A follow-up to his The Intergalactic Slapstick full-length, the Steel Trap EP has Liquid Stranger (aka Martin StÃÃf) putting the emphasis back on to the dub in dub-step.
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RODUX – Iron Fan EP
Sounding like Christmas on the club floor, the expansive and ultra-energetic quality of Rodux’s Iron Fanexudes a thickly layered tech-house tribalism that’s kept within the minimal genre by its underlying dubby throb.
While Iron Fan’s big room bounce is unbreakable, this EP sports 4 remixes in which each producer takes a decidedly different turn. The first from Rodux himself strips the track down to a chunky tech-house gallop. Joe Silva gets it down to hard-edged techno basics, and Edgar De Ramon funkifies and hammers away in a progressive tech-house stomper. Chris Fortier brings on the after-party version, which smoothly lightens the whole track up while at the same time most closely resembles the original, and Rodux winds it all down with the deep and dubby Rhythm-and-Sound like “Orchids.â€
Thoughtless Music
by Romina Wendell
(originally published in Exclaim)
CLARO INTELECTO – Metanarrative
Following on 2004’s electro-dubtronica Neurofibro and last year’s dancefloor directed 12″ series Warehouse Sessions, Mark Stewart’s second full-length is a gratifyingly collection of melodic and minimal dub techno. The echos and reverberations are reminiscent of a Deepchord Recording as the slightly sub duded and heavy padded bass lines pulse under the delay thickened analogue charm of Metanarrative’s warm synth and repetitive keys. Its well-executed throb breathes and releases a tension that eventually reaches its most hypnotic and platable pinnacle with …
One Five Zero – n5MD celebrates 50
In celebration of its 50th release of “emotional experiments in music,†n5MD has capped its seven years of production with a double compilation CD of exclusive new material, remixes and covers from it ‘s IDM alumni. AEM, Arc Lab, BitCrush, Quench, Funckarma and Loess are a few notables, and the combined sound unleashes a definitive collection of modern and moody. The forlorn piano keys of Near the Parenthesis “Into the Green” opens the sonic foray. Soon after KeefBaker’s echoy drum …