Indie30 Reviews

Record Review: Zito Mowa (RSA) – O44 EP (Open Sound)

Smooth. Refined. Complex. The New EP From Zito Mowa Released earlier this month digitally and for streaming last Friday, Zito Mowa‘s new deep house EP for Open Sound is a work of both smooth refinement and compositional complexity. It...

Record Review: Beatrice Dillon (ENG) – Workaround (PAN)

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10 Feb 2020
Electronic, Experimental, Minimal, New Music, Reviews, Techno
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They say that time flies when your having fun. Well, how fast can 41 minutes go? Give the amazingly satisfying Workaround, the new album by London experimental electronic artist and producer Beatrice Dillon a spin and find out. Thrilling...

Record Review: Newks (ENG) – Credence EP (Urban Kickz Recordings)

Last week Plymouth based techno producer Matt Holberton aka Newks released his new EP Credence, a work of both smouldering restraint and controlled intensity. It’s arguably his most functionally focused and disciplined in form since his return to the...

Record Review: Oma Nata (POR) – Everything (Discotexas)

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22 Jan 2020
Deep House, Electronic, Experimental, Minimal, New Music, Reviews
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Enigmatic Portuguese electronic producer Oma Nata moves into minimal and downtempo jazz infused deep house territory on Everything, his stylish and finely calibrated new three track EP for Lisbon label Discotexas. With its depth of gravity and ready atmosphere,...

Record Review: Elias (Ger) – Turning Point EP (Hayes Collective)

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17 Jan 2020
Deep Tech, Dub Techno, Minimal, New Music, Reviews, Techno
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Berlin based techno producer Elias recently released his new extended player Turning Point via Lisbon’s Hayes Collective. It boasts six originals of purposeful dub infused techno that is, and at times simultaneously, compact and direct and expansive and nuanced....

Record Review: Rick Wade (USA) – In Mah Mind EP (Shall Not Fade)

Detroit Deep House legend Rick Wade has just released what is according to Discogs his 90th short version release as he returns to London imprint Shall Not Fade. Titled In Mah Mind, all three cuts are indicative of a...

Record Review: Rrose (USA) – Hymn To Moisture

After almost a decade and across 19 explorative EP’s and 3 collaborative albums focused on composition, American experimental electronic producer Seth Horvitz aka Rrose have consistently pushed, poked and prodded at techno’s boundary questioning its self imposed limits and...

RECORD REVIEW: CENTERPOINT (AUS) – PERSISTENCE EP

Earlier this month Adelaide techno producer Vince Calabro aka Centerpoint released his debut standalone EP, the aptly titled Persistence. Out through London underground imprint Aesir. it offers up three fascinating and definitive cuts of hard and penetrative modular driven...

RECORD REVIEW: REBOOT (GER) – RENZO EP

After a busy 2018 that produced three EP’s and an album, Frankfurt House DJ/Producer Frank Heinrich aka Reboot has just released his first material of 2019 in the form of the explorative and focused Renzo. Coming after the deep...

RECORD REVIEW: JASON JAMES (USA) – SEEMS LIKE TEARS AGO

“I had people who were wanting me to get rid of the [pedal] steel, get rid of the fiddle. My feeling is, ‘Screw it, I’m just gonna do what I want to.’ It’s being honest to yourself. It’s a...

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