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Jason Fine - Our Music Is A Secret Order - 29-May-09 10:30 AM
An immediate album in that it is sparse. Stripped to what is needed and nothing less.
DJ music is a secret order in sound which seeks and only desires sound as a functional device. These never really develop in a way that is rewarding for a listener as they are unless that is they are applied in a dj setting where they achieve functionality. Quality, DEEP and functional.
A placeless music. You could have heard some of it at any point and been like. I always liked that one where it is steeped in a timeless spirit. Until you heard another dj play it and it becomes something else.

Ultraviolet Catastrophe, The - The Trip (The Remixes) - 06-May-09 08:33 AM
Located somewhere in the top ten of the defining San Francisco / West Coast records. These are remixes from the Twitch released and prized original. Updated and twisted to Hardkiss specs with Jon Williams co-chairing for additional introspection and inclusion of the best mix of the batch in a bruiser of a beast called Funk You Very Much.
Devastating material and what the Magick Sounds release didn't, the Ultraviolet Catastrophe release did for Hardkiss label and the West coast.
It established a sound that was a raw, uncut, psychedelic, moody and head spinning deep funk and music that set itself out from, but played nicely with most anything else. A massively influential record, which found its response in traces of many of the acid breaks, big beat, progressive and tribal house, techno and trance records the world over in the years to follow.

Atom™ - Liedgut - 23-Feb-09 01:00 PM
My first listen leaves me the impression that this album is like taking notes from [k] by Disk Orchestra and throwing it in a bag with BGD and planting the seeds watching them grow.
This is an unapologetic album towards anybody but the strongest of listeners with flexible ears and an appreciation for texture rich faith music.
If you've been following Atom™ like I have for ages and were to stack up the other releases with the Atom™ namesake as opposed to his arms length of aliases. This is a different beast altogether and is going to be a very refreshing album for you and one that is (at long last) largely reserved for private listening only. Gone almost completely is the inherent straight faced cheekiness that Uwe has used as his calling card and has become the undisputed master of. There are references for listeners with the reserves to understand the joke. But this album in the end, is no laughing matter and is not social music.
There are truly some moments of absolute beauty in this album. Something Uwe is quite capable of, but has left out for much of the last decade and has been utilized more as interlude breathing space and not as the central focus.

Basic Channel - 03-Jan-09 03:51 PM
In late 1993, mysterious records of mind bending repetitive and body bashing beauty and length when played with the proper amount of sound to push them. Plain sleeved records with mysterious graphics pressed in Detroit, but made in Germany by two guys from Berlin who liked faceless techno bollocks and took it to the nth degree in a variety of shapes all aimed towards face eating repetition and stretching the groove into a place that opened a rich and vast new territory in music for the dance floor and sound equally German as at was Midwestern with its fondness for large walls of sound and dancing in dark and dirty disused warehouses until the sun came up.
These records found a perfect home in midwestern rave culture. These records also gave birth to minimal. While Dan Bell was reducing sound to the basic blocks. Basic Channel presented a music that was all there and the music at first did not change and one part of the record more or less was like the other. The parts modulate and shift into a different shape. It was a holographic techno. A study to reach its most beautiful in branches like Quadrant and radiant and most eat your brain in Cyrus.
The love for dirty sand in the mixing board dub inevitably begin tearing the density apart and as a result. Basic Channel as a label closed, but not before laying the foundation for dub techno and a more holographic, more functional techno, exploring M and Main Street and laying the foundation for Chain Reaction.
These records are holy grail and the blueprint for a new form of techno made for the dj and for large amounts of sound to shake every part of the body with.

Various - Synoptics A Reflective Compilation - 10-Dec-08 02:47 PM
A capsule of a time and a holographic transmission. Before jazz, before funky space. There was space. Hallucinogenic, rub against it space. Spiraling alongside the burgeoning idm community was San Francisco's Reflective records. A workshop for some of the crazier sounds to be tied down to a beat in the early years of intelligent experimental electronic music. From lie down and be counted ambient, to drift in the ether music over to dark funk on up to oceanic depth after hours dance floor music. The highest qualities of each are here.
Cherish.

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