What’s happened here is that New York’s esteemed Death From Above have a subsidiary label called Death From Abroad who were so smitten by the output of Berlin’s Supersoul label that they roped together highlights of its two years existence for their fanbase. Now it’s available on Supersoul over two CDs presenting highlights which have appeared in that time on vinyl and digital. It’s a towering selection which illustrates Xaver Naudascher’s label manifesto to translate elements from classic strains like Detroit techno, Chicago house, electro, krautrock and Italo into modern dancefloor demolishers shot with the perpetrators’ own passions and realised with assistance from technological developments. Names include Mogg & Naudascher [with four instalments of ‘Moon Unit’ ranging from Basic Channel techno to electro-boogie space-throbbings], Walter Jones, Strangelets, Plastique de Reve, Maxx Branslokker, Skatebard and Xaver himself with the deep floation house of ‘Lost’. Brilliant stuff: the spiritual chain continues…
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: KRIS NEEDS