FOREST DRIVE WEST DROPS SUMPTUOUS APPARITIONS
London producer Forest Drive West has quickly followed up the four track Hood 004 EP he released on Neighbourhood Records last month with his superb debut album Apparitions for Bristol’s Livity Sound. It’s a sumptuous feast of quality electronic music that takes in multiple genres and sub genres that cut across both Techno and Club […]
NEW INDEPENDENT & UNDERGROUND TECHNO – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST ON SPOTIFY
PLAYLIST UPDATE OCTOBER 8: There goes the neighbourhood. The whole New Independent & Underground Techno Spotify Playlist has undergone a complete overhaul since our last written update on September 7 with 30 brand new tracks released to streaming services – with only three featuring women most annoyingly (yep, its still a dickfest (but a good dickfest) […]
RECORD REVIEW: MOHLAO (NET) – KONSTRUKT 009
Prolific Helsinki based Dutch artist and producer Samuel van Dijk released a new EP Friday under his techno trading moniker Mohlao for Dutch imprint Konstrukt. On it he seeks out the tangible and seeks to plant his feet back on terra firma having immersed himself and the listener in everything below and above ground on the cannily […]
NEW INDEPENDENT & UNDERGROUND TECHNO – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST UPDATE FEAT. NEEL & PRIMAL CODE
PLAYLIST UPDATE SEPTEMBER 9: Darkness abounds briefly lightened up front in this special mini-update to mark two special releases, one we reviewed today here and the other is our current album of the week. The superlative new EP Transition by Rome Techno Producer/Sound Engineer Neel (Giuseppe Tilleci) was released Friday on Token and the transportive debut […]
NEW INDEPENDENT & UNDERGROUND TECHNO – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST UPDATE
PLAYLIST UPDATE SEPTEMBER 3: A huge turnover in our Techno chart playlist since the middle of August sees no fewer than 20 new tracks added. We begin with some hard left field business from Rotterdam’s Berg Jaãr. ‘Od’ is from his fresh Planet Rhythm released Silo EP. Following Jaãr are mysterious Swedish drone and noise experimentalists SHXCXCHCXSH with […]
NEW INDEPENDENT & UNDERGROUND TECHNO – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST. WHERE ARE THE WOMEN PRODUCERS?
PLAYLIST UPDATE AUGUST 20: Today saw Spanish producer NØLAH release her new percussion rich EP Ansuz/Dagaz. The melodic techno cut from the record is the straight lined ‘Anzus’ while we’ve included the more groove and house oriented ‘Dagaz’ in the House Playlist here. PLAYLIST UPDATE AUGUST 18: Before we kick off with the Techno update, […]
NEW INDEPENDENT & UNDERGROUND TECHNO – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST; POLES KLAUDIA GAWLASS AND CONCEPT OF THRILL LEAD THE NEW ADDITIONS WITH HELENA HAUFF, HEARTLESS, SERENA BUTLER, AETHER, KEN ISHII & ALBERTO RUIZ, DAX J,WEBBHA & MORE
PLAYLIST UPDATE AUGUST 3: This playlist update begins with a Polish one-two. First up is Klaudia Gawlas with the sparse yet immense ‘Manifest’, the title track from her new EP which is out this week on Blackrod. Also out this week is the Unbroken EP (Natch Records/Elements) from Warsaw producer Pawel Zawadzki aka Concept of Thrill. We’ve featured ‘Struktura’ in the list […]
PRIMAL CODE TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM ON HYPNUS
Italian ambient techno duo Davide Perrone & Gabriele Giuggioli aka Primal Code, are set to release their debut album La Via Della Seta (The Silk Road) on Hypnus late August. It’s their second release for the Swedish label (Luigi Tozzi, BLNDR, Feral, Skymn) on which they released their debut EP Ēteru last year and comes on the […]
NEW INDEPENDENT & UNDERGROUND TECHNO – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST ON SPOTIFY (UPDATED JULY 9)
NEW TRACKS Echologist (RSA/USA) – Dispatch (Mord) South African born and New York based producer Brendan Moeller buries the recurring synth motif deep inside an enveloping multi speed sound vortex on the excellent ‘Dispatch’, the centrepiece of ‘his new EP under his Echologist for Mord, In Transit. SØS Gunver Ryberg (DEN) – Layazak (Noise Manifesto) Last week […]
NEW INDEPENDENT & UNDERGROUND TECHNO – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST (UPDATED JUNE 1)
The first of the two stand out cuts we’ve added to lead off our Techno playlist today is the part brooding part beaming ‘Light Falls’ from Solid Void (SK_Eleven), the new 4 track EP from Manchester born and Berlin based producer Sam Coates aka Setaoc Mass. The other is Pole Group’s Selección Natural, the new […]