TEN NEW RECORDS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH
01: ROSWELL PROBE – PROBE [SYNCOM DATA CD/DVD-R]
CD collecting Roswell Return’s recent 12″s – some of the most sumptuous and bewitching ambient techno that you’ll ever hear.
02: DA POSSE – IT’S MY LIFE [CLONE CLASSIC CUTS]
Apparently produced by Hula, one of the Outhere Brothers (yes, those Outhere Brothers), this EP of bumping, brittle Chicago house, originally released in ’87, is notable less for the Derrick May rip-off of a title track and more for the syncopated A-side monster, ‘Strings’.
03: ANCIENT METHODS – ‘THE WHIP’ [ANCIENT METHODS RSB 12"]
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04: REDSHAPE – THE DANCE PARADOX [DELSIN CD/LP]
A disappointment all in all, but worth checking for the superlative mood-piece ‘Globe’.
05: A MADE UP SOUND – ‘REWORK’ / ‘CLOSER’ [A MADE UP SOUND 12"]
The influence of UK funky and Untold’s refined dubstep-grime can be felt on this killer new release from Dave Huismans.
06: ROSKA – TWC EP [ROSKA KICKS AND SNARES 12"]
I’d kind of written off Roska to be honest, but this is next-level funky which aspires – perhaps unconsciously – to the condition of Detroit techno.
07: DJ JUS-ED – ‘STEP UP’ [UNDERGROUND QUALITY 12"]
Normally I pass up on overpriced UQ imports, but this is is just astonishing. Coming over like a pitched-down, baked-out Underground Resistance track, ‘Step Up’ has rightfully been picked up by Ben UFO and the more on-it post-dubstep DJs as well as the usual deep house bores.
08: HYETAL – ‘PIXEL RAINBOW SEQUENCE’ [REDUCTION 12"]
Peverelist continues to impress, delivering a remix that’s richly detailed but never cluttered; really, though, it’s the original that does it for me. Skewed dubstep-techno psychedelia done right.
09: EXCEPTER – ‘STRETCH’ (JG THIRWELL REMIX) [FRKWYS 12"] (Pictured above)
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10: SKANFROM – ‘ARE YOU ALONE’ [THE ALL-CLEAR 7"]
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Kiran Sande