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Memory Motions EPEXCLUSIVE
Review: Mystical dreamweaver Edward has previously brought out some of his classiest club-tooled gear for Trelik, with 2018's Rumours EP being a particular highlight in his glittering career in minimal. Breaking a protracted silence for Baby Ford's label, this three-tracker once more takes us into the unique atmospheric zone Edward occupies with his productions. 'The Giver' has an unnerving, desolate quality but it's also rock-solid in the rhythm department, with subtle threads of warmth to balance out the eeriness. 'Memory Motions' is a spicier cut with a pronounced house jack to propel a tense set of sonic motifs, with a special mention to the wobbly organ-like chord line. 'Tuned' is the most upfront of all the tracks, using some processed piano hooks and a full compliment of nagging, funkified ingredients to make a certified, if left-of-centre, party starter.
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Review: It's been twenty years since Sven Vath's Cocoon operation set up in Ibiza; since then the label's annual alphabet-themed compilations have also come to define techno's stylistic twists and turns. According to S, 2019 clearly saw the re-emergence of trance in its various forms, from Love Over Entropy's wide-eyed abandon to Stimming's more musical approach - audible on "The Gift That Never Stops To Give". Musicality is also a common theme on the house and techno that features on Compilation S, with Emanuel Satie's "Planet XXX" resounding to melodic chord stabs and Giegling artist Edward's "End Days" favouring chattering samples and a soaring bass - inspired by E-Dancer with a modern, Teutonic twist.
Rumours EP (feat Ogermania Mix)EXCLUSIVE
Played by: Juno Recommends Minimal Tech
Review: Edward's graceful take on modern house and techno is a perfect fit for Trelik, and the German producer sounds comfortable as he unfurls swooning threads of otherworldly music for the tripped out dancefloor. The "Ogermania Mx" of "Mikko" is a hazy, string soaked affair pitched somewhere warm and dreamlike, but there's plenty of energy churning away in the lower register. "Lottery" is a more twitchy affair for darker times, all moody bass bounce and looming drones around a shuffling set of percussion. "Groaning Ghosts" is the techiest of the bunch, and there's a whole lot of freaked out sound design swirling around in the mix as well. This is simply stunning, highly advanced dance music from a modern day maestro.
Review: Oliver Hafenbauer's Die Orakel label has been among one of the leftfield house and techno outlets to truly impress us over the last few years. While the range of artists on its catalogue is diverse and increasingly unpredictable, there is a fine thread that connects each and every release with a certain oddball flavour that we love. Giegling regular Edward feels like a perfect fit once again, and the deep house maverick has gone all-out to cater to Die Orakel's strange and wonderful fascination with the bizarre. "Shufflehead", as the name implies, is a mass of shady, stop-start percussion wrapped around a sea of curious, shape-shifting sonics that sound more like field recordings than synth sounds; "Dekta" and "Etern" provide yet more mysticism and hedonic marvel to an EP that can't quite decide on its own identity, a quality that renders it endlessly fascinating. Recommended!
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Played by: Resident Advisor
Review: Berlin-based house producer Edward, aka Gilles Aiken returns to the White imprint with the Expressions In Stone EP. It's a three tracker crammed with ideas, from the early morning weirdness of "Bush Of Crows" to "The Ghetto", which boasts a catchy preacher vocal sample and a cheeky Roland organ. "Grounded" - undoubtedly the EP's hidden gem - brings proceedings to a close in a moody fashion with a barely audile vocal and subtle bell sounds. It's a perfect slice of raw, stripped back house music.
Played by: Droog
