Review: Given the impressive number of labels he's released on over the last decade (Safer At Night, Throne of Blood, Let's Play House and OFF Recordings amongst them), we were rather surprised to find that this is Curses' first outing on Bordello a Parigi. There are two original cuts to choose from: "Pedal To The Metal & Don't Look Bad", a wonky Italo-disco jam full of fuzzy rock guitar riffs and spacey eight-bit synthesizer melodies, and the EBM-influenced throb of industrial strength workout "Knife In Teeth". Both cuts are given the remix treatment, with Tarr providing a more muscular, peak-time Italo revision of "Pedal To The Metal & Don't Look Back" before Birds of Paradise re-imagine "Knife In Teeth" as a drowsy and unusual chunk of industrial/IDM fusion.
Review: There aren't many labels operating within the spheres of bass music that are able to keep pace with the freight train that is Night Bass, who seem to be dropping a top draw release every three weeks at least. This latest project sees them compile the second edition of 'Night Bass Remixed', featuring some heavyweight recreations from the likes of APEXAPE, 219 Boys, Proxy and a bag more high profile names. For us, the immediate stand outs on this one have to come from Codes & Stranger who rework the magnificent 'Big Riddim' featuring Jamakabi, along with Taiki Nulight's powerful overhaul of the classic 'Keepmastik' from Phlegmatic Dogs.
Review: London-based producer Tom Funk makes a variety of music under a variety of names, including Dub Chronicle, Big Now, The Sultan's Swing and, as here, Seraphiks. His debut long-player under the latter moniker is a diverse affair that ranges from near-ambient pieces such as 'Beauty In Life' and the fluttery, Balearic 'Feathers Fallen', via the broken dreampop of 'Broken' and the indie-ish 'Left Off From', to fully wonked-out, experimental cuts such as 'Static Love' and 'Paper, Scissors, Stone'. The album's two clear standouts, to these ears, are the ambient dub-tinged 'Free Fall', and 'Good Tax', wherein Mr Funk may have invented a whole new genre called drone 'n' B. But you have to give the man this much: it certainly never gets predictable.
Review: At 14 tracks large trance master Chicane's eighth studio album has arrived in the shape of Everything We Had To Leave Behind. Maintaining an uplifting & melancholic approach to his production, Chicane's classic trance chords are as always undeniable throughout this latest work while still touching on that late-90s-to-mid-2000s pioneering sound. The LP brings with it the Ibiza sunset croons of vocalist Joseph Aquilina (Goldfish) who's voice more often than not challenges the timbres of one Chris Martin. Exploring various drum patterns across numbers like the breakbeat "Make You Stay" or the skipping UK funky of "Sailing", get your housier, pop and balearic trance from "One Foot In The Past, One Foot In The Future" and "Hello, Goodbye". For more classically inclined fans, those trusted bouncy chords, breaths and beats can be found all the more in "Juno", "Don't Look Down", the album's beatless title-track, and exclusive Chicane cover version of Bon Iver's "8 (Circle)".
Review: British dance music sensation Hot Since 82, he of Knee Deep In Sound fame, presents this specially commissioned DJ mix as part of the Mixmag Presents series, which previously featured industry heavyweights such as Claude VonStroke, Maya Jane Coles and Busy P. Described as 'a super hot house mix' it features Avotre head Sante teaming up with German scene veteran Frank Lorber on the deep and emotive groove of "All About", the return of Berlin's Philip Bader (Highgrade) on the classic US house vibe of "More", while legends Martin Buttrich & Mousse T serve up some proper mood music on the intoxicating "Smack Back" and "Tout Va Bien" by Watergate resident Matthias Meyer gets a dark and dubby techno rework by maverick Bulgarian live act KiNK.
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