Force of Nature - To the Brain - Mule Musiq
Bought this for the sublime 'Traderoute', slow and uplifting. Love this.
Hieroglyphic Being - I got enough love 4 u and me - Apnea
Jamal Moss gets it right maybe a 1/3 of the time for me (the harder more distorted numebrs aren't to my tastes really) but when he gets it right he gets it riiiight. Another haunting slow number along the lines of Sun God's "Bird Songs" or "Analog Codes".
Seiji - DJ Tools 1.1- Sonar Kollektiv
Labelled as tools but they still progress ok. Sometimes these broken beat producers make good techno (I lump Domu and Nubian Mindz into that too....yeah I know, late! - I forget sometimes) and a couple of the tracks on here are techno but not stretched out to 10 minute mixes. Velour and Rasberries (ok more house with a boogie) are standouts for me.
Mr G - UAskin - Rekids
Coming like a restrained "ardkore" with more straightforward house percussion. So, I get a bit bored of Mr. G's sometimes (I mean he loves that 909 ride, in every track). Sometimes though he does something nice and I like this.
Nubian Mindz - Aqua Mindstate - Delsin
OK well late on this but Aqua Mindstate hits the spot for me.
Shed - Those Kinky Dudes - Soloaction
I should like Shed's stuff more but things are always a little busy for me but 'Increase That' slows it down to a pace I can handle.
Rene Et Gaston - Merluche Ideale - ARTless
Wicked track (by the Zki and Dobre guys) remastered by 2000 & One.
Todd Osborn - Bingata - Running Back
Lovely techno in the classic Detroit mould. The flip has a remix by Pink Alert which is more in the Chicago house vein. Worth checking. I often overlook this producer (and a lot of the stuff that comes out on Spectral but sometimes they come up trumps.
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I like some Osborn stuff, occasionally he really gets it right. Most of the time though, I feel like he tries too hard to be a diverse producer by taking the conventions of genre X and doing things far too typically. He doesn't have his own sound that would make you know his tracks immediately regardless of what genre it is. He is obviously a talented engineer and producer, but needs to be more distinctive. I'll definitely have to check out that Seiji stuff as I've been dragging out more broken beat stuff when I deejay recently, I miss the days when the Goya distro stuff took up like half of my bag.
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