Let’s be honest here, the blog world is a tad saturated with electro and frankly, electronic music needs to get back to it’s roots.
Thankfully there are producers like DEEPAK SHARMA and DIETER KRAUSE who consistently turn out techno and tech house to keep me moving in the dim light of those long nights. Setting a new standard, New York City’s HIDDEN RECORDINGS offers a new release that demands attention and brings a sharp focus to the emerging label. What makes label owners’ Deepak Sharma and Dieter Krause “The Great Lawn” noteworthy is not the amazing collection of top shelf remixers, eight to be exact, but that none were affiliated with the label. All eight producers were brought together out of a love of the original source material and a respect for Sharma and Krause’s growing body of work. The diversity of the material on the single spans every inch of the techno spectrum, from deep late night insanity to vintage Detroit analogue electronics.
They sent us the AMBIVALENT remix to share with you. The track adds some stealth and muscle to the release, but at the same time it’s also lean and sinewy. The scant but efficient melodies only serve to feed the beat of what is essentially a build-up record. What is most noticeable about this track are the missing elements that serve as a reminder of the track’s intense starkness, which is exactly what minimal is supposed to do.
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MP3: Deepak Sharma and Dieter Krause – The Great Lawn (Ambivalent Remix)
MANALOGUE’S ROBOT FUNK MIXTAPE
Here’s a bit of a rushed mix I did for THE SHAKE, a weekly radio show LOTEK and I do every Friday night on KICK FM. Lotek and I are both out of town this week, hence the mix. It starts off with a bunch of robotdisco jams and gets into some house-flavoured breaks and ends with nu disco and tech house.
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MP3: Manalogue’s Robot Funk Mixtape
Tracklist:
01. Titan – Star-T (Night Drugs Remix)
02. Kovary – Dancin’ (Tits & Clits Funky Remix)
03. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – We No Speak Americano (Original mix)
04. Fake Blood – I Think I Like It [Tommie Sunshine & Figure present EC$TACY EDIT]
05. Malente – I Like It (Riva Starr’s Remix)
06. Duck Sauce – Grand Steppin’ (Original Mix)
07. Kultur Colombo – 1 2 3 Breakbeat (Original Mix)
08. Strip Steve_Breakin_Lorenz Rhode Remix
09. Justin Martin – Get Low (Original Mix)
10. Chromeo – Don’t Turn The Lights On (Christian Martin Remix)
11. Sébastien Tellier – Kilometer (A-Trak Remix)
12. CLASSIXX feat Jeppe – I’ll Get You (Original Mix)
13. BlackDisco – Go Girl!
14. The Rapture – W.A.Y.U.H (Claude VonStroke Pantydropper Vocal Mix)
15. Chicks On Speed – Wordy Rappinghood (Playgroup Rx)
16. Justin Timberlake – My Love (Diplo Remix)
17. The Glass – Wanna Be Dancin (Nadastrom Dub Edit)
18. Adam Freeland – We Want Your Soul (eigo Remix)