The first release of this new label is a very good surprise. It is in a deep house style far away from filtered effects that took place in many productions since "Daft Punk". Michel Bauman is close to artists such Derrick Carter, Nick Holder ou Moodyman (yes, once again !) on this high quality record...
Paton, 07/11/2000

One more time, let's take a Swiss label, Speaker Attack, and a Slovenian producer, Ales Cacovic aka Alenia. And of course, like his compatriots Umek and Valentino Kanzyani, Alenia made a good EP dedicated to the dancefloor ! After some releases on Audio, Touchtone and Kial labels, he will soon appear on Dave Angel's label : Rotation...
Ludo, 06/11/2000      

A five tracks e.p, overminded and hypnotising, close to Hawtin minimalism experiments ! After the successful collaboration with Bjorn Svin on Simple 10, brilliant Christian Bloch goes harder alone. Respect !
www.holzplatten.de
Nexus 6, 05/11/2000

This 14th release of the Swiss label Phont Music is done by Umek, one of the world leading techno producer. As usual, the sound quality is perfect and all the four tracks are really efficient. Don't miss the side A : the first track has a sound remembering Dave Clarke and the second one is a dancefloor killer with its great break !!
Phont webpage
Ludo, 04/11/2000      

Some months ago, a competition started on Laurent Garnier official website : sounds coming from the "Greed" track were available for download. People were asked to make their own remix and it was very successful : F-Communications label received about 100 tracks from almost every part of the universe !! 21 of them were selected and put on the website, and 9 have been released on this record. These high quality house, techno or electro tracks were done by various unknown artists but also by The Hacker and Fabrice Lig.
This competition was a very good idea and we're waiting for the next one !!
www.laurentgarnier.com     www.fcom.fr
Maldo, 03/11/2000

Forcetracks, house division of Force-Inc, is releasing great tunes made by new talents, check it ! Three deep house tracks, Dub taylor mix up groovy techno with fine jazz note. Cool, soulful...dancefloor ! Visit their website, most of the releases are available in Realaudio.
www.force-inc.com
Chaton, 02/11/2000

This 8th records of the Swiss label Superbra is a great tech-house demonstration ! This four tracks EP was done by Valentino Kanzyani, co-owner of the Recycled Loops label (with his friend Umek !). Pay attention to this artist coming from Slovenia, he's currently releasing various tracks on many labels like Primate, In-Tec, Primevil, etc...
Ludo, 01/11/2000      

The three girls from COS (the voice on "this is for you" by dj Hell) + Potuznik (Cheap) + Caretta (Gigolo) = Chix-52 ! The electro Dreamteam deconstructs B52's hits, futuristic and wicked pop made in Munich. Potuznik's hysteric rhythm combined with COS's punk voices becomes an explosive tune.
www.chicksonspeed.com
Chaton, 31/10/2000

"Owen", "Beckham", "Shearer", or "Scholes"... Tracks with soccers names ! On this second release on Dusseldorf finest techno label, new talent Solvent delivers a hit and increases the score ! A hard and groovy four tracks e.p to consider the Real Holzplatten sound ! More info soon on their website...
www.holzplatten.de
Nexus 6, 30/10/2000

The hype is on classics 80's today, rock on the dancefloor ! Two house longplayer (police sample) boosted by original lyrics. A fresh bootleg , dedicated to the warm-up...
www.fuckcopyright.com (private joke)
Chaton, 29/10/2000

A new underground project from wellknown producer Jay Denham ! After his first successful release on Holzplatten 39, Black Nation's leader strikes back with a 3 cuts e.p focused on minimal and dark-tribal techno. A trip from Kalamazoo to industrial places ! Download this masterpiece on Holzplatten website...
www.holzplatten.de     www.black-nation.com
Nexus 6, 28/10/2000

It's difficult to question his talent ! Hard-techno master Andreas Kremer comes back on Marc Gottling's young techno label. A unique four tracks e.p to move your body and saturate your ears (or to move your ears and saturate your body, ah, ah !). No pity ! A must ! Check out A. Crash future releases on Contrast 14 and Energy Industries.
www.tinnitus-tontraeger.de
Nexus 6, 27/10/2000