Tresor Germany At Juno Download

Review: Although he was involved in Tresor from a distance - as a buyer for a record store in Detroit - Mike Huckaby has been called in to mark the label and club's 20th annivesary. The Detroit DJ has just put together a stunning mix of the label's back catalogue and follows it with this, his debut release for Tresor. More techno-focused than his releases for Synth or even Pacou's Cache, "Tresor Track" is based on steely drums and a churning chord sequence that gets more insistent as the track progresses. Special label, special producer.

Review: On this debut release for Tresor, Puresque certainly lives up to his name. Inspired by the classic techno sounds of the 90s, Vor Leitmotiv offers DJ-friendly linear rhythms with few nods to anything outside of the work of Hood, Mills and Ruskin. The anonymous techno named "OO1a" sees a woozy filter ride searing metallic rhythms, while "Schlaflos" is reminiscent of the German label-club's glories as hissing percussion is joined with jarring metallic riffs and a wobbly bass for a Pacou-meets-Landstrumm lesson in dynamic club tools. There is only one nod to a deeper approach as "Spinnenwabe" supplants metallic fury with churning chords and a purring bass.

Review: A few years ago when the focus shifted from mnml to the classic 90s-inspired sounds of Berghain, Berlin-based artist Roger Semsroth did the unthinkable - he took a hiatus from techno. It seemed Semsroth had diverted from the record-release-tour-earn money model that is pervasive in all forms of contemporary music. However, the man behind Sleeparchive had merely taken a brief break - and it is quite obvious that for Semsroth, someone who will be around when most of his peers are back doing day jobs, three years is indeed a shortish period. At a time when all around him tried to outdo one another in the sincere techno stakes, he focused his efforts on making the most wilfully noisy, experimental racket possible. Semsroth brings that sense of experimentation to Ronan Point, his comeback techno record. Great waves of noise underscore the rivers of viscous bass and titanium-plated drums that are at the heart of these arrangements. Fused with the kind of austere bleeps that made releases like "Hospital Tracks" such classics, this combination makes a potent dance floor fusion on "Point Two". "Point Three" is less detailed and its rhythm is inspired by Detroit minimalism rather than the Finnish variant, but bookending this excellent comeback are "One" and "Four", which present the listener with impenetrable walls of dense, frazzled abstraction. Welcome back you brilliantly awkward bugger.