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Review: Two years ago, we waxed lyrical about Flabaire's last album-length excursion, a delightfully dusty and atmospheric blend of deep house and instrumental hip-hop cuts entitled 'Bandwidth'. Predictably, we're going to enthuse about this belated follow-up too, which sees the Frenchman add further layers of musical complexity - including some deliciously jazzy instrumentation - to his sample-heavy, MPC-driven production template. Dreamy, immersive and more comforting than a king-size duvet, the set's seven tracks include the French producer's takes on futurist ambient techno ('Mot Rose'), jazz-flecked Balearic soundscapes (the ultra-deep 'Layer 4', 'Layer 5' and glistening 'Layer 7'), drowsy downtempo sounds ('Layer 6'), dub techno ('Echo Park') and echo-drenched guitar textures ('We Were Talking About The Space Between Us All'). Inspired.
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DKOLP 07
20 Nov 20
Experimental/Electronic
20 Nov 20
Experimental/Electronic
Review: Although he's occasionally made guest appearances on other labels - most notably Rekids, Money $ex and Vertv - Quentin Leroy AKA Mad Rey has been a key member of the D.KO family since the label's launch six years ago. Here he returns to the French imprint for the first time in two years with a predictably solid collection of cuts. Four of the six cuts are designated as dub mixes, with the French producer variously offering up techno-tempo loopy deep house ("Never Know"), Mella Dee style techno-disco ("Bon Souvenir"), warehouse-ready ghetto-tech sleaze ("Go Fast") and lo-fi Chicago jack on steroids ("Balle Perdue"). Elsewhere, "Le Dermier Mot" is the kind of drowsy deepness found on Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works Volume 1", while "Make It Right" is a breezy piano-house treat.
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DKORL 01
03 Apr 20
Deep House
03 Apr 20
Deep House
Review: D.K.O founder Mezigue has a fine track record of delivering deep house, acid and techno that tends towards the eccentric. It was brilliantly showcased on his 2017 debut album "Votez Mezigue", a set that also regularly veered off in all manner of different directions. "Le Meilleur Titre Pour Un Album" takes a similar approach, with the Parisian producer wrapping weird, ear-catching electronic riffs, buzzing acid lines and colourful synth chords around a variety of tight but varied rhythm tracks. Highlights include the spiraling drum and bass business of "Scod Revolution Jamais Dans Les Charts", the eyes-closed synth solos and retro-futurist piano house grooves of "La Celle-sound-cloud" and the drowsy, jazz-funk influenced, hip-hop tempo loveliness of closing cut "Jtbgd92".
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DKOLP 06
15 Nov 19
Deep House
15 Nov 19
Deep House
Review: More dusty and distinguished deep house from the D.K.O crew, this time courtesy of longtime family member and sometime Ondule Recordings artist Paul Cut. Our pick of a very strong bunch is "Milky Way", an enveloping synth-laden drift through far-off galaxies underpinned by off-kilter broken house drums and a soul-warming bassline. There's plenty of fine fodder to be found elsewhere across the EP though, from the jazzy, sample-heavy bounce of lead cut "My Dear Deer", to the woozy, pitched-downn head-nod of hip-hop tempo shuffler "Think Twice". "Take Off", a groovy chunk of skipping late night deep house warmth, is also pretty darn good.
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DKO 27
28 Jun 19
Deep House
28 Jun 19
Deep House
Review: Eliott Forin aka Foreign Sequence follows last year's Thousand Frustrations album with this new masterpiece. Focused on the left of centre spectrum, it sees him tinker at the edges of electro, ambient and chanson to deliver a highly unusual work. Starting with the lazy ambience of "I've Been Searching You", the album moves into the quirky electro and high-pitched vocals of "Lost In My Sentences Again", before moving into the frazzled, lo-fi beats of "I Found Your <3 On The Floor (-4 Electro Cut)" and then the Detroit-sounding electro of "Cox_n?t A6d". Clearly, Forin is a hyperactive, unusual talent, and Faces shows that he is as at home with the IDM of "Personal Communication (mix 2)" as he is with easy listening music.
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DKOLP 05
22 Feb 19
Electro
22 Feb 19
Electro
Various
Review: Parisian imprint D.KO has put out plenty of multi-artist EPs in the past, but few compilations that are quite as expansive as "Bircavia". We've not been able to assertain whether there's a theme, concept or specific reason for the appearance of the set, but in many ways it doesn't matter; the eight tracks are uniformly superb and that's reason enough to release a compilation. Highlights are plentiful, with standouts including the pulsating, funk-fuelled electro dreaminess of Aurele's "Numbers (featuring Amarou - V45 Vocoder Mix)" and Toke's "Ambavi", the deep and intergalactic drum and bass of Mud Deep's decidedly spacey "Bill Murray", the acid-flecked breakbeat mutations of Saint-James' "Time Paradox" and the ultra-deep and picturesque deep house hypnotism of Flabair & Siler.
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DKO 28
11 Jan 19
Breakbeat
11 Jan 19
Breakbeat
