Floating Mind - Live from Chez Moi mix

Todays listening is some deep and minimal tech from the Monokrak crew.

Monokrak 082 - Ehn "Time Stay Behind The Mind EP"

Ehn "Time Stay Behind The Mind"

New on monokrak, Ehn presents two tracks of minimal, warpy, screwed up techno that nods to the motor city, Sheffield and Berlin. Get these on the download right away.

Ehn - Camina Solo
Ehn - Kun

Complete package

Monokrak vs Kosmo

1. Tumor_"Open_Moog"

2. Gr-Oy_"Morphine"

3. Damolh33_"Yulak"

4. 1ddual_"Biodance"

5. Durcheinander_"Come_Again"

6. Bo Savio_ "Shepard_Tone"

Two very cool labels coming together for an awesome co-release - minimal grooves and headspaces are the order of the day.

Monokrak 050 - Smoked Monokrak

More awesomeness from the excellent Monokrak, a label who eschew polished presentation, aggressive social networking and marketing in favour of turning out excellent dub-techno on a regular basis. There's a heavy Detroit influence on both the content and delivery - the minimal advertising mindset obviously borrows heavily from UR / Basic Channel / Traxx, and the synths are pure Carl Craig. Floating Mind's Dexter's Techno is probably my favourite, with cinematic synth chords set against muted pads and raw hi-hat riffs. Like the best techno, it's deceptively deep on headphones or in the flat, but bangs with the best of them through a half-way decent soundsystem.
For an EP, it's surprisingly well-structured, with the oddly-titled 3rd track, Prologue from GeorgezB, moving from 4/4 grooves to synth-laded passages and building a deep atmospheric feel before the full on techno of Floating Mind's final track kills it in the final round. Before this, we're treated Durcheinander's Stimmen, which comes on like T++ doing braindance, with that Berghain kick sound pitted against unstable beat repeats and almost overpowering synth swathes.
One hell of an EP - a DJ tool and home listening that's a definite case in point for the Creative Commons - get it downloaded.
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