The iconic American techno producer lands a four-track EP on Donato Dozzy and Neel’s Spazio Disponibile.
The fabled Italian Donato Dozzy is on board for the first release of 2016 from The Bunker New York in addition to a forthcoming remix 12″ from Patrick Russell.
The focus is Seattle as the founders of our favourite label of the past 12 months speak with Tony Poland.
The respected Italian producer has collaborated with the vocalist on a new album due on Spectrum Spools in March.
Donato Dozzy’s latest project is Anxur with fellow Italian Marco Shuttle on the London-based artist’s Eerie label. Unlike Dozzy’s previous collaboration with Neel as Voices from the Lake, Anxur Takes Vol. 1, the first in a series of planned records with Shuttle, focuses squarely on the dance floor. Irrespective of what the accompanying blurb to this release had claimed about abstract influences insinuating their way into the recording process, to this listener’s ears, Dozzy and Shuttle have succeeded in delivering two distinctive but ultimately functional tracks.
Visione will arrive via the Italian artist’s own Eerie label and features a collaboration with compatriot Donato Dozzy.
The Italian producers join forces on a forthcoming 12″ on Shuttle’s Eerie label.
The Italian producer will release Terzo Giorno through the Berlin-based label next month.
With a live set that inspires feverish responses from any lucky enough to witness them, Donato Dozzy and Neel’s collaborative project is a celebration of everything the techno experience should be. Best heard on a loud soundsystem, constantly searching and surging forwards and avoiding staid rhythms, there’s an undeniable spiritual quality at work on anything the pair have turned their hands to, with their recorded offerings making a neat precursor to the chance to have them rain down upon you over a PA.
This is what reissue culture should be all about. In the tidal surge of techno that leaves myriads of records scattered across the world in its wake, there is always an abundance of mythical gems littered amongst the flotsam and jetsam. Most artists with a career more than ten years long have a discography populated with plentiful near misses, incidental labels, fleeting ideas and chance pressings. Before the fact, no-one involved really knows if a release will be the one that bites, and so some much-pressed timeless classics can be snapped up now for 50 pence while others ignite a ferocious mark-up mentality through scarcity and reputation.
Records from Donato Dozzy & Nuel, Broken English Club, Cloudface and more all made for intriguing listening this week.
The New York club turned label’s third release comes off the back of a rare six-hour Voices From The Lake performance.
For those living outside of Detroit, Erika may be a relatively new name. But in the Motor City, Erika Sherman is a long-recognised figure of a hardcore underground electronic music community. Her debut solo album, Hexagon Cloud, released last year was preceded by a remix 12” featuring reworks by Orphx, and Detroit locals Marcellus Pittman and Brendan M. Gillen doing his BMG thing. Gillen, who oversees the long running Interdimensional Transmissions label also produces with Erika in Ectomorph, an electro group he formed in 1995 with Gerald Donald of Drexciya in an attempt to make Detroit music for Detroit, ‘not for export’. When Donald left Ectomorph, Sherman was handed a 606 and asked to join, which she did with Brian ‘DJ Godfather’ Jeffries and Carlos Souffront, a Detroit DJ rumored to have one of the most extensive acid record collections going around.
The Aquaplano Sessions sees the classic productions from the Italian pair reissued by John Elliot’s label.