In 2015 the electro-pop female duo AKSK (Adda Kaleh & Suzanne Kraft) made their debut with the song "Breaking" on Gerd Janson's "Music For Autobahns 2" compilation on rush hour. On their debut album "Things We Do" they deliver crystal-clear chansons and electronic pastel pop and also trust in the dub skills of the Coober Pedy University Band (CPUB aka Tornado Wallace & William Paxton).
"Rebirth of Gerberdaisy" is Boof's fifth longplayer and appears on Running Back in cooperation with Bubbletease Communications. Produced by Maurice Fulton.
Howling - the collaboration between Ry X and Frank Wiedemann (Âme) are back with a second album! RY X and Frank Wiedemann reunite as Howling to present "Colure", the second album from their mutual musical collaboration. RY X, solo alternative artist and member of The Acid, and Frank Wiedemann, half of Âme, bring fans a bigger and stronger successor to their debut “Sacred Ground”. On “Colure”, the Berlin-based Wiedemann and the LA-based RY X conjure up transcendent creations from their contrasting musical backgrounds and surroundings. The album is undoubtedly dualistic: electronic and acoustic sounds sit comfortably side by side, and large melodic hooks are laced into hypnotic club productions. The duo made their debut as Howling with the release of a self-titled track in 2012, a resounding viral success, followed in 2015 by the album "Sacred Ground" by Mixmag, DJ Mag, Resident Advisor and in this country by Groove, Spex or was praised by Kaput Mag. Her celebrated live show went on a worldwide tour and was on the Melt! Festival, the Electronic Beats Festival and an innervision showcase in the Royal Albert Hall. Formats: - 2LP + MP3: Black double vinyl including download code.
Moscoman aka Chen Moscovici, Berlin based by choice and DJ of Panorama Bar (Berghain), Space Miami and Pacha Ibiza, delivers after releases on Because, Life & Death, Greco-Roman, ESP Institute (debut album "A Shot In The Light" 2016) and his own label Disco Halal is now releasing his second album on Moshi Moshi. On "Time Slips Away" he extends his sound from machine disco, melodic techno and wonky house with new sound structures that make the 12 tracks including vocal features by Tom Sanders (Teleman), Vanity Fairy, Wooze, Niki Kini and Nuphar more direct and compelling , which is also due to his early indie rock background.
The second season - in the course of the 25th anniversary with 5 x 5 remastered reissues of iconic EPs from the legendary and style-forming label F Communications from Paris - contains Laurent Garniers 2x12 "masterpiece" Club Traxx EP "(1995), Deepsides (Ludovic Navarre aka St Germain) early "Tolerance EP" (1993) with the techno classic "French" (then still Fnac Music), Aqua Bassino "Deeper EP" (1997), a 4-track sampler from Jori Hulkkonen's album "Selkäsaari Tracks" (1996) and a 4-track sampler from various The Youngsters EP's (2001-2003)
For 25 years the Berlin duo has been one of the pioneers and leading representatives of emotional-melodic house & techno and is now presenting its ninth album "Dear Future Self", written and produced on its global tours from New Zealand to Berlin, with artist collaborations from Iceland , South Africa, England and Germany. "This is our most club-oriented work so far, many of the songs have been tested live around the globe in the last 18 months. From beautiful sunsets on the beach to factory buildings, from big festivals to small clubs, only the really essential tracks made it onto that Album, "says Booka Shade. Another must-have for the numerous fans that adds a jewel to the ever-evolving and refining range of Booka Shade. In addition, the duo proves its innovative spirit with the "Dolby Atmos 3CD Audio Blu-ray" format, for whose mix Kraftwerk member Fritz Hilpert is responsible, who was already nominated for a Grammy in 2017 for his surround mix by Kraftwerk's "3D - The Catalog" .
Daniel Maurick, son of Brit funk legend Jean-Paul "Bluey" Maunick (Incognito), first published on Talkin 'Loud and has since produced Far Out stars such as Azymuth, Marcos Valle, Terry Callier, Incognito, Ivan Conti and Sabrina Malheiros . His excellent solo debut album "Macumba Quebrada" is a successful balancing act between Rio de Janeiro and East London, where 14 deep house stompers and broken bangers combine Afro-Brazilian spiritual dance sounds with relaxed nighttime Detroit techno and 1990s broken beats.
Techno and house composer Tim Engelhardt has a deep awareness of rhythm and sound. His background as a pianist gives his new album "Idiosynkrasia" a pleasant flow and is true to the nature of idiosyncrasy more than the sum of its parts. The album uses granularly processed recordings of piano, floating strings and other instruments to transform emotions such as love, nostalgia, vulnerability and longing. It has an almost cinematic form and orchestral structure. Each track is marked with Tim's unique sound signature and careful attention to the instrumentation. 9-track double vinyl with download code for a total of 16 tracks.
After three highly acclaimed albums “Oracle” (2017), “Dance Of The Demons” (2018) and “Worshippers” (2020) there are great remixes from some top producers: An uplifting disco house groover from the legendary Mousse T., Louie Vega has already played 3 times on his Worldwide Radio Show. Then a Tribal Afro House re-work of the New York legends Hector Romero & Ayala, furthermore avant-garde broken beats and a dignified slow motion version of “Land Of The Arum Flowers” by Italy’s Khalab, who is already causing a sensation with fresetyle, trap and jazzy beats hat, and an epic downbeat monster from the Viennese beat maker URBS, and a chilled out dub remix from Munich's beat prodigy L One. An all-purpose 12 ”that offers a wonderfully wide musical spectrum.
"Stay" is the second studio album by the Augsburg and Berlin-based producer Daniel Bortz after his debut "Patchwork Memories" in 2013 on Suol. While he was still on the slow house wave at the time, he was now able to diversify his style in all directions. The 11 new tracks breathe 1990s influences such as house, acid, downbeat and breakbeat, always based on the sample aesthetic of hip-hop. The result - after releases on Innervisions, Pasta Music, Suol, Permanent Vacation and Moodymann's "DJ Kicks" compilation - a first-class work that captures the entire emotional spectrum of life and love.
The new studio album by the electronic producer and Poker Flat founder offers minimal house music, atmospheric techno and lively breaks on 11 unique tracks. With 11 brand new tracks, Never Ending Winding Roads is a meticulously produced and deeply compelling electronic album; one that explores shades of house, techno and broken beat with Steve's celebrated attention to detail and consummate originality. On this album, Steve experiments with broken beats more than perhaps on any other in his career, with incredible effects. Tracks like A Conscious Machine and Electro Harmonix are melodic, emotionally charged tracks: bursts of radiant optimism that alternate wonderfully with the darker moments of the album. "My approach to Never Ending Winding Roads was completely different from any other project before. I didn't have to or couldn't go on tour and instead could concentrate 100% on writing music without the dance floor being a constant influence. It gave me the creative freedom to explore a range of styles and emotions, and as a result, it's the album I feel most satisfied with to date, ”says Steve Bug.
With his new EP on Ouie, Cologne-based producer Jonathan Kaspar presents 3 tracks of cleverly crafted leftfield dance music, perfect for the more open-minded lovers of electronic music. The track "Nea" appears here exclusively on vinyl.
As a longtime companion and true inspiration in the twenty-year history of the Hamburg Dial label, Kosta Athanassiadis alias XDB enriched our lives with his brilliant productions in the form of countless 12s and legendary remixes. With his long overdue debut album Inspiron, we are unwrapping the nicest anniversary present that we could ever have imagined. For almost three decades Kosta Athanassiadis aka XDB has been involved in the ever-changing world of dance music. His curiosity and commitment to electronic music penetrate deeply into house music and techno, and wherever he appears, he generously shares his unique knowledge in this field with equally dedicated people. The artist, who comes from Göttingen, is not only responsible for his excellent productions, but also for his remarkable DJ sets from the panorama bar to magical festival moments such as the Freerotation Festival.
Eris Drew and Octo Octa come from the queer DJ community in the USA, are weekly resident DJs at BBC Radio 1 and run the T4T LUV NRG label. Her energetic, euphoric fabric set of 21 tracks was created exclusively with vinyl and includes subgenres such as house, bass, UK hardcore, acid to trance. They use numerous 90s rarities that were previously only known to a small crowd of vinyl nerds and are now seeing the light of day again, and add their own exclusives: the trancey-euphoric house anthem "River" by Octo Octa and "Reactiv-8" "by Eris Drew, an electro-tune with its own vocals.
After six releases and three years of extensive tours through Europe and America, the Berlin-based live trio around producer and songwriter Edmund Kenny finds itself in an ambitious, rampant turn with Light, West. This record is a groovy soundtrack for a movie that was never made and feels like the most comprehensive review of the various influences and inspirations of Kerala Dust, fused into something completely unique. As a result of the year and a half of work, the most surprising aspect of the record may well be that these different musical tones all manage to feel part of a large, interconnected musical narrative. This abstract imagery is underlined by Kenny's hypnotic, driven musical composition - he always tells a story while leaving its meaning to the listener.
A compilation with some of the best producers on the French house scene! In September 2018, Chat Noir released the first volume of its compilation dedicated to the new French electronic scene: House de France. Since then, the French scene has continued to evolve and reinvent itself, and new faces have appeared in this artistic exuberance. The project aims to show the diversity of the new French house scene by highlighting different undercurrents of this movement: Ambient, Deep House, Techhouse, Acid, Minimal, Italo-Disco, Electro-Funk ... the artists featured on this compilation illustrate the future of our scene and we are very proud to highlight it. This LP contains 6 tracks from the digital compilation.
Stockholm's Bella Boo makes her running back debut. What was initially planned as a new album with numerous collaborations, became in the course of Covid-19 - under the aegis of her mentor Axel Boman (Studio Barnhus) - to a rich EP with 8 sensitive, imaginative, bouncing deep house tracks as a tribute to the UK scene that has inspired her for years.
Byron The Aquarius ist kein Fremder für echte Musikliebhaber. Im Januar diesen Jahres trommelte er seine Musikerfreunde für eine Session in Atlantas Patchwerk Studios unter der Leitung von Jeff Mills zusammen. Das Ergebnis ist eine fantastische Mischung aus Soulful-House und Jazz mit einem Touch von Blues.
Fantastic Man veröffentlicht sein Debütalbum auf dem in Tokio ansässigen Label Mule Musiq! Die neun Tracks auf "Utopioid" bewegen sich musikalisch zwischen Sci-Fi beeinflussten Clubtracks, Electronica, Ambient House, Breakbeats und Dub. Nach diversen 12inch Veröffentlichungen der letzten Jahre schrieb der Australier die Tracks in Berlin, Rio und seiner Heimatstadt Melbourne. Herausgekommen ist ein ausgewogenes und fein ausgearbeitetes Album für Fans elektronischer Musik.
Wenn etwas aseptisch kalt wie die Musik der New Romantics und gleichzeitig aber deep, soulful und trippy ist, dann dieser Release von Al Chem aus Berlin: ein verdammt gutes Modellieren von No Wave, Electronic, Minimal und Dance. Aufgewachsen mit einer Diät von Post-Punk, New-Wave, verloren in einem verrauchten Warehouse - diese Art von Musik und Stimme (Depeche Mode oder Johnny Cash lassen entfernt und posthum grüßen) in einem minimalen Lo-Fi Electronic Bett ist schwer zu finden. Al Chem’s Timbre und Texte sind einfach betörend, in den Himmel eintauchend, begleitet von einem hypnotischen Synth-Faden. Das Paket mit zwei tipp-topp Remixen angereichert: Shahrokh Dini zaubert einen super drahtigen Club-Mix, durchaus geeignet für jedwede Peaktime, während Compost‘s Boss Michael Reinboth cool und sicher auf einem stein-kalten 80er Groovegerüst herumturnt.
Neues Album des Südlondoner Originators Steve Spacek - aka Beat Spacek (Ninja Tune), Blackpocket (Exit), Afrika HiTech (Warp, mit Mark Pritchard), der auch mit Legenden wie J Dilla, Raphael Saddiq, Q-Tip und Common gearbeitet hat. Auf "Houses" kehrt Spacek zu seinen Detroit-Einflüssen zurück und sprengt mit Swing, Melodie und Gefühl die Grenzen von House Music, indem er Elemente aus Soul, Jazz, R&B sowie seine charakteristischen Falsetto-Vocals mit der DNA der elektronischen Musik verknüpft. Das komplette Album hat er mit iPhone & iPad-Apps produziert. CD mit 13 Tracks, LP mit 9 Vinyl- & 4 MP3-Tracks.
Auf Automats "Modul Remixes #1" finden sich vier solide Re-works der Maestros Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer, Patrick Pulsinger und Shahrokh Dini. Die Gruppe Automat - Jochen Arbeit (u.a. Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Haut), Achim Färber (Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub, Skip McDonald) und Georg Zeitblom (wittmann/zeitblom) - funktioniert wie eine gut geölte Maschine: Sie surrt, sie schnurrt, sie geht unbeirrt ihres Weges. Gemeinsam mit dem Modular-Magier Max Loderbauer sowie Paul St. Hilaire alias Tikiman, Lydia Lunch und Mika Bajinski am Mikrofon präsentieren sie nun mit "Modul" auf Compost Records ihr abwechslungsreichstes und konzeptionell stimmigstes Album.
Remixausgabe zu Sashas Album "Scene Delete", das er - inspiriert von modernen Klassik-Minimalisten wie Nils Frahm, Max Richter oder Steve Reich - 2016 veröffentlichte. Zusätzlich zu sechs bereits erschienenen 10"-Remixes von Kiasmos, Rival Consoles, Plaid, Matthew Dear, Christian Löffler und Max Cooper enthält die Do-LP sechs weitere Remixe von Eat Lights Become Lights, Stet, Colin Benders, Throwing Snow, Skanna und Sasha selbst, alle exklusiv auf (weißem) Vinyl.
Johannes Brecht (Diynamic) und Christian Prommer (Sonar Kollektiv) setzen nach ihrer Kollaborations-Debüt-EP "Voix Grave" (2016), die wochenlang #1 der Beatport Deep House-Charts belegte, ihre exklusive Zusammenarbeit auf Diynamic fort. "Page Blanche" ist eine weitere klassisch inspirierte Komposition der beiden, die sie nochmal einzeln neu interpretieren. Während Brecht mit einem treibenden Melodic Techno-Schwert dunkle und vernebelte Clubräume durchdringt, nimmt Prommer die dramatische Richtung und kreiert mit zusätzlichen Synth-Stufen eine melancholische Aura um das Arrangement.
Reissue des Stimming-Meisterwerks von 2012: "November Morning" mit seinen melancholischen House-Akkorden und die analoge Klassikversion des 64-köpfigen Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters. "Das ist einer meiner emotionalsten Tracks, und entsprechend musste er auch von einem Orchester eingespielt werden. Nicht von einem Sampler, aber von echten Menschen." - Stimming