A:T:A – Machines & Robotz
Bring back classic analogue techno. In a day dominated by production in Ableton Live and other sample oriented computer based production techniques, this is a refreshing reintroduction to classic analogue production techniques.
Machines & Robotz by German producer A:T:A (Analogue Techno Alliance) is one hell of a package! While a stomping release it thankfully lacks [...]
Little Nobody – Jass Muzak (Wyndell Long Remixes)
elek032 | 25 June 2009Chicago is not just a windy place, the largest non-coastal U.S. city, or the undisputed home of house music.
Andrez Bergen, an Aussie music journalist who did his post-grad uni thesis on industrial music in Britain in the 1970s, partially cut his DJing teeth on the Chicago output of labels like Relief Records, Dance Mania and [...]
Little Nobody feat. Robo*Brazileira – Robota – Techno Mixes
elek031 | 09 June 2009This is the remix that Elektrax has just been itching to unleash, from a man who’s been one of Little Nobody’s favorite techno producers since 1995, and is currently in the studio with pioneering electronic band Front 242.
We’re talking the Blunted Boy Wonder himself, Steve Stoll, one of techno’s finest luminaries, a man who’s cut [...]
DJ Hi-Shock – Melancholia EP
elek030 | 20 May 2009DJ Hi-Shock, that master-blaster behind the whole Elektrax phenomenon, takes time out from label CEO duties to return with an explosive track – ‘Melancholia’ is a devastatingly deep, heavy, dark warehouse experience that storms the senses on so many levels. This is moody techno with an industrial edge that’s so immaculately conceived that it would [...]
Psyborg-9 – Your Soul Is Mine EP
elek029 | 27 Apr 2009Reboot the acid!
Flashback 14 years to Melbourne, Australia, and Andrez Bergen (these days better known as Little Nobody & Funk Gadget) had just started DJing. In his record box? Grandstanding 303 moments that included early Plastikman, Honeysmack and Freddie Fresh records, and the innovative, darker underground acid of German labels like Force Inc., Trope, AFU, [...]
DJ Warp – Tonkotsu Factory EP
elek028 | 7 Apr 2009‘Tonkotsu Factory’, such an aptly named release that can be so stark, sometimes Industrial, always techno and always tasty.
From the title track, with its lo-fi machine like sounds, funky droning basses and galloping percussion to ‘Minimarhythm’, track 2, introduced by a gurgling bassline, pumping kick and machine driven percussion that builds and builds. To the [...]
Polygon Prompt – Elusion EP
elek027 | 19 Mar 2009Elektrax has come out with another fantastic package for the techno devotee. Polygon Prompt is definitely for the DJ who has an intelligent crowd that wants to cut loose.
Elusion could be the love child of Adam Beyer and Chris Liebing. This is hard and fast with lots of sub to keep the peak hour rush [...]
Gayle San – Mania EP
elek026 | 26 Feb 2009‘Mania’, the debut teaming of Gayle San and Elektrax Recordings, is a release full to the brim with dance floor goodness.
From Gayle’s original work, a bass driven thumper that wraps filtered synth stabs around an absolutley slammin’ kick drum to deliver tough funk, to DJ Hi-Shock’s remix who takes the journey deeper underground through re-working [...]
Jungle Taitei – Taitei Drums EP
elek025 | 18 Feb 2009Ostensibly reared on a now-deserted island called Gunkanjima, just off the coast from Nagasaki, Jungle Taitei (real name unknown) admits to being just as influenced by pioneering electronic musician Isao Tomita – who composed the soundtrack for Osamu Tezuka’s 1960s anime series, ‘Janguru Taitei’ (Kimba the White Lion) – as he has been by Tim [...]
Psi Room – Underground – Ree.K Remix
elek024 | 05 Feb 2009In a follow up to Psy-Tekk Vol.1, Psi Room meets one of Japan’s best female techno DJ’s and producers, Ree.K and delivers wild, hallucinogenic mixes of the powerfull track “Underground”.
Ree. K’s remix embraces classic goa with industrial techno and tweaks the spaced-out sounds of the original track; it’s like classic Time Modem and the best [...]
