Review: Tronic unleashes its annual compilation, which as always contains the label's favourite tracks. "Luv Can Turn Around", a deep techy track from the late, great Pascal FEOS is a reminder of the many loved ones lost in the past year, while label owner Christian Smith's rolling rhythm and surging chords on "Hallucinate" signals a time in the near future when we'll be able to return to the dance floor. At the other end of the sonic spectrum Harry Romero delivers a bruising, jacking version of DJ Rush & Eric Sneo's "Take Me Back", while Sinisa Tamamovic's "Lost Memories" is a more intense iteration of that style, a steely, bleep-heavy techno track.
Review: Clocking in at over 60 tracks, Orbit is a look back at some of the standout releases on Tronic over the past year. The compilation covers a massive range of styles and moves from Eric Sneo and DJ Rush's ghetto techno collaboration, "Take Me Back", and the pounding tribal rhythms of Gaston Zani and Filterheadz' "Perspective" into more tranced out territories thanks to the emotive builds of "Tesla" from veteran German producer Oliver Lieb. There are plenty of other twists and turns here: label owner Christian Smith's long-standing studio partner Jon Selway delivers an excellent, rumbling electro take on Nematic's "Pecular", while Drunken Kong drops a throbbing tech-house groove in the form of "The Line".
Review: Standing in the electro-ghetto looking to the stars is Manuel-M with the Asteroids EP for Swedish outpost Tronic. Across four tracks the artist delivers deep but revealing techno sessions that touch on house, rave, trance and spacey acid electro with four tracks that all take their own course into outer space. Heavy techno elements remain at large in the euphoric '90s warehouse pump of the title track, and stripped back alternatives in "Satellite" and killer rhythm track "See". But it's the hidden sub-pop in "Ghetto Robot" that should invoke a similar feeling of bliss also heard in Fatima Yamaha's classic "What's A Girl To Do".
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