Sound Revolt - Reviews

MRI - Heroes

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:32:40 +0100

Label: Resopal Schallware
Release date: March 2010
Sounds like: house, techno
Rating: 8/10
Quote: ‘Heroes’ is a very good LP which could be excellent if MRI chose to shorten few of his productions in order to make them more home friendly.

Donnacha Costello - Before We Say Goodbye

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:58:23 +0100

Label: Poker Flat
Release date: March 15th, 2010
Sounds like: minimal house
Rating: 7/10
Quote: The full-length leaves Berlin and Dublin to create an atmosphere of its own, where sounds move around solid beats that, instead of trying to impose themselves, limit their role to solely give cohesion and harmony to the rest of the elements.

Agoria - Balance 016

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:31:21 +0100

Label: EQ Recordings
Release date: March 15th, 2010
Sounds like: house, tech house, electronica, funky
Rating: 8/10
Quote: If the first CD ended at ‘The Field’, we would have rated the album much better. Unfortunately, the mess in the second part of CD 1 and the only “good” CD 2 make us believe ‘Balance 016’ is not as brilliant as EQ’s last year’s outings.

Seth Troxler - Boogybytes Vol. 5

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:22:28 +0100

Label: Bpitch Control
Release date: February 22nd, 2010
Sounds like: minimal, deep house
Rating: 6/10
Quote: The move to draft in an outsider to mix the label’s series hasn’t paid off for Ellen Allien in this case, with Troxler seeming too anxious to conform to the established BPC sound than to imprint his own identity on the mix.

Ripperton - Niwa

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:48:35 +0100

Label: Green
Release date: February 1st, 2010
Sounds like: tech house, techno, downtempo, electronica
Rating: 7/10
Quote: 'Niwa' certainly won’t live up to everyone’s taste, but it must be admitted that it is a very personal, mature and noticeable debut.

VA - New Blood 010

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:34:20 +0100

Label: Med School
Release date: March 15th, 2010
Sounds like: drum & bass
Rating: 8/10
Quote: One advantageous aspect of ‘New Blood’ is that all tracks steer away from typical drum & bass convention, but the main positive is the high standard of music.