PATHFINDER is the second single by Urban Jedi. On this download only release Mike presents two new tunes. The main one is a mix electronic sounds, harpsichord arpeggios, long synth sweeps and 4/4 syncopated hard beats. Sounding melancholic and cinematic this instrumental track has a deep atmosphere good for a modern version of Blade Runner. "Extraterrestrial discjockey" mix long synth pads, upbeat beats which sounds like a train, pulsing synth sounds and few female vocal samples ("Can you imagine an extraterrestrial discjockey, like listening to radio...?" [I didn't understand the last words]). Both tracks have saturated sounds which give to the whole mix a dreamy sensation. Nice one! Exclusively available here http://www.junodownload.com/products/pathfinder/1640473-02/?ref=dlk

An Uban Jedi is a skilled person who master the art of surviving into big cities. I don't know if Mike Watson is one of them, but he picked up this moniker for producing his own music. Hailing from Co Durham in the UK, he started buying Old school Electro in 84 when he started breakdancing, and by the age of 17 he started playing Miami bass, Detroit electro and Hip Hop. He played at various free parties and gigs in Europe and make guest appearances on GFR playing old school and nu school electro. DAYBREAKERS is his first release and contains two mid tempo songs: "Daybreakers" and "Rogue robots". Both the tracks sound epic and cinematic thanks to a blend of robotic rhythms and anxious atmospheres. They mix electronica and a bit of 80s industrial influences (like a modern mix of early Human League and Cabaret Voltaire). A very nice debut available exclusively here http://www.junodownload.com/products/daybreakers/1611692-02/?ref=dlk

The ghostly darkness evoked by the fourth release of the White Rose Transmission, a project where the glittering creative wit and whimsical poetry by Carlo Von Putten (member of Dead Guitars) and Adrian Borland, the late lamented soul of The Sound whose warm shadow's still casted onto this band's music, on the occasion supported by the musical skills by ex-Clan of Xymox lyricist Frank Weyzig and Rob Keijzer, is able to haunt listener's ear just like a web crafted by an expert spider. Sad acoustic rock ballads whose firing melodic lines are augmented and fed by melancholic feelings and lofty sentiments, emerging from lyrics, which even if don't really reach the peaks and the spiritual highlands discovered by Adrian, sound fully inspired and sometimes look like Adrian's thoughts and dialogues between his soul and the spider biting his mind since the introductory Love or just Loveless ('¦words like 'This everlasting fire/Came down with you my friend/I saw the lights of heaven/Before I saw the end ' sound like a grateful farewell to all the musicians, artists and common people who had get in touch with Adrian's soul'¦) and Wildest Horse ' maybe the best song of this album together with the moving Glittering Green. That's the reason why even the circumstance that the velvety Carlo's voice seems wallowing in pain and depression and the fact that sometimes lyrics insist considerably on some clichés of the genre makes sense and looks like a sort of reunion with Adrian's soul. Intense guitar lines are enriched by piano touches and backing vocals, both of them being elements highlighting the pathos of the whole album and I can easily imagine Adrian's nodding at these guys when he magically reappears in Foreign Land, an edited and re-arranged version of Love Is Such A Foreign Land, a track issued on Adrian's last somewhat prophetical album The Last Days Of The Rain Machine. It's like he lives again'¦

Released in November 2009, "In between" is the debut album by Baxter. It was released by Mullet Records and you know that Justin loves remixes, so it was the right moment to release an E.P. with reworked versions of tracks coming from that release. On IN BETWEEN REMIXED we have seven songs remixed by artists coming from the label's roster which give their personal touch to the original tunes. Tad Willy is the first and he took "Somewhere Else" and enhanced its electro funky spirit with 4/4 beats, syncopated bass lines and cool synth bouncing leads. Justin/Casio Social Club, picked up "Going Soon" and focused the remix on 4/4 dancey rhythms and electrofunk bass lines and synth chords. Sare Havlicek is next with "Approval" and it sounds dance, smooth and perfect for an 80s party. Estate remixed the main track and made of it a new wave pop tune, as it was an A Flock Of Seagulls hit. Chaz Bronz focused his remix of "Insider" on lounge atmospheres in balance from house and electro. ODahl remixed "Overlap" and now it sounds dance, pop and bouncy. Nuvo Rich closes the release with "Sleeping In The Green World", a song in balace from 70s electronica and 80s disco. If funkadelic electro dance is your thing, this release will warm your dancefloor.

Dompteur Mooner did it again! Three years after the latest chapter of the ELASTE series he found some other gems of cosmic disco influenced by pop and funk. He found some Italian mix-tapes from the early 1980s (especially those recorded by Beppe Loda and Daniele Baldelli) and packed the album with fourteen tracks that finally would make us proud to be Italian because at that time italo disco ruled the dance floors (at least we found something to be proud of even if unfortunately we always have to refer to our past). The album opens with the funky disco of Queen Samantha's "Take A Chance" (Dompteur Mooner Edit) just to give us the first surprise with Eddy Trauba & M M Greco "Maccaroni Radio', an upbeat tune that recalled me the early new wave electronic of Alexander Robotnick stuff mixed with dance. Moebius with "Urth' mix spacey sounds with funky bass lines while the following Riccardo Cioni & D.J.F.T. Band bring "Fog', a track perfect for a John Carpenter movie (and you know for sure that he did a movie titled "The fog"). Tracks like this influenced Steve Moore, Antoni Maiovvi and Gatekeeper (people that I suggest you to check). Pop wave is back with Nacht Und Nebel's "Beats Of Love" and it gets a bit more experimental with Tabu's "Allein", a song perfect for Lene Lovich. Great electronic sounds are in with Conrad Und Gregor Schnitzler "The Shark Eats Ice" (Conrad and his son Gregor recorded also an album together titled "Conrad & Sohn" and Gregor collaborated to different records of his dad). Mythos' "Powerslide", take us to the center of space disco with moog sweeps and 70s guitar solos, while Pollyester with "Beuys Boys" with slapped bass guitar and choruses bring us back to memories of 70s disco but adding to it some boost. The Deep Fix with "Time Centre" are here with a robotic song based on organ layers overlaps and filtered drum sounds. Die Gesunden's "Galaxy" mix synth sweeps and upfront delirious vocal performances (a sort of disco wave version of Johnny Rotten). Phantom Band "Neon Man' (Dompteur Mooner Edit) bring back space disco sounds mixed with new wave guitars where a recitative voice guide you through the mysterious atmosphere of the "Neon man with the moonlight tan". The Pool with "Jamaica Running" mix tribal rhythms and basic monophonic synth lines while Key Of Dreams remix Toto's "Africa" giving to it vocoder robotic vocals keeping its characteristic keyboard chords. It sounds like a stripped to the bone version of it with proper singing vocals on its later part. This is it... and if you didn't already checked this serie, I suggest you to do so immediately!