REVIEW: Convextion – 2845 (A.R.T.LESS VEXT LP 1 – 2016)
About every ten years, Convextion is shaking up the world. It began in 1995 when Sean Deason’s Matrix Records from Detroit launched with the debut twelve from the electronic artist from Dallas. The...
View ArticleREVIEW: Shifted – Drifting Over (Drifting Over DRFT001 – 2016)
Previously I have covered a few Avian releases but surprisingly this is my first review of Shifted’s solo work. Long overdue for sure, because the label founder Guy Brewer, whose real identity was...
View ArticleREVIEW: Eomac – Bedouin Trax (Bedouin Records BDNX 001 – 2016)
Ethnic music has served as a source of inspiration for many artists and when speaking about Arabic flavour in electronica, the most merited producer might have been late Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze....
View ArticleREVIEW: Komarken Electronics – Expanded Consciousness (Brokntoys BT 15 – 2016)
Brokntoys is not taking any breathers: after recent twelves by IPTWDIP and London Modular Alliance, the UK label resumes the stream of splendid electro releases with “Expanded Consciousness” by the...
View ArticleSven Grünberg – Hingus (Bureau B BB 241LP – 1981/2016)
Sven Grünberg is real name of a real person and he is not a fictional Lufthansa engineer who secretly became electronic musician in the 1970s and appeared from the obscurity later. Grünberg, who turns...
View ArticleREVIEW: Reade Truth – A Bump Of House (Path Records Path-009 – 2016)
Reade Truth is an offspring of Big Apple’s legendary Sonic Groove and a true American techno hero. Maybe not as lauded as NYC fellows Adam X or Frankie Bones, the producer with civil name Reade White...
View ArticleREVIEW: Morphology – Frozen State EP (Vortex Traks VTX 004 – 2016)
With “Frozen State EP”, Morphology has saved the best for last in 2016. After appearing on recent Vortex Traks mini compilation, the duo’s first solo effort on the label affirms that Michael Diekmann...
View ArticleREVIEW: Ioannis Savvaidis – NSA Trusted Networks (Lower Parts LP12 – 2016)
Lower Parts takes a break from the usual repertoire of drum-heavy acidic cuts and changes the mood to sparkling ambient with “NSA Trusted Networks”, the debut from the Greek producer Ioannis Savvaidis....
View ArticleMetroplex triplets in 2016: Terrence Dixon, Arnold Steiner, Kimyon
With three much-awaited Model 500 reissues, Metroplex’s year 2016 would not have been wasted anyway, but the futurist label from Detroit decided to live not only in the past and has...
View ArticleThe best of 2016 in a mix
Tracklist Sven Grünberg – Hingus, I Osa (Мелодия / Bureau B) David Morley – Presto (De:tuned) Ioannis Savvaidis – IBM 2870 (Lower Parts) Puto Anderson – Domingo de Paz (Príncipe) Eomac – Same Heart,...
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