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Bass Clef, Dawn Chorus Pedal
“Red Square” by Loci[Idle Hands] Bass Clef has always approached genre from a very different angle than his peers. The title of his 2009 album, May the Bridges I Burn Light the Way, was something of a...
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Ghosts On Tape, Nature’s Law
Painting by Sam Francis[Icee Hot] The San Francisco club night Icee Hot has been setting a strong example in its field for a few years now, and has — almost at the same time as its spiritual UK...
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Various Artists, The Smugglers Inn Voyage 1
Photo by Henning Mella[The Smugglers Inn] Danny Berman, known for his DJ and production work as Red Rack’em and Hot Coins, as well as his label Bergerac, is due all the adulation he receives from...
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Jay L, Looking Up Pt. 1
[Brstl] Brstl is a pointedly local, purely physical record label that has been operating solidly for the last year or so, pleasingly lacking in fanfare; they previously released music by October &...
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Ben UFO, Fabriclive 67
[Fabric] This mix is a bit of a milestone, really. To be inaugurated into the canon of Fabric’s commercially released DJs certainly represents the movements Ben UFO and Hessle Audio have made in all...
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Outboxx, Jaded / Sunshine Mills
[Idle Hands] During their short existence, Outboxx’s heady, accomplished tracks have made them a bit of a secret treasure in Bristol, having released almost entirely on three fairly “rooted” local...
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Call Super, The Present Tense
[Houndstooth] Houndstooth, a new label curated by Fabric and Electronic Explorations’ Rob Booth, launches interestingly with a versatile clutch of modern techno from the Berlin-based JR Seaton. Within...
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Contakt, Nobody Else / Tessera 04
[Icee Hot] Icee Hot, San Francisco’s premier stop-off for a UK/U.S. crossover of modern 4/4-and-more touches base with its New York sibling, as TURRBOTAX®’s Contakt provides two airborne stompers of a...
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Sandrow M, Prayervan EP
[Uncanny Valley] Dresden’s quietly brilliant dealers of quirky house drop one of their catchiest and most straight-up appealing collections courtesy of Sandrow M. Here, the Dresden local has to some...
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Kode9, Xingfu Lu / Kan
[Hyperdub] Hyperdub boss Steve Goodman’s first production outing since 2011 is as lone-standing as ever. Having followed Planet Mu’s lead recently in his DJ and label excursions into the world of...
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Moiré, Rolx
[Rush Hour Recordings] Following on from his debut release on Actress’ Werkdiscs label, the UK’s Moiré has rightly been seized upon for Rush Hour’s essential and and ever-current discography. In the...
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Credit 00, Ice Cream
[Uncanny Valley] Dresden’s Uncanny Valley clique continue to quietly operate a musical ecosystem of their own, with the latest record to emerge from the hardware-filled studio of Credit 00, a producer...
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Don Froth, Reflexed EP
Artwork by Nachiketa Rao [Froth'n] After a earlier failed attempt at physical release, the LA producer Don Froth thankfully uses his own resources to put out a platter of dark, pulsing techno and...
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Pearson Sound, HES026
Artwork by Ryan Browning [Hessle Audio] David Kennedy, one of Hessle Audio’s three founders, makes his triumphant return with HES026, drawing on his skill for spacious, innovative rhythms and sparse,...
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Rhythmic Theory, Siren Song
[Rhythmic Theory] Bristol’s anonymous techno guy drops another two self-released dirt tracks here, of good quality and familiar stock, pairing the kind of granulated drum machine noise that has been...
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Floorplan, Phobia
[M-Plant] Robert Hood’s latest exercise under his Floorplan guise is among the best in a series whose unrelenting quality makes it difficult to pick favorites. Perhaps Detroit techno’s most deadly and...
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Boxcutter, Gnosis EP
[Cosmis Bridge] Barry Lynn has been in a world of his own since his debut in 2005, with a beat-wise, syncopated mingling of dub, garage, and new bass mutation that lumped him in with the...
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Cooly G, Hold Me
[Hyperdub] Before traveling into new and stranger spaces, Hold Me begins by recalling the tracks that first brought Merrisa Campbell to the attention of DJs and dancers back in 2008, when UK funky was...
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Dego And Kaidi, Dego And Kaidi
Photo by NTIMM [Eglo Records] Alex Nut and Floating Points look into their genre ancestry with a pitch-perfect signing to their label, Eglo, a prime London source of woozy funk, deep house, and...
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A Sagittariun, The Jupiter Chronicles EP
Artwork by Lynn Meyers [Elastic Dreams] A Sagittariun pushes the tempo on his first record since 2013′s awesome Dream Ritual LP, with four brilliantly structured tracks that again express an expert...
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