Back in stock: Progressive House

Review: Plenty of dark disco's finest practitioners come together on this new 12" on Iptamenos Discos, with Psycho Weazel serving up the original tune. They are two producers from Switzerland who mix up indie-dance, cold wave, breakbeat and EBM. Here they offer 'Mains D'Argile' featuring Curses which has sweeping, widescreen synths bring a retro feel to a stiff, kinetic beat. The wonderful Marvin & Guy offer an extended mix for extra long club fun and then it is Local Suicide who guests on 'Matra Murena' which brings a perfect mix of light and dark to stark grooves, and Rafael Cerato remixes to close out the package.

Review: It's been a while since we last heard from Jack Hamill aka. Space Dimension Controller; his latest releases for Hypercolour and Running Back are of course stellar, but Aus Music in particular haven't been a home to the galaxian weltgeist since 2021, and fans know he is the kind of artist to bring a unique inflection to each label, despite his style commanding a palpably cosmic throughline. 'Final Quest' centres once more on SDC's own character invention Tiraquon - an intergalactic, jet-packed traveller whose ambitions know few bounds. On 'Jet Free', we hear Tiraquon re-don the jetpack like a power-fantasying teenage boy to an Evangelion, slowly regaining confidence by way of a brilliantly swung future disco buildup. Then comes 'Cryfaze', which bedazzles to the point of blindness, and 'Tiraquon's Final Quest', an apogee of acid synthesis and variety. And finally, Tiraquon touches down in France for a 4x4 '1 4 U', dedicated not to the indulgent drives of IDM/acid, but rather the beachside sun-up moods expectant of summer.