Basic Moves Vinyl & CDs

Review: Brussels-based Driss Bennis aka OCB aka DJ.Booth serves up the tenth release on the local Night Moves imprint - run by Walrus and Ailsa Cavers. With his good pal Chris "Funk" Ferreira manning the console again, Bennis serves up a couple of fierce cuts here: on the A side get down to the classic electro beats of "Interflug" taking the very best of NYC and Detroit at the same time - that'll have you doing the Electric Boogaloo in no time. On the flip, the same booming bass heavy approach is all over "Rover" while merging the soulful melancholia of second wave Chicago - think Alleviated when you hear those dreamy bittersweet pads throughout.

Review: A sticker on the front of this 12" from Brussels-based Basic Moves proudly proclaims that 100 per cent of sales royalties will be donated to charity. It's a nice move and one that should guarantee that the record is taken even more seriously. Like much of the label's output, it boasts self-styled "outsider club music", this time from Casablanca-born DJ Booth and label co-founder Walrus. DJ Booth handles side A, first romping his way through a bleeping, intoxicating, peak-time techno club jam ("Defaulted (Industry)"), before reaching for the breakbeats, deep electronics and electro shuffle on the superb "The Door". On side B Walrus takes over. "Can't Get New Shoes" is a bubbly, acid-fired chunk of electro/techno crunchiness, while "Free City Light" is notably deeper jazzier and way more melodic.

Review: Gritty, urban, wacky and crushed are four descriptors that immediately spring to mind when sticking on Fiction Life's new EP for Basic Moves. These six subterranean crunchers are the sonic equivalent of chowing down on dirt. Crud and dust fills our ears as we try to make out the most human aspects of this parched and barren soundscape, whether that be the tummy-rubbing gluttony of 'Cerebrum Crush' or the trancey, sonic spectrum-scooper 'The Present Moment'. It's no wonder this music is so advanced in sound; its maker Reade Truth is a revered Brooklynite dance artist and 'techno eternalist', credited for building the world's first techno discography database in 1995, well before Discogs. So, yeah, without Fiction Life, the culture of obsessive music cataloguing that feeds into your desire to peruse the Juno website might not exist - we're sure that should be enough to pique your interest.

Review: For their latest must-check release, outsider club music specialists Basic Moves welcome debutant The Sect3000, a Swiss producer who originally recorded the material showcased here for his own private amusement way back in the mid 1990s. It's great that we finally get to hear them, though, because both tracks are superb. "Blaupause", an organ and acid-fired chunk of techno futurism closer in tone and style to Detroit is undeniably emotion-rich, while flipside "Plastic Dream" offers a trippy, deep space romp through pitched-up, Motor City style electro reminiscent of both Aux88 and Drexciya.