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Class of 88 was originally published by Virgin in 1998 and sold thousands of units. Since then second-hand copies have been selling for up to £135 on E-Bay and £229 on Amazon.
Funny that I missed this because I really liked the book and tried to find it a couple of times for friends’ birthday’s and so on. So the writer has decided to start selling it again through Cafepress. He added some stories apparently about drug use, that were a bit to controversial for Virgin.

Class of 88 - The True Acid House Experience

This weekend I finally got my hands on Careful Digit; the full length album by Eric Nouhan and Dimitri. It took no less then 16 years for this album to be released… All props for Marnix from Loveland for the energy he has put into getting this done.

Go Magazine’s review talks a bit on how nostalgic all this is and how old-fashioned the production sounds. I think it is actually a masterpiece. Almost a genre on its own with unforgettable tracks like Given Flower’s “4 U” that grabs you by the throat and drags you into a whirlwind of ever faster and faster and faster melodic beats. The complete circus of Alice D. in Wonderland’s “Time Problem”; subtle tinklebell sounds that end up in a banging techno track.

Admittedly not everything is that good, but it is great to finally have a nice and good sounding overview of Nouhan’s work.

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Since Analord 10 just hit the Australian shores and 8 also popped up I’ll give a definite overview of the series. As an EP, 9 takes the cake: 4 unique acid tracks as only AFX could have made them, no retro, fast paced hyper-active stuff. 11 contains perhaps the most ingenious work in the series, with two synth-laden monsters and some IDM dwelling.

Other stand-out tracks in the series were Photonacid on 2, very melancholic synth-pop / house crossover, and Reuniun2 on 5, with a strange combination of piano-like sounds, synths and acid lines over a nervous beat. The EP’s as a whole did not measure op to 9 an 11 though, 2 being too melancholic and too monotonuous and 5 lacking serious progress in the tracks. 8 is also a lovely part, more ambient but not as heavy as most of the others, however for me it lacked substance.

The rest of the EP’s did not measure up in my opinion, most of them containing either replacable “analord” style tracks or directionless fiddling, with each of them containing several hardly interesting tracks. 10 Would make a nice clock though.

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A1 Make This Party Live
B1 Shake Your Body
B2 Let Your Body Rock

After three frustrated funk releases in straight up electro style this one brings us three booty electro tracks produced by D.I.E. for a change. Excellent dancefloor material, but also great for home listening as the tracks all got more melodic elements than the typical booty record.

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A Hills Of Honolulu
B The Rising

After a few months of airplay on the CBS this new Alden Tyrell Record had finally been released on Viewlexx. Like always Viewlexx brings us a fresh perspective on early 80’s electronic music.

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The first time I heard of Reggie Dokes when I was sitting in the car of a UR soldier and stood on a demo CD in front of my seat. It was a shady Detroit compilation including all kinds of Detroit House producers, plus an enormous grindy Reggie Dokes track, a bit reminiscence to The Oliverwho Project’s first two twelves. And with grindy I mean, like you’re listening to adusty and yet undiscovered ol’ Trax recording (think of Theo Parrish’s release “China trax” by Leron Carson).
Here’s the deal… Reggie Dokes has a label called Psychostasia, which is relativily new to most of us, and released a real nice sampler feat. fresh Detroit woman-on-wax DJ Genesis. But out now is his stunning deep Detroit House CD album “The Afromation” backed by a dose of Mo’ Soul and African percussion, which is essential to all true House fans.
For those who don’t like CD’s or don’t have a CD player at all, new twelve is out called The Kemetic EP”. Don’t you miss it!

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The label JTH Records Stands for “Jackin’ The House”. And that is just what they do.

They released two lovely compilation albums with some of the finest early house releases. One of the nice things about it is that the tracks have been remastered and sound super clear and crisp. According to one reviewer even better then the originals. To me it seems also like some of the tracks sound better then I have ever heard them before.

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This record just came in…
Todd Osborne is a rising talent from the Detroit area. Just celebrated his birthday party in a local neighborhood bar and now back on Spectral Sounds, the little brother of the ‘white trash’ Ghostly Intl label of Sammy Valenti.
The twelve inch includes remixes by Shake aka Anthony Shakir (Frictional), Matthew Dear (+8, Perlon), Hieroglyphic Being and TNT aka Todd Osborne & Tadd Mullinix…

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A Automatic
B Manufactured Shit

Bought a brand new electro record, and it’s not even from the clone camp, very unusual for me these days! Produced by Wayward Soul & Buckfunk 3000, this is a real breath of fresh air in the electro scene in my opinion.

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A Untitled
B1 Untitled
B2 Untitled

At last I found the time and the money to buy some new shit again. So as a preview to the live set at Awakenings here’s a review of Hardcell’s latest release.

The A side brings a driving techno track for the warehouses. Unlike most techno tracks brought out lately it’s not just pounding beats and irritating noises, but a fast paced techno tracks with great buildups and massive climaxes freely flowing into eachother. And the pounding beats as well, what more can you ask for?

The B-side holds two more techno tracks but a bit more on the detroit side, without losing the scandinavian touch. The first seems a bit slower than the others with a steady pace and no real climaxes, but Hardcell keeps it interesting none the less. The second one sounds a little harder, like the A side, but is not so minimal nor so aggresive. Actually it feels quite light, pretty unusual for such a firm techno track.

All in all Hardcell managed to deliver yet another highlight in contemporary techno, sticking out way above the norm for scandinavian techno these days.