My Own Jupiter レコード& CD

Review: Franco Digregorious first popped up on My Own Jupiter in the autumn of 2016, impressing all and sundry with an expansive album of electro, techno and IDM jams that had been recorded over the course of a decade. This follow-up EP is similarly inclined and just as impressive. There's a bustling, intergalactic rave feel to opener "Inner Traveller", which sees Digregorious pepper a driving but tactile groove with fizzing electronics and razor-sharp rave stabs, while "Punto De Encaje" pits the mind-altering, acid-fired madness of Rephlex's "braindance" series against the cascading melodiousness of B12 or the Black Dog. He continues in a similar vein on "Inner Sancta Sanctorum", before charging off into alien electro territory via EP highlight "Program 76".

Review: Last year, Spanish analogue freak Do Or Die impressed with debut album "Alien GF", a nine-track romp through intergalactic acid, techno and electro pastures. "Imposible Materia" offers up his first new material since and is similarly impressive. Head first for "Lost", a bustling, all-action affair rich in fizzing riffs, weird noises, classic Motor City chords and wiggly acid lines, before losing yourself in the hypnotic, minor key motifs, broken techno beats and unsettling stabs of "DX100". Sci-fi loving acid freaks will devour the psychedelic TB-303 lines, rumbling Michigan bass and punchy drum machine hits of opener "Conciencia Sucia", while closing cut "In Time" offers a warm, groovy, tactile and suitably shuffling conclusion to another superb Do Or Die release.

Review: The latest audio missive from the My Own Jupiter camp brings together debutant Nicholas Lutz (here using the previously unused Draculas Lutz alias) and former CABARET Recordings producer Omar Chibarro. They pair begins proceedings with arresting A-side "Instrumento", a bold, bass-heavy and angular electro jam packed with mind-altering acid lines and shimmering, deep space motifs. They change tack on the flipside, accompanying snappy, organ-laced NYC garage bumper "Tschuss" with the hybrid acid-jack/spacey house bluster of quality closer "Gerogliftko". While stylistically varied, the EP's three tracks are united by an attractive looseness that only emphasizes the thrillingly wayward nature of the duo's otherworldly electronics.

Review: My Own Jupiter is the newly minted label, or Multidisciplinary Art Platform as it's being presented from Nicholas Lutz, Edurne and Birdsmakingmachine founder Ricardo de Azcuenaga. The honour of the debut release for the platform falls on Little Nobody, aka Tokyo-based Melbourne ex-pat Andrez Bergen who has a storied production career across various aliases and genres for almost two decades. It's little surprise then, that The Knock Off is filled with a sense of subtle diversity across the five tracks that keeps you coming back for more. Commencing with the chunky house groove "Bat Rastard" (wait for the vocal sample) Little Nobody draws for a more minimal sound on "Weltschmerz" and "Sense & Senility" whilst "Nobody's Driving" hints at Bergen's hip hop past. Final track "Robota" sounds like The Dust Brothers making house music.

Review: Underground head and deep digging vinyl pin up Nicholas Lutz keeps a pretty low profile for a man who garners such ardent fanboy-ism. But here he pops his nut above the parapet for a new EP on his My Own Jupiter label. It finds him link up with Tunik for three new, head thrashing tunes of futuristic techno tension. 'Sentimental Stab' has edgy synths and icy, chattery percussion all underpinned by a broken beat. It's intense and complex. Barnt layers in some more rolling, heavy kicks to get you deep in the visceral groove then 'Sombras' mixes up electro, breaks, wave and EBM into a gnarly big of snapping drum work that cannot fail to make you march. 'The Rupture' closes out with a more far-sighted feel, full of rueful pads and oversized hi hats.

Review: Since she last appeared on My Own Jupiter two years ago, Michelle Vagi has gone on to release quietly impressive EPs on El Milagro Records and Opia. While both were good, this return to Edurne and Nicolas Lutz's label is arguably her strongest release to date. She begins with the chiming melodies, chunky retro-futurist tech-house grooves and ragged acid lines of "Ballflower", before expertly fusing trippy lines, exotic Eastern melodies and mid-tempo techno beats on the equally ear-catching "Claroscuro". 'Russian Sis" sees her opt for a more forthright, riff-heavy take in acid-fired futurist techno, while "Orgon" is a deliciously odd-but-exciting trip into wayward acid/electro/techno fusion.

Review: All we know thus far of newcomer Leo Tunik is that he's an Argentinian artist based in Barcelona, making his debut here for Berlin-based imprint My Own Jupiter with 'four absolute floor tracks'. The 'New Beginning' EP is full of wacky retro techno styled cuts that you've come to know and love from Nicolas Lutz' label. From the bleeped-out acid funk of "13" followed by the lysergic energy flash of "The Key Of Joy" - the A side in particular really keeps the euphoria levels high. On the flip, the rave continues: prepared to get weird - old school style - on the frantic "Universum".

Review: Fernando Zapico remains a versatile and vital mainstay of Argentinian electronic music, moving from his roots in minimal into an adventurous electro realm for Nicolas Lutz's My Own Jupiter label. This double pack offers Zapico ample space to explore his sound, favouring a machine-centric sound driven by full-bodied synth lines with a moody slant. 'TKR' is a brooding slice of electro loaded with tension, while 'Crudencio' conjures up a kind of playful dungeon techno atmosphere, if you can imagine such a thing. Full of expression and exploring with glee, this is a fine addition to the accomplished Z@p catalogue.