In February Snuff Trax will release “My Racoon / Paranoia” by Humandrone, with mixes of Nick Anthony and The Minister. Bleepy acid action in old skool vein as seen and heard in a video by the29nov Films.Read More →
A new toy for all top guns out there, to be released on Crème Organization’s Eclipse series in February 2012. After spotting a teaser of bleepy acid house “Alle Piloten mit in den Tod” on Youtube, a full set of audio clips was now uploaded by the label.In “Nur dieRead More →
Rating: 8/10 The first challenge is linguistic: Zerkleinerungs-maschine is a shredder and Feindehnungsmeßgerät some sort of measuring device. So the titles promise serious German engineering that comes in a form of acid and distorted bass.The sleeve sports a writing “Robotron”, known as a computer brand in the German Democratic Republic, and the soundRead More →
The year 2011 saw a group called Holy Ghost! publishing an album on DFA, but techno’s history books know another group with that name. When Tresor signed the duo in mid-1990s, Holy Ghost rose to awareness with the albums “The Mind Control of Candy Jones” and “Art Lukm Suite” plus with several EPsRead More →
Rating: 9/10 Railway, a symbol of motion, offers ultimate percussion experience as the rhythmic movement can be physically perceived on board. Chris Watson, a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, decided to use trains as instruments and traveled with his recording gear across Mexico to capture sounds of rails for an album releasedRead More →
Rating: 8/10 When at 60 degrees North there was no snow in January, “Cult Spectrum” seemed appropriate music for dark and bare landscapes of the moment. Having released a cassette on Digitalis two years ago, Nova Scotian Arms presents now somber compositions on their first LP for the label.Painted blackRead More →
Rating: 9/10 Transportation AAD is in charge for heavy cargo. So far I had associated Darkestral with dubstep and drum’n’bass, but Alex Green’s and Paul Laidlaw’s seismic debut goes to the extremes in bass dosage. A-side’s “Last Train To Lexington” booms and thunders like hell and tells it’s definitely notRead More →
Drexciya‘s much-anticipated compilation landed in the first position of the Juno chart in December – although it features only one unreleased track, the fact of having access to the back catalog of Detroit’s most prominent electro act deserves full respect. Italy’s Nuel abandoned droning techno for a while and releasedRead More →
“Sirius 23” is a release by decadent techno vagabonds, united under the banner of Spiral Tribe in the mid-1990’s. Seeing free techno parties as a constitutional right, the ST community travelled the lands to set up wild illegal parties and in the sidelines manged to release a number of records,Read More →