Max Cavalerra - the Bigger, the Better EP

1. Impact

2. Function

3. In Memory of Violett

4. 1000ccm

5. What the Bell!?

Higher, further, faster – this is the approach of Max Cavalerra who significantly influenced the sound of Broque.de. His latest EP doesn’t hesitate at all but makes its points straight away. The Munich based DJ - also well-known for his releases on Karmarouge - launches a firework of sudorific bass whirls, groovy percussions and culminating breaks. But he never forgets about emotions and melodies. Max wants to see the people dancing and we believe we have to support him on his way by releasing this great EP.

Ilar & Hedvall - Melt

01 First Avowal
02 Slip'N'Slide
03 Toybox
04 Lava
05 Moist
06 Fool
07 Second Avowal
08 Icetoys
09 Lava (Arctic Hospital Remix)
10 Lava (Dark Recovery Remix)

Swedish producer Anders Ilar has been on a home run streak lately, what with this album, a top-shelf podcast for Resident Advisor, and a solo full-length entitled Sworn all under his belt in recent months. This particular collaboration with kindred spirit and fellow Swede Fredrik Hedvall explores the darker corners of the dancefloor. Minor chords and the disembodied blurts of a Speak & Spell set the mood on “Slip’ N Slide,” the disc’s second track. “Lava” is a vaporous take on the Basic Channel aesthetic, while the beats of “Fool” tumble out of the speakers in three-dimensional form. The pinnacle of the disc is “Avowal,” though–a nine-minute exercise fraught with tension and dark as bruise blood...www.xlr8r.com

Moon Harbour Inhouse Vol. 3 by Martinez

01. Luna City Express - Swing City 

02. Martinez - Blue Lagoon 

03. Boris Werner - Feel Good 

04. Mathias Kaden - Musica 

05. Vera - Hooked Up With Da Drums 

06. Dot - Kinda Strange 

07. Matthias Tanzmann - Left Behind 

08. Dan Drastic & Chris Lattner - Two In One

The Inhouse compilations are special moments for Moon Harbour. Being more than just simply packed with new and exclusive tracks from Moon Harbour artists and friends, they are also landmarks which connect a contemporary sound with a look to the future by giving a mouth-watering taster of upcoming releases. Two eventful years have passed since the last Inhouse-compilation: almost a dozen new EPs have been released and played relentlessly in clubs worldwide - releases by Moon Harbour residents Matthias Tanzmann, Marlow, Luna City Express and Dan Drastic, but also by Simon Flower, Miguel Toro, Gregor Tresher, Seuil and last but not least Martinez, who is set to influence the labels' profile more in the future. Moon Harbour has now become fully international, with it’s artists receiving global acclaim and booking for gigs far and wide...www.moonharbour.com

Martinez - Le Cirkus

1. Le Cirkus 

2. Mundial

Yes, it is exactly how it sounds. Martinez has decided the real party is at the circus, or... Le Cirkus. Here is a percussive fest of tribal boing toms, shakers and vocal howling building a busy polyrhythmic dance-off, simulating a colourful domed cave filled with clumsy parading clowns, gyrating gymnasts, acrobatics and all kinds of stunts and tricks.

Its tribal-funk and vocal murmuring acting as an offbeat Villalobos-type hook creates a devastating impact much as it did on his previous primal floor-killer "Momomowha." And, in its eleven building and shape-shifting minutes, "Le Cirkus" is the sort of marathon of fun and hi-jinx that we have come to expect from the man from Denmark lately.

B-side "Mundial" is a downbeat, warm-up piece for a deep tech-house session that relies on a single synth stab to sustain the low-pitched bassy grooves. It clarifies Martinez's disinterest with obvious melody, and his love of percussive timbres and hypnotic phrases looped into other phrases to form a single song. A mini-mix within a mix...www.residentadvisor.net

Hauschka - Snowflakes and Carwrecks EP

1. Ginsterweg
2. Eisblume
3. Wonder
4. Tanz
5. Kindelsberg
6. Hauberg
7. Tagtraum

Hauschka's third offering under the Fat Cat label comes in the form of new E.PSnowflakes and Car Wrecksand with it being nearly 40 minutes long what a generous offer it is, but as any ‘Sup reader knows, it’s all about the quality.

For those of you less familiar with the artist in question,Hauschka is a German-born pianist who specialises in composing and performing pieces on ‘prepared piano’, which involves adding materials to the inner workings of the instrument in order to alter its sound. Perhaps the most famous exponent of this technique is John Cage, who used to place screws, coins and rubber between piano strings, completely changing the timbre of the instrument. Inserting a metallic object between a string might produce a ringing more akin to a triangle, whereas using rubber produces a slapping noise. The crudest of explanations would be that a piano is transformed in to a makeshift one-man band, able to produce percussive sounds as well as harmonic ones.Hauschka clamps bits of felt or rubber between strings, wraps piano hammers in tin-foil and weaves guitar strings around the piano’s insides. Granted, it may look as if someone with a bag of hardware shopping has just fallen in to a piano, but I can assure you it’s a little more considered than that.

Snowflakes and Car Wrecks is a collection of leftovers from the sessions of its predecessorFerndorf, which was released in September and therefore Snowflakes… in many respects isn’t a giant leap forward sonically speaking, however there is more than enough to be of interest within this playfully exploratory E.P.

The album’s opener; Ginsterweg is a wonderfully atmospheric piece of Steve Reich minimalism, rocking gently between two chords with irregular swells of intensity. This track, like many on the album, sounds as if all the differing layers, melodies and themes are independently minded, all slightly out of time with one another, while still possessing a sense of synergy between them. If you’ll permit me a more flavourful description; it sounds like you’ve just stumbled in to the most gloriously synchronised clock maker’s factory.

Wonder exemplifies Hauschka's love of electronica, complete with shuffling dance-like rhythm, and a piano part that wouldn’t be out of place on DJ Shadow’s Entroducing album. Add in what sounds like a small Indonesian Gamelan orchestra working away and you’ve got one of the highlights of the E.P. In fact Snowflakes and Car Wrecks truly hits its stride about half way through. Track four - Tanz is a wonderfully industrious number, with cellos and piano dialoguing wonderfully with one another. This is Hauschka at his most playful, with delightful little rattles and slaps coming from the piano and an ending with (whisper it) pop chord changes.

What Hauschka does well is introduce you to a sound that is foreign yet vaguely familiar, leaving you with an other-worldly experience. At times it’s difficult to decipher chaos from form, but that’s what makes Snowflakes and Car Wrecks so exciting - one second you’re listening to sparse meandering cello melodies, the next you’re in the Far East with accompanying electro beats. If all this sounds like its verging on the mentally unstable, don’t worry, it fits together perfectly. The real achievement here is that Hauschka has managed to draw upon so many influences and make them sit together as a whole. Snowflakes and Car Wrecks is the exploration of a uniquely inquisitive mind, providing many playful twists and turns along the way, enveloping you in a whole new world which has everything from electronica to silver-foil piano hammers..http://www.supmag.com/

Andy Stott - Unknown Exception :Selected Tracks Vol.1

1. Fear Of Heights
2. Bad Landing
3. Handle With Care
4. Long Drive
5. Credit
6. Massacre
7. See In Me
8. Made Your Point
9. She’s Gone Wrong
10. Fine Metallic Dollar
11. Hostile
12. Replace