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Review: Near Berlin's Ostbahnhof station lies Studio R, a hidden internet streaming podcast bunker: like the Boiler Room but done the German way with no fanfare. Their release operandi so far seems to be the various artist approach, and after making a statement with their first EP, which included a track from DJ Qu and DJ-turned-producer Eric Cloutier, the quietly confident Studio R present a further four names. Soulphiction starts off with an analogue plodding disco cut 'n' shake "Tempation" while Kann artist Daniel Stefanik dedicates his track to the label by calling it "Studio R", which is something reminiscent to Parallax Beat Brothers' "Exhalation" who DJ Sprinkles famously remixed. On the flip is a dubby rhythm track by the Freund Der Familie crew, who recently showed they have what it takes to produce music like this on a larger scale with last year's Alfa album, but most interestingly on this EP is a track by the so far unknown Oyeq, providing something which sounds like a melodic trip that could have come out of camp Giegling.

Review: Back in June, the Red District label launched via a multi-artist EP showcasing the work of a quintet of largely little-known producers. The imprint has decided to repeat the trick on this welcome follow-up. Check first the odd but inspired, surprisingly funky tech-house/deep house fusion of Primarie's swirling 'Cu Sau Fara Energie', before admiring the locked in late-night hypnotism of Chiodan's glassy-eyed minimal house cut 'Cauta'. Zlatnichi delivers a more glitchy, Romanian minimal-style version of the same groove-based hedonism on fainty foreboding flipside opener 'Rasharafu', before Cvtkvc brilliantly layers up alien-sounding melodies, deep space motifs and echoing electronics on cybernetic closing cut 'Nedogled'.