Technicolour is a Ninja Tune sub-label. Technicolour has every bit channeled its parent label's musical restlessness with submerged techno, degraded hip-hop, machine jazz and more.
Review: Technicolour welcomes the super fresh sounds of emerging producer Elkka to its label following a dose of new music from DJ Boring and Studio Barnhus debutant, Sofia Kourtesis. Infusing elements of pop and R&B into a framework of outsider house and synth-led music, Elkka hits all the right notes in the summery and house-felt vibes of "Burnt Orange". With sampled loops and staccato melodies paired with a flow of acoustic drum patterns in "Alexandra", the pure synth and percussive sound of "Euphoric Melodies" rates up there as some of the best next to contemporary producers like Upsammy or Barker. With "Flowers" and "Morning Fuzz" cut from a similar template of tonal noise floors, subtle arpeggios and whimsical vocal elements, Elkka delivers a wholly inspired and new sound to the Ninja Tune sublabel.
Review: Having impressed via EP on some seriously good underground labels - think Lost Palms, EPH White and Shall Not Fade for starters - DJ Boring has been snapped up by Ninja Tune's big bucks Technicolour offshoot. The London-based producer's first outing for the imprint is headed up by title track "Like Water", a busy and bustling deep house number that cloaks rolling house beats in dreamy, sustained chords, colourful unfurling melodies and sharp, trance-like synth sounds. Elsewhere, "Another Day" is a warmer, chunkier and even more kaleidoscopic take on the same pleasingly off-kilter house sound, "Stockholm Syndrome" is a more classical deep house number that boasts weighty sub-bass and sparkling riffs, and "Seems Like Yesterday" is a melodious and ear-pleasing deep neo-trance affair.
Review: Deep house from the atmospheric and abstract side is the order of the day on this three-tracker from fast-rising Octo Octa. 'I Need You' alternates extended beatless passages with a fast n' furious (but quite light-touch) breakbeat, augmented both with wordless vox, a melancholy "I need you", shimmering synths and the occasional woodwind toot. 'Bodies Meld Together' is a driftaway, late-night affair made for weary 6am floors, and is again lavishly layered with synth washes and twitchy sounds, while 'Loops For Healing' is a more traditional, Balearic kinda groove with cut-up female vocal snips and piano chords so lush you could bathe in 'em.
Review: Project Pablo releases his new EP via Ninja Tune sublabel Technicolour. The Montreal based producer (via Vancouver) has had releases previously on Royal Oak, Spring Theory and Lone's Magicwire and comes at us with a mixture of big room sounds and different influences he has accumulated over the past few years. The Hope You're Well EP was written and recorded off the beaten track in his new Quebec home. He has stated that he has tried to move away from the usual hooks and went for more intuitive melodies, long forms and structures plus utilizing digital synthesis with clean hi-fidelity. Despite this, there still seems to be a sheen of dust coating the warm and emotive groove of "Is It Dry", the galloping swing fuelled rhythms of "You Know" retain a certain grit also. The hypnotic "Oh Fer Sure" is absolutely sublime and gives you a good fix of deepness.
Review: Wales raised but now Berlin dwelling artist Dauwd has been releasing music for nearly six years on such credible labels as Ghostly International and Kompakt. His debut album Theory of Colours is released via Ninja Tune imprint Technicolour. There's some evocative deep house on offer here. For example "Glass Jelly" in all its dusted down, analogue glory, while the darkly romantic "Leitmotiv" gets its lazy and jagged groove on in woozy yet emotive fashion. An integral member of the Berlin night and radio show African Acid Is The Future, Dauwd Al Hilali's releases have been met with as much expectation as they have intrigue. Spending the last few years out of the limelight and in his Berlin studio, his music has continued to ripple through clubs as his singular, sometimes thrillingly uncertain process of experimentation has continued.
Review: Overseen by London producer PhOtOmachine (with some assistance from Ninja Tune) the Technicolour label has been on sublime form of late, with some rare Kutmah material up their with this year's best releases. This latest release is quite the statement too, with Mathematics boss Jamal Moss on board for two heavy-duty cuts. It's timed well too, with Planet Mu having just issued a Hieroglyphic Being primer drawing from a decade's worth of material. Fans of Hieroglyphic Being old and new will find much to appreciate in The Fourth Dimensions Of A Nubian Mystic, with the glistening 11-minute cosmos of "Fourth Dimension" complemented well by the jack hammer B-side "Start Time."
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