Archive for December, 2008
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Friday, December 26th, 2008A Fistful of Bass
Spacey, spacey, drum and bassy. Phat choon, plenty of carry, pauses in all the right places. Everything you could want from a piece of music, top line beats, coated with an almost filmic envelope of atmosphere, and like all first class dn’b, you feel something when it kicks off. I am up [...]
Review: By your side (Twitchin Skratch BassBang) by Twitchin Skratch & T on Murky Beatz
Monday, December 22nd, 2008It’s the first release I come across of of this artist. One thing that immediately caught my attention was his sound.Though he only started producing in ‘06, he succeeds in creating a unique sound;existing of a blend of pumping beats, synth stabs and twisted vocoder-esque vocals. A nervous base line on a tight and dry [...]
Review: Too much leisure (Gabriel Ananda Remix) by Hansen & DJ Daniel J on Le Bien Et Le Mal Recordings
Monday, December 22nd, 2008The German label comes up with a bleepy, sensual slice of amusing electro tech house that will find a haven in a lot of underground dance clubs in the next weeks. The whispering voice and the way the beats are programmed (or played) reminds me of tracks like they were made by artists such as [...]
Review:Human (Shawn Wards Remix) by Matthew Bandy on Revival Recordings
Monday, December 22nd, 2008This already excellent laidback, soulful track, which was released the end of July this year, gets a special “lift-it-up” treatment by Shawn Wards. He turns it into a gentle dancefloor ready and highly enjoyable tune but without losing the original vibe. When you take a look at his MySpace page you’ll discover this artist isn’t [...]
Review of Sex, Breaks, Rock and Roll by Under This on Yong NRG Productions
Friday, December 19th, 2008All My Brain And Body Needs
I got a late start in on this one, as I picked up on it at the start of the week, but didn’t get my ass in gear ’till now to pen this. No problems with Under This getting their ass in gear however, with a bang off track, firing [...]
door. Recommends // NYE Parties
Thursday, December 18th, 2008door. Recommends // NYE Parties
MIND BLOWING ….. Two words which describe exactly how this year has panned out for us here at door.
From flyering for our favourite nights so to blag a free-list or 2, to throwing two bang on it parties, our mailing list growing by the day, our website under construction and our [...]
Review of Revolver Complex by In-Yo Prism
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008Welcome To The Machine
First class drum an basser, shot thru with sophisticated jazz elements and new age pads. A bitter sweet piano line compliments the revolver vocal and eastern string thing that’s lingering around the bass notes. Complex at times yet beautifully simple by the same measure, Revolver Complex is the soundtrack of a new [...]
Review of Motor City by Chris Barrett
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008The Road
Kickback, cruise control style. Your relationship with your car is symbiotic, somewhere between Jack Kerouac and a post modern Ginsberg. Wither goest thou in thy shiny automobile in the night? In this case it’s miles of freeway and no commitment to anything other than drive. A finely tuned piece of music, ticking over nicely, [...]
Artist of the week – Undersound
Monday, December 15th, 2008UnderSound (aka Gareth Evans) trained as a classical musician from the age of 5. He will turn his hand to most instruments and on his own music can be heard playing guitar, drums, piano, trumpet, French horn, cello and flute. In November 2006 he was introduced to High Contrast who asked Gareth to play some [...]
Label of the week – Systematic
Monday, December 15th, 2008After almost 15 years in the world of electronic music, Marc Romboy felt the urge to start the Systematic label as an outlet for fierce, pumping and forward-thinking house music.
Strictly dedicated to the dancefloor, the sound of Systematic could be described as a fusion of early Chicago house drafts from heroes like Blake Baxter, Marshall [...]