DATA-TRACE 001
MORTAL COILS EP
Welcome to Data-Trace, live and direct from Manchester.
This debut EP highlights a range of artists experimenting in techno, electro, breakbeat and beyond. Our sound is born out of amongst many other things, some the city’s best parties in Electrode and Alien Radio. From Norfolk to London to Scarborough toStockholm our material already has already been extensively tested on sound systems up and down the country and now it’s time to release it.
The EP is a digital only release available from JUNO DOWNLOAD (Wav/FLAC) and DJ DOWNLOAD (MP3)
Below is some info including recent reviews. Audio clips are available at our MYSPACE
SMASHBACK-KILLER
The man has been on devastating form of late and this offering is no let up.
A fast-paced techno affair, ‘Killer’ draws on a love affair with dirty, bass heavy frequencies, and is a fine example of his widely acclaimed material found on his own imprint Bass Gun, as well Wide and Audio Aubergine. From Dave Clarke, to Warlock to Radioactive Man, everyone’s feelin’ this guy at the moment.
CYNTHIA STERN - KILLER (REMIX)
Up on remix duties is Input-Output honcho Cynthia Stern. This is someone else who’s really on top of his game right now, especially after a superb remix of Si Begg’s ‘My Style’. Here he completely rips up the original and spits it back, hooking you in right from the word go. Fusing an off-kilter sound with some heavy breakbeat, this is warped techno at its finest and is going to cause some damage. Believe.
TEUTONIC KABOOM - DER SCHPASS
This is all about the bass. A wall of low frequency’s finest, hits you nice and early and is married sublimely with snappy drum patterns operating somewhere between electro and 2-step. ‘Der Schpass’ is another track causing major damage where it matters most, heavy soundsystems and heavy parties.
TEUTONIC KABOOM - PEROXIDE ITCH
Carrying straight on from above Kaboom drops a second monster in ‘Peroxide Itch’. Concentrating on heavy bass and glitched-up rhythms, this is another testament to the girl’s production talent, a sound that already hails labels like Digital Distortions, Bass Gun and Wide as some of its many fans.
LIEF RYAN - PEROXIDE ITCH (REMIX)
Acquiring fans across the techno scene as a whole seems a near impossible adventure these days, but it’s something Growth label owner Lief Ryan has managed to pull off with effortless guile. His remix here only re-instate this as he injects the original with his own brand of dirty techno, jaw-dropping breakbeats and bass.
ENJOY.
MIXMAG MARCH 08
The Manchester electro-bass scene gathers strength with this download EP from Ed Smashback of Bass Gun Records and Charlotte Pearce aka Teutonic Kaboom. It blurs the linesbetween electro, breaks, wonky techno and dubstep even further, alaways aiming stright for the dancefloor.
Lief Ryan, Cynthia Stern, and Subhead's Jason leach all turn in tough remixes.
****
I-DJ FEBURARY 08
If you like your breaks with an aggressive techno twist, you shouldn’t miss out on this heavy duty EP from new Manchester imprint Data-Trace. Smashback’s ‘Killer’ carries a distinct Si Begg flavour (glitchy, growly and downright nasty), and should only be played to properly warmed up floors! Cynthia Stern dishes out the remix, but it’s even rougher, and falls into the techno bracket a lot more than it would in the breaks bracket. For an excursion into bass-fuelled booty badness, check Teutonic Kaboom – not for the faint hearted!
***
I-DJ JANURARY 08
A great debut from this new experimental label from Manchester, who it would appear have set a no holds barred music policy incorporating dirty underground electro & techno be it 4/4 or breaks driven.
5 tracks feature with the highlights including Cynthia Stern’s wicked remix of ‘Killer’ from Flashback, which is sludgy, bass heavy and will sound just awesome on a large soundsytem, and Leif Ryan’s remix of ‘Peroxide Itch’ from Teutonic Kaboom which again is dirty in the groove with fuck loads of bass and some great digital squeaks and bleeps. A label to keep an ear out for in 2008 without a doubt.
****
Further reviews can be found at HYPONIK and BRAP