Review: You have to admire Ostgut Ton's ambition. While celebrating a decade in dance music with a compilation of exclusive, previously unheard music is now standard practice amongst leading underground labels, few would have the balls to release it with such a killer tracklisting as Zehn. Across the 30 tracks (count 'em!) you get a who's who of Berghain and Panorama Bar associates delivering a quite outstanding selection of left-of-centre techno and deep European house, with Marcel Dettmann, Boris, Virginia, Steffi, DVS1, Martyn, Tobias and Ben Klock all featuring. Highlights naturally come thick and fast, from the spacey electronics, heady textures and hypnotic rhythms of Function's "DX3 Analog Bass Seq", and the rush-inducing, string-laden house warmth of Matthew Styles' remix of Dinky's "Planes", to the picturesque intelligent techno of Doms & Deykers.
Review: Welcome to the digital realm Jealous God, the new multi-purpose project from the collective minds of Karl O' Connor, James Ruskin and Juan Mendez. Intended for the "mutants of our age", Jealous God could possibly fill the void left by the end of Sandwell District, arriving as yet another offshoot of the spiralling Downwards Empire with ambitions significantly higher than the average hand stamped white label techno operation. Mendez himself helms this debut offering alongside Semantica boss Svreca under the SS/S guise, with the Sicario de Dios EP presenting a suite of four "Siglio's". Musically, release sees Mendez and Svreca pair a short beatless production with two more expansive, dead eyed techno production that will appeal to Semantica fans.
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