New in Techno
Hit our New Techno Playlist at any time here and you’re guaranteed to hear 30 of the best newly released tracks the genre has to offer. Detroit, Minimal, Dub, Acid, Hard, Industrial & Experimental. All tracks removed to make way for new can be accessed here in the Techno edition of our Tracks of 2020 […]
AB UNO In Command With Regressive Repetition
A couple of months back Berlin via Rome experimental duo Eugenio Acrartep and Roberto di Ciaccio aka AB UNO released their commanding and cerebral EP Regressive Repetition. Their first release since a prolific 2017, it contains four diverse offerings which, while still traversing the dark spaces of the musical mind, serve as a definitive departure […]
Record Review: Oma Nata (POR) – Everything (Discotexas)
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, its a cohesive and confident affair and an impressive follow up to his brief yet adventurously […]
Record Review: Elias (Ger) – Turning Point EP (Hayes Collective)
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. It’s a feat achieved through the German’s ability to not only establish and maintain the appropriate […]
FRED P RETURNS AS BLACK JAZZ CONSORTIUM
Photo: Marie Stagatt “Can you listen to this piece of music over and over and not get tired of it? Can you come back to it five or even ten years from now, and will it still be fresh? Will it still excite you? Will it still inspire you? I know the music I love […]
STROBOSCOPIC ARTEFACTS CELEBRATES TEN YEARS WITH COMPILATION AND TOUR
“With this new album, remix EP and tour, now is the moment for Stroboscopic Artefacts to look fondly at its past while drawing breath, reenergised, and hinting at new chapters.” Berlin based experimental techno label Stroboscopic Artefacts is set to celebrate its tenth year with a mouth watering 13 track compilation entitled X — Ten […]
MISCHA BLANOS SHARES THE CANDID ‘PILLOW TALK’
Berlin based Romanian pianist, composer and producer Mischa Blanos has released the spare and searching ‘Pillow Talk’, from his forthcoming album Indoors. It follows on from the crowded and heightened drama of ‘Am Wired’, a rhythmic representation of technology’s growing tendency to produce involved detachment. When taken together as pieces of a cohesive whole, both […]
KINDISCH STORIES BY ART OF LIFE
Late last month Berlin deep house & techno label Kindisch the sub label of Get Physical released the latest instalment of their compilation series called Kindisch Stories. Odessa producer Oleg Makovskiy and Cheboksary equivalent Paul Twins aka Moscow based Art of Life were charged with curating the narrative and the result, in addition to the […]
FLOATING SPECTRUM SHARES “INNER ISLAND” FROM FORTHCOMING DEBUT
After sharing the opening track ‘The early green outburst’ last month from her soon to be released debut album A Point Between, Berlin based Taiwanese electronic composer and audiologist Mei-Fang Liau aka Floating Spectrum today shared another. The inexorable tension and gradually unfolding turmoil that characterises ‘Inner Island’ plainly builds upon the opener, illustrative of […]
NINA KRAVIZ DROPS ANOTHER LEFT FIELD WINNER
Russian Techno DJ/Producer Nina Kraviz has released a new superbly left field three tracker странно странно необъятно / Stranno Stranno Neobjatno / Strange Strange Immensely on her own label трип (Trip). It’s another fuck you to anyone who thinks that the popularity she’s gained is going to compromise her art or music into sounding safe […]