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Five records I’ve been hammering for a while now, they never leave my record box.

DJ Bone – The Music Remixes [Subject Detroit]

DJ Bone’s Music, a music speech that produces as many questions as it does answers, gets the once-over from a number of fellow producers and the winning remixes are provided by Samuel L Session, Aaron-Carl and DJ Bone himself. DJ Bone’s remix shows the strength and depth of what he does, while Samuel L Session delivers an ace dancefloor banger and Aaron-Carl supplies a masterful mix with measured percussion, levitating synths and spirit-lifting strings.

Tracklisting:

• A1. DJ Bone remix
• A2. Trench’s Still Here & Buckwild remix
• B1. Samuel L Session remix
• B2. DJ 3000 Motech remix
• C1. Rennie Foster’s No Lights, No Flights remix
• C2. Santiago Salazar’s Seldom Seen remix
• D1. Aaron-Carl remix
• D2. Stephen Brown Just Soul edit
• DJ Nasty’s Blaxploitaqtion remix
• Mister X remix

Get "The Music Remixes" here:

• Buy Twelve from Juno Records for £13.61
• Buy in MP3 format from Juno Download for £8.50

Related Links:

• www.dj-bone.com
• www.subjectdetroit.com

Jolka – The Jolka Experience [Sect]

Croatian techno producer Luka Baumann has been serving up experimental beats since 2004 and here he shows his deeper side with this lovely effort on Sect Records. Inception takes its strength from a solid bassline and steady beats and lush chords while Arcus does the business courtesy of dubbed out chords. Covection is a brilliant chord driven workout and Dreamful produces an all over warm feeling, courtesy of sweet synths and a pulsing bassline.

Tracklisting:

• A1. Inception
• A2. Arcus
• B1. Convection
• B2. Dreamful

Get "The Jolka Experience" here:

• Buy Twelve from Juno Records for £4.34
• Buy in MP3 format from Juno Download for £3.23

Related Links:

• www.myspace.com/lukabaumann
• www.sectrecords.com

Niko Marks – Voice Box Detroit [Subject Detroit]

Niko Marks drops an EP of swinging, soulful house efforts that hit home. The opener, "I Can’t Stop", is a hearty vocal house gem, while "All About Love" is an explosive winner. "Bring Back The Soul" is all evocative vocals and smart beats and "Technology" hits with groovy synth work and abrupt vocal samples.

Tracklisting:

• A1. I Can’t Stop
• A2. All About Love
• B1. Bring Back The Soul
• B2. Technology

Get "Voice Box Detroit" here:

• Buy Twelve from Juno Records for £5.95
• Buy in MP3 format from Juno Download for £3.65

Related Links:

• www.myspace.com/nikomarks
• www.subjectdetroit.com

Various – Union Sampler 1 [Union Match Music]

Compuphonic branches out on his own here, launching his Union Match imprint with this EP, which features maximal house, disco and techno grooves. Highlights include Fabrice Lig’s freaked out "My UFO" and booty shaking "Innerblaster", Compuphonic’s beautiful "Sequoïa" and Compuphonic & Spirit Catcher’s delightful "Aftertaste".

Tracklisting:

• 01. Fabrice Lig – Innerblaster
• 02. Kolombo & Ante Perry – Crazy
• 03/B2. Compuphonic – Sequoïa
• 04. Spirit Catcher & Compuphonic – Cleaver
• 05/A2. Fabrice Lig – My UFO (Unknown Fucking Oscillator)
• 06. Compuphonic – Placid Corporation (Spirit Catcher Deadline Mix)
• 07/A1. Compuphonic & Spirit Catcher – After Taste
• 08/B1. Ante Perry & Kolombo – Baby
• 09. Compuphonic – Placid Corporation
• 10. Ante Perry & Kolombo – Let’s Go

Get "Union Sampler 1" here:

• Buy Twelve from Juno Records for £6.80
• Buy in MP3 format from Juno Download for £6.37

Related Links:

• www.unionmatchmusic.be

Various – W.A.R.M.T.H. presents Preservation: Past, Present & Future [Wallshaker Music]

Aaron-Carl’s WARMTH network brings a 14-track outing that marks the Preservation event in Detroit. Cuts of note include the intense "4 Types Of People", a sweet number entitled "Karen’s Groove", an oscillating string and bass driven "Intergalactic Funk" and Terrence Parker’s blissful "Hiding in Your Love". All in all, this is yet another fine display of Detroit techno and house music, which shows why the Motor City remains a well-respected electronic music powerhouse.

Tracklisting:

• 01. Aaron-Carl – W.A.R.M.T.H. Intro (feat. DJ Mourad & Jevon Justin)
• 02. Alton Miller – Seasons
• 03. Los Hermanos – De Las Cenizas
• 04. DJ Bone – Cultural Variance
• 05. Myles Serge – A Moment In Time
• 06. Scan 7 feat. Aaron-Carl- 4 Types Of People
• 07. Orlando Voorn – Face
• 08. Detroit People Mover – Dropping Things (Interlude)
• 09. Santiago Salazar – Your Club Went Hollywood
• 10. Trench – Karen’s Groove
• 11. DJ Nasty – Intergalactic Funk
• 12. Scan 7 – Tenacity
• 13. Terrence Parker feat. Coco Street – Hiding In Your Love (The Marvelous Light Vocal mix)
• 14. Gary Martin – Waiting On A Third Chance

Get "W.A.R.M.T.H. presents Preservation: Past, Present & Future" here:

• Buy CD from Wallshaker Music for $11.99
• Buy in MP3 format from Wallshaker Music for $9.99

Related Links:

• www.warmth313.com
• www.wallshaker.com

Not to mention……

• Chymera – The Rumours Of My Demise [Komplex De Deep]
• Jeff Mills – Sleeper Wakes [Axis/Third-Ear]
• Spirit Catcher feat. Ilija Rudman – Secret Stranger EP [Rebirth]
• Taho – Crystal Love [Lumina]
• Vince Watson – A Very Different World [Bio Music]

W.A.R.M.T.H. is the organization run by Detroit’s own Aaron-Carl, hosting a weekly Internet radio show "The W.A.R.M.T.H. Sessions" and organizing its own events.

The organization is set to host a Thanksgiving Eve event at Club Oslo. For this event, they’ll be bringing out a diverse selection of some of the Detroit’s hottest electronic artists.

Aaron-Carl speaks to Electronic Directory about his W.A.R.M.T.H. organization, the upcoming Preservation event and future plans for the organization. We then caught up with fellow Detroit DJ Bone, who will be playing alongside Aaron, to ask a few questions about the W.A.R.M.T.H. and how he prepares for the event.

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(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]
  

The fifth chapter of the Subject Detroit/Real Booking Artist Agency partnership series comes from Cork-based DJ and producer Jamie Behan.

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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.

The fourth instalment in our Subject Detroit/Real Booking Artist Agency partnership series comes from Rotselaar-based DJ and producer Klaina.

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The third in our Subject Detroit/Real Booking Artist Agency partnership series is from (Subject) Belgium’s Trish van Eynde, who shows us how she plays with three turntables.

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Subject Detroit is set to release a compilation, "The Lost Tribe Of Techno", featuring tracks from artists on its roster including Aaron-Carl, Trench, Mister X, DJ Nasty, Niko Marks, Trish Van Eynde, and DJ Bone.

Niko Marks is a heavyweight musically speaking, having played in groups with the likes of Mike Banks and Eddie "Flashin’" Fowlkes, and released records on labels like Planet E, 430 West, City Boy Records and his own label U2X Productions, and a few others as well… He speaks to Electronic Directory about the DEMF, the new album with 365 Blak, and what the future holds for him.

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Subject Detroit is set to release a compilation, "The Lost Tribe Of Techno", featuring tracks from artists on its roster including Aaron-Carl, Trench, Mister X, DJ Nasty, Niko Marks, Trish Van Eynde, and DJ Bone.

Electronic Directory runs an interview for the lost tribe of techno. The first one with DJ Nasty. Hailing from Detroit he has made a name for himself by DJing, producing and running the Twilight 76 sister label, Motor City Electro Company. He talks to Electronic Directory about ghetto-tech, his musical influences and his forthcoming project with Subject Detroit.

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