Soulphiction aka Jackmate aka Michael Baumann has a new album out on the indisposable Berlin label Sonar Kollektiv. How they manage to be both prolific and quality is beyond me, but I have to say they’re holding the standard for cool electronic dance scene nowadays. Baumann is a prolific artist like Sonar; I think he’s [...]

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Cenk with Jori Hulkkonen & Ludovic Llorca
Here’s a mix by our fellow friend from Istanbul, Cenk Akyol, who’s relocated to Australia a few years ago. He’s a picky expert in electronic music & many other things, as denoted by his myspace influences : “1985-1988 Electro Funk”, “1988-1992 Acid House” “1992-1995 Rave & Trance”, “1995-1999 Techno [...]

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The best thing about netlabels is that netlabel artists are totally (at least theoretically) free from the constraints of the music industry and they can do all kinds of off kilter experimentations. Here’s one of ‘em from one of our netlabel faves Radio Scotvoid. His latest EP on Earth Monkey “Fae Ecosse” sees the Scottie [...]

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One might remember 2001’s as the peak for quality minimal music, one of the main actors for it was Playhouse/Ongaku/Klang under Roman Flügel’s guidance. A golden EP reminiscent of those days has been released on Klang by Radical Majik and boy is it good. Appropriately labeled micro-trance by Boomkat because of the melodies in a [...]

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Here’s part 2 of the netlabel selection for april. A little bit more dance oriented this time.

Tzii - ça fait marcher le monde (antisocial)
7am & family groove - collective (insectorama)
Dubby minimal floorfiller.
markus masuhr - hamptington liips (insectorama)
Groovy & loose minimal driver by Masuhr.
Phour Trakk - Sleeping City (Ideology)
Downtempo/triphop with grainy [...]

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Welcome to the wooorlld of tomorrooww!! I wonder if it would be something like a Futurama episode if Matthew Herbert actually met Duke Ellington. Recently i stumbled upon both the 80 Drums exotica and the quite fine Marsalis version of “Caravan“, a Duke Ellington classic and probably one of the most covered songs from the [...]

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