Elypsia, an embassy of Detroit sound reborn Elypsia Records emerged in the second half of the nineties, as an European home for several Detroit artists – Claude Young, Dark Comedy (Kenny Larkin), D-Knox, to name a few. That time, Motor City’s own labels under the umbrella of Submerge distribution wereRead More →
Shams Dinn – شمس دين by Smiling C Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Rush Hour (NL) Buy vinyl from Discogs Maghreb funk from a sufisticated mind On the album photo, Shams Dinn may look like another raï or pop singer from Northern Africa, only there isRead More →
Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Clone (NL) Buy vinyl from HHV (DE) Straight outta La Haya When a maxi single with three versions of fat bass and breaks touches down, it feels like time travel to the eighties, to Compton and Macola Records, to theRead More →
‘This is our future’, told DJ Roach to the world when launched Nuestro Futuro, a new Detroit label distributed by Submerge. The debut turned out a good one and now, before the label’s next release, it is time for a late but vital addendum to the year 2013. The EP cannot have any better startRead More →
It was only a matter of time when Underground Resistance would speak out about Motor City’s financial and social hardship that has found so much negative press lately. Now the task has been accomplished by an artist called Alone whose real identity is unknown. Although the UR camp has beenRead More →
The year 2013 saw the birth of the Estonian label Frotee Records, in search of the Balearic beat of the Baltics and doing it with vinyl pressings of long-lost compositions.The label debuted with an EP by a band called Tornaado, thus going back to the year 1979 when Lada, the SovietRead More →
Some interesting finds from a box of vinyl stowed between kitchenware and 1990s jumpers in a second hand outlet. Because of limited time for browsing I just grabbed seven items and now I’m pretty happy with the outcome. Really no techno but the first one, “Supertrax Vol. 1” from 1983, featuresRead More →
Andrew Morgan’s Peoples Potential Unlimited introduces another hidden talent. Max E. Monroe, the man behind The Trash Company, started composing in 1970’s and is only now preparing his first album for Steady Sounds. Before that, a single works as an appetizer. The A-side of the wide-hole seven-inch suggests to wearRead More →
Peoples Potential Unlimited, a label from Washington DC, is on a mission to excavate forgotten treasures of funk and soul. It was only recently when Andrew Morgan’s label issued a seven-inch by Uku Kuut, bringing the artist’s past not only to the consciousness of native Estonian audience, but also attractingRead More →
Rating: 7/10 Catalog number 52 is my first Hyperdub and my first Hype Williams. The label that introduced Burial might be searching for new directions as I can’t find any dubstep here. The question is, what genres does the record represent as in many aspects “Kelly Price …” is moreRead More →