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Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Following remixes by XDB and Reedale Rise on the first instalment, this second volume sees more high-quality reworks of Carsten Jost's material. Dial label mate Lawrence drops a blurry, frazzled deep house take on "V", where robust drums and a churning bass prevail. The Kaap version of "II" inhabits a similar place, with dreamy synths flowing over crisp drums and hi hats, while the Quimbie remix of "VI" is more playful, powered by a lean, funk-inspired bass and featuring hypnotic vocal samples. But the most dance floor-focused reshape comes from Moy Santana, whose interpretation of "IX" is a heady, driving techno track, led by dreamy synths and rattling drums.
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DIAL 83
09 Sep 22
Techno
09 Sep 22
Techno
Played by: Juno Recommends Techno
Review: La Collectionneuse is David Lieske aka Carsten Jost's third artist album on his Dial imprint, and it sees him continue to map out an understated but distinctive vision. All ten tracks are numbered and named after the release, with "La Collectionneuse 1" and "4" both led by stripped back grooves, and "2" and "3" venturing into deeper, US style house thanks to their shuffling drums and reflective textures. Jost's long-documented affinity with techno's more esoteric side is also audible here - "7" is a slow-building affair punctuated by subtle claps and shimmering melodies - while showing his flexible production skills, on "9", the German producer brings atmospheric sounds to bear on a warbling electro rhythm.
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DIALLP 46
20 May 22
Techno
20 May 22
Techno
Review: Deep house from the cerebral and heavily electronic/minimal side is the order of the day on this EP from Germany's Dial stable, which features six tracks from as many artists. Soela's '10km' is probably the most dancefloor-friendly cut on offer, Christopher Ledger's 'Omni DX' nods towards Detroit with its bleepy microsounds, Whodat's 'Obscure' is a midtempo, ambient-leaning affair, Jacques Bon & Dux's 'Fading Sail' is a twitchy minimal cut, Yone-Ko's 'A Downpour Of Blessings' is another blissed-out, post-club joint with overtones of Harold Budd and finally Carsten Jost's 'Sphairistike' has a mellifluous deep prog vibe.
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DIAL 79
10 Jul 20
Deep House
10 Jul 20
Deep House
Various
Review: To mark the passing of two decades since the launch of their lauded Dial label, Lawrence and Casrten Jorst have decided to offer-up a trio of celebratory mini-albums, each featuring fresh cuts from the label's family of artists. There's naturally plenty to set the pulse racing on this first volume in the series, with all six tracks offering ultra-deep vibes, gently melodious motifs, intergalactic electronics and - Laroche's superb, ambient-inclined "Caress" excepted -hypnotic, locked-in grooves. Our picks include the immersive, enveloping bliss of Molly's "Conspiracy", the chunky dub-house influenced deep space throb of "Ruby Nights" by XDB, the appropriately titled early morning colour of Mary Yalex's "Cosmic Garden" and the acid-fired analogue deep house warmth of Joey Anderson's "A Moon Fell On Me".
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DIAL 78
22 May 20
Deep House
22 May 20
Deep House
Review: Soela is the artist name for Elina Shorokhova, whose work has previously featured on labels like Kompakt, Lost Palms and Detroit Underground. It's fitting that she has chosen Dial for her debut album. Like much of the output on the well-known Hamburg label, Genuine Silk is subtle, intricate and seductive. From the gentle piano lines of "Prologue" through the mournful, downbeat tones of "Inconsistency" and "Hold On" as well as the broken beats of "Lullaby", this is far more than a typical house long player. Of course, Soela is also adept at crafting slinky dance floor grooves as the irresistible "Shadows On The Wall" so effortlessly demonstrates.
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DIALLP 43
17 Apr 20
Techno
17 Apr 20
Techno
Review: Tracey aka Tom Ruijg has invited some of Europe's finest house and techno producers to rework tracks from his recent Biostar album. First up is Steve Rachmad, who delivers a lean, insistent techno take on "SLPNGVLCN" and then moonlights under his Sterac Electronics guise for a deep electro version of "CCLRT" . Darling offers up a very different proposition, turning "DRMRBT" into a drum-heavy house track. Moving the same track into a more esoteric direction is Jordan GZR from Juju & Jordash with a reverberated, dubbed out interpretation, before label owner Lawrence drops a stripped back, dubbed out remix of "TRR".
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DIAL 77
15 Nov 19
Techno
15 Nov 19
Techno
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Surprisingly, some five years have passed since Peter Kersten AKA Lawrence last appeared on Dial, a label he co-founded with Carsten Jost. His return to the imprint is, naturally, an impressive one, with "Illusion" - his eighth studio album - offering up nine absorbing, ultra-atmospheric deep house cuts wrapped in homemade field recordings and ear-catching acoustic instrumentation. There are naturally dancefloor moments dotted throughout the album - see the glistening, intergalactic shuffle of "Treasure Box", the "recorded in an underwater cave" tech-house hypnotism of "Illusion" and deep Motor City flex of "Dark Swirl" - but it's often the more circumspect, sofa-friendly outings that linger longest in the memory. Check, for example, the impeccable deep electro shuffle of "Transitions", the horizontal pulse of "Flaunting High" and the sinewy ambient/IDM fusion of "Crystal".
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DIALLPCD 41
05 Oct 18
Deep House
05 Oct 18
Deep House
Various
Review: Hamburg based label Dial Records shot to fame in the second half of the 00s with their high brow approach to deep, minimal house and techno. Founded in 2000, they now celebrate their tenth birthday with a new compilation featuring all their usual suspects, aptly titled 2010.
Set up at the turn of the millennium by Carsten Jost and Peter M, better known as Lawrence, Dial remained largely unnoticed at first. It was only the last five or so years that the imprint famed for its sophisticated and emotionally evocative style of deep and minimal house came to the wider attention. Releases such as Efdemin's "Bergwein" EP and Pantha Du Prince This Bliss have garnered them the most attention leading up to today's celebratory compilation. But rather than just collecting the finest moments from those ten years, such is Dial's ethos, that they celebrate with entirely new material, including previously unreleased tracks from the likes of Rndm, Pigon and John Roberts.
Opening the compilation in typically refined style, Phantom Ghost embark on a fittingly theatrical ode to the pleasures of the highlife with the twilight keys of "My Secret Europe." Cultivated 4/4s then take over, starting with John Roberts who brings a classical element into the mix on "Lines." Efdemin explores sensuously deep tribalism on "Time," whereas Kassian Troyer uses layers of sub bass on "Tourist" to get into the groove. Isolee makes a rare appearance with some trippier house moments on "Black Lodge" before Pigon take it unfeasibly deep on "Koto." One of the label's starlets, Pantha Du Prince adds one of the highlights of the release with the enveloping masterpiece of "Fountain Drive."
Dial celebrate their tenth year, and twentieth release, the only way they know how - with a selection of tracks that look unreservedly forward, proving their need to do more than simply sit back on their previous successes. I'm just looking forward to their 2020 compilation.
Set up at the turn of the millennium by Carsten Jost and Peter M, better known as Lawrence, Dial remained largely unnoticed at first. It was only the last five or so years that the imprint famed for its sophisticated and emotionally evocative style of deep and minimal house came to the wider attention. Releases such as Efdemin's "Bergwein" EP and Pantha Du Prince This Bliss have garnered them the most attention leading up to today's celebratory compilation. But rather than just collecting the finest moments from those ten years, such is Dial's ethos, that they celebrate with entirely new material, including previously unreleased tracks from the likes of Rndm, Pigon and John Roberts.
Opening the compilation in typically refined style, Phantom Ghost embark on a fittingly theatrical ode to the pleasures of the highlife with the twilight keys of "My Secret Europe." Cultivated 4/4s then take over, starting with John Roberts who brings a classical element into the mix on "Lines." Efdemin explores sensuously deep tribalism on "Time," whereas Kassian Troyer uses layers of sub bass on "Tourist" to get into the groove. Isolee makes a rare appearance with some trippier house moments on "Black Lodge" before Pigon take it unfeasibly deep on "Koto." One of the label's starlets, Pantha Du Prince adds one of the highlights of the release with the enveloping masterpiece of "Fountain Drive."
Dial celebrate their tenth year, and twentieth release, the only way they know how - with a selection of tracks that look unreservedly forward, proving their need to do more than simply sit back on their previous successes. I'm just looking forward to their 2020 compilation.
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DIALCD 20
01 Apr 10
Deep House
01 Apr 10
Deep House
