Techno News

First release from a new series of records by Joy Orbison and Boddika.

5th Giegling Staub Series !!

Agents Of Woe's Jackson Lee drops this dubby techno 4-tracker w/Memphian, Ben Jenkins. 4 different quadrants in the techno & dub spheres rooted in the pillars of Basic Channel & Deep Chord as well as Speedy J & the Surgeon. 250 CV.

Peter Van Hoesen's last solo output on Time To Express dates back from March 2010 with his seminal Entropic City album. After a string of remixes and collaborations Peter provides his own label with a new solo EP. The Transitional State EP presents four brand new tracks, each distinctly different from what has come before. Available on 500 vinyl copies.

Giegling records opens 2012 with a release on their Staub sub label delivering some amazing adavanced techno tracks that ar extremly well programmed. Exciting tracks that roll somewhere between the classic berlin dusty and dubby techno sound and a deeper poetical industrial vibe. Recommended!

US native and Techno newcomer 785 blasts onto the scene with a stellar debut 12". Kansas native 785 debuts with his first 12" ever on Jerome Sydenham's Apotek records.

June Miller probably the most diverse and unpredicatable duo in drum and bass, step up with their debut EP. 'Give up the ghost' takes you on a mysterious musical journey combining their trademark beautifully organic sounds crafted from 140 to 170 beats per minute

***early support from Richie Hawtin, John Selway, Tom Hades, Clemens Neufeld, Dubfire, Stephane Signore , Axel Bartsch,
Concrete Djz, Roland M. Dill, and many moore...***

Two amazing remixes from Secret Cinema and Tiger Stripes are featured on the second part of "SLS" "Broken Floors" remixes,out soon - ***Vinyl Only on PRAXXIZ***
The original track was already quite something in itself. Secret Cinema's reinterpretation of SLS' "Broken Squares" takes us well and truly down the funky techno road, deftly retaining the glitchy flavour of the original, whilst adding a touch of that old school feeling and successfully delivering a peaktime bomb thats equally at home in either a techno or a tech-house set ! Witness some serious progression, a wickedly wobbling bass and some deliciously broken beats, making this huge track fun and accessible for dancers and DJ's alike.
Leave your expectations at the door. Mikael Nordgren, AKA Tiger Stripes, well known in techno's ahead of the curve circles for his massive slamming tunes like 'Eden' or for his tightly wrapped tech-house beats, surprises us, adeptly flirting with dub techno in his awesome reworking of SLS' "Four To The Floor". This is a very heavy minimal track, reminiscent more than anything else, of "deep-down-into-dub" artists like Quantec or Marco Furstenberg. The deeper of the four versions of "Four To The Floor" as released on Ground Factory. It retains the musical atmosphere of the original material while turning it into one of those intense and evocative slow heavy techno moments, with a relaxed mood and a subtle progression.

welcome back Pacou after many years on Tresor !!!

GoldFFinch kick of 2012 for Saigon
Recordings with a highly anticipated release, 2
dancefloor smashers entitled 'Funky Steppa' and
'Groove Panda' originally brought to the surface via
Loefah's Swamp81 RinseFM shows and since
championed by Boddika in the majority of his DJ
sets and online charts. Having already had releases
on Numbers, Airflex and 877 Records these Belgian
based producers are set for a great year ahead.
This is EP1 of 2, the second part will be released in
March and features the tracks 'Tip Of The Dog' and
'Outer Twigs'.
Video of Boddika smashing Funky Steppa live: http:
//www.youtube.com/watchv=10X5YEYDtTM
Support elsewhere from 2562, Blackdown, Addison
Groove, Mary Anne Hobbs, Bunzer0 etc...

Hemlock are proud to introduce the debut for Brighton boy Guy Andrews. Two tracks of brilliantly unpredictable, percussive wizardry with more twists than a season of the Killing. 'Shades' combines of precision drum edits, killer 808 booms and woodblock percussion that will bring a tear of nostalgia to the eye of the Blue Note & Metalheadz vets and a smile to the face of the most discerning new dancefloors. 'Textures' on the flip kills it with an arrangement that just keeps you guessing. Perfectly poised between light & dark, delicate & heavy, and taking you seamlessly from locked 4/4 to dubbed out techno via all-out percussive funk and back before you know it.

This work is about his travels in music. The sounds, influences and aesthetic of his actual travels, expectation-journey-destination, alongside the music influences deriving from them.
Through his prism those sounds, pictures, travels, emotions left traces of new directions, of future journeys to take."
Fluxion captured the "Motion" in his travels with a different feeling each time.

On the 27th February, Scuba will release his third album through Hotflush. Entitled 'Personality' and featuring 11 brand new tracks, it takes in a wealth of genres across contemporary dance music, proving once again Scuba's place at the cutting edge of the electronic music scene. Preceding his LP will be this single 'The Hope'; pushing on from the tense atmospherics of previous Scuba material, the single fizzes with claustrophobic bass pressure and menacing narration. Backed by an exclusive non-album cut 'Flash Addict'.

Dubious Prey is the 1st release of 2012 on Sticks N Stones Recordings and the 2nd release from the NYC-via-Sierra Leone DJ/Producer Lamin Fofana. Lamin is an electronic musician that produces music without category out of found sounds, human voices, digital synthesisers, analogue synthesisers and drum machines. His work can be found on such labels as Dutty Artz, Grizzly and Diskotopia The vinyl version of the E.P, contains 2 original tracks and a remix of the lead single by Aramac. The E.P has been review on Xlr8r and currently been supported by WMFU FM (New York), Wifey (Déjà vu), MATT SHADETEK, Contact and a bunch of other.

Sven is back on Toffler Vinyl with his second solo release. After the great Toffler Vinyl 002 Quantec show us a new "dimensions beyond the known" with this new one vinyl release. Dark, dubby, physical, from Detroit to Chicago, there are a lot of flavour in this release that will drive you in Quantec_Land. Pure analog experience for this vinyl, Quantec recorded his work @ Echo Chamber Studios, Devastating mastering/cut @ The Exchange Mastering Studios, London-UK. The masterpiece finally is here ! ! !

SOLID DUB TECHNO !
Played and Supported by LAURENT GARNIER,PIG & DAN,MARCEL DETTMANN,NORMAN NODGE,SAMUEL L SESSION,ANGEL MOLINA,DVS1,LUCY,DUSTIN ZAHN,MARKUS SUCKUT,INIGO KENNEDY,SURIT,SAMULI KEMPPI,NESS,CEDRIK,JONAS KOPP,TOM BONATY,CASSEGRAIN,FABIO SCALABRONI,ASCION,AUDIO INJECTION,OBTANE,CONRAD VAN ORTON,AnD,D.Carbone and more.

Following the recent 'Himmel Strasse' Ep in June 2011 charted by Deepchord/Echospace, Dj Deep, Los Hermanos, Mark Broom, Jack De Marseille... here is the new : 'Sonne Und Stahl' Ep.

Another freaked out tune on "WirrWarr"!!!
This time both labelowners made a homage to their hometown "offenbach" with a
8 minutes journey of pure energy. The Flipside is the perfect complement to "Offenbach Symphonie".
B1 with its more stripped down drumming and B2 with its cool hypnotic and freaky style.

Spec: Reverse Board Sleeve features Gold Metallic Pantone logo and lettering front and back, Pantone matched labels, plastic inners.Darkestral was set up as an imagined cinematically orientated sound space allowing producers creative room to make music of a more visual nature, within or outside of their percieved genre.

After a stunning debut ep on the Belgian label Other Heights, Ghostek makes further explorations to his deep and dark side on the adventuristic Shipwrec label. Ultra low frequency music surrounded by tape noise, vocal edits and haunting synths. Truly unique futuristic garage release!

Irish house cosmonaut Space Dimension Controller is set to release a 'prequel' for his forthcoming album in the coming months

not released on vinyl! It's been almost a year since Demdike Stare finished their "Tryptych" of releases, and in the intervening months Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty have been busy touring and gradually piecing together sounds for this newseries: Elemental.
Part 1: Chrysanthe
A1/. Mephisto's Lament
B1/. Kommunion
B2/. Unction
Part 2: Violetta
A1/. Mnemosyne
B1/. In The Wake of Chronos
B2/. Violetta

Second release in a series of four of this Ann Aimee compilation series, featuring a diverse selection of techno tracks.
Part two of the four-part Inertia sampler again serves up four heavy-hitting techno bangers from different artists of the new-school techno generation. Again, each of the tracks is previously unreleased.

First up is Frenchman Marcelus who offers a heavy house and techno fusion, before London's Sigha goes deep and ominous with 'Finding Myself.' Redshape and Area Forty_One close out the package with frozen, static coated sounds and textured techno respectively.

Reading like a who's who of the day's most pioneering techno producers, Inertia #2 is another connoisseur selection.

A SAMPLER TAKEN FROM THE CD OF THE SAME NAME FT SOME HUGE TECHNO LEGENDS.

Four modern techno tracks on this first release of an Ann Aimee compliation series.
The first of 4x4 vinyl releases from the Ann Aimee compilation, Inertia, this opening volume includes cuts from Time to Express Chief Peter Van Hoesen and Fachwerk's Roman Lindau as well as fellow label recruits Delta Funktionen and Sawlin.

All four new and exclusive tracks deal in techno urgency. Delta Funktionen goes deep and dramatic, Peter Van Hoesen offers up his usual dub-wise textures, whilst Lindau pairs icy hi-hats with a heavy stomping beat. Sawlin offers the trippiest techno with his delightfully dishevelled 'Excipidial' and closes out what is an essential piece of vinyl.

Over two years ago already, we were announcing Andres Zacco's first EP on Airdrop. The 'Seated Hopping EP' had been sent to us by Andres' best friend, none other than el Señor Franco Cinelli. Needless to say, we fell in love with the subtlety of his music

Strictly limited 12inch release by Chris Hauer

Lowtec returns to Nonplus with his second release on the label and smothers us with his sonic art yet again.a) Lowtec 'Coldred' This piece of steel strong Berlin edged Tech house pumps along from the outset, leaving no doubt that this is one to get on and enjoy. As the title suggests, the cold dark eerie sound is built for warehouses and masterfully grows into a 'Lost for words' type tune.b1) Lowtec 'Darrynane' 'Darrynane' is the first on the flip. Uncomfortable jittering beat compression is sketched into a subtle shift of swirling synths and vocal samples that drive this tune along on a hypnotic groove.b2) Lowtec 'Twizel' 'Twizel' is an attention grabber from the outset. The woodblock sounds and the evening session is in progress...then the synths lead and drift into a massive sound bomb of uber lusciousness, leaving the beat behind temporarily. Upon its return, the tune lifts into a late night heads down shoulder twisting groove monster...and when the Harpsichord drops, say 'hi' to the hairs on the back of your neck.

Warehouse find!

Top disco/house producer Mark E delivers his third remix for Far Out - a distinctive, mesmeric slow-burning mix of Azymuth's 'Meu Mengo', taken from the legendary samba jazz-funk trio's huge new album 'Aurora' (FARO157CD/LP).

Pal SL returns with another highly playable yet artist orientated 12" from L.D.Nero (aka Alex Cortex) who returns to the label after a nine year hiatus. His fantastically received Nite Out 12" for sister label Trelik showcased the more subtle depths of his production style whereas "Washback" grabs the bull buy the horns with an infectious analogue bassline, bold upfront percussion patterns alongside Perlon-esque guitars and organic synth washes. "Simple" picks up the pace with a more mathematical soundscape, driving the speakers whilst teasing with intermittent vocals. "Give Credit" completes the package tipping its hat to the early UK acid sound showcasing retro sound design, lo-fi vocals and historic drum loops against a deep synth and bass back-drop. Mastered By Lopazz.

TOP NOTCH ELECTRO BOOTY ACTION FROM A WELL KNOWN SOURCE.

Long awaited new release on Echospace.

Two Marcel Dettmann remixes of the Morphosis track 'Too Far' that was on the album 'What Have We Learned' released earlier this year called. Original also included.