A Shot In The Light from Moscoman will be preceded by the Mexican Cola Bottle Baby 12″ later this month.
The production talent scores her own soundtrack for Japanese V-cinema.
Damien Lynch, Man Power, Mister Ho & Heap and Juan Ramos are all lined up for Lovefingers’ label.
Long awaited remixes of Johnny Nash and Kyle Martin’s project have finally surfaced.
Music offers escapism, both for the listener and the creator. An elaborately written press release accompanying this delightful Powder 12” for Andrew Hogge’s ESP Institute details the banality of her daily life employed in the depths of Tokyo’s electronic industry. Making music provides the chance to “exorcise her daily demons.” On the basis of the music Powder has released thus far, this is evidently a process that has served the rising producer well.
Lovefingers lines up Benedikt Frey, Moscoman & Red Axes and Damien Lynch 12″s.
The UK producer will release a two-track single on Lovefinger’s label in November.
Loverfingers’ label introduces Japanese entity Powder with a five-track release.
Twelve tracks from a long-distance collaboration by Black Merlin and Musiccargo’s Gordon Pohl to drop in June.
ESP Institute will issue two further records from the enigmatic Serbian producer next month.
The Black Country producer will appear on the label with the two-track Emergency 12″ next month.
When considering the careers of certain electronic producers, it’s possible to accurately pinpoint their “breakthrough moment”. In some cases, this may be a 12” single that crossed over into the mainstream, a surprise dancefloor anthem or revelatory remix. In other instances, it’s a track, EP or -very occasionally – an album in which they abandoned their trademark sound in favour of something more adventurous, densely layered or musically complex. Melbourne producer Lewis Day’s breakthrough came in 2013 with the release of Desperate Pleasures, his first – and so far only – outing on Tim Sweeney’s Beats in Space imprint.
In this month’s Scratching the Surface column, Scott Wilson looks at the increasingly maligned nu-disco genre, and some of the labels and artists who are using its legacy to create fresh sounds.
If you were turned on to the work of Tambien by their last (and widely applauded) single for ESP Institute, there’s a good chance that you have a taste for the unusual in house and techno. Likewise such a taste probably stands you in good stead to embrace the switch up in style that comes with their second release on Lovefingers label, where the scratchy grunge of disheveled breakbeats and distorted synths have been usurped by lighter, more fluid elements. This is not to say that the emergent trio from Munich have completely upended their style, but rather that the overall mood exists in an entirely different head space to the “Drogato”/ “Dois” release, or even the tribal thrum and nutty sonics of their last EP on Public Possession.
Preview the Australian producer’s three-track return to the New York label.
Preview the Munich production unit’s second release for ESP Institute.
Amsterdam’s Marco Sterk seems to have taken an age to move out of the shadows. A graphic designer by trade – he was, for many years, the brains behind the distinctive look and feel of Rush Hour’s releases – he first pricked the collective consciousness with an impressive double A-side debut single on his own impressive (if short-lived) Hand of God imprint. With its slow, lilting, decidedly Balearic A-side (“Moving Fast (Very Slowly)”, a sun-kissed fusion of shuffling acoustic guitars, alien synths, soft-focus drum machine rhythms and hazy melodies) and cowbell-laden, post-punk influenced B-side (the riotous and strangely foreboding “High Tide”), it offered a glimpse of Sterk’s wide-ranging influences and obvious potential.
The Amsterdam-based producer will release Biology on ESP Institute.
The LA-based duo team up as Blasé for forthcoming album Sunset Dawn on ESP Institute.
After a well received single that commenced proceedings for their own affiliated Public Possession imprint earlier in 2013, Tambien return to the fray to lay down another pair of tracks that send ones head spinning even more at the sheer abundance of quality analogue house and techno available at present. The label is an extension of a relatively new but widely celebrated shop in Munich that proudly supports the likes of L.I.E.S, Sex Tags, and ESP Institute who play host to this latest offering from the emergent producers. That should give you an idea of the kind of seedy beatdown world this music exists in, and what a wonderful world it is.