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NARITA 011EP
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Four track compilation with Senor Frio, Eric Mcintyre, Arctic Hospital & Benjamin May. "Narita have been at the forefront of chunky sci-fi influenced techno for some time now, and this 12" shows they have still more tricks up their grubby sleeves. Senor Frio gets the party started with a cut which sums the label up perfectly -- dubby stabs, clipped but powerful beats and deep deep bass. Flip the record over though and you get the biggest surprise, a filtered housey number from Arctic Hospital who sidesteps his usual glacial styles in favour of a more obvious dancefloor stormer. And then for the more discerning clubbers among us, Benjamin May rounds up the wax with a gloriously deep and dubby cut for people in search of the inner German in all of us."
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NARITA 005EP
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"Three new bangers from the 'Terminal 1' hitman. Here Yard revisits three aspects of his still amazing 'Swaggle' from Narita3, the 'Terminal One' sampler, taking it places anyone close to some of the legendary early nineties parties will find right up their strasse. Tough techno for the headstrong, merciless aspects of the original are amped up and strapped to busting drums and some oscillating top end fallout. A tune designed to help you lose it. 'Bloody Mary' bears some relation to 'Bite The Bullet Baby,' again from those heady nineties halcyon days, but possessed of an all new dementia. 'Numba' considers a dubby fallout, and opts instead for a steady and satisfying thump. Not to forget the bouncing, fully deranged Adam Johnson mix, dedicated to Neal's Yard, a locale in Central London no doubt familiar to every hardened vinyl addict."
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NARITA 003EP
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"The opening track on this exceptionally good 4-tracker from Merck's offshoot label 'Narita' is one of those rare dancefloor destroyers that crops up every so often, and for our money not nearly often enough. 'Swaggle' obliterates everything in its path with a rampant nod to Detroit, breaks, hiccup vocals shredded through a meat grinder and a bassline shuffle that you just cannot mess with. At all. Trust us -- that's precisely the sh*t we're talking about, no argument, no messing, no competition! And that's just track one......phew. Anyway. This is by a long shot the finest release on the label to date."
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NARITA 002EP
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"'The Diligent Puzzle EP' is the second 12" by [a]pendics.shuffle aka Ken Gibson aka Eight Frozen Modules. All the tracks have been constructed and re-constructed by the man himself in beautiful Echo Park, California. From the outset, Ken adopts a measured, but suitably effects-driven, spaced out dubby techno approach. Tracks build from skeletal fragments of bit friendly percussive buzz, into a steadier mesh of melodic syllables and organic bass, pushing the beats straight to the dancefloor's head. Ken applies a refined template of micro-house adjustments, to the deep funk of all tracks on offer. The order of the day is heady, thoroughly dancefloor friendly techno: equally at home in smoked filled clubs or in the widescreen environment of outdoors parties. Rocking."
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