Akira Kiteshi from Edinburgh always offers interesting, gender-crossing trips. As in his new remix, of Let the Music Play's Waves. The original is an uplifting electronic voyage reminding me a bit of the French techno productions from the middle of last decade (Laurent Garnier?) with too much soft trance for my personal taste. Akira Kiteshi just used the base melody line to squeeze a totally different juice from this track, full of crazy breaks, super fat bouncy bass and smashing drops, while keeping its cosmic acid appeal. ROLLER!
Gothic zombie bass has arrived from the US in the form of a scaarryyyy single Graveyard for mighty Robox Neotech by P-Fang hailing from SF. A morbid prelude to his EP coming soon on R/N. I've been waiting for this release anxiously for more than a year, after being totaly overwhelemed by the strange, dark and eerie sound of Midnight, Graveyard 2010 and Hall of Horrors mixtape.
Graveyard comes as a single including two versions of the title track and three cool remixes by Damscray (half of Demokracy), Low Limit (half of Lazer Sword) and Ghosts on Tape. Graveyeard 1985 is nice but cannot beat heavy basslines, sick bells and quirky vibe of 2010 version. This tune will seriously f..k with your brain! I thought one cannot improve the original, until I've heard juke's version by Damscray. Adding fast drums, but most of all - voice samples brought the game to yet another level of quirkiness and "Gimme the Graveyard, Gimme the Graveyard" will stuck in your head like burnt with branding iron. Definitely, NOT recommended for mentally unstable listeners. Low Limit, on the other hand, turned Graveyard into fantastic old-school acid space battle with lazers flying looooooooow. Dancefloor smasher for sure! Ghosts on Tape refixed another P-Fang's tune, Spiders. Most complex of the three remixes, continuously introducing new elements, transforming and changing, sounds like lo-fi, monochromatic patchwork of recycled sounds or live recording :) Strange and gripping. All in all another sick release from Robox Neotech presenting really unique and twisted music for your kinky pleasure. Highly recommended by Doktor Krank.
Yesterday I felt like stretching my limbs and dancing, today I yearn for feeding my mind and emotions.
Starting off with Dailon and his Conscioushift EP released a few days ago on Urban Waves Records. Powerful, cosmic neon trips in crunky 8-bit staffage with absolutely amazing synths. I can't even mention my personal highlight of the 6-track EP - all of them offer top-notch listening experience and all of them have their own unique style. One of the best releases this year without a doubt. Peeps, don't sleep on this and hurry to bandcamp. For a limited period of time you can get this for free, but I strongly encourage you to support the efforts the artist put into creation of this beautiful music.
More conscious-expanding music comes from Mexicans With Guns and amzing remix of Jorge Reyes & Samuel Zyman's Burning the Codices. Tribal chants in a beautifully rolling bass-heavy / beatz interpretation - this is the mixture I really dig. Ernest Gonzales from MWG writes: I recently watched The Other Conquest, a film by Salvador Carrasco, about the Spanish conquest of Mexico. I was inspired by a haunting song on the soundtrack called "Burning the Codices." Using the beginning part of the song with the Indian drumming and chanting, I created a remix that I'd like to share with you."
Acid House is baaaaack thanks to gendre-bending Numbers from Glasgow and DJ Pierre who presents new release in the best style of classic '80s Acid House, to drop August, 8th on 12" and digital - check Numbers site for details. Listen to the preview of Pierre's Phantasy Club - Mystery Girl (Set Me Free) along with Seiji's refix. I LIKE! DJ Dibbler from Glasgow writes in a note accompanying this release that "acid house music will never die" - I tend to agree with him. Definitely it will outlive all this shitty / indie / boring / copy-cat rock bands with their miserable rock'n'roll which I can't stand anymore.
Finally after powerful and successful acid trip, we steer to more laidback waters courtesy of The Walton Hoax duo (Jeroen Vande Voorde and Peter van Ewijk) hailing from Antwerp (Belgium). The Chemical Burn EP, released on !mpact Recordings offers a mixture of 2-step, UKG, dubstep, ambient and electronica with singer-songwriter vocals, which surprisingly works very well. The title track is already on heavy rotation in my player. I keep my fingers crossed for this project, we would definitely see more goodies coming from them in the future.
Video of the title track has already made quite a fuss in the interweb thanks to its mesmerizing appeal.
One of the biggest anthems of my techno era - Acid Phase by Emmanuel Top - in a 21st Century Edit by crazy Frenchmen from Stereo Heroes!! This stomping, pounding refix brought back all the memories of the years spent in beautiful Cologne (Germany) in the middle of the 90's and in particular great parties in the legendary Hippodrome in Hennef, where I lost myself many times in the ecstatic dancing with thousands of ravers jumping around, powered by nothing more than acid in my veins and liters of cold water :))
Since then I have lost interest in techno (with minor exceptions), but I would still pay dearly for a chance of experiencing this tribal unity of sweating bodies absorbing music like sponge shrouded with smoke and treated with all kinds of lasers. Yeah, I am such an old fart I remember the times when techno was underground music :)) Sometimes I miss this.
