Arapu & Gescu
The Horizontal Games EP

Wrapped in Latex, in Berlin, Alone is the latest EP coming from Pletnev. Its four tracks trigger a dooming introspective look in an increasingly isolated, digital world, while simultaneously providing an extraterrestrial escape route.

You can always rely on Dungeon Meat to kick out the jams and that is the case here with Julian Anthony next up to make a solid house statement. 'Dale Ale' kicks things off with a tumbling hook that sounds like someone whacking a giant metal drum, while 'Phantom Strike' brings shuffling garage energy to the beats. 'Radikal Forze' is one of those late-night jams with some mysterious pads leading you to mischief and last of all 'Z-Town' rides on rubbery kick drum loops with tripped-out pads. Heady and physical at the same time, all four of these are superb.

Preceding Nicola Cruz' new album Kinesia coming on Nous'klaer Audio this autumn, the Rotterdam label and Ecuadorian producer present the first album single with two vinyl only remixes on a limited 12''. Under his alter-ego Fauna Extinta, Nicola Cruz reworked the track Perma into a sublime grooving house remix and dub version. Limited to 200 copies. Stamp design by Pedro Zoz.

Edward delivers his latest collection of works, the ‘Eddie Green’ EP via Smallville Records this July,comprised of four originals.For the past decade and a half, Frankfurt-original Gilles Aiken, better known to most as simply, Edward, has beenunveiling his productions regularly via the likes of his most regular home Giegling, but also Baby Ford & Eon’sTrelik, White, Die Orakel or DFA, plus teaming up with Ricardo Villalobos in 2020 for their Disordered RhythmMetronomy project on Perlon. Here though, we see Edward mark his debut for Smallville Records, a fitting homefor his deep, dynamic and hypnotic style which regularly blurs the lines of House, Techno and beyond.Up first is ‘Primal Dream’, a raw and reduced journey through modulating synth flutters, squeaky percussivetwitches and a bumpy, robust rhythm section. ‘Blue Glue’ follows and diverges into a more mystical sonic worldwith haunting chants, resonant synth licks, meditative chimes and ethereal textures intertwined with crisp, crunchydrums.Title-track ‘Eddie Green’ opens the B-side, embracing a more dubbed out, deep techno aesthetic via murky chordswells, clattering organic percussion, throbbing low end pulsations and vocoded spoken word vocal lines. Theaptly title ‘So Slow’ then rounds out the release, dropping the tempo and shifting focus Edward’s more jazz-tingedinfluences with wandering piano melodies and soulful vocal chants uttering the track’s title, underpinned byshuffled drums and waves of sporadic oscillating synth.

Robin Ordell returns to his own No Time County with Nameless Salesmen EP

Any discerning deep house heads will be familiar with Yossi Amoyal's work as the head of the cultured Sushitech label, and now he steps out with a new imprint, Endell Street, alongside co-founder Nils Hess. This one is named after a busy thoroughfare in the heart of London that was home to the Eukatech record store and will be focussed on reissues of work from the Eukahouse archives. First up we some prime tech house from genre pioneer Nathan Coles who serves up a kicking and unreleased mix of the Housey Doingz classic 'Kitchen Spasm'. Then comes a garage-tinged bumper in the form of Soggy Plop's 'Hairy Scary' (Get Fucked remix) and last of all, Flunky's 'Love Song' brings low-slung sleaze.