Albums
Atmogat
Autechre
Autistici
Bitcrush
Black Gold 360
Sylvain Chauveau
Cut Iowa Network
Delicate Noise
Dof
The Element Choir
FNS
Four Tet
Gutta Percha
Greg Haines
Chihei Hatakeyama
Ian Hawgood
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Kahn and Mueller
Konntinent
L/M/R/W
Francisco López
Aaron Martin
Musette
Near The Parenthesis
Offthesky
Dustin O'Halloran
Redhooker
Relmic Statute
Ruxpin
Sintetic-Collage
Sister Overdrive
Starkey
Tokyo Mask
Youth Pictures of F. Hend.
Compilations / Mixes
Agoria
Advent
My Private Space
Peeling
Untitled 10
EPs
Amman.Josh
A Wake A Week
Tolga Baklacioglu
Boxharp
Cursor Miner
Abe Duque
EPROM / Eskmo
Funckarma
Florent Ghys
LJ Kruzer
Lobisomem
Maps and Diagrams
Moving Dawn Orchestra
Marcello Napoletano
Alexandre Navarro
Obsidian
Glen Porter
Nigel Samways
The Soul's Release
Sparkhouse / Jacksonville
Subeena
Talvihorros
Abe Duque:
Following My Heart / Disco Nights
Process Recordings
Abe Duque continues to roll out one EP after another, although in this case it's remixers Oliver Huntemann and Jay Haze who are doing the lion's share of the work. The two-track release is the final chapter in a remix series that has seen Joey Beltram, Hell, Marc Romboy, Max Cooper, Tigerskin and King Roc giving tracks from Duque's Don't Be So Mean album makeovers.
Huntemann opens “Following My Heart” on a moody tip but soon the groove kicks in and the track begins breathing fire. In this classic club workout, Duque's gravelly voice repeatedly intones “What's a like this / What's a like that” as rattlesnake rattles swoop, and the bass-stoked tune, punctuated by Virginia Nascimento's voice, embraces ever more fervently its bangin' tech-house persona. The even more powerful “Disco Nights” finds Jay Haze undercoating Blake Baxter's vocal with a bass-crawling disco pulse and hi-hats so sharp they could slice meat. While Baxter exhorts clubbers to crowd the dancefloor (“Let your body free”), Haze works up a terrific funk-house pulse so infectious and electric it'd accomplish the same without Baxter's encouragement. For the record, “Disco Nights” doesn't appear on Don't Be So Mean but no one should complain when it sounds so tasty.April 2010