[SV-10] Mr. Cloudy – Inspired

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on April 7, 2017 Posted in Ambient, Dub Techno Blog Approved, Dub Techno/Deep Techno, Non-Creative Commons Release, Non-Creative Commons Release Tagged mr cloudy

Incredible new release from Mr Cloudy and Space of Variants. Certainly a duo that also delivers top quality dub. Essential listening.

Inspired is the illuminated state of consciousness. Four tracks are smoothly mutating looped and dub delays already you are shrouded! Direct assertive drums confidently go forward like an icebreaker and reverb delays mixing with the hissing old tapes atmospheres. Recorded in the spring days, fixed when the consciousness traveled through otherworldly.

release by Space Of Variants 2017 / Russia

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Sven Weisemann – Separate Paths EP

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on April 1, 2017March 27, 2017 Posted in Dub Techno Blog Approved, Dub Techno/Deep Techno, Non-Creative Commons Release Tagged delsin records, Sven Weisemann

A year after his first release on the label, German deepsmith Sven Weisemann is back on Delsin with a sophomore effort entitled Separate Paths. Down for his moody outings on labels like Mojuba and Telrae, this new four track affair continues to mark out the man behind it as a master of atmosphere. Grooves floating in mid air and subtle melodies drift by like half remembered thoughts. Head music that also makes your body move. It may only be four tracks long, but this EP truly takes you on a journey somewhere far away from this world.

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Smooth – Contemporary Past

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on March 31, 2017March 27, 2017 Posted in Ambient, Creative Commons Release, Creative Commons Release, Dub Techno Blog Approved, Dub Techno/Deep Techno Tagged cyan music, smooth

A massive journey into deep Dubtechno, close to 3 hours of sound exploration.

On his sixth album, german producer Smooth lays the musical path from noisy, Ambient influenced spheres to Detroit influenced textures and soundscapes.

Inspired by earlier releases of labels like Echochord, Echospace Detroit or Chain Reaction, this album nicely blends all styles together into one meditative and hypnotic musical experience.

16 tracks are waiting for your personal exploration!

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Royer – Documented (MÖRK012)

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on March 30, 2017March 27, 2017 Posted in Deep House, Dub Techno Blog Approved, Dub Techno/Deep Techno, Non-Creative Commons Release, Non-Creative Commons Release Tagged royer

With a skillet of brooding, deep & melodic releases in his wake for the Lobster main label, Moomin’s Closer imprint and an exceptionally beautiful self-released tape, Royer returns to the Lobster family with a clutch of super deep, dusty, planes-of-light-through-the-curtain house music that channel a nostalgic optimism into it’s brooding & humming elemental core.

From the fading melancholy memories of clqsse22 (simple version) and it’s more bubbling & swaggering ‘sunday lit reffaaax’ counterpart, to the sunlight rays cutting and refracting from the facets of d’orr22. Each track finds it’s own slot on the spectrum of deep, warm house music.

Closer healyrslfw_lee nods to the more beat-oriented Royer works, heavy sampling a playful short piano loop and cutting in spoken word segments. As a rare Lobster digi extra we also get ‘day of’. All stripped back grooves and stodgy MPC percussion lounging around a cloud of early morning haze.
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Ackost – Liquid LP

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on March 27, 2017March 26, 2017 Posted in Dub Techno Blog Approved, Dub Techno/Deep Techno, Non-Creative Commons Release Tagged ackost

Newcomer Ackost puts out his second album and it features some beautiful dub. Essential listening and definitely an artist to watch in the future!

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Heavenchord – Strolling In The Night EP

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on March 26, 2017March 18, 2017 Posted in Dub Techno Blog Approved, Dub Techno/Deep Techno, Non-Creative Commons Release Tagged Heavenchord

We are about techno and specially deep & dub techno from time to time. Here is a new and complete EP written by Heavenchord in the very end of 2016.

Dope soundscapes and mindwalks in deep Russian forest for those who knows.. Will definitely be included in mixes for MixCult Radio and other podcasts.

Track Strolling In The Night is free for download.

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Mike Schommer just released his entire back catalogue on Bandcamp!

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on March 19, 2017March 18, 2017 Posted in Dub Techno Blog Approved, Dub Techno/Deep Techno, Non-Creative Commons Release Tagged Mike-Schommer

Mike Schommer (co-founder of deepchord records) is back! After 15 long years he is making music again and has something planned this year! Very exciting stuff and to celebrate he’s put his entire back catalogue on bandcamp!

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Radius – obsolete machines [w/cv313 reshapes]

Posted by The High Plains Drifter on March 15, 2017March 5, 2017 Posted in Dub Techno Blog Approved, Dub Techno/Deep Techno, Non-Creative Commons Release Tagged cv313, Echospace, radius

The entire album has been painstakingly restored from 20 year old cassette tapes, not an easy task but with alluring sonic results. Remastered using Apogee convertors and analog tape to preserve the integrity of the original masters. 2XCD set packaged in eco friendly digipak case with custom metallic artwork, housed in a resealable poly sleeve.

An unreleased classic from the vaults emerges with beautiful reshapes by cv313 (recorded and reshaped from 2007-2016) This is where the sound of cv313 was realized, culled from cassette tapes recorded live (1995-2000) with nothing but analog/digital hardware, no computer in sight (excluding our Commodore 64 midi sequencer, which is still alive and well today). The radius project has been absent since the final release in 2001, the first 12″ appearing in 1996 (limited white label run of 100 copies pressed at Acme pressing in Canada) after revisiting these works we realized there was truly some magic here. This project was initially sent to Rod Modell & Mike Schommer shortly after they launched their brilliant deepchord label in 2001. They were incredibly kind in saying it was the best demo they had ever heard and passed it on to Octal records for release, sadly, that didn’t materialize and since then these masters have been collecting dust in our cassette rack for nearly 20 years now. We’ve spent months doing our best to restore the old tapes from our Tascam 688, an 8 track cassette recorder purchased and abused since 1992 and to our ears still sounds quite impressive even by modern standards. (that is of course, if you can get past the tape hiss) We’ve had nearly every component replaced and re-calibrated to bring this obsolete machine back to life, it’s been a truly nostalgic experience re-visiting these masters.

We truly hope you enjoy reliving these magical times of music, very inspired by all that was happening in those years, there was just something in the air, an undeniable energy, long may it live on…
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