Review: Laux is one of those techno artists who has quietly released quality dance floor music for years. Best known for his releases on Kanzleramt, this remix package sees Laux ceding control to Rod and Steve Rachmad for four deft reworks. Rod supplies two versions of "The Silent Bass", which focus on slinky rhythms, jittery percussion and on the second version, reintroduce Laux's airy synths. Rachmad meanwhile, shows his experience with two sublime remixes. The Sterac version of "Hangin" unfolds over skeletal percussion and understated off beats, with these elements providing the basis for a typically dreamy synth coda. However, it can't compare to the Sterac Electronics' take on the same track, where a purring sub-bass gets cosy with a flurry of 808s.
Review: German producer Alexander Kowalski released his debut album, Echoes, ten years ago. Unlike most productions from that time, it has aged exceptionally well. The deep, dubby groove of "Oxygen" comes across like a cleaner, polished interpretation of Modern Love releases, while the ghoulish broken beats of "Patterns Of Hope" gives Blackest Ever Black's output a run for its money. Kowalski was always a master of the bass-heavy techno grooves and there is no shortage here, with the surging chords and dramatic strings of "Ratio" and "Hearing Is Believing" impressing. But it's the evergreen nature of these productions that is most remarkable and the driving "Debut" or the tracky "Sequential" are as powerful as any contemporary techno expression.
Review: German techno label Kanzleramt returns to one of its long serving sons, Switzerland's Diego Hostettler to re-release his 2002 hit, "Two Times High." His original combines the energetic and rough techno power of his early kanzleramt works with the deep melodic flavour of his "The Persuasion Channel" album. "Hi Jacker" continues down this energetic route with plenty of old school, jacking Chicago references in its groove and bassline. "Three Times High Pt 1" is also on there, pushing even more energy and pounding us to the next level with thunderous kicks and raging bass.
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