Dub Techno

Echospace - Liumin (Modern Love)

Monday, June 14th, 2010 | Sounds | 2 Comments

In my interview with Stephen Hitchell last year, he mentioned that he, along with Rod Modell, was finishing up the next Echospace album. The new album, ‘Liumin’, due out later this month is certainly worth the wait. In the three years since Echospace’s excellent debut ‘The Coldest Season’, both Rod Modell and Stephen Hitchell have been busy releasing solo works, building their label and heavily touring, something that evidently has played a big part in the creative process of the new album. Although ‘Liumin’ has all of the signature spacious dubbed-out sounds associated with Echospace, it is a much different affair than ‘The Coldest Season’. Whereas ‘The Coldest Season’ was the product of the bleak midwest winter, ‘Liumin’ is the product of Echospace’s travels around the world - field recordings from Japan run throughout the album. Aside from the first and last ambient tracks, it’s a much more of an upbeat affair with a distinct live feel to it, in fact many of the tracks have been taken from their live shows. Like everything that comes from the Echospace camp, ‘Liumin’ will not disappoint.

Tags: Dub techno, Echospace, Stephen Hitchell, Techno

JGM 58 - Dave Siska

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 | Podcast | 5 Comments

Massive guest mix from Sonic Sunset’s Dave Siska, recorded live at 222 Hyde earlier this year.

Artist - Track (Label)

1. Rod Modell - Space Age Mythology (Echocord) Info
2. Model 500 - Starlight (echospace detroit) Info
3. Motor - 7 (Audio.nl) Info
4. Shackleton - Death Is Not Final (Skull Disco) Info
5. Scuba - Speak (NakedLunch) Info
6. Resilent - 1.1 (Chain Reaction) Info
7. Quadrant - Infinition (Planet E) Info
8. DJ Pete - Latifah (Counterbalance) Info
9. Shed - Sweep Dreams (Ostgut Ton) Info
10. Helical Scan - Index I (Chain Reaction) Info
11. Agent Cooper vs. Thee Come Organization - Untitled (LL) Info
12. James Ruskin - Below (Blueprint) Info
13. 7th Plain - Pearl (Volume) Info
14. Pub - Summer (Vertical Form) Info
15. Monolake - Invisible (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music) Info
16. Scuba - From Within (Hotflush) Info
17. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (Hotflush) Info
18. CJ Bolland - Neural Paradox (R&S) Info
19. Millie - Path To Hell (Daphne) Info
20. Convextion - Solum Ferrum (Down Low) Info
21. Exos - Orangeblue (Statik Entertainment) Info
22. Baby Ford - Monolense (Ifach) Info
23. Dark Comedy - Solace (Elypsia) Info
24. Ben Klock - Gold Rush (Ostgut Ton) Info
25. Rene Lowe & Paul St. Hilaire - Faith (False Tuned) Info
26. Electric Birds - Frames (inc.us) Info
27. Pangaea - You & I (Hessle Audio) Info
28. Gez Varley - Le Soleil (Force Inc.) Info
29. Basic Channel - Octagon (Basic Channel) Info
30. 2562 - Enforcers (Tectonic) Info

Direct download: Just_Good_Music_4_15_10_-_Dave_Siska.mp3

Tags: Detroit techno, Dub step, Dub techno, Guest mix

JGM 55 - Face It

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 | Podcast | No Comments

Artist - Track (Label)

1. Master C&J - Face It (Trax) Info

2. The Lower Eastside Pipes - Disorganized Corruption (Sacred Rhythm) Info

3. Ben Klock - OK (Ostgut Ton) Info

4. Ron Trent - Journeyn2u (Future Vision) Info

5. Black Coffee - Turn Me On (Gogo) Info

6. Missing Linkx - Who To Call (Philpot) Info

7. Fabrizio Ortella - Singtho (Deeply Rooted) Info

8. Satoshi Tomiie - Tears (FFRR) Info

9. Taho - Energy Fields (Delsin) Info

10. Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted (Strictly Rhythm) Info

11. Peven Everett - I Can’t Believe I Loved Her (Nite Grooves) Info

12. Roots Orchestra - Kalabuta (Unrestricted Access) Info

13. Adonis - No Way Back (Trax) Info

Direct download: Just_Good_Music_1/29/10_-_Face_It.mp3

Tags: Chicago House, Deep House, Dub techno, New York house, Shelter

JGM 47 - Computer Incantations For World Peace

Friday, June 19th, 2009 | Podcast | No Comments

Artist - Track (Label)

1. Mark Pritchard - ? (Ho Hum) Info

2. Mikki Afflick - Mating Call (Soul Sun Soul Music) Info

3. Reggie Dokes - Let Me Go (Offering) Info

4. Luke Hess - Evidence Everywhere (Echocord) Info

5. Damien Schwartz - Track 7 (Net 28) Info

6. Kerri Chandler - Track 1 (Max Trax) Info

7. Fabio Genito - Secret Recipe (Vega) Info

8. Kentaro Iwaki - Kinuta (Mule Musiq) Info

9. Scott Grooves - Moog Sensation (From The Studio Of…) Info

10. Karizma - 33rd Street Anthem (Defected) Info

11. Jean-Luc Ponty - Computer Incantations For World Peace (Atlantic) Info

Direct download: Computer Incantations For World Peace.mp3

Tags: Deep House, Detroit house, Dub techno, New York house

Intrusion - The Seduction of Silence (Echospace)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 | Sounds | 3 Comments

According to Wikipedia, in geology, an intrusion is a body of igneous rock that has crystallized from molten magma below the surface of the earth. A well-known example of an igneous intrusion is Devil’s Tower, in Wyoming, made famous in the 1977 film “Close Encounters of The Third Kind” - the place where the aliens make contact with humans. The origins behind the name Intrusion can’t be discounted on echoey, cavernous musical realms of “The Seduction Of Silence,” the new full-length Intrusion project by Stephen Hitchell.

One half of the Detroit-based dub techno duo — and label — Echospace (alongside founder Rod Modell), Hitchell’s Intrusion project doesn’t make a big leap away from the deep, spacey dub techno associated with the Echospace imprint and its most high profile album, Echospace’s “The Coldest Season” (2007), characterized by long, milky and expansive tracks. Read more and listen…..