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 sees the innately talented and hard working South African artist and producer create three readily enticing […]
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 extending its possibilities a little more each time. This week saw them finally released their long […]
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 feeling that I get when I play these songs — there’s an honesty that’s conveyed. Some […]
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 […]
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 […]