Material from the library music loving Italian collective will be issued on a compilation next month.
Maurice Fulton’s superb new album The Hydrangeas Whisper will be issued physically through Gerd Janson’s label next month.
Todd Osborn is a versatile producer. While some of his fans know him for his drum’n’bass releases as Soundmurderer, he has also carved out a distinctive path as a house producer. In some instances, as Osborne, that voice is positioned in the direction of Chicago-style box jams – witness Bout Ready to Jak – or the eternal, infectious summer grooves of the Ruling EP (one of this writer’s favourite modern house records). For his return to Gerd Janson’s Running Back label, Todd reverts to his given name and puts his focus on sparse and basic rhythms.
Gerd Janson’s label will drop T-rhythm Trax Vol 1 from the Detroit veteran next month.
This Laui XIV 12” sees the hirsute pair of Phillip Lauer and Gerd Janson return to their more familiar working relationship of artist and label boss after time spent together developing their Tuff City Kids sound. A second EP of original material surfaced on the Delsin House series, whilst there was countless remixes for a diverse range of labels with everyone from Internasjonal, Phantasy, DFA, Visionquest, and Mojuba blessed with some Tuff treatment in 2013. Presented in typically humorous fashion by Gerd ‘the word’ Janson as “Post-house-proto-disco-trance rockets,” this four track 12” is Lauer’s first solo material since an excellent Beats In Space record in 2012, and fans of the German producer’s work will be swooning from the off.
Stream a typically exuberant lead track from the German producer’s forthcoming Laui XIV EP.
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Maurice Fulton has long been once of electronic music’s most intriguing mavericks. Capable of producing both straightforward dancefloor gold and thrilling leftfield oddities, he seems determined to communicate entirely through the medium of music. His steadfast desire to sidestep publicity – interviews are a rarity – and do things his own way has helped create a mystique around his productions that undoubtedly serves him well.
Evergreen producer Oliver Ho aka Raudive will join Gerd Janson’s Running Back stable with a 12″ set for release in January 2013.
Sebastian Kramer’s debut Redshape album, The Dance Paradox, was an ambitious work, with the German producer making reference to Carl Craig, Moodymann and deep house producers like Chez Damier. Its follow up, Square, has a smaller range, but its tighter focus means that it sounds more like Redshape himself than those he takes inspiration from.
Englishman Matthew Styles will follow recent Running Back 12″s from Theo Parrish and Disco Nihilist with his own EP, entitled Aji-No-Moto .
Mike Taylor has consistently impressed with his particular brand of linear analogue groovery, first making his name with a series of scratchy, full-blooded releases that pushed 808-revivalism and hardware fetishism to its very limits. Each of his releases to date, whether for Construction Paper or Running Back, has been a kind of hymn to old-fashioned music making. His obsession with little details – transferring tracks to cassette before getting them mastered, recording drum machines and sequencers wobbling away in wonky analogue symmetry – suggests an obsession with style over substance. Given that his releases are rarely less than excellent, it’s a hollow accusation.
While hype acts come and go, it’s pleasing to be reminded sometimes that the real auteurs in electronic music manage to carry their clout with them wherever they head. As is par for the course with such characters and their creations, they never please everyone all of the time. Take an artist like Ricardo Villalobos, who can take his minimalisms and repetitions to maddening ends and yet still be lauded by many (albeit scorned by plenty others). Theo Parrish operates in a similar vein both in his productions and DJing, sometimes sounding awkward for awkwards’ sake, often deliberately obtuse and just occasionally delivering a sweet pill of direct satisfaction that keeps legions of listeners at his mercy. It’s not an easy trick to pull off, but Parrish has arguably nailed it more than any other of his Detroit/Chicago brethren.
Fresh from being announced as a participant in the (now delayed) Red Bull Music Academy in New York, Los Angeles based producer Suzanne Kraft will release the Horoscope EP on the newly minted Young Adults label.
“I had a mattress and a library card.” So says Mike Taylor, who, like many a great artist, upped sticks, moved to a new town and worked in isolation. He left his home in Detroit, packed his earthly possessions in a car and drove 1,400 miles to Austin, Texas. It’s not the most obvious path to gain recognition, but it worked: an impressive debut for Pittsburgh imprint Love What You Feel was followed by three EPs for Daetron Vargas’s Construction Paper.
Theo Parrish will follow that divisive Any Other Styles EP with a debut release on the Running Back imprint.
Gerd Janson’s Running Back maintain their don’t try and second guess us approach to the art of releasing music, turning to the somewhat mysterious B.D.I. for a forthcoming three track release entitled Paper Tears.
Gerd Janson’s Running Back imprint will release the debut album from German producer Phillip Lauer, one half of acclaimed duo Arto Mwambe.
As we previously announced, one of the many highlights Rush Hour have up their sleeves this year is a retrospective compilation detailing the many aliases and astounding music of Nu Groove mainstays The Burrell Brothers – which is due to drop next month across two LP editions and CD.