Review: Having released on Curle and Tanzbar, Thomas Neyens' Far Out Radio Systems project unleashes its debut album on Nuno Dos Santos' label. It's an expansive affair that moves from the rumbling bass and stepping drums of "The Clathrate Gunmen" and "On Boolean Plains" to the blissed out ambience of "War Radio" and the static tick and hiss of "Cassini Titan". Along the way, there are also more conventional tracks such as the minimal house of "Do We Have A Cosmic Connection", but the experimental feeling is never too far away on this album, and this is audible on the Analord-style acid of "Queen On The Streets" and "Kuiper".
Review: Something Happening Somewhere, the label of Dutch DJ Nuno Dos Santos, welcomes a new artist to its roster. As the title track on this EP demonstrates, Joannes makes a particularly distinctive take on house music. The drums are rough and ready and acid licks gurgle and spiral their way over her spiky rhythms. In contrast, "Vrijdag" is cleaner sounding and deeper, with shiny synths un-ravelling over a growling bass. The label has commissioned two fine remixes; Melatonin Man turns "Got Needs" into a stripped back rhythm track, led by a sinewy bass, while in contrast, Nadia Stru-iwigh's take on "Vrijdag" is a bleak electro workout.
Fader From Borneo - "Sound Fondue" - (4:31) 129 BPM
Kurt Baggaley - "Detect" - (4:37) 122 BPM
Love Over Entropy - "Off The Grid" (Versalife remix) - (6:48) 120 BPM
Quince - "Stop" - (3:26) 124 BPM
Review: Nuno Dos Santos enjoys referring to the tracks he releases on Something Happening Somewhere as "stories". Thus, NOWHERE01 - the first volume in a new compilation series - is billed as being full of "shards of tales long forgotten". In reality, it's a fine set of previously unreleased tracks and remixes, though Dos Santos's description is much more poetic. While the quality threshold remains impressively high throughout, highlights include Fatama Yamaha's dreamy and lucid, deep house-meets-Balearic synth-pop tweak of Kiani and His Legion's "Electric", the sleazy and percussive techno-jack of Tracey's "Stratosfear", the jazzy deep house dreaminess of Love Over Entropy's "H1" and the deep space electro brilliance of Versalife's interpretation of the same artist's "Off The Grid".
Review: Something Happening Somewhere label and events by Nuno Dos Santos out of Utrecht Netherlands now presents Amsterdam rising star Presk. "2bxprzd" is a dark and brooding journey track optimised for some proper dancefloor drama. The bouncy and uplifting "Starets" is a positive change of attitude but with equal pizazz on the dancefloor until finally the remix by label head honcho Dos Santos delivers something more dreamy and evocative.
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