electro-house/acid REVIEWS
Hot Chip
Hold On/Touch Too Much QUICKIES
(Remixes)
DFA
Switch has provided two remixes for this Warbgasm tech-house grunge and
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package — an ‘LA’ version and a ‘LDN’ Dead Arm EP deep, ethereal techno.
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scene. There are some nice deep mixes ‘Influenza’, while Will Saul
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Kollektiv Turmstrasse but this doesn’t twist the tracks into rolling, electro piano rave starring
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really sound like a DFA release. bass-heavy shapes. Chromeo, Laidback Luke,
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This Japanese producer has repositioned
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A taster for Jones’s sublime new album, ‘Soon’ is himself as an electro don of some note, It’s a pity that ‘Feel’ is
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inspired by a time when house music was more his remixes from Kitsune especially limited to a digital release Superb electro hip-house
innocent. Cheeky old school melodies are fused celebrated. Here he turns The Chemical as Bouchet delivers a from Hervé and Sinden, all
with Lee’s trademark off-beat rhythms to form Brothers track into a noisy pop tune. spacey acid track and sassy female vocal and
the title track, while The Mole ventures down a The Streetlife DJs get all bleepy, Danton Eeprom and breakbeat breakdown.
panning, droning techno tunnel with his Cagedbaby goes deep and dubby, while Glimpse’s versions alternate
reshape. The highlight though is ‘MDMAzing’, The Japanese Popstars get all melodic between glitchy,
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which, despite its self-conscious title, serves up
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and guitary, coming on like New Order.
the kind of sweeping chord progression that
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even cynical listeners will find irresistible. mixes.
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Audio Bullys
Flickery Vision (Deepgroove &
Daze Maxim revolves around a vocal stating: “I’ve Jamie Anderson Mix)
One Million shakers EP seen the future.” Tellingly though, the
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highlight is ‘2’, where Mac ditches the By the time we’ve had an LP full of
From the Picasso-meets-Miro artwork to samples and delivers a dubby singles, the stoner-geezer schtick can
the fresh take on the DJ tool approach tech-house joint. wear a bit thin but it’s fun to start with.
inside, it’s clear that a lot of thought has Which makes this Deepgroove &
gone into this release. The carnival-
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Anderson mix even better than it would
esque bongos of ‘Jat’ is the most Yann Tiersen & Jay have been as a killer instrumental. It’s
conventional cut, but Maxim’s Haze tense and has diamond production —
dissection of trancey melodies on the comptine d’une autre ete: hard and crystal clear. And it fits the Dancefloor destroyer!
jacking ‘Tube People’ and the teasing, l’apres midi vocal about being fucked-up perfectly.
building chords over the rolling,
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ever-morphing ‘Mudhole’ are hypnotic. In the wrong hands, technology gives a
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licence to lift wholesale samples and The Kills Trapez
copperfasten them to textbook backing cheap & cheerful
Paul Mac tracks. Jay Haze is in that small category
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Raw Basics that understands how to connect The rough edges of SebastiAn are Psycho
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mournful piano lines and sweet, wispy prefect for the raw female vocals here
2020 Vision
Techno-house veteran Paul Mac strings — from the soundtrack to the and he sounds like he’s stuck a knife “My recent killer tune is this ultra-funky pearl. I really love
reactivates Stimulus with a release French film Amelie, which has been through his synth to get a noise so every single element of this track, especially the spooky,
that’s rooted in the sample-heavy sampled before by Luciano — with a distorted. Fake Blood is more filtered vocal. It’s strange and pretty hard to explain, but
late-‘90s. ‘3’ is a loopy DJ tool with an dubby house groove. The end result is a foot-on-floor with a nice little euphoric this track makes me simultaneously think about ‘70s
infectious Brazilian chant, ‘5’ is a thing of great beauty. moment and brilliantly sliced-up vocals. zombie movies (the ones with Caribbean flair) and sweaty
303-flecked roller and the jacking ‘6’
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disco dancing, and it’s a splendid feeling overall.”
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