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Skinny Puppy - Remix Dystemper - 26-Sep-07 04:57 PM
If you ever wanted to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with say, Guru from hip hop legends Gangstarr and the industrial heavyweights Skinny Puppy, now is your chance.

Guru's completely strange remix of 'Censor' was what initially drew me to the compilation back in 1998 (how the hell did these guys meet?), but other remixes by Neotropic (multilayered, dark hip hop) and Josh Wink (stripped down, minimal techno with Ogre sounding especially menacing over top) also stayed on repeat. Although Adrian Sherwood, Autechre and a few other reliable and experimental producers are represented, I don't feel that any of the other acts do anything especially innovative with the material. I am happy to see that Skinny Puppy incorporated the voices of long time Puppy collaborators like Ken Marshall and Sherwood though. Perhaps another album of interpretations is in order?

Titonton Duvanté & Fabrice Lig - Sensual - 20-Sep-07 07:06 AM
Leave it to two masterful melodic techno producers from Columbus, Ohio and Belgium to create a beautiful set of deep techno soul that recalls some of the best qualities that Detroit techno has to offer. 'Even Deeper' in particular is a tuneful piece with multiple warm keyboard lines and a snare/kick drum combination somewhat reminiscent of Galaxy 2 Galaxy.

When I think of the 7th City label, this is the release that is foremost in my mind.

Peshay - Miles From Home - 16-Aug-07 11:18 AM
This is the long-anticipated album by Peshay which pulls together a previously released track (Vegas), a few tracks that were sitting on dubplate (Switch, Retro) and a couple of interesting downtempo and dnb collaborations. I feel that MFH both lacks cohesion as an album and signals a departure from the dramatic, breaks-oriented production sound that he developed for Metalheadz, GLR and Reinforced in the mid-90s. Just listen to the track 'The Real Thing' (Mo Wax) or 'Psychosis' (Metalheadz) to hear the difference. Nevertheless, there are some bold new sounds here including some interesting breakbeat experiments with great vocalists, namely Truly (with Kym Mazelle) and End of Story (with J-Live).

Various - Macro Dub Infection Volume One - 16-Feb-07 09:09 AM
This collection of offbeat, abstract music loosely connected to dub (think 'experimental' within the context of the genre each track is from) is most definitely ambitious. Some of the tracks work better than others, but I still regard this as a superior compilation that drives the listener toward so many different directions in music.

The one-off 4hero track on here really makes it worth checking out these discs. It looks like it was made during the Parallel Universe period, but it takes the idea of that LP a bit farther. In eight minutes, it spans bare, abstract hip hop (although the beats themselves manage to just fade in and out), edgy, time-stretched ragga jungle and eventually roots itself firmly in the area of moody, drum-machine driven Detroit-sounding techno. But it's much more than just the sum of its parts, so do give it a listen.

DJ Krush - Meiso - 03-Dec-06 12:22 PM
I bought this 12" without realizing that it was a bootleg, such was the quality of the sleeve. The sound quality is sub-par however.

This is a great set of remixes though, from 4 Hero's warm Rhodes 'n breaks of their half time vocal jungle mix to DJ Shadow's crunchy drums of death -- look out for the original pressing!

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