PIAS Vinyl & CDs

Review: "Kofea" has a real Mr Oizo influence presence in the bass line and should move both breakbeat lovers and electro house heads! Influenced by jazz and Detroit techno, Agoria, is the latest in a long line of talented artists. Support from Laurent Garnier, DJ Hell & more!

Review: In recent months, PIAS has re-released numerous albums from Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, a cult post-hardcore band that found fame by developing their own distinctive brand of "doom-ridden jazz music". The latest album to get the reissue treatment is 2005's Geisterfaust. It originally appeared three years after Black Earth, a macabre and unsettling full-length that remains their most celebrated work. The five epic tracks that make up Geisterfaust are a little lighter in tone, though still thoroughly absorbing and cloaked in the band's usual hazy atmospheres. At times the music tends towards the melancholic, with 20-minute opener "Zeigefinger" offering a near perfect blend of slowly evolving ambient jazz motifs and foreboding drum hits.

Review: It's hard not to feel a sense of empathy after about a minute of Alice Boman's intimate and heartfelt debut, "Dream On". "Wish We Had More Time", the sombre and wistful opening track, marks this out as the kind of album that tells us all the heartache, and tears of the last decade are likely to be just as pronounced in this one. Glittering keys atop plodding melody reminding listeners that there's still beauty in and among the pain. Following with the choral "Heart On Fire" you may think the mood has switched to a more positive outlook. With lines like "I wish we'd never met" front and centre. Which is where the genius here becomes apparent. Love songs in the most honest sense - disempowering, terrifying, desperate, uncertain and, ultimately, devastating when threads unravel. Backed with scores that suck you in like lullabies, their depth difficult to countenance, you've got yourself something special.

Review: Roisin Murphy deserves no introduction, and her contribution to electronic dance music has been immense over the last twenty years. Jumping from labels like EMI, to Ninja Tune, and Permanent Vacation, she's never been shy of quality reeeses. This week, however, we're in for a real treat as she's given the remix treatment by Maurice Fulton, master house producer and sublime DJ. Fulton sexifies "House Of Glass" into a deliciously funky disco stepper that sounds out of place with anything else we've heard coming out of that category, as of late. It sounds fresh yet classic, new but vintage, and that is exactly what we love about the man. 10 stars.

Review: Will Holland is Quantic and with this project he has explored myriad different musical worlds, has traversed many different areas, most notably immersing himself in many aspects of Latin American music culture, often through collaboration. He's switched it up for this new record after first starting out with some experiments that soon turned into a love letter to disco which has long been a powerful emotional tool. He brings his own sense of percussive energy to the genre and has again worked with an array of talented mates including Connie Constance and Rationale plus vocalist Andreya Triana.

Review: Already promoted with a handful of CDRs through the summer 3 weeks will finally be released on 2 separate 12". The first on will include the 12" mix and the electro house remix of Jesper Dahlback.

Review: Produced by Tiga and Soulwax "Good As Gold" with is deep brooding bass and hooky bleeps has become a personal favourite of Tiga.

Review: The dancefloor will be going nuts before the vocals even drop!