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Since the official release of ellen allien’s album “sool”, everybody knows the catchy hookline of the track “elphine”. visitors with regular attendance on the bpitch control homepage couldn’t miss it. with catalogue number bpc181 “elphine” is now available as 12”. bpitch control artists zander vt and the american troy pierce purify this track with their special remixes. three big names in the business.
a1: elphine
as a constant part of various radio and dj playlists worldwide, “elphine” is creeping into your subconsciousness in a frisky way and produces positive energy. so make sure your aerials are on reception and your controllers on maximum position.
a2: elphine (zander vt remix)
it was a quiet time for zander vt lately, but with their new remix (as well as an upcoming 12” on bpitch control) the two berlin based djs and producers are back with an impressive sign of live and deliver a delicious work on here. the characteristic “elphine” hook crosses the whole remix theme and pushes the audience straight on the dancefloor.
b: elphine (troy’s one eyed jak remix)
these days, the american-born troy pierce lives in the german capital berlin. constantly creating big furore with his releases on richie hawtin’s label m_nus, mr. pierce has put his magic fingers on ellen allien’s track “elphine” - the result is a unique remix, pushed by an impulsive bassline and the new arranged vocals, taken from the original.
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Dapayk’s latest album is called ‘Devil’s House’. Unlike its predecessor, the beats are less abstract, but topical and more break-beat-like. As ever, these are unmistakeably voluminous sounds! Let’s look at it in order: “Intro” - a cinematic shattering of saw - introduces a house of dark powers which could have Devil written on the doorbell! These powers continue in “Scratch the surface”. Under this surface you can envision a pulsing dancefloor, which rules the next track like a sawtooth massacre. The break-beat-like rhythm of ‘A Saw Attacks’ reveals a powerful listening experience and will be the first single. Dubstep and 2Step samples interweave this track, so you don’t have a single clue where electro starts and techno ends.
Skits and small audio clips separate and connect tracks such as “Better stop breathing”, which leads over to “Vermo’s House” and combines Dapayk’s stumbling beats with abrasive sound. Having game-played through most of the levels of „Devil’s house“ you face another Skit: “Road to boesendorf” - a relaxing piano etude, before “Right here with me” starts. In “Berlin amo”, 2Step Beats and Electro seamlessly marry, while “Child of the night” haunts with dark minimal textures. “How low” evokes the depths of the bass with incisive questioning vocals. The beatless snippet “Strings attached” leads to the melancholic ending of the album. This melancholy continues in track “Niro”, which connects Dubstep a la Burial and Minimal. “Skit” - a clip with an acoustic guitar - leads over to “A wave that leads you home”: The album’s final track that bids farewell.
This album not only reaches out for the dancefloors, but also (which should be common for a longplayer) offers an emotional joyride. The roller coaster is packed with typical Dapayk sounds and latest influences of his sound cosmos, which of course have enlarge Dapayk’s palette. Adeptly producted and composed, you will discover new details with every listen.
01 Intro
02 Scratch the surface
03 A saw attacks
04 Better stop breathing
05 Vermo´s house
06 Road to boesendorf
07 Right here with me
08 Berlin amo
09 Child of the night
10 How low
11 Strings attached
12 Niro
13 Skit
14 A wave that leads you home
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While 2007 saw the release of both their Happy Birthday full-length and Boogy Bytes Vol.3 mix, Berlin duo Modeselektor has been relatively quiet in 2008. Well, that’s about to change, as the pair is planning to take their distinct brand of noisy, chopped-up techno on the road as part of the Jetlag Tour 2008 with Ellen Allien.
With multiple stops scheduled on both sides of the Atlantic, the Jetlag Tour is bound to live up to its name for the artists involved. Questions of sleep deprivation aside, the boys are clearly amped about this tour, as they dropped this exclusive mix into our laps for the XLR8R podcast. Running the gamut from dubstep and bassline to French house and kwaito, this podcast shows that Modeselektor will be bringing some serious heat to the Jetlag Tour this September.
Tracklisting
1. Kode9 vs. Badawi - Den of Drums (ROIR)
2. Cylob - With This Ring (Rephlex)
3. Dj Mujava - Township Funk (Warp)
4. 2562 - Techno Dread (Tectonic)
5. Black Noise - Nature of the Beast (Original Black Noise Mix 2) (End to End)
6. TRG - Missed Calls (Subway)
7. Screaming Soul - Warfare (Ruckspin & Planas Remix) (Ranking)
8. British Murderboys - Hate Is Such a Strong Word (Counterbalance)
9. Elemental - Blob (Runtime)
10. Alex Cortex - Huyendo pt.2 (Klang Elektronik)
11. Zomby - Strange Fruit (Ramp)
12. TRG - Oi! Killa! (Cool and Deadly)
13. Mr. Oizo - Patrick 122 (Ed Banger)
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the Berlin art/music duo CHERIE and NACKT aka WARREN SUICIDE is a fountain of ideas. since their latest album in 2006 “THE HELLO” on uk label FUME their world is overflowing equally in drawings, videos, visual concepts, theatre music, composing, productions, sessions, remixes and new ideas.
WARREN has grown its own life!
the latest big project “BERLIN STRING THEORY” is a perfect example. NACKT and CHERIE assembled members of 15 bands (a.o. TOCOTRONIC, GODS OF BLITZŠ) and a string quartet to re-arrange and re-build theirÝsongs into a full new concert show (new year 2008 at the famous berlin volksbühne). WARREN is shaking hands. beside all this WARREN SUICIDE also managed to finish a new studio album called “REQUIEM FOR A MISSING LINK”. 12 great songs merged into one big composition beyond genre boundaries. tracks like RUN RUN, LAND OF THE FREE or HOME are perfect pop masterpieces between electro and rock, pop and avantgarde arrangements and you can feel all the influences of their latest works. string pieces, distorted basses and drum loops underline the clear voices of NACKT and CHERIE. Beatles punk electrco.
REQUIEM FOR A MISSING LINK describes a journey from one world into another and buries the links - as they do not need links. there is no lack of understanding between each parts. this whole album comes as concept art without underlining any heavy meaning: this world is grown and there is no link missing. REQUIEM FOR A MISSING LINK comes as a surprise… like the title track proclaims “I want to love what i don´t understand”!! WARREN marries dark tales and unforeseeable events into something very fresh. the musicality and songwriting combines each song into something better and links the link.
The album is released on berlin´s electronic label SHITKATAPULT. Founder T.RAUMSCHMIERE met WARREN SUICIDE during his own album recordings at chez cherie and it was love at first sight. The label recently had a huge success with APPARAT´s latest album WALLS and presents REQUIEM FOR A MISSING LINK inbetween electronic releases as APPARAT, FENIN, SUN ELECTRIC and the upcoming new album by T.RAUMSCHMIERE himself (”I TANK YOU”) - which is just the right choice:
special musick for special people who can love beyond understanding. The artwork of REQUIEM is a another fine drawing by CHERIE and marks the first step of the actual WARREN SUICIDE visual progress.
more: youtube, myspace.com/warrensuicide, warrensuicide.com TOCOTRONIC - EXPLOSIONS (BERLIN STRING THEORY VERSION) just out on 7″
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www.ellenallien.de
www.bpitchcontrol.de
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welcome to the allien world.
sool is subtle and mysterious.
sool is the new - 4th soloalbum by ellen allien.
“created in winter 2007/2008 in berlin, intended to be a valve, a loophole. winters always have been a very creative time for me; in particular, after this past hot and crazy summer and autumn 2007 in berlin. i do not have any gigs, i never
stay at one place for such a long period of time. instead, i push buttons at the studio, and sing. yeah! minimal what does minimal mean for me?
minimal is just there. permuting that, shaping this kind of immediacy with my own hands - that was close to my heart. a whiff of positive, but nevertheless abysmal energy creates room for the ears. for yours and mine.
what is sool? how is sool?
sool is everything, everyone and none - sool is a phantasm, a creation, which reflects the album�s atmosphere, and also my person. i am me; but i am also what you made me for, what you do with me and what i do with you. and, sool is curiosity, room, and architecture. sketches; drawing; adhering.”
(ellen allien)
dress yourself! - because music is lifestyle.
exclusive for her latest release, ellen has designed a special sool fashionline.
it´s special, it´s hot, it´s ellen allien fashion.
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www.ellenallien.de
www.bpitchcontrol.de
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Ellen Allien’s dj-skills are made available again in her fabulous boogy bytes 4 - mix - both en route and everywhere else. according to her contribution to the fabric mixes (fabric 34), and ‘my parade’ (bpc094), an update to her label bpitch control has been done.
And we have to say a big ‚yes!‘ at first, because ellen allien possesses a striking intuition for being directly on the sound of the present - but she never subdues herself to a certain ‚zeitgeist‘. instead, she is known for her shaping of an own typology of sound, that sometimes is a bit too far, maybe crooked, more abstract or technoid than others, and which is moreover understandable as her personal reflection of the now - only out her point of view. as a dj, she stays in a long tradition where the emotional and direct contact to the audience always comes first - likewise, she tries to wage all feasible facets, which are possible in the interaction between dancefloor, airports, studion, office, and living rooms.
It is important for her, to ‚memorize‘ her favourite tracks for the club - but besides that, she never stands idle during the week, and so the motif of motion is formative for the mix too. she describes it in her own words as ‚emotional, noisy, trippy, weird, and sexual‘, which means boogy bytes 4 became impulsive but subtile too. the bass drum is not set into the foreground obviously, neither should it dominate the feelings of the listener. rather, ellen allien sketches a voyage that consists of bass lines, effects and the arangement of the tracks among each other. out of it, enough ‚void‘ is left for the listeners own perception of the music and his personal add-on‘s. not only the last year has been a special year for her, but also for electronic music ‚made in europe‘. and so, that element resonates within the mix, which ellen allien begins with the poem producer agf (who also produces her new longplayer ‚sool‘) and finishes it with the ballad ‚twice‘ of peacefrog‘s little dragon. in between, space is left for the development of concrete moves - and the last club nights appear in mind.
Furthermore, with the current Boogy Bytes 4, Ellen Allien queues seamlessly in the successful series of mixes by Bpitch Control artists. The photographer Axl Jansen, a friend of the Bpitch Control universe, did a perfect instant-action shot for the cover. Whereas in the previous releases Kiki, Sascha Funke, and Modeselektor stood behind the decks, now it is time to give room to Ellen Allien!
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Did you ever wonder why remixes, usually confined to 12” releases, never made it onto cd’s? Seems like Alter Ego and Klang thought the same thing, so they’ve gathered all the remixes from the singles taken off “Why Not?” and voila, “What’s Next?!” was born… Carl Craig, Tim Deluxe, DJ Koze, Joakim and Supermayer all make an appearance plus you get previously unreleased remixes by Tiga, Adam Sky, Deepgroove & Jamie Anderson and finally Nerk & Dirk Leyers. Not bad, ey?!
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this one really rocks! matchless hot shit!!! its a bomb!
2008 opens with the third chapter of the Cocorico & Mantra Vibes hyped mix-cd saga. After the success of Oliver Koletzki and Marc Romboy releases, the Italian club number 1 in the world and the landmark label in the Italian electronic music panorama have the honour to present the new cd mixed by one of the champion in consolle, french superstar Ivan Smagghe!!
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Harthouse
Boris Brejcha exclusive Podcast on www.harthouse.com
Born in 1981, Boris Brejcha started his musical education in his childhood. He was educate playing drums and keyboard which had been a perfect schooling for the follwing chapter – producing and performing electronic dance music.
Boris Brejcha began producing and dj-ing in november 2006 and with his first online MP3 debut “Monster EP” and the following EP named “Yellow Kitchen”, Boris Brejcha reached on many download platforms place 1 and became the new techno shooting star playing gigs not only in his home country germany. And so, Boris Brejcha was called “special talent of the year 2007” in the magazine raveline.de. He inaugurates a new era in “high tech minimalism”.
After the successful story on Autist Records, Boris Brejcha reached Harthouse Mannheim at the beginning of 2007 with the digital releases “Outer Space”, “White Snake”, “Die Maschinen sind gestrandet” and “Die Milchstraße”. Short time later the first longplayer named “Die Maschinen kontrollieren uns” reached the stores and became a big success for this fresh artist. The future was focused on this album. A chain of surprises, known elements of electronic dance music and some attractive ingredients from the laboratory of Boris Brejcha. After this Debut CD on Harthouse, Boris Brejcha was getting more and more popular, as well as a remixer, and short time later his first Vinyl Maxi “Who Is Your Man” was published on Harthouse. From now on Brejcha did Remixes for Alex Flatner, Maskio, Zoo Brazil or Stanny Franssen (just to name a few), he licensed tracks for a couple of compilations and you will find his tracks in a lot of famous DJ-playlists.
His sense of humor resonates in his resonates as well as his predilection for unconventional parts. Continuously avoiding conventional sounds, guitars and conventional instruments he always concerned with research into elements which one had never heard before.
So keep an eye for this surprising and upcoming artist!
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myspace.com richard bartz
gigolo records.com
Richard Bartz’s first solo release on Gigolo since his ‘Midnight Man’ album in 2005. The single starts with the deep and powerful ‘Voyager’ and really gets off on the B side with ‘Minimax 1′. ‘Minimax 2′ takes the pace even higher with punchy snare beats and spaced-out effects. Every one of these tracks is ideal for the dancefloor - just what you need to get the crowd jumping.
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Matthew Dear aka. Matthew Dear, returns under his Audion guise with the follow-up to “Noiser”. “Billy Says Go” is three proper Audion techno belters but the big news is the b-side “Against All Odds”. It’s a slow-building mega-rave monster that develops into this dark overbearing machinistic, driving techno corker. Those of you that found his slightly poppier album under his own name a bit, well, not Matthew Dear-like, you can breathe a sigh of relief. The Audion is back!
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ALTER EGO/OGANKU
Alter Ego are bringing out one big remix after the other to go with their latest album… After Joakim, Carl Craig & Tim Deluxe they’ve enlisted the Kompakt armada to work their magic on “Jolly Joker”. First up is the Supermayer version - say what you like about their album but you can not fault a single remix they’ve done. This one follows suit with it’s rather low-slung bassline that bubbles away, the chunky drums and the slow build-up. A beauty! On the flip Herr Koze takes over with equally blinding results… His version is much more playfull and percussive with pads and the occasional off-beat riff punctuating the whole remix. Another slow-builder, it takes a while till it kicks in, but once it does…
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shitkatapult strike 89 – 2XCD - out april 4th, 2008
This is an amazing double CD from one of our favorite labels.
Some of the best music we have heard this year.
sascha ring aka apparat remains special: this new double cd release on
berlin label shitkatapult presents a first and fine collection of apparat´s
remix work until today.
cd 1 showcases 11 giant mixes he did for artists like paul kalkbrenner (w/ ellen allien), francesco tristano, swayzak, boys noize, lusine, nathan fake, meteo/thiel, nitrada, raz ohara and himself. Plus an unreleased live apparat re-version of “let your love grow” by moderat (a cooperation between modeselektor and
apparat) feat. the great tikiman (aka paul st hilaire).
cd 2 assembles 11 re-mixes done for apparat plus several apparat remix 12″.
all of them appear on cd for the first time: telefon tel aviv, modeselektor,
chris de luca vs phon.o, thomas fehlmann, monolake, boys noize, lusine and
many more are featured artists. also this cd features a previously
unreleased mix: shrubbn!! remixing hailin from the edge.
btw:
shrubbn!! is a new techno monster project by hamburgs digital punk producer
schieres and t.raumschmiere. strange as usual (see also the great dave gahan remix on mute) the shrubbn!! remix presents a
half beat double bass heavy tune that kicks floor and brain. hailin from the
edge on the corner of what you can roll on.
all together remixes - and parts to be frickeled is a giant showcase of
nowadays electronic music pioneers merging their ways of making music. club
killer tracks as well as silent epics and musical wonders find together
in apparat´s musical cosmos. this cd is not meant as a follow up of the
successfull “walls” album, rather a way to understand apparat´s background,
friends, influences, work and ideas. if you like “walls” you surely love
this one - and even more you can step into this new motion of electronic
music that takes both steps: loops/tracks/club music vs. songwriting,
soundscapes, and new ways of experimenting and understanding what is
possible with bits and bytes, instrument(al)s and vocals.
TRACKLIST:
CD1 apparat remixes
01 francesco tristano - strings of life - apparat rmx
02 swayzak - smile and receive - apparat rmx
03 raz ohara - where he at - apparat rmx
04 boysnoize - shine shine - apparat rmx
05 paul kalkbrenner - queer fellow - ellen allien & apparat rmx
06 nathan fake - charlies house - apparat rmx
07 lusine – drip - apparat rmx
08 apparat - fractales - apparat ibiza version
09 meteo/thiel - bass and go - apparat rmx
10 nitrada - fading away - apparat rmx
11 moderat - let your love grow - apparat live version***
CD2 remix apparat
01 apparat + raz ohara - komponent - telefon tel aviv rmx
02 apparat + raz ohara - holdon - chris de luca vs. phon.o rmx
03 apparat - arcadia - telefon tel aviv rmx
04 apparat + raz ohara - holdon - mode selektor rmx
05 apparat + raz ohara - hailin from the edge - shrubbn!! rmx***
06 apparat - arcadia - boysnoize version
07 apparat - schallstrom - thomas fehlmann rmx
08 apparat - contradiction - lusine rmx
09 apparat - steinholz - monolake rmx
10 apparat - wooden - anders ilar remix
11 apparat + raz ohara - holdon - raz ohara´s a minor version***
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As a workaholic DJ in the 90s, Arne Michel traveled throughout Europe and created
‘The Announced’ parties when most people had no clue what impact techno was to
have on the musical world. Back in the days releasing as “Thee Engineer” he returned
to the party circus in the last years without an alias. Now working in the independent
film business in Berlin and spinning at many a fine underground club on our vibrant party
circuit, he’s finding the time to put out some fine tunes for us.
‘Danke, Goodbye’ is Arne’s second release on Exercise One’s Lan Muzic imprint. The
title track is remixed by the mysterious Chat Noir - who is this black cat of minimal?
None other than Pan-Pot’s Tassilo, launching here his solo alias which he’s found the
time to create in between releasing the debut Pan-Pot album and touring all over the
world. Busy kitty!
On the logo side we find Arne’s beautiful charming and melancholic “goodbye / / danke”
to gently pluck your heart strings. But in the hands of Tassilo it gets a classical extended
remix, with Arne’s beautiful melody a bed for new punchy percussion and noise. To go
a bit darker….Black Cat Style!
On the info side Arne Michel shows the know how he’s collected over the years.
“Ignore” and “Osmose” are both serious all round club tracks. „Osmose“ has the focus
more on the beat and percussion. Osmosis is an exchange of energy, and can be made
to do work, as when a growing tree-root splits a stone. ‘Ignore’ takes us to a darker,
trippy side of the music without ignoring anything you might need to fall into its
deepness. Can you hear them? No - I ignore them!!!
Tracklist
Logoside
A1 Goodbye // Danke
A2 Goodbye // Danke (Basic Mix by Chat Noir)
Infoside
B1 Osmose
B2 Ignore
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In case you are drifting away from your spaceship, completely helpless and without any gas for the control
nozzles, please follow the points given in the manual:
1. Get in a straight hovering position and smile as much as you can now.
2. Try to throw any particulary precious equipment towards the space ship.
3. Press the button „Winter“ on your control board and in the following dialogue window, press „Dump“.
Within the next 7 nano seconds, you will be completely frozen and of course, not alive anymore.
Thank you for your co-operation.
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The Russian duo Moonbeam have taken a year out to concentrate on a worthy follow up to
their debut record “Eclipse” on Traum. We are proud to release once again a strong
musical 12″.
The 3 track EP includes on the a-side “Slow Heart” a dreamy piece of techno with melodic
stabs, airy and liquid at the same time in its shape. A real voyage through layers of sound
telling a story in sound.
The flip side holds the tracks “Something Alive” and “Spring Story”.
“Something Alive” is the most stripped down track by Moonbeam. Rhythmical and written
in a stop and go modus, this track has a more fragile sound aesthetic to it, but explodes
after the break into a supernova of sound.
“Spring Story” has the uplifting quality of offshoots breaking through the earth in fast
motion! Full of energy and speed this peak time techno track could be an alternative to the
a-side “Slow Heart”.
Track list:
A. Slow Heart
B1. Something Alive
B2. Spring Story
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The two track 12″ features “Sceada” on the a-side. A track that makes use of a tender “sneaking” motion, that builds on the style Bukaddor & Fishbeck have developed on MBF. On the flipside “Mantikor” gives you the feeling as if dancing on a volcano. Under the surface you can sense a movement of sounds that slowly motions near the surface, till shortly before the end of the track when it eventually reaches the surface.
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Now here’s the best of Peter Black’s re-edit series - probably because the originals are so good (and hard to find too!). First up is the amazing piano-prodded, dub-heavy masterpirce that is “How Much Are They?”. Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit (from Can) and Holger Czukay’s collaboration that was on Island in the early 80s. On the flip, Jah Wobble’s “Invaders of the Heart” which was his girst track after leaving PIL - a dubby disco classic.
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Chick-alert !!
…this track is not released!
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Elektrochemie has been called a “super-group”; its ranks consisting of the highly respected producer Thomas Schumacher and the bewitching, galvanizing vocal presence of Caitlin Devlin; but unlike most super-groups, Elektrochemie is at least the sum of its formidable parts, and its gift to us is sophisticated and heavy-hitting dancefloor music with a human heart – albeit a heart flecked with ice. The ‘Get Yourself’ EP is Elektrochemie’s third offering for Get Physical, following the incredibly well-received ‘Pleasure Seeker’, ‘Don’t Go’ and ‘Mucky Star’ 12”s. Opening track ‘Faking’ begins in lulling, opiated fashion, flirting with spaced-out tom sounds before a fierce kickdrum arrives to really get the (techno) show on the road. Caitlin’s voice, at once sinister and enticing, advises us to “move into it, be done with all that superficial shit”, and as Stephan and Thomas work the percussion, jotting around the beats with pitch-shifting analogue basslines and hissing hi-hats, you’ll be unable to resist ‘Faking’’s breathless forward momentum.
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It cannot be said that Susana and Rebeca have a background that is consistent with being musicians - one a customising fashion designer and the other a geneticist - not exactly a typical start to a career in music. But they have always shared a great passion for it since before meeting as students in Madrid where they had weekend jobs in the city’s club scene. Immediately recognising their strong similarities they became best of friends. From there they went on to play at the Gigolo party at Sonar and receive and invitation from DJ HELL to join the Gigolo family. And now they bring you their first mix CD for International Deejay Gigolo Records.
This is the second DJ mix by women on Gigolo this year (following PRINCESS SUPERSTARs American Gigolo 3 in January) so it’s fair to say the Gigolettas are doing it for themselves! LE CHIC sure know how to mould a DJ set so as to keep you entertained for a good hour. They have learned the skills behind the decks and have captured that energy perfectly on Le Mix. The pace is relentless throughout this incredible mix compilation: from start to finish it is packed with bomb tracks and not once does it let up. LE CHIC have managed to capture a fine party mix and have done the Gigolo name proud. You can be sure they have a long and successful DJ career ahead of them - anyone who hears this mix is gonna want to check them out live in the club.
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The first single from Miss Kittins second solo album, “BatBox”, is out now and features two remixes of the track “Kittin is High”. On one side there’s “9/11″, a tense and broody club mix from Norwegian underground talent Black Labelle. On the other, JoJo de Freq, Miss Kittins fellow DJ playmate and resident at NagNagNag, has added a big, bouncing, acid-tinged bassline and Euro-synth stabs to her “Beauty is Terror” mix. Rob Reger also designed a limited edition picture disc that you can find in your local record store. A “normal” vinyl edition is also available. And you can download the single at your online music store.
The album “BatBox” is out on Miss Kittins own label Nobody’s Bizzness in late January 2008.
Oh, and unfortunately Miss Kittins website misskittin.com has got eaten by bats, so she had to escape to kittinbatbox.com There you can even listen to the original mix of “Kittin is High”… The bats didn’t get to the music….!
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Matt John is back with a new stunning piece of minimal techno. Stretching over more than eleven minutes, ”Olga Dancekowski“ is another psychedelic journey through the hypnotic sounds of Mr.John, where little bleepy sequences accumulate a twisted impact for the eager souls on the floor. His buddy Matthew Dear does need no further introduction. His remix is as twisted but he unleashes more eerie dancefloor frenzy.
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Brodinski’s Bad Runner is one of the most sought after ep of this year, co-produced by Yuksek & getting heavy support from selected dj’s! Final version comes with killer remixes from Crookers & Radioclit!
Brodinski has remixed today’s and tomorrow hottest acts like Klaxons, Bonde Do Role, The Shoes, Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya, D.I.M., Pase Rock & Das Pop for labels like Kitsuné, Counterfeet or Bugged Out.
Brodinski is just turning 20 and is the only dj I know that went from laptop mixing back at the good old vinyl. He is now the new resident dj @ Panik’s parties in Paris, bringing back the breaks in techno and the groove back in minimal
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Dusty Kid MYSPACE
Discordant, minimaly electrohouse from Dusty Kid aka Paolo Alberto Lodde, whose previoud release on Systematic and Kling Klong went down a treat. A-side has got a simple yet hypnotic synth line that brings to mind Martin Landsky’s “1000 Miles”. The flipside has got a similarly simple structure but benefits highly from a killer bouncy bassline, thats our favourite.
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Even if the the vocalsample in the track claims the opposite, “Good Boy Bad Boy” with it’s evil creaking beat sends you on a trip you’ll never forget. After a minute or so, Raudive aka Oliver Ho sends the characteristic smouldering synthsound through a massive compressor - “You! Have! To! Dance!” we are told. On the B-Side, with „Enter“, Raudive doesn’t let you catch your breath with its catchy melody, a drifty beat, a short voicesample resulting in a second peaktime-burner thats not too subtle! Its a winner!
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JPLS
Jeremy Jacobs MYSPACE
www.m-nus.com
As the evenings close in, JPLS makes a timely return with more dark, brooding electronics. This year has already seen the release of the Twilite LP, establishing him as one of the leading exponents of 21st century conceptual techno; this time round however, there are a few subtle shifts of emphasis. The beats are tougher for one, plus there’s a distinct acid flavour to the proceedings but the tracks still retain that otherworldly appeal that defines his productions. Listening to JPLS is like catching your reflection in a broken mirror. The urgent repetition of Fuckshuf fle seems to exist in a million different places at once while the bubbling acid bass worms itself into your head, scribbling odd patterns of thought across your subconscious that slowly dissolve like smoke rings.
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Matthew Dear
ghostly.com
Wow… great track, great remix package. ‘Don And Sherri’ originally drew plaudits from its inclusion on Dear’s ‘Asa Breed’ album and hear it gets the remix treatment from MANDY and Hot Chip. MANDY strip it back to a sparse, dark re-rub that works particularly well thanks to the tonal bassline. On the B side Hot Chip cover the track in their excellent style, weighing in with a vocal and instrumental mix that are just astounding. Also on the package (as if there hasn’t been enough already) is DJ Koze’s remix of ‘Elementary Lover’, a warped string-led stepper. Excellent.
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Founded in 1995 by MARCO HAAS aka T.RAUMSCHMIERE and ULLI BOMANS aka SCHIERES, SHRUBBN!! set out to delight the world with their dirty-filthy-but-swinging-groovy-noise-improvisations – or SNOT-POP, as they like to call it.
Never in the same city at the same time and always busy with other projects, this initial burst of enthusiasm was followed by an extended break … now, twelve years later, SHRUBBN!! are back together - and back for good with their long-awaited first 12“”MOLLY RHUBARB / BRANDENBURG” that will be released on MUSICK now.
Expansive to the core, this is not the sound of cosy, scaled-down harmony. Both expertly whittled, sprawling statements claim and fill their own side of the record. “MOLLY RHUBARB” draws strength and focus from Boman’s distinctive vocals and crystal-clear aural language. Instead of delicate reverb and carefully balanced, minimal sound packets, SHRUBBN!! give us music of one mind, of one piece: rough exterior, tough core.
Down on the dance floor, where the fog starts to thicken and the strobes flash that little bit harder, machines and punters alike bow to the magic of SHRUBBN!!, to its mad intensity.
Local anthem “BRANDENBURG” takes out the lights for sightless abandon – why look around when you could be moving, dancing, SHRUBBN!!
Out of the club and into the world, SHRUBBN!! just received the seal of approval of DEPECHE MODE singer DAVE GAHAN, who was so taken by their – unsolicited - remix of his song “deeper and deeper” that he decided to have it released soon.
(In)famous dirt slinger of electronic music, “SHITKATAPULT” is celebrated for the sheer diversity and inventiveness of its roster. Nevertheless, after the resounding success of label founder MARCO HAAS aka T.RAUMSCHMIERE’s club stompers, people came to expect an unending stream of further punk rock rave anthems like “MONSTERTRUCKDRIVER” - easily consumable fodder for press, retailers, and distributors. “You expect us to actually LISTEN? Sorry, no time!” All of a sudden, amazing productions by ingenious whizzes like APPARAT; ANDERS ILAR and others seemed out of place.
To counter this development and realign the mother ship SHITKATAPULT, in 2004 the label spawned its dedicated spin-off MUSICK (to play in the club), a haven for club fodder, rave monsters and DJ faves. Tried, tested and truly established after 18 releases, MUSICK proves that there’s no room for compromise between the beats of JERRY ABSTRACT, PETER GRUMMICH, DJ FLUSH, ELASTIC HEADS or HOLZ.
2007 saw the first album releases (HAKAN LIDBO and most recently Oliver Greschke aka MAGNUM 38) and the latest additions to the catalogue, MUSICK 19 and 20, promise further sensational highlights for tough dance floor action by DAVE TARRIDA and now SHRUBBN!!
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lopazz
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LOPAZZ AKA Stefan Eichinger is a multi-media artist from Heidelberg, Germany. With four solo 12″ releases on the Berlin label, he is one of the rising stars of Get Physical. For this release DJ HELL has won him over to International Deejay Gigolos. This is LOPAZZ debut release for Gigolo Records and another first is that it is also Gigolos first download only release - it will be available in MP3 and high quality WAVs through the Gigolo homepage and on selected download platforms including Beatport. You can be sure that LOPAZZ, who has had four solo 12″s on Get Physical plus releases on Output, Lazergun and Compost and also runs his own label HD800Achtspur, knows what works on the dancefloor and how to produce a track accordingly. The lead track, Fuck Me, is like an electro shower raining down on your ears. In keeping with the title, it has a sensuous booty shaking beat so the lyric “i just wanna hold your hand” is a little ironic. Watermelon Man has a dirty acid touch which you might expect with the tune featuring long term Gigolo SAVAS PASCALIDIS. The production is tight and includes some great mechanical sounds that give it an industrial edge. The presence of SAVAS PASCALIDIS who runs his own Lazergun records and has had two albums on Gigolo really makes the track too. What Should I Do is a glorious slice of funk-soul. A slap bass groove pins the whole thing down while a heart breaking soul vocal by DEAFNY MOON floats over the lovely house-tinged beats. LOPAZZ has mixed and been remixed by the likes of Sven Vaeth, Tiefschwarz, Luciano, Ricardo Villalobos, Cpt. Comatose and many others. So its about time, you might say, that he enters the acclaimed house of Gigolo. These three tracks are all quite different and its this eclectically varied nature of the track that make the release ideal for Gigolo. Gigolo proves itself forward thinking with Fuck Me by putting it out as download only and of course, supporting new talent, which LOPAZZ undeniably is.
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Alter Ego
“Why Not?!” continues where “Transphormer” stopped. But it is dirtier and rougher and much more fun and rush. Just listen and get into it. Roman Flügel & Jörn Elling Wuttke, make brilliant sounds.
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The 12 minute monster is the first track on Locodice & Martin Buttrich’s new label! Deep Dish (Dubfire is one of the duo) were responsible for some amazing records in the mid 90s but in the last 5 years or so, they have pursued a more commerical direction. Apparently, a visit to DC10 inspired this return to form! This track brings forth a deeper, hallucinogenic sound that has always been at the core of Dubfire’s music. Limited one-sided vinyl and set to be one of Ibiza’s tunes of the summer a la Doppelwhipper!!!! By the way, a 1 min sampler does not do it justice…..
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The jesters of techno aka Modeselektor return 2005’s extremely popular and critically acclaimed “Hello Mom” with a follow up that follows in it’s predecessor’s steps without being a straight up regurgitation of it. Along with their wide array of distinguished guests - TTC, Paul St Hilaire (Tikiman), Otto Von Schirach, Maximo Park, Thom Yorke - they transverse the whole spectrum of 4/4 whilst often being not so 4/4. The beats are dsp’d and very crunchy and the rhythms vary widely. We challenge anyone to listen to “Happy Birthday” and fell bored - there’s always something new going on… It’s pretty difficult to top an album like “Hello Mom” but Modeselektor have just managed that!
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Besides a new and great DJ mix on CD (Fabric34 / Mai 2007) and playing most of the big summer festivals, Ellen Allien even found the time to produce a new track.
“Go” is an allusion to her very first track “Just let the groove go” (1994) and uses the vocals as the basis for a modern, rather dark but ethereal new version. The result is once more an Allien-like Dance/Tech track.
Marcel Dettmann, a fan of “Just let the groove go”, still plays this track in his sets and immediately agreed on distributing his own version of that track.
Both versions use the same vocal sample as a center point but combine it with different beats -
Ellen Allien goes for rather hypnotic, airy and dry beats, Marcel Dettmann for Dub Tech à la Hardwax. This way each track has its own character and colour.
But stilll - both versions will get the hearts of the dancers and their hands flying!
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This is the forthcoming hero of high tech minimalism. His name is Boris Brejcha, and while being a pretty successful newcomer he nevertheless can look upon a long musical history. He was educate playing drums and keyboard at his childhood which had been a perfect schooling for the following chapter – producing and performing electronic dance music. His sense of humour resonates in his productions as well as his predilection for unconventional parts. Continuously avoiding conventional sounds, guitars and classical instruments he is always concerned with research into elements which one had never heard before.
He started showing his talent at several stages and online labels. His first digital releases unthinkable swiftly reached the top of
several online charts and after getting connected to Harthouse Mannheim he released two digital singles with great impact on the European electronic scene. Actually you find the name Boris Brejcha in most famous DJs’ playlists, compilation tracklists - e.g. “Active Agent” (compilation) and on “Die Maschinen kontrollieren uns” his first Album! A exclusive Production for humpty.de.
Harthouse acts as a platform for his extreme forward-looking output. The future is now and the main message is to be unpredictable and still sweeping like no other. Surprise follows surprise by taking some well known condiments of electronic dance music, adding some delightful secret ingredients out of Brejcha’s research – box and messing all up with effects like heaven and hell! Deep, clear, clicky, effected, dirty, various, surprising avant-garde, a close-fitting sporty and elegant wear for everywhere.
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Creme Organization, Bangkok Impact
“Missionary on Mars” is a disco injected techno-ish track with a very strong bassline (a bit Carl Craig style) building slowly to a climax and then really hits it off with floating strings that gives you goose bumps all over! On the flip you’ll find the second version by Bangkok Impact which is more straight forward and stripped down version. And then there is the Raiders of the Lost Arp remix which has the typical techno sound from the Pigna/Nature guys.
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Talking about Chloés first album, “The Waiting Room” is not an easy matter for us. Too close to home maybe. We would also like to brush aside the idea of a first album of electronic music as being a real difficulty. Such a trap exists, some fall into it, others don’t… Chloé however is not even on the road that runs along side the trap. What touches us about Chloé is that we don’t really know which road she’s taking.
A couple of milestones however… The Pulp and the Djing of course; or the story of a discreet girl naturally imposing
herself on the international electronic scene. A rather beautiful story; it’s not very often that fragility and sincerity are “under the spotlights”. With no other ambition than to be herself, disarmingly exposing her weaknesses, which become her force.
So doubt can become a driving force. About these doubts… Chloé’s first productions for the Karat label for example.
It was necessary to doubt for an up and coming DJ to produce a record like Erosoft. Eratic, lo-fi, poppy and poetic, going against everything that could be perceived as requirements for success for idiots.
And yet, Chloé obtained immediate recognition from her peers: the best clubs the biggest festivals.
One could easily think the fragililty of her music is the counterpoint to the toughness of a Dj’s career.
As if two Chloés existed : the international DJ, sure of herself, and the producer, expressing her inner fragility.
But there is much more to Chloé than that; she also studies at the Academy of Music in Paris, writes electro-acoustic music and composes original music for contemporary dance.
In constant search of a stability, fragile, among so many things: harmony/dissonance, repetition/rupture, complexity/spontaneity, body/spirit, electronic/acoustic… Questions that not many, or enough producers ask. Maybe we can consider in “The Waiting Room” as being the beginning of replies to such questions. The record is first of all a solution to the equation, dear to us all: the maximum distance from the classical structures of dance clubs with infinite dance floors.
Making heads spin instead of nodding in conformity, there’s a healthy attitude.
And Chloé also reveals intimacies deeper than they appear: love, with a big or small l, the ghosts that haunt us, finding enduring happiness “Around the Clock”, death or far away lands. The text is in the form, the least erudite possible.
Chloé wants to touch, not intimidate people. If she plays, mixes and diverts, it’s precisely to avoid what touches nobody any longer: the forced experimentations of a hermetic electronic sound, a formulised commercial pop dance music. So we are talking about emotions, but emotions shared. Once again, Chloé is risking [big] revealing herself little by little.
An intimate album for a large public, it took guts to do it. Bravo.
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Dance music is a form of pop music, and most pop music, historically, has been made at least in part to make people dance. But somewhere, somehow, the relationship fell apart.
Ewan Pearson, though he might not put it in as many words, brings the two back together. Not just by squeezing genuine sweat out of some of the most coolly-produced radio confections possible, but also by locating the secret pop song that lurks in the heart of every great club track. No easy trick. But in over a decade behind the boards that fusion has become second nature the English-born, Berlin-residing producer and DJ. That’s doubtless due in part to his tenure behind the decks at some of the greatest nightclubs in the world. And it must somehow be related to his decision, around the turn of the decade, to stop producing his own solo work (which he released as Maas and World of Apples as well as under his own name; he continues to produce alongside his frequent collaborator Al Usher in the duo Partial Arts) and concentrate on the music of others, both as a studio producer and, most famously, a remixer.
Ewan’s name may have remained mostly amidst the small print, but he’s been all the busier for it. His remixes appear on at least 58 different releases by a wildly diverse group of artists - including Seelenluft, the Chemical Brothers featuring the Flaming Lips, Playgroup, Freeform Five, Franz Ferdinand, the Rapture, Pet Shop Boys, Goldfrapp and Depeche Mode, all of whom turn up on Piece Work. Piece Work essentially picks up where the 2001 remixes comp Small Change left off, charting the last six years of Ewan’s beat-burnishing.
Over the course of his career, Ewan has developed one of the most distinctive voices of any remixer working today - not by imposing his own aesthetic, but by teasing out that hidden seam of pop pleasure and dancefloor impulse. Perhaps that’s what makes all of his mixes unique unto themselves. But there’s no recipe for an Ewan Pearson rework. It may be bleepy or roughed up with guitars, sweetly chiming or brutally blunt. The tempo may be fast or slow; the rhythm skippily housey or gargantuan and rocktronic. (Ewan even made one of the greatest contributions to the canon of so-called “schaffel” with his rollicking update of Goldfrapp’s “Train,” one of two Goldfrapp mixes on Piece Work that grab you by the collar and send you spinning like a disco ball.) You get the sense that he’s flying blind every time, feeling out the contours of the original and subtly reshaping with his fingertips as he goes.
Just listen to Ewan’s “Bari Girl Remix” of Silver City’s “Shiver.” It takes almost three and a half minutes - the length of your average pop song - to get to the first hint of the vocal, but from the very start you know that this spinning wheel of bliss-baited hooks is pure pop, stretched taut like an empty balloon. Two minutes of extended climax make it feel like you’ve been singing the melody your entire life, before everything dissipates into a fog of strobing arpeggios grand enough to animate the biggest dancefloor in the world. Or consider Ewan’s “Rave Hell Dub” of the Chemical Brothers featuring the Flaming Lips’ “The Golden Path.” Surely one of Ewan’s greatest creations, it transforms the jittery, motorik folk of the original into a 10-ton truck rolling roughshod over a road paved with heartbreak; propelled by insistent bleeps and bells, the song takes flight with the choral finale, soaring all the way to transcendence.
“The Golden Path” and yet another mix of “Train” are also both included on the Piece Work EP 12-inch single, featuring three tracks never before officially released on vinyl; given that they’re among Ewan’s most iconic reworks, it’s fitting that they’re accompanied by Cortney Tidwell’s “Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan’s Objects in Space Remix).” One of his most recent productions, this rework of the Nashville singer is a melancholic bit of future balladry whose tough-but-tender swirling suggests that Ewan is on the cusp of yet another breakthrough, one perhaps akin to breakout success he attained five years ago with his Freeform Five, Seelenluft and Chemical Brothers remixes.
Put together, these 21 tracks make sense in a way they never could on their own, playing ideas off each other and creating a jumbled and jubilant narrative. In the end, the story Piece Work tells is a simple tale of a love affair with recorded sound - coupled, perhaps, with the moral that two heads are better than one. (Especially when one of those heads belongs to Ewan.) You can hear Ewan having fun with every drumbeat, every chord, every squelching bassline, and that palpable sense of joy is nothing short of infectious.
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CD1
1. Seelenluft feat. Mixmaster Michael Smith - Manila (Ewan Pearson Remix)
2. The Chemical Brothers feat. The Flaming Lips - The Golden Path (Ewan Pearson Extended Vocal)
3. Futureshock - Pride’s Paranoia (Ewan’s Sticking Plaster Remix)
4. Silver City - Shiver (Ewan’s Bari Girl Remix)
5. Fields - Song For The Fields (Ewan Pearson Vocal Remix)
6. Playgroup - Make It Happen (Ewan Pearson Remix)
7. Freeform Five - Perspex Sex (Ewan Pearson’s Hi NRG Remix)
8. Slam feat. Dot Allison - Visions (Ewan Pearson Remix)
9. Goldfrapp - Train (Ewan Pearson 6/8 Vocal)
10. Closer Musik - One, Two, Three - No Gravity (Ewan Pearsons 2004 Remix)
11. Franz Ferdinand - Outsiders (Ewan Pearson Remix)
CD2
1. Mocky - Catch A Moment In Time (Ewan Pearsons Memory Blissed Remix)
2. The Rapture - I Need Your Love (Ewan’s Stay In School Mix)
3. Pet Shop Boys - Psychological (Ewan Pearson Mix)
4. Alter Ego - Beat The Bush (Ewan Pearson’s Slow NRG Edit)
5. Ryksopp - 49 Percent (Ewan Pearson Glass Half Empty Remix)
6. Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse (Ewan Pearson Disco Odyssey Parts 1 & 2)
7. Ladytron - Evil (Ewan Pearson Radio Edit)
8. Moby - Raining Again (Ewan Pearson Instrumental)
9. Cortney Tidwell - Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewans Objects In Space Remix)
10. Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (Ewan Pearson Extended Remix)
Ewan Pearson Piece Work EP
A1. The Chemical Brothers feat. The Flaming Lips - The Golden Path (Ewans Rave Hell Dub)
A2. Goldfrapp - Train (Ewan Pearson Dub)
B. Cortney Tidwell - Dont Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewans Objects In Space Remix)
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M-nus
From its Minimalist aesthetic, increasing output and steady impact on electronic music since 1998, a blueprint has been developing at Minus. ‘Nothing Much’ (insert tongue-in-cheek) takes a snapshot of rock solid Minus memories that are more nouveau than retro, challenging any notion that the sound has remained the same.
While not representing the complete history here on disc, the compilation addresses a deeper note with a bonus disc showcasing Berlin’s Troy Pierce as he weaves a web of stolen moments from the catalog. Connecting the storytelling pop behind Heartthrob’s Baby Kate and Mathew Jonson’s Decompression to the funk flex of Gaiser’s Egress or Marc Houle’s composed anthem Bay of Figs, its time to take a bow. The collection also contains recent hits from Heartthrob, Troy Pierce, Ambivalent and JPLS. The method behind ‘Nothing Much’ is pure Minus- music for your head and your feet.
Troy Pierce continues his mission up river into the heart of darkness, with arguably his most accomplished collection of tracks to date. Made up of music composed almost exclusively on the road, the ‘Gone Astray EP’ is driven by choices and ideas that would not normally have surfaced in a typical studio environment. It’s an innovative, ambitious project, not least because it tackles so many abstract themes in one sitting, often taking more than one mix to fully explore the hidden pathways that disappear off into this dense catacomb of sound.
‘Even If It’s Alone (Black Acid)’ is a good case in point. The original version is abstract, freeform techno full of disorientating bleeps, metallic snare rolls and messed up vocal overdubs that offer the listener little in the way of a safety net. The Louderbach remix however is an altogether different trip. Sparser and pinned down by a mechanical hihat/snare pattern, it utilizes spaced out delays and reverbs to create an equally intense atmosphere. Further highlights include the classic arpeggiated hookline at the heart of ‘Lost On The Way To DC10’ (prepared moments before a gig at the self same club) and the urgent tribal stomps of ‘Klitkut’ - another track with Ibiza after hour origins.
Dramatic changes of pressure abound throughout the whole project, with Pierce making full use of the audio spectrum as he painstakingly deconstructs and reconstructs frequencies. Each sound is teased and twisted in all manner of directions, (check out the morphing acid line on ‘Golden’) with particular attention paid to the drum machine patterns that are refreshingly free from the linear constraints of standard techno. As a result the sound seems to move forward like a wall, constantly changing room size and shape, which is why you’ll be forgiven for sometimes finding a door where the window should be.
Going astray can be a good thing, especially when you end up fin! ding a b etter way.
‘Gone Astray EP’ is available on double vinyl, with the CD and digital download releases including two additional tracks ‘Word’ and ‘Go Without Me (Stay Away)’.
Track Listing:
2×12”
1. even if it’s alone (black acid)
2. even if it’s alone (black acid) louderbach remix
3. lost on the way to dc10 (berlin version)
4. konrad gets lost on the way to dc10 (konrad black remix)
5. golden
6. go without me (come back)
7. klitkut
8. finished
Digital Bonus Tracks:
go without me (stay away)
word
CD:
1. lost on the way to dc10 (berlin version)
2. klitkut
3. word
4. go without me (stay away)
5. even if it’s alone (black acid)
6. golden
7. go without me (come back)
8. konrad gets lost on the way to dc 10 (konrad black remix)
9. finnished
10. even if it’s alone (black acid) (louderbach remix)
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The decision to make a live-album from his last booking in Munich’s Harry Klein Club came to Richard Bartz immediately after his performance: “A live-gig like that doesn’t come around every day. The people were crazy. They always wanted more. So I just played wilder and wilder. At the end it was obvious to me: that was so unusual, it has to be released.” And now it’s finally arrived, five years after Richard Bartz very successful first live-album on Cocoon Recordings (”live at amnesia”), in the form of a collaboration between Kurbel and Harry Klein Records - the new label that will be releasing a series of 12″s - entitled “Richard Bartz Live at Harry Klein - Visuals by BettyMü”. The unique selling point: it’s a DVDplus. One side of the disc can be played in a normal CD player; flip it over, and you’ve got a DVD video of the full session, including BettyMü’s visuals and exciting bonus material.
The bonus material is in large part taken from the new tracks from the techno and house producer Richard Bartz. 12 of the 15 songs are previously unreleased. Bartz has remained true to his roots - still providing his fans with the same style that they love him for; he is the master of analogue techno. Bartz doesn’t use any digital sounds - he considers himself to be the “analogue bastion against the army of digital music” - in other words, all those people who make dance music on a laptop without any care or love. Bartz has a whole factory of old and new synthesisers which produce sounds in a modular system. Through his unique production style, he creates his signature roughness, deep but at the same time warm. “I like it, when you can here the electricity flowing through the machines”. That’s a great way to sum up Bartz’s aesthetic. Bartz uses these same effects in his live performances, but lets them run over a computer purely as a matter of simplicity. The sound that Bartz produces is through-and-through old-school, jacking house music. “Naturally I’m primarily influenced by the dirty Chicago sound. That, for me, is perfect dance music. If I produce a song, I’ve always got the right dance moves in my head”. On the DVDplus one appreciates the impressive way in which Bartz builds his sets - by the end of the set there’s a crazy acid-mashup pumping out of the speakers.
“The album is an identical reproduction of the evening. On one side you see the public going crazy, on the other I have worked with BettyMü (who did the visuals on the evening) to push the tempo.” Actually Bartz’s music is only one part of this unique release. Just as important is the visual set from the Munich media-artist BettyMü. Here you see a wide slice of the new art-form of club-visuals: concrete images (a white mouse falling through space is the “leitmotiv” of the performance) mix with abstract animations. The effect is the same as the music: nervous, jaggy, animated and rhythmic. But Bartz considers BettyMü to be much more than just an illustrator for his music: “On this night we communicated our media. I played my music, Betty reacted with the appropriate visuals, and I then played music that repsonded to her visuals”, he explains. On the DVD, BettyMü’s video material is combined with Bartz’s performance: you see Bartz at his decks, Betty at her computers, and of course the public in full flow.
Just like you would expect on a DVD production, “Richard Bartz live at Harry Klein” is packed with bonus material. A one-to-one interview with Bayerischer-Rundfunk reporter Roderich Fabian takes a look back at the high points of his career. But perhaps more exciting for fans of Bartz is his “synth-workshop” - a trip inside his studio with Bartz himself, where he explains the inner workings of his favourite synthesizers, many of which are historic pieces. Richard explains how he turns electricity into music with a hands-on demonstration and a journey into the world of modular sounds. If you weren’t sure about the difference between sine and saw-wave sound forms, now’s your chance to find out - and to discover just how much work is put into each production.
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Fresh off the back of their recent Japanese tour Scottish duo Optimo have signed up with one of Tokyo’s most upfront labels, Mule Musiq. The Mule office have sprouted a new sub label called Endless Flight and managed to persuade Optimo to get behind the decks for its debut release. The result is “Walkabout”, a journey of deep, twisted sounds stirred together with a sprinkling of leftfield looniness. You should remember hearing from JG Wilkes and JD Twitch in 2004 when they released the massive 2 CD mix “How To Kill The DJ” for Parisian imprint Kill The DJ Records. And if you are a resident of Glasgow then you may have had the pleasure of enjoying their Sunday night club-night called Optimo which in the past has featured lineups involving Michael Mayer, Isolee, Luciano, Chicks On Speed and Franz Ferdinand.
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Ascii Disko is the project of multi-instrumentalist/DJ Daniel Holc Formerly of Slown and also a member of Venus Vegas, in Ascii Disko he crafts a mix of rock and electronica inspired by techno, acid house, and electro. The Madrid-based musician signed to the German label Ladomat 2000. and released two full length albums and countless 12″ and remixes. Merging his indie rock background with electronics, ascii.Disko creates new possibilities of sound. Showing no fear, he dives into electronica with refreshing ideas.
Ascii.Disko does not have one style or appeal to one scene, instead it is exciting and intelligent music that all can enjoy. The strong beats and harmonic vocals are an excellent blend. Not only will it be enjoyable for the DJ but for all those on the dance floor as well.
A1-BLACK SUMMER
Pure dance-floor devastation! This Track has been ascii.disko’s secret weapon in his live-sets for over 2 years now. A monster unleashed, from the blackest Club-floors of Berlin to the big Summer Open Airs of Spain.
A2-TONITE
A harmonic vocoder- minimal- rave- anthem. For these special moments at sunrise…
B1-DIE BÖSE MIEZEKATZE
“THE BAD PUSSYCAT” the track sounds exactly like the title suggests. Fierce distortion disco to thrash and burn!
B2-LA SANTA MUERTE
Written after a spiritual experience on a Mexican Street Market. Dark acid bleeps meet latin rhythm structures.
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A Digital Catastrophee by Pilooski. The man mainly known for the great edits he’s been doing for d-i-r-t-y, slaves his circuit bended machines till the funk oozes from them, oscillating from dirt house to Slow electro jam. pilooski can make your ass bounce like no one does!!!
c’est de la balle… ton remix je l’avais et je le joue encore… le “low” est incroyable. et le morceau lent too…
Ivan Smagghe
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After the huge impact Bukaddor & Fishbeck´s “Less/ Polterabend” release had on German
dance floors and in Richie Hawtin´s set at one of Germanys biggest festivals “Time Warp”,
the follow up “Nachtexpress/ Long Distance Call” was the logical progression for MBF
befor the summer.
The a-side track “Nachtexpress” is very different to their debut since it is not programmed
so much in the “off beat” modus, but has more of an hypnotic and understatement
character. “Nachtexpress” sounds a bit as if Steve Bug´s “Loverboy” had had some serious
surgery making the track a 100% night crawler. The track is carried by a bassline motor
and some nice percussions providing a steady but gentle touch to emerge on the floor as a
trippy tale.
The flipside “Long Distance Call” is a lot more relaxed but at the same time also mystical,
seemingly non directional at first, but works its way into a post Detroit track with nice
strings coming along after some minutes. The track works like a magnet in slow motion
modus, rather than being a in your face track.
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‘Shut Up and Dance’ marks the unique collaboration of two of Berlins most important representatives of high art and nightlife, the Berlin Staatsballet and Berghain. They are joined by five of the most influential producers of electronic music who have contributed exceptional compostions. According to the occasion, they present themselves in unusual ways, exclusively for this project and performance.
With ‘Shut Up and dance! Updated’ Berghain is exploring new terrains as a venue and homebase for the Ostgut Ton label. On june 27th, the Staatsballett Berlin will celebrate the premiere of ‘Shut Up and dance! Updated’ in co-production with the club: five members of the Staatsballett will perform choreographies developed to electronic music especially composed for this occasion. The musical results work equally well outside of the venue.
Regular guests like nsi. (aka Tobias Freund and Max Loderbauer), Sleeparchive, me, Luciano and the 7th Plain (aka Luke Slater) have adjusted to the unfamiliar perception of their music and have contributed exceptional and fascinating pieces. Their spectrum ranges from nsi.’s low frequencies and abstract sounds, Sleeparchives icy minimalism, mes epic, repetitive arrangement reminscent of Philip Glass, to Lucianos humorous house grooves and last but not least Luke Slaters beatless lush ambient track under his The 7th Plain moniker.Considering the variety of all tracks, they work astonishingly well as an album. Every artist developed his music completely autarkic. There were no instructions on how the music had to sound.
Eventually, they all opted for a calmer, hypnotic sound (the most club friendly track, Lucianos ‘Drunken Ballett’, will be released on vinyl including a Moritz von Oswald remix in September). This is how Luciano describes his approach: ‘Before I started producing the track, I brought the dancers to mind: how they merge with the sound, how their bodies move to the music and what kind of music should come out of the speakers. I wanted to put dance music in relation to modern dance and I wanted to make physical movement and music correspond to each other.The flirt between high art and entertainment has been inspiring and enriching for all involved.
Ronny Savkovic - Choreography fr me ‘Fiori’ -”Dancing between those old and high walls, is something completely different from what Im used to on the vast stage at the Opera. It really is a unique thing to work with the music of some of Berghains best known artists. I really think it is exciting to present new facets of our work in a new setting to our classic audience.”
Kathlyn Pope - Choreography for Luciano ‘Drunken Ballet’ - “To me, Berghains architecture is the most appealing bit about it. The choreography really uses the space and its possibilities. It creates new fo