|digi| [SKSR016] Roberto Clementi - Trifola EP

Tracklisting :

- Roberto Clementi - Trifola (Original mix)
- Roberto Clementi - Trifola (Lust Addict rmx)
- Roberto Clementi - Set Pre (Original mix)

LISTEN/BUY : https://www.beatport.com/pt-BR/html/content/release/detail/153705/Trifola%20EP

http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1389211-02.htm

http://www.trackitdown.net/genre/tech_house_minimal/track/832114.html

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Review:

This is the number 16 and simultaneously the most recent gift from Sk Supreme. A 3 tracks EP from Mr Roberto Clementi with Lust Addict remixing the track that gives the name to this solid and consistent release.

The first track, Trifola, is my favourite song of the EP, a very stressfull but funky and with a funny feeling in it that makes you wanna never stop dancing. This sound has an awesome groove that is completed with fast moving weird fx's of what seems to be crazy voices, desyncronized wet claps and pumping bubbles. A must have.

Yet, the remix of Lust Addict for Trifola is less more motivating (at least to my ears), but also nice, for example, for a further and more mental hour of a dj set with his loopy way of showing the happenings of the track. It also has a discreet but very sweet tribal flavour in it that makes it interesting and deep.

Finishing the voyage, we meet Set Pre, the most serious song of the release. Deep and strong loopy track that makes the listenner elevate his respect for its producer.

Concluding, this is a release that make us keep our eyes on this man, Roberto Celementi.

For more info check :

www.myspace.com/sksupremerecords
www.myspace.com/rocle

|cd+digi| [ECHOSPACEDETROIT3133] Intrusion - The Seduction Of Silence ALBUM

Tracklisting :

- Montego Bay

- Angel Version (with Paul St Hilaire)

- Tswana Dub

- Intrusion Dub

- Seduction

- Reflection I

- Twilight

- A Night To Remember

- Little Angel (with Paul St Hilaire)

- Under The Ocean

LISTEN/BUY :

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/340091-01.htm&highlight=intrusion

https://www.beatport.com/pt-BR/html/content/release/detail/154184/The%20Seduction%20Of%20Silence

http://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Silence-Intrusion/dp/B001M6SHO2

Stephen Hitchell's full-length debut under his Intrusion moniker literally picks up where his last full-length—Echospace's 2007 epic The Coldest Season, recorded with partner-in-crime Rod Modell—left off.

The massive "Empyrean" that closed The Coldest Season with a floor-friendly journey into dub techno was the album's most overtly Jamaican-sounding and beat-laden track, and the Intrusion sound finds its roots within its blueprint. If The Coldest Season's was an updated take on Basic Channel's glacial soundscapes, then The Seduction of Silence sees Hitchell bringing the more explicitly reggae-influenced sounds of Rhythm and Sound into the present—including two cuts (one a chilled dub mix of the other) with the honeyed vocals of Paul St. Hilaire (AKA Tikiman).

The Caribbean lilt present throughout the album (last year's mighty "Tswana Dub" single, included here, and the two cuts with St. Hilaire being the standout examples) lends a unified air to the proceedings. Hitchell slowly but surely increases the pace and intensity of the tracks from the opener "Montego Bay" through to the shuddering, staggering "Intrusion Dub" before pulling back on the reins with the slinky, sexy "Seduction" and then alternates between the deadly intense and dead mellow on the album's back half before finally concluding with the sparkling ambient coda of "Under the Ocean." Hitchell's solo work is far more rhythmically adventurous and danceable than most Echospace material.

The delayed and doctored analog pulses (no sequencers here, thanks) are adorned with a smattering of congas and other percussion, as well as a standard deep bass drum stomp and Studio 1-inspired bass lines. Make no mistake—the album doesn't sound explicitly like King Tubby; it's more like his ghost is haunting your favorite Maurizio sides. Beyond the phased and echoed chords and analog atmospherics, though, there is a palpable sense of spirituality present here that distinguishes The Seduction of Silence from most other dub techno, which has a tendency to be cold and metallic. There's a warm, celestial quality in the melodies here that looks skyward, and St. Hilaire's cuts provide the perfect bookends to the album; the dubbed-out "Angel Version" is track two, while the full vocal version "Little Angel" comes second to last.

The lovestruck, inspirational lyrics and St. Hilaire's soothing tones go a long way toward lending a definitive voice to the album that travels beyond mere vocals into a deeper meaning that transcends the ten tracks.Though individual highlights abound on The Seduction of Silence, the album works best when taken as a whole, an endorsement of Hitchell's vision for an expertly paced and executed album that raises the bar on the dub techno game to stratospheric levels. You'd be hard-pressed to find a better winter warmer than this; remember it with warm thoughts when winter returns later this year, when it's time for year-end polls

Text by: Todd Hutlock

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Review :

As is said at text above, think the album is capable of providing a fascinating tripbut as a whole..so don't miss any part of this mind-triping and enjoy the full album as a unique piece.

This kind of music allways make me feel peacefull and warm inside. I think I should leave it like that so wont talk about the production or anything else and lets just enjoy this delicious wet sounds of an alien's live concert behind a waterfall located in unknown deep space.

For more info check :

www.echospacedetroit.com

|cd+digi| [BUSTED05] Gramatik - Street Bangerz Vol. 1

Tracklisting :

- Doin' It
- In My Hood
- Don't Get Weary
- Sumthin'
- Just Chillin'
- New Nautilus
- The Prophet
- Itz Over
- To Follow
- Shaft Funk
- Funk It Down
- Ass Kickin' Bass
- Now I Know
- Road Trip
- Bring It Fast
- Loungin'
- Lorena's Butterfly
- Brother
- U R The One
- I Love The Way

LISTEN/BUY : http://www.amazon.com/Street-Bangerz-Vol-1-Gramatik/dp/B001LX4E52/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1230859302&sr=8-1

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/132457/street_bangerz_vol_1

http://cdbaby.com/cd/gramatik

http://www.target.com/Street-Bangerz-Vol-1-Gramatik/dp/B001LX4E52

Raw and cutting edge hip-hop beats, inspired by the classical soulful 70's with a strong and warm sound that makes it the ultimate Street Soul of today.
A dedicated musical freak, producer, DJ, MC/poet, producing any kind of music I feel in my soul, usually based mostly on funk and of course soul, jazz, and blues essences; a 23 years old philosophical-revolutionary mind, studying Audio Engineering at the SAE Technology Institute in LJ; an empirical agnostic, a science nut, possessed with astronomy, intrigued by philosophy and psychology, inspired by good fat music, motivated by a good, intelligent stand up comedy!

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Review :

Soon

|vinyl+cd| [FingerTracks1] Funkwerkstatt : BANG! (10 inch + CD / Premium Pack)

Tracklisting:

- BANG!

LISTEN/BUY : (exclusive) http://www.decks.de/t/funkwerkstatt-bang/bse-9h

Premium Pack ...The first release from the Finger Tracks Gang. Percussion Techhouse one Tracker from Funkwerkstatt. well known from Superfancy Records!! Hardware Only Release Limited 10Inch plus Maxi CD Vinyl Optic !! Exclusive on decks.de

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Review:

This release is the first one of a new label. I think it started really well with this single from Funkwerkstatt.
BANG! is a powerfull track that sumarises really well one of the ways that I think techno will choose in the future. Simple and hipnotic percussive tracks based on a solid groove. I think that in this kind of songs the producer start working on with a focus on "the perfect groove"..giving all the attentions to that main loop. Of course a great groove, the thing that keeps you dancing ( mentally and physically ) can be given to you by the sequence..the way the track is wrote. But in my opinion, I think that in this cases, thats the second fase of building a song like this.
Simple groove and clever sequence with brilliant elements ( literally because I use to ''visualize'' the sounds lol) are the caracteristics of BANG! If it sounds good to you now, I'm sure it will twist your mind listenning to it in a big room sound system.

For more info check:

www.funkwerkstatt.net
www.myspace.com/funkwerkstatt

|digi| [FVF006] Metrotek - Sister Cities EP (incl Planoco Remix)

Tracklisting :

- Metrotek - Tellen On
- Metrotek - Dutchie
- Metrotek - Total
- Metrotek - Aonar
- Metrotek - Dutchie (Planoco Rmx)


LISTEN/BUY : (exclusive) https://www.beatport.com/pt-BR/html/content/release/detail/153016/Sister%20Cities%20EP

January 2009 sees Irish duo, Metrotek, releasing their first full EP with FVF almost a year since they released Craic House on our 'Fiends & Family' VA. The wait has been worth it.
The EP was released exclusively on Beatport on Wednesday January 14th.
Tellen kicks things off - a glitchy track which builds slowly into up-tempo house. Dutchie is all about the building groove with atmospheric trippy elements. Total sees Metrotek go darker with an tougher, intense & synth drenched track. Aonar is back to a bouncy minimal sound with syncopated beats triggering synthy stabs. Planoco's remix strips Dutchie back to basics as a tough techno loop. The movement created is perfect for hypnotic techno sets.

PROMO VIDEO : http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=UUYkJ5pLFBo

For more info check :

www.myspace.com/fvfrecords
www.fvf.ie

|digi| [Igloo Pop 02] Shadi Megallaa : Lost & Unfound ALBUM

Tracklisting:

- Lost & Unfound
- Paranoiac
- Fear Not The Mic (feat. Michal Ho)
- Rain
- E.T. Phone Home (feat. STD)
- 3.14159
- Under The Bridge
- Choci Magic (feat. Seph & Hunny Bunny)
- Tings’n’Tings (feat. Michal Ho)
- The Kittycat Conspiracy (feat. Elephant Pixel)
- Jupiter Jazz Club
- One For My Baby (feat. Shadi’s Elastic Ghost Band)
- At Your Mercy
- Close Your Eyes (feat. Lucky Luke & Elephant Pixel)
- Lost & Found (feat. Hunny Bunny & Elephant Pixel)
- Hidden Track: The Little Walk (feat. Elephant Pixel)


LISTEN/BUY : (exclusive) https://www.beatport.com/pt-BR/html/content/release/detail/154186/Lost%20%26%20Unfound

Shadi Megallaa, the avant-garde space alien clone spy, hooked up with Igloo Pop label chef Dilo during a mission on Planet Earth. Recharging his nuclear powered batteries somewhere near Cairo, this third dimension encounter of the third kind which escalates into a full-blown underwater ghost rave, culminated in a wild humping on the back seat of grand mum’s car: Meghallaa as well as his alter ego Lucky Luke were born.

Well, that’s how it was, or could have been. Only a few things are certain: his first terrestrial music love was progressive, his first 12” was edited on Kenneth Broxgaard’s Danish Tic Tac Toe imprint, his last EP “Giza Visa” auf Dilek was pure Arabian brain sex, his first breath was taken in Cairo, and who still thinks all of this sounds cryptic should thoroughly study the latest two outings of this exceptional talent that is Megallaa who sometimes surfaces in the US and sometimes in the direct vicinity of Swiss criss crank man Michal Ho.

Impossible to categorize, the two first ever Megallaa long players, “Reflections of Light”, released under the moniker Tri.ni.ty, and “Lost & Unfound” on the Argentinean imprint Igloo and Igloo Pop, will cause a stir amongst followers and freaks alike: living and conjuring crazy sound collages in his favorite city Abu Dhabi, the real slim Shadi combines abstract sounds with organic voice samples (or vice versa: real instrumentations with deconstructed voices), and creates the most melodic, sound-laden, ambient, sometimes even brute and freaked out sampledelic atmospheres that play tricks on your hash-cookied mind whilst the body cannot resist the movement inducing, micro-mutant tabla sounds.

Danceable cosmic highlights like the Elephant Pixel (Dilo himself in his boombastic IDM guise) collaborations that are always peeping onto the floor while confusing the left brain hemisphere, the collab with Hunny Bunny and Argentine super maniac Seph, and two guest appearances of Michal Ho make this album a true sure shot for those who want to go beyond the tried-and-tested formula that seems to be the set standard delivered with programs like Ableton and Traktor.

Cool grooves that resonate the air of “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” (“Under The Bridge”), a micro-maniacal cracker, or jazzy swing vibes (“Jupiter Jazz Club”) sit next to starkly contrasting outings that take the legacy of Plaid and Vangelis into the unknown outta space. Hard to decipher, some of the tracks banged out by Shadi’s completely nuts alter ego Lucky Luke activate the lower body parts, especially if you are familiar and in love with the trucking micro club style propagated by label man Dilo and his Igloo which is world famed for his experimental ambient and IDM outings. Tune in, drop, space out.

Text: planetkat.com


For more info check:

www.myspace.com/shadimegallaamusic
www.igloo-rec.com.ar
www.myspace.com/igloorec