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Review: Long running US techno label Synewave here presents the debut release from young Portuguese producer Delko. There's a maturity on display in this release which seems to far outstrip his years, with his debut EP providing four tracks of dark, uncompromising techno which comes highly recommended. "Mode" is characterised by its purring synth pulses, slowly built up as new rhythmic elements are brought into the mix, whilst "Echo" is a more urgent affair, with pounding kicks contrasted with delicately bouncing droplets of sound. On the B-Side, the crisp 909 claps of "Echo" are accompanied by foggy loops and rough bass, and "Slum House" combines a bubbling bass arpeggio with searing tones and subtle granules of sound.

Review: Categorizing the work of Epi Centrum, AKA Polish producer Jerzy Przezdziecki, is tricky at the best of times. While ostensibly a techno producer, his tracks often eschew trends and plough their own distinctive furrow. "Raw" is a good example. Formidably cacophonous and blessed with all manner of loose, off-kilter elements - junkyard percussion, oddball electronics, jazz influences and a nagging bassline - it takes a standard 4/4 techno pulse and twists it into pleasingly eccentric new shapes. For those looking for more straightforward dancefloor thrills, the Function Remix bobs away attractively in a stripped-back acid techno vein, whike the Audio Injection Remix sounds like the sort of loopy, hypnotic fodder you'd expect to hear at Berghain at 11 o'clock on a Monday morning.

Review: Jurek Przezdziecki first appeared on Synewave back in 2014, and returned in 2017 alongside label boss Damon Wild for some appropriately immersive deep techno head twisters that fit right into the label's MO. On his debut album, the Polish producer best known as Epi Centrum presents his unfiltered vision for ranging, nagging techno crafted with delicacy to match its intensity. Try resisting the zippy refrains of "Blaming Others" or the looped up acid bleep-out "Association" - with a consistently tough sound palette and foreboding atmosphere, this is hardline machine music to get well and truly lost to.

Review: Ricardo Rodrigues hasn't been active as Industrialyzer for some years, but if there was ever an occasion to revisit the uncompromising techno alias, a release on Damon Wild's legendary Synewave label must surely be it. The Portuguese artist goes in on "Analog Planet" with fearsome intent, serving up that Robert Hood-flavoured mechanized, weaponised loop goodness that gets the business end of the night shaking the way it should. "Multiple Walls" is a funkier affair with a playful organ line, but then it's back to the darkside with the devilish "Orbit X", rounding out an EP of no-nonsense techno like momma used to make.

Review: Damon Wild dons his Mistaken Identity guise for the latest 12" on his resurgent Synewave label, and it finds the US techno maestro burrowing into the deeper realms of his sound to create a truly hypnotic kind of boss-level techno. "Mindset" is all low-end pulse that will feel incredible hitting your bones from a proper system, while "Varity" takes a lighter approach that focuses on the upper frequencies. "Scalene" gets lost in an endless loop with a soupcon of disco woven in, and "Backdoor" has a metallic, dubbed out central hook that sounds perfect reverberating over the stern, stripped back rhythms.

Review: Back in 1998, Damon Wild's Synewave was firing on all cylinders and could release records without leaning on the fame of the producers to shift stacks of wax. In the case of SW37, it could have been an even bigger record than it already was had people known back then it was Joey Beltram behind the tunes. It's a record of two distinct halves getting a welcome repress 20 years after the fact, with the A side jam belting you directly in the chops with its chunky square wave bass line and razor sharp beat programming. It's a looped up peak timer par excellence, whereas the B side takes a swerve towards the deep end in a truly mesmerising exploration of sub-aquatic techno.

Review: Veteran US techno producer Damon Wild revisits his 1996 classic "Avion" with this twelve inch of high calibre remixes just one of a number of releases celebrating one of the Synewave boss's most memorable productions. It's testament to Wild's talents that the gloriously dense percussion and spine shivering, arcing acid lines sound fresh despite the passage of 15 years. Berghain resident Marcel Dettmann hogs the A Side with a remix that continues the rich vein of production form shown on his recent Factory Reports for the Kontra imprint - all dense hypnotic rhythms and evil acid licks. The flipside duties are shared between 88UW and Echoplex with the former's slamming drive populated by atonal bleeps, which contrasts nicely with the latter's lighter, more melodic approach.

Review: After dropping the Cosmic Path album on Infrastructure last year, US techno veteran Damon Wild returns to Synewave with some further ruminations on the relationship between space and electronics. There's a plethora of starry-eyed sounds to latch onto on "Comet Finder," which launches with a shuddering rhythmic chassis and a galaxy of intertwining synth tones. "Shadows" takes things in a deeper, eerier direction, while "Other Places" drops back even further into a minimalist shaker laden with heavily reverbed acid blips. The "Muted Mix" of "Comet Finder" is an icy, beatless flip of the lead track perfect for sending an interstellar chill out of the speakers.

Review: The second installment of Damon Wild's Comet Finder series takes off from Synewave with another four perspectives on cosmically-inclined techno from the long serving US producer. "Death Dive" is an appropriate title for the edgy opening track, which keeps the rhythm section submerged and lets the bleeps do the talking. "Black Lake" heads into more experimental territory, using a crooked groove as a vessel for all kinds of wobbling frequencies picked up like errant microwaves fired across the solar system. "Moonraker" maintains the ominous atmosphere while plunging into a dense, rippling bed of blips and synth wriggles, and then "Radars" rounds the set off with a linear trip through space dust of the highest order.

Review: Damon Wild's Synewave label is still going strong, plunging ever further into the hinterland of looped up techno and dragging your consciousness with it. On this new release Wild is pinging bleeps around the sequencer grid through the course of "Timelapse", and highly immersive it is too. The "Timemachine dub" of the track is even more seductive with its Sleeparchive-style synth oddities and sparse arrangement. Function comes on board for an un-easier remix of "Timelapse" that veers towards the full-blown paranoid, and then Postscriptum drops a killer version to finish the EP off, all jagged off beat kicks and heavy textural swells.

Review: It's been a while, but Damon Wild's Synewave label is back in action to continue more than 20 years of service to the techno game, and this collaborative release with Jurek Przezdziecki shows that both label and artists are on searing form. Of the original tracks on offer, "Clutch" presents a slightly more subtle approach with its low frequency acid thrum steadily building in intensity compared to the upfront jackhammer intensity of "Snatch". Cisco Ferreira gets invited to do a remix of "Clutch" as The Advent, and makes it into a deep, cyclical stomper, and then Gotshell ramps up the noise for an even tougher version of the track.