Exclusive Download: Kevin Jonson – Frozen Road EP
Kevin Jonson and the Huble imprint is testament to the kind of quality techno coming out of France at the moment – my kind of techno. Minimal, elegant, sharp beats, the title track Frozen Road, especially, gets down seriously deep. A little bit dark and melancholy. Serious stuff. I know I can be quite euro-centric...
White Bamby feat. Laure Milena – On The Sand EP
I knew this was going to be perfect from the moment I clicked on it. White Bamby, so the fairy tale goes, met in the Aegen sea, fell in love with the same girl, decided to make music out of the experience and found some random statue that inspired them to name themselves White Bamby....
Bombay Bicycle Club
I’m really digging Dark Sky’s remix of Bombay Cycle Club track “Lights Out Words Gone.” Now I want to go out on a limb here and say he’s taken and decent song and made it fantastic and that is what remixing is all about to me. No offence if you happen to love the original,...
In Photos: Deathray Leeds, 1st May
New season, new venue. The kids are all dressed in summer gear, the barbeque is on, the music is trippin. It was a techno all dayer. I think the Deathray crew has found probably the best secret venue in Leeds. Once again Adam Taylor’s set got me movin like nothin else. Hard, pounding and progressive,...
Femme En Fourrure – Bronco (NGUZUNGUZU Remix)
The forward thinking LA house duo known as Nguzunguzu did a remix for Femme En Fourrure’s title track from the new Bronco ep. (Read and watch the trippy video for Bronco here.) Kingdom digs their sound back from when they were doing demo cdrs. I love Kingdom and I love Femme En Fourrure – when the...
Femme En Fourrure – Bronco EP
I cannot tell you enough how much i FUCKING LOVE these fucking finnish guys. Femme En Fourrure back on this blog again with a new video and a new ep. Bronco is still keeping to their sexy tech house grooves with breathy vocals, but this time it’s darker, moodier and funkier. The video’s awesome as...
Chocobo
Minimal techno / house but not in a way you’d expect. Chocobo isn’t the character from Final Fantasy, rather, 2 dudes from Cali who have a “deep interest in minimalism”. What they sound like is actually far from the broad-ranging meaning of the term. In Howl, 4 to the floor is the principal beat, in...
PRINCE CLUB (ex MadKids)
I don’t need to convince you how awesome Zach and Max from MadKids are / were. House of Damon was the tune of 2010 for me and I’ve had their September Mix featured on this blog’s sidebar for months. You can still read the interview I did with them in this post. For some reason...
Anchor Factory Die Geschenke Compilation
All I can say is WOW. Anchor Factory has come A LONG FUCKING WAY to get to this point. Those of you who have been following this blog for a while will know that they’re the young french label from Grenoble and I’ve featured nearly all of their releases in here. Right now I’m talking...
POPOF – Wax Machine EP
Ahaha! Minimal techno’s best don’t just come from Deutschland. Heavyweight french producer, POPOF has got a new EP out called Wax Machine and it hits all the right spots: true to minimal perfection, sexy and smooth, a huge rave feel and with what I can detect as a clever dash of bouncy funk. Title track...
Akzidenz Grotesk – Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances
Akzidenz Grotesk is NOT a font type, despite what Google tries to push onto you. It’s the cold Icelandic sounds of Gustavo Hjindervsson, techno that is heavily influenced by the 2nd wave detroit techno masters such as Carl Craig and Juan Atkins but also equally as significant, the distinct penchant for the minimal and obscure...
Frederik Olufsen
Danish electro boy, Frederik Olufsen just been signed to Coco Machete and they want yall to know about it. Olufsen’s style of electro is deeply connected / influenced with/by minimal techno, but there is always that wonky splinter, that gutteral bassline. I think you guys might probably have heard of this one: [Frederik Olufsen -...
