Brouqade

Review: England's Anthea and Berlin's Dana Ruh teamed up 10 years back for their joint venture Brouqade which is has made a name for itself with its trademark style of grooves: swinging, rolling, deep and hypnotic: always! With previous releases by artists as diverse as Alex Celler, Vid and Oshana, they're back with an EP that gets some more of the label's mainstays repping for them in fine form and in the process presenting some interesting takes on the back catalogue. Starting out in impressive fashion with one of the kings of Romanian minimal: Rhadoo, serving up a particularly trippy and trance inducing remix of Pherox's "Gabrielle", label boss Ruh teams up with Nvelope for "Flowers" (originally from 2008) which gets a stellar makeover by All Inn Records head honcho Laurine Frost. On the flip we should also mention Puglian tech house hero Buck's absolutely wicked take on Danilo Schneider's "L'ecole" from 2011.

Review: It's been a little while since the last slice of material from Anthea, but now the London based producer is back on her regular haunt Brouqade with a fresh three-tracker that delves into all kinds of stripped down techno fun and games. "Thing For D" kicks proceedings off in a spooked out fashion, using subtle drones and nervy bleeps to create an uneasy atmosphere around the tightly wound beat. "Solid State" is a looser affair with plenty of flanging percussion and a snappy funk, but it's no less eerie. "We All Want Bliss" leaves behind many of the dancefloor tropes and invites you into a more intimate headspace with vocals presumably from the lady herself.