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Trek 19

Nomadic [Touchin’ Bass]

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Since minimal techno got a tan and decamped to Ibiza, underground electro has become the last remaining electronic music sub-genre to resist the mainstream’s dubious charms.

Andrea Parker’s Touchin’ Bass label is one of the main outlets for a style whose name has been misappropriated by the cheesy house brigade.

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Love Love Love Yeah (Remixes)

Rework [Playhouse]

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• Filed under: Music Recommendations: chloe, love love love yeah, playhouse, rework

One of the highlights of the recent fifth installment of Frankfurt label Playhouse’s seminal ‘Famous When Dead’ compilation series, this electronic house track on a collision course with the bastard offspring of Jane Birkin proves that despite the odd slip-up, Ata’s still got a great ear for snapping up dance floor music with a pop twist.

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Zapped

Phresh n Low [Deep Freeze Recording...

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• Filed under: Music Recommendations: deep freeze recordings, dicky trisco, phresh n low, sugardaddy

This release suggests that if you’re not entirely convinced about the original tracks that you’re releasing, then commissioning a rake of remixes will not help to ease your doubts.

Deep Freeze Recordings has put out a number of good quality electronic house records but ‘Zapped’ is not on par with the back catalogue’s highlight.

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Memories/Special Friend

Gabe Catanzaro [Mental Groove]

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If you’re going to do Italo nowadays, you should either try to faithfully recreate the tear jerking melodies and high energy rhythms like Alden Tyrell does, or drag it into an acid-soaked chamber and temper its tendency to go off on an uptempo reverie with tight claps and primal Chicago rhythms, in the way that Legowelt or Orgue Electronique do.

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• electronica
• techno

Afterglow

Vector Lovers [Soma]

• Written by: Richard Brophy
• Filed under: Music Recommendations: afterglow, review, soma, vector lovers

On the cover of ‘Afterglow’, Martin Wheeler is pictured standing in the middle of a field with a group of his friends.

The photograph was taken nearly 30 years ago when Wheeler was a kid, but the image has more than just nostalgia for the past.

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