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Artist: Cassegrain
Title Of Album: Centres of Distraction
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Prologue / PRGLP007
Genre: Techno, Ambient, Dub Techno, Electro
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:51:50
Total Size: 120 mb

Tracklist:
1.A Study of Splashes 05:24
2.Resilin 05:11
3.Centres 05:40
4.Intrude – Restrain 05:08
5.New Hexagon 05:51
6.Glasshouse 04:53
7.Scythian 06:26
8.Empress Cut In Segments feat. Nikos Veliotis 04:03
9.Arcane 05:49
10.Seldom Cloud 03:21

Cassegrain continue their empowering run of techno electronics with ‘Centres of Distraction’, their debut album on Prologue. Leading us on a 10-track expedition into a wilderness of rugged, challenging sonics, the album marks the production duo’s development from adventurous new-bloods to fully fledged Techno explorers.

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Artist: Venx
Title Of Album: Artifice
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Discrete Recordings / 001
Genre: Techno
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:48:11
Total Size: 110 mb

Tracklist:
1. Nocturne
2. Maribled
3. A Cloying Scent
4. Placement
5. Cloud Swarm
6. Incandescent
7. Deliberation

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Artist: Mura Oka
Title Of Album: Auftakt LP
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Latency / LTNC004
Genre: Techno
Quality: FLAC
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:42:00
Total Size: 199 mb

Tracklist:
A1 Untitled
A2 Log In Oct 13
B1 Brain Waves
B2 990933
C1 Zr Dnt
C2 Untitled
D1 Horizon Rouge
D2 Keepsake
D3 Xqdel Eit

In their brief life so far, Parisian label Latency have attained a sense of quality over the course of their three releases that has probably resulted in a few envious glances. Records from Innerspace Halflife, Joey Anderson and Even Tuell have set the bar high, and have been complemented by equal attention to detail from an aesthetic viewpoint. A slight shift in focus for Latency is shown here with a full length album from Mura Oka, which transpires to be a long gestating project of Latency co-founder Sidney Gerard and friend Louis Vial. There is however no drop in quality, with Auftakt a wonderfully paced album of deep electronics that could quite easily fit on Workshop and one that reveals new highlights with every listen.

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Artist: DJ Earl
Title Of Album: UNUSUAL Project.
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Ghetto Teknitianz
Genre: Juke, Footwork, Bass
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:28:21
Total Size: 64 mb

Tracklist:
1. DJ Earl – Kush 14 (feat. Heavee) (3:40)
2. DJ Earl – ShakeWhatcha” (3:10)
3. DJ Earl – High As Hell (4:04)
4. DJ Earl – Crazy (2:46)
5. DJ Earl – ALABB (feat. DJ Taye) (2:34)
6. DJ Earl – A&T (feat. Sonic D) (3:52)
7. DJ Earl – Can Yu Dig It (4:04)
8. DJ Earl – Shake Ya Body (feat. Elliott Mess) (2:30)
9. DJ Earl – The Market (1:38)

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Artist: DJ Candle in the Wind
Title Of Album: On the Street Where I Gotta Be
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Iron-Magnesium Records / IMR-004
Genre: Acid, House, Disco, Leftfield, Techno, Electro
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:27:13
Total Size: 153 mb

Tracklist:
A1 On The Street (Theme Song)
A2 Haus Balls
A3 Night Play
B1 Ass Sucker
B2 Miami Masters
B3 Latin Acid (Bonus Beats)
B4 After Therapy (Sour Love Got Better)

Helsinki – Suomi’s DJ Candle In The Wind with classic driven acid house LP on Finnish Iron Magnesium Records. Traditional ingredients such as TR-808 and Latin cousin 727, monophonic synths, african and 80’s guitars are included. Note this is NOT purist TB-303 acid house, but real acid house record with that little Finnish twist on melodies. Acid is in your head, don’t forget that.

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Artist: Reagenz
Title Of Album: The Periodic Table
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: The Bunker New York / BK 010
Genre: Techno, House
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:16:22
Total Size: 175 mb

Tracklist:
01 – Si 13:32
02 – Tc 12:59
03 – Au 11:44
04 – Ge 13:24
05 – Co 14:32
06 – Db 10:11

Few projects in electronic music have remained at the very cutting edge for as long as Reagenz, a collaboration between San Francisco-based Jonah Sharp and Heidelberg-based David Moufang. Their first self-titled album “Reagenz,” was released during a foundational moment for ambient and electronic music: 1994. At the time, Jonah’s main project was Spacetime Continuum; an early signee of seminal label Astralwerks. He was also running one of the first independent electronic music labels on the West Coast, Reflective Records, recording with the likes of Pete Namlook and Bill Laswell; while David was founding acclaimed duo Deep Space Network, starting to record solo records as Move D, entering into a fruitful collaboration with Pete Namlook, as well as running his own Source Records imprint.

Following several well-received live appearances in Japan, Reagenz was reformed in 2009 for a full-length album “Playtime” on the respected Berlin label Workshop. Since then, the project has been ongoing, touring to present live shows in both the US and Europe. There has also been a special collaborative extension of the project when Reagenz met Magic Mountain High (Moufang w/ Juju & Jordash) under the name The Mulholland Free Clinic at last year’s Unsound Festival in Krakow. Moufang, working as Move D, is now highly in demand as a DJ (last year he did one the coveted Fabric mix CDs), whilst Sharp is also busy with solo gigs and a collaborative project with DJ Spun called the Loose Control Band.

Now, twenty years after their first project, comes “The Periodic Table,” a stunning live album captured at The Bunker New York’s tenth anniversary party at Public Assembly, Brooklyn, in January 2013. This Triple LP / CD album also serves as the first full-length release from relatively new label The Bunker New York, which was launched in January 2014, so far releasing nine EPs from the likes of Atom™, Voices From The Lake, Marco Shuttle, and others. To introduce the album, Sharp notes, “I consider it a live album that captured the essence of the show. The two-and-a-half hour show was edited down to 70 minutes or so. The hard bit was selecting chunks to use.”

Recorded using a full stage of gear / all-hardware set up that included Roland TR 909, Roland TR 606, Roland JX-3P, Roland SH101, Anyware Instruments TinySizer, Nord Micro Modular, Doepfer Dark Time, Akai MPC 1000, Electro Harmonix Memory Man Delay and a Moog MidiMurf “The Periodic Table” incorporates elements of house, techno and ambient in an organic flow that few artists could replicate. Watching the two musicians on stage makes tangible the sense of decades of shared experience between them very apparent. Moufang clarifies “it is definitely about letting go and finding out where we can go as in terms of improvising (new) tracks.” Sharp concurs, “Communication comes down to hearing and feeling what’s going on at the time and trying to make the right decisions on the spot. Spontaneity plays a big part! “

Of course, this special adapt-and-move approach is not something every musician could do successfully. Sharp confirms, “it’s a challenge to play live dance music and make it work,“ whilst Moufang sees a parallel for their approach in game theory, noting “Live improvisation is always like a game of chess in a way—you follow and try to take the lead.”

Recorded with almost the same equipment they used to record their debut twenty years earlier, “The Periodic Table” is a testament to the power of live electronic music, its ability to transcend time and remain, when delivered with skill and art, one of the most powerful live music experiences possible. Far from being locked into any cul-de-sac of “dance” genre or DJ tools, “The Periodic Table” presents a living, breathing model. Free your mind and your feet will follow.

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Artist: Hashman Deejay
Title Of Album: Sandopolis
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Future Times / FT026
Genre: House/Techno
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:48:25
Total Size: 111 mb

Tracklist:
1 Xssential-3
2 Statues PF
3 Sandfish
4 Mercury
5 Mozaic
6 184

Hashman Deejay’s Future Times debut, Tangerine, was something of an overlooked gem – an exotic, melodious gem that pinned Tangerine Dream style electronics to a restless techno groove. This surprise debut album has a similarly dreamy feel, even if the techno side of his output has been tamed a little. Instead, we get a range of eyes-wide-shut compositions that variously touch on Mood Hut style deep house (“Mercury”), ultra-deep electronica (the odd beats, spacey noises and relentless chords of “Mozaic”), swinging, Max D style drum workouts (the rich bass, dubbed-out synths and loose house grooves of “184″), trip-hop style downtempo beats “Statues PF”), and thrillingly loose, new age house anthems (“Xssential-3″).

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Artist: Gunnar Haslam
Title Of Album: Mirrors and Copulation
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: L.I.E.S. / LIES-055
Genre: House, Techno, Experimental, Ambient
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:46:17
Total Size: 101 mb

Tracklist:
01 Meter Me by Sybil
02 Ajapajapam (Version)
03 Brahmaputra
04 Camare Aperte
05 Incidental Magnetics
06 Cloud Castle Lake
07 Nameless
08 In Argo Teurano

Gunnar Haslam returns to LIES records for his second album, Mirrors and Copulation. Following a slew of 12″ releases this year, Gunnar delves deep into his darkest palettes for a return to his patient, haunted soundscapes that shrouded his debut LP, Mimesiak.

Across eight tracks of ambient techno both brooding and tumultuous, Gunnar Haslam unravels a narrative on overpopulation and its potential environmental ramifications inspired by the Borges quote the album title references. “Meter By Me, Sybil” cascades arpeggios through a thick fog that never leaves Mirrors. “Ajapajapam Version” cuts through with a sluggish 3/4 strut and nauseated 303 bassline, but the rest of the A side is fully enveloped by the Gunnar’s peerless recreation of the wet ambience of a ghostly rainforest.

“Cloud Castle Lake” offers an uptempo cut buoyed by a blasted kick drum and frenetic 606 workout. Still enshrouded, “Cloud Castle Lake” further explores Gunnar’s sonic terrain with the force of a freaked dancefloor’s momentum, much like the album finale, “In Argo Teurano”, which blasts forth from the mist with a weathered adventurer’s grit.

Mirrors and Copulation continues Gunnar Haslam’s pursuit of the subterranean and introverted techno first offered on his LIES debut, embarking on more mystic pastures with his final offering of 2014.

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Artist: James Marrs
Title Of Album: Arms
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: SD Records – SD35
Genre: Dub Techno, Ambient
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 00:41:22
Total Size: 217 mb

Tracklist:
1. Arms (Original Mix)3:33
2. Care (Original Mix)3:50
3. Messwi (Original Mix)6:10
4. Midnight R (Original Mix)4:34
5. Embers (Original Mix)4:07
6. Waves (Original Mix)6:00
7. Jan (Original Mix)5:50
8. Freedom (Original Mix)5:34
9. Embers Reprise (Original Mix)1:38

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Artist: Steve Roden
Title Of Album: Flower & Water
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Dragon’s Eye Recordings / der008
Genre: Piano, Experimental
Quality: Flac
Bitrate: Losselss
Total Time: 00:36:49
Total Size: 139 mb

Tracklist:
1. Words In The Shape Of A Tree (7:59)
2. Breadly Medly (Dry Hill) (0:32)
3. Transparency (Red) (5:00)
4. If The Linotronic Could Sing (0:41)
5. Feeling, Smelling, Tasting (10:12)
6. Incidental Mountain (Simply) (1:42)
7. On Recycled Paper (0:30)
8. Nine Stones (0:22)
9. When Bread Is Like Bells (1:27)
10. Straightforwardness (7:44)
11. Wing / Ogre / Stone (0:39)

Flower & Water began with an offer to work with the first Dragon’s Eye release – a flexi-disc with a recording of George Winston playing a blues piano composition called “Medley: Bread Baker’s Stomp” – as source material. Since I am not a true remixer, I decided to modify the track via physical manipulation.
Most of the material began with cutting up some of the flexi’s and taping back together in ‘wrong’ ways. I then played (or tried to play) the broken records that had been taped back together, and also putting objects onto the surface of the record while being played with a cheap record player that had a small built-in speaker. In many ways I felt like I was building a series of temporary sculptures, as I wanted the experience to be physical – similar to the use of hands in making bread from scratch. Based on Paul Novak’s bread making book, I felt I should approach my engagement with the flexi’s should feel a bit like a ritual. I then took the stereo recordings of the objects, and put different moments into a sampler so that I could shift pitches and create loops.

In many ways the experience of cutting the records into pieces, felt related to my own practice, in that my approach to these recordings were quite different than how i’ve worked before – particularly with the addition of such an arduous process of physical building, rather than building the recordings in my “studio”. What is beautiful is that the recordings (done with a small stereo field recorder), captured not only the sounds of the record player, the plastic cups, the stones, and other things I set on the turntable, those sounds were processed by the reverb and echo that naturally exists in the space. So, rather than working within a virtual environment, I tried to keep the experiences as analog activities – with dust and hands, with scissors and scotch tape, and with the ways that sound is activated via dropping, sliding, and of course, listening. My hope was that the messiness of my process might offer some sound pieces that might relate to how a kitchen might look when I might have finished baking bread… with hands covered in flour, with dough stuck to the counter, etc. in many ways the overall group of tracks is a kind of hybrid – with agitated acoustic actions and piano recordings that have become loose and repetitive. The titles were all taken from Paul Novak’s book – A Baker’s Dozen of Daily Breads and More, some were as found, while others a bit more playful – such as wing / ogre / stone which was made up of the letters of George Winton’s name.

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Artist: Quiet Evenings
Title Of Album: Other Windows
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Hooker Vision / hiv140
Genre: Drone, Experimental
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:34:58
Total Size: 80 mb

Tracklist:
01- Tangled Garden
02- Beach Coil

Having taken an extended vacation from Quiet Evenings to focus on Coyote Image etc., Other Windows is a return to form for the duo, exploring themes from their early output but with a modified arsenal of acoustic and electronic instruments. Cello and guitar slowly waft through hazy layers of vocals and synthesizers, awash in understated melancholia.

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