Review: Remixes for days in the haus with Pre-Rolled Joints Vol 2: Remix Collection, Pt. 2 by Unknown To The Unknown. Kicking of with a sultry Kelis vibe in Ludwig A.F's remix of "Sweat It Out", other highlights include Hashman Deejay doing the business on a Ruf Dug number, Andras turning over some proto-techno on Bell Towers, with Shed going all time on UTTU boss man's "Bit Too Deep". Willie Burns drops a spooky remake of Max's D's legendary "High Life", next to some reliable Legowelt wares, a Roza Terenzi rework of Assembler Code and final dose of Fantastic Man who goes deep with a luscious mix of DJ Shark's "Closer".
Review: Pyramid of Knowledge makes its debut on UTTU, following a string of releases featuring captivating, psychedelic-infused house tracks on labels such as Craigie Knowes, Hard Beach, and Dream Ticket. This release offers three original tracks, accompanied by a remix from e-freq, with the originals delving into deep, acidic and Detroit, Drexciyan electro vibes. With "Diffusion" the show stealer here, get your deeper, gnarlier slices from "Oerc" with flashes of positivity coming through in "World Heroes" that in remix form is stretched out to something linear with darker house vibes.
Review: Falty DL back in the haus for Unknown To The Unknown only gaining more charm, wit and colour to the somewhat legendary producer name. Straight out of the blocks is "Mount Sinai", a frenetic streamlined flex of moving keys and pads, flurrying percussion and clubwise speed and breaks. Up there as streamlined trance as much as it is speed jungle, rave elements give tinges of euphoria and hardcore to "Wef EX 2C". The title track is more of a frenetic computer jam, with DJ Shadow sample culture combining with subtle Aphex tropes perhaps, while "Please Below" the unofficial B2 cut sleeper cut is a deep and floaty ID request for the person who hears it next. DJ!
Review: Claws for thought... Tommy The Cat returns to Unknown To The unknown for the fourth instalment of his Cosmik Connection series. Each cut laced with cavernous space and big atmospheric flurries, from the opening blasts and star-lit shards of the intro 'Destination Unknown' to the final wistful pads of the closer 'Reminiscing', this is Tommy at his deepest and more emotional. Music that will have you purring with glee, Tommy The Cat is on some timeless tackle right here. Feline good.
Review: Following the release of his fine album The New Normal on Houndstooth last year, veteran house and techno producer Mark Hawkins has jined DJ Haus's retro-futurist Unknown To The Unnown label. The EP he's delivered is genuinely impressive, from the rubbery synth bass, sci-fi techno sounds, deep house chords and Motor City drums of 'Snow Day', to the drowsy, alien-sounding early morning hypnotism of 'Droney' and the starburst techno rush of 'Simple Dimple', where ethereal synthesizer lines dance atop breathless beats and stabbing bass. Title track 'The Wash', an uluta-deep and intergalactic affair that's more melancholic than upbeat, is also superb.
Review: Evil Fred aka Shed arrives on Unknown to the Unknown in an EP that the label describes as UK funky, jacking techno and 'deeper than deep houz muzik'. Prior to this there is only the one other Evil Fred release (that made its way out on to H2 Recordings), with this EP still firmly focused on that raw, banging, soulful and original warehouse sound. "You (Work It)" will go down as your stripped back, chord slamming rave job next to a deep and summer tripping trance jam "The Evil Trance". With something chopped up, sustained and swinging coming out of "The Evil Dance", it's perhaps "You" that presents the most overt, or heaviest rave track here, with this new string of productions wholly indebted to a '90s house sound you can sometimes only dream about hearing today.
Review: Unknown To The Unknown presenting Naone with her debut release! It follows up her recent collaborative EP Separate Ways with Timothee Victorri's S.O.N.S project which allows the artist to spread a healthy dose of new age electro and bleep to progressive trance, techno and downtempo across four tracks. The best examples of this come through "Space Duck" and the '80s-esque "X-TDB133" with its subtle acid line next to the more overt "Center Creek" and epic title track. Delivering a record full of emotive content spoken through a subtext of old school machines and electro, Bliss Inc goes semi-industrial semi-balearic is its remix to Falling Sun. Out now!
Review: Taking inspiration from Mesopotamian iconography and symbolism Mark Hawkins outta the UK hooks up with Donnell Knox aka D-Knox from Kalamazoo (and the great Sonic Mind label). A sweet fusion of Detroit-Chicago electro with some UK intensity looms large in a deep and original lead cut "12th Planet". Throwing down something more vocal yet slamming and soulful at the same time is "I Don't Want To", while there's some tinges of dub techno and submerged, spooky tropics in "Marimba". And dat mix for da club: go "12th Planet Underground".
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