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Dmx Krew
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Review: Ed Upton has long been one of British dance music's most prolific producers, with his latest album on Hypercolour - the typically vibrant Spiral Dance - marking his 24th full-length excursion as DMX Krew since 1996. Its' 13 tracks are typically vivid, inventive and entertaining, with the Bedford-born producer rushing between intergalactic electro ('Always Hats'), sub-heavy UK techno futurism (the bleep-influenced 'Bathtime Bobby'), house-tempo dancefloor IDM ('Spiral Dance'), Spacetime Continuum style ambient techno (the chill-out room friendly 'Back To '92'), synth-laden analogue cheeriness ('Is This Normal'), heady beat-free soundscapes ('Hammer Slowly Forming'), early Autechre style electronica ('Ankle Grinder') and sweaty acid house ('FM Assembly').
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HYPELP 026
05 Apr 24
Minimal/Tech House
05 Apr 24
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Juno Recommends Electro
Review: DMX Krew deserves praise for enticing Blak Tony to appear on Night Creatures. With a catalogue that stretches back over 30 years, the Aux 88-afiliated producer is one of US electro's unsung heroes. He delivers a suitably futuristic contribution to the title track, where Ed DMX weaves his vocal narrative about 'creatures of the night' into acid tones and a stark rhythm. The Breakin' boss ups the tempo for the rave-focused, clubby electro of "Bounce Your Body". "Dynamic Jit" is faster still. The lean, steely rhythm features sped up Kraftwerk samples and insistent cowbells - a paean to part of the rich Motor City sound that Blak Tony has played a key role in.
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BRK 67
10 Nov 23
Electro
10 Nov 23
Electro
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Electro
Review: Peggy Gou's label delivers a compilation that features regular contributors to her label. Mogwaa's "11khz" resounds to a fusion of rolling, shaking drums and lush synths. Exploring this theme further, Salamanda's "Mockingbird" is more contemplative thanks to its combination of swirling melodies and downtempo drums. In contrast, the wonderful Hiver duo drop a crystalline electro track in the shape of "Lunar". The compilation also serves up some fine dance floor tracks: DMX Krew weighs in with the clubby, angular rhythms of "One Take", Brain de Palma's "Road to Tatooine" is a fine, wonky acid track - and Closet Yi's "Sonder" is a shimmering break beat track
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GUDUFRIENDS 001
16 May 23
Electro
16 May 23
Electro
Played by: Juno Recommends Electro
Review: Operation Madness is a new label, and it opens its account in style with an EP from DMX Krew. While some of the veteran producer's recent releases have focused on techno, Time Holes follows more diverse paths. "Local Off" is a wonky, lo-fi rhythm, while "More 606Es" is a frenetic melange of spiky techno rhythm and relentless metallic percussion. Given DMX Krew's heritage, it's no surprise that electro also looms large. There's the warbling bass and acid-spiked tones of "Trigger Warning" and "Software User Guide". Showcasing his versatility, "Distress Signal on Mars" is a harder, more stark iteration of the sound, as DMX Krew delivers a dance floor track that is reminiscent of Drexciya at their most abrasive.
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OPM 01
27 Apr 23
Electro
27 Apr 23
Electro
Review: After a whirlwind 2022, with releases on Super Rhythm Trax and Furthur Electronix, DMX Krew returns to Gudu. The title track puts a heavy focus on Detroit techno, with a jerky bass and whooshing synths providing the stage for Ed DMX to drop a warbling, UR-style acid sequence. On "Altered Chords", that Motor City connection continues, as he deploys a walking funk bassline with chilling strings. In contrast, "U Ain't Really Down" is an outlier. Harder and distorted, it resounds to coruscating analogue riffs rather than studied musicality. However, it's only a temporary divergence: the snaking groove of "I Love Juan" is right up there with the Model 500 innovator's own creations.
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GUDU 014
30 Mar 23
Techno
30 Mar 23
Techno
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco, Juno Recommends Deep House, Juno Recommends Electro, Casino Times, MR ABSOLUTT, Daniel Watts
Review: Ed Upton's DMX Krew output as always been heavily rooted in electro, but he's not averse to turning his hand to vintage-sounding synth-funk and synth-pop when the mood takes him. It's this end of his output that the Bedford-born producer explpres on Party Life, his second album for Permanent Vacation. Featuring his own spoken and sung vocals, pleasingly authentic '80s-sounding synths and bubbly basslines throughout, Party Life very much lives up to its title, delivering a swathe of catchy, ear-pleasing cuts that are more fun than, well, something extremely fun. Highlights include bubbly P-funk pop number 'Show Me', revivalist new jack swing number 'Anything' and the memorable, radio-friendly title track, which is also presented in a deliciously delay-laden 'Dub' mix mode.
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PERMVAC 2291
06 May 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
06 May 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: Some 15 years after Benjamin Frolich and Tom Bioly launched their Permanent Vacation label with a fine compilation of the same name, the Munich-based pair return with a seventh showcase of treats from the imprint's now sizable roster of artists. As you'd expect, it's an eclectic and uniformly high-quality affair, with the 22 included cuts touching on everything from cheeky electro covers of Chris Rea (DMX Krew's rather good take on 'On The Beach'), deep nu-disco (the star-fall synths and Italo-disco bass of Kendal's Basorexia') and sun-soaked, 80s synth-pop-meets-dream house bliss ('Digital Joy' by Rees), to sleazy slow acid ('Lose Your Soul' by Zilas on Acid), late-night proto-house revivalism (Felice's 'Just Passing By') and rushing, breakbeat-driven dancefloor dreaminess (Dharma's 'The Epiphany'). In a word: excellent.
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PERMVAC 2271
30 Jul 21
Minimal/Tech House
30 Jul 21
Minimal/Tech House
Various
Review: A confirmed presence within the landscape of UK dance music for the best part of 15 years, Hypercolour has cultivated its own constellation of artists while becoming a port of call for those hitting their peak within pseudo-mainstream house music. It's Patterns compilation series has always offered rare cuts and remixes from its roster of artists and from the get go here a lesser known Zodiac impresses out of the blocks with a banging dub techno joint "GhostNet". Sebastian Mullaert & Boelja go hardcore Swedish bleeptronic in "Who Are You Really?" with FRAK also included with an old school and lo-fi 909 workout "Berga Magic". Roman Flugel hits a sweetspot as usual next to some lowly jackin tracks by London Modular Alliance, a vocal breakbeat number of classical drum and bass refrain by Mathew Herbert to some tongue cheek rave by Luke Vibert and much much more! Approved.
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HYPEDIGCD 013
02 Apr 21
Breakbeat
02 Apr 21
Breakbeat
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HYPELP 019
26 Feb 21
Electro
26 Feb 21
Electro
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BRK 65
20 Nov 20
Electro
20 Nov 20
Electro
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BRK 61
06 Nov 20
Electro
06 Nov 20
Electro
Review: The second release on Peggy Gou's Gudu label comes from a reliable source: long-serving electro/techno fusionist Ed Upton AKA DMX Krew. Upton is in predictably fine form from the off, sprinting his way through the atmospheric late night chords, garage style organ motifs, bustling acid lines and jacking drums of "CJ Vibe". He moves further towards vintage Motor City techno territory on the lusciously melodious but percussively punchy peak-time skip of "DXIOO", before reaching for the boogie synths and proto-house drums on futurist electrofunk number "Don't You Wanna Play". To round things off, Upton brilliantly dips the tempo and layers up spacey melodies over classic analogue bass on "110 Series".
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GUDU 002
04 Oct 19
Deep House
04 Oct 19
Deep House
Various / Peggy Gou
Review: On the latest instalment of the long-running DJ-Kicks series, Peggy Gou paints a vivid picture. It starts with the widescreen ambience of Space Time Continuum's 1993 debut, "Fluresence", before moving into her own, cosmic "Hungboo" and the niggling acid of Pearson Sound's "Earwig", a contemporary cousin to Plastikman's Musik. There are other endearing oddities here, such as Andrew Weatherall's seductive house version of Sly & Lovechild's "The World According To..." and the raw drums of Kyle Hall's "Flemmenup". Gou has also included a Detroit techno classic, Psyche's "Crackdown", but balances this out with new, unreleased tracks from I:Cube - "Cassette Jam 1993" sees the maverick French producer deliver a frazzled, hazy affair - and Hiver's pulsating, acid-flecked "Pert".
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K7 382D
28 Jun 19
Techno
28 Jun 19
Techno
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BRD 015
12 Oct 18
Electro
12 Oct 18
Electro
Various
Played by: Sam Redmore
Review: London/Bristol based tech house institution celebrates a decade in the business. They've seen a few faces and phases, tech-wise or otherwise but at the end of the day remained consistent in their pursuit of quality grooves. Alex Jones and Jamie Russell present some great music here and there are many highlights. From electronica legends such as Warp's Luke Vibert, minimal house pioneer Matthew Herbert (with the deep and dusty microhouse of "Downgraded") as well as techno's one time enfant terrible Neil Landstrumm through to new favourites such as Swedish hypnotic techno hero Sebastian Mullaert (the tunnelling "Shadowed By I"), Italian hardware mavericks The Analogue Cops plus up and comers Yaleesa Hall x Malin Genie with the banging' "Buchan Trap". We applaud the label for their ability to keep on the pulse of the ever changing electronic music landscape and heres to another ten years.
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HYPECDD 007
11 Nov 16
Minimal/Tech House
11 Nov 16
Minimal/Tech House
Review: At times, it really does feel as if DMX Krew must make tune sin his sleep; wherever we look, we find a new EP or album form the man, and all of the highest calibre, too! This time, the long-haired UK techno soldier lands on the ever-excellent Hypercolour with a hefty nine-tracker made up of eerie, slithering techno and cinematic electro. The opener "Spiritual Encounter" is almost enough in term of quality - check those Drexciyan waves - and the res of this beauty develops in similar fashion, from the gorgeous strings od "Bombay Mix", to the grizzly synth-led beats of "Daylight Saving", and the heavy, Detroit style of "Computational Paradigm Shift". Class, through and through.
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HYPECDD 005
26 Feb 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
26 Feb 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Having launched Mystic & Quantum last year with Standing Stones, a DMX Krew album that drew its creative juices from the mysterious pillars of stone that have stood across Western Europe, Ed Upton is back with more LP length endeavours for the Spanish label. The enlightening methods of Buddha seem to be the source of inspiration for the ten tracks on There Is No Enduring Self (a simple press release from Mystic & Quantum merely quotes a section from Buddhist text The Sun of Enlightenment Shines) and musically Upton seems to be on spiritually enriching form with the Das Ding style "Expanding Consciousness" a real highlight. Arrives on limited transparent vinyl LP in silk screen-printed sleeve.
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BRD 009
07 Aug 15
Electro
07 Aug 15
Electro
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BRD 017
02 Jul 15
Electro
02 Jul 15
Electro
Craig Richards / Various
Played by: Chris Massey, Dicky Trisco, Estroe, Slam, Nicholas, Simon Baker, Claude VonStroke, DJ T, Jamie Jones
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CRMCD 027D
22 Sep 14
Deep House
22 Sep 14
Deep House
Review: Ed DMX must be a playful mood judging by this latest two tracker. It's a cheeky release to say the least and is sure to bring a grin to the faces of even the most serious electro purists. "Hot Punch" sounds like a retro 8-bit rendition of a 1980s US sitcom theme, or like Kool And the Gang as rendered in Ceefax muzak. "My Metro" is a moodier affair: all slo-mo electro-boogie with a smidgeon of Metro Area for good measure.
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FRESH 012
07 Oct 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
07 Oct 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
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BRK 59
21 Nov 11
Electro
21 Nov 11
Electro
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BRD 002
16 Aug 10
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 Aug 10
Disco/Nu-Disco
