Rock the Boulevard, Reach the Bourgeois by French Producer Computer Truck is an album crammed full of diverse musical styles.The album spans 2-step garage dance music, electro, mashups, glitch and ghetto while throwing in 8 bit instrumentation and adding a lo-fi factor to it all. The album is certainly a very interesting listen for those […]

Minimal always seemed to be a bit iffy for me whenever it is applied to artistic endeavours including music (I would exclude style from this since minimal is in vogue there e.g. fruity iPods). It would take a normal person a lot of effort to unearth what’s so special about a lot of minimal material […]

An album full of upbeat electronic tracks that span across various genres, Techno, Drum and Bass, Breakbeat and even Ambient. Every track in this LP is pretty nice to listen to on its own and each of them has a unique feel all its own. Probably due to the wide spectrum of genres of this […]

Straight out of the wok from the Quiet Lounge netlabel in China is the irrepressible Tao Spinner EP. If you want a change from geek-prescribed techno that tries too hard to be intelligent (ie: clicky Cologne nonsense from Kompakt), Red Hot Wok serve up a riotous dish of rolling basslines, lavish Chinese string stabs, and […]

Schaffel is the german word for shuffle which is music based on a few different time signatures which were made to accommodate the swing rhythm. I never knew Schaffel Techno existed until about a few days ago. Curious, I listened to the EP and found it truly groovy and interesting.
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This one comes from the Sublogic Netlabel. It’s everything hypnotic dance techno should be. In a similar vein to last week’s review of Opus Acide, this is more repetitive minimal techno that doesn’t bore you. I took an instant liking to this EP when I heard it. The EP starts with Our Way which is […]

Though classified as ‘techno’ under Gratisvibes, the artist would like to call his style ‘Minimal Techno’. Minimal, I believe, as the structure of the tracks in this album is not very complex - the breaks are pretty straight-forward with constant beats and the melody is also not very sophisticated. Ironically, the simplicity and straight-forward structure […]

This little 3 tracker first appeared earlier this year on the 3rd installment of Project168.co.uk (where the objective is to produce an EP of brand new material in just 7 days). Eyebrows were definitely raised when the rumours went around that the mysterious Last Step had crossed into the world of “free internets music” and […]

Given how much idm music coverage on this site we have, you would be surprised that we’re actually going to feature mind numbing techno music this time around. However, this is ambient techno and not the hard techno that people are so familiar with. I don’t want to give any of you a heart attack. […]