Gooiland Elektro/Enfant Terrible Holland レコード& CD

Review: Having debuted on Gooiland Elektro last year with a contribution on their Les Annees Folles vinyl compilation, the excellently named Cute Heels returns to the Dutch label for a full release with the four track Techniques A Cross 12". Tipped as the new blood and spirit for the next step in techno music' by the great man Juan Atkins, the Belgian dwelling Columbian producer Victor Lenis is on fine form here, dragging you heels first through a quartet of techno productions with a delicious nod to the genres that helped inform it. Thus the title track is industrially charged EBM, sort of like a malfunctioning Bintus performing a Nitzer Ebb cover version, whilst "Chemins Similaires" and "The Division" are pure lo-fi Drexciyan delight.

Review: Ekman, DRVG CVLTRE, Cute Heels and Marburg all feature on Club Funny Horse, a killer 12" sized compilation from the Gooiland Elektro label. Taking the New Beat sounds of 1980s Belgian nightclubs as their starting point, the four producers veer off in their own distinct paths and the results are thrilling. Berlin-based Columbian producer Cute Heels is first up with "Silence Complot" which essentially sounds like a proto-Comeme production, all raw drums, cheap synth lines and a corrugated arpeggio that you can almost taste the rust off. Vincent Koreman turns in one of his darkest, trippiest productions yet under the DRVG CVLTVRE on "Year Zero" with the track taking a post-apocalyptic turn midway through. The severely under-rated Ekman takes it to the basement with the viscous "2 To The 64th Minus 1" whilst Marburg ends the release on a more esoteric note with the quietly menacing "XXVIII (Drone Variant)"

Review: The supreme joint curatorial hands of Enfant Terrible and Gooiland Electro offer up this excellent 12" transmission of rare German dark wave act Flying Bodies. Formed of Beta Evers and Charles Kent, Flying Bodies was a short lived project that only ever recorded three tracks and this record presents the first time two of them have been pressed to vinyl. Lead track "Transformer" sets the tone, thick gloopy basslines trying to consume the snapping drum machine rhythms whilst Evers does her Teutonic ice queen thing over the rising tide of minimal synths. Complementing this, "Journey To The House Of Bodies" takes a more experimental approach, described quite aptly as "perfect for night drives on the highway".

Review: Holland's legendary Enfant Terrible and Gooiland Elektro empire present a new addition to their roster with the debut EP from Kit N Claws. On Desertofsameness, the Kit N Claws sound is presented as both delicate and extremely spartan at the same time. Tracks like "Getoffthefun", although immediately distinguishable thanks to their dirty hardware aesthetic and subtle swarms of distortion, are both cinematic and heady. Even the more club-oriented and superbly titled "Drefuckgoth" could be just as easily enjoyed in the company of a pair of headphones and an open mind! Classy sounds from the Dutch camp, as per usual.

Review: Milan's Radko first appeared a few years back on Enfant Terrible with the Cherno PPP / Brutalista ?(7') and finally resurfaces with this full-length for sublabel Gooiland Elektro titled The Dirt On Caligula. Described as darker, harsher and more daring, the album takes you deeper into their industrial sound. Opener 'Hip Dork' is a contorted kind of techno derivative that lunges straight for the jugular, while the paranoid and dystopian atmosphere created on 'Manfria' sets the scene in dark ambient style before unleashing a barrage of electro beats. Over on the flip, the gloomy vocal cut 'Leper Colony' takes influences from darkwave, ending with the punishing and abrasive grind of 'Volga' which is pitch black.

Review: Big week for Dutch imprint Gooiland Elektro who bring on the maximum possible bleakness; first with Radko and now with the foreboding hydra that is Roberto Auser and Melting Dogma. Auser aka Derk Reneman on side A contributes the typically Dutch greyscale electro snarl of 'Man With Dead Leg' followed by a mental slow techno cut 'Imperative'. On the flip, Melting Dogmas, a side project of 4cantons, continues to go at it full force with the hypnotic 303 tunnel vision of 'Wanting To Be With' followed by the body bashing IDM fury of 'Indistinguishable Indications'.

Review: Imperious and unpredictable throughout the course of their releases in 2013, Dutch label Gooiland Elektro resurface with what we presume is their final two part transmission of the year, with the focus here on Swedish singer and songwriter Saralunden. The Gothenburg based Sara Lunden lands on the Enfant Terrible sub label with quite a discography to her name, operating on numerous DIY labels in her homeland and issuing everything from avant garde dark wave and synth pop to more downtempo fare. Some four tracks deep, the Suggestive Boy 12" will appeal to fans of acts like Chromatics or Sally Shapiro looking for something a bit darker, moody and world weary - "I Look Good" is a particular highlight.

Review: This Morn Omina provides the prolific Gooiland Elektro label with an impressive tenth 12" of the year. It's TMO's first release since the L'Unification Des Forces Opposantes album of 2011, but it's a four-track EP that sounds like it came straight from the mid-to-late-'80s. A high octane "Epoch (ccf)" opens proceedings with industrial rave-beats and Skinny Puppy-like vocals, while "(The) Ninth Key (ccf)" pounds down heavy like an early Regis production - paired with Karl O'Conner's vocals similar to what we heard on the excellent White Savage Dance 12". The B-side of "The Immutable Sphere (ccf)" would nestle neatly into a Terence Fixmer DJ set thanks to its Front 242 styled aggression, while "Obeah" features the frenetic drums and flusters of random instrumentation reminiscent of an early Liam Howlett production for The Prodigy. For EBM enthusiast this is a no brainer.

Review: The Gooiland Electro/Enfant Terrible axis remains strangely under the radar of appreciation despite releasing an array of music that would please the punch out of those that favour Bordello A Parigi, Dark Entries, Light Sounds Dark and Mannequin. Having recently been name checked by Silent Servant as a label to follow, this may change and those turned onto the name by that Noisey interview should consider this Freikorperkultur compilation a fine introduction. Commencing with a typically flamboyant Hi NRG synth pop contribution from Gooiland regular Tobias Bernstrup, the eight tracks touch on EBM, grizzled wave, dark electro and more with the Lesbian Mouseclicks and Tannhauser Gate productions particular highlights!

Review: "Off radar dance music / elitist pop culture transmitted from the Gooiland area in Holland" according to the label themselves on the Noblesse Oblige EP " it is a gathering of artists with a different heartbeat and mind-set... uncompromising sounds for the real freaks ... in this case this means sweaty EBM, dark techno and industrial acid". Yeah we couldn't have said it better ourselves really. Take for instance the A side cut "Apertanence" by Zagreb's LCN, a slow burning EBM grinder reminiscent of early DAF or Liaisons Dangereuses, the always impressive Noah Anthony aka Profligate with his new wave electro-punk noir on "Come Back (Bleeding House)". On the flip we've also got some reduced industrial techno courtesy of Osty on "Untitled One" and the gritty and uncompromising techno-punk of "Neugeborene Nachtmusik" by Yoshiwara.