Clubland October

James Blake invites you to leaf your mind

First up this month is Red Rack'Em AKA Danny Berman and his debut album The Early Years. He's been hotting up labels like Undertones, Shift, Untracked and Home Taping Is Killing Music with his slo-mo house and boogie for the past couple of years. His full length cobbles together some of those tracks with some brand new ones and is essential for anyone with even a remote interest in milk-fed, rosy cheeked house music. James Blake's CMYK EP on R&S was a genre bending work of art and his new one is no different. He's incredibly young and unfathomably talented, making experimental, electronic masterpieces that are getting him compared to Joni Mitchell! Check out his latest Klavierwerke EP on R&S records and breathe it in.
On a harder techno tip, Lucy, who owns the Stroboscopic Artefacts label has released the EP of his career with his new one on Prologue. Titled Kalachakra, its pitched down, corrugate grooves are so masterfully put together they hint at a meditative state (or perhaps just induce one). Hot remixes by DVS1 make this my techno tip of the year so far. Here's some quick-fire breakdowns of further essential purchases. Arto Mwambe make the deepest, blackest shades of house music. Not bad for a couple of Germans. Check their new Duster FC EP on Live At Robert Jonson for proof. Jason Fine has been releasing a steady stream of lush, deep techno on Swedish imprint Kontra-Musik for a few years now. His latest, the Colors EP may just be his best yet. Milton Bradley ain't playing. The name may hint at the beloved board games company but this guy makes undiluted, fearsome techno that's more Battleship than Game Of Life. His latest on Do Not Resist The Beat mixes up raw, concrete textured techno with broken, stepping bass. Roof Light dabbles around with techno, dubstep, dub techno, house and disco. Far from spreading himself too thin, he excels in every style he touches, his latest release “Midas/Palm” on Millions Of Moments flexing his disco funk muscle with considerable aplomb. Erdbeerscnitzel (which translates as Strawberry Schnitzel) has been getting better and better with each release. His creamy, candy cane house treat that is the To An End EP on the Mirau label is some kind of sonic cherry on the top of his career to date.

Top Five

James Blake – Klavierwere EP
NDF – Since We Last Met
Public Lover – Musique D'Hiver Pour L'Été
Elgato – Blue
Lucy – Kalachakra

Classic Listening 


Aaron Carl – Crucified (RIP Aaron Carl)