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Every Tuesday we round up our top recommendations in house, techno, indie dance, electronica, drum & bass and beyond. Here are this week’s finest selections, featuring new music from Aphex Twin, Air Max ’97, fLako, Lxury, Throwing Snow and more.
Matt Ferry
Editor / Berlin
Ahead of the release of his debut album Mosaic on Houndstooth, Throwing Snow, aka Ross Tones, has dropped a few new VIP versions to whet our appetites for his scintillating sound. Specifically designed for the demands of the modern dancefloor, “Linguis” is the definite belter of the trio, oozing crunch and some unexpetedly heavy garage vibes from one of the finest beatmakers in the biz.
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Nick Tsirimokos
Editor / Berlin
Melbourne-based producer Air Max ’97 serves up a grimey dose of electronica this week with his new Fruit Crush EP dropping on Liminal Sounds. A follow-up to his acclaimed Progress and Memory EP, Air Max delivers an interesting combination of vibrant synths and rattling percussion to create a twisted club sound that sits snuggly between emotive grime and hyper electronica. Whatever you call it, it’s definitely worth a listen. Skip straight to “Armour Form” — an intense club beast that will dominate your speakers for weeks to come.
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Christine Kakaire
Editor / Berlin
Well, this is just gorgeous. It’s always great to hear tracks that work as functional dancefloor fare, but are deeply rooted in songwriter soul. This is the standout track form me from Lxury’s new Into The Everywhere EP for Greco-Roman, combining the woozy keys and vocals of the criminally underrated Fudge Fingas with a liberal dollop of UK bass grit.
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Steven Dermody
Editor / Denver
German imprint Uncanny Valley strives to live up to its own moniker, releasing music that’s just a bit beyond the realm of conventional house and techno. Label affiliates Cvbox and Micha Freier team up here on a new four-track release Transparency, with “Playwatch” as the standout in my mind. Tight, snappy percussion combines with mild dub elements to create an uncanny persona to the track. A subtle acid line and big synths make their rounds on the back-end, closing out this charismatic tune for open-minded DJs to experiment with.
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Sean Lewis
Editor / L.A.
UK-based fLako is a mad scientist-at-work here, delivering the title cut from his Kuku EP on East London’s Five Easy Pieces. On “Kudu”, the swerving rhythms and melodies zoom past each other without colliding, or otherwise effecting momentum. Consider dropping this 160BPM monster with a lighter vibe alongside like-minded experimentalists Om Unit and Machinedrum. Killer track.
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Jason Black
Contributing Editor / S.F.
Aphex Twin continues to confound and delight in equal parts, while attempting to push the limits of experimental music on his latest EP, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2, the follow-up to last year’s Grammy-nominated Syro. Billed as an exploration of the automated concept alluded to in the title, Pt. 2 cuts across 13 tracks in 27 minutes like flipping pages in a sonic sketchbook, some a more successful undertaking than others. As you’ll hear below, “diskhat1″ was one creative direction worth exploring — Aphex ultimately extended it to create the EP’s lead single, “diskhat ALL prepared1mixed 13.” Although it’s neither as fully formed or deftly executed as Syro was, Pt. 2 is still a worthwhile glimpse — abandoned trails and all — inside the warped mind of a modern musical genius.
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