house/techno
Premiere: Sakura – Now that I found you (Andre Hutchinson Remix)
Lost that Summer feeling, now that the nights a drawing in and the temperatures are dropping? We’re delighted to premiere the Andre Hutchinson Remix of Sakura’s Now That I Found You, and if this doesn’t bring a little bit of sunshine back into your life, then you need to seriously consider hibernating. Sakura is familiar …
Soundtrack of our lives: Graham Massey, 808 STATE + Tour dates.
1988 -89. All eyes and ears were on the North West of England. The Madchester scene was at it’s peak, at the centre of it all The Haçienda nightclub, where indie kids, ravers and more were having it large on the dancefloor. Many, many great tunes make up the soundtrack to that era, but one of …
EP: Ashworth – Braun
London based DJ and producer Joe Ashworth, better known as simply Ashworth has been on the rise for the last 12 months or so which peaked with the release of his debut LP ‘Grain’, which dropped on needwant and recieved support from the likes of Joris Voorn, Groove Armada, Shadow Child and Citizenn. His new …
Track: Dominica’s Gotta Let You Go to get official release
If you’ve been anywhere near a nightclub/DJ this year, you’ll know Dominica’s Gotta Let You Go. If that wasn’t enough of an endorsement, then it was the most played track at this years ADE, with Seth Troxler, Jackmaster, Skream, Tong and others all dropping it in their sets. Its been given an official release in …
Track: Paradisko – Fool (Martin Roth Remix)
Instanbul/London duo Paradisko are about to release their fourth EP, out on November 4th via High Above The Ground. German producer/DJ Martin Roth has got hold of the title track, Fool, and worked his deep house magic on it. He’s taken the moody disco house of the original, and given it this laid back, glitchy …
Track: Marcus Marr & Chet Faker – The Trouble With Us
Taken from their forthcoming EP, Work, out on Detail Records on December 4th, The Trouble With Us is the new single from Chet Faker and South London based DJ Marcus Marr. Seems an unlikely partnership, given that the Australian producer Faker lives in Brooklyn, but the pair met via Twitter. As Marr commented “Nick posted …
Track: Nicolas Jaar – Fight (Nymphs IV)
Chilean born, New York based producer Nicolas Jaar is back with the latest in his Nymphs series – “Fight (Nymphs IV)”. It follows (unsurprisingly) his Nymphs I – III 12″, and comes in the wake of his Pomegranates album. Describing the track only as “This nymph swam to gent”, it opens with these slightly watery …
Feature: I was a Manumission Robot! Plus ’98 club anthems soundtrack
It was May, 1998. I was 34 and jobless, my girlfriend had left me, and my band of twelve years was imploding before my eyes. The dry-rot on the bedroom walls of my rented flat had reached a state where it was hazardous to sleep in there. Rock bottom had begun to sound like an …
Track: Rainer Weichhold – Bamboo 2015 (Sacha Robotti Giant Panda Remix)
Out right now on Rainer Weichold’s Gold Records is a new remix from Sacha Robotti of the head honcho’s track Bamboo, a 2015 version, rather than the original that dropped some eight years ago. In the intervening period Robotti has honed his craft, following nigh on ten years in the game working both as a …
New: Janet Rushmore – Joy (Sonny Fodera Remixes)
If it was daunting tackling a real NYC garage-house anthem like Janet Rushmore’s ‘Joy’, then it doesn’t seem to have weighed heavy on London producer and DJ Sonny Fodera’s shoulders. First out in 1994, and an immediate underground hit, it’s already been remixed by the likes of house legend Kerri Chandler. Sonny Rushmore has produced …