2016 repress , black vinyl ,
heavy pounding functional tracks balanced with some fresh adventurous techno tracks. the young and passionate french producer making his debut on dj deeps deeply rooted. french forces combined!. great follow up from roman on his releases on len fakis figure. recommended!

killer ep of techno-infused electronic excursions from the on-point dark arts imprint. across its 6 tracks we find dark dancefloor gear in the form of drama and far corner, with abstract science touching upon the classic uk-techno blueprint to create something deep, incredibly soulful and a little bit special. the deadly beneath is a moody, spacious broken-beat groove, and the ep is bookended by something more and orbit:28, two cinematic cuts of atmospheric electronica. technofuturism for the heads recommended.

billy nasty’s electrix records launches its 2016 schedule by welcoming back the always impressive, carl finlow. carl is one of dance music’s leading lights and a multi-talented producer across a range of genres, with releases stretching back to the early 90s. well known for the 2020 vision label he launched with ralph lawson, his solo work however has often taken an electro route with releases under various guises like random factor, black labs, voice stealer, silicon scally and scarletron (with daz quayle) on labels including warp, fuel, playhouse, paper, trope, sony, klang, arista, soma, scsi, pagan, minifunk, seventh sign and satamile. it’s been almost 3 years since carl appeared on electrix. his ‘boot loop ep’ became the label’s second release after its re-launch in 2013. but it’s definitely been worth the wait. his ‘electricology 4 ep’ once again shows why he’s a master of the genre. from the tough and funked-up ‘lateral thoughts’, speckled and melodic ‘hyperloop’, squelching, bassy ‘suspect reanimation’ and sinister, beat-driven ‘latext’, right through to the playful ‘atomic level’ (a bonus track for the digital release), the ep shines, with a stamp of high quality running though its core.

killers from bristol. recommended. support from ben ufo, bake, semtek, throwing shade.

killer techno release with influences from germanys earliest rave culture and berlin techno with chain reacting echoes and heavy bass techno. hailing from a small village near a mountainous place where the borders of three nations encounter, the machine loving jens tozzberg now arrived at fachwerk records with this solid 4 track ep. recommended!!

repress . this second release for acronym on the swedish imprint dimensional exploration contains three powerful, almost otherworldly techno cuts that take you on a journey through dark volcanic synth sequences to dreamy pads and soulful synth riffs that has you floating above the clouds. this very limited release is highly recommended if you are in to deep techno.
all tracks written and produced by acronym. mastered by neel at enisslab, rome

playful energetic techno tracks rooted in the early detroit tradition! (note... not the the mid 90 s loop techno/minimal techno version). this is the heavier gyro workout from ed dmx on his duo release on ride the gyroscope. both recommended!!!

heavy grooving club friendly techno tracks by juxta position who as usual delivers fine quality techno thats oozing warm vibes! another strong release by rhythm nation. recommended!!!

third single ep *spring aroma* by prolific deep/dub techno producer martin schulte immersed in deep bass, slow rhythms, spring atmospheres, echo chords, harmonic structures associated us with spirit of spring. recommended to all fans of aquatic and echo chords manipulations.

known for his contributions for lumberjacks in hell, seven limited or black key records, giovanni is a talented musician/dj from south italy, producing music for over a decade now. for his faces records debut, gio is going deep, straight back to his latin/jazz roots with la dame et le conga and what u feel like. while paying tribute to the old ny/garage sound on tell you what i do cherry on the top, detroit legend rick wade offers a new take on the title track, crafting a magnificent deep mix of la dame et le conga recommended to every deep house fans and children of the drum

highly recommended. marieu is back on his own imprint enlightened wax after a couple of critically and acclaimed eps on hypercolour.
“ultra thin” is a sure hit dance floor filler manufactured with super catchy funky bites wrapped on heavy rhythms and crunchy 8bit percussion. on the same side, “way out” is a premium hi-energy filtered house anthem.
on the b side, the original mix of “manner” is a mellow deeper cut built on a long spoken word tale floating over hypnotic beats, while the remix of the young talented federico brasi is an acid jacking minimalistic reinterpretation featuring solid vintage flavored drums.

if you ve followed local talk thru the years you ve most likely noticed how we like to throw a few curve-balls every now and then. for our 65th release we ve got gomma boss mathias modica aka munk and ndatl head honcho kai alce sharing the black gold. two producers with their own unique style presenting something special. while munk s original version of hot medusa is a shimmering and warm head-nodding & toe-tapping jam, the remix by mr alce is deep, soulful and musically rich house. two very different takes on one track, take your pick. on the flip munk delivers purple dust. this time he s upped the tempo a few bpm s, accompanied by a deep bassline with lush melodic synths and chords. mr alce ends the 12- with a dub of hot medusa which is brilliant from start to finish. another highly recommended and essential release.

the master kurt baggaley return on hotmix records with four amazing deep-electronic tracks. no need for many descriptions! recommended

following up on the excellent stabbed in konya ep for peur bleue, sorn welcomes gohan to the fold. three tracks of dystopian techno for the heads, plus a boddika-esque remix from newcomers ikpathua & paterson. recommended

debut for g&d records inc by serious djs vinyl collectors, inspired from the best disco funky groove. 3 essential tune reworked for this special ep. highly recommended.

japans leading techno artist yonenaga has been so much influenced by detroit techno. he launched his own record label select kashiwa records. derrick may already played his new promo which consists of 3 tracks. a1. room of glass and b1. fairies in the forest are highly recommended. his gorgeous but a bit rueful sound must sticks into your heart!

fourth tvir ep headed romar, rora label owner. he is the one who realy knows how looks like true quality deep sound. remix comes from romanian musician crihan. this vinyl is strong recommended to the real judges of beautiful electronic music. the artwork for the ep is inspired by ukrainian folklore influences.

brilliant tv and movie themes by francois de roubaix!!! on 20 november 1975 francois de roubaix disappeared while diving. before going towards this tragic death, francois had received an order for a television series theme tune commissaire moulin. as usual, the composed melody has been indelibly printed in the collective memory. francois de roubaix always put his fingers where it should be! between electronic tricks and acoustic works, this record brings the themes of this television series together with other musics composed for never released or still unknown projects... all unpublished music, never pressed on vinyl! it soon becomes clear that francois de roubaix feels confortable with this kind of exercises. the result is every time sublime. recommended!!

the duo acid mondays have brought their quirky forms of house and techno to a wealth of respected labels over the years, warp, circus and 2020 vision to name but a few. now, negghead and lex wolf can add guy gerbers forward-thinking rumors to that list, with their humorously-titled tacos per minute ep which looks set to add to the imprints hard-earned reputation as a breeding ground for innovative techno.

with production credits for pan, ppu, and future times, it’s been a busy year for dawit eklund, winding up to this fully-fledged debut on the label he co-founded. litchi juice is funk-laced ‘gully club music’, channelling inspiration from theo and pepe. on the flip, the psychedelic menace of lies are chic is influenced heavily by herbie hancock and tony allen records. ace, warmly recommended.

a1) new vinyl groove techno producer ruben martinez and the famous romanian singer alexandra stan large pump version already known in the world, joins this fusion of romania and spain to create this magnificent version for all techno lovers, highly recommended for vinyl lovers. a2) the colombian duo formed by microbeats & james corquita presented deep inside me a track that combines the elegance of house sound s with aggressiveness and forcefulness of techno sound.

* transmisiones atlanticas* written and produced by tensal aka hector sandoval, who is half of exium. this is a proper look on producers solo material mainly focusing on strong sequencer based hypnotic driving techno that would easily be in the same box as music produced by regis and sleeparchive. modularz is very satisfied with the results of this massive 8 track release sold separately on two vinyls. there is incredible a list dj support on this release, highly recommended.

“transmisiones atlanticas” written and produced by tensal aka hector sandoval, who is half of exium. this is a proper look on producers solo material mainly focusing on strong sequencer based hypnotic driving techno that would easily be in the same box as music produced by regis and sleeparchive. modularz is very satisfied with the results of this massive 8 track release sold separately on two vinyls. there is incredible a list dj support on this release, highly recommended.

with growing support from technos finest selectors, this uk label is fast becoming one-to-watch if sci-fi-laden machine music is your bag. dark arts 06 rolls out with ‘gallery’, a crafty slab of organ-burning techno. to follow, rugged detuned bass throbs throughout the raw but funky as hell stealth-houser ‘spare groove’. the aquatic electro of ‘opaline’ is a delicate, percussion-driven ride until the chest-caving bottom end hits.to finish, ‘atrium’ is a deadly, percussion packed minimal groove - heads down and eyes closed for this tense space jam. highly recommended!

no nonsense jagged-edged deepness. young gun tom dicicco kills it with these two slices of strobe light euphoria. those dance floor moments when you forget where you are. recommended!

first part of the ace new a made up sound double drop on his own label. two pieces of his signature stutterfunk with the machines slowed down to a midtempo drift. stumbling on the a-side, slamming on the b-side. highly recommended.

new x-masters! after the massive nicholas/morning factory release its finn gold with the 2nd x-masters. finn gold resisted his routines and started working on some other music... opening track is a briliant cover version of the classic atmosphere. pretty bold to cover such a classic, but finn gold nailed it! flip side gives 2 other excellent 90s inspired tracks for the body and soul. pretty amazing release!! recommended.

recommended! third side is the studio project of the analogue cops and panorama bar resident steffi. they are back on restoration records after the highly acclaimed album * unified fields* with the * pandora* e.p., a selection of 3 kicking dancefloor oriented tracks with an acid touch and a sci-fi landscape. solid 909 beats follow through apprehending bass lines and dense fm quirks riding catching male hooks.

it is darkness o clock and the outside agency returns to their genosha imprint with exactly what you may not have been waiting for: slow weaponry in the 150-160 bpm range. drawing influence from a wide variety of other styles, these tracks will blend well with your hardstyle and hard techno records and will even fit your uptempo hardcore sets at +25! extra crispy sounds for extra crispy people. highly and selfishly recommended by the outside agency!

tomoki tamura s pure house label holic trax is back with more trend setting hits with this excellent new ep from tuccillo, djebali & john dimas. tuccillo is very much on a roll at the moment - he makes everything from deep house to tech to chill out to disco and does so on labels like visionquest and 2020 vision as well as of course holic trax.

fang a rough house journey! killer tracks on dj deeps deeply rooted house. in the vein of the recent rebeval release of dj deep. recommended!

aus music continue their expeditious release schedule and follow up records from dj t., youandewan and geeeman with another addition to the label from saints & sonnets boss michael dodman aka huxley. having released a slew of eps through aus as well his debut album blurred back october 2014, huxley returns with a cross-genre 12inch that demonstrates perfectly why hes remained a long term staple for the label. few artists have held their ground as well as huxley. across an acclaimed catalogue thats seen releases on hypercolour, 2020 vision and tsuba he has managed to astutely touch on many bases whilst constantly keeping his output fresh and relevant. now - 6 years since his breakthrough collaboration with ethyl on cecille numbers, huxley reaffirms his position at the top of the tree and presents his 2.0 ep: 4 prime-time cuts bursting with powerful drum work, charming vocal samples and tape driven synths all deftly arranged to do serious damage on the floor.

monnom black welcomes binny to the label. his mispress ep consists of 4 peak-time bombs, in classic binny style that he is known so well for. inspired from mills, surgeon and 90s techno with a modern day twist. absolutely essential and highly recommended!

by now we know the exaltics stand for high quality advanced deep space electro techno after their great trilogy on clone records and most recently their great retrospective album -the truth 2008 - 2013-on their own solar one music. as a follow up on that album they invited an impressive line up of remixers to work on some of their album tracks! e.r.p. , gosub, dopplereffekt, objekt, and ultradyne: these heavyweights and legendary artists have written some of the most important pages of the electro / techno history. a dream come true for the exaltics and a heavy weight and highly desirable collection of electro techno on solar one music! highly recommended!

ltd 2020 repress...
following up his recently-released remixes of scubas single >the hope< on hotflush, plagent records boss recondite returns to the label, this time with a solo 12 inch titled drgn / wist 365. recalling some of the moodiest moments from >on acid<, his recent lp devoted to the sounds of the 303, this debut shows recondite stay true to his sombre and tension-inducing roots. >drgn<, the sonic equivalent to traversing a bleak end-of-times landscape, is a journey replete with a relentless, melodic sib-bass and vibrating synth, on the flip recondite gives the 9-minute long >wist 365< a drum workout, resulting in a progressive, menacing groove, awash with wind chimes and 808 claps.

adventurous trips into leftfield drum & bass/footwork/unknown territory - highly recommended!

”love will remember pharaon de winter” is said at the end of the record. pharaon de winter was a painter from north of france, who lived from the end of the xixth century to the beginning of the xxth century. today, pharaon de winter is reappearing again. it’s a band, but also the name of a song, which changed everything for his author. past leader of both bands toy fight and (please), maxime chamoux was playing since now a genre between north american rock of spoon and neutral milk hotel, and sophisticated british pop from prefab sprout or xtc. we find today in this new project songs navigating between french, for most part, and english. partners and friends since a long time, thomas pirot at the drums and raphael ankierman at the bass are playing alongside fx guéant-mata at the guitar. we also find mina tindle and her delicate voice appearing here and there. at last we don’t forget the goldsmith’s talent of canadian musician sandro perri who’s joining the band, highly recommended by pitchfork magazine with his album impossible spaces in 2011.

welcome back to the movielike resonating sound world of the 23s. already in 2008 the mysterious one-man band proofed with the album “bolivia” that they are trying to do another kind of music – something that isn’t entertainment, something that isn’t show, something that goes gently straight to your soul. now the producer from nord-rhine-westphalia did it again and tuned in the longplayer “flamingo”. anew he delivers a special kind of cinematic journey music that grooves opposite to his other, more rhythm based hypnotic dance productions. also as the 23s he produces pattern-based music, but it pursues a different intention: each listener should dive into a hallucinatory world of seen and unseen films that his inner eye creates unprejudiced. all ten tracks are romantic smooth operators. they put themselves in service of an artistic vision, in which the listener should get lost in music. the album can be seen as a love-letter to the movie scores of the french 70s cinema or the impressionistic sound arrangements you can hear in the early cinema of peter greenaway. with double bass heat, discreet piano melodies, levitating guitar chords, some gentle horns here and there and beats that recollect the warm jazz influenced soul of oldschool hip-hop the 23s generate a sublime get-down-deep instrumental journey. you can listen to it attentive. or you can just play it in the back while doing whatever you like to do. it is recommended to play “flamingo” in a decent amount of volume as all loungey tracks begin to live bigger and brighter with sound intensity. if you play it flashy you will experience an atmospheric sometimes light-flooded, sometimes foggy 40-minute electronic journey that offers open-minded souls to fill the room between the notes with their very own milky fancy. soon the album will be accompanied by a bunch of remixes tuned in and twisted by producers like giegling and white artists edward, christian s of the cómeme tribe, canadian producer the mole and the german post rock and electronic music band to rococo rot.

can we melt the ice is one of those mystery records that collectors love so dearly. very little is known about it, other than that it appeared on plush records sometime around 1982 or 83. it was written and produced by chicago producer morris j williams, whose sweet vocal provides a vocal point for the track s sensual boogie vibes - all lilting horns, subtle synthesizers and shuffling grooves. brilliantly, this reissue from finlands constantly on-point traveller records also boasts a previously unreleased longer version, which naturally extends the tracks wonderful instrumentation in all the right places. recommended.

seriously underground minimal house on offer here from chicagos hakim murphy under a new alias. kallabo is the kind of mysterious, candle lit deep house you d hear on a giegling record. -porta- shuffles and bleeps in a more uptempo outing where you can hear the noise of tape in the background, competing with the hiss of the 808 hats to stunning effect. boops bring the funk in this reductionist house jam for analogue freaks. finally raw intuition stomps away with its brutal modular synth bassline run through a delay and knocking down everything in sight! highly recommended!

repress 2015 !! here comes a bundle of two anthems, presented by the dial records founders themselves: carsten jost and lawrece are back with a highly recommended double-a-side 12 inchfor your pleasure!

if john daly returns to his own one track records it means business. his lush techno style (rooted in early 90 s detroit techno) meets balearic vibes resulting in a true deep house excursion that comes in 3 versions! recommended!

beau wanzer and dan jugel are juzer. making their first appearance on nyc s corner label, juzer now see a release on italian outpost dog in the night. here we get three tracks of no holds barred mid-90s rz-1 techno somewhere in between dbx ot jack master era hawtin. complete and effective mixing tools, dry claps and all these cuts are sure to work the crowd into a frenzy. recommended.

fantastic voyage continues to bring the sugar series to vinyl, with 32 standout tracks selected by stuart colman from the 75-track 3cd set sassy sugar. sassy sugar is the successor to the thoroughly-recommended fantastic voyage compilations, heavy sugar (fvdv051) and savvy sugar (fvdv059). whereas those releases were devoted to new orleans and the west coast respectively, sassy sugar focuses on music city, nashville.

after a strong first release contort yourself returns with events at the fatal party which comes over more as a description than a title, brimming with a bubbling sense of tension and fear. hamburg duo fallbeil kick things off in impressive style with a crunchy acid monster which twists and turns followed by two killer proto-techno cuts from legendary french industrial band die form from their 1985 tape hurt. here we find ourselves in a unsettling scenario with metallic voices scowling over clanging machines and guitar feedback in an unhinged way. the mysterious slugbug (l.i.e.s./russian torrent versions) starts the flip with goback, a creeping acidic beast moving unstoppably forward as a reverberating voice ripples throughout. any calm is then shattered by ibm a.k.a. jamal moss whose remix of die form hammers home a tough seven minutes of mangled synths, bubbling acid and thundering drums. a highly recommended, intense journey.

fantastic voyage continues to bring the sugar series to vinyl, with 32 standout tracks selected by stuart colman from the 75-track 3cd set classy sugar.
classy sugar is the successor to the thoroughly-recommended fantastic voyage compilations, heavy sugar (fvdv051), savvy sugar (fvdv059) and sassy sugar (fvdv098). whereas those releases were devoted to new orleans, the west coast and nashville respectively, classy sugar focuses on the big apple, new york city.

after a strong first release contort yourself returns with events at the fatal party which comes over more as a description than a title, brimming with a bubbling sense of tension and fear. hamburg duo fallbeil kick things off in impressive style with a crunchy acid monster which twists and turns followed by two killer proto-techno cuts from legendary french industrial band die form from their 1985 tape hurt. here we find ourselves in a unsettling scenario with metallic voices scowling over clanging machines and guitar feedback in an unhinged way. the mysterious slugbug (l.i.e.s./russian torrent versions) starts the flip with goback, a creeping acidic beast moving unstoppably forward as a reverberating voice ripples throughout. any calm is then shattered by ibm a.k.a. jamal moss whose remix of die form hammers home a tough seven minutes of mangled synths, bubbling acid and thundering drums. a highly recommended, intense journey.

deeply rooted with the 2nd release in the new series! this one is by respecs aka roman poncet. fierce techno tracks from the vital parisian techno scene that is doing so well at the moment with guys like zadig, dj deep, marcellus, voiski and labels as dement3d, taapion and clubs as the rex and concrete. fresh energy from this classic city, fresh energy from this classic label!. recommended.

first release for brand new label basement night feeling sound. two tracks from scm recommended for those who loves the dance floor! only 300 hand numbered copies, vinyl only release, save your dont sleep!