With the Above the Structures EP, ptr1 sows his seed in the particularly fertile interbreeding fields between techno and dubstep.
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Airhead, Paper Street
November 23, 2010 – 1:01 AM
Airhead’s sophomore release offers more of the unusually airy style that sets him apart from peers James Blake and Mount Kimbie. Nick Höppner features as remixer.
SCB, SCB002
November 17, 2010 – 1:01 AM
Paul Rose offers SCB001, the second releaseu under his techno-making alias, SCB, following a series of well received remixes for members of the Hotflush stable.
EQD, Equalized#004
November 10, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Unlike the bulk of Rene Pawlowitz’s material under a plethora of aliases, Equalized#004 feels fussy and mundane rather than effortless and awe-inspiring.
Darkstar, Gold (John Roberts Remix)
November 9, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Hyperdub follows Darkstar’s unexpected stylistic transformation with another surprise: a remix of “Gold” by rising deep house star John Roberts.
Cosmin TRG, Liebe Suende/Sores of Attraction
October 28, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Liebe Suende/Sores of Attraction finds Cosmin TRG revisiting the acrid textures of See Other People but placing them in a deep house framework similar to Rush Hour’s usual fare.
Various Artists, Fünf
October 26, 2010 – 10:01 AM
The celebration of Ostgut Ton’s fifth birthday is a 2-CD compilation containing all new material from nearly everyone ever associated with the label.
Iori, Spaciotemporal
October 22, 2010 – 9:01 AM
One wonders when a label will be confident enough to Iori’s tracks a full release, but Spaciotemporal hints such a future shouldn’t be far off.
James Blake, Klavierwerke
October 12, 2010 – 9:01 AM
Unlike the blown-out R&B histrionics of his first R&S record, CMYK, Londoner James Blake takes the humble source material of his own piano and voice and stretches, chops, and dices it on follow-up EP Klavierwerke.
MSF, Meaning Formation EP
September 21, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Donnacha Costello introduces the MSF pseudonym for the Meaning Formation EP while largely hewing to the sound featured on his most recent album.
FaltyDL, Endeavour
September 16, 2010 – 10:01 AM
FaltyDL continues his string of nearly ineffable releases with the Endeavour EP for Planet Mu.
Conforce, Grace EP
September 8, 2010 – 9:01 AM
Recently associated with dub techno, Conforce’s Grace EP for Delsin Records does much to disassociate from that tag but finds he still has work to do to establish his own original voice.
Doc Daneeka, Hold On
September 7, 2010 – 9:01 AM
Releasing a one-sided single is an obvious show of brash confidence, but Doc Daneeka’s “Hold On” is nearly monumental enough to justify it.
K-S.H.E, House Explosion I
August 25, 2010 – 9:01 AM
French house label Skylax is endeavouring to reissue the K-S.H.E material in a series of newly-curated vinyl EPs and later on CD, starting with House Explosion I.
Traversable Wormhole, The Remixes Pt. 1
August 24, 2010 – 10:01 AM
The first in a series of reissues from CLR takes two tracks from the second and fourth Traversable Wormhole releases and tacks on excellent remixes from Marcel Dettmann and Peter Van Hoesen.
Kassem Mosse, We Speak To Those/Hi Res
August 9, 2010 – 10:01 PM
Perhaps best known for his two woozy EPs on Workshop, Kassem Mosse builds on the sound of those EPs with a new pseudo-militaristic drive on his NonPlus+ debut.
Urban Tribe, Urban Tribe
August 5, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Urban Tribe’s latest release arrives on Moodymann’s Mohagani Music label and feels more like a quaint document than a magnum opus, the techno equivalent of a living-room jam recorded on someone’s cheap tape deck.