Memoria Recordings Netherlands Vinyl & CDs

Review: RQZ explores the Club Cage on this new EP for Memoria and it is one that comes after a solid year for the producer in 2023. He appeared on three different various artists' EPs, often offering up the most impressive tunes of the lot, and now goes it alone on all three jams here. They're minimal and tech house blends that manage to marry up deft and abstract sound design with slinky rhythms that lock you in, not to mention bass that makes its mark. 'Secret Fantasies' is our pick with its unrelenting drum pressure and nice fluid groove.

Review: Breda, Netherlands-based Memoria Recordings returns with a very special release this time by staple Ilario Liburni from Belgium, who's no stranger to the label, together with label chief Izaakson, This is their debut EP after working together in the studio and they deliver three solid tracks on the Operator EP. On the first side, the title track is a proper back room dub that's perfect for those heads-down moments, followed by the rolling and bass-heavy minimal tool 'Get Around'. Over on the flip, the pair head to the afterhours on the acid-laced microhouse of 'Look At The Line' which ends things on a more playful note.

Review: The trance-tech-house wave continues unabated as Romanian producer Costin RP appears on Memoria with three sleek joints that neatly bridge the gap between wigged-out early 90s sounds and the crisp elegance of modern minimal. 'Astro' is a delightful, bubbling joint with plenty of subtly uplifting energy in its bones, while 'Intre Patru Ochi' plays around with broader brushstrokes of synth. 'Sidef' completes the B-side as a duskier cut carried by an insistent house pulse and loaded with some choice metallic chords that will go down a storm with the after hours crowd.