Tin Man - Underdog EP Pt.1 (Pomelo Records POM33 - 2013)

Intelligent acid is often seen as Tin Man's signature sound but his output does not always have floor grading and touches experimental spheres (for example "Vienna Blue LP"). However not in the case of sonic statement "Underdog EP Pt. 1" on the Austrian imprint Pomelo, where he has prepared a floor-friendly two-tracker with house elements.
Symbolically titled "U.R." opens with acid house showers before Detroit's early techno chords emerge to keep the track running for about 13 minutes. Whereas field testing confirmed "U.R.'s" excellent DJ set potential. "Stay Down" is built on a lukewarm groove with filtered kicks and soft keys and completes an impressive job by Johannes Auvinen, a Californian native of Finnish descent and current Viennese resident.



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DJ Deka (terminal313.net) @ Kanala Cafe in Tallinn (June 7, 2013)

Last Friday's diverse set by DJ Deka played in Kanala Café in Tallinn.

The tracklist:
Jean Piché - La Mer à l'Aube
Panabrite - Index of Gestures
Varg - Mount Analogue
SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL - TouchRiddim
Plant43 - Bioluminiscent Trees
Portable - Albatross
Model 500 - Ocean To Ocean (Global Mix)
Eduardo de la Calle - Quasi Calligraphic
Cheap And Deep Productions - Words, Breaths And Pauses
Teersom - Tia
War Easy Made - A
Tin Man - U.R
Alva Noto - Uni Acrynom (Feat. Anne-James Chaton)
Tom Dicicco - Return To Dust
Sensurreal - Sideshield
Sensurreal - From Subversive Territory
NX1 - NX1 05 15
Green Velvet - Help Me
Ascion - Untitled.2
Riccardo Rocchi - Hasta La Vista Baby
Laibach - Opus Dei

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Tom Dicicco - Under The Aquadrome Pt.1 (Run Out Run RUNOR1001 - 2013)

Release date in in June 2013

Having released before on Traut Muzik, Inner Surface, Semantica and other labels, the UK producer Tom Dicicco launches his own imprint Run Out Run with a four-tracker. Mostly dedicated to the rugged side of British techno he starts with top-end track "Return To Dust" which is exposed to the firm grip of expressive machine language. It's centered on a metallic riff that makes it a good mix with "Echo Final" by Schalt 42 aka Richard Bartz.
"Mist Of 1897" and "Werk" stay close to the rumble on the floor with complex techno textures until the beats are cut off in "Plate Subduction", a tranquilizing conclusion of the release feeding the imagination with sun & sea metaphors. Dicicco might not break any barriers with "Under The Aquadrome Pt. 1" but still provides a decent addition for the DJ bags.



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DJ Deka (terminal313.net) podcast for MRK.EE

This is my first podcast for Mrk.ee, the Estonian organization for techno parties. The mix starts with „Choice“ from Perc’s fabulous album „Wicker & Steel“ and features some other tracks from the archives. However the focus is on new or unreleased material; labels represented are Semantica, M_Rec Ltd, NX1, Keys Of Life, Headless Horseman and many more. Shouts go out to the excellent techno crowd of MÜRK!


Tracklist:
Perc - Choice
Eduardo de la Calle - Quasi Calligraphic
Liss C. - Modulation (Truncate Remix)
Samuli Kemppi - Extragalactic
Stanislav Tolkachev - No Home No Flag
Juho Kusti - Twin Oaks
Helical Scan - Index I
NX1 - NX1 05 15
Sawf - Skotos (Henning Baer Remix)
Lovecore – Kalk A1
Varg - Mount Analogue
Legowelt - Ritual Of Abramelin
D. Carbone - Untitled.2 (Repitch 000.2)
Metasplice - Buoyant Slight
Headless Horseman - Decapitation
Teersom - TIA
Blacknecks – A2 000001
J Tijn - Jack 2
Orphx - Outcast
Bigod 20 - The Bog (Techno Duck Mix)

Samuli Kemppi - Parallax Of One Second EP (M_Rec Ltd M_RECLTD17 - 2013)

Release date is in June 2013

Deep Space Helsinki operative Samuli Kemppi feels inspired. In addition to running DSH imprint with Juho Kusti, Kemppi's recent release schedule has included EPs on Chronicle, Balans, Komisch and now it's the turn of Milan's M-Rec_Ltd to host the space explorer from up North.
Watching the oscillations on the control unit screen, Kemppi embarks to multi-faceted techno mission with "Extragalactic" that catches the floor essence with modulating synth lines. Particle shower continues in more atmospheric but still strongly bass-centric "Astrometric Precision" which would be a perfect match to Something In The Sky releases.
Heavily slamming "More Than Parsec" features clapping hi-tech drums like from The Martian's toolbox and the EP's most minimalistic cut "Less Than Planck" intercepts shortwave radio signals from the mist of acid house, with chords recalling Larry Heard's early Gherkin Jerks material.


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PS: Check out also the Deep Space Helsinki's weekly radio shows, either by Samuli Kemppi or Juho Kusti, always containing a lot of unreleased stuff.

Headless Horseman - Headless Horseman 002 (HDL002 - 2013)

"Decapitation" is the best cure for the bored. The opener of the new Headless Horseman hits with cold-blooded synth swirl mounted on throbbing and kicking bass and sharp claps. A sinister and rampant techno cut and the most convincing achievement of the ghost of a Hessian trooper so far.
Extra help is engaged in the dark dealings of "Graveyard" when Perc's no-nonsense rework covers the place with the textures of booming industrial techno before the original "Graveyard" leads the cavalcade to the terminal point with half-stepping rhythm.
In my view the necromantic connotations do not sound very creative here, but musically Headless Horseman is on a very promising path. Beware of techno Goths.


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NX1 - NX1 05 (NX105 - 2013)

Release date is in June 2013

NX1 is a two-man act consisting of Spanish producers Samot and Surit who proceed in impressive manner to the fifth installment of the NX1 series on the self-titled label.
Creeping out of the night is bold and percussive "013", where floating pads meet the track's grim foundations. Pumping more fuel to the floor, "014" is a storming and repetitive piece for (re)discovering rave monster in yourself, featuring again some atmospheric elements in the back.
But the best is yet to come when "015" emerges from the smokescreen and grows into a clattering and pumping cut with fabulously haunting synth riff for a real mystery tale by the top guns from Barcelona.



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