Ugress - Reminiscience

01. AMZ 1974
02. Chrome Shuriken Dragonfire
03. Numb (feat. Christine Litle)
04. New Shoes Escape Manoeuvre
05. It Was A Great Year (Movies With Robots)
06. The Bosporus Incident
07. Cthulhu's Night Out (feat. Heidi Marie Vestrheim)
08. Sandtraps (feat. Christine Litle)
09. Apocalypse Please Wait Buffering
10. Sordid Pulse (feat. Sjur Hjeltnes)
11. Malaria 22
12. Win Without Triumph (feat. Christine Litle)

Reminiscience is the fourth studio album from Ugress. Presenting melodic, epic retro-electronica in a cinematic scope, it lives up to the title, delivering the science and research of sweet memories.

Nostalgic robots are singing about their forgotten movies, sweet and scary monsters are humming massive club lullabies, 70'ies disco detectives are fighting crime with funk, and bubbly 80'ies computer game music bring us back to the digital childhood escapism. Masters of kung-fu deliver wise sample advice in a delicious dub, and guest vocalists bathe in pulsing house tracks and stadium sized beats.

Featuring guest vocals by Christine Litle, Heidi Marie Vestrheim and Sjur Hjeltnes.

Flunk - This Is What You Get

01. Dying To See You
02. Common Sense
03. Cigarette Burns
04. Ride
05. Love Hearts
06. Speedskating
07. Stain
08. Cardboard Rebel
09. Shoreline
10. Down
11. Karma Police

"This Is What You Get" is a natural evolution from their last album "Personal Stereo" (2007), with a darker and more experimental feel, with the electronic elements more present in the sound. This time with a distinct inspiration from the backstreets of London, with dubstep-elements (Stain, Shoreline, and partly in Dying To See You), and house-elements (Common Sense), but also a small dose of plain rock (Ride). The pop elements are still there, for example in Cigarette Burns,Common Sense, og Down.

Flunk have the habit of including a covertrack on each album, this time the Radiohead-classic Karma Police gets the Flunk treatement, with rough, edgy syncopated rhythms and Anja's lovely vocals.

Jon Kennedy - Cubed

01. Cubed (Pt 1)
02. Cubed (Pt 2)

Jon Kennedy serves up a Tasty 2 Tracker on the Evol Intent Label, this being the Housier of the 2 with some wicked melodic synths and subtle bass line. He uses some great strings in the breakdown before that phat drop goes off! Check Part 1 for a more electro flavoured outing! Recommended!

Annakin - Torch Songs

01. Gone Awry
02. Monsters
03. Sticky
04. Malfunction
05. The Coast Is Clear
06. I Feel For You
07. Torch Song
08. Speed & Spine
09. Alive
10. The Lady & The Devil
11. My Eden
12. Mindscape

Whispering in «I Feel for You» and shouting in «The Lady and the Devil»: Annakin’s new record «Torch Songs» is an eclectic collage of electronics, live instruments, glorious song-writing and lots of jiggery-pokery. The Swiss artist adds wonderful male vocals to her own unique voice, combines marching drums with electronic beats and merges wind instruments with strings.
The term Torch Song comes from the saying „to carry a torch for someone“; it describes a love song in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love in either a melancholic or rebellious way. Annakin alias Ann Kathrin Lüthi interprets this topic in twelve diverse and fascinating tracks.
and discharge in heavy guitars, drums and choirs that are reminiscent of Indian war songs. In her lyrics, Annakin dedicates herself to the dark side of the affair and has thus sent a grand envoy of the multifarious record. Annakin’s second album was produced in Zurich and London. When writing her lyrics, Annakin usually resorts to her own experiences, adds a pinch of poetry and accesses her imagination. Four songs were created in collaboration with Matthias Kräutli, Annakin’s drummer on the «Falling into Place» tour. Apart from this, he lent her his voice and plays the drums on nearly every Torch Song. Equally important for the organic outcome of this record is Adrian Weyermann who plays his wonderful guitars and sings an impressive duet with Annakin. Jono Buchanan produced the songs in London and just like Annakin he poured his heart and soul into the album. In his Clockwork-Studio, he programmed all the electronic sounds and recorded flugelhorn, horns, clarinets, flutes and trumpets. This Zurich and London based production has
resulted in an extraordinary piece of music that comprises the cultural and spiritual essences of both continental Europe and British isles. And now, oh play that thing again!

Mr. Meeble - Never Trust The Chinese

1. Fine
2. Raindrops
3. Cultivation of the Imagination
4. Dragonfly
5. It All Came To Pass
6. Every Thing is Good Part One
7. A Ton of Bricks
8. I Fell Through
9. Everything is Good Part 2
10. Until I Grasp the Second
11. 100 Pills
12. Forget This Ever Happened

Flying in the face of earthly convention, Mr. Meeble issues a warning to everyone who checks out their indie debut album: Never Trust The Chinese. Between its title and content - this Phoenix based trio’s sensual and soulful pop meets dark electronica record is bound to drop jaws, turn heads and offend, oh, maybe about a billion people.
But it’s nothing personal… well, except for the one nameless female who inspired this collection of songs that tell stories of the denial and despair of lost love, personal accountability, remembering, mourning and finally, just maybe, a glimmer of hope.
Like their nearest ‘sounds kinda like’ cousins, Mr. Meeble incorporates both stellar instrumental work and an ethos of lyrical authenticity. Reminiscent of fellow French band Air, NTTC has moments of smooth, breathy vocals over spacey synths, chilled-out Rhodes and orchestral strings. At other times, it sounds similar to Thom Yorke’s Eraser with its emotive, pained vocals over minimal, tense electronics. Those familiar with Massive Attack’s Mezzanine will identify with NTTC’s dark, plodding and ominous vibe. The curious mix of stops, glitches, pops, whizzes, bleeps, stutters, and scratches together with sweeping, sometimes unnerving, visceral emotion is as close to opposites becoming singularly effective as you will find in music, or any art form, for that matter...www.myspace.com

Tipsy - Buzzz

1. Midnight Party
2. A Night On The Town
3. Lipstick Tree
4. Sweet Spot
5. Swingin' Spaceman
6. Chocolate Moon
7. Chop Socky
8. Electric Blue Eyelashes
9. Kitty's Daydream
10. Kadonka
11. Big Business
12. Good Little Demon
13. See The Beauty, Tough The Magic
14. Wet Rainbow
15. Hot Banana
16. Up 'Til Dawn

Strange Attractor - Mettle

01. Anything (ft. Marie-Claudine)
02. The Best Things Are Left Unspoken (ft. Graham Lewis)
03. Evaporate (ft. Marie-Claudine)
04. Loneliness Is A Crowded Room (ft. Richard Sinclair)
05. Sleaze (ft. David J)
06. Plain Gold Ring (ft. Marie-Claudine)
07. Sound Generation
08. Quietude (ft. Winston Tong)
09. Snail (ft. Peter Christopherson)
10. Heaven (ft. Marie-Claudine)