Joseph Richmond-Seaton has been releasing densely emotional house and techno since the turn of the decade. His productions have ranged from ambient-leaning, meditative soothers with beautiful clarinet solos to crunchingly intense 4/4 led techno but they’re all connected together with an approach that is inherently his. One of the distinct markers of a Call Super production is the vibrantly live drum work that ricochets off the walls of the musical spaces he creates. It’s an element that can be traced back to his favourite record, a 2000 tech-house classic called “My Answer” by Charley’s Vault – which plays with percussion and negative space in a similar way.
The Amsterdam label score a coup with news of the Nervous Sex Traffic 12″ from the UK artist.
Call Super’s production alias has a new record for The Trilogy Tapes on the way – stream a track here.
Stream a blissful new production from Call Super for Houndstooth’s upcoming Tessellations compilation.
Vinyl releases from Call Super, Laurel Halo, Shackleton, Public Possession and more make the grade.
JR Seaton’s second 12″ of the year, Migrant / Meltintu, will arrive on fabric’s in-house label next month.
Where does Berlin operation Nous fit into the current label landscape? A straight talking George Mavrikos sits down with Rose Mardit to discuss the label’s emergence.
It’s been some four years since Gonno last appeared on International Feel, though the Japanese producer has hardly been idling. Following that EP – a typically enjoyable EP that touched on both melancholic, analogue-heavy acid house and drifting, guitar-laden ambience – he’s plied his wares on Niteless, Endless Flight, and most notably, Beats In Space. His 2013 The Noughties EP for Tim Sweeney’s label offered a neat summary of his career to date, layering rough, often melodious analogue synthesizer lines on top of raw deep house grooves, throbbing dub techno textures and sensual ambient chords. This return to International Feel features some of his regular tropes – analogue-sounding electronics, picturesque tunefulness and a fearless commitment to mood-enhancement through music – even if they are packaged in a far more glassy-eyed, Balearic way.
Obscurant from the Japanese artist will arrive in April backed with a rare remix from Call Super.
Scott Wilson sits down with Joseph Seaton to discuss the unique space he’s carving out for himself in the world of techno.
The first release of 2015 from the UK-born producer will be the Fluenka Mitsu EP.
Our review of 2014 continues as James Manning, Scott Wilson and Tony Poland discuss the best 30 albums issued in a strong year.
“It is not made up of ‘sketches’, it is not ‘beatless’, it is certainly not ‘downtempo’, the accompanying text is not ‘nonsense’,” JR Seaton said of his debut album, Suzi Ecto, on Twitter, when it was announced a few months ago. “Put very simply, it’s techno.” Though Seaton is usually a man of few words on social media, his outburst was understandable, given his feelings on how the rush to produce content online is leading a reduction in words of overall quality, which he made known in an interview given in February 2014 to Zweikommasieben Magazin. “There’s a difference between the economies of producing this kind of stuff and the amount of content that online publications have to create to sustain themselves. It means that, for the most part, journalists aren’t paid per word anymore,” he said. “They have to produce this many reviews to pay their rent.”
Standout albums from Call Super and Vessel join strong long-players from Jo Johnson, LV & Josh Idehen and Jared Wilson this week.
Watch a wonderfully abstract video for Call Super’s “Sulu Sekou”, lifted from the producer’s upcoming LP Suzi Ecto.
The UK-born producer will release his debut album on Houndstooth in September.
Call Super, Moon B and Vercetti Technicolor rework material from the Desolate Figures LP – preview it all here.
Continuing his salvo of singles for the ever-strengthening Houndstooth imprint, Call Super’s latest release reveals yet more dimensions to his crafty sound. The notion of craftiness in modern production is one with a select reach, only wielded by those with an innate gift to lift their compositions above the tropes of any given genre to create something ineffably sharp and unique. It’s no surprise then that Call Super has often been associated with Objekt, reaching back to the producer’s first single on Five Easy Pieces that came backed with a remix from the man otherwise known as TJ Hertz. It’s not hard to see the similarities, and Objekt is certainly an artist with a healthy dose of craftiness in his blood.
The Berlin-based producer will release the two-track 12″ on the Houndstooth label next month.
Once again we end our annual round-up by asking a selection of our favourite DJs, producers and record label owners to ruminate on their own personal favourites from 2013. Looking to keep things fresh, we have chosen a largely new selection of individuals without any sacrifice in standards, with contributions from Ben UFO, Helena Hauff, Paul Woolford, Anthony Parasole, Powell and more. It’s a typically diverse selection too, with rare Mala dubs, underscore-loving Philitronics and EVOL amongst the picks.
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