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When Fred Peterkin put out his first album under the FP-Oner guise last year, he told this writer that the next stage of his artistic development would involve some type of live performance, but that it would have to be “unique to my vision and I would have to take it as seriously as my music-making or my DJing.” Given that 6 has appeared less than a year after its predecessor, it seems that making a transition from club DJ to fully-fledged live act has been put on hold for the time being.
Fred P continues his trilogy of albums for Toshiya Kawasaki’s label with the arrival of 6 in May.
Yoyogi Park is due in April and completes the Dial co-founder’s trilogy of albums for Mule.
It was back in 2007 when a young Romanian collective emerged, seemingly out of nowhere with [a:rpia:r] 01. They brought with them a fresh sound that adhered to the key principles of what always made the minimal techno sound so edgy, before, to quote Oli Warwick, “it became self-conscious about its reductionist values.” Stripped and hypnotic grooves that focused on the raw essence of house music, defiantly unreliant on elements like vocals, big melodies or swing. They weren’t reinventing the wheel per se; there’s no doubt their sound was as much indebted to Perlon or Playhouse as it was to Max.Ernst or even Accelerate.
Fred P, Ed DMX, and Kenny Hanlon of Apartment Records impart their knowledge as Richard Brophy covers the lack of identity in much of the electronic music currently being released.
The Parisian deep house head and the Chicago pioneers will release a collaborative single next month.
In his sizable and celebrated career Peter Kersten has often displayed a propensity for ambient music. From his first Lawrence LPs and singles on Dial and Ghostly through the long association with Mule Musiq and Ladomat 2000 amongst many others, even his housiest moments have been shot through with that winsome, ethereal musicality that would sit comfortably in the chill-out room were they stripped of their rhythm section. There have been some outright ambient tracks that have appeared scattered throughout his releases, but here on this new album for Mule we get to take a long form ride through the softest, most gentle sides of Kersten’s output.
Axel Boman, Tom Trago, Lauer, JD Twitch, Naum Gabo and more contribute to the forthcoming double CD compilation from the Japanese label.
The Tokyo-based Mule Musiq have announced details of a new mix CD from Optimo.
DJ Sprinkles returns to the compilation format for Mule Musiq, with a forthcoming collection of the Tokyo-based producer’s finest remix work.
DJ Sprinkles will release a new mix CD entitled Where Dancefloors Stand Still on Japanese imprint Mule Musiq.
Optimo main man JD Twitch has long been renowned for his eclectic approach to DJing and music making, but more than a few people will be surprised by his forthcoming 12” for hyped re-edit imprint Let’s Get Lost.
Mule Musiq, Toshiya Kawasaki’s label from Japan is synonymous with top notch quality house and tech-house. That’s why it comes as no surprise that digital music iconoclast DJ Sprinkles (Terre Thaemlitz) would release such a dark house track on Mule. DJ Sprinkles has carved a name in house circles DJing and making challenging, diverse electronic music since the 80s. DJ Sprinkles was Terre Thaemlitz’s alias when spinning at New York City underground gay clubs in the 1980s.
Born out of the sessions from Midtown 120 Blues, Sprinkles’ exceptional full length from last year, “Masturjakor” precisely lives up to its namesake. A dark string-laden, bass-heavy affair that chugs along opening many strange doors along the way develops into a dirty, danceable slow burner. Behind some of these doors, ticking sounds, birds chirping and the rumblings of a thunderstorm reveal themselves and mesh together into a complex, yet sexy track that feels like a story being told without words. If that’s too pretentious a description for you, fear not…it just flat out jacks.
KiNK and Neville Watson bring their trademark old school, raw dirty house sound on their remix, providing even more jack for your buck (or pound). A Masturjakor dub – which Thaemlitz himself claims to be his favourite version of the track – and bonus beats are also included for those DJs out there who just can’t get enough of an excellent track.
Review: Steve Phillips
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