LISTEN TO ADAM PORT’S LONG LOST ‘PLANET 9’
Last Friday saw Berlin DJ/Producer Adam Port release his new two track EP Planet 9 for Diynamic Music. The big bass chords and guitar work you hear in the thrilling title track belong to Lukas Kay and the track itself is actually some years old. It was recorded back when Port’s label Keinemusik was located […]
WE LONG FOR THE DELIGHTS OF SOME SPROUTS
Regensburg guitar pop outfit Some Sprouts have released a delightful new retro influenced video for their tropically flavoured new single. ‘She Longs For You’ which will feature on their forthcoming IMMT EP. It follows on from the Bavarian quintet’s debut Florescer released last year. IMMT will see release on the 19th October. Watch the Daniel […]
STEPHANIE SYKES TO DROP INTERFERENCE EP WITH A REMIX FROM BERLIN’S JANICE WHO IN TURN DROPS REMIX EP JANICE5
Techno producer Stephanie Sykes is set to drop her new three cut EP Interference on Animal Farm this Friday. XLR8 premiered the flip side track last week. Listen to the dark broken beat and electro infused ‘On The Other Side’ below. The release also includes a remix of the title track by the enigmatic and […]
KÖLN QUARTET C.A.R. RETURN TO THEIR JAZZ INSPIRED KOSMISCHE & MOTORIK ROOTS ON NEW ALBUM
Köln experimental quartet C.A.R. have released their second full length album Look Behind You. The title is telling for an instrumental band as the album sees them returning to their original ambient, jazz and komische/motorik roots heard on 2014’s Beyond The Zero. After briefly experimenting with pop and electronic styles last year on the covers […]
ADAM PORT DROPS FIRST KEINEMUSIK ORIGINALS OF 2018
We’ve heard little from the Keinemusik crew in the way of original music in 2018 and since the release of deep house trio’s debut album You Are Safe at the death of 2017, only a few tasty but intermittent remixes have surfaced on the label. Last Friday Adam Port finally ended the silence with the […]
RECORD REVIEW: SKEE MASK (GER) – COMPRO
Left field Munich techno producer Bryan Müller aka Skee Mask, recently unveiled his deeply outstanding new album Compro on Munich’s Ilian Tape. After the rhythmic and vocal intensity of and the kaleidoscopic exhibits found on last year’s EP’s ‘ISS002’ and ‘2012’ respectively, the Bavarian continues to not only explore the inner and outer dimensions of new […]
RECORD REVIEW: DJ KOZE (GER) – KNOCK KNOCK
Earlier this month abstract DJ/producer/artist and Hamburg native Stefan Kozalla aka DJ Koze, released his sprawling new album Knock Knock, an artistic journey that invokes a kaleidoscope of feelings and emotions. His hypnotic yet restless creations have a smidge of the familiar about them but if you don’t feel a certain affinity and sense of […]
ANDHIM & HÖGNI JOIN FORCES FOR NEW EP
Cologne DJ/Producers duo andhim, who earned a spot in our Top 100 tracks of 2017 with ‘Donner’, have just released a new EP Stay Close To Me, a classy collaboration with Icelandic singer songwriter Högni Egilsson (GusGus). The deep house duo of Simon Haehnel and Tobias Mueller employ an arpeggiated synth line that’s carefully rendered while […]
ANJA SCHNEIDER’S ‘PROSPERITY’ IS A POWERFUL TECHNO STATEMENT
Berlin DJ/Producer Anja Schneider releases her new two track EP, Prosperity today on her own Sous Music to follow up last year’s excellent Top 30 Albums of 2017 listed full length SoMe. She also gifted us our Number 2 track of 2017 with the title track from the Twisty EP. ‘Prosperity’ is a powerful techno […]
CASSY & ART ALFIE COMBINE FOR QUALITY NEW COLLAB., BONDEBEATS
“[The artists] must not be afraid to experiment, nor do what comes naturally to them. And above all, trust in themselves and their instincts.” Cassy’s Kwench Records. Berlin DJ/Producer Cassy has teamed up with Stockholm equivalent Art Alfie to gift us the so good it’s criminal new EP Bondebeats and third release through the former’s new […]