. Full of foreboding releases it’s often hard to know Moonchild atmospherics that are stretched where to start, such is their Run Away to the max in the echo chamber, style of releasing records that Tru Thoughts it’s only a matter of time before play with form and structure 7.5 you succumb to the bass-led in Escher-type fashion. This Admittedly they aren't mysteries that lie within. ‘In The is no exception. Part of their re-inventing the nu-soul Dust Of The Planet’ adds some mini-album series (does that wheel, but what they do, they twinkling finesse and sonic 01. LONE ‘Ambivert Tools Volume Two’ R&S Records “Synth and flute arpeggios are my sweet spot here. Great sounding pads, make it a maxi single?), the do incredibly well. Musical washes showing it's not just a relaxing rhythms — perfect for hot afternoons.” LA-based Pharaohs explore smoothness prevails, with BC tribute release. Nice work. 02. THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCE ‘Kira Kira’ Liquid Sound Design distant tropical themes with a paradoxical disjointed ease, “THE return of legendary the DJ Mixmaster Morris after 10 years. Already on distinctly horizontal approach. while the ethereal vocal of Sieren my must-have list.” Familiar forms come through, Navram glues everything Ascension EP 03. FLOATING POINTS ‘Reflections - Mojave Desert’ Pluto ultimately only used as brief together with her velveteen Apollo Recordings “Electronic jazz with a little post-rock drum taste. Cosmic journey.” reference points amidst a more contribution. The usual suspects 8.0 04. EABS ‘Repetitions (Letters To Krzysztof Komeda)’ U Know Me sprawling whole. ‘Muddy Middle of Scott & Badhu will come up Cutting somewhat an emotive Records Of Nowhere’ is our tip. in conversation, but don’t be swathe with this follow up to “Komeda — composer of the music to Rosemary’s Baby — interpreted by young musicians. Groovy.” fooled, this is the third long ‘Static Polymorphism’, Sieren EERA player for the outfit. So sit back, shows a little more of the 05. JAN JELINEK ‘Loop Finding Jazz Records’ Faitiche Germany “Fresh reissue of downtempo dusty classic records. A must have!” I Wanna Dance relax and enjoy. Twenty-first arsenal in his soulful electronica Big Dada Sound century soul for all. cannon. ‘Tailored Mistakes’ 06. JON HOPKINS ‘Late Night Tales’ Late Night Tales 7.5 introduces the set, with some “Selection from David Holmes to Peter Broderick. Well done!” There's something rather Blackbush Orchestra ghostly breaks peppering a 07. PIERO PICCIONI ‘Sette Cadaveri Per Scotland Yard’ Subsound alluring about the EERA sound. Famiglia EP bass-laden and ambient-tinged Italy “OST. Italian-Spanish crime breaks. Intense experience.” Gentle folk-isms lull you in on Beauty & The Beat foreground. 'Slinger’ takes ‘Christine’, only to fracture 9.0 it toward darker territory, 08. KID KOALA/EMILIANA TORRINI ‘Music To Draw To: into subtle tape loops and FX, A little late to the party on springing from the depths Satellite’ Arts & Crafts Records “Electronic, ambient, soundscape sounds from turntable guru Kid Koala while the lead track ‘I Wanna this, but what a great record. with a clipped vocal sample, inspired by the mission to Mars.” Dance’ has all the defiance of The standout cut is the London half-time breaks and dancefloor 09. UNKLE ‘The Road: Part 1’ Songs For The Def Patti Smith combined with the based Kay Suzuki mix of ‘Sortes, appeal. ‘U8’ shifts to beatless “Mo Wax influenced me so much... As always Unkle surrounds himselfs by venurability of Nico. High praise Les Filles!’ which melds delicate atmospheric mode, while the providing high-end artists.”

indeed, but it's a welcome Senegal talking drums against a rest of the EP explores similar 10. BADUN ‘QS’ Not Applicable break away from the usual more slinky electronic counterpoint. downtempo themes. Strong. “Surreal music!”

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NO-ONE sounds like Juju & Jordash. Whether in the studio or cooking up one of their fully impro- vised live shows, the Amsterdam-based Dekmantel duo are in a class of their own. Their spiritual, mu- sical electronic output journeys to the edge of the cosmos in absorbingly escapist fashion. Rather than sounding like it’s been made in a studio, listening to their work is more like tuning into a distant world that is always playing somewhere. The pair actually met while playing be-bop jam sessions in the nineties, where Gal Aner, aka Juju, was on guitar, and Jordash, aka Jordan Cza- manski, was on piano. And it is that set-up they returned to during the writing process of their fi fth and most coherent record, ‘Sis-boom-bah’, which shows them to be not only masters of their hardware, but musicians with serious playing chops. This album has a painterly style, where sounds, textures and different sonic strokes all complete the picture. The always-roomy, dynamic tracks are made variously from twanging guitars, smeared chords, rainy melodies, cosmic pads, knotted riffs and drums that range from punchy to loose, all coated in the comforting life-like hum and hiss of analogue machinery. Each piece is stuffed with detail but never overloaded, and they Juju & Jordash all shape-shift before your ears so that a lead line one minute melts into a background of shakers Sis-boom-bah and nimble one-fi nger stabs the next. There are Dekmantel passages of mellifl uous deep house next to Middle Eastern-sounding exotica. Gurgling bits of languid deep space ambiance next to more driven and club-ready passages of soft techno. It all makes 9.5 for a listening album of the highest order. One that is built with a spirit of real jazz, on-the-fl y Painterly panache evolution and artistic expression that you simply cannot fake. KRISTAN J CARYL

NHK yx Koyxen Andrew Weatherall Kölsch Krikor Kouchian Exit Entrance Qualia 1989 Pacifi c Alley DFA Hoga Nord Rekords Kompakt L.I.E.S. 8.5 8.0 6.5 6.5 Precise noise Electronic exploration An incomplete journey Let in the light Osaka/Berlin noisemaker Kohei It’s remarkable that Andrew Denmark’s Rune Reilly has showcased Former French touch vanguard Matsunaga has operated under Weatherall, the man behind so many his music across several aliases over Krikor Kouchian delivers 11 tracks of a variety of cloaks since 1997, disruptions in electronic music as the years, though he channelled downtrodden funk for his new album, collaborating with the likes of a DJ, remixer and producer, has these energies into something truly ‘Pacifi c Alley’. Inspired by his time Autechre and Merzbow — and his lost none of his creative ambition. special with Kölsch — evidenced by spent in California, where passion, compositions are delicate and Each new record uncovers some his trilogy of very personal artist money and illicit substances were at poised, yet perfectly capable of unexplored route or sonic idea. Now albums that he completes here, the centre of Southern California’s destroying a club. We saw him he’s rinsed house, techno, electro, exploring his melancholic teenage creative spirit, his is a warts-and-all last dropping his second solo LP dub, IDM and manifold other styles, years that kicked off during the year musical exposition taking inspiration (‘Doom Steppy Reverb’) on Powell’s he’s searching for something else. in question. From beginning to end, from early Prince funk, hip-hop and Diagonal label in 2016, but with Last year’s ‘Convenanza’ gave us there’s little doubt Reilly invests B-movies. Tracks ‘Onda Vaselina’ and ‘Exit Entrance’ he makes his DFA a clue to his current fi xations, but his heart and soul here, with an ‘Reyes Del Barrio’ offer little in the debut. His signature pointillistic ‘Qualia’ abandons the vocals and accomplished album full of emotional way of this inspiration, as Kouchian melodies are back, alongside crunchy song structures and heads out into moments, with its orchestral seemingly concentrates on the darker, drums that shift restlessly under the galaxy. ‘Between Stations’ is contributions woven effortlessly less documented side of life in The the melody line, often breaking pinned to earth by an electro beat, into the frame. As heartfelt as ‘1989’ Golden State with trudging grooves rhythmic convention. ‘Dented’, with though musically it’s far in the might be though, he’s had huge and solemn melodies. ‘WYSIWYG’ its rasping, conversational synths, stratosphere, all twinkling astral success crafting powerful dancefl oor and ‘Niños Matadores’, with their yearns for big system play, while melodies. ‘Darktown Figures’ could moments the past few years, and it’s mechanical "p-kunk" grooves, do ‘Mutually’ is like a deranged video be early Cure, with its arachnid, post- hard to get away from the fact that try and lighten the tone somewhat, game soundtrack. And ‘Intention’, punk guitar and live drums, and ‘Soft he hasn’t quite been able to distill but ultimately that’s where ‘Pacifi c with its drums that echo jungle Estates’ has the huge synthscapes this magic into an all-round listening Alley’ falters — it’s just too dark, too rolls, proves that simplicity can be of some Krautrock relic. Weatherall’s experience. Admirable effort, grisly and too depressing to be truly everything. FELICITY MARTIN still got it. BEN MURPHY though. ANGUS PATERSON memorable. ANDREW RAFTER 142 djmag.com djmag.com

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Lindstrøm Alessandro Cortini Guy Andrews Chloé It’s Alright Between Us As It Is Avanti Tåke Endless Revisions Smalltown Supersound The Point of Departure Recording Company Houndstooth Lumière Noire 8.0 8.5 7.0 8.0 Scandinavian delight Avanti-garde nostalgia Hot 'n' heavy Endless repeats With inspiration from the big screen, Although the Italian composer His debut album ‘Our Spaces’ If patience brought Chloé's latest ‘It’s Alright Between Us As It Is’ and keyboardist is best known for seemed to be set out to answer the long-form to us, then it also guides is named after a quote from one being a part of Nine Inch Nails’ question of how to make post-rock the listening experience. Seven years of Lindstrøm’s favourite Swedish touring band for over a decade, a club concern. ‘Tåke’ here sticks in the making, the Rex Club hero art-house movies Wild Strawberries, Alessandro Cortini’s equally with that premise — the guitars and Lumiere bosswoman presents exploring themes such as impressive solo body of work are gnarly, there’s an inherent a refl ective, low-slung collection of introspection and human existence. continues to expand and mature. cinematic grandeur and its melodies trippy, hypnotic deepness made with The album mirrors the fi lm’s ‘Avanti’ sees the artist change his are rendered with a crystalline headphones and twilight in mind. philosophy, as an intricate body of focus from the hinterland between clarity. But save for glimpses of a ‘Androgyne’ packs experimental pop work that delves into his psyche and waking and sleep, and delves into hard four-four pulse, ‘Tåke’ has a sensibilities for an almost-eight- displays elements of his best work, the past as he explores deeply rocky relentlessness. It’s a beautiful minute journey, all whispered lyrics, both past and present. Collaborations personal themes of childhood and barrage that, without some extremely subtle beats and sublime melody; come from LA songstress Grace Hall nostalgia through evocative, ambient radical remixing, would be too adjectives that can be applied on ‘Shinin’, a spacey reverb-laced soundscapes. Standout tracks like dense for most DJs. Andrews is into elsewhere, with ‘Recall’ just one number with quirky stabs that marks ‘Perdonare’, ‘Finire’ and ‘Vincere’ epic builds, not paring it down. A delightfully spatial example. Club their second single together after wonderfully capture that universal Scandinavian mountaintop crispness moods take centre stage in other ‘Home Tonight’ back in 2015. Swedish wistful melancholia of long-ago abounds, but with Andrews’ penchant moments, with tune of the record vocalist Jenny Hval provides a dark memories; degraded over time, subtly for controlled distortion, there’s little ‘The Dawn’ growing like an eerie and hypnotic spoken word for ‘Bungl imperfect and awash with a warm hue breathing room. Quiet moments get dawn chorus underpinned by heavy, (Like A Ghost)’, a twisted disco throughout. The LP was recorded live rolled over with swells of heaviosity. brooding low-ends and atmospheric anthem with haunting and ever- on just a single synth from Cortini’s Somewhere between Battles, background build. Exemplary in its evolving synths. Nordic disco at its collection without any overdubs, avant-metal and Godspeed You! use of vocal samples, the result is fi nest. ANNA WALL which adds a further dimension of Black Emperor, it’s brainy but big on timeless melancholy for the fl oor. humanism to it. ZARA WLADAWSKY emotion. SUNIL CHAUHAN MARTIN GUTTRIDGE-HEWITT

MATT Edwards may have (acciden- tally) found mainstream success and major label love with his edit of Kylie’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ in 2001, but the fact it sparked his Radio Slave alias proved far more signifi cant. Sixteen years later, the debut full-length Radio Slave album proves why. The minimal, intense sound that the project has come to represent is awesomely exposed on ‘Feel The Same’. It’s a mature and massive record, rightfully confi dent in its sound — rightfully, because Ed- wards’ vast musical knowledge and ability to fi nd and lock down the essence of a whole host of genres are stamped all over it. ‘Geisterstadt’ is a moody banger that fl irts with electro, there are proto-rave and early Warp vibes on ‘Axis’ and ‘Parallels’, sophisticated breaks on ‘With You’, heady Chicago house in the title track and purer, uplifting sounds on ‘No Words/ Just This’. Radio Slave There’s even a lean towards ambi- Feel The Same ent at the start, before those hefty beats land and settle. And it’s all Rekids given the stripped-back, hypnotic Radio Slave treatment. Nothing is rushed or busy, it’s the raw grooves 8.0 that are made to do the work — and work they do, thanks to the The real deal masterful production of a true pro. TRISTAN PARKER

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High Contrast Special Request Dub Pistols DJ Python Laraaji Night Gallery Belief System Crazy Diamonds Dulce Compañia Bring On The Sun 3 Beat Houndstooth Sunday Best Incensio All Saints Records 6.0 9.0 8.0 9.0 9.0 Party hard Reggaeton goes deep The new New Age Ever expansive Epic of the bunch Going straight for the New Yorker Brian Legendary ambient We’re often dubious when an artist In the late ‘90s, d&b acts like 4 biggest and broadest Piñeyro is DJ Python, pioneer Laraaji seeks to ‘expand’ their sound — Hero and Reprazent released double bits of the reggae and his debut album releases a double too often it’s a euphemism for the albums which, a) strove to be spectrum, there’s on Anthony Naples’ album of his newest dilution of what makes an artist great serious artistic statements and, b) nothing self-conscious new label is something productions. Each in a pointless act of eclecticism. contained a lot of jazz-funk. So by about ‘Crazy Diamonds’. unique. Draping the composition retains Over the 14 tracks on ‘Night Gallery’ releasing a double album, you might Barry Ashworth’s rhythms of reggaeton his characteristic what we hear is High Contrast surmise that Paul Woolford is moving long-serving crew don’t — the Puerto Rican celestial sonic bliss mainly adhering to d&b tempos his revisionist d&b project Special care about winning cool dance sound — with and deeply meditative but widening his palette of sounds Request on from harking back to the points, they just want ambient tones and introspection, to include widescreen soundtrack genre’s grimy genesis on 2013’s ace you to have a great new age synths, DJ and provides an synths (the Calibre-style ‘Don’t You ‘Soul Music’ LP to its more respectable time. As the title of the Python hypnotises on exploratory, life- Go Out Of My Mind’), squelchy house Mercury Prize-garlanded phase. Well, Beenie Man and Seanie- the psychedelic ‘Cual’ affirming journey for loops (‘Questions’) and radiant ‘80s serious artistic statement ‘Belief T-featuring closer goes, and bittersweet bass anyone willing to open textures (the disco-funk of ‘The Beat System’ certainly is, but coffee ‘Party’s On’. SUNIL and pads of ‘q.e.p.d’. themselves to it. ZARA Don’t Feel The Same’). Perhaps the table-friendly it definitely isn’t. It CHAUHAN Superb. BEN MURPHY WLADAWSKY most surprising moments are when feels almost like a trilogy: the first he slips the d&b leash entirely — the part all razor-edged electro and trip-hop of ‘Save Somebody’ and the acid, the second packed with junglist digi-rock stomps of ‘I’ll Get High’, rollers like ‘Make It Real’, before the ‘Shotgun Mouth’ and ‘Tobacco Road’. final third drops the beats altogether We wanted more ruffness and less and takes a complete left-turn into slickness, but it’s sure to get synced eerie ambient replete with orchestral to buggery. NEIL KULKARNI strings. More please. PAUL CLARKE Chase & Status Jordan Rakei Om Unit Tribe Wallflower Self MTA Ninja Tune Cosmic Bridge 5.0 8.0 8.0 Bloated beats Irresistible potion Shrink-wrapped There’s a great five- Prior to this, NZ-born As much Jungian as track EP hidden inside vocalist and multi- junglist, Om Unit’s this 17-track album. instrumentalist Jordan third LP has been The best moments are Rakei had more of a inspired by self-healing the heaviest tracks straight-up funk-soul and psychology. It (‘NRG’, ‘Don’t Stop’ and focus, though he’s largely sounds like he’s Iglooghost Dave Clarke ‘Dubplate Original’) steered in an electronic repressing memories Neo Wax Bloom The Desecration Of Desire where C&S call upon direction here for Ninja. of the d&b he explored Brainfeeder Skint MCs like Kano and Bugzy The results are lush and on his ‘Headz releases 7.0 9.0 Malone to make the markedly more organic beneath glistening cartoonish dramatics than many of his future- synths and soundtrack Blink and you'll miss it Gritty excellence work. Elsewhere, the soul contemporaries, its stylings, but when Don’t be fooled by Irish producer This is the first album in 14 years collabs seem forced soundscapes leveraged they break through Seamus Malliagh’s frosty moniker, by Dave Clarke, dubbed the Baron (Savages, Craig David, to embellish his core it’s with flashbacks since his Iglooghost project is Of Techno by John Peel. It finds the Emile Sande). NEIL soulful offering. ANGUS to dancefloor elation. anything but chilled. In fact, outspoken, now Amsterdam-based KULKARNI PATERSON PAUL CLARKE being often adorable, occasionally Brit indulging a different side of annoying but mainly just bloody his musical DNA: ‘The Desecration knackering, listening to his debut Of Desire’ is not a collection of club REPEAT THE LPS WE CAN’T LEAVE ALONE... album often feels like babysitting tracks but a showcase of the other a hyperactive toddler. Those who stuff Clarke listens to, from EBM still need a lie-down after being to industrial, post-punk to broken exposed to the wild riot of day-glo beats. It also finds him working with melodies and footwork beats on his non-dance figures such as Queens 2015 ‘Chinese Nu Year’ EP should be Of The Stone Age’s Mark Lanegan on warned that things are cranked up frazzled electro cut ‘Charcoal Eyes’ even further here: with gelatinous and brutalist beat ‘Monochrome Sun’. basslines, 8-bit computer bleeps, The sense of angst, abrasiveness and Bicep LCD Soundsystem Steffi parping jazz samples and chopped-up soot-black mood that pervades the Bicep American Dream World Of The Waking rap vocals squeezed together with the album is all-consuming. Drums slap, Ninja Tune Columbia/DFA State sort of gleeful mischief that makes guitars are coated in reverb, and 9.0 8.5 Ostgut Ton Luke Vibert look like Leonard Cohen. vocals from Anika and Louisahhh are A record many of us A glorious, invigorated, 9.5 Individual details like the swelling perfectly dystopian. They give the definitely wanted, even almost universally Symphonic electronic strings and chimes of ‘Peanut Choker’ impression of a man uneasy with the if we didn’t realise it acclaimed return from music that bares its or the wonky R&B of ‘Infinite Mint’ are modern world but confident of his beforehand. James Murphy’s LCD. machine-made soul. stunning. PAUL CLARKE place in it. KRISTAN J CARYL

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DJ Harvey Various Various Various The Sound Of Mercury DJ Haus In The House Total 17 Beating Heart - South Rising Complied With Defected Kompakt Africa (Vol. 1-5) Love 9.0 7.0 Beating Heart Boom Totally indulgent 8.5 Pikes Records There are few who can A regular staple in the My beating heart! 8.5 make and mix pure, Kompakt label history, The Beating Heart Weird ‘n’ wonderful big, brash, fi lthy house the ‘Total’ compilation collective from as well as Unknown series dates back to Sub-Saharan Africa To The Unknown the summer of ’99 promotes young THIS summer just gone, DJ Harvey of a night out under the mirrorball boss DJ Haus (who is and they’re now into producers to utilise fi eld notched up his third residency with one of the most fêted DJs of receiving a great DJ their 17th edition. recordings and native at the infamous Pikes Hotel in all, and as such it’s dripping with career-boost with this Never underestimating melodic and rhythmic Ibiza, the fi nca in the hills near Balearic goodness. There’s the release) — a fact this the diverse selection traditions in their music San Antonio where hotelier and Idjut Boys’ dub-heavy ‘One For compilation screams of artists they work while raising money for renowned bon viveur Tony Pike Kenny’, dedicated to the memory from the middle of the with, from Germany each of the nations they provided a home for hedonism so of the magnifi cent Kenny Hawkes, dancefl oor. The roster is and beyond, we’re represent. This comp thoroughly hedonistic it’s passed butting up against the disco mix of great (L-Vis 1990, Ejeca, impressed once is brimming with fresh into myth and legend. And with the Eighth Wonder’s ‘I’m Not Scared’. Roman Flügel...), the again. Notable sounds — infectious equally legendary Harvey Bassett Yes, with Patsy Kensit on vocals. bangers are wonky and highlights come from and full of life. We now acting as the ‘cultural attaché’ It’s a curveball. There’s a slab of his numerous. Do yourself Superpitcher, Laurent dare you to listen to it for Pikes (we sincerely hope the job own Locussolus project, ‘Next To a favour and hear it. Garnier, The Orb and without dancing! ZARA comes with its own briefcase), it You’, the throbbing, soaring joy of TRISTAN PARKER Kölsch. ANNA WALL WLADAWSKY seems perfectly appropriate that ‘Mustat Varjot’ from Helsinki’s Ro- he be the one to launch their new berto Rodriguez, and Gatto Fritto’s record label, inspired by his The stunningly epic ‘Invisible College’. Sound Of Mercury Rising parties. It’s all strange and wonderful. BEN The mix is a shimmering snapshot ARNOLD

Various Various John Carpenter Norman Jay MBE Cocoon Ibiza mixed by Anthology: Movie presents Mister Good Nastia & Einzelkind Themes 1974-1998 Times Cocoon Sacred Bones Sunday Best 7.5 9.0 8.0 Season overview Essential collection Good times! Cocoon’s annual White John Carpenter’s The clue’s in the Isle soundtrack offers discography is jam- name — funk-soul another glimpse at packed with essential Various Various icon extraordinaire 2017’s sounds that theme tunes that Klockworks 20 Amnesia Ibiza 2017: Mixed By Jay compiles bonafi de were. Nastia offers one were not only hugely Klockworks POPOF & Luca Donzelli bomb after bonafi de disc that is varied and evocative on screen, 7.5 DJ Centre Music Group bomb here, from vital, with unpredicted but that also work as 7.5 celebratory disco cuts from Calibre next standalone pieces of Take some time (Vicki Sue Robinson, to techno heavyweights minimal synth mastery. Although a certain government’s Megaclub megamix Aretha Franklin) to out Terrence Dixon and Luke From the most famous austerity measures make it a hard The legendary Ibizan club, renowned and out fi lth (James Slater. Einzelkind’s mix and spooky Halloween mantra to apply elsewhere in life, for many essential nights, supply Brown, Barry White), is less visceral and more theme to lesser known when it comes to music, quality a double-sided mix from Cocoon early-’90s conscious rap cerebral, with minimal early works like should always come over quantity. resident POPOF and HYTE resident (Organized Konfusion) grooves and intricate Dark Star, this is an Ben Klock certainly seems to Luca Donzelli. Two high-quality to rocksteady (Slim percussive lines taking essential, pioneering agree, as only now, 11 years since 60-minute journeys from two Smith). Great. MARTIN you late into the night. collection. KRISTAN J launching, is his revered Klockworks seasoned professionals, but for GUTTRIDGE-HEWITT KRISTAN J CARYL CARYL label reaching its 20th release. all of their quality the differences To mark the occasion, Klock has between them are delicate at best. mined techno talent new and old POPOF plays a broader range of THE PICK OF OUR LATEST to showcase sounds from across tech-tinged house and tougher ON THE POD PODCASTS & EXCLUSIVE MIXES the genre. While the overall tone (almost techno) tech-house, mixing djmag.com | soundcloud.com/djmag is stripped-back and hypnotic beautifully between the deeper and (courtesy of DVS1, Sterac, Newa bolder styles throughout. While Luca and more), Dax J and Troy offer sides with a more upfront tech-house noisy, pounding beats, ROD goes full style full of 'tech bounce', lots more ambient, and Vincent provides the swing and a good amount of boastful perfect upbeat set-closer. Picks of build-and-drop tracks, towards the the bunch are the tough, dissonant end playing a little harder with more ‘Perdita’ from rising star Jay Clarke, trippy elements to hold interest. It’s and the late Trevino’s ‘Sombre Tones’, top-drawer music and mixing, without which is a masterclass in fractured the contrast expected from such a FRESH KICKS: PODCAST: PODCAST: JAY CLARKE DJ MAG BUNKER #3 MAKCSIM experimental techno. BEN HINDLE snapshot product. LEON CLARKSON 146 djmag.com Untitled-1 1 14/11/2016 14:37