Review: Having made his mark via releases on some of tech house and techno's most popular labels (Raum Musik, Cocoon and Eastenderz included), Christian Burkhardt has been awarded the honour of releasing the first music on Saturn Drive, a freshly minted imprint from Los Angeles. The headline attraction is undoubtedly the Daniel Roth collaboration 'Mousewalk', a chunky slab of quirky tech house hypnotism which combines sturdy low end pressure with no more than a handful of eccentric musical motifs. It comes accompanied by a more rolling, sub-heavy revision courtesy of Parisian producers Politics Of Dancing. The fun continues with the wonky, bass-heavy dancefloor weirdness of 'E-Search'.
Christian Burkhardt - "Hola" (instrumental version) - (7:11) 125 BPM
Review: For their sixth instalment, the Bad Klosterlausnitz based Muna Musik return with their biggest lineup yet boasting the current creme de la creme of house music from their own soil and beyond. Right heroes on here, such as Beste Modus boss Cinthie with the bumpin' classic house journey "Hurt Me", Frankfurt Rhein-Main legend Christian Burkhardt is also on top form with the trippy, latin infused minimal house of "Hola". For something dead set on the main room at peak time, Spanish scene hero Hector Couto has you covered with his new school antics. The tough rolling groove of "Ciroco" really satisfies, as does the deep melodic tech house of Luca Donzelli's "Not Ordinary".
Christian Burkhardt - "Karambolage" - (7:14) 127 BPM
Argy - "How Late It Was, How Late" - (5:12) 125 BPM
Markus Fix - "Baroon" - (7:27) 128 BPM
Review: This fine EP gathers together four previously unreleased exclusives from the latest edition of Cocoon's Dots & Pearls series, which was mixed by Markus Fix. His contribution to the EP, "Baroon" - a kind of contemporary re-imagining of the original 1988 version of The KLF's "What Time Is Love" with extra TB303 acid lines - is undoubtedly one of the highlights, alongside the ethereal melodies and early morning fuzz of Argy's intoxicating "How Late It Was, How Late". Elsewhere, Christian Burkhardt peppers a rolling house groove with boisterous but blissful stabs on "Karambolage", and Jimi Jules serves up a loose and languid take on the foreboding, stretched-out Innervisions tech-house sound ("Euphrasia").
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