Boysnoize Germany At Juno Download

Review: Only seventeen but already master of a lifetime's worth of production tricks and ideas, Munich's SCNTST drops this impressive release for Boys Noize's BNR label, featuring the deep maximal tom-tom thud of "Monday", the faster, slightly juke-influenced Addison Groover "Beachboy", the huge dark tech-monster "Globus" and the hypercoloured, viciously-sidechained and Lone-recalling "909 Time". This is excellent stuff and a perfect addition to the label's house style.

Review: The brotherly duo that form Shadow Dancer have always seemed slightly incongruous bed fellows to some of the louder, throwaway sounds that have populated the Boys Noize label, their music hinting more at the sounds that label boss Alex Ridha grew up on. The Second City EP marks only their sixth release on the German label, but it's definitely an accomplished one, chiselling away at the Mancunian warehouse rave sound on the opening title track, before flipping proceedings for some true old skool electro on a Dopplereffekt tip with the brittle, spectrally charged "Mashine Code". Up next, "Jamma" arises from the murky, reverberating analogue mists into a tightly wound acid flex bound by rubbery textures and abstract drum machine rhythms which descends into schizophrenic madness as it progresses. The duo end on an experimental note with "Voice Tracer" a track that commences in expansively atmospheric tone, gradually teasing out vast waves of industrial pressure and stretched vocal yearnings. Superb!

Review: A welcome revisit of Boys Noize's BNR stable and this extensive collection from 2008, featuring Siriusmo, Djedjotronic, Les Petit Pilous, DIM, Housemeister and of course Boyz Noize himself in a variety of guises. His Puzique alias for example is here with the classic French-leaning "Don't Go" for example, as well as the Italo-meets-industrial "Schwarzfahrer" under his Einzeller title. Elsewhere, Housemeister's Mantronix-sampling "Hello Again" is a blaster, as is CLP's Bmore-tweaked "Ready Or Not", while Siriusmo's "Simple" remains possibly his greatest tune to date and is simply an absolutely essential tune. Period.