Die Orakel (Engl. the oracles) might not know it all but has the capacity to observe and sense it: Oliver Hafenbauer's imprint operates as an experimental field for electronic music on the playfully indecisive end where it exceeds genre-specificity to focus on tunes that function beyond. This is not to say that there are no four-to-the-floor productions.
Review: It's an endlessly pleasing affair to see Bristol-born, Berlin-based techno deviant Koehler stepping out onto some new labels. Moreover, he's just gone and been recruited by Die Orakel, one of our personal favourites when it's comes to utterly wacked-out dance music...often a strain of sounds boasting a tenebrous connection to the inferno. Our bearded techno ranger steps up with a three-pronged attack of his finest nut-house riddims, vividly peppering the bastards with his personal love of old-school d&b; much like all his other tunes, Koehler isn't one for straight 4/4 grooves. Instead, we get a blend of psyched-out, break-filled bangers that'll undoubtedly spin the entire room out during the early morning hours. The trick is to play them at the right time - do that and you've just won yourself the entire room. Chest-burning gear from the madman.
Review: Oliver Hafenbauer's Die Orakel label has been among one of the leftfield house and techno outlets to truly impress us over the last few years. While the range of artists on its catalogue is diverse and increasingly unpredictable, there is a fine thread that connects each and every release with a certain oddball flavour that we love. Giegling regular Edward feels like a perfect fit once again, and the deep house maverick has gone all-out to cater to Die Orakel's strange and wonderful fascination with the bizarre. "Shufflehead", as the name implies, is a mass of shady, stop-start percussion wrapped around a sea of curious, shape-shifting sonics that sound more like field recordings than synth sounds; "Dekta" and "Etern" provide yet more mysticism and hedonic marvel to an EP that can't quite decide on its own identity, a quality that renders it endlessly fascinating. Recommended!
Review: Straight off the back of a release for Barnt, Crato and Jens-Uwe Beyer's Magazine imprint, the mysterious Jaures returns to Oliver Hafenbauer's Die Orikel imprint with a load of cacophonous, left of field electronic experiments. "Hindernis Und Folge" makes the nuttiest of power electronics tunes seem lifeless thanks to its utterly disjointed beats, and foreboding swarm of sonics. The bizarreness continues on "Zustand Des Zweifels", a dirty electro smasher that takes the Drexciyan school of thought to new, more industrial territories, while "Ursprung Des Irrtums" takes a sip from the techno chalice and heads deep into a 4/4 wormhole of no return. Do not underestimate the power of Jaures.
Review: 2016 marks two decades since Roman Flugel made his debut. It says much about the productive, genre-straddling German that he retains the desire to do things differently after all these years. Verscheibung is his first EP of 2016, and arrives for the rather fine Die Orakel label overseen by LARJ's Oliver Hafenbauer. The four tracks are split between stripped-back techno and druggy, off-piste ambient (the bubbly, post-party weirdness of closer "Track 4"). The most obviously floor-friendly cut opens the EP, with Flugel layering wonky, minor key melody lines over a dense but minimalist groove. Elsewhere, check the Villalobos-ish strangeness of "Track 3", and the druggy, pitched-down experimental throb of "Track 2".
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