Review: The second release in the same week from Arttu sees him draw again on classic house and techno influences. The title track draws on the reduced end of Chicago house, with frequency-shifting acid tones unraveling over pared back kettle-drums. "Wiggle Eyez" marks a change of tact and is similar to the release on Jack for Daze, with the Berlin artist drawing heavily on the raw sound of 90s techno to craft a relentless, grinding analogue workout. Closing track "X Ray Shit" is like an amalgamation of these two sounds; based on rattling drums and acid-soaked bleeps, it proves that Arttu is one of the most skillful modern interpreters of timeless music.
Review: Dutch producer De Sluwe Vos hasn't released that much to date, but his previous releases on Soulfood and Extended Play (both released last year) were pretty good. Here he drops his first EP of 2014, this time for Gerd's 4 Lux Black imprint, and there's much to admire. "Broken Snare" - a heavy, left-of-centre analogue drum jam that sounds like a marching band wigging out to early Phuture - is particularly potent, but there's plenty more reasons to be cheerful throughout the EP. The twinkling melodies and bumpin, in-your-face grooves of "Poltergeist", for example, or the Belgian '90s techno-influenced house wonkiness of "The Bullet". Far-sighted Beaumont Livingstone collaboration "The Feeling" is pretty darn tasty, too.
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