Stefano Lotti & Luca Fabiani educate us…

The minimal techno sound championed through the latter part of the last decade by the likes of Steve Bug and Marco Carola is making somewhat of a resurgence across dance floors around the world. And Italian producers Stefano Lotti and Luca Fabiani are part of the new breed of minimal connoisseurs currently creating waves in […]

Robert Hood unveils new album

The next Nighttime World arrives in September on Music Man, inspired by the rapidly vanishing Detroit urban landscape. Whatever the concept, we can’t wait.

S_W_Z_K ‘S_W_Z_K’

Dark, sparse techno is rarely this good, though when Berlin superclub Tresor and Swayzak man David ‘Brun’ Brown got together it was always going to be heavy.

Items & Things announce first label compilation

Troy Pierce, Marc Houle, and Magda’s label will unveil its first compilation, Variables, on vinyl and digital in July with a mixed version slated for late June.

Ben Sims ‘Slow Motion (with Rob Hood, Skudge, Rolando rmxs)’

Skudge, Robert Hood, and Rolando all remix Ben Sims, and create this bumper package of techno. Mechanical funk, minimal, and mainroom rarely sound this good.

Marc Houle releases details of album on Items & Things

The former Minus man, who left to concentrate on the imprint he runs with Magda and Troy Pierce, releases ‘Undercover’ in March, but the details are here now.

Robert Hood ‘Omega Alive’

Detroit’s original minimal techno pioneer returns with a reworking of last year’s LP, Omega. James Ruskin provides a tasty remix, and the rest of the music is Robert Hood live and unedited, delivering more stripped toughness than many naked muscle men can handle.