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Techno Recommendations June 2013

Juno Recommends Techno

Juno Recommends Techno

Techno Recommendations June 2013
4 Jun 2013
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Cat: WO 13K. Rel: 13 May 13
 
Techno
Kixclap Chord Nhats
Dr Crunch
Spoof
Flemmenup
Crushed
Finnapop
Grungy Gloops
Measure2Measure
Review: ** REPRESS CREW ** Wild Oats don dada Kyle Hall steps up with a long awaited debut album under the KMFH moniker - expect rough, raw machine funk Detroit style across two slabs of wax on The Boat Party. Emerging at the age of 17 on FXHE, Hall has long been referred to as a wunderkind but this LP should really establish him as a fully fledged player in the pantheon of current Motor City producers. From the off, this eight track set feels like Hall recorded straight to tape, with his noted talent for incessant drum machine work and glistening melodics somehow making their presence felt amongst the thick, mulchy, saturated finish that clogs up the channels. Seemingly not occupied with any sort of conceptual ambitions beyond the economic statements of the cover art and title, Hall is left to work through his full range of devastating dancefloor manoeuvres with a few surprises along the way - the high octane ghetto tech "Finnapop" will surprise many. "Detroit Hustles Harder" remember!
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Cat: LTNC 002. Rel: 13 May 13
 
Techno
Press Play
Mind Set
Attitude
Review: Although Joey Anderson's profile has been on the rise since appearances on DJ Qu's Strength Music and his own Inimeg Recordings, it was his appearance on Levon Vincent's Fabric 63 that seemed to herald his arrival, with the sublime "Earth Calls" showcasing his deceptively complex take on deep house to the world. This new EP on Latency is a similarly trippy journey down his wormhole; "Press Play" combines disembodied vocals and improvised keys with his trademark looping background textures, slowly opening themselves out into something warm and enveloping. "Mind Set" takes a similar approach, but with an even sparser choice of tools, its detuned vocals mingling with tribal rhythms and a subtle mix of pads and organs; "Attitude" finishes with a rattling combination of raw percussive textures while climaxes with a warm but complex embrace of chords. This guy is one of the most interesting deep house producers in the game right now - don't sleep!
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Cat: SFTDX 001. Rel: 13 May 13
 
Techno
Untitled 1
Untitled 2
Untitled 3
Untitled 4
Review: Although Michigan is well inland from the North Atlantic Ocean, it doesn't mean Detroit can't make techno for the high seas or uncharted waters. Terrence Dixon's Lost At Sea 12" for the Surface label founded by Nick Dunton and the late Richard Polson sees four tracks of "Untitled" Detroit techno traverse through a sonic field of Joey Anderson and DJ Qu house drums, while saw-wavey Drexciyan qualities and Jeff Mills techno loops also circulate the EP. A deep and heady 12" of U-boat rhythmics for the techno underground.
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4
Brother G - "Two Nights High"
Alveol - "123"
Shine Grooves - "Pure Reason"
Hvl - "Polyfour"
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5
Cat: SECT 16. Rel: 03 Jun 13
 
Techno
Linear Progression
Up For Lost
Tears (Skirt mix)
Shattered Dreams
Review: Autoreply boss Dicken Lean aka OCH returns to Sect, a UK label waddling in the dubbier end of techno. OCH first appeared on Sect in 2011 when the label released It's All For You, compilation, an extensive selection of deeper techno cuts from artists like Jeroen Search, Jolka, AnD and Fanon Flowers. OCH's track "Tears" made the cut, which reappears on his latest Surveillance Network missive, only having undergone a murky Skirt remix. "Linear Progression" sees OCH's love of tribal percussion thrown in among resonators and reverb, while "Up For Lost" features unusually suitable bongo drumming pitched against filtered saw waves that sweep across the tracks face. "Shattered Dreams" closes the EP with something Disney sounding, but given the cloudy Actress treatment.

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6
Cat: AMP 12002. Rel: 20 May 13
 
Techno
The Long Walk
The Other World
Review: Last seen going on a Dawn Walk for the Audio Parallax label, Preston's finest exponent of pitched down house hypnosis Cottam continues a busy 2013 with The Long Walk 12" for the lesser spotted South Coast based Ample Art Recordings. There's no real deviation from the Cottam template on the title track, as ever it's the way the becapped producer teases out the oozing underbelly of acid textures and orchestral swoops over an extended period so that you don't feel the full weight until they are in full flight and smack you square in the face. Flip over and Cottam changes it up with the Afrobeat blessed jam "The Other World" which the mode adventurous DJs out there will find a joy to spin at +8.
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7
Cat: PTL 001. Rel: 13 May 13
 
Techno
A Is For Acid (Perc redux)
A Is For Acid (Perc Mod mix)
A Is For Acid (MPIA3 Definition)
Review: Perc Trax Ltd is a sub-division of Perc Trax which will focus on collaborations, reissues and one-off specials. Last year the climbing melodies and peaking acidics of Mat t Whitehead's "A Is For Acid" became a London underground hit, championed by Perc and Truss, aka MPIA3, with Blawan also unleashing it in a Boiler Room set. Whitehead's original mix does not appear on this inaugural Perc Trax Ltd release, but there are no less than two Perc reworks - one of which should come with a warp drive warning attached - and a slamming cover version made by MPIA3 using none of the track's original samples.
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Cat: DEVELOPER 004. Rel: 06 May 13
 
Techno
Moments Of Clarity
Ursae Majoris
Reaching
Run For The Dark
The Galaxian
Review: If there is one producer to make punishing and dub-tinged techno for the club, it's Developer. The fourth release on his Archive sub-label to Modularz is a five-track EP of rock hard, but spatial sounding techno, which starts with the pounding and Jonas Kopp-like runaround of "Moments Of Clarity". Sharing the A-side is a settled and slightly trippy "Ursae Majoris". Combine the styles of DVS1 and Markus Suckut with Developer and you have the track "Reaching", while Mike Dehnert techno qualities shine through in "Run For The Dark". The final track of Archive 4 is "The Galaxian", which hovers above a drop that never comes, nestling into a dark and treacherous groove instead.
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Cat: MEAN 023. Rel: 03 Jun 13
 
Techno
So It Goes
Tralfamadore
Saturation
Neap
Mina
Hunt Or Herd?
Review: Analogue Mapping sees Meanwhile founder Robert Lawrence return to production duties as Bovill in requisite fashion after a four year absence. In this time Lawrence has focused on establishing the London label as a worthy outlet for the deeper echelons of techno with material from Murmur, Sven Weismann, Bvdub and Conforce. Spread luxuriously across two slabs of vinyl, the six tracks allow Bovill to make room for soothing, dubby moments that ease you in as well as productions characterised by their driving drum and chord arrangements. See the spine tingling opener "So It Goes" for evidence of the former whilst "Neap" and "Hunt Or Herd?" provide perfect examples of the latter.

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10
Cat: MM 167. Rel: 27 May 13
 
Techno
Black Technician (original mix)
Black Technician (UR Mad Mike remix)
Black Technician (DirtTech UR remix)
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Cat: BLKN 001. Rel: 13 May 13
 
Techno
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Review: Blacknecks 001 is yet another anonymous hand-stamped techno 12" in a market becoming increasingly saturated with them, but on the strength of this release it could well be that the Blacknecks operation sticks out amongst the like of MPIA3 and AnD. "Track 1" comes on like Daft Punk's "Rollin' and Scratchin" on steroids, coupling a solid 4/4 pulse with filthy, distorted bass, while "Track 2" offers some similarly distorted kicks and mechanical robo sounds. "Track 3" throws disembodied, bitcrushed voices into the mix, leaving "Track 4" to finish in a flurry of phased kicks and squealing analogue noise.
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12
Cat: MUHK 002. Rel: 27 May 13
 
Techno
Fall (feat Dora Gray)
Kanuuna
Agrikola
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13
Cat: FOFVIN 5. Rel: 06 May 13
 
Techno
Koshima
Waka
Rendag Dub
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14
Cat: RS 1307. Rel: 13 May 13
 
Techno
Colonized
Colonized (Perc Metal mix)
Cloned
Review: The enigmatic Paula Temple returns to techno with a vengeance, supplying R&S with the surprising (and quite shameful) first release from a female artist! Colonized sees the hark back to their techno roots by supplying the seminal imprint with some with hard hitting industrial-edged techno in the manner of recent releases from MPIA3 and Blawan. Temple however is not by any means a new name, with her first release coming via Chris McCormack's Materials label in 2002, receiving rapacious support from Claude Young, Dave Clark and Jeff Mills whilst she has also released under the Fragile X and Jaguar Woman names. The Colonized EP sees Temple move away from the faster and melodic stylings of her previous work, and delivering two slabs of brutal industrialism instead. Though there's a bullish brutality present, Temple does show moments of reflection and serenity, particularly in the title track, which Perc reworks with gravelly rhythmic mechanics and metallic textures.
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15
Cat: DC 109. Rel: 06 May 13
 
Techno
Vertigo
Inversion
Earth
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Cat: TRESOR 261. Rel: 06 May 13
 
Techno
Emerald
Emerald (reprise)
Unseen Force
Review: French techno producer Marcelus doesn't muck around when it comes to the labels he works with. His debut EP landed on DJ Deep's Deeply Rooted House in 2010, with other releases for Tresor, Repitch Recordings and his own Singular label soon followed. Carrying on from the Super Strength EP, Emerald is Marcelus' second offering for the seminal Berlin techno label. Marcelus kick starts Tresor's 261st release with a hi-hat consistent title track which wanders through the dubby echelons of pads, filtered ambience and groovy low end. On the flip is a quirky and bass-plodding reprise of "Emerald", which removes the original's filters, resulting in a correlating production which manages to sound distinctly different. "Unseen Force" is a production which lingers somewhere between the medial zone of deep house and the type of techno played to give Berghain's dancefloor a rest from the slamming sonics it's usually associated with.
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Cat: TABR 019. Rel: 13 May 13
 
Techno
Terminal Code
Flight Control
Depressurization
Blue World Below
Review: Dutch producer Samuel Van Dijk continues his aviation themed dissections of subaqueous electro with Flight Control, a superlative debut for the ever excellent Tabernacle imprint. Those who indulged in International Airlines, Van Dijk's debut album for Lunar Disko last year will find much to admire across the four tracks here; lead track "Terminal Code" sets the tone, snapping with a degree of rhythmic viciousness that's straight out of the Gerald Donald school of thought. The title track adopts a more optimistic, star gazing approach with the loose, blurry chords allowed to ripple delicately over the stripped back drums. Face down, "Depressurization" quite brilliantly descends into murky nearsilence at one point whilst "Blue World Below" is perhaps the best example of Van Dijk's capacity for razor sharp percussion and deep set dubbiness.
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out of stock $9.53
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Cat: VDR 003. Rel: 20 May 13
 
Techno
Unstable Phenomenon
Entropy Ends
Unstable Phenomenon (Joey Anderson remix)
Unstable Phenomenon (Voodoo Down remix)
Review: Following a pair of various artists EPs featuring the likes of STL, Anton Zap and N'conduit last year, the nascent Voodoo Down label from New York present their first full artist EP from Bristol house producer October. His straight up, yet ever so slightly off kilter take on house makes him an ideal candidate for the label, with "Unstable Phenomenon" combining dubby yet euphoric chords, robust bass and intriguingly sequenced percussion; "Entropy Ends" is even more interesting, locking its looping piano half-uttered vocals samples and Korg M1 stabs into a strange kind of feedback loop. On the flip, the title track is remixed to fine effect by Joey Anderson, who reworks it into a deep, atmospheric jam filled with distant ripples of melody, while Voodoo Down turns in a more rolling, tribal - yet still decidedly abstract - version of "Entropy Ends".
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out of stock $13.53
19
Cat: WLTD 017. Rel: 09 Apr 12
 
Techno
Inked Jester
Somebody Should Have Told You
Inked Jester (Echologist dub)
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20
Cat: OTON 66. Rel: 27 May 13
 
Techno
D & N's
We Will
Filthy
Review: Ostgut Ton keep their fires of 2013 well stoked with a new EP from Detroit luminary Edinburgh's most illustrious techno import Rolando who first appeared on the famed German imprint and nightclub with the rare white label 12? 5 To 8 released in late 2010. The D & N's EP marks another release in what's becoming an increasingly impressive year for Ostgut Ton, with a Function LP, Panorama Bar mix from Steffi and numerous 12"s already released. Rolando brings the heat across three tracks that are primed with the sinister funk Detroit-inspired drum sequences tailored made for the residential DJ sets of Herr Dettmann and Fengler.
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out of stock $9.01
21
Compound Statement
Transmutation
Comprehend (Jonas Kopp remix)
Magnitude
Review: Resurfacing earlier this year with the Time & Perception 12", Dutch pair Abstract Division further refined their endeavours to align their homeland with Germany when it comes to the harder end of the techno spectrum, throwing in a killer Shifted remix to boot. Part two of the Time & Perception series now arrives and like that inaugural plate it sees Paul Boex and Dave Miller pair three of their increasingly impressive original productions with a well chosen high profile remixer (Jonas Kopp) Abstract Division's capacity for thrusting techno sculpted from monolithic, foundation bothering rhythmics is apparent from the off and is executed most confidently on the alien oscillations of "Transmutations".
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out of stock $7.96
22
Cat: KOMISCH 014. Rel: 13 May 13
 
Techno
Jain
Twwpk
Compere
Review: Komisch resurface in style with some singular cuts from the mysterious dancefloor cleanser Bleaching Agent. Coming to the fore with a pair of excellent releases for Avian offshoot Mira, Bleaching Agent further displays the diversity of his production palette with the Contour Grip 12"; lead cut "Jain" could almost be mistaken for a Borft release with a ferocious low end practically growling it's dominance over a jittery concoction of rhythmic elements. By way of contrast "Compere" is almost serene in execution, as hazed out chords fall perfectly in line with the sludgy groove and skipping drum hits. 'Twwpk' is perhaps the most illuminating track here, strangely calling to mind a darker, stripped down take on UK Funky as played by Maurice Fulton's Syclops project.
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23
Cat: AVN 010. Rel: 13 May 13
 
Techno
Hate 2/6
Black & Blue (For You)
Review: Expanding on the two part approach of Shifted's The Cold Light package, A Vision Of Love's Lessons In Hate will be released as a series of self styled "S & M techno tools", with the first part representing the tenth Avian transmission since it surfaced in 2011. Supposedly a London-based archivist and techno profligate, A Vision Of Love creates two tracks of unguarded emotion, with distant industrial booms and harsh MPIA3-style beats moving through a savage miscellany of equalised electronics. Like Avian's two previous releases, Lessons In Hate comes packaged in a stickered jacket with double-sided postcard insert.
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24
Cat: INNER 005. Rel: 27 May 13
 
Techno
Truss - "Buckholt"
AnD - "Not Sheep"
Ascion - "Narrow Alley"
Sunil Sharpe - "Sacred Granid"
Review: Run by Tom Dicicco and Mancunian pair AnD, Inner Surface Music has maintained a steady rate of output since it was established in 2011. It's the first release (and first ever various artist EP) for the label this year and unsurprisingly raw and punishing techno is the order of the day. AnD line up alongside Truss, Sunil Sharpe and Italian producer Ascion, with the latter's "Narrow Alley" a tubular, twisted and repitched industrial version of Jeff Mills' "The Bells". "Buck Holt" is the first showing from Truss in 2013 after recently bringing an end to his MPIA3 alias, while the inclusion of Earwiggle Records boss Sunil Sharpe sees the Dublin-based techno veteran step further into the limelight with his Blawan-Karenn sounding "Sacred Granite". Tough British techno.
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25
Cat: LIES 022. Rel: 06 May 13
 
Techno
Hidden Cities
High Heel Sleaze
Judge By Machine
Review: Emerging On L.I.E.S. last year with his own individual take on hardware-based house music, Svengalisghost's Mind Control EP offered a unique take on the jacking Chicago framework. Supposedly an advocate of what he calls the "Anti-Beat", the producer uses his hardware to reconstruct what he's learned from the original pioneers of house and "retransmits the sounds which lie somewhere in the realm of unhinged synth punk or industrial forward-thinking beat electronics." The results on the Vicious Circle EP are even bigger in scale than his debut; "Hidden Cities" is pure warehouse techno, combining stern, floor shaking kicks and psychedelic acid tendrils, while "High Heel Sleaze" is a similarly gnarled track, whose mechanical rhythms are caught up in a maelstrom of analogue texture; "Judged By Machine" closes with distorted acid lines playing off against a ghostly, indistinct vocal trapped inside the melee. Another killer from L.I.E.S. - don't sleep.
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out of stock $8.76
26
Disinformation (Xhin remix)
Black Propaganda (Perc remix)
Disinformation (Orphx remix)
Review: A second round of remixes from Oscar Mulero's Black Propaganda LP of last year which prove to be as unrelenting as the triplet from Shifted, Developer and Lucy that Warm Up brandished on the inaugural 12" a few months ago. Both Xhin and Orphx take on "Disinformation" and whilst Developer's previous take on the track evened out some of the broken kink's of Mulero's original acid soaked production, these new reworks take that rhythmic element as their base and veer off in intense new directions. Sandwiched inbetween, Perc turns in an absolutely frightening remix of "Black Propaganda" implementing some rough industrial textures that seem to rabidly attack the brutalised breakbeat pattern.
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out of stock $8.22
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Cat: LOVE 086. Rel: 06 May 13
 
Techno
Grows Without Bound
Primitive Equations
Review: Demdike Stare inaugurated the Testpressing series on Modern Love last month as a means of showcasing the duo's most "untamed" creations, though "unhinged" would probably be closer to the mark". Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty return here with a second entry which proves to be equally good. "Grows Without Bound" combines what sounds like a supercharged organ with rumbling sub bass and scratchy, stumbling beats in the distance, but it's "Primitive Equation" that offers the standout track. Once again revisiting the jungle template present on the last Testpressing record, the duo construct something that could be mistaken for a track from 2562 or T++ and probably sounds devastating rumbling out of the bass bins.
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out of stock $12.20
28
Cat: 5WALL 003. Rel: 13 May 13
 
Techno
Drone Function
Tropical Fuck
Phantom Female
T-AO-192
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