December 4 2008
In Matt Walsh’s words:
I met Brodi early last year, he had a track called “Bad Runner” that I had been playing incessantly. It leaked onto blog sites months before it’s release on Mental Groove in October 2007. It found it’s way into Erol’s box among many others very early on and the hot fuss began.
As a DJ, despite hailing from France (Reims, Lille), unexpectedly Brodi’s taste is broad. If your expecting banging gnarly electro bombs… unlucky. He can play anything from noisy techno, bass heavy house through to more melodic minimal. Plus, if you think you spend more time searching the net for new tunes than anyone else, think again. This guy is committed and now his second, and even better EP is here and he has saved it just for Turbo.
The title track “Oblivion” is typical of Brodi’s production style. Punchy, driving drum patterns and a huge elastic synth line that spirals into histrionic, throbbing techno.
He set us (Clouded Vision) the task of remixing it and all I could think of was the English Alton Towers roller coaster ride, Oblivion. Therefore our mix had to build up to a great height and drop heavily from the top. We kept a lot of the original heavy synths and added a housier drum pattern to change the groove.
The B side, Gold Digger again hits you with big drums and maximum impact but still keeps a nice progressive acid groove. With old school house undertones and a cut-up vocal cough there is enough to please the fist pumpers out there and those that actually still like to dance with their legs.
Noob is a new French dude you may not have heard of. When you hear his remix you will realize that, yes he is Popof’s friend and his production has even bigger balls.
Oblivion is finally here and Brodinski continues his one 6’2” man mission to take over boys and girls hearts across the world.
Stream: Brodinski - Oblivion
Stream: Brodinski - Oblivion (Clouded Vision Remix)
Stream: Brodinski - Oblivion (Noob Remix)
Stream: Brodinski - Gold Digger
Brodinski's RCRD LBL Page
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In Thomas Von Party’s words:
We at Turbo are longtime fans of DMX Krew, so it's a real honor to work with him again 6 years after his last contribution to our now defunct sub-label 'White Leather'. We don't normally trace an artist's history or include much biography in our press releases, but we feel the need in this case to pay our respects to a long and brilliant career. With all the crap that gets paraded around nowadays it's easy to forget who the real masters are... ED DMX is one of them.
I've always held a soft spot for Ed, he was one of my favorite producers in the proto-electro heyday. Hearing his live version of the Knight Rider theme at Sona (Tiga's club circa '96) was (believe it or not) a revelation. Of all the artists I'd met up until then, he was the coolest: he could play synths better than anyone I'd ever heard, he had the balls to do vocals in his live-set, but he was a sweet, soft-spoken, and super funny guy.
For reasons I've never understood, Ed's pop side didn't seem to take off and for awhile things took a distinctly experimental turn... interesting stuff, but a departure from the bright immediacy I loved in his earlier records. I was starting to put him into that category of genius artist that pissed me off because they weren't making the music I wanted them to make, but were on some brain-trip doing things I didn't understand (think Aphex Twin, Prince, Jori Hulkkonen...). So I let him fall off my radar... And THEN...
2007 rolls around and his alias 101 Force drops " 'Tha Return', followed shortly thereafter by 'SH101 Triggers MS10', easily two of my favorite records of the year and some of the best acid house ever made. Buy them now. I could blather on and on about how incredible those records are, but the important thing is that we took action and signed 'The Bass Drop.'
This EP doesn’t reference or pay homage to Acid House so much as it embodies it. This is the real deal.
It is with great pride that we bring you DMX Krew, same as he ever was, the analog don back to school all you blog-turds in the art of the acid groove.
Download: DMX Krew - Bass Drop
Stream: DMX Krew - Radio Bliss
Stream: DMX Krew - Texture Mapping
Stream: DMX Krew - December Darkness
Stream: DMX Krew - Bad Boy
Stream: DMX Krew - Acid Cow
DMX Krew's RCRD LBL Page
November 3 2008
October 30 2008
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Wish-Wingèd Worldman Tiga and Munich superproducer Zombie Nation are back to transport you somewhere between Tampa Bay and Tampa Beyond with the new ZZT single “The Worm”.
Warmly encouraging “up-and-coming” Mutant/Producers to refrain from foisting their braindeath coma fantasies on the world, the release also features Erol Alkan’s eagle-eyed mind’s ear on an extended rework.
The collaboration was a natural one, as Tiga was a public champion of Zombie’s Black Toys LP, while Zombie magnanimously tolerated Tiga’s deep vocal loosehouse epic “M’Unique (Won’t Play That Shame Game Again, No)”.
The song itself secretes a thick, grassy oil onto the club floor, creating a rich, profoundly damp environment for rock dancing, searchingly soulful head-nods and murder from beyond the grave.
Roused from the psychic abyss where he toils daily to defend our realm from the Inevitable, Tiga says, “The track is ‘earthy’ in the same way our very world is ‘earthy.’ All moist browns and feminine longing. Can we in these times of 2008 be whisked away to a place of beaded centaurs and wonderful villages? I daresay yes, and I dare to say yes”.
• 12" Released October 29 •
Stream: ZZT - The Worm (Original Munich Version)
Stream: ZZT - The Worm (Erol Alkan Extended Rework)
October 28 2008
October 15 2008
Mr. James Barth
"So deep you'll need scuba gear."
In Jori’s words:
In 1995 me and my friend Ari of Lumi records realized it maybe was actually a waste time to try to run a dance label with no experience from the north of Finland. Indeed. Instead, it might be a smart idea just to focus on making music and find a label that was already established and have them put the music out.
Swedish radio had a show at the time called "Tema: Dans", and they would have some guest DJ's coming over and doing their thing. Usually more traditional housey stuff, but one Wednesday evening Calle had a guest that blew my mind: Cari Lekebusch.
Playing what could've been jacking Chicago traxx, but somehow it was all different... and as it turned out it was mostly done by what the world would become to know as the Stockholm Techno Gods; Cari, Adam Beyer, Jesper Dahlbäck, Alexi Delano, Joel Mull, Jean-Louis Huhta, et al -and all their aliases.
Impressed by all this I sent Cari a letter (yes, a handwritten one) with a democassette of some of my tracks telling him how I had heard all this music on the radio and since his name (Cari, not Lekebusch) implied a Finnish connection he might be interested in expanding his empire eastbound.
A week later I received a letter from Cari simply stating "You're definitely not faking the funk" and a phonecall followed a few days later and a friendship was established. My friends Ari Ruokamo and Tuomas Salmela also sent tracks to Cari and he was quite excited about this northern Finnish sound and even started a new label called Trainspotter's Nightmare to release our stuff on.
Of all the music Cari himself has done my favourite is maybe the Mr Barth stuff. Slightly less abstract than some of his other more experimental techno, but easily as uncompromising, and on some levels more open minded with a certain crossover potential.
Enjoy the pre-release preview track 'For the Lords':
Download: Cari Lekebusch - For the Lords
Turbo 055 comes out this week on Beatport
October 9 2008
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The first installment in a new series where we take an old favorite from our back catalog, explain why it's amazing and then give it away for free. Great deal for us!
I know very little about Robert Calvin except that he put some other stuff out on Gigolo, he's from Madrid and his real name is Roberto... God knows why he dropped the 'o' in his name, or what happened to him after he put out his incredible EP 'Methods of Dance' (Turbo 021), all I know is that this is a simple, effective acid record that deserves to be heard by all you children of the blog. Enjoy!
Love from Montreal,
Thomas Von Party
Robert Calvin - Azid Life
October 7 2008
Tiga's Top 25 - October, 2008
1- Tiga - The Future / Mindimension - PIAS
2- MGMT - Kids (Soulwax remix) - Columbia
3- Kleep - Formula One - Klang Electronic
4- ZZT - The Worm (Erol Alkan re-edit) - Turbo Recordings
5- Steve Lawler - 21st Century Ketchup (TG Remix) - Global Underground
6- MGMT - Electric Feel (Prince Language Remix) - Columbia
7- The Advent VS Industrialyzer - Inox - Drumcode
8- Late Of The Pier - Bathroom Gurgle (Duke Dumont Remix) - Zarcorp
9- Holger Zilske - Wrecker 06 (D.A.R.Y.L.'S Deadlined mix) - Factor City
10- Brodinski - Oblivion (Noob Remix) - Turbo Recordings
11- Poni Hoax- The Symbionese Bride (Principles Of Geometry's Poni Hoax's Paper Bride)- Tiger Sushi
12- Beni - My Love Sees You (Etienne De Crecy Remix) - Kitsuné
13- Click Box- Stripped - Minus
14- Tonka - Freeze - Great Stuff
15- Laidback Luke & A-Trak - Shake It Down - Fool's Gold
16- Mohan Das - Oh Yes (Edit) - Turbo Recordings
17- Sascha Braemer & Philip Bader - Mamba Drums - Kindisch
18- Marc Houle - Jouster - Minus
19- In Flagranti - Personal Angst - from Cosmic Balearic Beats - Eskimo
20- Spektre - Slipspace - Dance Electric
21- Kolombo - Sniff - Turbo Recordings
22- Jesper Dahlback - I Love Water - Blank LTD
23- Christian Burkhardt - Doubledub - Raum
24- Skoozebot - Raw Garmonbozia - Minus
25- Shakedown - At Night (Serge Santiago's Electrifying Mojo Mix) - Panorama
September 11 2008
