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Kazuumi Ishii’s top 10 machine-soul records:

• Vince Watson – Every Soul Needs A Guide [Everysoul]
• Terrence Dixon – From The Far Future Pt. 2 [Tresor]
• Robert Hood – Motor: Nighttime World 3 [Music Man]
• Claro Intelecto – Reform Club [Delsin]
• Lone – Galaxy Garden [R&S Records]
• Drexciya – Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller I – III [Clone Classic Cuts]
• Delta Funktionen – Traces [Delsin]
• Itokim – Awakening of Yin-Yang [Minimalsoul]
• Redshape – Square [Running Back]
• Legowelt – The Paranormal Soul [Clone Jack For Daze Series]

Tresor resident Marcel Heese puts together a Sect Records mix featuring the likes of DJ Bone, D-Knox, Fanon Flowers, Jeroen Search, Jolka and Silent Servant. It is a great reminder of what Sect has to offer.

Direct download here: marcel_heese_-_sect_records_promo_mix.mp3

Next up for the label is a debut release from Jeroen Search. Check out Juno Records for details.

• www.juno.co.uk/products/448870-01.htm

Carlos Nilmmns warms up your speakers with a set of seductive grooves.

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Vince Watson – Every Soul Needs A Guide [Everysoul]

It’s been a long time since it was announced that Vince Watson was working on a new album called, "Every Soul Needs A Guide", but the wait was worth it.

The new album features a range of gorgeous downbeat and more upbeat organic efforts that charm on various levels. It is a proper album as opposed to a collection of club tracks and the level of musicality lends Every Soul Needs A Guide to home listening.

This album is yet another impressive addition to his discography and a reminder that he doesn’t make Detroit music, he just makes music.

Buy "Every Soul Needs A Guide" from Juno Download.

Here’s our list of our favourite singles, albums and labels of 2011.

10 singles:

• Conforce – Dystopian Elements EP [Delsin]
  Record of the year.
• The Martian – Techno Symphonic In G [Red Planet]
• Reggie Dokes – Haiti [Clone Royal Oak]
• Floating Points – Shadows [Eglo]
• Omar-S – Here’s Your Trance Now Dance ! [FXHE]
• Santiago Salazar – Smile Now Cry Later [Seventh Sign]
• Claude Young & Takasi Nakajima – Rapture [Applied Rhythmic Technology]
• Freak Seven featuring Aniff – Nano Kids [Rush Hour]
• Samuel L Session & Andreas Saag – Schooled Out [Material Series]
• Various – LGC [Kanzleramt]

10 albums/compilations:

• Conforce – Escapism [Delsin]
  Album of the year.
• Reel By Real – Surkit Chamber: The Melding [Artless]
  Best Detroit record of the year.
• Morphosis – What Have We Learned [M>O>S Recordings]
• Kuba Sojka – Mysterious Intrigue [Mathematics]
• John Heckle – The Second Son [Mathematics]
• BNJMN – Plastic World [Rush Hour]
• Tevo Howard – Pandora’s Box [Hour House Is Your Rush]
• Gene Hunt – Chicago Dance Tracks [Rush Hour]
• Andy Stott – Passed Me By [Modern Love]
• Various – It’s All For You [Sect]

3 labels:

• Rush Hour
• Delsin
• Clone

London-based Sect Records create technoid grooves for the mind, body and feet. They draft in like-minded souls from elsewhere to help them out where necessary. The collective go darker and deeper than most, creating the sort of brilliant deep and techy grooves that resonate with your very soul. Disc one is the synthier of the two and features winners such as Jolka’s blissful "Two (Going On)" and D-Knox’s intense "I’m Sorry Remix". Disc 2 is a little less melodious and slightly more hard-hitting, where peaks include Casual Violence’s bewitching "Acceptance Of The Fact At Hand" and Fanon Flowers’ hypnotic "Invisible Life". It’s All For You is a winning technoid collection.

Sect will release It’s All For You on September 16th, 2011.

17/09/2011 Updated: There’s been a slight delay on the CD, but now it’s coming out on 10th October.

Tracklist:

• CD1
  • Sect Intro 1
  • Ben Gibson – Clamour
  • Jeroen Search – Section A
  • D Knox – Dknox @ Dj Bomi
  • Voidloss – In The Void Is Virtue And No Evil
  • Jolka – Two (Going Up)
  • D Knox – On My Way (J&T Re-Edit)
  • Jolka – Life Is Changing
  • D Knox – I’m Sorry Remix
• CD2
  • Sect Intro 2
  • AnD – Granular
  • Och – Tears
  • Casual Violence – Acceptance Of The Fact At Hand
  • Victor Martinez – Dav To Dub
  • Fanon Flowers – Invisible Life
  • Grovskopa – 56-04
  • Casual Violence – Word And Form (Version II)
  • Grovskopa – Atopic (Lag Remix)
  • Grovskopa – 69-02
  • Sect Outro 1

Related Links:

• www.sectrecords.com

It doesn’t sound like too long ago, but the electronic music industry has come a long way since the nineties. Today, August 1st, 2011, marks twenty years of Soma Records. It’s hard to believe, isn’t it ?

On the 1st of August, 1991, Soma Records released its first record, "Eterna" by Slam / "I.B.O." by Rejuvination, a great track and great split release with some Detroit and/or Chicago-rooted dance music. Nowadays, Soma is, as they describe themselves, one of the world’s leading electronic dance music labels.

Slam – Eterna

Rejuvination – I.B.O.

So far, the label has managed to release more than 80 albums and over 300 singles, from the likes of Slam, Funk D’Void, Alex Smoke, and The Black Dog, to name just a few. The Glasgow-based label continues to wow the electronic music world with their music, without a doubt.

Happy Birthday !

Here’s our list of twenty of our favourite Soma tracks:

• 01. Dove – Fallen from Soma 2
• 02. Slam – Positive Education from Soma 8
• 03. Desert Storm – Scoraig 93 from Soma 13
• 04. Daft Punk – Da Funk from Soma 25
• 05. Skintrade – Andomraxess from Soma 27
• 06. Funk D’Void – Jack Me Off from Soma 29
• 07. Chaser – Sides of Iron from Soma 33
• 08. Maas – Look At Me Now, Falling (I:Cube Simple mix) from Soma 54
• 09. Envoy – Emotional from Soma 59
• 10. Funk D’Void – Herbie On Rhodes from Soma 66
• 11. Scott Grooves feat. Parliament/Funkadelic – MotherShip ReConnection (Daft Punk remix) from Soma 71
• 12. Silicone Soul – Right On 4 Tha Darkness from Soma 83
• 13. Master-H – Magic K from Soma 101
• 14. Slam feat. Tyrone Palmer – Lifetimes from Soma 107
• 15. Funk D’Void – Diabla (Funk D’Void’s Heavenly mix) from Soma 112
• 16. Schatrax – Mispent Years (Silicone Soul dub) from Soma 128
• 17. Alex Smoke – Don’t See The Point from Soma 165
• 18. Funk D’Void – Nineteen Ninety-Two from Soma CD23
• 19. Slam – Stepback (Christian Smith & John Selway remix) from Soma LP29
• 20. The Black Dog – Sleep Deprivation 2 from Soma CD83

Dimi Angélis lays down this month’s Electronic Directory podcast.

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Jeroen Search digs deep for this month’s Electronic Directory podcast.

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In celebration of our fourth anniversary, one of our favourite producers, Vince Watson mixes up the latest Electronic Directory podcast.

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