Sebastopol Rd

Every Single Word

Gorge - Henrietta - Jacksonville Remix - Katchuli

5 Mag EP Review

Hizou drops the third volume of their Keeping The Legacy line, a V/A series spotlighting a few artists per plate that can be counted among the finest purveyors of this deeply-rooted deep house sound working today. Past editions have featured James Duncan, Chez Damier, Gari Romalis, G. Marcell and Satore; this one features some old friends and familiar faces to anyone that’s accustomed to thumbing through the racks for new sounds.

The best two tracks are split up between sides. Jacksonville’s gem of a track “Data Log” steals the music of your dreams: high, atmospheric deep house and deeper techno, radiant chords and percussion that blinds you with an ultra-lustrous sheen. Nico Lahs (as “NLXLB”) contributes “Gravitate,” which is seven minutes long but feels longer. More earthy than the airy Detroit vibes of “Data Log,” “Gravitate” is a soft riot of alien tribal drums and sizzling electronics. Lahs adds layers on top of layers, takes a few away, adds a few more and the result is a deep house track that could double as the jukebox music for a twenty-second century mass religious awakening.

Not to cut quick over the other two tracks here, because Keeping The Legacy Vol. 3 packs more high quality tracks onto twelve inches than most labels release all year. Huerta’s “D.A.Y.L.” is an exquisite chunk of Detroit-flavored techno, sticky with analog smut. Closing out is the 100Hz track “Ggg” which comes pretty close to deep house without drums — a hypnotic trip through the stargate pierced by racing stars and sloppy comet dust. One of the finest EPs from anyone, capturing four distinct producers at their peak.

Data Log

New year, new faces at Inner Shift Music [ISM]. But what isn’t new is the label’s commitment to high-quality electronic music as their latest various artists release, Collective Continents, ably demonstrates.

With the owners 2DeepSoul [aka Brad Peterson and Rai Scott] taking a back-seat on this occasion, it’s left to their handpicked line-up of four more-than-capable debutants to keep the fires burning.

Deep house poster boy Jacksonville - straight outta Glasgow via Yorkshire these days - marks his label début with the kind of glorious, infectious and sparkling groover with a soupçon of the eighties that he’s been delivering for some time now on his own label Doppler. The impressive The City Sleeps is arguably Inner Shift’s most full-throttle offering to date yet still sits comfortably within the imprint’s carefully-crafted sound and mindset. So much so that Jacksonville has also landed a forthcoming solo EP with the excellent Edinburgh-based label.

California-based José Lau [Altered Moods/Deepselect/Downbeat] serves up another début to remember although his cut I Can Yet Love is much more chilled and languid, less frenetic than our friend Jacksonville‘s number, yet still seriously catchy and promising enough to suggest Lau too will return at some stage.

Recently unmasked as Owen Jay [Batti Batti/Underground Quality] and Natan H [ManMakeMusic/Ethereal Sound], Gauss make a first appearance on Inner Shift with Denormal, the kind of superior, obtuse and devilishly-brilliant techno that has graced their own label of the same name and ear-marked that imprint too as one to watch.

In-form Marco Nega, fresh from an ear-catching slot on the latest Batti Batti EP, shines here too with the gorgeous Night Hiker (Boost ‘N Time edit), a beautifully restrained and emotionally-charged synth-driven production that floats effortlessly from start to finish and brings the EP to a close with the gentlest of landings. Hit ‘buy’ immediately.

Review by bringdownthewalls. http://bringdownthewalls-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/various-artists-collective-continents.html

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A1 The City Sleeps -  ISM006 - Collective Continents EP

Fragments Ep. ISM007

Textura Review: 

While the track titles “Fragment One” and “Fragment Two” might suggest some unfinished quality, there's nothing unpolished about the material in question. On the contrary, the cuts are sleek and rousing affairs elevated by jacking house beats, rich synthesizer textures, and nocturnal splendour. Without careening out of control, the tracks work themselves up to respectively feverish, near-ecstatic states and seduce the listener with their luscious, synth-heavy arrangements and uplift.

The EP's jubilant vibe carries over to the B side with “Seberg”—a homage by Lyth to Jean Seberg, the late actress forever immortalized for her role in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (À bout de souffle)?—proving to be even more bubbly than the opening pair, especially when Lyth animates the track with a hard-grooving, infectious swing. “Every Single Word” changes things up beautifully by ending the recording on a soulful note, the tempo slightly slower than the other tracks and fragments of soulful vocalizing sprinkled across the tune's bass-throbbing pulse. Don't be thrown by the title: the EP's tracks are anything but fragmentary; if anything, they're as satisfying as anything else in the Jacksonville discography.

WE PLAY WAX review.

The seventh Inner Shift release, 'Fragments EP' kicks off with 'Fragment One', a relentless ethereal dance-floor voyage through landscapes of warm airy pads, haunting strings, spectral synths and twirling bells, all fuelled by a driving kick and hypnotic acid bass-line. The second part of the trip, 'Fragment Two' is a more relaxed, deeper and down-to-earth construction with its steady kick, rhythmic drums and straightforward looping bass-line that rarely gets a filter treatment. While the first Fragment was the hypnotic one, the second is the cosmic one with its gliding celestial organ bells, lush melodic synths and trance-inducing astral keys, all embracing one another in a truly ecstatic mating dance ritual.

The flip-side changes the rules of the game with 'Seberg', a classic deep house track that has its roots both in the Detroit scene as well as in the forming years of Belfast's own dreamy soundscape. The energy on 'Seberg' is precisely delivered through constant drum sounds, tight kicks and a lovely swingful bass-line, while the mood gets driven with the aid of smooth rich pads, melodic seascape lines and a whole layer of faded ambient soundscapes. To finish the EP in epic fashion, Chris gives us 'Every Single Word', a blissful harmony of breezy oceanic pads, grandiose synth layers and evocative vocal cuts that once let loose, they orchestrate themselves to grandiose states of aural delight. 


Fragment Two

Every time you edit me

Stojche - Shakin Cold - Jacksonville remix - Left'd (Leftroom)

Dusk - Thug Records 2010

Textura mag review. 2011

The latest two-tracker from Edinburgh, UK-based underground house label Doppler Records comes from Sparkhouse, a rather secretive producer who's also based in Edinburgh, prefers to keep a low profile, and for whom few bio-related details are available (he has no website or Facebook page either). What can be reported is that he uses vintage hardware sequencers, 8-bit samplers, live instruments, and guitar pedal effects to create his material and that Silence and Noise is his second release, with the first a split affair with Jacksonville also issued on Doppler.

“Close Up” works a midtempo bounce into a slinky stepper with a smidgen of acid nipping at its heels. Radiant string synths crest o'ertop the tune's sleek pulse, as hard-hitting snares and hi-hats nudge the groove along until distorted voices spread their garbled spiel across the track's warm surface. Replete with dropouts and breakdowns, “Close Up” offers an elegant, seven-minute ride through clubby terra firma, after which “Silence and Noise” stretches its wings for a full-on ten minutes, taking in ample scenery as it does so. Sparkhouse nicely offsets the track's 4/4 stomp with a bubbly funk bass line, disco claps, and hi-hat sizzle, and then elevates it with repeated dashes of deep house vocal snippets and psychedelic synth swirls. If the thudding bass pulse makes “Silence and Noise” the clubbier of the two cuts, both are nevertheless floor-fillers of a particularly well-crafted kind.

Sparkhouse - Close up

JACKSONVILLE - QUIET ROOM - DOPPLER RECORDS

All tracks written and produced by Jacksonville

Live Set - Bongo Club Edinburgh April 17

Track 1. Twilight Industries
Track 2. Party on Strange Street

Release Date: 16.02.12


Review in Textura Magazine:

The Twilight Industries arrives mere weeks after Edinburgh-based producer Chris Lyth's previous Jacksonville EP Sometime Shortwave (also on Doppler). Like its predecessor, the new one's a two-track affair of considerable craft that plays like mood music for modern-day clubbers. “Party on Strange Street” rolls in on a deliciously slinky mid-tempo house swing that Lyth then gradually fleshes out with warm chords, subtle bass flavour, and soulful vocal interjections. There's an appealingly relaxed vibe to the track, which even gets a tad dubby in its middle section when the beats briefly drop away. Percolating more determinedly by comparison, “Twilight Industries” opts for slightly spacier climes in its embrace of synthetic colour while also revealing a raw and earthy side in the thrust of its jacking pulse. Throughout its eight-minute run, Lyth amplifies its trippy feel by adding swirls of echoing voices and deepens the track's charging groove by working analogue drum playing into its percussive mix. Just as it has in the past, Lyth's smooth Jacksonville sound again goes down so easily it requires next to no effort to get behind.

http://textura.org/reviews/jacksonville_twilightindustries.htm



Review in Faith Fanzine:

Chances are that Jacksonville is having a lie down right now. After all, two releases in only a matter of months from the self-confessed procrastinator and perfectionist must have left the poor love worn out.

All mocking aside, however, it is a very welcome return. Hot on the heels of Doppler 06 at the tail end of last year comes rather cunningly Doppler 07 – the Twilight Industries EP – from the Edinburgh-based producer and label owner known better to family and friends as Chris Lyth.

Twilight Industries is a gorgeous, shuffling deep house jam brought alive by lush chords and warm, echoing stabs. The much-experienced Lyth has been releasing music under various pseudonyms for more than 10 years but now seems to have settled into his Jacksonville alter ego, which emerged back in 2008. He also seems to have eased into a very satisfying house groove in his dotage that is deep enough for the heads and spirited enough for the floor. Indeed, once it gets into its stride Twilight Industries is not only a worthy follow-up to the recommended recent Sometime Shortwave EP but is also right up there with the very best of Lyth’s work across all his guises.

Ably completing the EP is Party On Strange Street. Again it is all about the deep chords and irresistible kick on this one, although Jacksonville throws in the occasional vocal stab for good measure to complete what is a thoroughly enjoyable if not unexpectedly swift return from the man originally from Leeds. He is clearly on a roll but whether Jacksonville’s new-found industry means he is heading straight back into the studio or hitting the sofa remains to be seen.

http://www.faithfanzine.com/?p=1337





Jacksonville - Twilight Industries EP

Track 1 from the Silence and Noise EP by Sparkhouse. Support from Baaz, Deetron, Ethyl, Falko Brocksieper, KiNK, Ray Okpara, Arnaud Le Texier.

Textura Mag August 2011

The latest two-tracker from Edinburgh, UK-based underground house label Doppler Records comes from Sparkhouse, a rather secretive producer who's also based in Edinburgh, prefers to keep a low profile, and for whom few bio-related details are available (he has no website or Facebook page either). What can be reported is that he uses vintage hardware sequencers, 8-bit samplers, live instruments, and guitar pedal effects to create his material and that Silence and Noise is his second release, with the first a split affair with Jacksonville also issued on Doppler.

“Close Up” works a midtempo bounce into a slinky stepper with a smidgen of acid nipping at its heels. Radiant string synths crest o'ertop the tune's sleek pulse, as hard-hitting snares and hi-hats nudge the groove along until distorted voices spread their garbled spiel across the track's warm surface. Replete with dropouts and breakdowns, “Close Up” offers an elegant, seven-minute ride through clubby terra firma, after which “Silence and Noise” stretches its wings for a full-on ten minutes, taking in ample scenery as it does so. Sparkhouse nicely offsets the track's 4/4 stomp with a bubbly funk bass line, disco claps, and hi-hat sizzle, and then elevates it with repeated dashes of deep house vocal snippets and psychedelic synth swirls. If the thudding bass pulse makes “Silence and Noise” the clubbier of the two cuts, both are nevertheless floor-fillers of a particularly well-crafted kind.


Sparkhouse - Silence and Noise - Doppler Records

2020Soundsystem - Ocean - Jacksonville Remix - 2020vision

New 2 track EP out 26-09-12 on Doppler Records

1. Views from Trains
2. Love Lost Underground

Support from M.A.N.D.Y, DJ Sneak, Ethyl, The Mountain People, Huxley, Catz n' Dogz, Falko Brocksieper, Ray Okpara, Brothers Vibe

Jacksonville - Views from Trains EP (clips) - Doppler Records

The Low Spark - Metamorphic Recordings.

ISM - 011 Jacksonville Machines Of Loving Grace EP Preview

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Plastic City Radio Show Season Two

Hallelujah Club

Super 8 Motel

https://hobbesmusicon.bandcamp.com/album/jacksonville-fon-ep-digital-download-hm014

Rushhour - Cosmico - Jacksonville Remix - Shanti

Recording of my Live Set in Zurich made with Maschine and a few other toys - all tracks by Jacksonville.

Jacksonville Live Set Zurich.

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