Spiedkiks - Take Off Your Make Up (2013)

Rec72

FMA

/Funk, Hip-hop, Urban music, Electronic pop, Tech-house, Drum and bass, Remix, Big beat, Alternative dance, Sampledelic, Alternative pop/

Comment: Spiedkiks is a German duo whose influences seem to extend beyond their native krautrock tradition which is also represented on this 7-track issue though in a lesser extent. In the opening track Ear Conflict On Main Street the listener could recognize Kraftwerk-ian slightly buried vocalizations stranded in the midst of a funky mayhem (by its accents and timbre resembling Computer World in the first place). By going on, lots of rhythms of slightly different kind would be added to the melting pot by getting inspiration from the vocal-based plunderphonic aesthetic and 80s/90s acid techno and big beat and hip-hop spawned energy. The mix is spiced up with upbeat guitar hooks and hirsute riffs. The duo has set up their pace very firmly to arouse sentiments under your hat and activating the listener`s dance inclined synapses at your extremities. There is also a fabulously spacey tech-house remix by Dominik Berlin. The finishing track Kitchen Suite is a frantic, 13-minute long blend for the afterparty including more calmed down, classical music sections and cinematic funk explorations being juxtaposed next to acidic robot funk, enthrallingly nervous hip-hop scratches and drum and bass/jungle based rhythmic obsessions. Eventually it can be said it is time to pick up this issue and the follow-up Little Smartphone People to your music drawer. It is definitely worth any of its moments. 

Spiedkiks - Little Smartphone People (2014)

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Spiedkiks

• Electro-hop
• Rap
• Kraut-electro
• Funk-hop
• Post-disco
• World fusion
• Mood music

Outstanding tracks:

Disco Bunny

Move The Head

Little Smartphone People

Until They Kick Us Outside

Who Is Bill Carson

Small Colin – Tape Productions (2013)

Rec72

Free Music Archive

9.2

/Indietronica, IDM, Alternative pop, Downtempo, Post-rock, Electronic pop/

Comment: Colin Sweeney aka Small Colin`s 11-piece issue simmers with a relatively quiet, electronic stance composed of suggestively crispy techno/IDM rhythms and catchy synthesizer based motives. On the other side, there are represented more guitar based compositions with effect loaded layers and blissfully droning chords in the background. In a word, the whole drifts between intellectual dance music progressions and indietronic endeavors, though, on the other side, Racking is a clear-cut downtempo driven track. It is a deft release thought to be enjoyed any time of day and night. The more you listen to this the more Sweeney`s album opens its exquisite nature to you.

Small Colin - Mutations EP (Remix) (2013)

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• Electro-house 
• Dance pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Remixes 
• Chilltronica 
• Alternative dance

Comment: an artist called Small Colin (Colin Sweeney is a part of the Scottish duo Small Radio but now he is dwelling in Sweden) and a label called Rec72 do represent a bunch of 5 tracks, one of them is the original track and the rest are remixes (his friends are in charge). In fact, such sort of release formula sets out a fine radar to review an issue. Indeed, there are different sort of remixes which can be compared to the original composition. In the recent case, the original track (originally coming out of the project`s album Tape Productions (2013, Rec72)) is a humble electronica/electronic pop track with a distinctive melody gear and some extended synthesised chords and acidic coated effects to be rotating around it. All these elements are represented in the remixes as well though the rhythmic metrics used to vary in those additional compositions, at times one can hear more decelerated, at times higher beat frequencies per minute. Adi Carter`s remix has been managed in a way to add the melody line more distinctly to the blend. It used to progress slowly yet efficiently. Sound 29`s remix is obviously the most catchy – a house tinged electro pop roundabout. Poly`s one is disparate due to employing sublime vowel harmonies being accompanied by the bouncy mid-tempo rhythm. Logec`s interpretation is based on a catchy electro-induced gear which owns the listener. In a word, the result is solid yet Tape Productions is a release which reveals the mastermind of Colin Sweeney.

Kurobear - Special Electric (2010)

Rec72
Lastfm

8.8

/Dubtech, House, Electronica, Progressive, Crossover, Tech-house, Minimal techno, Breakbeat, Techno, Club dance/

Comment: Kurobear delivers a crafty set of 10 tracks which showcases his profound affinity toward the club music via the highly dynamical grooves of pleasant dub(tech) and tech-house, mesmerizing deep house, melancholic down-tempo electronica, hasty breakbeat, and some glimpses of drum and bass and minimal techno, or crossovered outputs of the abovementioned styles, however, most of those tracks are essentially sublime on its own. In fact, there is also another set of 10 tracks called Rare Traxx, created under his old pseudonym Kid Kaustic during the years 2006-2008, unlike in comparison with the basic disc, running mainly on electro- and electronic-drenched paces which at times chimes really simplistic and primitive, at times solid enough.

[Artistid] Old Bear

Old Bear
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