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Shifted, Avian 1
Painting by Kim Manfredi[Avian] Despite having just three releases to his or her credit, new producer Shifted has already made his/her mark on underground techno. The most noticeable aspect of this...
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Meschi, Shifting Harbour EP
[Lunar Disko] At a time when falling sales dictate that even the most well-known labels have to ensure each release contains a number of killer dance floor tracks, it’s refreshing to hear a record like...
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Chicago Shags, Irrational Excess
[Crème Organisation] That a reinvention of music conceived 25 years ago, issued on a sub-label of an offshoot from one of Europe’s most defiantly underground operations, Crème, sounds more relevant...
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Myriadd, Beyond This Life
[Créme Organization] Like the preceding release by Chicago Shags, the latest missive on Crème’s offshoot label invokes the classic house sound of Chicago. It’s not just an artistic direction favored by...
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Redshape, In Trust We Space
Jasper Goodall, “Desert Mirror”[Present] There has been a focus on purist techno and house in recent years, but most of the resultant output is utterly derivative of white-knuckle Millsian fury,...
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The Express, First Class
Speed of Light installation by UnitedVisualArtists[HEM] Keen-eyed LWE readers will already be au fait with tracks on this EP, which featured on Ryan Elliott’s recent podcast for the site. But for...
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Floorplan, Sanctified EP
[M-Plant] Rightly or wrongly, Robert Hood is mainly associated with that most abstract strain of minimalism. Maybe this is because Hood’s body of work from the 90′s had such a hugely profound effect on...
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Various Artists, Twentyfour Ways
[Smallville] The problem with making music that closely follows someone else’s rules is that invariably, the impressionable producer will also be subject to someone else’s imposed boundaries. Because...
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Marcel Dettmann, Translation EP
Artwork by Jonas Eriksson[Ostgut Ton] Marcel Dettmann reawakened the relationship between industrial abstraction and techno on his steely yet gritty debut album, but his new EP Translation sees the...
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Tresor Reflects On 20 Years
Long before Berlin’s nightlife narrative was dominated by Berghain, Bar 25 or Watergate, there was Tresor, a bunker in the city center with a killer sound system pumping out the most uncompromising...
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