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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.

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.

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"

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.

VARIOUS - Personal Space: 1974-1984

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

VARIOUS
Personal Space: 1974-1984
Chocolate Industries
BEATS / DOWNTEMPO / BOOGIE
2LP

Chocolate Industries have outdone themselves with this eagerly anticipated collection of obscure Electronic Soul: 1974-1984. Through seventeen tracks it scans the little known fringes of Black American music at a time when homemade, DIY studios were becoming affordable, effectively exposing the parallel evolutions of Electronic music eschewed by the current slew of synth-wave and underground electronic reissues. It's likely that the only name you'll know from the tracklist is Jeff Phelps, who contributes two tracks - 'Excerpts From Autumn' and 'Super Lady' - from his recently reissued 'Magnetic Eyes' oddity, but they're the tip of a very cool iceberg which takes in all manner of reel-rude yet sophisticated experiments beyond the peripheries of commonly known Soul or Electronic music. Early drum machines are accented with flair while synths lend a lick of futuristic colour and plugged-in tang to conventionally funky, blue arrangements which could have been dancefloor hits in another, parallel dimension (while some probably were floor-fillers in their own locale). There's joints like Spontaneous Overthrow's stoned and psychedelic lament 'All About Money' or Starship Commander Woo Woo's intergalactic epic 'Master Ship' that sound like your wildest fantasies come to life, and together with the outright weirdness of Deborah Washington's 'Shortest Lady' or The New Year's psycho-sexual Blues expressions on 'My Bleeding Wound', afford a much needed documentation of the electronic unknown, while muddying the waters of imposed narrative to brilliant, beguiling effect. Massively recommended!!!

VARIOUS / SECRET STASH - Long Live Boogaloo

2012-05-16T04:00:00+01:00

VARIOUS / SECRET STASH
Long Live Boogaloo
SECRET STASH
WORLD
2LP

**22 rare Latin boogaloos circa 1963-1972 on double gatefold vinyl with download code redeemable from the label** "In the mid 1960s Latin teenagers in New York's Spanish Harlem neighborhood created a new style of music called Latin boogaloo. The sound was a mix of the Cuban music they grew up with and American R&B like James Brown and Hank Ballard. It quickly caught on and before long the young purveyors of this new sound were taking business from the likes of Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, and Eddie Palmieri. Soon the established acts reluctantly joined the craze and felt it was beneath them. Eventually a small group of the most powerful people in the Latin music business conspired to kill off the Boogaloo an make way for the burgeoning Salsa craze. Concert promoters, DJs, and venues were bribed to turn away any and all Boogaloo business. As soon as it came, it left. Secret Stash Records is proud to present this double LP compilation of rare and hard to find Boogaloos. Each track has been selected with the help of veteran Boogaloo producer Bobby Marin. to help tell the story of the untimely demise of the genre, Secret Stash enlisted the services of legendary concert promoter and illustrator Izzy Sanabria (the man responsible for the artwork on most of Fania's releases) to write liner notes. Additionally, all of the artwork for the album is comprised of rehashed versions of Sanabria's now famous Boogaloo concert posters of the 60s."

SOFRITO / DAPHNI - Kognokoura (Daphni Mix)

2012-05-16T04:00:00+01:00

SOFRITO / DAPHNI
Kognokoura (Daphni Mix)
SOFRITO SPECIALS
WORLD
12"

Sofrito special time, including a smart Daphni edit! 'Kognokoura' is a prime slice of Afro-Disco cut in Paris by legendary griot singer Niama Makalou and a group of fellow Malian ex-pat musicians. It was to be Niama's one and only vinyl release, but Sofrito have rescued it from obscurity, giving those loose handclaps, tinkling Balafon patterns and bumpy bass vamps a new lease of life. Daphni's edit evens the groove for the DJs, distilling and teasing out its essence with crafty dub flourishes for the club.

HUMANLEFT / BENJAMIN DAMAGE - Arnaud & Bernard / Zeppelin

2012-05-16T03:00:00+01:00

HUMANLEFT / BENJAMIN DAMAGE
Arnaud & Bernard / Zeppelin
50 WEAPONS
DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY
10"

The 50 Weapons enterprise unfolds their latest, featuring two tracks of up-to-the-minute ravers from Venom's buddy, Damage, and TB6's Humanleft. 'Zeppelin' by Damage is easily the pick of the two, serving a hefty chunky of deeply swung Gutter House with bracing percussion slapped into soca-syncopated rhythms and a bittersweet lead melody. His and Venom's 'Deeper' has been causing a commotion on the scene for some time now and we expect this to do exactly the same. Humanleft's 'Arnaud & Bernard' is a more abrasive affair on the flip, scattering razor tipped glitches and whirring, post-electro beats almost reminding of Mike Forshaw (don't know if that's a great thing, though). Anyway, Damage's side is worth the entry alone. Hand-stamped whites, limited styles!