Danilo Schneider & Eveline Fink - Numanthia EP

Not so long after reviewing something related to Danilo Schneider, in the Seidensticker & Salour – Say Here Extended Play, we had to squeeze a little bit Enough! label, on latest releases and never too late again, ask for some support for them in our Facebook page since it’s a project with lots of love in it. Even this “Love the Vinyl” attitude of releasing only in Vinyl, nowadays, is of great courage to us. Literally! Btw, you support, here!

The kind of sound and rythms that often comes from this label headquarters is something of just crying out loud for more and more. And this is a impressive fact for something that is just a baby in Germany effervescent electronic music scene. It haves cadence, it haves connections of intricate music fibers that hold together an amazing tapestry and role of sound textures, and this is generally a definition that goes along all Enough! releases. In a nutshell: It’s only love and they give it away in every release, it’s never enough for them!

Confirming all this words, every time we touch an EP from them we keep getting surprised on how the standards keep the same since the first EP they released. An even more spicy fact on this release is that Eveline Fink and Danilo Schneider share a passion that outcomes as some kind of aura in this release, being them the main dynamos behind Enough!, they would never let the fans down on their first official partnership. And they didn’t!

Plus, Schneider & Fink sounds really great as well, kind of Bonnie & Clyde of the electronic music scene!

Starting with Numanthia, the Schneider’s trademark bassline seems shy to appear on start, but this is only a minor thought detail to create expectation on a right foot blasting entering at 0:34, transporting the listener to a familiar place, Schneider’s bass land! All the rhythm suddenly starts to cristalize sweetness expressed by a tinkling melody, and yeah, welcome do Eveline’s fairy land! So, nothing so easy to define as the opposites that complement perfectly! In a fight along the track, surfaces the melody, then the rythmic bassline just seems to contradict the melody and then the doubt is installed on which is better. None, all just fits perfectly into a crystalline voyage!

Mahogany is hymn to cadence and rhythm keepers, swishing a corrugated mid frequency plenty of popping connections in the highs complemented by a grunting bassline, fitting properly any “keep n’go” moment. We must say we love the way a bumpy drum high keeps re starting the rhythm cycle every one step in four in the 4/4 tempo, along with the dub charism of the entire track, is just delicious!

Marc Miroir, needing no presentations between us, mastermind behind Paso Music Label, adopts a slightly homogeneic moisture for his interpretation of Numanthia, seeming to not outshadow the main achievement of Schneider & Fink duo, shuffling all the elements while maintaining the original spine rebuilding it all in a progressive direction meshed in a balanced and grooved bassline.

Suiting all rhythm enhancers and cadence keepers, this Extended Play is certainly a near perfect release within the dynamic electronic spectrum, focusing an essence with three tracks that complement very well within each other. If U’re seeking to have a special energy secret that marks something special in your roster, this one is for you. Isn’t varied in styles, but considering what’s aimed, nearly perfect, and normally, that’s the goal for an EP. It’s just a matter of time for the LP that’ll consecrate this duo without any further questions.

Release Date: 07/09/2012
Format: Only Vinyl
Catalog: Enough004
Buy it HERE (ONLY IN VINYL)

Tracklisting:
A1 - Numanthia
B1 - Mahogany
B2 - Numanthia (Marc Miroir Remix)

Seindesticker & Salour - Say Here / Radio Boing Boing

We do not came to a halt, but undoubtly we're not near old times when the matter is reviews. Still so, we appear now and then to pinpoint something really special deserving some love words. And this is the case around Seidensticker & Salour. We are aware of the immense quantity of good music hiting the stores everyday, however, it's way different from 2005, when we started, and sadly as well, our personal lives don't leave us as many time as we would want. But we still keep the pinpoints now and then!

Being a dinamo on the Hamburg bohemian nightlife scene and an artist with a foot (the right one!) on the Wareika project, there's a side of Jakob Seidensticker (and also Bardia Salour) not so oftenly referred, as they're the masterminds of "Dance for fans" event, shaking Hamburg's now and then with many artists we have a special place overhere, as Masomenos, Guillaume and The Coutu Dumonts or And.Id, just naming a few and already leaving a footprint of great nights in Hamburg when these guys "put their aces" on the table.

So, it appears everything is just in track for an wonderful Ep on Sleep Is Commercial. Yup, it is!

Starting with "Say Here", the typical tingling Seidensticker and Salour sound is around, the detailed bassline, the soothing highs and the bumpy rythm: Check, all present! But as always, with their productions, "Gourmet Class" are the main words across all their releases. "Say Here" however, drives on some kind of serpentine with fine hypnotic dub, entering a space of ellipsoidal illusion that is a main attribute on their releases and immediatly reminds me of "Harascho Dub", resulting in the illusion of the magicians which I only noticed on Villalobos productions like "Fizheuer Zieheuer" even if with a minor play time! If we would have to describe Seidensticker & Salour as producers, we would nickname them the "magicians". It's quite impressive the final result revolving around the same sounds in 7 minutes, and this is a characteristic of the magicians, the power of illusion seeming to change everything and nothing at the same time.

Since most of words are already dropped on the last paragraph, "Radio Boing Boing" just confirms them. A relaxed vibe and a veined dub are present just to evolve continuously in all music spectrums to a peak of whooping and reverbed looping mesmeric state. Still, this is not over!

"Say here" was also given to Francesco Assenza and Danilo Schneider for a proper remix glimpse of their own.

Francesco Assenza picks up a darker side of the vibe, progressing the track to a more underground state, proper to fullfil any break on a more techno darksided dancefloor, applying some vocals and a little smell of progressive house, meshing all of this together in a consistent new path, considering the original. Great work considering the different approach into the final result.

And well, because here we're small kids, we like to save the best to the end! There's a word for Danilo Schneider remix: Magnificent. It's like having the original magician touch of Seidensticker & Salour on bassline steroids and a hell of a kick without loosing absolutely anything of the original, precisely the reverse. We're not saying here that Francesco Assenza remix is worst or that the original wasn't complete. What we're saying is that Danilo Schneider made a hell of a job, creating an epic track we're absolutely sure will shake lot's of different dancefloors around along with the whole Ep. We really have to say this, Danilo's works are complete in all the frequencies and we were already deeply touched by his label, Enough!, with the release of Hula Hoop by Eveline Fink last year. This seems like a sort of "revenge" towards the wonderful remix Jakob Seidensticker did to Danilo's "Short Image in My Brain". Being Schneider the family name, Danilo leaves his own footprint and creativity into the heavy heritage his family name carries along, since Guido will be always a reference for Us in the minimaland.

If you're into having a classy and vibrant sound on your roster, this Ep 100% recommended.

Release Date: 30/07/2012
Catalog: SIC011
Format: Digital

Tracklisting:

1 - Seidensticker & Salour - Say Here
2 - Seidensticker & Salour - Radio Boing Boing
3 - Seidensticker & Salour - Say Here (Danilo Schneider Remix)
4 - Seidensticker & Salour - Say Here (Francesco Assenza Remix)


Link to listen and buy directly from Label (Recommended) - Click Here

Danilo Schneider - Short Image In My Brain

There's releases that captivate us so deep, extend so much the barrier that just give us a glimpse of what trowns us into a spectacle of delight and enjoyability when we assume we're listening to an unforgivable release on a dancefloor. Thus, it doesn't come really new for us after the amazing "Hula Hoop Ep" by Eveline Fink, which I found out to be a quite delightfully balanced Ep on Enough! Records. Enough, convenient to refer, is under the shiny touch of Mr. Danilo Schneider, who couldn't prepare another thing to his own label except a "soup" of ingredients that start with himself and expand his achievement with this short image for our brains. To this image, he brings Jakob Seindesticker and with the mixture of both, Enough! is assuming a character of quality vs. quantity, saying enough to all the amount of music hitting the stores everyday, releasing only true masterpieces.
Saying this, Short Image In My Brain is just a must have on any collection that focus on relying in amazing Ep's, cause, yes, it's the wholy Ep, the whole release, that expresses the fact that all the tracks are exceptionally good, but, to start with, homonym named track opens it in a cozy fashioned way so grooved and sculptured that its just a matter of time to find yourself letting go with the mood. It produces a big image in your brain, tells a whole story of dub vibes and paradisiac looped bells that keep your mind moving and the feeling growing smoothly in a soothing way. Edit Suite pulls the strings to a delicate hypnotic state where a scattered bassline and a mumbling fusion of voice snippets with arythmic tinkling sounds keep on the cadence of the smooth groove lines on the base, resulting in a curdled pattern of hypnotic drive. Last but not least, the maestro Jakob Seidensticker changes evertyhing without changing nothing at all levels, producing a new image with the old brain, which means the remix captures all the best and adds an extra depth of touch detail, producing a masterpiece intrepretation.
Experienced ears will understand all the previous said, where these words don't cope with the feeling delivered in the moment the needle is dropped on the tracks.

A must have.