brooklyn based artist elbee bad with his tech ep sock it to me

after a 12 year break the uk techno label solid groove is back. kicking off with a collaboration with new york artist and metroplex label manager kimyon huggins.

after successful releases with labels such as rawax, taped artifact & thule records, the two icelandic techno titans bring us yet another intriguing release.a ohm is best known for his releases on force inc with his long-time partner exos and as an inventive techno dj. octal industries, a veteran who has already gained a reputation within the idm community under his ruxpin pseudonym, returns yet again to his origins with collaborating with ohm, a pioneer of the within the icelandic scene. bardo ep offers us four enigmatic & atmospheric techno tracks with intricate soundscapes and otherwordly chords. from the ethereal sounds of bardo to the hard hitting flow machine, a this ep works as an essential choice for both the dancefloor as well as for dancefloor within your mind.

2016 sees label boss aubrey release his first full ep on solid groove since 2003. a1-time level bypass is a peak time 12 min long bass groove with alien noises throughout. b1 rangoose, is a unreleased track originally made by aubrey in 1998, heavy in nature for the purists. b2-mf-104 is a 120bpm deep house track more suited for a 7am play, with lush echos from the rare moogerfooger mf-104 delay limited to just over 500 units made.

solid groove returns with the russian talent of unbalance offering three new and killer tracks and a remix from label boss aubrey.

sgr is a series of re-issues of the best of aubreys productions on the three labels he produced from 1991 to 2002: solid groove records / textures records / dark records
in addition of carefully re-masted versions of those classics each ep will feature an unreleased track from this time period. sgr 1 features two tracks from the solid groove 12 – spanky rogers ep aka (aubrey) originally releases in 1997. the a2 track is re-master from the under looked dark techno series: dark 1, originally releases in 2001 and finally b2 is an unreleased track with the self-explaining name *unreleased 1* originally recorded in 1997.

aubrey crimson nebular, featuring remixes by exos, ed davenport and lee holman.