Review: Introducing KUCKA! A hotly tipped, fresh and new artist to emerge in full debut form via LuckyMe. A Liverpool born vocalist and producer now residing in Australia - explaining something of her connection to the Future Classic label and Dro Carey - she now drops her first studio album. Synth heavy, bass inspired and vocal driven, Wrestling is certainly connected to a world of postmodern new age pop! A prime example being the '90s R&B motifs in "Afterparty" alongside deeper dancefloor connections in tracks like "Joyride" and "No Good For Me". Threading the album with a sequence of futuristic pop and fusion crossover in tracks like "Real", "Drowning" and "Ascension", KUCKA's debut, Wrestling, wins hands down.
Review: Dawn Chorus is the latest album from Jacques Greene and it marks a big shift in his production approach. While his previous work was sample-based, this new long player sees him team up with musicians and singers to create a more organic sound. This approach is really brought to life on the single "Do It Without You", where dusty break beats underpin dreamy vocals, while "Let Go", featuring Rochelle Jordan, is a sublime piece of electronic pop. Meanwhile, the Moodymann-esque, soulful vocal house of "For Love" is sure to seduce dancers at sun-kissed festivals - and demonstrates that Greene has really come of age as a producer.
Review: LuckyMe Records present first release with acclaimed young producer Suicideyear: six fresh tracks recorded in his new home of New Orleans that showcase his continued development at the forefront of futurist hip hop production. Each track evolves in its own way, from the warmth of 'Summer Hate' through to the more club oriented "Mosh Mosh" and "Spent Days Watching Horses Die". The artist known otherwise as James Prudhomme hails from the home of No Limit records - Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His music is very much a product of his environment - the menacing sound of tuned 808 drums coupled with angst- ridden emotive synth work: inspired by listening to shoegaze and punk bands throughout his formative teenage years. First coming to attention via his split single with Kaytranada on Bromance in 2013, it led him to releasing the highly praised Remembrance EP on Oneohtrix Point Never's Software label soon after.
Review: Not only does Jacques Greene constantly rack up some of the best, house-laden garage available on the streets, but he also seems to attract the finest of remixers to his catchy, UDG-friendly grooves. As always, he's waving the flag high for the Lucky Me imprint, and for good reason too given the qulity of this particular crew of producers who've decided to give him a hand reworking tunes from "Feel Infinite". Matthew Herbert leads the pack with his inimitably odd and leftfield strain of house music - this time in a comparatively more restrained style compared to some of his other productions - and retunes "To Say" beautifully, while Shlohmo does a good job of twisting "You See All My Light" into a growling, bass-heavy r&b monster. Bwana's 'I Felt Alive in 95' remix "Feel Infinite" takes a broken house beat and layers it with her own majestic vocals to make for a magnetic late night jam, and Baltra's version of "Fall" offers the most house-centric moment on here, a rough analog groove with a deep edge and an utterly seductive melodic wave.
Review: Having lingered on the fringes of contemporary electronic music for some time (reworking the likes of Kuedo and being part of the group American Men), this album on LuckyMe is the first fully fledged solo release to be offered up from the one known as Claude Speeed. My Skeleton is an ambient album through and through, although it feels fairer to call it a classical epic that reaches to electronic devices as much as orchestrations. Every track is rich in harmonic progression as towering swathes of synths, strings and the odd touch of textural noise build into hugely atmospheric, arresting pieces. Individually they make for compelling listening, but even as a full-length release Speeed keeps the mind locked in for the duration.
Review: Always guaranteed to release something fascinating, bleeding-edge and entirely riveting, LuckyMe come up trumps with this quite startling new ten-tracker from little-know Viennese producer Cid Rim. A jazz drummer - proved from the beautiful building cacophony of opener "Amuse-Ta-Guelle" - and a producer who matches the intensity of Rustie, HudMo and Machinedrum, Cid Rim really knocks it out of the park with stunning post-jazz laptop madness and shimmering melodies as on "A Fall Four Two" or the delirious juke of "Danger Ranger". A quite exceptional release indeed.
Review: Having thoroughly re-established himself in the wave of re-appropriated juke on last years Rooms album, Machinedrum steps up with this rapid fire EP of sliced samples and R&B brightness. "SXLND" distils some serious auto-tune mangling into a broken rhythm, while "Van Vogue" captures the feel-good flavour of early nineties chart dance in a strange, understated soca groove. "DDD" is almost outright house music, albeit with plenty more snippets of vocal getting jiggy with each other, but the smooth shuffle is hard to resist despite its prevalence in these times. Machinedrum's versatility can't be argued with, but more impressive is how he maintains his sonic identity throughout. Highly recommended.
Review: Following Jacques Greene's superlative entrance into the art of releasing music last year for Night Slugs and Luckyme, the Montreal resident serves further notice of his clear talent with another drop for the Glaswegian crew. "Another Girl" has been a staple of the Greene DJ set for a while now and it finally arrives - expertly teasing out warm tones of bubbling melodies and heart yearning vocals over some typically next level beat programming. In less words: A certified anthem! Just to make a good thing that little bit better, Luckyme throw in remixes of Greene's last release from UR legend Mark Flash and Rinse uber talent Braiden as well as digital only refixes from Koreless, the Glaswegian whose been branded the new Joy Orbison, and Machinedrum. Big tip.
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