Slam – Factory Music / Cirklon Bells

In my opinion one of the biggest upcoming releases: Slam unleash their 2nd, pre album single in the form of some heavyweight versions of tracks taken from the stellar ‘Reverse Proceed’ dropping this October. Alongside the boys themselves, Slam have enlisted fellow Glaswegian producers Hans Bouffmyhre & Edit Select as well as Truncate to bring their own unique takes to ‘Factory Music’ and ‘Cirklon Bells’.

Slam Factory Music Cirklon Bells Cover

Slam step up first to provide a reinterpretation of Factory Music which sees them almost completely revamp the original. Leaning heavily on a soft synth version of the classic Roland SH101, Slam ramp up the tension in the track as driving percussion rides the tsunami provided by the 101.

More recently popping up on Soma under his Secluded guise, Hans Bouffmyhre follows up from Slam with an energetic remix of Factory music. His signature, sub heavy Techno comes out in full force as he perfectly loops out the original and balances a solid drum workout smoothly in a groove ridden, peak hour track.

The always on form Truncate brings his jacked up funk to Cirklon Bells, one of the more ambient pieces from Reverse Proceed. The mind melting synths are merged with Truncate’s stuttered, distorted percussion giving this a real Chicago flavour.

Tony Scott aka Edit Select rounds off the package on a deeper tip. More subtle drums are used, giving this remix the typical hypnotic mood found throughout his music. The ethereal atmospheres are effectively used in the backbone of the track bringing the usual Edit Select profoundness to the remix

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Stewart Walker – Ivory Tower Broadcast

A quarter century of the same drum machines and basslines turned future music into golden oldies. Visionaries don‘t make techno based on particular instruments but a set of techniques which can dilate time, implode sound, and confound expectation. Stewart Walker returns after a 6 year retreat to bring his own future sound with “Ivory Tower Broadcast.” The Ivory Tower refers to a cloistered and elitist mental space removed from practical considerations and criticism. It‘s a perfect metaphor for a music studio: Escape the noise outside and start from nothing but memory. Forget the rules, they‘re from a long time ago.

Stewart Walker Ivory Tower Broadcast Cover

Based heavily on live instruments and the scrape and noise of performance, “Ivory Tower Broadcast” tightly controls and contorts the human element and splays it across the time- corrected perfection of sequenced rhythm. Disparate recreations of post-punk basslines and shoegaze guitars are sliced through with “drunken master” scratching inspired by the late great DJ Screw. German zithers and Japanese kotos are plucked and strummed to recall the warm chorus of Appalachian mountain music. The techno is there in the tension and hypnosis of the beat, stripped dry and metronomic to support the luxurious sound . On “Ivory Tower Broadcast” Stewart corrals sounds from different memories and geography and binds them into an emotional experience with rarely seen vision and skill.

Check out this video for an insight into the making of the album and if you have the time tune in to boilerroom.tv Tuesday the 2nd of September from 19:00 CET and see Stewart play along with Cormac, Benedikt Frey, Tobias. (Live) and Roman Flügel.

Ivory Tower Broadcast is set to be released on September 26th 2014 via Mundo Recordings on Vinyl, CD and digital.

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VTF presents The Final Chapter

Recording of my set  last weekend. Florian Breidenbach @ VTF presents The Final Chapter Open Air. Partially distorted audio. DOWNLOAD (262MB).

Thanks for having me, it was a pleasure!

 

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Oedla vs Accentbuster

With the gathering of Stockholm´s Oedla and Hamburg´s Accentbuster there were two things that happened to us on different levels.

The one thing is that two great acid minds were connected to each other, one from the female and one from the male side of pure acid energy.

By this way naturally impulsive and affective virtuosic acid techno elements are formed and ordered for you into an intoxicating straight forward stream of techno soundscapes that naturally force you to move your feet instantly.

The other thing is that this two exceptionally gifted artists are by now working on their own true, honest and proper techno music mainly in the so called “underground” since over 20 years now. Although they are underground, they had lots of releases and fertile cooperations.

For Oedla it has to be mentioned that she has also had collaborations and Releases together with e. g. Dj Misjah or Cari Lekebusch. Besides of that she was the founder of the timeless acid techno label “Acid All Stars” that brought us many impressive releases.

For Accentbuster one should say that he has been active in DJing and producing since the early 90s and is by friendship very near to many old techno and not only acid heads in Germany. He has also been very deep into collaborations, one of the most productive to mention is Fogmountain Soundsystems together with his best friends including also his DJ partner Florian Breidenbach.

So we are very glad to inform you that this new Stockholm-Hamburg axis has given us a completely fresh but also origin-orientated way of acid techno sound that´s quite well looking for one´s peers. Here are the first three tracks called “Save our souls”, “Rainbow Warrior” and “Standing Wave”.

Binny – Explorer EP

UK-based Adam Cummings aka Binny is back. His third appearance in our 5 years existence. Another EP that shows his skills & deep affinity with the Detroit sound, he blew our mind again with his tremendous honest analog sound & brilliant arrangement. This Four tracker contains only floor tracks full of 909 drums, brilliant patterns & groove baselines with the touch of the Juno machine.

“Explorer” will grab your attention from the beginning till the end it all. Moving hips alert! “Terraform” is an extension of the Exploration. Yet, more funky, groove, … this track will get the audience swiped of their feet in no time. Great set filler. On the B-side, Binny takes it to a whole other level. “Minimise” is a combination of repetitive drums with a stripped & highly mental stabbed synth that will turn people in to zombies. Killer for the floor. Up there with the big boys, if you ask us. The more gentle & sweet melodic track “Alpha Juno” is a great tribute to the magnificent machine by Roland.