Slow, ambient, deep techno, intelligent electronic music. Huge soul, embracing, intimate.
MMTOHS – Luneworks
Skee Mask – Shred
Triphop tempo, ambient textures, breakbeats. Night time music, atmospheric, feels home.
Blond:ish – Welcome To The Present
Now this one is suprising and interesting. Debut longplayer with a blend of moods but mostly focusing on slow tempo, although even while keeping the pace below the mid-range still offers quite a palette from field recording style ambient through laid-back downtempo to choking steamy techno. Then halfway through the album we arrive to the mid tempo range and mostly keep the speed steady going forward. I better enjoyed the second half with its techno vibe, but the album as a whole has a well orchestrated journey for sure.
The Prodigy – Roadblox (Paula Temple Remix)
This one is interesting because at last a new Prodigy remix, which does not exactly sound like the Prodigy track in the first place. This one is some dirty techno shit.
The Black Dog – Neither/Neither
The new Black Dog album provides an equal amount of moody-darkish electronics, some ambient peace and pleasant techno. For the first run I listened to it five times in a row. And still rolling once a day. Something I didn’t see coming and offers a great deal of pleasant surprise.
Woo York – Blade Runner
And now back to some thrilling new techno hailing from Ukraine published by the good ol’ Soma Records and backed up with a beautifully illustrated cover. This is job well done all around. The music is minimalist, pumping, pulsing, space travelling, subway riding, night-time driving for the piece of your mind and the nodding of your head.
Lucy and Klock – War Lullaby
Collaboration between Ben Klock and Lucy. Deep minimal techno and eerie drone ambient on one EP.
Lakker – Tundra
Deep, melodic, thumping. An exquisite journey into your subconscious, through dark places and dreams.
Akkord – HTH035
All different kinds of electronic underground explorations from breaks to techno. What is exceptionally exciting is the HTH020 remix called ‘The Haxan Cloak’s Cloud of Witness’, which starts off a bit intimidating but builds up into some kind of elemental orchestrated rhythmic noise masterpiece in a manner of Fuck-Buttons-meets-post-rock-with-electronics.
Terence Fixmer – Depth Charged
Föld alatti, sötét, minimál, ipari, de mégis szikár techno.