Some More Techno?

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Interesting piece in Pitchfork by Philip Sherburne, about how rubbish techno is these days. I half agree; the scene over here is fucking rank, but I guess I'll have to make do with headphone dj mixes.

Anyway, to cheer myself up, here's a list of my 5 favourite tracks of the mo' , new or old, with links underneath.

Please note that all links are to Myspaces or maybe to a Juno page, because too much SendSpace will make you go blind.


Nightguy - Pretty Face - Kompakt Extra
This was the on the recent Speicher 58, along with Steadycam's 'Get On Up There', and frankly, it stole the show with its warm drones and sampled clicky guitar notes. Eees verry nice.
Listen to it somewhere in here


Tom Ellis - Gain - Minibar Music
To be perfectly honest, Tom Ellis is sort of new to me, so I don't really feel qualified to give this track a proper intro. But yeah, quality clicky minimal, from Wales. I'm sure he'd be more widely known if he was from Stockholm or Hamburg.
Listen to it somewhere in here

Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Melons - Smallville Records
Another fairly recent acquaintance of mine; pretty much as deep as deep can get really, with some lush ambient washes going on underneath. Easily my track of the year so far; worth buying £70 head-phones for.
Listen to it somewhere in here


Melchior Productions (a.k.a. Thomas Melchior) - Watersoul - Perlon
It says a lot when a producer can stand out on Perlon, which just so happens to be my favourite label. I guess this is some more deep/minimal/ambient techno, and yet is totally essential.
Listen to it somewhere in here

Philip Sherburne - Salt & Vinegar - Lan Muzic
That's a bit ironic, eh?
Listen to it somewhere in here

Rug Cutting # 1

Vasco EP

By the by, I finally got my copy of Ricardo Villalobos' Vasco Part 1 EP this morning. It's probably the most danceable thing he's done in a wee while, which is a good thing since I've always favoured his DJ sets to most of his output (although his Fabric mix was beautiful).

Maybe Ricardo become re-acquainted with the dancefloor means we'll get some Villalobos pumped out at the Sub Club or the Arches. Maybe.

One Gabri-hell of an EP...

Hush hush, mind...