I was checking around a little bit today and I came upon this nice release by Even Tuell, on the Broque netlabel which kindly published my debut EP a while ago. However I shall mention at first that this is in no way a favour review. It came my way from discoselector’s neato blog, I thought the cover was very funny, and proceeded to check the music..

There once I got that off, I really found some of the stuff here very fresh for the minimal techno/house scene of late. Most of the German and Canadian innovators are repeating themselves, and the once cherished minimal house subgenre is full of mediocre releases now.

This EP has a back to basics approach with raw percussive sounds, it is at times a bit dark and claustrophobic with some melodic phrases here and there, but to me the most important thing was the reminiscence of the old repetitive Detroit stuff or of early Studio 1. It’s really roots rock minimal techno like the good old days.. (not the boring minimal party sounds of today!)

(I would link to the zip here, but it’s a 80mb zip full of 4 different versions of each song , the ogg ,the vbr, etc. I mean, once I get the full zip, why would I want 4 different encoded versions of each song??. Other labels do this as well, so I wonder if it’s a policy of archive.org? I don’t know but I don’t wanna download 80 megs, instead of a possible 31. )