Review: Hotflush unveils a diverse, dance floor-focused compilation full of original productions and high-quality remixes. Kiimi's "Breaking My Mind" and the Baltra take on label owner Scuba's "Never Forget" are vocal, dusky house tracks. Meanwhile, Truncate's take on the Hotflush owner's "Speed This MF Up" and the string-soaked "Hyperdrive" by Locked Groove both offer fine perspectives on deep techno. On "Mescalito", Nightwave drops a rolling tribal track, while underlining the diversity on offer on this compilation, Alden Tyrell's remix of TML's "Cell ID" from the 2019 Tensor release also features. It's a gnarly electro workout that sounds like it crawled from a sewer in the Hague.
Review: Following on from the recent 2.1 compilation, Hotflush again shows why it is such an essential dance floor label. It features established artists like Agoria, who drops the discordant tones and spiky minimalism of "Helice" and Recondit with the deep, dubbed out "Channel" , alongside emerging producers like Glaskin with the twisted acid of "You Are Simply A Machine". No Hotflush compilation would be complete without its owner Scuba's input; here it takes various forms, including a broken beat remix of "Ruptured" by Surgeon, and the SCB sub-project dropping the sub-bass led "Rope". If that wasn't reason enough to buy Floor 2.2, there is also a fine techno track from the late, great Trevino.
Review: TML aka Peter Lansky returns to Hotflush with Tensor , his fourth release for the label. The grainy drums and gritty acid lines that dominate the title track would sound more at home on a label like Creme or one of the Clone platforms, so Scuba deserves credit for signing it. "Undo" is of a similarly raw disposition, but this time the US producer has upped the tempo and drops wild 303 spirals against a dark, stepping rhythm. "Export" sees Lansky return to the same approach as the title track, with rough acid unravelling over gut-busting subs. Retaining this deeply underground approach, the label has drafted in Alden Tyrell to deliver a rough electro-techno take on another TML track, "Cell ID".
Review: Minneapolis producer Peter Lansky has previously excelled on Hotflush Recordings, delivering a pair of EPs heavily influenced not by his native dance music culture but three decades of UK bass music. While these inspirations are still evident on "I Need An Exit", the EP's two most arresting dancefloor cuts - the rapid-fire machine percussion, slamming bass-weight and psychedelic, acid-fired electronics of "Raw Stack" and "Export" - are closer in feel and style to Miami bass, Chicago Juke and the most bombastic Detroit electro. In comparison, "Sandboxing" is deeper and far more druggy, with Lansky flitting between elongated analogue bass and skittish bouts of hardcore breakbeats, while closing cut "Clear Data" wraps hushed ambient chords and creepy electronics around a blazed and blunted post-dubstep rhythm.
Review: TML aka Peter Lansky hails from Minneapolis, and his debut outing on Hotflush offers an amalgamation of sounds from the past 30 years of electronic music. "Cell ID" is a raw, stepping workout that resounds to spine-tingling acid lines and crisp claps. "B2B" sees the US producer opt for mournful synth lines, albeit aligned to percussive volleys, while on "Human", he goes deeper still, as emotive pads and a breathy vocal unravel over a raw drum track. The label has also tapped Justin Cudmore to rework "RHU", with the revered producer dropping a bleep-heavy stepper that will appeal to fans of Tin Man's music.
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