Jeff Derringer on Seven Years of OKTAVE
Chicago DJ Jeff Derringer celebrates seven years of his Oktave residency and playing Techno in a House Music town.
Grid Based Beats Celebrates the Chicago-Milwaukee Connection
Grid Based Beats celebrates the Chicago-Milwaukee Techno Connection on Hiawatha Service, featuring tracks from Lester Fitzpatrick, Frankie Vega, Tim Vitek and more.
Malcolm Moore, Chicago Skyway, Specter, Steven Tang: Pancake Sessions
Attention Deep House heads: there is vinyl heat circulating in breakfast form entitled Pancake Sessions. The label is equipped with delicious pancake art on Side A and the cool-down after a Tetrode-Downbeat party on...
Carl Craig, Detroit and Planet-E
Carl Craig was three years old on June 21, 1972 - the day the lights went out at 2648 West Grand and Motown left the city that gave the label its name.
A Stellar Reissue: Dave Angel’s Original Man / Quarter Pounder
Here is a record from back in the day that you really, really can play today. Could. Should.
Surfing with the Aliens on Ellen Allien’s UFO Inc.
UFOx01 and UFOx02 dropped simultaneously as "very limited" white labels at ADE 2019 and more recently in digital format, and the combined 8 tracks makes for one of the strongest V/A compilations of the past year.
Floorplan: Music/Tell You No Lie
I really can't figure you people out. Here is a man of worldwide renown, and he's turning out the best records of an illustrious career and clearly some of the best tracks being made...
#Rejuvenate – inside the new 5 Mag
Franck Roger, Ed Nine, Rodney Baker, Berlin under lockdown and more in the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
Brutalist Acid Slap from Boston 168 on Vax Of Love
Italian duo Boston 168 serve up 3 microdots of squelchy acid on Vax of Love from Ellen Allien's BPitch.
#ListenUp Futureboogie Drops Summer Riot VIII
Techno boogie hypnosis from A Sagittariun highlights Summer Riot VIII, Futureboogie Recordings' eighth seasonal compilation.
MNLTH: Laser 80 (Organic Analogue)
Super eclectic electro from Organic Analogue: MNLTH's Laser 80 is one of the most challenging but most wonderful records I've heard this year.
Kate Simko & Tevo Howard Team Up for a New Album
Two of Chicago’s finest are collaborating together on a new album from Sasha’s rejuvenated Last Night On Earth label.
PolyRhythmic is the title of the forthcoming LP from Chicago’s Kate Simko and Tevo Howard -...
John Carpenter’s Lost Themes Remixed
Silent Servant, Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley and more have their remixes of maestro John Carpenter's "Lost Themes" pressed to wax.
Daryl Cura, Frique, Isoke, Chicago Skyway, DCook: Thoughts from Chicago Vol 4
People ask what's happening in Chicago these days. Pick up this record from Eargasmic and you'll have a good idea of what should be.
Upfront & urgent techno on Jeff Derringer’s “Automatic”
Automatic is Smartbar resident Jeff Derringer's first recorded output in four years, a time which coincided with an economic conflagration, pandemic outbreak and the general meltdown of just about everything that once seem solid and certain.
Eddie Flashin Fowlkes: Special EP (Detroit Wax)
Everything written about Eddie Fowlkes these days has the feeling of a pamphlet or a petition seeking redress for some awful historical travesty. I assume this is by design, but it doesn't jibe with...
Pezzner and The Last Night In Utopia
It's impossible to trivialize the impact of The Tracks Are Alive, Dave Pezzner's 2010 album on Freerange Records. A key catalyst in pushing Deep House back to the top of the underground music scene,...
SciFiSol: Experimental Drawingboard
New Techno from the purveyors of good Techno at Detroit Underground.
Levon Vincent remixes Skudge’s 2010 jam “Convolution”
Levon Vincent has a clear affinity here for the record, which presaged a darker, more physical turn for analog-driven techno and deep house. Vincent is a fellow traveler and his work on these remixes is nothing short of stunning.
Premiere: Yuu Udagawa – Stay With Us [Cyphon Recordings]
The debut release from the new sibling label to Freerange and Delusions of Grandeur comes from Japanese DJ and producer Yuu Udagawa. Stay With Us is a heavy, hazy and surprisingly soulful electronic masterpiece from Cyphon Recordings, out February 3 2023.
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