Various Artists
Music For The Radical Xenomaniac Vol. 2 (Hedonistic Highlights From The Lowlands 1990 - 1999)

REZ21twentyone is here and this time we venture back to the UK for a slice of top shelf progressive house. Jamm Records was responsible for a sleuth of underground sleeper hits during the early 90's with label owner Nick Woolfson contributing to the production process on quite a few of them. Alongside his studio partner Mark Shimmon they serve up a banging two tracker titled 'AmaZone' with two slightly different mixes for two different occasions. Hands in the air ? or deep & dubby ? The choice is yours.

Electro Break and Downtempo 2xLP by Daniel Anselmi. 10th label’s release.From the label SEQUALOG run by TC80.

The first VA release from Scottish rave Headset, showcasing unsung Scottish artists making sound system music in any tempo.LWS opens with a broken UK techno tool. Kamus follows with a halftime 90bpm techy stomper.On the B-side, Aggregate Culture go hardcore jungle rave. With Delahunt closing the EP with a unique, dubbed out 160bpm number.

Pointillist club rhythms and dense, porous dub clouds encircle the Wrecked Lightship as Laurie Osborne and Adam Winchester set sail for phantom islands once more. The nocturnal boatswains chart a course guided by pronounced percussive impulses, using physicality to navigate the looming atmospheric pressure that has become their signature style. Opening tracks ‘Arial’ and ‘Third Law’ speak to the roots of Osborne and Winchester’s respective work as Appleblim and Wedge, dealing in dancefloor abstractions where techno, electro and dubstep once stood, but there’s much more at play than simple genre tags could ever express. ‘Third Law’s electro-static interference calls back to Winchester’s work in Dot Product, while the twitchy urgency and gnarly bass echoes Osborne’s ALSO project with Second Storey. Wrecked Lightship is an anchorless concern, free to drift into experimental waters if the currents surge that way, and so ‘Kill Mirror’ and ‘Hydrotower’ head away from forthright structures to play around with sound design and full-frequency manipulation. It’s too kinetic and jagged to be considered ambient, even if it willfully shirks the dancefloor. But for every starboard swerve there’s a prevailing wind, and the likes of finely-tuned club weapon ‘Take It Back’ whip ahead with laser-eyed focus. Nailing their split interests between immediacy and the avant-garde to the mast, Wrecked Lightship deepen the reach of their project on their second album. Whatever shape a specific track might take, Oceans & Seas serves as a paean to the art of sonic manipulation and spatial processing.Written and produced by Adam Winchester and Laurence Osborne Artwork by Chloe GroveLayout by Takashi MakabeText by Oliver WarwickMastered and cut by Simon at The Exchange

Serotonin Records is back with a big release!JSelway - Millenium Sound Remixes by Radioactive Man, Transparent Sound, Sync 24 and by John Selway himself!Highly recommended!

Stepback Records next release sees the Moot Tapes and Made Magnetic boss Polytunnel making his debut for the Edinburgh based label. Polytunnel goes deep into electro made for dance floors.His style of melodic electro mixed with breakbeat influenced acid has seen his music gain acclaim from the likes of Mixmag, DJ Mag, Inverted Audio, XLR8R and supported by the late great Andrew Weatherall on his much-missed NTS show, Musics Not for Everyone. Previously released on labels including We’re Going Deep, Seventh Sign Recordings and Childsplay with support from the likes of Truncate, Dan Curtin, Placid, Vladimir Ivkovic, Marvel Dettmann, Ame and more.