Crowdpleaser / Oktay Uzcan – Right Beside You / Haunted
Released on Ripperton’s Tamed Musiq imprint, this EP is worth the price for the title track alone and should receive some pretty strong airtime when it drops in January. All steely high-hats and wraithlike vocals, …
HNNY – Tears
Local Talk is a painfully inconsistent label, swinging fleetingly between mediocre and inventive. Thankfully this excursion falls into the latter; it comes from HNNY after all, who doesn’t seem to have put a foot wrong …
Doc Daneeka – Walk On In feat. Ratcatcher
You never quite know what sort of production Doc Daneeka is going to serve up, but the one constant is quality. Oh, and he often likes to insert that misty-eyed sound of crackling vinyl (which …
Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind
Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) returns with his seventh album Beautiful Rewind. Known for pushing the boundaries of weird and wonderful sonic textures, this was always going to be a surprising Long Player – especially …
Spaventi Dazzurro – Lonely
If you’re looking for ‘charming’ and ‘downbeat’, look elsewhere. Spaventi Dazzurro, serves up a hefty onslaught of writhing acid techno not for the faint-hearted. The ‘Jerk Out’ version is a huge lumbering beast of mangled …
The Candle Family – Love Theme From Two Hearts
Straight-up slo-mo funk here from The Candle Family, an elusive musical duo brought together by their mutual love for obscure disco records. Love Theme From Two Hearts, the first release on their Unforgettable Music …
Borrowed Identity – Leave Your Life
Young German-Romanian producer Borrowed Identity serves up some achingly deep house on the inaugural Mistress Recordings release – the sublabel of DVS1′s HUSH, renowned home to purist techno. Mistress aims to widen HUSH’s horizons, straddling …
Cuthead – Everlasting Sunday
Cuthead has provided the weird and wonderful Uncanny Valley with some of its best material: his 2010 ‘Sinner’ was the series’ trump card, and the solid ‘Brother’ and ‘Slenda Daddy’ further cemented the former hip …
Tom Demac & Will Samson – It Grows Again
Tom Demac and Will Samson recently decided to work together as a result of both losing close family members months apart – and what they have produced is a delicate and tender EP called It …
Climbers – House Arrest
“It’s so simple, it’s genius” is the phrase which stuck in my mind when reading the description of Mexican duo Climbers’ brand new single ‘House Arrest’ on Turbo Recordings. The whole track seemingly unfolds after …
