Crowdspacer Electronic & Dance 15 Artikel

The Brooklyn duo of Bryce Hackford and Joakim teamed up again, this time as Joyce, 2 years after their debut as Jhack.A two track 12” featuring a thumping and heady psychedelic deep house groove, in a classic Prescription zone, on the A-side (“Bubbles”). On the B-side, “Die Siesta” is a tribal ode to the Balearic art of napping, a moody live percussion improvisation jumping down the bpm and floating on filtered piano chords.

3 years ago, Superpitcher made this mesmerizing remix of Joakim's cover of Neil Young's On The Beach. The buzz was instant, with DJs from Dixon to Tim Sweeney, DJ Tennis to Mike Simonetti asking us for the files of this extended deep techno cut. 3 years later we're finally releasing it as a joint Crowdspacer / Hippie Dance release with an additional 20min long (!!) incredible ambient mix.

New 4 tracker from Cray76 (Joakim's evil Techno twilight twin). More heat from - NYC based label, CROWDSPACER.

This is the first 12 inch from Luke Jenner’s first solo project since his infamous New York band The Rapture split up. Very often first releases are like a statement. Both sides of this 12 represent a side of what Meditation Tunnel is about : epic and melodic on Dreamsequence, psychedelic and hypnotic on Sunrise. Mixed by Joakim, whom Luke shares a studio with in Brooklyn.

Jimi hitting the Soundtrack section for this one....

We don’t have much info to give about Vicram, partly because the artist doesn’t want us to communicate the few things we know. But this is his first EP. It’s super raw - not necessarily rough. Raw like a piece of sushi, an unpolished unvarnished beautiful piece of wood, raw like those bare drum machines and simple acid lines. Almost naive, like those early 90s IDM-techno record we cherish but with a very different angle. As usual, we liked Vicram because we don’t really understand how he makes his music.

This 4th installment of the Jimi Bazzouka edits is dedicated to Japan and a guy called Ryuichi to be more specific.

"We obviously receive a lot of demos at Crowdspacer, and we can't listen to them all, one detail has to catch our attention. It can be how you present yourself, a weird artwork, or like here, a name, Aqua Matrix. I wanted to check what Aqua Matrix was about. And what a surprise to hear such amazingly produced deep techno that brought me back to my love for mid 90s Detroit techno, Carl Craig's “More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art”, Kenny Larkin's “Dark Comedy”. This is Aqua Matrix' first EP. He's from Portugal and I can't wait to hear what he comes up with next."

Cray76, Joakim's dance project, is back with a 2-track EP.

A new collaboration project on Crowdspacer. Bryce Hackford, part of one of the most daring DJ crew in NYC (Deep Trouble), true purveyor of a certain New York club culture legacy (think Arthur Russell) and author of 2 acclaimed albums, came to Joakim's studio and after a few hours of live synth and drum machine jamming, JHACK was born. I would describe this as 'psychedelic voodoo house music'. But it's up to you really.

Dirty analog techno from French boss; Crackboy Trevor Jackson: ""Brilliant! Crackboy (and all his dirty aliases) never dissapoints".

For those who don't know, Cray76 is Joakim's alias under the Crowdspacer umbrella. A playground to explore his love of house and techno. After the huge Servant and Master (released last year), Joakim's goes epic with Burning Inside, a deep and intense tune that turns wild mid-way through the track with one of the most massive lead/bassline we've heard in a long time. Some will find this reminescent of his hit remix of Camino Del Sol. There's also a stripped down late night version that focuses on the hypnotic modular sequences. On the flip side, Slex brings together Industrial music, Techno and Terry Riley (??) for a unique dancefloor psychedelic trip.

New comer on Crowdspacer from Japan, Keita Sano already released a few tracks on the amazing Mr Saturday Night label. For Crowdspacer, he came up with super twisted dirty techno. Kung Fu Dog is like Bruce Lee making beats on cassette tape. Red Clay is like atomic power waves. And One Punch is like Godzilla stepping on your toe. Not for the faint hearted.