Edwin van Beinum

Edwin van Beinum

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I love the chunky bass riff that propels the entire song forward. As the track progresses the scattering of sounds on top of the bass become darker; it starts with guitar hammer-ons and clean glissando squeaks and ends with sawtooth synths, distorted vocals and white noise swells.

Olibaba - Inside Out is out now on Accurate Black [BUY]

As part of a two year retrospective from Russian producer Dim Key, Broken Piano is a playful cut of techno. Stripped back percussion allow room for the wonky pitch oscillated synth to dominate the spectrum.

Also on the album are two more tracks that caught me ear; Black Room. keeps the sparse percussion with a syncopated analog synth pattern and the final track Storm takes the main themes from the previous two tracks and seamlessly blends them.

Dim Key - Broken Piano is out now on DKNWLabel [BUY]

Here's something a little more deep and melodic than I usually cover. Rigopolar's interpretation of Lewis Beck - A Thought From Jupiter skillfully combines a deep house groove with synthwave melodic stabs and wait for that Stranger Things-esque breakdown.

Lewis Beck - A Thought From Jupiter (Rigopolar Remix) is out now on Audiophile Deep [BUY]

Guido Braun a.k.a. WAFFENSUPERMARKT (or WSM) drop a dubby minimal tech rework of Danja Uosh's  Nothing & Everything as part of their new collection of remixes.

The track is a study in understated restraint, taking its time to introduce and remove subtle elements over the hypnotic bass line. The clean resonant synth stabs contrast against fuzzy percussive hits and filtered pads.

Danja Uosh - Nothing & Everything (Waffensupermarkt Remix) is out now on Cancelled [BUY]

I love how the wonky swung bass pattern sits under straight drum groove - mixing those two can be tricky but it totally works in this track (for another example go listen to the chorus of Stevie Wonder's Superstition; that horn line is played totally straight even though the rest of the parts swing like heck).

Stick around for the final third where the kick moves away from the four on the floor pattern.

IL Jah - Yugra is out now on ICE Audio [BUY]

A few months ago I found Carlos' None and was immediately smitten. I loved the percussive 909 tom pattern and that big reverb-y clap but I kept hearing the track with even more grit and low end so I reworked the track from scratch, added more bass and a wonky detuned 909 tom layer.

I still wanna know more about the original track so if the mysterious Carlos is out there, get in touch.

Carlos - None (Quick Like Bunnies Rework) is out now [FREE DOWNLOAD]

French producer and drummer Antoine Pouilly drops this hypnotic cut of acidic house as part of his latest 4 track EP "2". While the 303 lines are aggressive, Azur keeps things playful with a sprinkling of cowbells and vocal snippets. After a surprisingly melodic breakdown, the addition of a minor key chord progression over the original acid line moves things into a new direction.

Azur - Pluie acide is out now on Partyfine [BUY]

Colombian producer Man Ego's Saty Tuned is a minimal slice of bouncy tech. The square wave bass sits nicely alongside choppy vocal samples and warped synth stabs.

Man Ego - Saty Tuned is out now on Superordinate Dub Waves [BUY]

Riding the line between incredible and unplayable is Alien Pizza's 28 Pepperonies, a track so bat-shit yet musical that I can't stop listening to it. As a friend said when I shared this track: "Damn who put this elephant in the woofer" which is a description I can't beat, so just go listen.

Alien Pizza - 28 Pepperonies is from the album Track 16 which is out now on Patmos Records [BUY]

Choose One is a low-key percussive breaks workout from multimedia artist 0010x0010. Breathy detuned pads wash over a broken linear drum pattern punctuated with the occasional vocal sample. There is little for the listener to anchor themselves to in the track which, once you get over the stress of wondering where the 'one' is, is quite freeing to relax your brain and just let it play out. I like the idea that it is up to the listener to select where the bar starts and they can, in fact,  'choose one'.

The track comes from an upcoming album MØDVLXXR which is performed entirely on modular synthezisers and spans the breadth from hazy ambience to arpeggiated up-tempo techno. It will be the soundtrack to a new series of A/V exhibitions that will be shown around the world.

0010x0010 - MØDVLXXR is out on Modular Freq on July 15 [PREORDER]

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