[Dial] Dial co-founder Peter M. Karsten is better known under his more prolific Lawrence alias, but his recordings as Sten are just as worthy of attention. His second full-length album, The Essence, compiles (on the CD version, at least; the LP version varies slightly) three previous singles (including his most recent, “Way To The Stars” […]
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Melchior Productions Ltd, Who Can Find Me EP
October 5, 2008 – 7:29 PM
[Cadenza] Last year Thomas Melchior revealed a darker side of his musical personality in his powerful second album, No Disco Future. With texture, repetition and context as the dominant themes, slits of light and shades of tone color shone through even brighter when they appeared in the elegiac strains of “Water Soul,” the reduced regal […]
Luke Hess & Marko Fürstenberg, Campfire Dialogue
October 1, 2008 – 6:46 PM
[Echocord Colour] While no proper affiliation exists between Detroit’s Echospace and Denmark’s Echocord, there is certainly an interesting volley of ideas taking place between the two like-minded labels. Both champion a sonorous mid-tempo dub style, and, with the recent launch of the sub-label Echocord Colour, both please collectors with lush transparent records. But while the […]
Mike Shannon, Memory Tree
September 30, 2008 – 7:18 PM
[Plus 8 Records] While it’s higher profile offshoot label M_nus continues to tread water and slowly transform into some sort of sci-fi cartoon series, Richie Hawtin’s original Plus 8 imprint keeps on putting out quality techno releases with a lot less frequency but a much higher level of quality across the board. Veteran Canadian label-skipper […]
Johannes Heil, Aum
September 29, 2008 – 8:10 PM
[Metatron House Division] With his latest release on Metatron House Division, Johannes Heil delivers two exceptional tracks which reflect a knack for composition as well as production. “Aum” and “Soul Made” both slip right past the ten minute mark, but Heil’s songwriting (for lack of a better term) is shrewd enough to keep things fresh […]
Runaway, Brooklyn Club Jam
September 28, 2008 – 7:56 PM
[REKIDS] Taking after the piano-driven house of Still Going and Osborne, Runaway’s “Brooklyn Club Jam” starts with the same impetus but makes sure to contort itself. First released on Runaway’s Myspace page, the track was surprising almost to a fault; as a stream of an unreleased track, “Brooklyn Club Jam” sounded like it could (and […]
Minimal Man, Make A Move
September 24, 2008 – 6:34 PM
[Trelik] A collaborative project between Baby Ford and Ian “Eon” Loveday birthed way back in 1993, Minimal Man have released a dozen or so singles for such labels as Perlon, Trelik, Guerilla, and Vinyl Solution. But it’s been “Make A Move,” originally released in 2000, that has taken on a life of its own via […]
Stimming, Una Pena
September 23, 2008 – 6:04 PM
[Diynamic Music] Hamburg producer Martin Stimming is on a roll. From his work with Einmusik on the “Mesdames EP” to his split with Matthias Meyer, he’s quietly tricked out a string of excellent singles all summer. “Una Pena,” a tightly wound, live wire of a track that’s been popping up left and right in DJs’ […]
Bovill/Murmur, Low Pressure/Magnetic
September 22, 2008 – 8:06 PM
[Meanwhile] Does anyone else feel that really good dub music seems to have something to teach you? The melodies and rhythms play with each other at arm’s length within a wide open space. This always suggests to me that most everything dubsided is more concerned with finding out how the musical pieces interact than with […]
SIS, Nesrib
September 21, 2008 – 7:30 PM
[Cécille Records] One of Nick Curly’s best A&R decisions since founding Cécille Records was providing a vinyl home to Burak Sar (who produces as SIS), an artist who operates in his own orbit. It’s just as well that there’s a dearth of information about Sar (excepting his documented passion for Che Guevara), as his music […]
Little White Earbuds Reflects: Minitek
September 17, 2008 – 9:14 PM
Photo by Viktor Sekularac LWE correspondent Will Lynch offers his take on the seemingly ill-fated Minitek festival: Had all gone according to plan, last weekend’s Minitek festival could have asserted that a passionate techno scene can exist in New York City. Instead, it was a sad reminder of how incompatible dance music events are with […]
Kuniyuki, Remixed Vol.3
September 16, 2008 – 7:30 PM
[Mule Musiq] The third release in the Kuniyuki remix series, helmed by Henrik Schwarz and Tony Lionni, gives us yet another set of interpretations of the Japanese producer’s deep, down-tempo house tracks. Earlier this summer, “Remixed Vol. 2” dropped two great cuts — an airy, all over the place Cobblestone Jazz remix of “The Session” […]
Shackleton, Shortwave/You Bring Me Down (Remixes)
September 15, 2008 – 8:10 PM
Of the new generation of dubstep producers, Sam Shackleton has proven himself to be the most receptive to crossing over with other genres in a mutually back-scratching manner. After famously remixing and being remixed by Ricardo Villalobos, Shackleton has more favors returned here. Reprising a combo first seen on last year’s Steingarten remixes project, Shackleton has two tracks from his forthcoming Skull Disco full-length remixed by Pole and Peverelist for a special vinyl release from ~scape, furthering the cross-pollination efforts.
DOP, I’m Just a Man EP
September 14, 2008 – 7:40 PM
[Eklo] It’s truly heartening to see a young group like DOP growing more confident in their talents and compositions, as each successive release hones in on the trio’s strengths while leaving room for experimentation. This heightened focus has meant greater dance floor utility and accessibility, especially for the “God Bless the Child EP” on Milnor […]
DJ Koze, Let’s Love
September 10, 2008 – 8:41 PM
[International Records Recordings] Well-known but worth repeating: DJ Koze gets to be as weird as he wants. As a solo artist, he might have made his first mark with the solemn chimes of “Brutalga Square” but it’s been a long journey from there. Like his work with International Pony, Koze flourishes when he’s been willfully […]
Väth vs. Rother/Ricardo Villalobos, Cocoon Morphs Tokyo
September 8, 2008 – 9:12 PM
[Cocoon Recordings] As a tie-in to a series of April club dates in Japan, Sven Väth’s Cocoon Recordings released a special Japan-only compilation CD in celebration of the event. Now available worldwide due to popular demand, six of the seven CD tracks are also being released on vinyl as a special three-part single to celebrate […]
Daze Maxim, One Million Shakers EP
September 7, 2008 – 9:41 PM
[Hello? Repeat] As one of Hello? Repeat’s co-managers and frequent contributors, Marcus Manowski, (aka Daze Maxim) has shaped the label’s distinctive aesthetic since the beginning. As Heartz4, Manowksi kick-started Hello? Repeat on a gloomy note — some may remember “Intimacy Girl,” a classic example of the bad dream vibe that was in vogue in 2006. […]
Model 500, Starlight
September 2, 2008 – 7:02 PM
[echospace [detroit]] It made perfect sense for echospace [detroit] to issue new remixes of Model 500’s immortal “Starlight” back in the summer of 2007. After all, Juan Atkins’ and Mortiz von Oswald’s 1995 original is a clear touchstone for the echospace sound, fusing the dubbed-out analog washes of Berlin’s Basic Channel camp with the rhythmic […]
Dave Aju, Crazy Place
September 1, 2008 – 7:10 PM
[Circus Company] Step number three of Dave Aju’s recent manifesto for dance music is to “personalize all sounds… whenever possible.” With his upcoming album and lead-off single, “Crazy Place,” he’s taken that maxim at its most literal -– making music entirely from sounds made by his mouth. Like his former San Francisco neighbors, Matmos, Aju […]