Orlando Johnson
Turn The Music On

The Alias Sessions by MurcofMurcof, the primary project of producer Fernando Corona, returns to The Leaf Label for the first time in thirteen years with a mammoth and visionary double album, The Alias Sessions. This collection brings together all the elements incorporated into the project to date - meticulous sound design, ghostly samples, forceful beats, diaphanous atmosphere - but pushes the sound even further in terms of both abstraction and beauty. This is electronic music of exquisite tension and ecstatic release, moving from barely audible details to explosive peaks, much of it delivered by earth-moving bass.Murcof first emerged during an exciting period of electronic music, operating at its cutting edge. Debut album Martes appeared on Leaf in 2002, when alternative possibilities enabled by advancing technology were just starting to come into focus. By combining stark beats - minimal techno, microhouse and glitch were all entering their heyday - with carefully layered sampling drawn in part from modern classical music, Martes was compelling in its moment but also looked to the future. It refused classification, even as its parts had clear antecedents. It grooved, but wasn’t quite dance music; it experimented with tonality, but each track was memorable. And it sounded like no-one else.

MIAMI [EP] by Artistes Variés

A buoyant expedition into the abyssal depths of aesthetic shock-outs and scorched techno rhythms by E-Saggila on his latest release for Northern Electronics named Blaze. Treading lightly through a range of tempos and atmospheres, each track deftly leans into measured bouts of whiplash and recoil with affective consequence. Nothern Electronic going into the depths, but never forgets about the raw dancefloor energy!

Heavy rework of a classic + deep Dana Ruh dub!Do no harm, make them dance :-)