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  • Schwefelgelb – Dahinter Das Gesicht

    reviews techno

    25 October 2021

    Rhythmic and repetitive (in a good way), this EP practices some heavy 80s and 90s industrial worship.

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  • Cults Experienced: Techno Animal – The Brotherhood Of The Bomb

    cults reviews

    20 September 2021

    When you’re angry or perhaps something bothers you, you may choose to subside your anger with a pill of diazepam or some other stronger benzodiazepine prescribed from your doctor, or you can play music that channels those feelings and magically evaporate them through adrenaline, head-nodding and a smile that never goes away.

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  • DJ Disrespect – Jamz from the Attic

    reviews techno

    4 September 2021

    Frankfurt based DJ Disrespect drops a four-track EP entitled Jamz from the Attic for Italian label Scum Collective. One might ask himself what the heck can you actually write about straightforward techno? It isn’t innovative, it’s straightforward and it just bangs, right? Right… Not at all actually. Especially when it comes to DJ Disrespect, things were never so simple to start with.

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  • Nyctophiliac – Jazz It Up

    reviews trip-hop

    3 September 2021

    Nyctophiliac is the alter-ego of Aleksandar Stojanovski, our co-founder and an excellent trip-hop crafter from Skopje that sound can be explained as he’s the messiah of the dark and gloomy jazz nights since his first debut with “Dark Side of the Mental” back in 2016 until his prior release “Everyday Existence” released last year; however with “Jazz It Up” he unfolds a previously unknown sonic universe to us and decided to shed the beams of lights through the magic of music.

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  • The Bug – Fire

    illbient reviews

    2 September 2021

    Kevin Martin pushes another apocalyptic LP on Ninja Tune entitled Fire, that seems to have its artillery indefinite, and without any sacrifices on his side of power whatsoever.

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  • DJ Bazootka – Leather Coated Bitch

    reviews techno

    21 September 2020

    Leather Coated Bitch is the latest offering from the Balkans blitzkrieg brutalist DJ Bazootka – an inferno of collective entities; cross-weaving the stylizations of ghettotek, Detroit, Dutch punk techno and smoked out brain-danced inflections.

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  • SÆDEM – Portae Inferni

    reviews techno

    20 September 2020

    How much bang would you like? Yes.

    Since the beginning of quarantine artists have been releasing more music then before to at least try to stay afloat and continue with their love. And it feels like more than ever before that many releases get lost in the algorithm. This had almost happened with the latest SÆDEM release. Luckily, if one searches for current bangers themselves, rather than letting machines choose what you might like, you will be able to trace down gems like this one.

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  • Céili Collective – Speed Bumps

    reviews techno

    16 September 2020

    It is not a new normal. Everything is a new NOW. Céili Collective was recommended to me in my Bandcamp feed and the description “Various artist focused label driving out of London” caught my attention right away. When I then saw that they released a compilation featuring some artists I really like, I bought it on cassette without hesitation and listening.

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  • Vladimir Dubyshkin – Russian Porn Magazine

    reviews techno

    12 August 2020

    For me, Dubyshkin always had a supernatural power when it comes to bringing an uplifting mood through his simplistic ways of using techno beats with no gimmicky production but straight to the point hi-hats and no wrong experimentations which gets the groove thumping throughout with no compromise whatsoever.

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  • Pinch – Reality Tunnels

    reviews techno

    16 July 2020

    Reality Tunnels starts with “Entangled Particles” that features Emika on vocals, a very deep sounding track that immediately puts the cards on the table for what is about to come next. The switch from the slow trip-hop breaks to the junglist fast-paced rhythm hugged alongside the massive and atmospheric pads alongside Emika’s vocals is done with a real sense of sound manipulation and creation of the atmospheric universe that only a sound storyteller can do properly.

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  • Pablo Splice – Do The Work

    electro reviews

    23 June 2020

    Presented to me in the following six tracks offered a diversity of sound that I readily welcomed upon receiving this package from Woodwork Recordings. Found here were squelching timbres and artificial artifacts that summoned a kinetic energy I thoroughly enjoyed, those of which I will delve into greater detail with the following account.

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  • Jailed Jamie – Rave Tool

    reviews techno

    10 June 2020

    Have you ever seen a cover and thought: „I am just going to buy it, because this already looks like something I would like“? Rave Tool comes in a relatively normal cassette cover, but it’s the details that made me buy it right from the spot.

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  • 3Phaz – Three Phase

    alternative-electronics reviews

    26 May 2020

    A bit aside from the popular stuff of Acid Arab like tracks “Gul l’Abi” and “Stil”, I stumbled upon a mix they did for Ninja Tune where I discovered mahraganat, Egyptian electronic dance music which takes a big part from the folk elements, especially evident in the percussions and synths.

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  • Red Axes – Red Axes

    alternative-electronics reviews

    24 May 2020

    “Well, if you talk to the average teenager of today and you ask them what it is about rock n’ roll music that they like, the first thing they say will be “the beat, the beat, the beat…”

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  • Likvidator – Tripping Over God

    illbient reviews

    5 July 2019

    I first came across Likvidator back in mid-2016 whilst reviewing an album he’d collaborated on. Upon investigation, I was struck by the diversity of his sound, as there were elements of illbient, dark hop, and noise littered across his freshman EP. Three years later, this Macedonian sound artist returns with his latest official offering, Tripping Over God.

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