Boston based production duo and room-mates John Barera & Will Martin continue their journey into sculptural, storytelling House music, with their debut album on Dolly - ' Graceless'. The pair's work has found a wider audience since the success of 'Reality', which found its way into the hands of Berlin's Steffi, and acted as a central gear and in her 2013 Panorama 05 Mix. John Barera has been a firm disciple of the House and Techno world for the past 10 years, and after launching Supply Records in 2011 has brought an elegant, resoundingly universal mixture of underground club tracks to the fore. A fresh and fruitful partnership with close friend Will Martin grew out of the pair's rapidly growing studio, and the latest results can be found here over the 8 cool, classy and refined contemporary House tracks. More

John Barera & Will Martin delivering some straight up & effective no-nonsense house music on Dolly 18! Three powerful and euphoric contemporary club tracks with both that classic club feel and that esoteric Detroit touch, effectively combining the best of both worlds. Third Side on the other hand (the hardware techno formation consisting of Dolly labelboss Steffi & The Analogue Cops) is taking things into slightly deeper and darker techno territories with their driving and hypnotic remix of 'Milestones'... Great allround dj package that will stay in many bags for a long time.

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An ace double-header. Bad-minded, noisy, runaway jack from Mazzarino, Italy; percussive, gritty, stripped stompers from Mike ‘Brenda’ Davis. More

The first Supply showcase: four label-newcomers range with veteran authority from deep house to driving techno. The opener is a grooving house burner: an infectious loop and low-slung drums build triumphantly. Anders Hellberg drops in some acid, with a strident 909 beat stalking an open, melodic soundscape. Kicking off the flip, label co-owner JB teams up with Bostonian Paul Morse in an icy, tantalizing variation of elastic, swinging deep-house; before Stojche's Outward opens up an ending, its pounding beat laced with bitter-sweet Detroit strings.

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Ace, full-on techno, frosty and dreadful. Station is a ring-modulated grinder with slashing FX; Krone ups the tempo, percussion, menace. Reben is stomping, swinging, dubwise; Die Werke darker, unhinged, funked out. More

Another storming, ranging EP from the New Yorkers: heavy-duty machine funk for the dancefloor, charged and swinging with old-school Chicago vibes. The A-side house bobs from tearaway to discofied to rawly jaunty; the techno on the flip from dug-in and twisted to a more wide-open excursiveness. To start, the soulful rug-cutter Down runs a sublimated tribalism beneath lovely, dubwise kick drums and sultry female vocal; Heavy Skies is lo-fi funk, a stand-out; the bass and brilliant percussion-work of the title track crosses US garage with new UK styles (a little Joy O to its bottom end). Discreet Time meshes vintage Chicago drum programming with the filtered house of someone like I:Cube; and to close, Plateau, a widescreen, experimental bubblers, with reaching FX'd synths and shuffling snares and hi-hats... perhaps their best yet.

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Soren Jahan is a 23 year old Ithaca based producer known as half of B-Tracks and a founder member of Supply Records. On his debut LP as Rene Audiard he drops seven varied techno tracks. The productions all bear Audiard's trademark rough texture and stripped down aesthetic. Ranging between stark dubs, lo-fi house, upfront kraut-style techno to beautiful ambient soundscapes, this album is a strong entrance for the young artist. More