Artist: Italoboyz
Title: Zinga
Label: Get Physical Music
Style: Techno, Tech House, Minimal, Deep
Released: 19 Jan 2008
Ever since they moved to the UK back in 2000, Italoboyz, aka Marco Donato and Federico Marton, have built a formidable reputation in the fertile minimal techno scene of their adopted hometown London, their energetic DJ sets at FESH the stuff of local legend. Their productions, meanwhile, have seen them gain notoriety around the world. The duo have released on influential labels like Einmaleins, Treibstoff, Safari Electronique and Gumption; their 2006 “Programmer” track in particular remains a modern classic of minimal. It was their recent single “Viktor Casonova”, though,which signalled the beginning of a new mature phase in Italoboyz’ career. A breathtakingly original piece of dance music, not to mention the inaugural release on on Claude VonStroke’s Mothership imprint, “Viktor Casanova” set a plaintive, disembodied opera vocal against gritty, reductionist beats - the result was an instantly recognizable dancefloor killer, a fixture in all discerning DJs’ boxes.
Tracklist: 01. Zinga (07:21) 02. Zinga (DRAMAdub) (06:44) 03. At De Stella (06:36)
04. At De Stella (No Broccoli Mix) (05:51)
March 7, 2008 at 1:14 pm · Filed under Media, Reviews
Artist: Swat Squad Title:Sleep Traveler Ep (Maurice Aymard rmx) Label: Galaktika Records Style: Techno, Minimal,Techhouse Released: Feb 2008
This is Swat Squad’s second release for Galaktika Records, the ”Sleep Traveler EP”. The brainchildof Oliver Henares, Swat Squad has been published before by labels like Treibstoff and Resopal. Henares also runs a record label of his own, Pulsewith. He mainly plays live, but also Djs. As for the ”Sleep Traveler EP”. The journey begins with the title track, and what a beginning it is. When the needle drops our hero (you) is confronted with a series of adventures, one after another, one deadlier than the other. He gets attacked by laser guns, keyboards and walls of sound and always manages to come out at the other end, ready for what’s next. On the dance floor ”Sleep Traveler” will hit hard and show no mercy.
February 13, 2008 at 11:04 pm · Filed under Articles, Media
The female pseudonym of Sarah Goldfarb hides a male artist that lives in Marseille and who is definitively part of these new electronic emergent signatures. Since 1994 Jean-Vincent Luccini (his real name) has organized parties on a register inspired from north american pioneers such as Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills, Carl Craig and their direct heirs: Baby Ford, Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano.For his production Jean Vince chose the pseudonym of Sarah Goldfarb, the name of the amphetamined grandmother in Darren Aranofskys Requiem For A Dream. In 2003 his productions were pressed by Colognes label Trapez. It was just the beginning : he started working on regular basis with many other labels all over Europe, such as Handeld or Treibstoff. In 2005 Jean Vince also helped create a new net label in his city, indigomagenta, releasing free tracks and taking inspiration from creative common licences philosophy.The label Roman, Photo was created a few months later with some of his friends, following his meeting with Someone Else who gave him the first Roman.In 2006, Sarah Goldfarb released the atonishing Superbooper on his friends label Virgo Music, along with a remix of [T]ékel.
