Charly

Charly (feat. Hugh Betcha)

Spring is in the air at Push Communications HQ - which can only mean another rejuvenating dose of the freshest, most fertile house. Hot tracks are here resplendent in all their glory. Sleeper tunes that flew under the radar first time around, shake off their winter hibernation and come back to life.

Steve Bug kicks things off in inimitable style, dusting off his Traffic Signs moniker for an exercise in stripped-down, Chicago-esque house that‘s topped by a downright rascalous vocal. More big names abound: Vincenzo dishes up the sinuous bassline of 'Touchdown'; Alex Niggemann delivers garage-tinged house under
new alias C'est Moi; Martin Landsky updates 2003's
classic 'Reject' - a statement of countercultural intent as fresh today as it ever was. Elsewhere, there's plenty of material designed for dancefloor deployment. Mark Henning's 'Pusher' is
fine-tuned for big systems. Shaded's 'Ripped Kick' is a no-holds-barred tech-house weapon. Cologne's Beatkind bring dub inflections and rasta vocals to an exercise in intensity.

And all the while, contrasts and diversity abound. Yannick Labbé's 'All Of It' is a delicious slow burner, burnished by the vocals of Zach Joss, while Panthera Krause and Philogresz bookend the compilation with two blissful, glowing tracks - an ethereal end to
an essential anthology. In between, picking favourites is an impossible task: from Johannes Brecht's snake-charming
'Nuages' to the sub bass of Jacob Phono & Jens Bond's 'Ion' to Arsy's virtuoso 'La Structure Dramatique' there is something here for every sensibility and style.

Pusher EP

Mark Henning - Pusher

Triple the excitement! Quadruple the complaints from the neighbours! This one goes to all you, who come home on a Saturday morning and get it on with your other half. Usually against the wall, bordering that grumpy cat lady on the other side.

Double The Lust

UMEK - Double The Lust (Original Mix)

nthng finally follows up his four stunning EPs with a full album proper, arriving in a whopping 3xLP pack.

Arriving a good 6 months after the LT029.5 album sampler which debuted both Soms and In My Dreams, nthng adds another seven hazy, hooded techno bangers to those to make up a pretty dazzling body of work.

Opener 'Touches' is true ambient bliss, with shrouded, blissful synths fuzzing into view and cut through by a soft low distant sunlight. 

Both Galaxy and Eternal thump into view with a hi-paced drums colliding and clashing with syncopated stabs and smooth dusty baselines, recalling the tender techno-trance precipice danced by Dutch producers at the start of the 90's.

The huge mysterious fan favourite and title track It Never Ends gets it's pride of place with 9 mins of deep, cavernous techno, all rippling with epic string-synths and washes of mountainous reverb.

Even deeper numbers are extracted from the hard-drive, including the pensively, digitally-bubbling computer jam Unity sitting tidily alongside the super deep and subtle rolls of Abyss.

Rounding the album out is the appropriately-titled Last. A dark, shimmering, almost emotionless number that cements a different idea of the future. A hard, pounding, yelping, depth-charged technoid closer.

For us, the album feels like a real masterpiece, conjuring a spectrum of intimate and emotive moods, feelings and nostalgia-tinged memories that float into the mind, like the settling fog in the valley on a crisp winters morning.

>> @nthngnthng

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LT029 // nthng - It Never Ends

DJ Koze - Der Sager Von St. Georg

Extase (incl. Chris Liebing RMX)

Extase (Chris Liebing Remix)

Sam Paganini - Survive (Sample)

ESD043 A Alan Fitzpatrick & Jon Gurd - Electric Love - clip

First single off the forthcoming album 'Bring A Friend'

Gary Beck - Before The Crash  - Soma Recordings - CLIP

For an Endless Night - Jel Ford Remix

Babou

Tournicoti

Under the stewardship of Alan Fitzpatrick, 8 Sided Dice Recordings continues to maintain its reputation as one of the most consistent techno labels via a steady stream of well received releases. The label operates as both a home for high profile artists and a outlet for emerging talent; striking a balance between output from Fitzpatrick, Slam, Dustin Zahn and Sasha Caressi, as well as exciting new talent like Rich Jones, Chris Colburn and ON/OFF.

www.8sideddice.co.uk