Flora Pitrolo details classic NDW, opaque synth ruminations from two US icons, the return of Shinichi Atobe, West Yorkshire industrial grit and cosmic philosophy courtesy of Numero Group.
Our review of 2014 continues as James Manning, Scott Wilson and Tony Poland discuss the best 30 albums issued in a strong year.
How many secret, forgotten techno artists can be left out there to rediscover and re-release? It’s perhaps one of the great justices of the reissue culture and information exchange that once unsung heroes are getting their dues left right and centre where once their craft lingered in obscurity or at best cult status, and there’s certainly plenty of them lurking about in dusty corners of seminal labels and far beyond. Shinichi Atobe is one such character with one highly revered single on seminal dub techno imprint Chain Reaction from 2001, leaving a wake of fervent collectors wondering who he might be (an alias for Vainqueur seemed to be a popular theory).
Records from Shinichi Atobe, Dean Blunt, Dark Entries and the Canadian Riviera were among this week’s best.
The Modern Love duo track down the elusive Chain Reaction artist for a release on their DDS label.