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Actress
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Played by: Juno Recommends Experimental
Review: Actress delivers his ninth album, LXXXVIII, and new long playing work inspired by game theory at large. Still with that classic, lo-fi, harsh and warm Actress sound, Darren Cunningham's aesthetic remains equally ungraspable at the same time. As if some kind of subversive throw back to his legendary Splazsh album, minimal piano tropes punctuate the album to visceral effect. Venturing to looped, computer funk styles in in tracks like "Its me ( g 8 )" too, there's something undeniably sincere to all 13 numbers on offer here. Taking in house beats, experimental hip hop instrumentals and avant garde classical - this album's a keeper.
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ZENDNL 295
03 Nov 23
Experimental/Electronic
03 Nov 23
Experimental/Electronic
Various
Review: The Russell Brothers aka Truss & Tessela keep the fires of their Overmono project burning with a huge session on Fabric Presents mix series. Off the bat you'll find a hyped and unreleased Blawan number in the producer's "Fourth Dimensional" next to a 2005 Vex'd classic "Pop Pop". Overmono exclusives include a super laid back and hopeful "If U Ever" alongside both numbers from their latest Polykicks release - jungle and UKG heads check it out. On the lighter dubbier side of things is a sweet inclusion of Well St artist Robert Fleck, next to some heavier bombs from L.B Dub Corp, Plastikman, Actress and Ed Rush & Optical's "Bacteria". We also recommend Powder's "Lost Of Light" next to DJ Misjah's "Victim" and Equiknoxx's "A Rabbit Spoke To Me When I Woke Up". Best thing since Surgeon's This Is For You Shits.
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506084 5320478
16 Jul 21
UK Garage
16 Jul 21
UK Garage
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ZENDNL 271W
01 Sep 20
Experimental/Electronic
01 Sep 20
Experimental/Electronic
Review: Darren Cunningham has grand plans for AZD, his latest album. He wants to develop a live performance of the long player that will morph into "the first translucent, non-soluble communication sound pill synergised through impressionistic interpretations of technological equipment". In the meantime, his listeners are presented with a dizzying array of experimental techno. Opening with the pointillist blips of "Nimbus" and the stepping Terrence Dixon-esque techno of "Untitled 7" and "Blue Window", the album moves from the understated into the grainy house grooves of "Fantasynth" and "Runner"- which sound like Detroit's MGUN. Cunningham is, like this US fellow peer, a restless creative mind, and AZD then shifts into the bassy "Cyn", before moving back to techno with the grainy loops of "X22rme". It might not yet have evolved into the communication sound pill that its author envisaged, but AZD is more advanced than most techno albums.
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ZENDNL 241
14 Apr 17
Experimental/Electronic
14 Apr 17
Experimental/Electronic
Various / Prins Thomas
Review: Prins Thomas' recent Paradise Ghoulash mix was something of an epic, stretching across three CDs. It also featured a number of special versions, re-edits and remixes by the man himself, a selection of which have now been available digitally for the first time. There's naturally much to admire, from the rolling, dancefloor-friendly rework of Box Saga's forgotten 1995 B-side "Zen & The Art Of Deadlines", and a blissful Balearic house interpretation of Hieroglyphic Being's "Imaginary Soundscapes 9", to two fine versions of Blacknecks' 2014 jam "Don't Dream It Be It", in which the Norwegian adds his own krautrock-influenced percussion and psychedelic builds. Arguably best of all, though, is Thomas no-nonsense edit of U's "The Subdubba Beat (Stockholm Glue Mix)", which tightens up and cuts down the dub techno epic to make it vastly more workable for DJs.
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541416 507408D
18 Dec 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
18 Dec 15
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Germany's K7 have got it on lock-down with this latest 12', a full rework EP of Actress' "Bird Matrix" killer by a pair of dance luminaries. First up is Venezuela's Kid606, a man who has been making 'outsider' music since before the term was ever coined, and one who has been every bit as important to the dance music scene all the more commercial names. Kid606's Club Mix is driving, filled with slithering percussion and led by a gorgeous swarm of aqueous synths and Zelda-like sonics, while the dub version slows things down and muddies the groove up into a heady, meditative bundle of melodies and beats. Simbiosi, on the other hand, goes for the jugular and delivers a heavy, stomping techno retuning of the original - what a blinder! There's also a tune by the mysterious Gnesis, "Pear", which appeared on Actress' own K7 compilation. Ya need!
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K7319EP 1
30 Oct 15
Techno
30 Oct 15
Techno
Review: Announced with the most cryptic of statements and accompanied by a thousand online think pieces, the long awaited Ghettoville from Actress is finally here! Much like previous long players from the Werkdiscs boss, Ghettoville is not an album your brain will digest in one sitting, especially since it packs in sixteen tracks. Described as "the bleached out and black tinted conclusion of the Actress image," Ghettoville draws on all the familiar Actress signifiers with the ghostly remnants of hip hop, Detroit techno and Chicago house scattered across the album. On immediate listen there are a few standout tracks, the ragged Motor City soul of "Gaze" and the brilliant finale "Rule" but we'll let you discover the rest for yourselves.
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WDNTDNL 006
27 Jan 14
Experimental/Electronic
27 Jan 14
Experimental/Electronic
Review: There's something heart warming about the faulty connection glitches and dusty electronics of a Darren Cunningham production. "Voodoo Posse Chronic Illusion" from the Silver Clouds EP is one such example. Noises which would normally sound out of place sit ever-eloquently between plucked harp strings, reverberating bells and wood block percussion. "Floating In Ecstasy" sounds like something that could soundtrack a scene of a staggering ghoul bearing down on a cornered victim, while "Silver Cloud Dream Come True" features a drum pattern that jitters intermittently between varied glockenspiel chimes. As a taster for Ghettoville, his presumed Hazyville follow-up due on Werk soon, it's got us very excited indeed.
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WDNTDNL 004
08 Feb 13
Experimental/Electronic
08 Feb 13
Experimental/Electronic
Played by: Bantam Lions, In Flagranti, Juno Recommends Experimental, Dominik Eulberg, Phiorio (Metroline Limited), Tom Trago, Jaws
Review: "It's like painting with buttons and sliders... Melting and dripping, seeping yourself liquid into the machinery." So said Darren Cunningham when discussing the creation of R.I.P, his long awaited follow up to Splazsh. It's a compelling image that works in practice too. R.I.P creates microcosmic sound worlds within each track: "Holy Water" for instance tumbles in on itself in a melange of shimmering sinewave droplets, while the pitchshifted waves of "Tree Of Knowledge" seem to inhale and exhale like a living being, crumpling inwards on itself to repeat the same motion ad infinitum. And although it uses much the same, occasionally abrasive sonic building blocks as Cunningham's been developing for many years, the pastoral tones of "Uriel's Black Harp" and the Alva Noto styles of "Jardin" make R.I.P a surprisingly graceful album. It may not be techno as many will know it, but Cunningham has never made techno in the traditional sense anyway - and it's clear on listening to R.I.P that he's only just beginning to realise the musical forms that have been swarming inside his brain for years.
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HJRCD 60
20 Apr 12
Experimental/Electronic
20 Apr 12
Experimental/Electronic
Various
Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer - "Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Meet Shangaan Electro" - (9:14)
Review: Shangaan Shake is the complete document of the remixes Honest Jon's commissioned to pit leftfield Western artists against the Shangaan electro of South Africa. It's an all-star cast, from house heroes to dubstep tinkerers. Mark Ernestus turns out an elegant slice of dub techno, while DJ Rashad and RP Boo throw down a sweaty slice of footwork action, and Peverelist plies a typically complex rhythm at a slower, seductive tempo. Out of all the remixers, Theo Parrish is the one unafraid to maintain the original BPM, which leaves his remix stark against the multitude of other tracks. Essential.
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HJRCD 58
24 Feb 12
Deep House
24 Feb 12
Deep House
Various
Review: Shangaan Shake is the complete document of the remixes Honest Jon's commissioned to pit leftfield Western artists against the Shangaan electro of South Africa. It's an all-star cast, from house heroes to dubstep tinkerers. Mark Ernestus turns out an elegant slice of dub techno, while DJ Rashad and RP Boo throw down a sweaty slice of footwork action, and Peverelist plies a typically complex rhythm at a slower, seductive tempo. Out of all the remixers, Theo Parrish is the one unafraid to maintain the original BPM, which leaves his remix stark against the multitude of other tracks. Essential.
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132742 8604895
24 Feb 12
Footwork/Juke
24 Feb 12
Footwork/Juke
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NONPLUS 010I
07 Mar 11
Electro
07 Mar 11
Electro
Review: Darren Cunningham's 2008 debut Hazyville was a wonderful journey though a myriad of disparate influences, from Detroit techno to glitchy electronica and dubstep. Here we see the Werk Discs chief revisit some of those influences but also tread new ground with his follow up LP, Splazsh. It's a startling journey: every track on here is worth listening to, digesting, and listening to again. "Lost" is one of the more tender moments on the album, with a female vocal draped over a rolling synth line and metallic snare. "Bubble Butts & Equation" would be the perfect theme song should the world come to as sudden and messy end, while "Always Human" has the squelchy leftfield techno sound of Anthony Shake Shakir. "Maze" is one of the album's true highlights, a stunningly simple piece that shows how beautiful electronic music can be when stripped back to its bare bones, while the broken beat of "Purrple Splazsh" once again shows Cunningham's deft touch with sampling. Even the weird, experimental tracks toward the end are deliciously rich and textured, including the superbly titled "Supreme Cunnilingus". With so many ideas crammed into 14 songs it's a wonder Cunningham has ended up with such a perfect little album, but on Splazsh that is not the case. This could only have been made in 2010 and that, above all else, it what makes Splazsh so special. One for the ages.
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HJRCD 49
28 May 10
Techno
28 May 10
Techno
