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Rush Hour – RH-LTD 019

Rush Hour have found the Japanese artist Haruki Matsuo. Which is nice. „Side Step Test“ had me walking up to the DJ booth asking about it while head-nodding violently. Serious banger! Now I also took the time to listen to „P.O.P“ which is the B-side. And I’m glad the seven dwarves are finally making techno, even if it’s under a Japanese moniker. Go Japan.

(Apparently It’s been out since September. Where were my eyes…)

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A: Side Step Test
B: P.O.P.

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Traum – TRAUM V95

You may want to challenge me on my opinion, but 2008 has started out pretty slow. There haven’t really been any releases that I would be excited about, however this one gets quite close. True, it’s a little too much Innervisions. Still, the drum programming is great on “Sceada” (my favorite of the two, if I need to pick), and both tracks have the intrigue that most of the Ame copycats lack. Beatport release info even describes “Mantikor” as giving you the feeling of “dancing on a volcano”. I wouldn’t know anything about that, but kudos to whoever wrote the review – with this kind of imagination, who needs drugs anyway.

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A: Sceada
B: Mantikor

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Arearemote – AREA 001

I’m not even sure how I managed to miss this. Anyway, here it is, the track of the year 2007 as voted so by Resident Advisor.

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A: Mumbling Yeah

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