Artist: Procombo Title: U Wanna Label: Rekids Special Projects Cat. #: RSPX45 Format: Digital Release Date: 23rd September 2022 Tracklist: 01. U Wanna 02. Bei Bei 03. Particles of Groove 04. Hopeless Romantic
Procombo returns to Radio Slave’s Rekids Special Projects with four-track techno EP ‘U Wanna’.
Active in Istanbul’s techno scene since the mid ’90s, Procombo heads up RX Recordings, an offshoot of the vital RX Istanbul club in the city. Returning to Radio Slave’s Rekids Special Projects Label this September after 2021’s ‘Orpheus’, the DJ/producer delivers four new hard-hitting techno tracks.
‘U Wanna’ gets straight to the point as rattling drums push up against swirling pads leading into a hooky vocal destined for emotional dancefloor moments, while ‘Bei Bei’ keeps the energy levels up with its fluid and shuffling percussion. ‘Particles of Groove’ sees warped hits twist and turn alongside modulating stabs and delayed FX before ‘Hopeless Romantic’ brings tight, punchy snares together with spoken word snippets over trippy earworms to close out the EP.
Artist: Dubrovnik Title: Synestia EP Label: Alumni Records Cat. #: ARG108 Format: Digital Release Date: November 11th 2022 Tracklist: 1. Charon (Original Mix) 2. Charon (Mark Dickov Remix) 3. Charon (Mark Dickov Dub) 4. Solaris (Original Mix) 5. Triton (Original Mix) 6. Triton (Planet 9 ReDub)
Long-time associate of ours Dubrovnik (UK) joins us for a excursion into the deeper realms of electronic music for ARG108.
Featuring three original tracks tweaked to perfection for the dancefloor and 3 spectacular remixes, all created by former students of subSine | Academy of Electronic Music in Glasgow, Scotland.
Artist: Hipp-E Title: More To Come EP Label: Gabu Records Release Date: – Friday, October 14 2022 Tracklist: 1. Lotta Love 2. In The Mornin 3. More To Come
1. More to Come : Party vibe with deep feels, and the bass line pulls you into the groove, title track for the ep
2. In the mornin : Paying respect to the NY house sound, this one is a classic house tune. Timeless and ready for peak time or sunny beach vibe.
3. Lotta Love: If you’re familiar with Hipp-E’s Early work this takes you right back to that time, solid grooves and deep vibes.
Hipp-E joins Gabu Records for his latest EP “More To Come”. This tour du force of deepness is a three-tracker with his usual flair.
This package of classic House music mixes a sunny late-summer swing with more solid NY grooves. Each track offers something a little different, making the package more than the sum of its parts.
Releasing on Gabu Records this October 2022. Don’t Sleep.
Artist: Mikel Gil Title: Love and War Label: Lonely Owl Records Cat. #: Lonely065 Format: Digital Release date: 21st October , 2022 Tracklist: 1. War And Love (Original Mix) 2. No Name Killed Me (Original Mix) 3. Alien Invasion (Original Mix)
We still alive and we show it with this 3 cuts release by label head Mikel Gil. The Basque artists at this time doesn’t need presentation being with most of his releases in the charts of Beatport and releasing in labels like AIMT , Renesanz, Dolma , Analytic Trail and Tutu Among others and of course having a constant in his work Techno in all ways . With this Ep he goes a bit more Raw in the first two with some acidic touch to end with Alien Invasion that goes with those evolving melodies that he likes.
HI-LO returns to Adam Beyer’s label for a sharp new outing ‘WANNA GO BANG’. The new track comes almost a year on from his energetic Drumcode debut ‘Hypnos’, which was followed by his remix of Adam Beyer & DJ Rush’s ‘Restore My Soul’.
Oliver Heldens’ techno alias HI-LO has been building steam over the last 12 months, remixing Nina Kraviz’s ‘Skyscrapers’, sharing line-ups with everyone from Erol Alkan to Pan-Pot and Enrico Sangiuliano on the world’s biggest stages, while also collaborating with Reinier Zonneveld, Eli Brown, and Space 92. All the while he’s kept in contact with Beyer, a sophomore offering on Drumcode always on the cards.
‘WANNA GO BANG’ is a high-powered Chicago-influenced weapon, that takes its vocal from the DJ Deeon classic ‘2 B Free’. HI-LO’s cut sees the vocal combine with a volley of drums throughout the mid-section, which adds a clever dynamic energy to the track. Already teased in HI-LO’s sets, and widely supported by the underground’s finest including Beyer, Amelie Lens, Enrico Sangiuliano, ANNA, and many more, ‘Wanna Go Bang’ is set to dominate clubs worldwide.
Included in the pack, ‘LOKOMOTIF’ is five minutes of pure machine funk as HI-LO crafts a fantastic little groover driven by 90s house synths stabs. The track which has been in the works for the past two years has been teased in HI-LO’s sets over the summer, also garnering support from Carl Cox.
On both tracks, Oliver Heldens says “‘WANNA GO BANG’ is my take on Chicago legend DJ Deeon’s classic vocoder vocal sample (from his 1992 song “2 B Free”, but it’s pitched down 5 semitones now which gives it such a dark vibe). I’ve always wanted to make my own DJ weapon version of it since I heard Bjarki’s trippy version in 2015, and I’m really happy with how it turned out, it’s such a monster! “LOKOMOTIF” is a high-energy groover, driven by 90s House synth stabs, funky percussion and banging drums, and it sits very nicely in between Techno and House. Both are really ‘dance floor’ focused, so I’m very pleased that many noteworthy DJs have been banging out these tracks in their sets already pre-release. And I couldn’t be happier than to see them released on one of my all-time favorite labels, Drumcode!”
Artist: Laurent Garnier Title: 33T.E.P.S.V. EP03 Label: Cod3 QR Cat. #: Cod3QR.Uncoded003 Format: Digital download – exclusive to AZE Digital Release Date: 23 September 2022 Tracklist: 1. Reviens la Nuit 2. Cinq O’Clock in le Matin
Earlier this year Laurent Garnier announced his series of five EPs to be released on Cod3 QR with each one being exclusively available via a different download store. ’33T.E.P.S.V. EP01′ was released in April on Juno Download, the second EP came to Hardwax in June and now the third EP in the series will hit AZE Digital this month.
Like the previous EPs, Laurent Garnier delivers two new monumental tracks on ’33T.E.P.S.V. EP03′ bringing his unique and unrivalled story-telling music, that build in pace, layer upon layer, over their extended duration.
’33T.E.P.S.V. EP03′ will be released on 23 September via AZE Digital
And in keeping with the label’s concept of codes, there is…
Artist: Alexander Church & James Welsh Title: Configurations 17 Label: Configurations of Self Cat. #: Config17 Format: Digital Release Date: 26th September 2022 Tracklist: 01 Alexander Church feat. Rebekah K – Feel This Way (Vocal Mix) 02 Alexander Church feat. Rebekah K – Feel This Way (Dub Mix) 03 James Welsh – Wynken 04 Alexander Church feat. Rebekah K – Stay (Vocal Mix) 05 Alexander Church feat. Rebekah K – Stay (Dub Mix) 06 James Welsh – RJIW
Following five previous collborations, Alexander Church & James Welsh come together once more for a split EP on Church’s Configurations of Self label.
Church is an adventurous artist who has been on the scene since the mid-nineties. He has made everything from melodic soundscapes to industrial techno under a range of aliases and always draws inspiration from his own deep thinking and desire to tell a personal story. This time he calls on vocalist Rebekah K to add a different dimension to his sounds.
First up is the fantastic ‘Feel This Way (Vocal Mix)’ which has a spine-tingling performance from Rebekah K who adds real soul to the sleek, Detroit-style techno below. It’s an expansive tune that brings real emotion. The dub is just as effective with a more sparingly used vocal glowing over the futurist grooves.
Former post-punk band member Welsh is a versatile producer who is hard to pin down. He has made everything from bass to techno on labels like Futureboogie and Phantasy Sound and has worked with Church on a strong series of EPs in recent times. In solo mode he offers ‘Wynken’, a melancholic masterpiece with sombre chords and a tender vocal buried deep. The punchy drums have soft edges and the whole track encourages serious inward reflection while you dance.
Alexander Church and Rebekah K then offer ‘Stay,’ a seven-minute track on loopy drums that rock back and forth with metallic percussion and bathed in cinematic synths. The vocal brings tenderness to this most widescreen of electronic sounds while the dub drives more directly. Welsh closes the EP with ‘RJIW’, a deep, symphonic but driving cut with smooth vocals and heartfelt chords. It’s a hi-tek soul track that sweeps you up and carries you away on a zoned-out vibe.
This varied EP is another high-water mark for Alexander Church & James Welsh.
Artists: Second Skin Title: Sense of Purpose Label: Blueprint Cat. #: BP066 Format: Vinyl / Digital Release Date: 7 October 2022 Tracklist: A1. Bare Hands A2. Sense of Purpose B1. Reformed Theology B2. No Escape
Second Skin is Spanish producers Psyk and Oscar Mulero with their first release for James Ruskin’s Blueprint.
These two prolific figures of the Techno scene will already be known to many. Oscar Mulero has run his own label, Warm Up since 2000 and PoleGroup Records since 2004, as well as releasing more recently on the likes of Token and Semantica. Meanwhile, Psyk launched his Non Series imprint in 2011 and has graced other labels including Mote-Evolver, Tresor, and Semantica (like Oscar). Of course, both artists boast a heavy DJ schedule with sets across the globe.
Joining forces under the name Second Skin, they are resolute for this next Blueprint release. The tracks range from the techno tribalism of ‘Bare Hands’, the pitch-black ‘Sense of Purpose’ and driving ‘Reformed Theology’, to the hypnotic ‘No Escape’.
Bacanadera Butterfly is the return journey of the unconscious through the images, sounds, emotions rediscovered in the first Bananadera.
Jazz, Funk, instruments and suggestions of South American music take on more European connotations, are enriched with more lounge atmospheres and a greater presence of sinths.
While remaining influenced by the magic of tribal rhythms, the evocative atmospheres are more familiar. However, the dreamy and psychedelic imaginative dream that reveals itself with its rarefied and indefinable sounds, poised between the present, the past and the future, remains unchanged and at times even more meaningful. The amalgamation and contrast of instruments with warm and cold, ethnic and synthetic tones, transports the listener through an unpredictable and evocative path. It is the baggage of experiences made while discovering a distant land that, during the return trip, seeks a motivation to transform itself into a motivational drive that can be decisive for the change in the life that will be.
It is the transformation of the worm into a butterfly. The awareness of the inevitable change that every intense experience generates in ourselves. And just as the caterpillar turns out to be a butterfly, so, “Bacanadera Butterfly” stimulates us to fly towards new states of consciousness…
Artist: Dennis Cruz Title: Ready To Roll Label: MÜSE Cat. #: MUSE037 Format: Digital Release Date: 23rd September 2022 Tracklist 1. Ready To Roll 2. Fire On
MÜSE boss Dennis Cruz returns to the label with more heat as he drops his two-track ‘Ready To Roll’ EP.
The home of massive summer anthems including ‘Ready For The Blues’ and ‘So Sweet’, it’s fair to say that Dennis Cruz is enjoying releasing material MÜSE – the imprint he runs alongside fellow Solid Grooves favourite Eddy M. Hot on the heels of his latest two-tracker, the Madrid native is back with a fresh selection of signature grooves as he reveals his latest EP on the label, ‘Ready To Roll’.
Skippy drums, zig-zagging bass and wild brass melodies twist and tumble beneath vibrant vocal samples as the Spaniard does what he does best by serving up a driving peak-time anthem with title cut ‘Ready To Roll’, before ‘Fire On’ sinks into a deep and dark roller made for sweaty basements and cavernous warehouse spaces alike.
