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Johannes Albert
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Review: To date, Iron Curtis and Frank Music founder Johannes Albert have released a trio of "lunar-inspired" albums (the 'Moon' trilogy). This EP presents supposedly 'lost' - but genuinely unheard - remixes of tracks featured across the trilogy. To kick things off, Llewellyn wraps Lisa Toh's dreamy vocals and even dreamier chords around punchy beats and a dirty Italo-disco style bassline on a fine revision of 'Nektar'. Levitation Venue steps up next with a deep, dubby and shuffling deep house take on 'Erde', before Black Spuma (AKA scene stalwarts Fabrizio Mammarella and Phillip Lauer) inject 'Industrie & Zartlicheit' with a touch of analogue synthesis and sun-splashed nu-disco colour. Arguably best of all, though, is LeRosa's raw and mind-mangling revision of 'Appeal', with dark new wave synths and pots-and-pans percussion catch the ear.
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FM 12054
22 Mar 24
Deep House
22 Mar 24
Deep House
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FMSUNA
04 Aug 23
Deep House
04 Aug 23
Deep House
Review: Nu-disco and classic house revivalist Alan Dixon has previously proved adept at making "big" tunes, though we're not sure he's ever released anything quite as colossal as 'Nowhere To Run' - a surging, energy-packed workout that adds enormous piano riffs, sustained fairground organ chords and fizzing electronic motifs to a throbbing, Italo-disco style groove. It sounds like one of those tunes guaranteed to send the crowd into a frenzy every time it's dropped. Long-serving producer Johannes Albert handles the obligatory remix, retaining the track's rush-inducing piano riffs while re-framing it as a glassy-eyed, hands-in-the-air house anthem of the sort that was all the rage in the mid 1990s.
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LA 015
24 Feb 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
24 Feb 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: TAU bosses Adana Twins have always used the label's annual Spektrum compilations to showcase the quality and variety of the imprint's output, with tracks coming from both established artists and new signings. They've stuck to the same principles on volume four in the series, resulting in another strong collection of guaranteed dancefloor hits and pleasant surprises. Highlights come thick and fast throughout, from the psychedelic, post-tech-house trip of AIKON's 'Magenta', the deep space electro shuffle of 'Forever Mornings' by Echnonomist, and the bouncy, acid house-goes-boompty sweatiness of SXF's 'Workshop 5', to the throbbing Itali-disco revivalism of GUMM's 'Heroes Call', the sleazy TB-303 insanity of Adana Twins' 'Feel The Acid', and the fuzzy, hypnotic Berlin house haziness of 'The Covenant' by Volar.
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TAU 037
11 Nov 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
11 Nov 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Johannes Albert has long been the kind of producer whose music blurs the boundaries between genres, in his case nu-disco, Italo-disco, proto house and jacking Chicago house. This hybrid, synth-heavy sound is explored in four different ways on Albert's latest outing for Live at Robert Johnson. There's a throbbing, alien-sounding 21st century Italo-disco romp (the well-named title track); a squelchy and melodious chunk of analogue nu-disco cheeriness ('Dorschd'); a bouncy, rubbery and surprisingly aggressive chunk of 8-bit electrofunk/acid house fusion ('Wimbledon'); and a pitched-down chunk of electro-not-electro that comes smothered in glistening electronics and glacial synthesizer lines.
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PLAYRJC 076D
21 Jan 22
Minimal/Tech House
21 Jan 22
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Released just under 12 months ago, Johannes Albert's Spessart album was a cassette-only affair that largely focused on synth-powered ambient and new age tracks. It makes sense then that Albert, a producer renowned for delivering retro-futurist club cuts, would want to re-frame some of the tracks for the dancefloor, as he has done here. The results are quietly impressive, from the hybrid Italo-disco/piano-house hedonism of hands-in-the-air opener 'Kuhruh (Italo Mix)', to the pleasingly deep, woozy and sub-heavy deep house shuffle of melodious closing cut 'Katherinebild (Bejazzo Mix)'. Sandwiched in between you'll find the dreamy, colourful dream house revivalism of 'Schonrain (Ibiza Mix)' and the glassy-eyed, punk funk-bass-sporting lusciousness of 'Mariabuchen (Indie Mix)'.
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FMMSPDANCE
13 Aug 21
Deep House
13 Aug 21
Deep House
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FM GIO
07 May 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
07 May 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Here's something to set the pulse racing: a fresh set of remixes of tracks from Iron Curtis and Johannes Albert's recent collaborative album, the synth-heavy, far-sighted goodness that was Moon I. The headline attraction is undoubtedly Versatile Records veteran I:Cube's stellar rework of 'Hunting', which the Parisian successfully re-imagines as a gloriously tuneful, immersive and mood-enhancing fusion of analogue deep house and deep, intergalactic synth-pop. He's also delivered a deliciously delay-laden, drum heavy\Bonus Beat' dub mix for those who love to play around with percussion. The EP's other revision comes courtesy of Permanent Vacation co-founder Benjamin Frohlich. His excellent take on 'Nektar' wraps reverb-heavy female vocals and nagging acid lines around a rubbery synth bassline and boogie-era proto-house drums.
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FM 12034A
08 Jan 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
08 Jan 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Electro
Review: To celebrate notching up 50 releases, Uncanny Valley offered up a septet of colour-coded EPs featuring never-heard-before cuts from its growing roster of artists. With that campaign finished, they've now collected together all of those tracks on one suitably epic compilation, All Colors Are Beautiful. It's a pleasingly positive, life-affirming and kaleidoscopic collection all told, with the likes of Lauer, Jules Etienne, Johannes Albert, Cuthead and Basic Soul Unit taking it in turns to deliver cheery, synth-heavy cuts that variously join the dots between deep house, nu-disco, synth-pop, proto-house, jacking acid, crunchy electro, Motor City techno, ghetto-tech and glassy-eyed late-night sleaze. The results are uniformly excellent, making this one of the most essential compilations of 2020.
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UV 050
22 Dec 20
Electro
22 Dec 20
Electro
Various
Review: To the Robert Johnson club, Andrew Weatherall was one of the Frankfurt institution's most beloved residents. 'Lifesaver 4' is a compilation dedicated to the memory of the veteran DJ, featuring young talents and seasoned companions that have paid their musical tribute in order to commemorate the club's 21 year anniversary. Highlights not limited to: Perel's psychedelic off-kilter opener "Feuer & Wasser", the low slung sunset sounds of Panorama Bar resident Massimiliano Pagliara on "Before I Let You Go", club mainstay Gerd Janson delivering a typically neon-lit rendition of Portable's "Unity", the surprising addition of nearby Offenbach-based talent Cedric Dekowski on the afterhours minimal funk of "Livius" and Fort Romeau delivering his idiosyncratic style of hypnotic house on "Another Dymention". "Fail we may, sail we must".
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PLAYRJC 064D
09 Oct 20
Minimal/Tech House
09 Oct 20
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Review: Frank Music legend, recent Iron Curtis collaborator and Renate Schallplatten singing Johannes Albert sends in a curio of a release if it's not only for the tranquil brain massage that is "Sindersbach". Spessart sees Albert at his minimal, new age best with neo-90s numbers like "Schanrain" with its twinkling keys and heavy chords. Taste the fruits of ambient and exotica vibes in the tropicana of "Kuhruh" to the spacier, UFO-in-the-desert-themed "Mariabuchen". Continue with the loungey oasis ballad "Beilstein" or the percussive "Beilstein" with some touches of dramatic krautrock. Music for Montages.
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FMTAPE 1
28 Aug 20
Balearic/Downtempo
28 Aug 20
Balearic/Downtempo
Played by: Juno Recommends Electro
Review: Uncanny Valley hits the magic 50 mark with this diverse four-tracker. It starts with Chino's "Forbidden Voices", a tough analogue banger, replete with spiralling acid and bruising metallic riffs. Johannes Albert's "Vision Utopia" also draws on steely sounds, but on this occasion, the focus is on staccato percussion and brooding synth lines. Lake People, who has released on labels like Permanent Vacation, also drops an electro-style jam, "Roaming The Streets", but it's deeper and more reflective than Albert's contribution. RVDS rounds off the split release with "Moon Operator", a slinky, stepping workout that spirals off to the cosmos with some gloriously trippy 303 lines.
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UV 0503
12 Jun 20
Electro
12 Jun 20
Electro
Played by: PBR Streetgang, Johannes Albert, Juno Recommends Funky House, Marco Giannini (Sticky Heat), Markus Schneider / Robot Scientists
Review: Think of Renate Schallplatten and "piano house" probably isn't the first phrase that springs to mind, but that's exactly what you get on aptly-titled lead cut '1-800-PIANO' here - see the Original for straight-up 90s hands-in-the-air podium vibes, or the Panther Krause Remix for a more contemporary-sounding electro/Italo twist. Elswhere, there are more retro house thrills on 'More Action Please!', with its familiar female "give a little more... action" vocal, while 'Contra Pein' comes on like a Kraftwerk-inspired take on melodic house. It all adds up to an EP that could find favour with househeads of many persuasions.
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RENATE 10
22 May 20
Funky/Club House
22 May 20
Funky/Club House
Review: There's some serious blurring of genre boundaries going on here. This EP from W?rzburg native Johannes Albert, coming on his own Frank Music label, may be sitting in our disco section - as befits the Italo-esque throb of opener 'Wing House' (as remixed by Shan) - but its four tracks could also slide neatly into house and even techno sets. Map-ache's remix of 'Cell' will suit the prog/melodic jocks, Iron Curtis's remix of 'Wing House' has both melodic and tech elements, while the standout Sebastian Voigt remix 'Milieu', with its dark, rumbling bass and clattering breakbeat, harks back to the rave era and as such should have broad, poly-dancefloor appeal.
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FM 12028B
17 Feb 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Feb 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: 2019 marks a decade since the Needwant label first sprung into life. Those ten years have been action packed to say the least, as this epic anniversary compilation proves. What's on offer is a mixture of label highlights from Needwant's bulging back catalogue, a handful of previously unheard tracks and the odd exclusive remix. There's much to admire throughout, from the spacey deep house goodness of Kim Ann Foxman's "Return It" and the delay-laden late night retro-futurism of Tuff City Kids' acid-fired rework of VIMES' "Minds", to the throbbing, Italo-influenced brilliance of Res Mo's "Train To Kyoto", Octa Octa's atmospheric early morning tweak of Few Nolder's "Porcelain" and the Revenge's slo-mo, glassy eyed cover of SOS Band classic "Just Be Good To Me".
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NEEDCD 040D
15 Nov 19
Deep House
15 Nov 19
Deep House
Review: Sweating profusely and clutching his favourite dusty old bits of music-making kit, a shirtless Johannes Albert gestures us towards the dancefloor and asks us to dance the "Credit Jive". There's no fancy footwork required, just a desire to lose your inhibitions to a thrusting, all-action Italo-disco workout rich in relentless, arpeggio-style bass, thumping kickdrums, ricocheting percussion hits, jacking drum machine fills and a handful of spacey electronic motifs. Albert can see we need a quick breather, so he offers up "Linn Dreams", a fabulously colourful, Linn Drum-driven bounce through hybrid nu-disco/instrumental synth-pop pastures. It's little less than a rush-inducing palette cleanser.
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FM 12029
27 Sep 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
27 Sep 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
