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2012-05-24 10:15
Andrew Weatherall - Masterpiece
Everyone from Erol Alkan and Optimo to Ivan Smagghe and James Lavelle is indebted to Andrew Weatherall. Not necessarily in terms of aesthetics, but definitely i..
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2012-05-24 08:45
Leon - Supersonic
Italian producer Leon has constantly reconfigured tech house over the last year or so. Be it the choppy stuff of his breakthrough single on Cécille, the booty-..
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2012-05-24 08:45
Afrikan Sciences - Boss Nova's Second Pass
Somewhere between Flying Lotus and Aybee lies Afrikan Sciences' multi-layered, multi-textured compositions. "The Onliest" is downtempo broken-beat with loose, l..
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2012-05-24 08:45
Mother Rose - Mother Rose 001
Mother Rose is the latest project from musical miscreant and Classic co-boss Luke Solomon. It sees him team up with journeying guitarist Andy Neal to craft some..
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2012-05-23 16:15
Nic Fanciulli - Balance 21
When Saved Records boss Nic Fanciulli approached making a mix for the Balance series, his watchword was "timeless." The first of the two CDs here leans mostly o..
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2012-05-23 14:45
Jack Dixon - Above from the Below
London's Jack Dixon has been zig-zagging around tech house and bass music, staking a middle ground between the chunky (his remix of Bwana) and waify (his floaty..
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2012-05-23 13:15
iZotope - Iris
A little more than a decade or so ago, Aphex Twin introduced the concept of the spectrogram to the general public when he cleverly encoded a picture of his fac..
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2012-05-23 11:45
The Traveller - A100
Shed's 2010 long-player The Traveller wasn't so much about refining techno as purifying his approach to sound in general: more a Funktion-One calibration t..
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2012-05-23 10:15
Le K - Freewheel
Sylvain Garcia seems to be a restless sort. He's got a back catalogue of compilation inclusions and EPs over the last five years, including one on Circus Compan..
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2012-05-23 08:45
Cassegrain - Plate EP
Cassegrain, the duo consisting of Greece's Alex Tsiridis and Berlin-based Huseyin Evirgen, are at their best when they g..
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2012-05-23 08:45
Error Etica - The Axiom of Coherent States I EP
Victor Martinez is a Spanish artist and the mind behind Psychoskunk Recordings, and this year he seems intent on pushing the sounds of his new project, Error Et..
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2012-05-22 20:45
James Priestley & Marco Antonio Spaventi - Baia 2012
Here's a fairly mouth-watering proposition: A new release from James Priestley, curator of London's secretsundaze party, his first alongside equally tasteful MO..
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2012-05-22 18:30
Lerosa - No Mad Rush
Since his debut release back in 2005 on the D1 imprint, Lerosa, an Italian native calling Ireland home, has crafted some wide-ranging releases on a number of la..
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2012-05-22 12:30
Slugabed - Time Team
Chiptune sounds in dance music aren't anything close to a novelty anymore, but the UK's Slugabed has always used tinny 8-bit timbres with a fierce and unique th..
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2012-05-22 08:45
Wheez-ie - Remember The Score EP
It's enough to make you want to break out the Vicks. Following in the footsteps of Zomby's Where Were U in 92?, Texan producer Matt "Wheez-ie" Mauldin—wh..
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2012-05-22 08:45
Eduardo de la Calle - Analog Grooves #1
For almost two decades Eduardo de la Calle been making house and techno in his Spanish homeland. Of late, he's run his own Analog Solutions imprint and picked u..
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2012-05-22 08:45
Dream 2 Science - Dream 2 Science EP
The Dream 2 Science EP is a no-brainer reissue: it's a spotless record of classic New York house that's been out of print for 22 years (as if the extortion..
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2012-05-21 17:45
I: Cube - 'M' Megamix
Because it features 24 snippets of tracks segued together into one hour long set, there are two ways of looking at I:Cube's new album. One—for the optimists..
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2012-05-21 15:30
Nuno Dos Santos - Hamming
Just a few releases old, Amsterdam's Trouw club and its eponymously-named label comes correct with this release by resid..
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2012-05-21 15:30
Mathias Kaden, Spencer Parker, Xhin in Paris
Any Parisian will be happy to complain about the lack of edge in the city's nightlife. Haunted by a persistent fantasy of decadent Berlin-like clubbing, the Par..