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Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland – Black Is Beautiful review

by Juno Plus on 24.04.2012 at 11:07am
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland – Black Is Beautiful review
Artist: Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
Title: Black Is Beautiful
Label: Hyperdub
Genre: Tape-drenched pop & steamy dub
Format: LP, CD, Digital

It’s not been made clear why Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland opted to drop the Hype Williams moniker in advance of this album for Hyperdub. Given the somewhat glib, intellectual appendage-swinging approach us writers have taken to their music since they surfaced, it’s possible they saw it as just another way to have us endlessly theorising. This shift in presence to their own supposedly fake names is the only difference on Black Is Beautiful, a gradually intoxicating album that retains every other aspect of the hazed out world of malfunctioning equipment Blunt and Copeland have occupied across countless releases.

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Claro Intelecto – Reform Club review

by Juno Plus on 18.04.2012 at 14:04pm
Claro Intelecto – Reform Club review
Artist: Claro Intelecto
Title: Reform Club
Label: Delsin
Genre: Techno
Format: 2xLP, CD

In a form where anonymity and a seamless relationship between people and technology are seen as desirable, Claro Intelecto’s music oozes humanity. To this writer’s ears, each release from Mark Stewart brings with it a frailty and vulnerability, as if the UK producer has shared a part of his private life with the listener. This key characteristic was what made his last album, Metanarrative, such compelling listening, and the same quality is audible in spades on Reform Club. It would be easy and unforgivably lazy to lump Claro’s work in with the great unwashed of deep/dub techno. While Reform Club does sparkle and shimmer with epic strings, ghostly reversed chords and dreamy synths, it’s the interplay between these elements and Stewart’s unpredictable rhythmic dalliances that make his third album so rewarding.

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Traxman – Da Mind Of Traxman review

by Juno Plus on 17.04.2012 at 12:44pm
Traxman – Da Mind Of Traxman review
Artist: Traxman
Title: Da Mind Of Traxman
Label: Planet Mu
Genre: Juke
Format: 2xLP, CD, Digital

With those bubbling toms and relentlessly ragged samples firmly fixed in the pantheon of modern dance music, juke and footwork are well and truly here to stay, thanks in no small part to Planet Mu Records and its tireless quest to showcase the authentic Chicago sound to a wider audience. With plenty of compilations, singles and artist albums getting notched up from the key protagonists in the scene, it’s now the turn of Traxman to step up to the plate with his album. Compared to some of his younger compadres, Traxman has been at it for a long time, with roots in Dance Mania 12”s in the nineties among other harder to trace offerings.

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Shifted – Crossed Paths review

by Juno Plus on 05.04.2012 at 12:55pm
Shifted – Crossed Paths review
Artist: Shifted
Title: Crossed Paths
Label: Mote Evolver
Genre: Techno
Format: CD, Digital

Shifted’s identity remains a mystery, but crucially, he does not come from the small coterie that has dominated UK techno over the past twenty years. Like the signature image he uses, a grey, shadowy creature creeping through a snowy forest, his infiltration of the sound has been stealthy and understated. In many ways, his lack of connection with techno, his automatic outsider status, has allowed him to effect an entrance into a hitherto new terrain.

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Petar Dundov – Ideas From The Pond review

by Juno Plus on 02.04.2012 at 15:58pm
Petar Dundov – Ideas From The Pond review
Artist: Petar Dundov
Title: Ideas From The Pond
Label: Music Man
Genre: Spectral Techno
Format: 3xLP, CD, Digital

Of the producers who emerged during the heady days of the 90s, few have continued to release great music. In fact, apart from Luke Slater, Regis and Neil Landstrumm, the passage of time has led to them following rather than setting trends. There are too many examples of once distinctive artists going down the big room minimal route to document here. In other instances, age has led to a ‘mellowing out’ process that leads to not a deeper sound but in reality bland factory-line fodder. While Petar Dundov’s latest album is certainly more laid-back than the storming intensity of his Brother’s Yard releases, he hasn’t sacrificed creativity, ideas or imagination in the process.

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LHF – Keepers Of The Light review

by Juno Plus on 02.04.2012 at 13:50pm
LHF – Keepers Of The Light review
Artist: LHF
Title: Keepers Of The Light
Label: Keysound
Genre: Dubstep
Format: 2xCD, Digital

While the attention around them grows ever stronger, the LHF collective drop their debut album with a minimum of fuss, and in something of a bold move give everyone a whopping 26 tracks to digest. If anything it’ll silence all those speculating and analysing while they just try to catch up and process this incredible body of work. As the name of the album and the singles that preceded this long player ably demonstrate, the combined forces of Amen Ra, Double Helix, Low Density Matter and No Fixed Abode (whoever they might be) are carrying the torch for the original principles of dubstep, and in turn UK rave music as a whole. This is no more evident than in the irreverence with which they use samples. Nothing is off limits, from Kill Bill and The Matrix through to Happy Mondays and 808 State, in a world where everything can be sampled and obscurity is king, it’s this wry innocence which informs the rest of the music, but the real joy is that it doesn’t hamper the sheer brilliance of the production.

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DVA – Pretty Ugly review

by Juno Plus on 26.03.2012 at 10:15am
DVA – Pretty Ugly review
Artist: DVA
Title: Pretty Ugly
Label: Hyperdub
Genre: UK Funky, Neo-Soul
Format: 2xLP, CD, Digital

Out of anyone to emerge in the UK funky scene, Scratcha DVA has been one of the key antagonists of the sound. His style veers wildly between moods, from sweet introspection to dutty swagger, quite often in the same bar. Between a show on Rinse FM and an increasingly steady release schedule on Hyperdub, in some ways DVA has transcended the trappings of his grime background to reach a kind of creative liberation where almost anything goes in his music. There’s a common kind of groove across the whole of Pretty Ugly, which is the closest delineation to DVA’s UKF contemporaries, but beyond that the tracks go anywhere and everywhere.

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Carter Tutti Void – Transverse review

by Juno Plus on 26.03.2012 at 09:52am
Carter Tutti Void – Transverse review
Artist: Carter Tutti Void
Title: Transverse
Label: Mute Records
Genre: Industrial
Format: 180 gram LP + CD, CD, Digital

Trevor Jackson’s recent Metal Dance compilation offered a timely reminder of the power, poise and intensity of the 1980′s finest industrial electronic music. While almost faultless, there was one glaring omission: a lack of material from arguably the greatest of all industrial synth-punk bands, Throbbing Gristle. For those with a passion for the dark, often metallic synthesizer tones, thunderous basslines and concrete-grey atmospheres associated with post-punk industrial music, Throbbing Gristle were always the poster boys and girls of a generation. Their music – experimental, challenging and in-your-face – sounded like it was beamed-down from another planet, possibly using dusty Cold War-era machinery fashioned in the deepest backwaters of rural Siberia.

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Emptyset – Medium review

by Juno Plus on 23.03.2012 at 11:16am
Emptyset – Medium review
Artist: Emptyset
Title: Medium
Label: Subtext
Genre: Droning, Dubby Electronics
Format: LP, CD, Digital

Electronic music is meant to provide a release from the real world, but Medium, the latest missive by UK producer Emptyset, will bring anyone who hears it crashing back to the earth. There’s a desperate malevolence at play on this work, a sonic accompaniment to the end-of-days desolation so vividly narrated on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The key difference however, is that while that novel provided no alternatives and seemed to revel in its nihilistic approach, this album offers an escape from the drab sameness and conservatism inherent in modern day techno.

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Jason Grove – 313.4.Life review

by Juno Plus on 15.03.2012 at 10:20am
Jason Grove – 313.4.Life review
Artist: Jason Grove
Title: 313.4.Life
Label: Skylax
Genre: Deep House
Format: 2xLP

While a back-story shouldn’t be the deciding factor in appreciation of music, context is inescapable as a listener and it has the power to sway thumbs up or down depending on how seriously you take the information. With this latest release from Hardrock Striker’s French label Skylax, there’s already been a bit of fuss stirred up as to whether the history behind the music is true or not.

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The Burrell Brothers – The Nu Groove Years 1988-92 review

by Juno Plus on 12.03.2012 at 16:15pm
The Burrell Brothers – The Nu Groove Years 1988-92 review
Artist: Burrell Brothers
Title: The Nu Groove Years 1988-92
Label: Rush Hour
Genre: Deep house
Format: 2xLP, CD, Digital

When Rheji and Ronald ‘Rhano’ Burrell dropped their debut album on Virgin Records in 1988, there was little sign that they would eventually become one of the most influential production partnerships in house. Simply titled Burrell, the album offered a slick, radio-friendly mix of 80s R&B, synth-funk/house crossovers and the sort of piano-laden garage house – as it was then called – that was beginning to dominate the clubs of New Jersey. Despite its accessibility, it was a flop, and many expected that would be it for the talented young brothers. In many ways, it was probably the making of them.

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Grimes – Visions review

by Juno Plus on 12.03.2012 at 10:32am
Grimes – Visions review
Artist: Grimes
Title: Visions
Label: 4AD
Genre: Fuzzy, hypnotic pop
Format: LP, CD, Digital

Much like any artist-shaped pawn in the nefarious game that is the modern day music industry, Grimes has retained a near omnipresent presence across the various social network feeds, blogs, news hubs and style magazines in the period subsequent to 4AD’s announcement of this album Visions. Such a constant presence is breeding ground for cynicism, however there seems to be something natural about the way the Vancouver born Claire Boucher has involved herself in this daily barrage of “possible content” – to use the PR parlance of our time – that’s wholly endearing. Take for example the day Boucher spent overseeing the popular US blog Gorilla vs Bear. It was no doubt a shrewd move by 4AD given how integral to promoting an act GvB has become, yet these kinds of publicity stunts have proved ill conceived in any cultural corner – as anyone unfortunate enough to flick through the recent cringe-worthy Noel Fielding takeover of The Guardian’s Guide can attest. The overarching feeling you got from seeing Boucher’s 16 posts arrive that day was she had a clear love for the music of her friends and contemporaries and just wanted to show it.

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Regis – Complete Works 1994-1996; 1997-1998; 1999-2001

by Juno Plus on 09.03.2012 at 12:39pm
Regis – Complete Works 1994-1996; 1997-1998; 1999-2001
Artist: Regis
Title: Complete Works 1994-1996; 1997-1998; 1999-2001
Label: Downwards
Genre: TECHNO
Format: 3xCD, Digital

Explaining why Regis and his music exist is a difficult one. A pop psychologist could point to his surroundings, the concrete mazes of Birmingham, as being pivotal in shaping his relentless, unfliching vision for techno in the same way that the decaying Detroit cityscapes informed the first wave in the US.  Equally, it is also possible to posit that O’Connor is merely following in a long line of UK pop, punk and industrial situationists who were unwilling to just make and release music and who wanted to leave something more meaningful in their wake.

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Demdike Stare – Elemental review

by Juno Plus on 08.03.2012 at 18:11pm
Demdike Stare – Elemental review
Artist: Demdike Stare
Title: Elemental
Label: Modern Love
Genre: Discordant excursions into the techno ether
Format: CD, 2xLP, Digital

It would be stretching it to say that Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty’s Demdike Stare project re-ignited electronic music’s sonic and aesthetic obsession with the supernatural and the occult, but it’s true that they are among the most talented proponents of such dark leanings. However, that may be about to change. The duo have been on a roll over the past year and after the release of Tryptych, they toured and started to accumulate sounds for their latest venture.

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Trevor Jackson/Various – Metal Dance: Industrial Post-Punk/EBM Classics & Rarities 80-88 review

by Juno Plus on 06.03.2012 at 16:59pm
Trevor Jackson/Various – Metal Dance: Industrial Post-Punk/EBM Classics & Rarities 80-88 review
Artist: Trevor Jackson/Various
Title: Metal Dance: Industrial Post-Punk/EBM – Classics & Rarities 80-88
Label: Strut
Genre: Industrial, Post-Punk, EBM
Format: 2xLP, Unmixed 2xCD, Digital

Having previously mined the new wave vaults of Factory Records, the pioneering work of leftfield disco producer Bob Blank and the weirder fringes of New York’s post-punk club culture, Strut Records avert their gaze to the worlds of EBM and industrial. It’s a wise choice, not least because those genres – along with post-punk, proto-house and, arguably, the odder end of the disco spectrum – provided 1980s listeners with some of the most revolutionary, inspiring and downright strange music of the era.

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Monolake – Ghosts review

by Juno Plus on 01.03.2012 at 10:54am
Monolake – Ghosts review
Artist: Monolake
Title: Ghosts
Label: Imbalance
Genre: Creaking, spooky techno
Format: Gatefold 2xLP+CD, CD, Digital

Robert Henke’s music has always been blessed with a supernatural edge, personified by those ticks, glitches and slivers of sound that lend an extra dimension to his robust, muscular rhythms. On Monolake’s latest album, however, it feels and sounds like the spirits have taken over the show and are dictating how each arrangement should be played out.

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Johnny Jewel presents Symmetry: Themes For An Imaginary Film review

by Juno Plus on 28.02.2012 at 16:47pm
Johnny Jewel presents Symmetry: Themes For An Imaginary Film review
Artist: Johnny Jewel
Title: Symmetry: Themes For An Imaginary Film
Label: Italians Do It Better
Genre: Soundtrack
Format: 2xCD, 3xLP

Given the fashion for library music, disco noir and the synth-heavy soundtrack work of Goblin and John Carpenter, it was probably inevitable that Italians Do It Bettter would dip their toe into cinematic waters at some point. That Glass Candy/Chromatics producer Johnny Jewel is the man to take the plunge is little surprise, either; while he’s previously shown few signs of wanting to swap avant synthesizer disco and dark-pop for sweeping strings, grandiose orchestral arrangements and recurring themes, there’s an evocative, melodic feel to his work that suggests he’d be rather good at scoring films.

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Various Artists – Shangaan Shake review

by Juno Plus on 27.02.2012 at 12:20pm
Various Artists – Shangaan Shake review
Artist: Various
Title: Shangaan Shake
Label: Honest Jon's
Genre: Leftfield Western artists reinterpreting South African shangaan electro
Format: Digital

Wisely gathering together the slew of 12”s that were issued in a celebratory culture clash very typical of Honest Jon’s, Shangaan Shake is the complete document of the remixes the label commissioned to pit leftfield Western artists against the Shangaan electro of South Africa. When your choice of remixers spans Ricardo Villalobos and DJ Rashad, and the source material is 180 bpm African music, you can only expect varied results.

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Burnt Friedman – Bokoboko review

by Juno Plus on 20.02.2012 at 12:26pm
Burnt Friedman – Bokoboko review
Artist: Burnt Friedman
Title: Bokoboko
Label: Nonplace
Genre: Mellifluous haze of taps, hits, drums and knocks
Format: 2xLP, Digital

There are those artists out there, in the field of electronic music as much as any other, who flatly refuse to make things straight forward. A good example of this would be Sutekh, who a friend once described as being “slippery”. This word applies well to those true auteurs who refuse to fit moulds and follow trends, with back catalogues that tend to confound and befuddle rather than comfort. Burnt Friedman is almost certainly one of these “slippery” artists, and he’s back once again to grease your gears with his particular strain of musicianship.

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Porter Ricks – Biokinetics (reissue) review

by Juno Plus on 17.02.2012 at 13:19pm
Porter Ricks – Biokinetics (reissue) review
Artist: Porter Ricks
Title: Biokinetics
Label: Type
Genre: Seminal dub techno
Format: Blue vinyl 2xLP, CD, Digital

It’s amazing how the passage of time clouds memories and judgment. Biokinetics was originally released on Basic Channel sub-label Chain Reaction back in 1996 and was the first long player on that imprint. Chain Reaction, like its mother label, is viewed as the originator for dub techno, yet as Thomas Koner and Andy Mellwig’s debut as Porter Ricks long-player reminds us, its expression and impact were much wider than that. It explains why the decision by ambient/experimental label Type to reissue this album is an unsurprising one and its reappearance serves as a reminder why sixteen years later, Biokinetics still resonates.

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