Markantonio is without a doubt the up and coming star of Naples scene. An excellent 3-tracker which starts with a massive remix of 'Vida Loca' done by label's owner Paco Osuna. With one of the funkiest basslines lately, this track is already present in many DJ charts. Recognizable Naples style with an excellent breakdown. B1 is 'Boccaccio', filled... read more
Lesha, 03/07/2003

A little Detroit groovy touch on this second BasicBeach release! Under ADK pseudo, German Andreas Kremer (Lifeform, Expanded, Decomplex Audio) delivers three hypnotic and heady pieces based upon acidic loops, few Kevin Saunderson style strings and always this ultra efficient bassline! Awesome.
www.basicbeachseries.de     www.andreaskremer.com
Nexus 6, 02/07/2003

Founders of Decomplex have never seem to be as on form as today. Celebrating with noise and success the 21th label release, Harald Klotzberg offers with "Zungenleger" a hard techno burner from which it will be difficult to get up for a long time. Based on a strong bassline and a Dopplereffekt style vocoder, this track is even remixed in a hallucinating old school rave version by surprising Darc Marc from Purenoise Records in Uk. As inspired as his German partner, Phil Davis concludes this fat EP with a pumpin' and extremely original "Sievenschläfer", full of energy and vocals. Remarkable!
www.decomplexaudio.com     www.purenoise.co.uk
Nexus 6, 02/07/2003

Just one release before the 'golden' 100th, Belgian label Music Man presents an excellent single from the Swiss 'wonder boy', DJ and producer Sam Geiser aka Deetron. A-side's 'Body Language', is an atmospheric, tribalistic techno track with some superb percussion and a quite mellow-housy synth melody. A-side includes a second track (A2), 'Body... read more
PanK, 01/07/2003

First release from this 100% French label, "Digital Synth Ep" offers an old school electro digest distilled by an obvious inspired and nostalgic Model Z. Some brilliant analog sounds declined in four tracks!
Nexus 6, 30/06/2003

Reusing its old A. Crash moniker that made him famous on Holzplatten, Andreas Kremer signs here the third release of its new label. Among programmes, three intensive tracks heavily armed with fat basslines, hard distorted sounds, dark atmospheres and this incredible will to burn the dancefloor. On A side, "Destiny" combines with mastery percussive elements while on the reverse "Wasserspiele", declined in original and remixed version ("Andreas Kremer Mayhem Remix"), falls into brutal and huge music. A powerful and devastating 4/4 EP!
www.andreaskremer.com     www.workingvinyl.de
Nexus 6, 30/06/2003

Cross-over is the real point of this concept-album ! Including 16 musical interludes and titles, Christian Morgenstern sound combines innocent and modern influences from world-wide famous artists as Aphex Twin ("Minor inconveniences", "Bobby is a loser", "Outro Eins"), Jean Michel Jarre ("Rocket science", "In space no-one can hear you scream") as... read more
Nexus 6, 23/06/2003      

At the end of 1999, this "audito" is dedicated to one of the records we liked the most this year... The electro / experimental tracks of this album are really great, like "Death before disko" which could let us believe it was produced by Aphex Twin... The techno tracks are very good too, in particular "Milk" which style is similar to "Basic... read more
Ludo, 23/06/2003      

With this "audito", we present you one of our favorite producers : Christian Morgenstern, a young german artist living in Cologne. Foundator of Forte Records, this talented composer has already made a lot of records in various styles, from "dancefloor" techno to electro and more experimental tunes. With a real pleasure, we offer you to listen to some extracts of his new album which will be out on the 11th of october, 1999. We thank him to let us broadcast "The Lydia EP" !
(original publishing date: 04/10/1999)
www.forterecords.com
Ludo, 23/06/2003      

After the Ural 13 Diktators album, the German label Forte is back with this EP coming from Christian Morgenstern next LP. The main track is both powerful and minimal with a Technasia' style string and an arpeggio remembering an old hit by Kim Wilde ! This track is also remixed by Heiko Laux and it is a dancefloor dedicated track like the original.... read more
Ludo, 23/06/2003      

For the first release of his label Sub Static, German artist Falko Brocksieper invited his friend Christian Morgenstern. What a good idea !! Three tracks of minimal, deep and dark techno with usual sounds and rhythm by one of the best producer of Cologne. Check it !!
(original publishing date: 05/04/2001)
www.sub-static.de
Ludo, 23/06/2003      

Here's a good opportunity to schuss down into Forte Records universe !!! Mixed by one of the best electronic music specialists, Maral Salmassi, owner of Konsequent and creator of Formic.de, a well known on line records store in Germany, this first compilation covers all the releases (thirteen to date) from this eclectic label based in Kohln and... read more
Nexus 6, 23/06/2003