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 […]
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 and dubby Vulvasion, the superlative EP marks back to back releases on Monkey Safari’s and Karl […]
NEW & NOTABLE: INTERNATIONAL ANYTHING (GER) – RUNNING IN THE UNDERWOOD
Markus Nikolai and Ole Schulte’s International Anything have released their new three track EP Running In The Underwood on Cocoon Recordings. Boasting two stunning originals and a remix of the title track by Michael Mayer, it follows up their debut EP from earlier this year Like The Girl released on Nikolai’s Perlon imprint.. The beguiling […]
SIMPLY SPELLBINDING SINGLE FROM MOVE D’S FORTHCOMING LP
Two weeks back veteran electronic mastermind David Moufang aka Move D announced the impending release through Will Saul’s Aus Music of a new full length album Building Bridges. While its title track has been doing the rounds in clubs over the last six months or so ‘Dots’, a sublime and spellbinding piece of minimal house, […]
COEO REWORK JAPANESE CITY POP FOR TONIC EDITS SERIES
Munich based House duo Florian Vietz & Andreas Höpfl aka Coeo have just released the latest edition of Toy Tonic’s Tonic Edits series. For volume six they chose to explore their passion for city pop, Japan’s unique and urban interpretation of American disco during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Rekindling their love of the […]
NEW & NOTABLE: RAMPA (GER) – THEY WILL EP
Berlin DJ/Producer and Keinemusik founder Rampa, who took out our track of the year in 2016 with ‘Necessity’, his stellar contribution to the Innervisions compilation Secret Weapons Pt. 8, returns to the label for his new EP, They Will. It’s his first release on the Dixon and Ame owned imprint since 2017’s excellent Hall Of […]
NEW & NOTABLE: YENI (GER) – FLINKE FINGER EP
After releasing her new EP Flinke Finger digitally in late February, Leipzig born and Zurich based Techno DJ/Producer YENI, has now fully unleashed it to streaming services. The three tracker boasts two impressive originals and a remix by fellow German Alex Bau. In keeping with the plethora of different approaches and sounds in techno at present, […]
NEW & NOTABLE: DAVE SIMON (GER) – THRIMMING
First up in our new section New and Notable* is Frankfurt techno DJ/Producer David Bausenwein aka Dave Simon who fully released his new five track Thrimming EP last week via long standing Rotterdam imprint Planet Rhythm. Listen to the sweeping synths, subtle industrial bleeds and relentless rhythmic intensity of the title track below as well […]
STELLAR DEBUT EP FROM SOFIA KOURTESIS
We first laid ears on the superlative talents of emerging electronic producer Sofia Kourtesis through her track ‘WinWin San’ a standout from the superb Studio Barnhus compilation Volym 1 of last year. Now the Peruvian born Berlin based Kourtesis releases her ultra accomplished four track self titled debut left field house EP, also for Studio […]
LISTEN TO ‘SHE SAYS’, THE RESPLENDENT TITLE TRACK FROM THE NEW EP BY GURR
Berlin based pop/rock duo Laura Lee and Andreya Casablanca aka Gurr, have announced their forthcoming release from their new EP She Says set down for April 5. The EP was recorded entirely in analog and is quite a production jump from their debut album In My Head. The deliberative jangle pop of the title track is its […]