Review: The march of Time Is Now continues to run rampant, with a new release dropping every time we turn our heads towards the store's new arrivals. This time around we see the nostalgic flavours of Nicky Soft Touch unveiled across four vibrant pulsers, kicking off with the delicious drum processing and spatial pad textures of 'Seven Smoking Areas', a blissful breeze through futuristic drum designs, followed by the windy backdrops and murky synthesiser designs of 'We Absolutely Love This Music'. The delicate delights continue to unveil themselves as the project progresses, with 'Lost In A Sea Of Rolling Eyes' being the next box of treats being served up, laced with masterful percussive processing and booming bass pulses, with the interlude of 'Lonely City' then closing us out with some smokey hip hop drifts. Lovely!
Review: Coming up through labels like Natural Sciences and E-Beamz, DJ Swagger hooks up again with DJ AEDIDIAS for a collaborative EP on Shall Not Fade sub-label Timeisnow. In 2016 the pair self-released their debut Trunk EP which five years later brings us to this Speed Limit release. Taking in deep house and dusty two step jazz vibes in "Where U Come From" and the straight up club number "On Tha Block", the pair comes together in yet more two-stepping sweetness via "Don't Call Me" and a much heavier, drum and bass influenced "Psycho In Da Cut". Goes deep, goes hard.
Review: Whenever the Time Is Now team unveil a new project, we are always excited to see which unique direction we are going to be pulled in across the electronic spectrum. For this latest offering, Nicky Soft Touch delivers the official sampler for 'Lonely City', kicking off with the heavily atmospheric and completely unpredictable synthesizer drives of 'Lonely City Cut 2'. The clarity and definition we then hear on the drum work within 'Lost In A Sea Of Rolling Eyes' is pretty mind-boggling and gorgeously processing clicks and beeps provide us with a spacey rhythmic arrangement, before the choppy, breaks-driven action we hear sliced together across 'Lonely City Cut 4' throws us into another pit of unpredictability. Finally, the tech-inspired kicks and distant vocal dithering of 'Then There Was The Mass Chanting' give us another meditative creation, rounding off this sampler with a final dash of finesse.
Review: Originally released in 1995 on Warp, Elecktroids was a side project from Drexciya's Gerald Donald and James Stinson. Now Clone continues its reissue of the Detroit act's catalogue with this timely re-release of the sole Elecktroids album. Elektroworld is impactful because it brings together so many of the Stinson-Donald tropes. There's the slightly creepy, Dopplereffekt-esque speak-and-spell vocals of "Future Tone" and "Japanese Elecktronics"; the visceral, wave-jumping electro of "Perpetual Motion" and "Silicon Valley", a mysterious, slow-motion slice of electronic soul that's up their with Stinson's Other People Place output. For completists and causal listeners alike, this is an essential work.
Review: Now over 20 years into their career, Latin-funk-big beat fusionists Skeewiff return with an album that touches on multiple music bases. The album opens with 'Starsky & June', an energetic slice of car chase funk that owes a considerable debt of inspiration to Isaac Hayes' classic 'Theme From Shaft'. Elsewhere, rapper Baby Bam guests on three tracks that will keep the hip-hop lovers happy, while jazzier flavas can be found on another trio of cuts featuring acid jazz survivors Brand New Heavies. One of these latter three, 'Cosmic Space Jam', is a particular standout, as is the rambunctious, 1920s-inspired 'Cheeky Charlie'.
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