Ok, I will bite after all - mostly electro + 2 techno. Faceless Mind - Datacat (Strange Life Records)
The Consumer - Solve The System (KONDI) -cold pristine electro; but they both need to get over 'Gesamkunstwerk'. In the meantime though, I like it. The Consumer is the more analogue-esque of the two - including, grid sequencing, by the sounds of it. Legowelt remix on the Faceless Mind EP. Boris Divider La Hora de Las Maquinas (LP) (Drivecom) -Needs to get over 'Simulationzeitalter' but in the meantime... Michael Forshaw - Blackpool Rock EP (SMB records) -Nuts in a Planet MU-type way, but not quite as fast. If you're not ready for the pipe & slippers yet, check. Silicone Scally - Bioroid (LP) (Satamile Records) -best I've heard from him for almost a decade... makes me want to go back and check the LP he had on the same label last year. Software, dense, dirty, deceptively unmelodic. But it grows... In Sync - Storm (Fortune8) -(Repress on his new label) Beautiful, gentle, simple, thoughtful, techno tracks. (A strange publishing scheme of red, clear and black vinyl in specific numbers, which I don't remember, but I think overall the prints are limited.) Redshape - Telefunk (Styrax Leaves) -Big, clean, clonky and monolithically sinister techno. It's the year 21**. Omar-S -111 (2x12") (FXHE Records) -Quite surprised how techy and genuinely minimal these are nowadays. Nice package. 'For the International DJ only' it says and in fact, yes, these are pretty 'toolish' and probably quite useful. Ken
