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Running Back
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Review: Italy's Raffaele Martirani, AKA Panoram, returns with what is, if we're counting correctly, his sixth album-length outing, and his second for Gerd Janson's Running Back label. Leftfield, psychedelic and Balearic grooves are Martini's stock-in-trade, and the 12 tracks featured here run the gamut from gentle piano pieces like 'Blank Sheep' and the almost Disney-esque 'Flat Stones', via the introspective, cinematic 'Squid For A Day', the ethereal 'Bucolica' and the looping, dusty 'Dove Done Come', to haunting, off-kilter explorations like 'Ages' and 'There Is A Hole Here'. Unapologetically experimental and doodlesome, it won't be to everyone's taste but it'll be lapped-up gleefully by those whose ears are allergic to the rhythmically and melodically predictable.
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RBINC 010D
17 Nov 23
Balearic/Downtempo
17 Nov 23
Balearic/Downtempo
Played by: Markus Schneider / Robot Scientists
Review: Running Back's latest missive happily doffs a cap to synth-pop and "alternative dance" of the 1980s, with boss Gerd Janson suggesting that Ede/Deckert (AKA Eren Yazici and Christph Deckert) looked to British Electric Foundation (AKA Heaven 17) and dark wave outfit Eleven Foundation for inspiration. They're certainly good reference points, with 'Immer' boasting an attractive blend of Johnny Marr style guitar licks, Peter Hook-esque bass, metronomic machine drums and attractive electronic melodies, all topped off with an expressive lead vocal (in German) by mystery singer Sargland. Alongside the fine extended vocal version and vocal/instrumental radio edits, the package also contains a sublime 'Extended Instrumental' take that arguably sounds even more like New Order, which is no bad thing.
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RB 1237D
08 Sep 23
Indie/Alternative
08 Sep 23
Indie/Alternative
Review: During the first COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020, Matt 'Radio Slave' Edwards set himself a challenge: to produce a track a day. There was another caveat, too: each of these "lockdown tracks" would be at the same tempo, 99 BPM. Now released as a mini-album under his rarely used alternative alias, Rekid, the results of this creative experiment are predictably impressive. Drawing on raw electronic melodies, bleeping melodies, lo-fi synth chords and the kind of wonky aural textures more associated with his Quiet Village collaboration with Joel Martin, the set's 11 tracks frequently blur the boundaries between IDM, instrumental hip-hop, electro, ambient, weirdo dub and, on 'Day 4' and 'Day 5', pitched down and radically mutilated bleep techno.
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RBINC 009D
22 Apr 22
Balearic/Downtempo
22 Apr 22
Balearic/Downtempo
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco
Review: Nine months on from the release of his rather good Eating Darkness album, German veteran Roman Flugel returns to Running Back with a fresh EP of typically unusual, off-kilter cuts. The headline attraction is undoubtedly lead cut 'Mega', a surging, high-energy stomper in which 1980s style Fairlight stabs, mind-mangling acid lines and cheery, Bobby Orlando style lead lines dance atop a thrusting, arpeggio-driven bassline and cowbell-sporting, 140 BPM beats. He steps away from the dancefloor on the rest of the EP, offering up a range of weird and wonderful electronic soundscapes that sit somewhere between wayward cinematic soundtrack pieces, trippy IDM and oddly swung K-hole freak-outs.
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RB 105D
11 Feb 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
11 Feb 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: It's been a while since Roman Flugel last delivered an album, and that was the all-ambient Themes I-XIII in 2018. Eating Darkness, the German veteran's fifth solo full-length, is therefore well overdue. It's a quietly confident and undeniably entertaining affair, with the former Alter Ego man smartly sashaying between evocative IDM ('Magic Briefcase', 'The Best is Yet To Come', the Autechre-ish 'Eating Darkness'), druggy slo-mo fare ('Chemicals'), raw new wave throb-jobs ('Wow'), acid-flecked jack-tracks ('Jocks & Freaks'), hypnotic late night minimal techno ('Cluttered Homes'), drowsy downtempo cheeriness ('Locked'), beautiful ambient synth-scapes ('Charles') and revivalist Euro-disco pump ('D.I.S.C.O'). Throughout, Flugel reaches for vintage analogue and modular synthesizer sounds, giving the album a distinctively timeless feel.
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RBLP 15D
07 May 21
Minimal/Tech House
07 May 21
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Juno Recommends Techno
Review: Issued on Running Back's Incantations offshoot, A Sagittariun's latest album is a diverse affair. While it features the kind of tripped out techno that this producer has become synonymous with over the years - check "Watch The Skies!" and "Life Is The Illusion, Love Is The Dream" - it also boasts off-centre tracks such as scuffled industrial funk of "Once Upon A Time" and "Last Of The Crazy Baldheads". Heights is also notable in that it features tripped out jams like the cosmic-disco of "Lazer Battle At The OK Coral" and "Dream Stealers" as well as the broken beats of "Version Excursion". It shows that A Sagittariun is a more rounded artists that some of his club releases may have suggested.
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RBINC 004D
07 Jun 19
Techno
07 Jun 19
Techno
Review: Andreas Grosser was considered an underrated hero of German synth music in the early '80s and based off only a couple of albums - a collaboration with Tangerine Dream/Ash Ra Tempel's Klaus Schulz in 1987 and of course 1981s Vinite Visum, that's reissued here on Running Back. All tracks were composed and performed between 1976 and 1980, when the East Berlin synthesist was inspired by the West German cosmic scene. He was rumoured to have made many hours of music, which he duplicated to cassette recordings for anyone that wanted them. Presented here is a collection of psychedelic ambient oddities, conjured from celestial synth sounds and other assorted classic machines.
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RBCD 11DIGITAL
30 Mar 18
Experimental/Electronic
30 Mar 18
Experimental/Electronic
