electronic directory

(in no particular order)

5 essential stuff

• Tribe – Rebirth [Community Projects/Planet E]
  
  Wooaw woaw wooooaw. (What can I say ?)
• Deetron – Zircon/Orange [Music Man]
  
  I am a fan of everything Sam Geiser has done with Music Man, and I think this is the best thing he’s done to date. So simple but insistently brilliant.
• Jeff Mills – The Drummer [Purpose Maker]
  
  More Mills(art) loveliness.
• Trish Van Eynde – Subject Belgium [Subject Detroit]
  
  Fantastic funkiness, straight forward Subject Detroit music. Trish Van Eynde is on fire.
• Silent Servant/Santiago Salazar – La Noche/La Minoria [Historia y Violencia]
  
  Those 2 are as nice as always, I like what Historia y Violencia label is doing at the moment.

5 novelties (* all in promo status.)

• Jolka – The Jolka Experience [Sect] / Davor O. – Transitional Objects Remixes [Matrix]
  
  10/10 (The Jolka Experience). No need to say more… "Transitional Objects Remixes" is a simply awesome package of mixes. This is the best thing Matrix has done in a while.
• Traxx – Faith [Nation]
  
  Classic, great forward thinking house music. Jack your body !!
• (A guy from D) – (A track on A-Side) [(An UK label)]
  (I can’t tell you any details yet……) That D guy returns to an UK quality techno label with sweet, sweet techno stuff. This is what Detroit techno soul is all about.
• Rennie Foster – Songs For Homeless Housers [Greta Cottage Workshops]
  
  Foster goes house in his own fashion. ‘Butterfingers’ is a really amazing tune, just class production all the way.
• Mick Welch – Morphological Construct EP [Elektrosouls]
  
  Reminiscent of B12′s work, great melodic stabby winner on new Crawley-based label to definitely look out for.

5 oldies

• 69 – 4 Jazz Funk Classics [Planet E]
  
  The first record I ever bought – back when I was 14 years old. I must have listened to this stuff a thousand times back then. ‘Ladies & Gentlemen’ sounded like nothing else I had heard before and I still love it. C² always makes my day.
• 69 – Lite Music [Planet E]
  
• 69 – Sound On Sound [Planet E]
  
• 69 – Pungtang [Planet E]
  
• The Detroit Experiment – The Detroit Experiment [Planet E]
  

I haven’t been updating regularly, but I hope you don’t mind my slow pace. Thank you for reading.

• (in no particular order)
• 5 novelties
  • Lee Holman – Back In The Day (CY’s Old School Mix) [GodWrk/White Label] / Rennie Foster – GTC (Claude Young remix) [White Label]
    Claude Young returns with more beautiful and classy remixes. He’s getting better and better and we need more producers like him.
  • Erica LaFay – Rain (Special Vinyl Only Edition) [Wallshaker Music]
    
    Definitely a classic release of Detroit music – Motown techno-house-soul fusion.
  • Polar Pair ft. Atlantis – This Is What Happens (Mark Flash remix) [Botanika]
    
    Fucking wicked. Mark Flash does a tight but funky as hell makeover. This is a full on dancefloor with a spoken vocal from Atlantis.
  • Matt Chester – Die For A Reason EP [11th Hour]
    
    More deep goodness from Matt Chester, big big Detroit business.
  • Various – The Lost Tribe Of Techno [Subject Detroit]
    
    Excellent collection of authentic Motor City machine music. Highly recommended.
• 5 oldies
  • Slam – Positive Education (Original Re-master) [Soma]
    Soma re-release Slam’s classic Positive Education with remixes by Fergie and Octogen, but I still loooove the original.
  • Technasia – Future Mix [Technasia]
  • Solid Gold Playaz – Alone My Life Underground [Kanzleramt]
  • Dopplereffekt – Gesamtkunstwerk [Victoriaville]
  • Round One to Round Five – 1993-99 Main Street Records [Main Street Records]

Last but not least, I switched to Facebook from MySpace.

• (in no particular order)
• Jeff Mills – The Good Robot [Axis]
  
  Classic artist, classic label, classic record.
• Laurent Garnier – Gnanmankoudji [PIAS]
  
  Fantastic. I have been playing ‘Original Broken-Afro Mix’ for a while now and just adore the track !
• Ican – El Quinto EP [Ican Productions]
  
  An absolutely awesome record, very original and super cool.
• Vince Watson – My Desire [Planet E]
  
  Beautiful work as always from Vince Watson.
• Rolando – The Afterlife EP [Saved Records]
  
  For me definitely the finest Rolando work since the Aztec Mystic releases – ‘The Afterlife’, a very classy Detroit shit.
• DJ Bone – Encounter 2 [Bastardo Electrico]
  DJ Bone returns with slammin’ Encounter stuff. Thanks to Jamie Behan for making this happen.
• Santiago Salazar – Arcade [Macro Recordings]
  
  Another S² gem – once again deepness and darkness. Stefan Goldmann does a fine job too, a gorgeous piece of music.
• Stefan Goldmann – Art Of Sorrow [Victoriaville]
  
  Biiiiiiig, fucking massive. Goldmann did it again.
• Dactilar – Phonograph EP [Organica Music Labworks]
  
  Sounds very Detroit/Sheffield inspired. Very good indeed.
• Mark Broom & Mihalis Safras – Jelle [Soma]
  
  Good as always from these two great producers – Mark and Mihalis are always consistent.

• (in no particular order)
• Vince Watson – My Desire [Planet E]
• Laurent Garnier – Gnanmakoudji [PIAS]
• Blunt – EchoChamber Part 1 [Thump Elektroniks]
• Darren Nye – Emotional Process EP [Organica Music Labworks]
• DJ 3000 & Esteban Adame – Heritage EP [Motech]
• Shake – Levitate Venice EP [Morphine]
• Steve Rachmad – Hidden Alleys [Saved Records] / Quince – For My Mr (Steve Rachmad remix) [Delsin]
• Franco Cangelli – Create Your Own Space [Mowar]
• Claudio Mate – Dub Island [Dpress Industries]
• Rone – Spanish Breakfast [Infiné]

• (in no particular order)
• Chymera – Sumatra [Figure]
• James Kumo – Kumomusic Vol 2 [Ann Aimee]
• Roberto Bosco – Soul Confusion EP [Seventh Sign]
• Master-H & Greg Oreck – Coffee Is Ecstasy [Komplex De Deep]
• Morphosis – Cetrik [M>O>S]
• Samuel L Session – Rain [Music Man]
• Agoria – Diva Drive (Fabrice Lig remix) [PIAS/Different]
• Edit-Select – Edit-Select 5 [Edit-Select]
• Slam – Hot Knives [Paragraph]
• Arne Weinberg – Alpha & Omega [AW-Recordings]

• (in no particular order)
• Fabrice Lig – Cosmic Bootey [MVSICA]
• Master-H – Magic K [Soma]
• Proper vs. Boogie – Magnificent Speech Funk (Laurent Garnier’s Doom – Dat edit) [Rush Hour]
• Funk D’Void & Toby Izui – Sensei [Bedrock]
• Samoil Radinski – Sources [Logos Recordings]
• Martin Buttrich – Stoned Autopilot (C2 version) [Planet E]
• Aaron-Carl – If There Is A Heaven (Ican Ascension mix) [aaroncarl.com]
• Anthony Rother – When The Sun Goes Down (Underground Resistance Flash Light remix) [Datapunk]
• Arthur Oskan – Flight Patterns [Matrix]
• Itokim – Calling Out For Days [Melodika]

• (in no particular order)
• Fabrice Lig – Cosmic Bootey [MVSICA]
• Francesco Tristano – Auricle / Bio / On [Infiné]
• Maurice Ravel & Modest Mussorgsky – Recomposed By Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald (New Mixes by Ricardo Villalobos & Carl Craig) [Deutsche Grammophon]
• Itamar Sagi – One Million Oaks [Soma]
• Rennie Foster – Devil’s Water [Rebirth]
• Gideon – All Day All Night [Sino]
• Orlando Voorn – Yes We Can ! [Voorn Kollektiv]
• Tokyo Black Star – Bit Commander EP [Innervisions]
• Octave One – Summers On Jupiter [430 West]
• 365 Blak featuring Niko Marks – It’s About Time [U2X Productions]

• (in no particular order)
• Francesco Tristano – Auricle / Bio / On [Infiné]
• Agoria feat. Scalde – Dust [PIAS]
• Vince Watson – Duality Pt 1 [Mule Electronic]
• Quince – Genetrix EP [Music Man]
• Slam – Paragraph 01 [Paragraph]
• Homewreckers – American Ruhr (Mark Flash remix) [Unique] / Redshape – Blood Into Dust [Styrax Leaves]
• Matt Chester – Endless Days [11th Hour]
• Subotic – Timeless EP [NightVision]
• Erell Ranson – Where The Clouds Are [MySelf Recordings]
• Maurice Ravel & Modest Mussorgsky – Recomposed By Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald [Polydor]

• (in no particular order)
• Master-H and François Dubois – Melody [Komplex De Deep]
• Various – Beings Of Sound [Subject Detroit]
• Santiago Salazar / Silent Servant – Santuario / Lo Profundo [Historia y Violencia]
• Arne Weinberg – Impetus [Matrix]
• Shawn Rudiman – Electroise Metronic [Matrix]
• Clara Moto – Silently [Infiné]
• Rob Mello – Critical (Fabrice Lig remix) [Classic] / Morgan Geist – Detroit (c2 rmx) [Environ]
• Lee Holman – Travelling EP [Mowar]
• Pedro Bucarelli – Las Puertas Del Mar EP [Mezzotinto]
• Shed – Shedding The Past [Ostgut Ton]

• (in no particular order)
• Ican – Pa’ Mi Gente [Planet E]
• DJ Bone – Himbot / Tru Warriors EP / Subjugation [Subject Detroit]
• Pedro Cali – Misty [Fine Art]
• The Youngsters – Phoenix/Rock To The Bit [Ovum] / Babylon Superstars [20:20 Vision]
• Henrik Schwarz / Âme / Dixon – D.P.O.M.B. EP [Innervisions]
• Chymera – Caprica Burning [Connaisseur Superieur]
• Nick Sole – Earth [Fine Art]
• Octogen – The Journeyman (Orlando Voorn remix) [Soma] / Rennie Foster – The War Of Art (Kaito remix) [Dirty Works]
• Itokim – Breathe [Logos]