House & Techno Top 10 Chart - July 2010

Let's face it, the northern summer is a good time to release tunes. There are squillions of awesome tunes out there. Here are two hand-fulls which I reckon kick a bit of arse.

Rob's Top 10 House & Techno jams - July 2010

1. Claudio Mate & Frankie Granato - Music Is A Love Thing (Snejl)

      - a dub-techno styled groove with hook!

2. Koen - Tolle (Aenaria Music)

3. Brotherly - Breathe (Shur-I-Kan Dub) (Dark Energy)

4. Mark O'Sullivan - Viva Voodoo (Nachklangmusik remix) (Nice & Nasty)

      - dope, the way techno should be more often!

5. Uninvited Partners - Day Of The Shogun (Lace Recordings)

      - heavenly strings with a sort of Strings of Life quality.

6. Justin Berkovi - Day Pass Nights Creep In (EevoNext Recordings) 

      - not sure my speakers can go low enough to hear all the bass on this. Darkness!

7. Manny Ward & Joi Cardwell - All Night (Danny Buddah Morales Remix) (Slanted Black)

      - Danny Morales turning good into great. He still has the skills.

8. DJ Gomor - Rablajoie (Lace Recordings)

      - like a bit of 90s sounding acid badness? Then this is for you?

9. Björn Wilke - Mendrum (Original Mix) (Kaato Music)

      - a solid 'Women Beat Their Men'-sampling drum groove

10. Jose Diaz - Luz Del Sol (Ovidi Adlert Remix) (Molacacho Records)

Classic Pic: Katcha - Touched By God (Peace Division Mix) 1999

Where tech-house meets disco and prog with wicked results. An infectious vocal and hypnotic groove!

Top 10 Deep House & Techno jams - June 2010

Some gems this month including more blade-runner house remixes from Mark O'Sullivan, a sultry deep space disco gem from Edmund and the release of Technasia's new album Central - packed full of wicked grooves. Surely a contender for best electronic album of 2010.

Rob's Top 10 Deep House & Techno jams - June 2010

1. Alvina Red & Manuel Perez - Celica (Mark O'Sullivan remix) (Nice & Nasty)

2. Technasia - Voyager Eternals (Long mix) (Technasia)
3. MidiDropMusic - Underneath The Abyss (Lemon Popsicle Remix) (Ready Mix)

4. Manuel Perez - Paradise Already (Mark O'Sullivan Remix) (Enjoy)

5. Antoine Caesar & Timur Valiev - Whisper of Mars (Indeks Music)
6. Hideo Kobayashi - Cosmogony (Original Mix) (Fatsouls)

7. Edmund - You Got The Love (DeepClass Records)

8. Urban Collective - Blue Night (Franco Martinelli Mix) (NightChild)

9. Marcel Best - Ego (Global Ritmico Records)

10. Aux 88 - Space Satellites (Black Tokyo Aux 88 remix) (Echoism)

Classic Pic: Chiapet - Westworld (Yoshitoshi, 1999)

Wanna know how to take a kick drum, a snare, bugger all else and make a devastating track? Then copy this. It's near perfection from John Ciafone (aka Mood II swing)

Rob's Top 10 Chart December 2009

Another month, another bunch of quality tunes. Mark O'Sullivan drop yet another quality groover while Future Mode (aka Stan Kolev) takes things more ethnic and deep. Gotta love the drums!

1. Mark O'Sullivan - Relapse (Process Recordings)
2. Future Mode - New World Order (Aki Bergen Remix) (Ready Mix)
3. M.in - It's Just Because (Micro.fon)
4. Max Cooper - InhaleExhale (Tim Sheridan's Breathe In Mix) (Veryverywrongindeed Recordings)
5. David Phillips - Paranoid Boy (Global Ritmico)
6. Daniel Meteo - In The Mood (Abe Duque remix) (Shitkatapult)
7. Jaimy & Alan T - Look Mama, We Are Still Twisted (Rulers Of The Deep Remix) (Fatal Music)
8. Walter Jones - I Am Loved (Permanent Vacation)
9. Alexi Delano & Cari Lekebusch - Channel 0 (Hybrid Productions)
10. Taho - Amarylis (Lumina)

Or check out my latest chart at Junodownload

Reviews with DJ Rob Warner - June 09

Some tasty new tunes for June from across the land including a fantastic new album from Swede Mark O'Sullivan.

Mark O'Sullivan - Fragments from a Long Country (Nice & Nasty)

Mark O’Sullivan and Irish label Nice & Nasty have teamed up and hit gold here. It’s the album tech-heads should be marking on their calendar to buy on release. From the get go – the jammy ‘She Stood There Laughing’ you know this is going to be a good listen and by track two the utterly brilliant ‘Come Over’ it’s a done deal. Half Joris Voorn and half mid-90s Detroit-esque is the vibe of the album which spans from the deepest spacey numbers to peak time dance floor monsters. The balance is the noticeable thing here – from the manic ‘Take You Tripping’ to key-led Underground Resistance type reprise tracks like ‘Within You’ the quality holds up right through, something which can’t be said of most electronic LPs put out these days. To preview the release a remix EP is out with a very solid remixes of album tracks by Psycatron aka Paul Hamil, Jamie Behan and Eamonn Doyle. (Out 21 July on iTunes and 14 Aug elsewhere).

Jozif – MOG Vol 1 (Hypercolour)

Very solid techy beats from Wales courtesy of the talented Jozif starts off with ‘Grobe Freiheit’ which sounds almost like a Jesse Rose-esque cut up of a Michael Jackson track – full of quirky stabs and vocal samples arranged in a pretty solid groove. The main event however is ‘Make It My Memory’, a similar concept but with some epic samples and stabs arranged beneath a spoken vocal talking about New York city. The added remix by Alex Jones & Julian takes a more quirky tech-house vibe for some nice listening.

M.in & Bastian Schuster - Jazz Me Please (Merkesdir)

The best way to describe this sort of record is comedy house. 1930s music sampling tech-house is as fun as it is hilarious to listen to in the background – in almost a Jive Bunny but not shit kind of way. ‘Jazz me Please’ is really nicely put together and would be a killer at the right moment with its bouncy beats and looped sample. The guy who owns this genre, Basti Grub, also steps in for a remix and goes for a more low-key vibe and adds a quirky flute to the arrangement.

Nicola Martorano & Roberto Capuano - Stay Tuned (Hot Fingers Music)

This is something of a rarity these days - a solid, bottom heavy, tribal led track which just says ‘play me and I’ll fill the floor’. The mix in question here is the great Simone Tavazzi remix. It’s nicely paced and has just the right amount of drops, rises and stabs to make it interesting without going overboard. Def worth a gander.