1. Thumbs Up
2. Seedz (Drum Dub)
3. Seedz (Original Mix) The Tsuba Colours series continues with the debut Tsuba release from Moodymanc who has chosen green for the vinyl & sleeves and the iconic conga drums for the artwork. Like the first Tsuba Colours release by label boss Kevin Griffiths each 12“ will be shrinkwrapped and limited to 500 copies. Otherwise known as Dubble D of 20:20 Soundsystem, Moodymanc aka Danny Ward is the real deal. A jazz drumming, house music obsessive he has toured live, DJ’d the world over and is now carving a nimpeccable reputation as Moodymanc. With releases scheduled for Third Ear, Dessous and Connaisseur to name but a few, his reputation looks unlikely to be shaken, too. ”Seedz” combines tribal drums, delicate keys and subtle horns in fine style, referencing the best of New York house while remaining modern in feel. No loop-driven drum assault, “Seedz” is a carefully structured slice of deep house. B-side cut “Thumbs Up” goes south with a latin/afrobeat house direction. Carnival drums, FM bass and an unrelenting drive do the work while low-in-the-mix filtered loops ebb and flow throughout, adding the sort of melody the lazy among us would characterise as summery.
01. Wireman - Armour (Move D Remix)
02. Wireman - Armour (Sascha Dive Remix)
03. Be - When You Left
04. Actress - Crushed Prime Numbers return with M7. The first side is taken by a remix of Wireman’s Armour, the original of which was included on PN04 released at the end of last year. The remix is from Move D (Deep Space Network, Source Records), he ups the tempo and in trademark fashion softens the surfaces of the original, warming the core of the track whilst creating a bass heavy groove with twisting beats, synths and a husky hypnotic vocal sample. The flip includes two tracks. To start we have Crushed by Actress. Darren J. Cunningham aka Actress runs the much lauded Werk Records and this track is taken from his limited CD only album Hazyville (released on Werk in the Autumn of last year) Crushed is slo-mo, extra bass heavy, low slung house with an addictive lofi synth riff and submerged strings. The track bumps along with hiss and crackle to good affect before turning into a badalamenti-esque loop to finish. To round things off Be, the up & coming Manchester based producer provides When You Left. Be cut his teeth with the Chicago based Still music and a great Al Hudson reedit which found extensive dj support on its release. When You Left is a shuffling downbeat house groove with a jazz sentiment featuring deep rhodes keys and clipped drums, the track breaks up into a bluesy accapella section then builds up to a more direct 4/4 groove to the end...
1. The Mantra
2. Vibrant Member
3. Whatcha Need (Raw Cut)
4. Reverse CaresThe new swiss label CITYFOX starts with the two sides of detroit’s LEE CURTISS. on the a-side he shows his darker techno side with a phat smooth baseline and some wise poetry on “the mantra” as well as “vibrant member”, where he gives some advices how to handle a girl. on the b-side you can hear his housy heart and you realize, that this guy isn’t as though as you thought. “reverse caress” is a tooly horn bomb, “whatcha need” comes in with an euphoric hookline and is as simple as it’s raw and massive.
A1 -Kicktro
A2 -If I Was Wonderman
B1 -Wonderman
B2 -If I Was Wonderman (Bobmo Remix)
C1 -If I Was Wonderman (Radio Edit) (Bonus Track)
C2 -If I Was Wonderman (Vanshe Tech Remix) (Bonus Track)Hey Today!, the Hamburgian duo of Raik Fargo and Dy! emerge from long months spent twiddling knobs, eating ice cream on mars and listening to themselves twiddle deeeeep inside their tekhno bunker to offer up their latest and greatest 3 track (plus Kicktro) 'Wonderman E.P', on BangGang12s.
Following on from their debut release on Kitsune last year, remixes for Digitalism (Kitsume), Shazam (Bang Gang) and Zombie Nation (Turbo) and time spent appreciating the wonders of German sausage, Wonderman combines the duos epic production talents with robotic vocoding, synth solos and female (not diva) vocals to produce a very German-non-German-sounding-superhero-house stormer.
