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TWR72

Lord knows DJs need TOOLS. And lord definitely knows that sometimes all a superclub needs to kick into full throttle mayhem is a perfect kick drum, a handful of claps, and some well-timed hiss. Anything more is unnecessary, and cramps the DJs ability to inject his own knob-wrangling and layering skills on top. All of the impact - none of the vulgar, desperate crap. None of it. So that's what we've got here: five high-grade minimal bangers, that let you, the DJ, shine.

Dutch duo TWR72 are the artists in question, dutifully delivering tracks that will make you better at your job. Emerging in 2010 with a sound Radio 1 dubbed 'Future Techno,' their first records got heavyweight support from Erol Alkan, Len Faki, Brodinski, Modeselektor, and even Tiga.

This is just the beginning for TWR72 on Turbo, as they have an ambitious release slated for late-summer. Stay tuned.

Harvard Bass

Gingy & Bordello live in the Boiler Room

Sei A live in the Boiler Room

Tiga in the Boiler Room

Borderline

Clouds

Twin Turbo kicks off 2013 with an EP of club-rocking house-jackers from Scottish prodigies Clouds.

Following a year that saw their critical stature soar and made fans of a growing legion of techno stars (Chris Liebing and Gary Beck both named "Consciousness" the top track of 2012), Clouds take a break from their maturation process to crank out a few knee-jerk tracks built for the masses, each crafted around a catchy hip-hop inflected vocal hook.

"Terrorcore" will scare the living sweat out of you with a deadly parade of monstrous toms and vocal sample that will force you to work through your cash-flow anxiety on the dancefloor. "Local Bubble" is the housiest, funkiest thing Clouds have ever done, a supremely playable record that will surely find a crossover audience. Finally, "HE_1523_0901", pumps the bass up with Clouds's signature distorted kickdrum sound, a minimal arrangement with more clever vocal cuts.

Twin Turbo - starting the new year with new bombs for a new generation of party people, some of whom are too young to remember when we invented high-energy dance music back in 2011.

Clouds

Pilo

TWIN TURBO 014 - PILO - UBSTRAKTION

Twin Turbo presents the debut release from Pilo, featuring three tracks to destroy whatever's left of 2012's dancefloors.

It's always a source of pride for the label to discover a new artist and shove him out onto the world stage to sink or swim into the playlists of all the huge names who pay rapt attention to everything we do. We were introduced to Pilo through Harvard Bass, who suggested his fellow Californian for remix duties on his own recent Twin Turbo release. Now, we're pleased to present Pilo's proper debut, the work of yet another huge young talent grinding it out for nu-techno supremacy.

"Ubstraktion (Jazz Yo Self Mix)" melds rave diva vox, an infectious siren hook, and high-BPM lysergic techno, leaving you wonder what the less jazzy mix could possibly sound like. Meanwhile, "Forte Inductance" strips away the nonsense to genuine "stripped-down, no-nonsense" levels, relying on a relentless kick, overdriven toms, and a melting MC vocal to get the job done. Finally, "Trippin" gets you trippin' so hard that the term "after-hours warehouse banger-monster" seems to lose all meaning, before gaining way too much meaning.

Twin Turbo - closing out the year with new discoveries, new digital bombs, and new definitions of peak-time dominance. We'll see you in 2013 with music that reflects our world's inevitable Mad Max, dancing-in-the-breadline reality.

Harvard Bass

  Twin Turbo coasts along the upper crust of fun with two new floor-devourers from Harvard Bass. Featuring a remix by PILO.

Straight outta San Diego, Harvard Bass has released music on Sound Pellegrino and Boysnoize Records, earned support from the likes of Tiga, Brodinski, and Zombie Nation, and teamed with Green Velvet on a recent collaboration for Relief. For his first Twin Turbo EP, this young producer and prolific remixer lives up to his name, providing a $40,000-a-year education in sub-wrecking and erudite low-end manipulation.

The vocal sample on "Erasers" coerces dancers to "DO IT RIGHT NOW", while the Schedule-I bass throb and strobe-emulating hi-hats leave them with no choice to reply "OK, NOW'S FINE". Meanwhile, "Chalk" is a dose of unbuckled techno belt-banging, what real DJs call a "result-obtainer," and the proof's in the puddles of drug-sweat, pal.

For the remix, we tabbed Harv-B's fellow Californian PILO, fresh off a release for UK label Bad-Life, and with an EP in the works for Turbo. His rework of "Chalk" licks the blackboard clean with manic warehouse music for warehouses that store the poison they intentionally inject into glowsticks.

 Twin Turbo - digital monuments etched in the face of Forever, forging an ageless catalog amid the omniscient cybercloud that will inevitably consume us all.

Zoo Brazil

TWIN TURBO 011 - ZOO BRAZIL - SINGLE OF THE YEAR Twin Turbo throws all modesty out the nightclub window with the latest bomb from Zoo Brazil, "Single of the Year". Featuring a remix by Zombie Nation. With his third release for Twin Turbo, Zoo Brazil unleashes a Carnal Carnaval of roller coaster buildups and insistent melodic lunacy. If you don't think this is the single of the year, then you're entitled to your dumb, wrong opinion and the reams of poetry you've probably written about Gotye. Don't worry: we respect you as much as we ever have. For the remix, we enlisted Munich superproducer Zombie Nation to class things up a bit, but he ended up turning in something even more bizarrely over-the-top and trippy, adding a dark, growling breakdown that makes you wonder whether THIS might actually be the single of the year. Well you keep right on wonderin', while the tunes keep right on thunderin'. Twin Turbo - telling you how it is this and every year since as far back as last year.