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Played by: Juno Recommends Techno
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Midfield General - "Devil In Sports Casual" (Fatboy Slim's Does My Beat Look Big In This mix) - (5:28) 104 BPM
Review: Continuing the partnership that yielded 2020's Velvet Sky Of Dreams, Tiga hooks up again with Hudson Mohawke. "Easy" is a raucous affair, with barrelling drums, pitch-bent effects and a deadpan vocal documenting late-stage capitalism's obsession with fast, easy money. Factor in squelching stabs and unexpected drops and it's clear that this collaboration has yielded another big, distinctive tune. The release also features "There Is No Distance Between Us"; more frenetic than the title track, it sees the Turbo boss draw on techno influences. Powered by a driving rhythm and insistent percussion, the arrangement also plays host to muffled vocals, with these elements coming together to form a dense, urgent workout.
Played by: Juno Recommends Minimal Tech
Review: Turbo Recordings and Club Sexor chief Tiga is back, and getting straight down to business on new single "Easy" which is a wonky, off-kilter stomper that's perfect for those heads-down moments on the dancefloor. He heads to Brazil on second offering "There Is No Distance Between Us" featuring a sweltering Sergio Mendez style drum breakdown that leads into a trippy minimal techno groove, complete with Tiga's own vocals taking you deeper into the morning hours.
Played by: Juno Recommends Electro
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Played by: Juno Recommends Techno
Review: This third volume of the Twin Turbo compilation is a timely reminder of Turbo's consistency when it comes to delivering varied dance music. The TRACE7000 remix of Jakwob's "Feel So Good" is a pulsating, acidic track, while Kill Frenzy ups the intensity levels with the swampy electronics and ghetto jack of "Follow Me". In contrast, ANNA's "Artha" is a sleek affair, its linear rhythm supporting tranced out rhythms, while on "Build Up Your House", Hoshina Anniversary delivers a modern take on Chicago jack, with repetitive vocals underpinned by a grainy rhythm. Label owner Tiga also makes an appearance, with Dense & Pika delivering a techy take on his version of Public Enemy's "Louder Than A Bomb".
Review: Techno heavyweights Tiga and Matthew Dear team up again for the first time since 2013's massive anthem "Let's Go Dancing". According to Tiga the Turbo chief "This Is a Dream' is 'an epic poem, an immunity passport to the boundless dimensions that lay beyond the veil of slow wave sleep'. A tunneling and low-slung trip in its original format, it gets some killer reworks here by some of the scene's current luminaries. The ever impressive Terr works her sonic magic once again with a ravey indie-dance perspective, while Russian Nocow delivers two hard hitting and surefire remixes.
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Various/Purple Disco MacHine
Purple Disco Machine - "Glitterbox" (Discotheque_Purple Disco Day (continuous Mix)) - (1:10:26) 117 BPM
Purple Disco Machine - "Glitterbox" (Discotheque_Purple Disco Day (continuous Mix)) - (1:11:45) 123 BPM
Catz 'n Dogz - "Good Touch (feat. Egl? Sirvydyt?) [Maurice Fulton Remix]" (feat Egla Sirvydyta - Maurice Fulton remix) - (6:13) 110 BPM
Horse Meat Disco - "Let's Go Dancing" (feat Amy Douglas - Dimitri From Paris remix) - (6:54) 115 BPM
Purple Disco Machine & Boris Dlugosch - "Love For Days" (feat Karen Harding - Kenny Dope mix) - (7:42) 122 BPM
Lee Curtiss - "Erotic Tendencies" (feat Desmond 'DSP' Powell - Honey Dijon & Luke Solomon's Feel Like Dancin' remix) - (6:42) 125 BPM
Review: As Turbo reaches its 20th anniversary, Tiga's label delivers remixes of the track that propelled him to global recognition. First up is Dense & Pika, who turn "Sunglasses" into a relentless, pounding tribal track that only includes the nasal vocal from Tiga's original version. Next up is rising electro star Dimitri Veimar, with rolling 808s, steely snares and the kind of menacing bass that has seen the Russian producer feature on Turbo and Omndisc. In this instance, it's the creepy synth line that remains and helps to make this version unforgettable. Techno Seleba is apparently a pseudonym for a big name dance producer working incognito, but irrespective of who is behind the project, this remix is an eerie, percussive take on the synth-pop standard.
Played by: Juno Recommends Techno
Review: Following last year's collaboration with Kompakt boss Michael Mayer, Kolsch now teams up with another well-known artist. This co-authored release with Tiga starts off in relatively unfamiliar territory: the title track is a fuzzy, chord heavy workout that has an evocative edge thanks to its airy synths. "Still So High" sees the pair revert to type as a buzzing bass supports vocal samples and atmospheric sound scapes, but it's "First Blood" that really captures both artists' style most accurately. A pile-driving rhythm, raw drums and fuzzy, filtered percussive bursts support an 80s synth line that will ensure the latest IPSO collaboration is unforgettable.
Played by: Juno Recommends Minimal Tech
Review: Following on from Dogma, his collaboration with Kompakt's Michael Mayer back in 2016, Kolsch now invites Tiga to work with him for the second release on IPSO. It's a great meeting of minds; from the Turbo boss' side, there's an intuitive understanding of dance floor dynamics borne out by years spinning in clubs. It is articulated here by the percussive rhythm that underpins "Hal", while, from Kolsch's side come those frazzled vocal samples and the wide-eyed chord builds. Unite all of these elements and the track is just as powerful as the super computer of the same name from the seminal 2011: A Space Odyssey.
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Strip Steve - "Astral Projection" (feat Puro Instinct - Destructo remix - Boys Noize edit) - (4:34) 124 BPM
Various/Plaisir De France
Played by: Juno Recommends Techno
Review: Never one to shy away from speaking his mind, Tiga is confident that this release is one of his best collaborations to date, up there with his work with Jori Hulkkonen. Certainly, the title track is an unusual affair, with the Turbo boss and Clarian working together to create a left of centre, tripped out acid track. Replete with out there vocals, it's one of the freshest takes on the eternal acid sound you'll hear this year. On "You're So Special", the pair veer further down the paths marked 'inspired off beat techno'; deploying a call and response vocal over a jacking, low-slung groove, it's unusual, entertaining and unforgettable
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Deetron/Various
Review: Over the course of the last decade, Swiss stalwart Deetron has been responsible for a string of impressive remixes. Happily, these - and many others you may have missed - have now been collected together on the decidedly epic Re-Creation: Remixes Compiled. As you'd expect, the 25-track set flits between full-throttle, peak-time friendly techno futurism, bustling deep house goodness and more downbeat explorations that defy his reputation as a maker of killer club cuts. Highlights include the loved-up synth breakdowns and jacking, Chicago-style groove of his Juan MacLean remix, a wonderfully retro-futurist take on George Fitzgerald's "Every Inch", a thrusting, stab-happy revision of Quarion and a lusciously jazzy take on Todd Terje's "Alfonso Muskedender". That said, on another day we could have listed another five or six highlights: it really is that good.
Review: Earlier in 2017, the third collaboration between famed North American producers Tiga and Audion came in the form of the Nightclub EP, which saw the duo take on the challenge of executing harder techno sounds - to reflect even harder times facing the world at present. To hammer that message home, they've drafted the big guns to make y'all listen and learn! The masked one Redshape steps up to the plate first and delivers a stomping Detroit rave rendition. Dutch electro fiend Dexter delivers a wonky analogue funk attack that has earned his and Steffi's Klakson imprint much respect over the years. We then go from central European party sounds to remixes with The White Isle more in mind: techno's dark lord Dubfire delivers a rolling, tunnelling and strobe-lit rendition. Next rising South American star ANNA delivers a hard hitting peak time rendition that has earned her releases on Tronik and Terminal M.
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Soul Clap - "Funk Bomb" (feat Billy "Bass" Nelson - Doc Martin & Blakkat Sublevel live remix) - (6:14) 124 BPM
Seth Troxler & Tom Trago Present T&T Music Factory - "De Natte Cel" (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) - (11:29) 120 BPM
Review: Tiga teams up with Matthew Dear's Audion project for a third release. Supposedly inspired by life in 'rough times', this EP is a no-nonsense, gritty affair. "Stabbed in the Back" resounds to rough kicks, brittle percussion and the kind of nightmarish stabs that were common during hardcore's heyday. "Pink Bells" is not as visceral, but it resounds to a rolling, filtered groove, hypnotic, chiming bells that weave in and out of the arrangement and an occasional shrieking siren. "Non Stop" sees the pair drop the tempo (and intensity levels) to deliver a shaky, minimal house track, but even here their bleak vision of the world is audible in the detuned synth riff that echoes across its rickety drums.
Played by: Djs Pareja
Review: Turbo boss Tiga returns after his fantastic 2016 long player No Fantasy Required to tell you what you've always needed to hear: on his new single "Eye Luv U." Co-produced by one half of Paranoid London, the new single harnesses all the pure energy of what enlightened club-goers often describe as their favourite emotion on this dusty, old school sounding acid house joint. There's some great remixes too: firstly by German house hero Butch whose version does exactly what it says on the tin with his "80's Warehouse Acid Mix" here he really works that silver Roland box like a you know what! Finally Scottish up and comer Jasper James gives us a tough peak time techno tool on his relentless version.
Review: Tiga has a long been an advocate of vocal tracks; apart from Sunglasses At Night, one of his other main break through records was the androgynous vocals on the Chicago-influenced Pleasure from the Bass. On his latest release, the Turbo boss explores a similar approach; the title track features rolling snares and a gritty bass, but what sets it apart is the camp, coquettish vocal. Maintaining this theme is Butch, who delivers a wild '80s warehouse acid' remix, its drum rolls and spine-tingling 303 sounding like a mixture of Hardfloor and Lil' Louis. Jasper James' remix is the most contemporary-sounding, leaning more towards minimal techno than Chicago house.
Review: Tiga has a long been an advocate of vocal tracks; apart from Sunglasses At Night, one of his other main break through records was the androgynous vocals on the Chicago-influenced Pleasure from the Bass. On his latest release, the Turbo boss explores a similar approach; the title track features rolling snares and a gritty bass, but what sets it apart is the camp, coquettish vocal. Maintaining this theme is Butch, who delivers a wild '80s warehouse acid' remix, its drum rolls and spine-tingling 303 sounding like a mixture of Hardfloor and Lil' Louis. Jasper James' remix is the most contemporary-sounding, leaning more towards minimal techno than Chicago house.
Played by: Christopher Kah
Review: Tiga has a long been an advocate of vocal tracks; apart from Sunglasses At Night, one of his other main break through records was the androgynous vocals on the Chicago-influenced Pleasure from the Bass. On his latest release, the Turbo boss explores a similar approach; the title track features rolling snares and a gritty bass, but what sets it apart is the camp, coquettish vocal. Maintaining this theme is Butch, who delivers a wild '80s warehouse acid' remix, its drum rolls and spine-tingling 303 sounding like a mixture of Hardfloor and Lil' Louis. Jasper James' remix is the most contemporary-sounding, leaning more towards minimal techno than Chicago house.
Review: "Planet E" was one of the highlights of Tiga's recent No Fantasy Required album, and now he hands it over to his trusted colleagues to remix it. Danny Daze retains the chemically refreshed vocal sample, but sets it to a pulsing electro bass and a wall of hazy, fizzling percussion. The overall result sounds like Alden Tyrell providing the support for Gary Numan. The Mele revamp is an entirely different affair. The UK DJ is enjoying a growing reputation thanks to releases on Lobster Boy and Formula and this remix will not harm his ascent; filtering the vocal to infinity and back, his rolling rhythm sits somewhere between bass and techno, but no matter what the genre name, it will cause mayhem whenever it's dropped.
Various/Plump DJs
Review: Tiga's new single "Make Me Fall In Love" is the next single taken from his third album No Fantasy Required, released earlier this year on his Turbo imprint. The Martin Buttrich produced single features the vocal talents of Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears and is energetic and life affirming, takings its cues from mid 90s progressive house. You could almost have imagined this appearing on one of Sasha & Digweed's seminal Northern Exposure compilations back in the day. Soaring arpeggios, energetic rhythm and euphoric pads all mix together for perfect dancefloor mayhem. Look out for a remix by Spanish tech house hero Edu Imbernon coming very soon too.
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
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Various/Affkt
Review: Amazingly, No Fantasy Required is Tiga's first album for seven years, and sees him switch from long-time home Different to Ninja Tune offshoot Counter Records. Those who've followed his career to date will immediately feel at home, as he delivers a set of stylish, attractive songs that variously tip a wink to Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, Junior Boys, Chicago acid, Visionquest, Visage and, of course, his electroclash past. While the references are obvious, Tiga is smart enough to put his own spin on them, resulting in an album that expertly tiptoes the fine line between radio-friendly accessibility and his broad palette of underground club influences.
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