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NOUS 018EP
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New from the ever discerning Nous camp comes Ayln's Rehtom EP, a 25-minute exploration of the kind of unrelenting machine music for which both artist and label have come to prominence. Side A is a journey through sparse syncopated rhythms, industrial noise motifs and the kind of buzz and hum that the heroes of the second wave of techno music championed. Side B's delivery is subtly more dulcet, with a more classical techno structure than anything that came before, building intricate melodies into an otherwise taut and tightly woven electronic landscape. Closing "Impulsive Sheit" is a gentle downbeat number.
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Moody six-track compilation from this excellent Berlin based imprint. Anonymous Delusional Eros features Ayln, D104, Agxp, Gaunt, Sweat, and Dreams.
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Cofaxx's, AKA Joseph Magee, boundlessly breathtaking Pico Vu EP is a seven tracker that covers immense ground within a compact narrative. A cleverly assembled story with startling standouts such as "Dicey" a deep Detroity piece, layering into a Sound Signature-y space, while LA's seasoned producer Brown Irvin offers a bolshier bash at the ambient, semi-conscious swirlings of opening track "Tide Pool". "Velvet" is all golden era electronica stylings, early days Warp and Planet E on a lingering dinner date, while the smoky textures straddle irridescent sounds of "Shape To Fade In" make for a not-out-of-place jazzy backroom style builder.
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Ismael's addition to the Nous camp is an impressively expansive account of contemporary electronic club music, with one foot firmly planted in a robust and ripe understanding of its roots in gritty US electro funk and proto house, alongside the industrial machine music exemplified by the first wave, while the other foot finds itself skating around a future reticulation, informed emphatically by the hardcore continuum and all of its awesome sonic artillery, while infused with the rhythm and grime of now. Tzusing from L.I.E.S. says "that release is fressshhhh."
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NOUS 014LP
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#3 Black follows Nous's #3 White compilation. #3 Black features seven exclusive tracks to celebrate Nous's three years in business.
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"There was much discussion about whether O Xander - AKA DJ Rei Ayanami - was actually from Antarctica. Either way, he's decided to roll with the theme on this fine follow-up, From Antarctica With Love. The EP's five tracks variously touch on icy electro ('Snowspeeder Blues'), windswept acid ('Thru Our Veins'), glacial electronica ('A Perfect Balance'), and clanking, mechanical techno (the deep but metallic 'Full Spectrum'). The latter track is also featured in Juniper Dub form, with the Smallville and meandyou duo excelling at combining cut-up melody snippets with rolling, drum machine rhythms." -- Juno.
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Osaka's Koshiro Hino aka YPY presents an oblique experiment in syncopated, gritty-textured, deep-hued techno with a heroic dash of industrial malevolence. The EP opens with "Borei," a mind-melter of a track reminiscent of the golden days of Djax-Up, before travelling to sparse second wave spaces with "Doobidoob" and "Shadows," a perfect partnering of nonchalant efficiency. The doomy and dense "Holy Goof" clocks in at over eight minutes, while closer "Smog (feat. AKN)" is an adventurous sensorial amalgamation of muted hiss and hum with a deliberate metallic heartbeat winding the track ever tighter on its perfectly realized axis.
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Michigan's Karen Gwyer delivers the eighth release on the Berlin-based Nous imprint. "Keisa Kizzy Kinte" kicks off proceedings with a dissonant synth line that headily intensifies into a dirty digi-funk epic. The equally-enthralling "Brunch Music" follows, defining itself by way of a wry techno onslaught that is only ever abstractly confrontational and treading similar waters to the more fearsome spectrum of Actress's territory. The EP closes with "Shit List with Kid," an intriguingly-titled exercise in British-sounding, wavy, ambient electro, juxtaposed with UR-inspired, harmony-driven techno; an epiphanic master-class in tenderly layering polyrhythmic drum machines.
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