Back catalogue: Techno (All)

Review: Six dance tracks skillfully blending old-school vibes with contemporary sounds, spanning acid, breakbeat, electro and house, inviting listeners to dream of underground raves and enigmatic gatherings where ethereal battles against soulless algorithms unfold amid nocturnal dance. Highlights include Trabuco's 'Happy Spliff, a vibrant mix of New York house and early 90s-inspired techno, setting a nostalgic yet fresh tone. Trabuco's 'Signals' follows, delivering a spacey techno experience that feels both futuristic and retro. Yepecc's 'UFO Camp' seamlessly combines electro and acid for a sci-fi romp that transports listeners to otherworldly dimensions. Kevin Kendall's 'Volca Three' stands out with its rich analogue bass, adding depth and warmth to the compilation. The album closes with Victor Reyes' 'Inspired By Nature,' which offers a cool, bouncy finale that leaves a lasting impression. Overall, The Sciences of the Artificial is a refreshing take on retro styled techno and it is perfect for those seeking a blend of nostalgic and fun.

Review: Under The Radar present 'Coconut Rice', emanating forth from the old demo music vaults of Yagya, dating back 15 years to the summer of 2008. Having solicited the tracks straight from the horse's mouth, the label are more than proud to repackage the track alongside its two original remixes by the artist, the Q and Z variations, while also bunging in a special ambient Derridean dub Deconstruction by none other than Octo Industrie. Expect heavy immersings in texture, rainfall, chord stab and subnautical bass, but with Yagya's signature twist of extra fullness.

Review: Impressively inventive techno from Amsterdam's Yanamaste, who insists on us dancing while working in juddering vocal samples and rumbly low-end movements. Erring on the no-fluff - while still indulging some of the more experimental and lesser-heard production techniques of techno, such as rapidfire glitchings - opener 'Dance' makes a surreal dreamwork out of its shifty upfront lead vox, against which techy tics and kicks skitter across in a style reminiscent of precursors like Barnt or DJ Koze. 'All Night' shifts the vibe slightly, more into reverberative warehouse rave territory, whilst '8 Tone' fleshes out the long-decayed hi-hat, and 'Trojan gets increasingly broken and syncopated with things.

Review: It is five up for the Cimedirapax label who turn to great Italian artist Yu. These cuts are the result of experimentation and research designed to maximise the impact of his kick drums and basslines and they come accompanied by hypnotic and captivating sound designs. 'Alpha Isolary Song' opens up with a nimble rhythm and nice squelchy synth bass next to hooky melodies. After the raw energy of 'Tempestivity' comes the dark adn acid-tinged bass menace of 'Forever Young' while closer 'Sun Remix Track' is another nice analogue workout with inventive melodies origin the character over the driving rhythms.

Review: Fantastically uplifting trance fusions from Pescara's Yu, and up-and-comer with an evidently keen ear for the sublimer conclusions inferable from the dancefloor. Debuting for Discarded Gems, a Berlin-based label whose name takes after the common musical vernacular term that refers to lost tracks as 'gems', you can be sure that this riveting new release is at once subtly but drastically boundary-pushing, seeing value not only in the pearls, tanzanites and garnets of the world, but also the unpolished quartzes and agates. Working backwards (why not?), 'Tropical LED' brings electrance and Italo flavours to a techno form, as speak n' spell samples scuttle across the toppers; then there's the raunchier, industrial rock-intoned 'Robotik Hunter' and the unabashedly trancey breaks cut 'Another Destination', which comes second only to the cascading acid trance roller that is 'Beautiful Moment'. They all are, really.