Coming soon: Techno (すべて)

Review: Eddie Richards' vaults are surely some of the best there can be for tech house heads. The Brit was there on the ground, helping to shape the earliest incarnations of the newly emerging genre back in the 90s and early 00s and few have bettered it since. Proof comes from this reissue of a pair of remastered beauties on new label likethis. 'Destiny' has never before been on wax and is a silky, synth-laced sound with crisp drum funk and then the B-side jam 'The Soul' is a dusty and stripped-back mix of drums, hits, swirling pads and irresistibly loopy grooves.

Review: SnPLO hears Bay Area "hazy leftfield club cut" purveyor PLO Man entertain an outlet for more irreverent productions. He also might just be your local gaffer's favourite techno artist, with most every release so far connoting exposed circuitboards and copper micro-components in its imagery (visit https://tracksplease.com for a visual lowdown). New EP 'The Cocaines', though, breaks from this trend as a manic and nonsensically charged homage to the white stuff: the third EP on his Pin sub-imprint, it brings burbling, vocal tract emulative minimal techno sound design and sniffy post-dub jolters ('C') to white wax, and that's not to mention the eccentric liner notes: "Slightly Goldeneye yeah cause it was the inhanced highlight the bluer graphic is a bit low rez but i think it was just always that way Adds to the sketchy how does it feel takin em for a drive? dude the 10" like outlined. Seductive."