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MIDLAND / LONE - Placement Remixes

2012-05-16T10:00:00+01:00

MIDLAND / LONE
Placement Remixes
AUS Music
TECHNO / HOUSE
12"

Lone and Motor City Drum Ensemble are tasked with remixing tracks from Midland's superb 'Placement' EP for Aus Music. Riding a wave of adulation for his recent 'Galaxy Gardens' LP, Lone bends the square bass of 'Placement' into gloopy, offset shapes under fizzing carnival percussion and fluttering synth licks like BoC gone Balearic on the A-side. B-side Danilo Plessow aka MCDE turns 'What We Know' into a roiling Detroit killer, burning up a hulking bassline with cracked and frazzled drum machines and the fattest, stabbing chords. Dancefloor pleasure guaranteed!

LAST JAPAN - Ambush EP

2012-05-16T09:00:00+01:00

LAST JAPAN
Ambush EP
Lo Note UK
DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY
12"

**150g vinyl housed in matte varnished sleeve** Arriving with support from Oneman, Jackmaster and more, Last Japan aka Marco Giuliani makes his vinyl debut for Lo Note UK. 'Ambush' presents a sparse and cold, yet fleshly tactile sound, setting up the dance with misdirecting minimal subs and skeletal percussion before the titular ambush comes, dropping a dirtload of junglist breaks on yer. 'Tactics' holds down the flipside, craftily blending field recordings into the rhythmic framework before subsiding into rolling Bass styles punctuated by crisp, reserved tribal drums. One for fans of South London Ordnance, Blawan, Dark Sky, Untold, then.

JUK JUK - Thinking Too Much / Where The Helios

2012-05-16T09:00:00+01:00

JUK JUK
Thinking Too Much / Where The Helios
NOMOS
TECHNO / HOUSE
12"

Firmly established as one to watch with his previous two 12"s, Juk Juk 'fesses up two emosh Neo Garage riders on his Nommos imprint. Starting out in a mired tangle of shoegazy loops intoning the title, 'Thinking Too Much' lightens up with sprightly 2-step patterns and really comes to life with the revelation of a digitally distorted Bassline giving the track a formidable forward momentum. 'Where The Helios' again shows the f*t*r* garage crowd what's up with with a lush intro drone tangling with finger-popping 2-step swerve like a diced collusion between MJ Cole and Four Tet. Smart.

COOLY G / VARIOUS - Cooly G Presents: Dub Organizer - The Intro Vol. 1

2012-05-16T08:00:00+01:00

COOLY G / VARIOUS
Cooly G Presents: Dub Organizer - The Intro Vol. 1
Dub Organizer
DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY
CD

Cooly G presents a strong showcase of her Dub Organizer label, hitting hard right from the off with Fingaprint's dark, dancehall-derived Funky stepper 'New Dawn', before Mista P turns out something closer to European electro-house (!) in 'Airsteppin''. Royce Rolls' combo of choppy soca drums and video game rave synths on 'Avalon' works a treat, Arethis channels El-B's Ghost classics on tough garage mover 'Marteek', and other highlights include Sami Sanchez's hectic refix of Hard House Banton's mighty 'Sirens'. Cooly's own contribution, 'Telepathy', bodes well for her upcoming album, with its sophisticated, tranced-out synth patterns, confidently broken riddim and immaculate dub touches.

QUICKSAILS - Silver Balloons In Clusters

2012-05-16T06:00:00+01:00

QUICKSAILS
Silver Balloons In Clusters
Under The Spire
ELECTRONIC
LP

**Limited edition of 200 copies** Under The Spire have been on a killer run recently, and follow up aces from Myrmyr, Steven Hess & Christopher McFall, and Concessionaires with the detailed synth visions of Ben Billington aka Quicksails. Originally issued as a tape on Deception Island (the label belonging to Chris Madaj aka Bee mask), on 'Silver Balloons in Clusters' Billington arranges densely layered yet spacious synths with his rolling, dramatic live percussion, finding plenty of pace for the two to co-exist in a vividly simulated sci-fi hyperspace spilling over with crystallised melodies, strafing synth zaps and stray dissoance. But it's certainly not chaotic or haphazard: there's a steady guiding hand at work which evidently has the approval of like-minded synth maverick Bee Mask, and stands this record head and shoulders above the scene, peering into the more advanced, vividly rendered scapes of Oneohtrix Point Never and the like.

SENKING - Dazed

2012-05-16T06:00:00+01:00

SENKING
Dazed
raster-noton
ELECTRONIC
12"

*Senking returns to Raster with another double-headed set of slowed-down, rugged and dark transmissions.* Senking's 2nd EP follow-up to 2010's heavyweight 'Pong' LP sees him add chiming harmonies and even vocals to his abyssal bass contours. With gargantuan A-side 'The Dance Hall Walk' he lasers warped and glooming features into a hulking iceberg sculpture, perching a blunted text read by Michael Cramm over unshakeable, plunging bass ballast. This will sound shocking on a big rig! B-side's 'Closing Eyes' swipes away any extraneous sounds to leave a desolate scape of plangent, ringing tones skidding across icy synth surfaces and harmonised bass drones which threaten to crack the ice and consume your psyche whole. Excellent.

KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS - In Love With Dusk / Our Own Dream

2012-05-16T05:00:00+01:00

KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS
In Love With Dusk / Our Own Dream
PLANCHA / ART UNION
BEATS / DOWNTEMPO / BOOGIE
CD

*Two long sold out EP's and a rare 7" brought on to one CD for the first time* Priming the scene for their first full American tour, Tokyo's Plancha Records collude with Forest Family to premier KSIA's 'In Love With Dusk' and 'Our Own Dream' EPs on CD, backed with their Transparent 7" 'Hauntin' Me' and an exclusive new cut. The two EPs are now long sold out on vinyl and fetching a handsome sum 2nd hand, thanks to their sought-after and radio-friendly blending of '80s yacht pop, Balearic disco sway and chill wave suss. New bit 'A Tear In My I' is a perfect distillation of their sound; languid, dreamy and druggily skewed for your pleasure.

MARCELLUS PITTMAN / RICK WILHITE / VARIOUS - In The Dark: The Soul Of Detroit

2012-05-16T05:00:00+01:00

MARCELLUS PITTMAN / RICK WILHITE / VARIOUS
In The Dark: The Soul Of Detroit
Still Music
TECHNO / HOUSE
CD

Killer doublepack with exclusive, unreleased tracks by Marcellus Pittman, Rick Wilhite, Delano Smith, Mike Huckaby, Keith Worthy, Malik Alston and others, a small example of how much music and cultural activity thrives in Detroit. All of the artists involved in this project are creators and perpetuators of the musical heritage of the motor city. Deep House wares for all Detroit heads.

MARCELLUS PITTMAN / RICK WILHITE / VARIOUS - In The Dark: The Soul Of Detroit

2012-05-16T05:00:00+01:00

MARCELLUS PITTMAN / RICK WILHITE / VARIOUS
In The Dark: The Soul Of Detroit
Still Music
TECHNO / HOUSE
2x12"

EPIC45 - Weathered

2012-05-16T05:00:00+01:00

EPIC45
Weathered
Wayside and Woodland
ELECTRONIC
CD

One year since their 'Weathering' album landed to much acclaim from fans and the press, Epic 45 have invited The Remote Viewer, The Gentlemen Losers, Fieldhead, Jasper TX, E.L. Heath and Sarah Kemp to "weather" said album with lovely results. It opens with an exclusive new track called 'Leaving Traces' from the Staffordshire duo, before The Remote Viewer tickle their crackle box into action on a tenderly scuffed rework of 'The Village Is Asleep'. Meanwhile, their sometime collaborator and producer Charles Vaughan stirs 'People Say This Place Is Slowly Dying' as a diffuse piece of nippy pop-ambience and Fieldhead dissolves 'Leaving Traces' in a whorl of shimmering electro-acoustics beside The Toy Library's breathy rework of 'Ghosts I Have Known' and The Gentlemen Lovers heavy-hearted 'Washed Up' retake. However, we'd have to say they've saved the best for last with Jasper TX's subtly layered, drawn out and droning render of 'Evening Silhouettes'.