Category: Review

Review: Clavis – “Banza” EP [Freerange Records]

By: Irina Kotik A rising star of the Berlin techno music scene, and multi-talented producer, Matuel Tur is teaming up with Adrian Hoffmann, aka Urban Absolutes of Paskal & Urban Absolute to break the dancefloor with an impressive new project called ‘Clavis’. Manuel Tur first emerged back in 2002 when Mada Music released…

December 13, 2015
Review: Jon Charnis & Hands Free – Leviathan [Connaisseur] // DeeplyMoved

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August 21, 2015
Review: &Me – Trilogy EP [Keinemusik] // DeeplyMoved

Review by: Irina Kotik &ME is building a reputation for firing off club dynamite, smashing dancefloors across the globe with a smart and innovative collision of soulful house and techno. After making huge waves with the “After Dark” offering on Keinemusik, &ME impresses us again with another beast of a release that sits…

August 16, 2015
Review: Frankey & Sandrino – Acamar EP [Innervisions]

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212101601″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] I remember vividly the exact moment I first heard Acamar- it was love at first audition. When Dixon dropped it at the Innervisions party at BPM Festival, I was immediately overtaken with a cascade of chills and goosebumps from the intoxicating altered Phrygian-scale melody of ascending and…

July 29, 2015
Review: André Hommen – Introspectral EP [Poker Flat Recordings] // DeeplyMoved

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/119850868″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”350″ iframe=”true” /] Review by: Irina Kotik André Hommen is an artist on the rise with incredible talent to fire his trajectory to renowned heights. Despite keeping his hands full working with Dennis Ferrer’s New York City based Objektivity imprint, as well as playing in underground clubs and festivals across the…

July 27, 2015
Review: Pisetzky – Off the Map EP [Just This] // DeeplyMoved

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/121290852″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Review by: Irina Kotik Just as the Romanian sanctuary is the current glade of minimal techno, Italy has likewise been a hub for innovative and emotional techno-leaning deep house. Breaking into Milan’s vivacious techno scene from the fashion world as a sound designer, extremely talented DJ…

July 9, 2015
Lehar – Flora & Zephyr EP [Connaisseur]

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/113471600″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”500″ height=”250″ iframe=”true” /] Review by: Irina Kotik When romanticism meets mystical melodic techno, as achieved by producer Lehar, the outcome is everything you wish for in music. A relatively fresh but already reputable name on the scene, Lehar aka Lorenzo Esposito is an extremely talented Italian artist gracing the…

June 26, 2015
The Box – Sketches of Pain (Jon Charnis Remix) [Endless]

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/211304309″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”565″ height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Best known for his absolute bombs “Prophecy” [Innervisions], “Lonely Stars in Open Skies” [All Day I Dream], and his remix of Christian Prommer’s “Marimba” [Compost], Jon Charnis deeply impresses yet again with his jaw-dropping remix of The Box – “Sketches of Pain” on Luca Bacchetti‘s Endless label.…

June 24, 2015
The Legendary Lightness – Hey Ron (Ripperton Remix) [Zukunft]

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/209378211″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”500″ height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Guest post by Irina Kotik June marks the long-awaited release of The Legendary Lightness’ two-track EP “Hey Ron” on the newly-founded Zukunft Recordings label, a subsidiary of the Zukunft Club in Zürich. The A-side is the original “Hey Ron” indie-folk song previously released as part of…

June 11, 2015
BAAL – Noah EP [Musica Autonomica 004]

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/111423735″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”500″ height=”300″ iframe=”true”/] Guest post by: Irina Kotik After an impressive debut at Musica Autonomica last summer with “Genesis” and “Jericho”, young and talented Munich producers Matthias Dräxler and Matthias Schüll, better known as BAAL, are coming back in June with a very impressive second EP, “Noah”. The ambivalent, biblical Hebrew word…

June 1, 2015