(IF? + Hypnotic Room)
IF? Records (Japan) has got a new release out today, in conjunction with Sydney imprint Hypnotic Room, available online as a digital download exclusive through Beatport, Juno Download, Audiojelly, etc, etc.
You can check out the details and tune in to samples here:
Beatport:
https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/con ... ne_room_ep
Juno Download:
http://www.junodownload.com/artists/Dic ... /releases/
dck DRONE BACKGROUND
Deep in the bowels of Tokyo, right near a bunch of the city's best cake shops, work the feverish duo of Chichi and Chigo, making abstract, metallic electronica with definitive references to '70s industrial sounds and the iconoclasm of mid-'90s Melbourne techno - all the while sampling kids' toys, banging, clatter and playtime.
Engine Room, the stunning track produced by Tokyo-based dck Drone five years ago, has been given a wildly engaging 2008 renovation, Sydney versus Tokyo style.
Little Nobody goes for a tech-acid injection that's funky enough to move the most wizened of house music clubbers, and eclectic enough to satisfy the more discerning trainspotting set.
DJ Hi-Shock's mix is stadium-deep and spacious, with a breakdown half way through that truly stomps. It's like powerful, old-skool warehouse rave acid techno mixed and matched with Robert Hood or Jeff Mills, and is one of the highlights here.
By contrast, dck Drone's 2008 Refurbishment brings it all back to earth. It's a slowly building, gritty, mesmerizing tech/electro track - with kitsch warnings about the evils of Communism thrown in for good measure.
Kiss Kiss is infectious, minimal tribal tech-house, gradually slipping in layers and weaving around you like a welcoming cocoon, and would work wonders on an up-for-it dancefloor.
As a closer, Picture Tube tweaks the analogues, and enters upon a terrain someone like Aphex Twin would feel quite at home on. Think dubstep mixed with eclectic beats and glitches and a soundscape to die for.
...and so on, ad infitum...
CUT-UP dck DRONE VIDEO ACTION
Also, there're a bunch of videoclips online at YouTube for you to check out:
"Engine Room" (Original Mix)
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=PJPdArF_sN8
"Kiss Kiss"
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RfO27QuocM4
"Engine Room" (Little Nobody remix)
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=981LORQ1rik
DJ/PRODUCER FEEDBACK
We got quite a bit of this from people in Berlin, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Australia - you can have a read through the comments at the highly esteemed Hypnotic Room website here:
http://www.hypnoticroom.com/HRoom015.html
...and that's all...