The Bucharest-based producer is set to release a four-track EP on DJ TLR’s label at the end of May.
Italian producer Simoncino records music every day and on his latest album, Amazon Atlantis, it is clear that his diligence has paid off. While previous releases showed that the Italian producer had become adept at recreating classic house music by channeling Trent, Damier and Heard, on Amazon Atlantis, he has truly mastered his art. The same resonating bass tones, crisp drums and thunder claps are prevalent throughout, but it is also clear that he has grown in confidence and is more adventurous.
We have an exclusive stream of Simoncino’s new album on Créme Organization ahead of its release next week.
Releases from BNJMN, Noface and House Of Black Lanterns are primed on the new sublabel which will “expand the bandwith” of Crème.
Pay what you want to get some fresh cuts from DJ Overdose, Willie Burns, Marcos Cabral, D’Marc Cantu and more.
The Portuguese producer will issue Mark Leckey Made Me Hardcore through DJ TLR’s label in April.
IVVVO, Legowelt, The Exaltics, Jorge Velez, DJ Haus, and a whole host of others contribute to the pay-what-you-like compilation There Is No Authority But Yourself.
Crème Organization welcomes back Legowelt with a four-track dance EP due next month.
Legowelt, Willie Burns, Randomer and Ron Morelli all feature on the imminent collaborative 12″ from Crème and L.I.E.S.
Is it just me, or has there been a noticeable rise in the number of long form tracks appearing on house and techno singles recently? Karen Gwyer’s excellent New Roof EP was a lengthy sprawl on both sides, Bass Clef went all-out for a 20-minute opus on his recent “Lower State Of Unconsciousness” and JTC throws down plenty of running time for “Veronja One” on his upcoming Escalator To Sorga EP. Just to clarify, we’re talking anything pushing well over the ten minute mark here, and while length should always be secondary to content, it does make an interesting statement on the kind of house and techno that edges away from club use and into the more esoteric ‘listening’ domain.
Crème Organization, Rhythm Section International, Mister Saturday Night and Live At Robert Johnson were among the labels that caught our eye in June.
With a name like Gavin Guthrie, this Dallas-based producer also known as TX Connect sounds like he should be making emasculated folktronica. The reality couldn’t be more different. This self-titled double pack is rooted in the sound of the early to late ’80s, taking in brutal EBM, Chicago house, early techno and a death-march dirge like the searing bass and cascading synth-led album closer “Haddonfield IL”. Crème also deserves praise for putting out this work; it would have been far easier, lazier and surely more lucrative to release identikit jack tracks, but Guthrie’s debut album only uses this sound as part of a suite of references.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That seems to be the message on the latest Myriadd release. A pseudonym of UK producer Craig Stainton, Myriadd first featured on the Crème Organization label in 2011 with Beyond This Life. This latest record doesn’t stray radically from his debut Crème release and serves to reinforce his reputation for making Chicago-influenced house music. Leaving aside the debate about whether or not a 2014 music producer should be mining a path that was built in the late 80s, Time Will Tell shows that Stainton is one of the most impressive modern-day interpreters of that brief, magical period in electronic music.
The two low-key producers will make their label debuts on TLR’s imprint next month.
Preview the double 12″ release on DJ TLR’s label which is “hitting the streets soon”.
Crystal Cult 2080 is Danny Wolfers’ fourth Legowelt album in as many years, and ninth overall, so a cynic could ask do we really need it? Does it do anything that not been done before by Wolfers? The question may become even more compelling when you think of all the albums released under his other names. Cynics can go to hell, because the listening public need Legowelt more than Danny Wolfers needs us. ‘Why is that?’ you might ask, jaded music cynic. Firstly, Wolfers’ sense of humour, array of second hand jumpers, love of obsolete and knackered technology will always seem refreshingly human in the face of the self-importance that has stricken so much of electronic music. Furthermore, the Dutchman has spent years happily indulging his creative nature outside of wider appreciation, filling CDrs of material for his own Strange Life label and the likes of Bunker and Crème without any real concern for the notion of a new Legowelt transmission being reported as “being prepped for release” by the content farm.
Later this month Créme Organization will release Crystal Cult 2080, the latest album of a long, triumphant, largely amusing and occasionally bemusing recording career for Danny ‘Legowelt’ Wolfers. As the site has interviewed Wolfers on several occasions, as well as making him one of the first contributors to our podcast series, we decided to turn the tables and treat this as opportunity to indulge in the cult of Legowelt and write about some of our personal favourites from the rich, varied and intimidating discography of Danny Wolfers. Read on as Richard Brophy, Alex Egan, Scott Wilson and Tony Poland write about their favourite curios, rarities, classics, imaginary soundtracks, Lowlands box jams and cover versions of proto-house classics.