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Recommended: Innergaze – Mutual Dreaming

No one can deny we’re living during a very exciting period in history, especially for music. Carrying the collective torch that’s helping push music forward are Jason Letkiewics, aka Steve Summers, and his girlfriend Aurora Halal.  The pair has just released their sophomore album, “Mutual Dreaming”, as Innergaze on Minimal Wave sub label Cititrax.  This […]

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Releases, Various

Recommended: Endian – Birdhouse / DBPLT01

George Levings or Endian is a name destined to become synonymous with gritty techno in the coming months.  Much like his close friend Boddika he’s flying in from leftfield as he’s spent most of his musical career part of the drum & bass duo Commix.  So what’s the deal?  Well, his goal is to keep […]

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Releases

Recommended: 214 – Plastic Spokes

Fortified Audio is readying 214’s newest slab of savory electro for the masses and believe us, it doesn’t disappoint.  With over a decade of experience  214 is no stranger in the game; his tracks are soaked in outlandish sounds and 808-beats and considering that his list of influences includes electro dons such as Drexciya and Cybotron, […]

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Various

Introducing: Nice ‘N’ Ripe

This article is more like re-introducing rather than introducing; earlier this month the legendary Nice ‘N’ Ripe, responsible for a ridiculous amount of classic garage and house tracks from the nineties, relaunched.  Based in the UK, it was originally created and run by George Power and Grant Nelson through a flat in London.  Over a […]

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Releases

Review: XXXY – Everything EP

Stream:XXXY – Everything EP clips (Well Rounded) XXXY’s first release since Kerpow comes via Well Rounded, a proven source for swung dance-floor killers. We saw him experiment a bit with two electro-tinged releases on Orca Recordings (“You Gotta Do You“) and All City Records last year, this time he’s seen returning to the time tested four-by-four […]

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Releases

Recommended: Grinch – Chapter 1

If more proof was needed that there is a sea of undiscovered talent lurking around the internet, out of the woodwork comes Grinch.  Not much is known about him besides that he has a background in techno and is from Connecticut, other than that he lets the music do the talking. His first solo outing is […]

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Releases

Recommended: Gerry Read – Yeh Come Dance

There’s no questioning that Gerry Read made quite a stir last year with releases on Fourth Wave and 2nd Drop, which received acclaim across the genre spectrum.  Read will delve further into the rugged, lo-fi house sounds he has become known for with an album due out later this year, but those plans haven’t stopped him […]

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Releases

Recommended: Kim Brown – Spring Theory EP

Earlier this month German label Just Another Beat pressed up yet another crisp and sensual slab of house music, this time the from the mysterious Kim Brown.  Almost no information is available on Brown, who knows it could be an alias, but either way the aptly titled Spring Theory EP acts as a bridge from […]

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Releases

Recommended: Mess Kid – Sip Slow EP

Once again Freshmore has dropped a Southern leaning, bass heavy, hip hop EP. Entitled Sip Slow, this EP comes from Mess Kid and is a single track backed by three remixes by Morris, Cedaa, and Nikko. Kid’s original takes some time to get into the swing of things with a 2-minute long intro, which drops […]

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Interviews

Interview: Thefft

Over the past six months one name has been slowly cropping up on everyone’s radar, Thefft.  His music revolves around rough low ends, euphoric stabs, and meticulous drum programming, which often creates music landing in the unclassifiable realm we’ve been stuck in for the last two years.  Late last year DFRNT released his The Primer […]

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