Dreems

Review: Aussies represent up next on the legendary Cologne imprint Kompakt. Multi Culti label manager Angus Gruzman aka Dreems teams up with homeboy from Sydney Jono Ma aka Juno Mars as 'The Dreemas', get it? While the pumping adrenaline of "A Love Trance Mission From NK To 7S" may seem like something new from Gruzman; with its Italo disco arpeggio shimmering away above tight and dusty four the floor grooves, next track "EZY2141" is overwhelmingly familiar. Delving deep into the exotic with its hypnotic tribal poly-rhythms much like his releases on the aforementioned Canadian label that he's involved with. On the flip, they're back into the straight up techno side of things, it could possibly be Ma's influence, but from what we can tell his first explorations in electronic music outside of psych-rock band Jagwar Ma. So the deeply freaked out and modular sounding trance groove of "Springfield" is hard to point down to either producer, but it is indeed pretty awesome.

Review: The second installment of Multi-Culti's Moon Faze Sun Gaze series is a typically psychedelic affair, with an impressive cast of producers delivering a quintet of trippy workouts. Von Party & Dreems join forces to present "Wet Raga", a spaced-out combination of delay-laden drums, space disco electronics, and Eastern mysticism. The ever-reliable Red Axes fuses heavy post-punk bass, with punchy percussion and minimal wave melodies on the excellent "Boosha Gdola", while Dreems go solo on the weirdo acid-electro bubbler "Sine O'The Tymes". Nick Murray and Kris Baha underpin psychedelic disco electronics with the heavyweight throb of house on "Say Something", before Cocolo draws proceedings to a close with the pitched-down shuffle of analogue wobbler "F33lings".