Apartment kickstarts 2014 with a Various Artists compilation focusing on Irish talent from all across the isle. Following on from their collaboration as Bande Apartment in 2013, Tr One and New Jackson once again appear together on Apartment. This time around New Jackson remixes Tr One’s bruising techno beast “Viceroy-9c” (The original of which appeared on the last Apartment release, a split 12” with Phantom Planet Outlaws), turning it into an emotive, acid-laced breakbeat gem. House duo Slowburn, coming off a year that included appearances on Lunar Disko, Appian Sounds and Grounded In Humanity deliver the off-kilter and immersive “Riders of the Sea”. Hints of the work of artists such as Drexciya and Kassem Mosse are combined with their own unique stylings to create an intoxicating, tripped out journey to the deepest recesses of the dancefloor. The Cyclist garnered huge praise last year with his “Bones in Motion” LP on Leaving Records/Stones Throw and Apartment is excited to deliver his first original material since then. His individual brand of over-driven electronics – “Tape Throb” – combines distortion with the most delicate of inflections and “Crax” surmises this approach perfectly, an uncommonly euphoric slice of wounded electronica. Last but by no means least is The Superior Inferior. After his debut release on Belfast’s One Electronica label went so far as to be licensed by Sven Vath to his Sound of the 14th Season compilation, he returns with the throbbing, rapturous “A Bit Much Confusion”. Wave and electro influences carry this bass heavy number towards it’s crescendo of skyscraping synths and skewered monopoly madness.
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NCW returns to the fold for Apartment’s 4th release. Pharoah And The Goose is a tale of 2 sides; 10 minute-plus tranced out jazz and techno explorations meeting somewhere in deepest space, most likely a little lost. Go forth and discover… More

Apartment’s 3rd release comes courtesy of acclaimed producer Lerosa. For this, his first release of 2012, he delivers 4 electro-based cuts, a rarely seen side to the man predominantly known for his house productions. The sparse and melancholic “Combat” starts off proceedings, before “Titanium”’s throbbing bass, combined with Mr. Rosa’s unique melodic sensibilities, increases the pace. On the B-side “Slavery” is a furious acid jam, constantly rising in energy over hectic percussion and a wall-shaking electro beat. Finishing on “Decisions”, the pace is reduced considerably while the acid stays intact; delivering the 12 inch’s only 4/4 kick for what is Lerosa’s most euphoric cut to date.

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Apartment Record’s 2nd release comes from Ireland’s analogue-obsessed soul assassins, Tr One. On the A-side, Drum Dance is a fusion of beatdown with a minimal techno aesthetic, creating a hypnotic journey through the duo’s machines. The B-side serves up 2 alternative takes. John Heckle’s debut remix takes a heaving, lo-fi approach to the original’s drums while layering it with wistful synths, before Juju & Jordash’s Dub version closes off proceedings in their inimitable style; expansive yet claustrophobic at the one time.
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Panther Veil is the debut release on Dublin based Apartment Records. Over the 3 tracks London producer NCW explores various avenues of house music in a stripped back, unique fashion. Opening with the slowburning, Detroit-tinged swing of Veil, the flip serves up the bent out of shape jack of My Braindead Acid, while Panther’s relentless late night groove rounds things off in a blurry haze.


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