Articles by Asa Thomas

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  Tripeo

  Anipintiros

  PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2014

  Tripeo has been Dutch techno producer Darko Esser's recent out-there white label side project. Esser's productions under his own name have...

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  Foundry Day Six featuring Carl Craig and Box of Kittens

  99 Sudbury, Toronto ON, April 6

  PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2014

  Foundry rounded out their landmark series of events with another marathon Saturday night session and legend-status line-up. The concept rem...

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  Downliners Sekt

  Silent Ascent

  PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2014

  Though Barcelona's Downliners Sekt have been in operation for more than a decade, Silent Ascent (their first long player to get full a phys...

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  Tobias

  A Series of Shocks

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2014

  Tobias, the stripped down house moniker of scene stalwart Tobias Freund, is an important figure in the rotating cast at Berlin's Ostgut Ton...

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  Foundry Day Four featuring DJ Harvey, Invisible City and Members Only

  99 Sudbury, Toronto ON, March 22

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2014

  With stern black curtains adorning the walls, raised platforms lining the dance floor and no fewer than 6 disco balls perched elegantly in...

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  Foundry Day Two featuring Purity Ring, Shigeto, Blue Hawaii and Katie Stelmanis

  99 Sudbury, Toronto ON, March 15

  PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2014

  If Friday night's opening salvo of grooves and beats was a euphoric nod to the transnational nature of modern dance music, Saturday's lineu...

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  Various Artists

  10 Years of Phonica Records

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2014

  Phonica is a record store first and a label second, and with only nine releases to date, the focus of this compilation is undoubtedly on th...

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  Truncate

  Pressurize EP

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2014

  Augmenting the cold booming minimalism of modern European techno through a very American commitment to jacking rhythmic wizardry, Truncate...