Boredoms: Super Roots 10 (Thrill Jockey)

Boredoms – Super Roots 10 – EP review

Boredoms, the boundary- breaking, sonic-shifting, head-messing group are releasing the Super Roots 10 EP through Thrill Jockey, only available as a limited double 12” release. Super Roots 10 is produced by EYE, who equally created the artwork accompanying the release.

This new Boredoms EP includes a remix of the Antz 10 track by Lindstom, the critically acclaimed Norwegian dance/house producer who has remixed a whole host of artists, including Franz Ferdinand and LCD Soundsystem. Super Roots 10 also includes a remix from the Japanese artist Altz.

Ant 10 Original is nine minutes of buzzing, tribal, rhythmic intensity, with a small thirty second break in between. The drums are thick and saturate the track, as do the drones. The Mineral Dub Break Remix is almost unrecognisable whilst Linstrom does another full overhaul on his remix, bringing in some crisper beats, subtle 80s synths and keyboards, making the pounding drums part of the background arrangements. His style from his recent collaboration with Prins Thomas is certainly recognisable.

A studio album can be expected in 2010, whilst Boredoms member Yoshimi P-We is to release her new album with OOIOO entitled Armonico Hewa on Thrill Jockey in November.

Track listing for Super Roots 10:

1. ANT 10
2. ANT 10 / ESTEREO 10 (REMIX BY ALTZ)
3. ANT 10 (REMIX BY DJ LINDSTROM)
4. ANT 10 / MINERAL DUB BREAK (REMIX BY ALTZ)

Error Response aka Stephen Arnold new album: Zen

Error Response is British producer Stephen Arnold (aka Espion) and Zen is the debut album released on the Berlin based Elektrotribe label.

Zen is a very interesting album that blends Arnold’s love of film scores with interesting ideas and eery moments. Playing like a pseudo-fsoundtrack, the album has mood swings incaptulating drum n bass and downtempo beats, trip hop grooves and atmospheric samples of electronica.

Error Response is a move away from the industrial and agressive electro output of Espion and allows Stephen Arnold to explore much softer tones.  The music on Zen steer their own path, evoking thoughts of a dark, melancholic, moody and claustrophobic Bladerunner-esque, urban environment.

The album is the first of three parts entitled Zen, Tao and Chi, which have been in production since 2005. The music fuses sampled loops and phrases with complex interweaving programmed rhythms and synthesized melodies, with an organic flow, dropping into ambient sections, or into more fast drum ‘n’ bass sections, while always sticking to the theme of a mysterious, urban samurai, film noir soundtrack, filled with curiosity, intrigue, thrills, car chases, plot twists, gangsters, cops and femmes fatales.

The album takes the listener on a journey of both hectic rushes and moments of contemplation.  The album is apparently inspired by the Ninja Tune sample master, Amon Tobin, the ambient soundscapes of game composer Jesper Kyd, many film composers such as John Barry, John Powell, Phillip Glass, Bernard Herrmann and classical composer, Igor Stravinsky.

Error Response – Zen  tracklist:

1. Capital Trap
2. Real Props (Feat. The Protege)
3. The Safehouse
4. Rules of Engagement
5. Serenity
6. The Arrival
7. The Clones
8. Payment in Kind
9. Creep 31
10.Stealth
11.TV Land
12.Game
13.Zen
14.Steel Sky
15.Shadows
16.Valiant
17.Severe
18.The River Runs Through

Started back in June 2007, the Tech My House series gets a third outing this month, and follows the evolution of the electronic music in delivering 1o heavy Tech House tracks.

The international lineup includes Animaltek, Alex Tomb, Datensi, Breger, Dominic & Moog Conspiracy, Pete Nouveau and Digital Filth diffusing the Elektrotribe sound all through the compilation.

Newcomers Insect Elektrika from Prague, Steve Lorenz from Italy & Tiari from Detroit are also included.

Most of the songs have been especially produced by Elektrotribe artists to make this new Tech My House 3 compilation the best in the series so far.

Tech My House 3 Track List:

1. Dominic & Moog Conspiracy – Lost
2. Steve Lorenz – Overload
3. Digital Filth – Edition
4. Breger – Il Pavone
5. Animaltek – Bucket Dance
6. Datensi – Morana
7. Pete Nouveau – Fun Box
8. Tiari – Ware Road
9. Insect Elektrika – When I met 19
10.Alex Tomb – Just copy & paste

Tech My House 3 was released on 25th June

Animaltek – Aspiree EP

Animaltek are Oleg Slepak & Shay Raban (aka DJ Earthian) from New York. Aspiree includes three tracks: Bessame, Ghetto Twist & the title track Apsiree.

The Aspiree 3 track EP is a smooth electronic adventure navigating an electronic path with essence of electronica, jazz and minimal techno universe.

Bessame introduces a warm groove against the colder minimal trance rhythm. There seems to be a merging of contemporary minimal techno with an old skool analogue synthesizer giving the track a distinctive twist.

In contrast, Ghetto Twist is a dark, brooding straight deep minimal techno groove that throbs so hard it will bring a lump to your throat, and might leave unexpecting clubbers dazed and confused.

Aspiree, included here in its original mix, escapes from the darkness of the last track and returns instead to the centre of the minimalist techno dancefloor, but keeps that throbbing techno sound.  Simple yet effective use of a phaser gives light refreshment to the EP and will bring smiles to faces. Great track.

Oleg Slepak and Shay Raban released their debut Karmik loops EP on WIR, both sides of the which on numerous occasions reached air play from some of the World’s Top DJ’s such as John Digweed, Sasha, Satoshi Tomie, Anthony Pappa, among others.

They followed their debut release in 2008 on Germany labels Treibstoff and WIR, and Canada’s Thoughtless Music, receiving positive reviews from the likes of DE:BUG, the French TSUGI and Progressive-Sounds, and appearing in the charts of Mathias Schafhauser and DJ Hell, among others.

Animaltek – Aspiree EP will be released on 9th July.

Torro Remote - RSN08 on Elektrotribe

Torro Remote – RSN08 is available through Elektrotribe, single review

RSN08 is the hard-hitting new track from Torro Remote. Hard floor-filling industrial dance music that resides somewhere between techno and progressive house.

Torro Remote is a UK DJ, artist and producer.  The single was recently included on James Zabiela’s Renaissance: The Masters Series DJ mix CD.

The 3 track single also includes another new track HZRD which falls between the same two music genres though being even harder, errs more towards the techno side of Torro Remote’s soundscape.

RSN08 gets the remix treatment from Digital Filth who delivers a more industrial techno version.

Here is a quick excerpt of James Zabiela using Torro Remote – RSN08 as an introduction to his DJ set at the  ARMA17  CLUB in Moscow, earlier this year.

For more information visit www.elektrotribe.com

Datensi - new minimal techno single - Oomph

Oomph is a dark, minimal techno track by Datensi that lurks in the darkness rather than the spotlight of the dancefloor.

Datensi is a Greek musician and producer who’s own music style has been mutating from emotive electronica and progressive house music to a more minimalist techno trance.

Datensi is just 22 years old and began making music when his friend brought him some sequencer software.

He released his first EP in 2007 on Elektrotribe, and over the past couple of years has produced a variety of musical styles over the past few years including releases on other German labels like Artminimal and Joachim Spieth’s Affin Records.  But in 2008 Datensi decided to concentrate on creating his own style, best suited to minimal techno.

With Oomph, Datensi is back on his home label Elektrotribe, with a first taste of his forthcoming debut album, due to be released this summer.

The Oomph ‘Original mix’ is released along with a filthy remix by German artist, Moog Conspiracy.

Oomph by Datensi is released on the Berlin Elektrotribe Records label.  for more information, visit www.Elektrotribe.com

When Sounds Collide debut EP by Pete Nouveau

When Sounds Collide is the debut release on the Berlin based Elektrotribe label from Australian dj & producer, Pete Nouveau.

The When Sounds Collide EP  consists of three original tracks Minus, Nouvacaine & Hang The Canary, plus Minus (Moog Conspiracy Mix) and Nouvacaine (Breger Mix).

Pete Nouveau has produced a great slice of rich house and ‘groovy’ minimal techno, good enough for any pulsing, deep trance club dancefloor, especially the original mix of Minus – love it.  Minus is anthemic minimal techno at its best.  It’s difficult to put into words why it works – it just does!

The Moog Conspiracy remix of Minus keeps the warped deep throbbing bass beat of the Original Mix, but uses effects as a filler.  I prefer the more atmospheric Original Mix, with its repetitive, dark & moody open sound. Less is more here.

Nouvacaine errs further towards a house ‘groove’ . The Breger Mix is a good imporovement on the Original Mix.

The skipping, rolling drum beat of the final track, Hang The Canary again shows there is a funkier house element to Nouveau’s minimal techno production.  Hang The Canary reminds me of Minilogue. Uplifting minimal techno with a house music vibe.

The When Sounds Collide EP has left me wanting to hear more from Pete Nouveau.  I hope those good people at Elektrotribe have more releases lined up.

Pete Noveau – When Sounds Collide EP gets two big thumbs up from Buzzin Electronic Music and should be heard in all good minimal techno clubs this year.

Pete Noveau – When Sounds Collide EP is available now from Elektrotribe Records.

Listen to Pete Nouveau’s When Sounds Collide EP