After an unusually long absence from blogging there is now a vague feeling of guilt clouding over above my head, of which I intend to remedy by publishing lots of music in quick succession.

So, the first installment shall be a this Now We Rave post, followed by a copious amount of techno. However that will come in due course.

Firstly, we the title track from Turbo's latest release: Gessafelstein - Variations. Nothing short of unadulterated Turbo Techno from start to finish, it's had plenty of support from several big names and it's fairly obvious why.

Gessafelstein - Variations


Released on Turbo on 9/11/2010.

 Next up is Boris D's most recent remix, and his second remix for Electro-Rock band Goose. It's got 'Erol Alkan' written all over it.

Goose - Words (Boris Dlugosch Remix)


Definitely check out his older remix of Bring It On.


Japanese Popstars return to form with their collaboration with the legendary Green Velvet. A a number of good remixes on the EP but the original keeps to the JapStars original sound and eclipses the rest by far.

Japanese Popstars - Let Go


Pick up the full EP on Beatport now.

Dada Life unleash another full on Electro House stomper, as much as the title suggests.

Dada Life - Unleash the Fucking Dada


A relatively new artist, Ukrainian Felix Luker, has recently come to my attention. In short, he produces dirt. That is all.

Felix Luker - Mechanical


And I'll leave you with a recent teaser from Turbo. And tease it does. The Proxy returns.

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We should thank Tiga and his team for many things regarding the recent Planet Turbo tour, but we reserve a special thanks for ZZafrika. After Lower State of Consciousness and The Worm, the project of Tiga and Zombie Nation, aka ZZT had been hard at work crafting something quite spectacular to follow their previous underground hits. I remember Tiga dropping an unfamiliar wild electro bomb during his set at Planet Turbo in London and it emerged soon after through the vast network of electro kids out there that this was to be ZZT's next release, named 'ZZafrika'. History has taught me not to get too rely on such information so prematurely, but as time went on, speculation became fact and everyone was on the edge of their seats waiting for a release date. Now it's finally here, in all it's glory and totally living up to it's thoroughly deserved hype. Right up there with some of 2010's finest, such as Boys Noize's Yeah and Bart B More's Brap!, SOTW presents the latest electro super-weapon... ZZafrika.

ZZT - ZZafrika

Imagine a planet where the only light source is multi-coloured lasers. Enough of them so that it seems like a dense forest of striking beams, with everyone dancing frenetically to the most cutting-edge electro-techno, commanded by the powerful king Tiga and among his disciples, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan, Zombie Nation and Proxy. That is what attending a Planet Turbo event is like. Tiga's Turbo Recordings label has now swept the globe in devastating style and to celebrate it's undoubted success they have released an EP showcasing some of the biggest tunes dropped during the tour. The pick of the bunch has to be Hey Today's Remix of Tiga's legendary You Gonna Want Me, which I fondly remember also being dropped by Erol at EXIT too. It's slightly Dutch, I'll confess but it's done in a ridiculously ravey way you can't help but love it.

Tiga - You Gonna Want Me (Hey Today! Remix)


You can pick up the full EP on Beatport now

Track from the very recent Kebacid - Party Hat EP, Turbo Records release number 081. Kebacid is a collaboration between Jori Hulkkonen & Jesper Dahlbäck, two of Turbo Records serial producers.

As we've come to expect from Turbo, this track is full on techno, building all the way through. Simple idea, well executed, as you would expect really.

No download for this one, the video should be enough to whet your aural appetite.

For some reason the video's been made private, which is a shame as the video is crazy, and the song's even better...

Here it is anyway...

Kebacid - Jack The Potato


But please do go buy it, it's worth it.