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	This week's minimal/tech house selections Saturday 5 August 2017

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Age of Love

The Age Of Love (Solomun Renaissance Remix)
Renaissance

What can be said about this Italian trance anthem that has not been stated before? The 1990 hit is a true zeitgeist of early dance music that had a wide crossover appeal back in the day, being played by everyone from Paul Van Dyk to Richie Hawtin, in addition to a slew of remixes by big names at the time such as Jam & Spoon and Emmanuel Top. This revised version gets a makeover by Diynamic main man Solomun. The Hamburg native provides a fitting reshape for modern dancefloors, that retains all the evocative and euphoric qualities of the original. Renaissance have stated that the track helped shape the sound of its earlier years and this rework helps the label celebrate its 25th anniversary. It is also inaugurates their new ReMix Collection, which 'aims to give new life to classic tunes from the past two and a half decades.'

Mihalis Safras

Raygun Rave EP
Hot Creations

Greek tech house hero Mihalis Safras has sure had quite the rise to the top. Starting out modestly with releases on Trapez, Great Stuff and Saved while pumping out the goods on his now esteemed institution Material Series: he's now one of the biggest names in the scene. A consistent headliner at The White Isle's biggest parties and recipient of numerous industry awards. The now London based producer serves up a smashing release for fellow London big wigs Hot Creations. "Raygun Rave" sees Jamie Jones & Lee Foss' label venture further from pop inflected house sounds into more hard hitting dancefloor artillery. With its rolling bassline, swing fuelled rhythm and druggy elements: this absolutely has the peak time in mind. "One Stop To Babel" is more more funky and summery: a versatile weapon to play day or night but the remix up next by Vakant boss Mathias Kaden is much more powerful and moody.

Claude Vonstroke / Will Clarke / Sebastien V

Works Well With Others
Dirtybird US

After a relentless touring schedule during the first half of 2017, Dirtybird head honcho Claude Vonstroke hit the studio with a couple of ace producers in the form of Will Clarke and Sebastien V. They collaborated on two giant singles for the Works Well With Others EP. Claude Vonstroke & Will Clarke team up first on "Tiny Tambourine", a dark and filthy tech house groove on the deep and druggy tip. Just listen to that gnarly 'womp' build and build into utter dancefloor madness: this one is huge! Secondly we have Claude VonStroke & Sebastien V with "Daylight Dark Room" an epic dose of acid with a whole heap of bump in the bass and no shortage of jack in the rhythm department. Perfect for getting weird in the early hours, if you ask us!

Beton

Bruxelles/Voice 64
Pets Recordings Germany

Polish expats in Berlin Catz 'N Dogz launched their Pets Recordings imprint a while back and have become an unstoppable force in the current tech house climate. They now present newcomer Beton into the fold and while not much is known about the producer as yet, we can tell by this dynamic two tracker that he is on to big things. "Bruxelles" opens proceedings with this rusty and dusted down acid jacker that will appeal to retroverts digging the current Unknown To The Unknown or Delft style sound. Second offering "Voice 64" is more uplifting and energetic with its 808 drum roils, grinding monosynth arpeggio and druggy vocals geared for some tunnelling moments on the dancefloor during the wee hours.

Drumcomplex & Frank Sonic

Chameleon
Traum Schallplatten

Drumcomplex is known to many for his releases on MB Elektronics, Phobiq, INTEC and Complexed. Now he has teamed up with Dusseldorf's Frank Sonic for a special release on Traum. The opening track "Chameleon" is an 'absolute slammer', with sequences running back and forth while creating new synapses in your brain. The analogue strength is breathtaking and can be heard all throughout the track. "Lucky Seven" shows the flipside of the coin; aiming less for the peak time on this 'weird, retarded and twisted world they have painted.' The last track on the release entitled "Ikaruna" is another story of its own. It is hard to match, as stated by the label themselves: a rather genre defying track that pops up from time to time on the label, but will find fans no doubt. You will have to hear it for yourself!

Low-E / Thomas Andrew / Jonny N'Travis

Le Soleil Et La Mer
La Vie En Rose France

Strong moves from hip French label La Vie En Rose here, bringing the biggest guns of their roster together on a mini comp called Le Soleil Et La Mer. The selection of tough-yet-delicate productions featured begins with two cuts from Berliner Low-e. He presents both the hypnotic and woozy tech-house of "Nebel" and the stark loops and minimal-jack vibes of "Baros". Elsewhere Setes' Thomas Andrew delivers tougher tribal energy on "Joe" and Italian duo Jonny N' Travis turn in a sultry, afterhours style, deep jam, "Mml". A perfect soundtrack to sunny clubbing by the sea.

Premiesku

Seria
Vakant Germany

Barely two months have passed since Premiesku's last outing - the rock solid In Sfera on 20:20 Vision - and already they're back in action. This time round, they're back on Vakant, an imprint on which the prolific Romanian trio previously appeared in 2014. By now, we should know what to expect: dense, intricately programmed tech-house rhythms with plenty of instinctive swing, some druggy basslines and occasional bouts of ear-pleasing positivity. So while "Seria" rolls along in their usual percussive way, "Mai Suis" focuses the action around warm electric piano riffs and bustling, almost deep house style beats. On the flip you'll find the rubbery beats, throbbing sub-bass and fluttering electronics of "Cu Balans" and a superior, dub-flecked techno rework of the same track by Varhat.

Vangelis Kostoxenakis

Dig This EP
Moon Harbour Germany

Hailing from Athens, Greece, Vangelis Kostoxenakis has always been a bit of a techno boffin having studied music technology and sound engineering at college. He takes his productions very seriously and that approach is really reflected in the kind of energy found in his tunes. There's a toughness to his style that's felt over the four tracks here. "Dig It" features a pounding, distorted kick, woozy keys and gospel-style vocal samples, "Hip It" is pure raw Chicago attitude and "People Wanna Get High" is perkier, leftfield funky-house. Lastly "Jack Attack" closes with a super-badass, slammin' vintage house jam with moody garage undertones.

Lane 8

March Of The Forest Cat
This Never Happened

Back in the Noughties after electroclash had smeared mainstream dance music with kohl, glitter and blood, the electro revolution merged with house to make it cool again. Electro-house was born. Some went in a MoS direction, but other, more stylish producers such as Marc Romboy and Kiko forged a new sound -sparse minimal house beats with buzzy wavering bass and melancholic-yet-anthemic-top end melodies. Oh and white noise whooshes, lots of them. Lane 8 have either been making this sound for ages or their incredibly young and only rediscovering it, but either way, "March Of The Forest Cat" is a killer slice of the above.

Daniel Kyo

Nacht Drei
Nitsa Traxx

Legendary Nitsa Club from Barcelona comes back, releasing new music fifteen years after their first venture into recordings. The new label is called Nitsa Traxx. It's over to Valencian retrovert Daniel Kyo for the label's latest outing, following up his tremendous Evanescence EP recently on Bordello a Parigi. As expected there are more EBM and synth-pop mutations to offer, like on "Nacht Drei" which is a dark and slow burning groove which wouldn't sound out of place on a label like Jealous God. It is then remixed by Hivern Discs Marc Pinol, who takes it further into murky afterhours territory and again: getting some of those dark Silent Servant style vocals in effect: all wailing in distortion and delay. Will surely appeal to post punk nostalgics.

DJ Hell

Anything, Anytime
International DeeJay Gigolo

Once described as 'the Andy Warhol of techno', DJ Hell is a legend, a reputation he recently sealed with both the release of acclaimed new LP Zukunftsmusik and his four day Berlin rave to mark the 20th anniversary of his Gigolo label. The aforementioned album wowed most with its noirish 70s sci-fi electro vibes. A highlight of the record "Anything, Anytime" is now released in a new 14 minute(!) extended version, allowing the listener to get lost even further in its dreamy Kraftwerkian clouds. Remix-wise "Argy's Straight Outta Hell Mix" delivers good Lasergun-style electro-disco, but it's Solomun's much-celebrated ghostly electro-pop remix that everybody's talking about.

Orbe

Uniformity
Hivern Discs

Following releases on Be As One and Eduard de la Calle's Analog Solutions, Orbe drops this superb six-tracker for John Talabot's label. "Somebody Bring Me Here" is a deep, broken beat affair with a breathy voice asking "when did you first hear acid?". "Visceral Terror" is preceded by an abstract, noisy intro before it moves into a wigged out, pulsing minimal groove. The mood shifts back to the reflective on the title track's jazzy guitars and off centre beats, before making a dance floor detour for "Unexpected Dream's Rave". Underpinned by the kind of rough beats and rhythm that Lone makes, Orbe then drops layers of dreamy synths, making for a blissed out but clubby track.

Hot Since 82

Like You
Get Physical Germany

Hot Since 82 (aka Yorkshire's Daley Padley) has been a hot ticket since he first appeared on the DJ scene about 5 years ago. A cult hit for him has been deep tech-house roller "I Like You" which first surfaced on Mark Knight's Toolroom Goes Deep compilation about three years ago. Now Germany's Get Physical is releasing it alongside a mix by Paris Green. Where the original brandishes a contemporary swagger, this new mix highlights the current (cough) vogue for revisiting 90s house sounds. As a result the tune is taken on a long proggy journey that's reminiscent of Leftfield's iconic Song Of Life.

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