MATCH POINT French DJ/Producer Point G Highlights His Precision Production on New Retrospective Collection, ‘The Point G Experience’
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MUSIC SHORT CUTS All the singles you need to know this month p.110 MUSICAL MARATHONS New long-players to get stuck into p.136 TRACK- PACKING The best bundles available in July p.140 MATCH POINT French DJ/producer Point G highlights his precision production on new retrospective collection, ‘The Point G Experience’... p.140 djmag.com 109 SOONEY HOT CREATIONS DJ DEEP DEEPLY ROOTED HOUSE HOUSE BEN ARNOLD QUICKIES Hemi JNT [email protected] MONEY Discotexas SHOT! 8.0 A glisteningly-produced rolling groove from Istanbul's Hemi on Lisbon's Discotexas, the Felix Da Housecat kind of glorious workhorse-type track that Founders Of Filth Volume One might not hit Beatport's top 10 but can turn a Founders Of Filth good party great. 9.0 Felix Da Housecat has started Fouk his new label Founders Of With Lasers EP Filth because "I just got Heist Recordings so tired of fighting labels 7.5 and for my people to shine, Bumpy, bleepy, cosmic house from Dutch it went on deaf ears". disco-heads Fouk on Detroit Swindle's Heist Hard to understand how Recordings. F3000 is the one, a driving force of output like 'In Thee Now' dancefloor nature. Very nice indeed. could have fallen on deaf ears. It's a thunderous, Jimpster low-slung masterpiece. The Sun Comes Up feat. Jinadu (Peggy Gou 6am It sounds simple. But you mix) know it's not. Flipping into for some serious fire on Strictly punctuated by disco percussion, Freerange his Aphrohead alias, he and Rhythm, back in the days when while remixes from Golden 8.0 Montreal's Clarian then crank men wore caps backwards, Soul's James Rod and Alkalino Amazing work here from the burgeoning out an earthy, tripped-out, and house were house (ie. swing things low and lo-fi, Peggy Gou, delivered for Freerange main-man chug-heavy groove on 'Know 1991). Here, he pulls out some respectively. Jimpster. 'Buy all her stuff' appears to be a Thyself', before hooking up scorching, looped up Balearic good rule of thumb. with the legendary Jamie boogie in ''Bout Love Again', AudioHell with Tania Principle for the brooding while 'Influence Is Bliss' Vulcano & Jose De SISTRUM RECORDS anthem 'It's Your World'. jams together angular bleeps Divina PATRICE SCOTT Stunning. with deep rave pads, before Acid indulging in a proper space-jazz Get Physical wig-out. Winding up, 'Need 9.0 Christophe Each Other' is a peak-time disco Italian producer AudioHell (Theme From) Dance Party EP stunner. Acquire. teams with regular Lovecrimes collaborators Tania Vulcano and 8.0 Patrice Scott José De Divina for this sizeable Bristol's Christophe turns Soulfood EP proposition on Get Physical. out for release number six on Sistrum One gets the feeling that they Lovecrimes. 'Dance Party' 8.5 know precisely how big this might be the tentpole track, but The maestro Patrice Scott turns track is. It has a certain assured head directly to 'Vibration' for out three slabs of girthsome swagger to it. It deserves to. depth and post-rave pads. rump-funk from his Sistrum 'Acid' – which despite its name imprint. Title track 'Soulfood' is pleasingly devoid of any Fort Romeau blends Rhodes-style chords tired 303 squelchery – brims Reasons EP with blissful synth twinklings, with drama and atmosphere. It Fort Romeau 01. HANNA ‘The Never End’ Apron Records while a chugging groove churns manages to be sparse without “Hanna, aka Warren Harris, is one of my favourite producers of all time. He 8.0 and tumbles beneath. 'Feels ushering in the second coming has always put a twist on his music to separate himself from the norm.” Already getting heat from your So Good' goes deep with lilting of minimal, and holds you in a 02. BLAK PUNK SOUNDSYSTEM ‘Red Cloud’ Future Vision Sascha Funkes and your Robag chords and quietly clattering vice-like grip for a near-seven “Ron Trent does not release many others on his imprints but when he does it’s Wruhmes (not to mention percussion, while the slightly minutes despite being largely certainly a treat. Although this sounds like it could be Trent himself.” your Red Axes), Fort Romeau, wonky 'Instant Gratification', uneventful. Subtle and brilliant. 03. LARS BARTKUHN ‘Elysium’ Neroli author of repeatedly excellent contrary to its title, rewards “I love to hear true musicians making house. Lars adds a touch that not many can. What a talent!” work on imprints like Running repeat listening. He's a class Honey Dijon feat. Cakes Back, Cin Cin and Ghostly act. But then you knew that Da Killa 04. K15 ‘Speed Of Life’ Wild Oats “When I listen to this young talented producer’s broken-beat style, it sends International, begins his own already, obviously. Catch The Beat tingles down my spine and he always inspires me.” label journey with the lush, Classic Music Company 05. KAIDI TATHAM ‘Changing Times’ First World hypnotic and (later) rather Planet Jumper 9.0 “Another one of my favourite producers, who always adds a splash of jazzy dramatic 'Reasons'. On the flip, Beware The Beast In We EP An unashamedly massive release variety rather than just the traditional four-to-the-floor beats.” 'C.E.M.' heads for more angular, Sprechen Music from Chi-Town's inimitable 06. ALTON MILLER ‘Bring Me Down’ Sound Signature bleep-laden territory, building 8.0 Honey Dijon, something of a “Legendary producer Alton Miller has been delivering great music for a long time. Here he does it once again, and the Theo Parrish translation doesn’t to an ecstatic climax, while Compounding the fact that Classic regular in recent years, disappoint either.” 'Satellite 2' rounds things off Melbourne could scarcely be and this is likely to make her a 07. RON TRENT ‘Touch’ Music and Power on a gorgeously ambient tip. hotter right now, Aussie pair bona fide major leaguer (and “In my opinion, Ron is a musical genius. He does it over and over. Release Planet Jumper (aka Steve about time too). Busting out after release. It just keeps getting better and better.” Son Of Sound Ford and Drew Schapper) tip scattershot, wayward rhymes 08. WU15 ‘Wu15 EP’ Eglo Records The Love Up Beat Down up for the 10th release on is Brooklyn's own Cakes Da “What a great EP. This young talented duo take us on a proper journey of Classic Music Company house/broken-beat jazz. Let’s hope for many more collaborations from Manchester's Sprechen. And Killa, over a relentlessly huge these guys.” 8.0 'Here My Troubles Began' is wall of percussion which builds Unstoppable vibrations from laden with cosmical vibes, and drops with deft subtly. 09. AZYMUTH ‘Fenix’ Far Out Recordings “When I first heard this track on the Azymuth album, I was amazed. This is Son Of Sound on the peerless relentless arps and satisfying This one will be studiously jazz/funk/soul at its best. The Ron Trent remix is no sleeper either.” Classic. Real name Henry slaps of bass. The titular packing terraces the whole 10. PATRICE SCOTT ‘Soulfood EP’ Sistrum Recordings Maldonado, he was also one 'Beware The Beast In We' summer long, and well beyond. “For myself, this is my best EP to date. I am proud for the simple fact that on of House 2 House, responsible revels in its murky bottom-end, Deservedly so. this release I try to show some range rather than the usual stuff from myself.” 110 djmag.com DJ571.Music_House.indd 110 19/06/2017 14:40 Untitled-1 1 16/06/2017 15:51 THE NEWEST SUPER CLUB IN CEBU, PHILIPPINES EXPERIENCE THE RAGE! Untitled-1 1 16/06/2017 15:47 TECHNO Detromental QUICKIES Move CPU Miller & Keane 8.0 Remnants Of A Technologically Advanced Society Here’s a record with an interesting Radio Matrix backstory; ‘Move’ was originally 8.5 released back in 1991 by bleep Miller & Keane deliver an EP on Delta Funktionen’s tech act Detromental. When CPU label — from the deep pulsing ‘Probe 2187’ to the approached them to re-release it, [email protected] eerie acid of ‘Markarian’ and the tougher, drum- they could not find the original heavy ‘As The Orbit Fails’, this is a fine, smartly DATs. This led to a ‘rebuilding’ pro- executed EP. cess that saw Detromental piece together ‘Move’ and ‘Rewind’. Now Unidata more linear and DJ-friendly than Untitled (Unidata 190- 2090) originally conceived, they still fea- RICHARD BROPHY RICHARD Wave Memory ture the original versions’ spacey 7. 5 synths, mad subsonic bleeps and Pulled from Unidata’s archives, these tracks date on ‘Rewind’, a Mayday-style bass back as far as the early '90s, and see the mysterious that hasn’t aged. artist focus on Plaid-style ambience (‘Manifesto’ and ‘Boco Ramax’) as well as downtempo beatsy Elitechnique work-outs (‘Masks’ and ‘Internal’). Disco D’Azur Bordello A Parigi Blake Baxter 7. 5 Acid Life EP So few acts do modern Italo well Kille Kill — but Elitechnique belong firmly 7. 5 to that minority. 'Disco D’Azur' Detroit veteran Blake Baxter delivers a killer old is a monster track, based on an school-referencing release for Kille Kill. Combining omnipresent bass rumble and a dark acid lines, rave stabs and ponderous vocals, dramatic synth-build — but it also the whole thing unravels over dense breakbeats. features mesmerising acid gurgles MONEY and some soft rock guitar. It SHOT! sounds like a recipe for a muddled DEREK CARR FOR THOSE THAT KNOE disaster, but this euphoria-induc- drums and insistent percussive ing concoction will melt even the licks.