Random Circuits

We have that Friday feeling here at RC the sun is shining and the weekend is upon us…
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Chic Miniature is a collaboration between Guillaume Coutu-Dumont and Ernesto Ferreyra two of the strongest forces of “micro house” which is coming out of Canada today.

It’s that time of year again, time when we get to feast our ears on the tight selections that Sven Vath has chosen for his summer annual Cocoon compilation. Sven’s choices usually end up being some of the summers biggest floor fillers…

Two relatively new names, Alex Niggemann and Marc Poppcke, one brand spanking new sub label, [Moonpool] and three solid house tracks including remixes from Agnes & Russ Gabriel.

I would say that this has been my most anticipated record so far this year, after the fabulous Slowhouse Two which we covered earlier this year i didn’t think Slowhouse could get any better, but how wrong was I.

Finally our beloved Mr Garnier releases something for us to groove to again. Back to my roots is two tracks of feverishly drumming techno. Something for both the house and techno heads to shuffle their feet to a warm summer night. The title track is something psychadelic, something almost hippy-esque in its wild swaggering, tingling [...]

So were up to the final part of some tried and tested summer tracks that go down a treat when doing it the alfresco way. Here’s five more of my most played summer tracks i hope some of you will enjoy these as much as i have & will be doing later on this summer.

The Fourth part of this quite essential series, “History Elevate’s” See’s Chilean house pioneer & Cadenza label owner, Luciano take to remixing duties, there’s also a Jesse Rose remix on the EP but it’s more a filler than thriller so I’ll be leaving that to the blog house brigade to dissect and hand out to the masses.

Valt 1 is a limited edition vinyl only series from the heads at Vakant, the Berlin based house and techno label which is run by Alex Knoblauch and Stephan Bolch.

Time Reveals is a nod to Chicago and takes influences from the likes of Larry Heard and the other house music pioneers. It comes with an updated Club use only version, the original, then there’s two other, solid house cuts on the EP “Smiley” & “Overjoyed”.

Giles Smith & Martin “King Roc” Dawson AKA Two Armadillos are on a good roll at the moment with recent releases on Buzzin Fly & another on Four: Twenty not to mention running one of the UK’s best underground house gatherings Secretsundaze, this pair of house heads really know their stuff and it shows extremely well with their latest release Hamlin. Hamlin, which recently dropped on Poker Flat’s sister label Dessous is a solid three tracker which comes complete with a Sascha Dive remix.

Time for some real techno now on RC. I’ve been listening a lot to the Berghain sounds of techno recently, in particular the sounds of Dettmann, Klock and the other usual Berlin suspects. Here we have a recent set from Berghain resident Marcel Dettmann. He hits you up with a extended techno mix that’s been put into 2 handy zip folders each 1hr and 15 minutes long, which will be sure to take you late into the night and beyond. This is the sound of techno in 2008 and i like it.

One of my favorite things to do when it’s sunny is to hang out in some nice park, boombox ready and blastin’, a cold beer in the hand. Just hanging out with good mates. At times like this I usually opt not to play techno. The lounging needs a proper fitting soundtrack and electronic downtempo [...]

Sety is the man behind the ever so slick and always on form French house and techno label Circus Company. Many of you may not have heard of him before as its been a good four years since his last release, but as they say a fine wine matures with age and i think it goes without saying this is one of the finest full bodied releases your going to hear in a long time.

My top ten records from May 2008.