Nirosta Steel – Foxy Pup
The sounds of yesteryear will always be emulated by musicians: there are a lot of new tracks that sound, or try to sound, old. But it is a lot rarer to find an old record …
Fold – Slime EP
Fold, previously one half of deep house duo Homepark (releasing on Bliq, Third Strike and Ornate Music), has ventured into his first solo EP. Released on George Fitzgerald’s up and coming ManMakeMusic, we have a …
Aera – Offseason Traveller
As its title suggests, Berlin producer Ralf Schmidt concocted this record whilst spending six months travelling around the mountains of the South American Andes with his girlfriend. Twelve tracks long, it’s a sketchbook of sounds …
Four Tet – For These Times
Recent years have seen Four Tet gravitate towards more traditional house and techno structures, eschewing his jazz and experimental roots. And on ‘For These Times’ (taken from Nonplus Records’ Think and Change comp) Four Tet …
Komon & Appleblim – Gas Jam / Silencio
Releasing on his own imprint, Appleblim again teams up with Komon, otherwise known as Komonazmuk, a former member of drum & bass group Ice Minus. Appleblim’s acclaimed experimental and minimalist take on bass and techno …
Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie – Dusty Ballrooms EP
Junk Yard Connections, a Stockholm-based vinyl-only label, is the slightly more subdued alternative to Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie’s new imprint, the floor-friendlier Karlovak. The Swedish newcomers have carved out a distinctively rough sound across …
Romare – Love Songs: Part One
Romare’s acclaimed first EP wore the po-faced title Meditations on Afrocentrism and mined its samples from a multitude of songs, speeches, interviews and films to purportedly join the dots between African and African-American music. But …
Simple – Barely Together
Detroit’s Simple drops his debut on Apollo: six tracks of fractured minimalism and fuzzy, experimental electronics. The EP is decidedly downbeat, its shards of percussion often icy and cavernous; and yet it maintains a strangely …
Wbeeza – Mo Bella EP
Located a million miles from the Michigan motor city, London-based imprint Third Ear has nevertheless done a tremendous job of disseminating Detroit house this side of the pond. The Hackney label has gone from strength …
George FitzGerald – Thinking Of You
‘Child’, last year’s big hit for Aus, was a fun and buoyant dancefloor bomb erring on the poppier side of house music. ‘Thinking Of You’ arrives on Scuba’s Hotflush as the slightly cooler, leather jacket-clad …
