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Fritz Helder & the B-side, ‘Marble’, a
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dub rhythms of ‘Plumes’, it
release favours a distinctly lo-fi The first ascendant of the straddles the outer reaches
approach to banging the acid box. third wave of French of dubstep, electro and
Orgue Electronique’s ‘The Longing’, electronic music to emerge techno in style.
the only concession towards from the Daft Punk/Justice
musicality, features rave whistles Chicago snares and a menacing ebm LP is superbly crafted. But it’s what trail, the music here is
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and Detroit chords over a purring rhythm, a woman, sampled from an they’ve done on this long rolling remix exactly what you’d expect Vector Lovers
ebm bass. Elsewhere, Like A Tim’s obscure horror movie, utters the of ‘Fun’ that’s getting us really excited. from that legacy, namely Kissing Princess
‘Rotecht’ and I’ll Fre2k On You’s immortal line: “I was in my room and Imagine Avengers-era Diana Rigg big room Daft Punk pop. Leila
‘Vizionz’ tweak the maddest 303 something grabbed me.” If electroclash working the dancefloor in a black Head for ‘I Like To Play’ on
Iwari
sounds imaginable over slamming, was as camp as it claimed, it would catsuit while a tweed-clad John Stead the B-side. Judging on the nerdy
dank drums and hardcore motifs. sound like this. conducts MSFB and you’re in the right
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area.
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vocals on ‘Leila’, Martin
Wheeler was the dweeb
Florien Meindl who got sand kicked in his
Creepy Autograph
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8-Bit Romance face as a kid, but he had
sexy Body eP Plastique Du Reve
Hell Yeah
the last laugh because this
Roberto Auser
Valentine Connexion
Lost In the City What first catches your synth-pop release is
Flight 101 Rumoured to be the work of
DFA
attention is the Radio Slave ridiculously infectious.
Nature
Dopplereffket, Creepy Autograph is Two mid-paced acidic monsters cooked remix, but what keeps it is
‘Flight’ teaches all the cosmic/Italo inspired by Detroit electro. Despite up in Berlin by Daze Dasen and
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disco wannabes how to rock the party. boasting mysterious, eerie synth Ghostape. Main track ‘Lost In The City’
The title track, co-produced by Austrian sounds, ‘Chill For Your Neck’, with its lodges itself subtly into the recesses of
maverick Patrick Pulsinger, is based on straight beats and visceral ebm bass, is your mind. Reappearing in your head
a cavernous bassline and razor-sharp the most direct dancefloor track here. two weeks after you’ve left the club,
claps, while the live bass sampling ‘Sexy Body’ features creepy Speak ‘n’ you find yourself decimating your
‘There’s No Way Back’, which features a Spell vocals over tight claps and a record shelves trying to find out where
vocal sample intoning the title, is like grungy bass, while ‘Lipstick and Hold’ that haunting vocal and nudging,
the Emperor Machine on angel dust. unravels to shuffling 808 drums and squelchy bassline came from.
The shimmering electro-disco groove relentless breaks.
of ‘Wind of Change’ rounds off an
excellent release.
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Maelstrom
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Alex Metric The Beat Police
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Another French breaks artists in a
Acix9999 Plucked from his forthcoming LP, scene that’s largely shifted genres into
Wireblock
‘Deadly On A Mission’ not only confirms dirty electro, Maelstrom remains true
Issued on Wireblock, which unleashed Metric as one of the most accomplished to his faith. Luckily he’s good at what
Rustie on an unsuspecting world, this producer/writers/remixers in dance he does, and employs the clichés that
is hardly easy listening music. music at the moment, but should also made breaks stale with enough class to Dancefloor destroyer!
‘Acix9999’ is moody acid that hurts be the track that sees him cross into survive. Here, there’s a good dose of
more than a Special Brew hangover, the mainstream. The radio edit does disco cowbells, thudding breakbeats, Detroit GranD
but ‘Mixalo’ and ‘Remi’ see the Italian this well, but it’s the remixes (by Metric breakdowns and a winning stuttering
producer earn his stripes. Fusing Space himself and the Autokratz) that I’ve glitch bassline. Pubahs
Invader riffs with splintered, glitchy been hammering on the Slipped Disco
beats and jarring 303 frequencies, his radio show for the past two months.
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Delete Funk
disregard for structured forms and his That they tear up the dancefloor as well The Foals
willingness to tie past and present barely needs to be said. Olympic Airways (Remixes) The Black Dog
extremes together is refreshing if
Transgressive Records
Detroit v sheffield
occasionally painful.
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Ewan Pearson, SuerMeyer and
Soma
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Mirror Music Dissjokke come up with three shiny “Taken from the Black Dog’s outstanding album ‘Radio
Fun gems. Pearson, who’s been looking Scarecrow’, the Dog Squad recruits Robert Hood to remix
Zsa Zsa La Boum
Darkroom Dubs
back to production pioneers such as their track ‘Autobahn’. Hood delivers two remixes, and
something scary Graeme Reedie (of Silicone Soul) and Pettibone for inspiration recently, rolls the first is a beatless, epic masterpiece of the finest
Kaos Records
Dave Donaldson’s Mirror Music project out a bouncy disco edit, SuperMeyer electronic music heard in a long time.
Originally released in 1988 at the is crammed with lush thematic take a more punk-funky angle, while “DJs looking for a club mix need not be disappointed, as
height of Belgian New Beat, ‘Scary’ has arrangements, which is only expected Dissjokke go for the cosmic the second remix comes up trumps in true Hood
been repressed to remind us of its given Donaldson’s film score reinterpretation. minimalism style for the dancefloor. A killer release.”
genius. Over a nasty acid line, rough background. The soon-to-be-released
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