Techno part -4- Plastikman

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Op vrijdag 29 oktober 2004 20:27 schreef Frank-NL het volgende:
Jay Haze - Acid Pimp

Geniaal geknisper, nog gratis te looien ook:

http://www.textone.org/in(...)lease&rel_id=txtn014

Sowieso een fantastische site waar je veel leuke dingetjes kunt halen .

Weer aantal nieuwe interessante releases:

Misc. - Crunch Time (Sender)

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After teasing the shit out of us with "Rocket Skating" and a ssociated remixes Misc finally give us what we want in this chocka double pack. Misc's take on the Cologne sound has alw ays been presented with a rockin' crunchy feel and this is n o different. Think DJ Koze, Michael Mayer and the Voight bro thers as your senses get bombarded with an array of digital squeaks, knarzy basslines, sharp laptop edits and plenty of dancefloor punch.

Bij nadere beluistering wordt dit album steeds beter. Aanrader voor de liefhebbers van de Frankfurter edeltechno a la Alter Ego. Lekkere zware basses en synths .

Ricardo Villalobos - Thé Au Harem D'archimède (Perlon)

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Yes, Villalobos is back! Following on from what must surely count as one of the largest and most highly regarded House albums of the last few years (the supremely sexy Alcachofa), Ricardo is back with another mighty collection, this time for the foremost purveyors of minimal cool – Perlon. “The Au Harem D’Archimede” is another epic succession of long tracks and divine instrumentation – Villalobos manages to make his percussion sound complex and terrifyingly funky at the same time, while the melodic arrangements are often brooding (Murcof-esque harp cascades grace the haunting “Hireklon). Villalobos is a master of the slow build up, taking you from looped malfunctioning machinery to twilight loveliness without you really noticing how you got there. Album closer “True to Myself”, meanwhile, throws caution to the wind and heads for the minimal disco with some unhinged vocals thrown in for good measure – like a tanked up Theo Parrish. Magnificent.

Niet zo goed als zijn debuut maar zeker zeer de moeite waard voor de liefhebbers van de betere friemel-, klik- en freubelhouse . Vooral "Serpentin" is een heerlijk nummer .

Melchior Productions - The Meaning (Playhouse)


Kwalitatieve, lekker in het gehoor liggende microhouse maar echt te boeien weet het helaas niet .

Zo en weer een hele lekkere release:

Matthew Dear - Backstroke



It's no doubt that Matthew Dear has been a student of the Cologne minimal house sound and production. Weaving push and pull grooves around crisp samples and effects, Dear has become more then proficient in laying down competent tracks for DJs and home listeners. He returns here with a mini LP (eight song cd, 6 song vinyl) for the Ghostly International label and continues the momentum he began last year with EP1, EP2, and the full length debut Leave Luck to Heaven (not to mention his work as Jabberjaw and some excellent singles and remix work). One would think that output would begin to suffer some quality control but Dear brings to the table another round of quality tracks in the shuffle tech vocal house style and even a few surprises that show an artist even challenging his own constructions.

After a gurgling arpegiated hypnotic intro, "Tide" begins where Dear left off from his full length with a upbeat vocal track that is easily as catchy as anything off LLTH but also feels like an artist moving on from his own past work as he sings, "I don't care about you anymore..." "Takes on Your" reminds me of work off the original Total 1 compilation from Kompakt and finds Dear shaving the house style down to the bare essentials of a kick drum until a trumpet sample briefly breaks up the repetition. "Grut Wall" is a solid after party number that again emphasizes the vocals and lyrics as a couple of rhodes piano notes pull the track to the end. The only awkward numbers would be the next two tracks but even here I feel satisfied as Dear experiments again with some odd breaks and some interesting effects on his vocals that add an uneasy drama. Following from here Dear presents a sluggish robotic funk track, but completes the album with an exceptionally strong track called "And In The Night" that feels almost proto house with a tribal rhythm as he just goes off on vocals as the track almost loses ground with the line, "I Left You High Not To Drowwwwwnnnnnn".

Overall another solid release for the Michigan based Ghostly label as Dear continues the momentum and energy of his earlier work and yet pushes forward new directions in both production arrangements and the use of his own vocals. Though many artists may become burnt out on ideas with such a schedule, Dear seems to have found a noteworthy quality in his work which is placing America back on the map again when it comes to interesting house music that may even teach a thing or two to those on the other side of the ocean.

Niks aan toe te voegen .

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Op vrijdag 26 november 2004 18:12 schreef HAL9000S het volgende:
Leuk label, dat Spectral Sounds

Deze is zoo vet: http://www.discogs.com/release/332389 .

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Op donderdag 23 december 2004 18:54 schreef HAL9000S het volgende:
Plus 8 Classics
Tracklist:
a1 Cybersonik Technarchy (5:54)
b1 Speedy J Evolution (6:51)
c1 F.U.S.E. Substance Abuse (5.02)
d1 F.U.S.E. , LFO Loop (8:31)

Die is echt vet!

Mijn nieuwste aanwinsten van de laatste tijd:

V/A - Speicher 22 (Kompakt Extra)

De tweede compilatie van het sublabel van Kompakt met meer dansvloer-georiënteerd materiaal. Heerlijke diepe minimale techhouse uit Cologne. Heerlijk!

Sten - Leaving The Franctic (Dial)

Heerlijke minimale techno voor thuis. Aanrader !

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Sten zal door de echte minimal liefhebbers al wel langer gekend zijn, dankzij sublieme ep’s eerder op Dial en Sender Records. Zelfs iemand als Sven Väth is een fan. Enkele van die nummers worden op ‘Leaving The Frantic’ hernomen, maar het gros is nieuw werk. Leuk voor dj’s is dat de vinylversie van het album dan weer twee bonustracks bevat. Voor wie nog geen minimal in de cd-kast heeft liggen lijkt me dit een ideale opstapper, al was het maar omdat Sten het tempo meestal net iets hoger legt dan pakweg Ricardo. Lekker diepe en atmosferische nummers allemaal, sober maar bijzonder gevoelig en toch efficiënt. Tien op tien!

Etienne De Crecy - Super Discount 2

Het vervolg van het baanbrekende album. Super electrohouse met duidelijk nog de Franse invloeden a la Daft Punk. Niet zo baanbrekend als het eerste deel maar wel net zo lekker...

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When Etienne De Crécy burst onto the scene back in 1997 with his Super Discount project, the influence of French electronica on dance music up until this point had been confined to Jean Michel Jarre and the racy Euro-disco of Cerrone decades earlier.

Whether EDC and compatriots Daft Punk and St Germain were directly responsible for a starring role and the mass acceptance of Air, Cassius, Stardust, Bob Sinclar et al is purely subjective; what's not is their support role in the breaking down of boundaries that would almost certainly be responsible for the later Gallic invasion.

Super Discount 2 is another cross-pollination of electro, techno and house with De Crécy the major architect. Its pluses include the storming instrumental "Fast Track" (an amazingly simple driving number in partnership with Julien Delfaud and Alex Gopher built around a relentless bassline), the neo-classical Daft Punk-like "Grokster" and the ultra funky bleeper, "Poisoned".

Elsewhere Giorgio Moroder's influences can be heard on the Midnight Express-like "Bit Torrent"; while the club fraternity will likely embrace "Overnet" (again with Gopher) and the simplistic analogue synths of "Limewire".

Once more De Crécy has manufactured an album of more than just mere fillers; and in the ultra addictive "Fast Track" the new wave of French techno has an anthem in the making.