Acid Techno

Dax J’s six-track ‘Reign Of Terror’ EP first came out on Electric Deluxe in 2016. This is its first repress, on his own Monnom Black label for the record’s tenth anniversary. It comes with new artwork, an A5 photo card and a sticker. The four full-length cuts are hard, raw...

Belgian techno stalwart Marco Bailey's 'Shade' arrives on Resilient Recordings with three remixes from names with serious history. Joey Beltram — the Queens producer behind some of early techno's defining records — reworks it, Lisbon veteran DJ Dextro turns in his version, and Matera's The Southern delivers a Detroit remix....

Arnaud Rebotini and Acid Washed team up on Skylax for the first chapter of a four-part project paying tribute to the roots and future of rave. ‘Redshifts to Blueshifts’ opens with a soulful Detroit-style journey that nods to Underground Resistance, and ‘99 Shakes’ is a more direct club assault. The...

Len Faki’s Hardspace series continues with four reworks, pressed on berry-pink vinyl, that push each track into heavy, propulsive club territory. DJ Sneak’s 2009 ‘Acido’ gets its jacking loop amplified, and Like A Tim’s warehouse cut ‘Rashness’ is tightened in the low end. On the B-side, Snuff Crew’s ‘Where’s The...

Stripped, high-contrast techno from 2021 — a title track holding the A-side on its own at the slower of the record's two speeds, then two faster pieces on the flip that push into harder, more minimal territory. Minor keys throughout and very little in the way of layering; the tension...

A 1994 rave record filtered twice over — Jerome Isma-Ae's vocal version of The O.T. Quartet original, then reworked by Charlotte de Witte into two mixes, one per side. The Trance Remix leans on the melodic build; the Rave Remix runs a shade faster and is blunter about the payoff....