Rotterdam-based record label Nous’klaer Audio has since its founding in 2013 by DJ Oberman been a crucial hub of activity for a host of emerging cross-genre artists with unique visions across Europe and beyond. Not bound to a specific genre but all bound by a sense of colour.
Review: A most intriguing artist of late is dear Martinou who delivers his second album to the Nous'klaer Audio label that continues to hold down a deep, dusty and almost nostalgic sound. As if taking inspiration from sounds to transpire most over the last decade, this Chiral LP blends elements of dusty dub techno, melodic minimalisms and deep house bangers to Burial inspired scapes, post-dubstep beats, to trance and straight-laced journies into space and time. Evoking similarities to the likes of the Eshu cohort and its associated artists, to Prince Of Denmark and Traumpriz, or even that Inversions - Chiral finds a place in the here and now.
Review: Following on from last year's Companionship release on Nous'klaer Audio, Eversines delivers the superb New Place. The title track is a sublime piece of deep techno: punctuated by bleeding acid and a pulsating bass, its combination of tripped out and melodic sensibilities place it in the same category as vintage Pacific and Plink Plonk. The mood shifts on "Whirlpool", with Eversines delivering a moody, bleep-heavy breaker, while "Nymber" sees him return to tripped out acid territory, this time delivering a more stripped back rhythm. Closing out the release is "Gliding", where Eversines returns to a more melodic approach, this time powered by floaty synths and a rolling groove.
Review: Anthony Eymery aka Amandra teams up with Mattheis to deliver this wonderfully introspective long player on Dutch label Nous'klaer Audio. Featuring Eymery on drums and Matheis laying down expansive synth textures, tracks like "Cornemuse" and "Manekin" are redolent of 90s ambient techno. Meanwhile, on "Jungeldam (Short Version)", they make a move of sorts to the dance floor with a wiry, snaking rhythm; "Kobold" is a more direct, dubbed out techno track and "Merle" is a lean, linear workout that gives way to building chords. Changing tact again, "Rubina Finale" is the kind of blissed-out, organic-sampling piece that you would hear blaring from disc-men during a Himalayan trek in the 90s.