End of year in MONDAY
Label: Paradigma Musik
Catalog#: Paradigma 006
a1 - lost in the woods
b1 - lady in the mirror
b2 - from tangled seas
To end the year in the most positive way i present, by the second time, Spektre! This one couldn't be bad, they gave it their own name, so the level demanded would gonna be high.. They didn't fail and, in fact, this duo from Leeds produced an excellent ep, perfect to the dance floors with great intensity and wicked music. "Hover" is very powerful, i can't get out of my head the strong double bass that runs all over the music, it's my favorite without any doubt. A great tune, one of the bests of the year that will surely throw things apart wherever it passes. Only compared to Luna by Dusty Kid. A massive bomb. "Is it a Bird?", the second track is another perfect one. With a funky touch here and there and some twisted breaks along the music this will be great to the after party's and things like that. Released by U.F.O. this is the last Ep i post here in 2007! And see you all again next year...
n - The End Is Night
After "Life Beginings" Matzak is back with another master piece. I haven't yet heard a bad release from this guy and this continues his normal standards. This time launched by Harmonik Records, the French producer presents us a more calm ep, directed to pleasure your soul. "Sobotta", the first track, drive you through great emotions in a different special way, a subliminal music that will surely seduce you. "Ultratribe" follows the same requirements, it remembers me the geniality of Nathan Fake in his greatest works... I may say that i fell completely in love by this one... Fly fly away! Finnaly "CC" a more shaky track, nicely produced with a great beat and, like the previous musics, brilliantly escorted by a nice and deep melody. With Christmas in the scene and the moods rising up this is the perfect album to come along with it... Music to remember the days... the better days.
Despite being released in may, today I became aware that I have not posted here this great one. It is surely one of the Eps of the year, so it couldn't be forgotten. After anti-pop festival in August i realized that Paul Kalkbrenner was a one kind producer, with a genuine and unique work, I think the most of his work is brilliant and should be known by all of you. So, sorry for not posting this before... If you don't know this yet i can tell you it's an explosion of synth and bass lines. "Altes Kamuffel" is a great union between melodic exposure and pumping beat, this one is always present in his live performances. "Ick Muss Aus Dit Milieu Heraus" is another great one, uprising feelings, perfect to throw us all apart in the dance floors with it's great percussion, kicking beat and amazing groove ! Please listen this one, a two Ep burner released by Bpitch Control. I hope you realize why i like this guy so much. Enjoy!
Einmaleins strikes again, this time with Dilo making the Questions. This Argentian guy has done pretty good works in this year and this is not the exception.. it's another bookmark in his career fitting with perfection in the German label that we appreciate so much! . a1 "Questions", with it's rude bass line and deep solid groove starts this 4 ep track in the best way it could. Musics like "Faccia" - very minimalistic, typical in Dilo's work - presents another side of this producer. b1 "The Kittycat Track" raises up the patterns again. A typical Berlin track with those techno synths that sounds so fresh... gathered with a deep vocal brings attitude to it. Brilliant! Finally b2 "90 Cecilia Road" was Done with Ekkohaus - greek producer- and it ends the album in great shape. Step by step, this minimal tech track can only bring madness into your brains. Top release, this one will surely cause damage in the dancefloors! enjoy
After Misc. - Sinus Hotel, Sender records gets back with another pleasant presentation. Andre Crom shows up to Sender#72 with Kardio Ep. Twisted release by this German producer, resident in "Harpune", famous Duesseldorf disco! A 4 track Album where minimal marks place in it's acid side. I loved the release note on this one. I can't describe it better than Sender did, so here it is... enjoy:
New release from Oxia - a.k.a. Olivier Raymond - one of the most important producers in the French scene who released musics like "Domino" that everyone loves. His music genre uses to follow melodic standards, music to fly and never get back. Don't expect it here... this one goes around minimal stuff, subtle changes, those things that makes you want more and more. I'm becoming addicted to his productions! Lost memory is a awesome ep released on his own Label - Goodlife - with two tremendous works. "12 Years Later" is a nice music, perfect for anyone's "game", you'll like it for sure, a groovy one. The b side "Lost Memory" is the reason why i'm posting this here. It's not the kind of stuff i was expecting from him,but it's surely a massive production (another one) that this guy presents to us. Tripped neurotic patterns, groovy minimal, great bass line, killer music! As i read in a review... "it will keep you hot during the upcoming winter". I can't get enough of it and i hope you feel the same way i do. Don't loose memory on this one...
Typical german kind of music, "Gott Ist Tot" is a major release from Mathias Schaffhäuser. This Cologne based producer, owner of Ware Records produced a spectacular Ep. In the B side he invited Apendics Shuffle to remix it. Let's start from the beginning... The original track - a side - is a minimal genius one! Like someone said... it pushes, pumps and peeps. Disturbing bass line, aggressive rave patterns and a tremendous environment during the music. What a peace of art, so underground it hurts! Then in the B side, the Apendics Shuffle re-construction. Coming from another great producer, it couldn't got out a bad one, and it didn't... It goes around the same kind of disturbed minimal but it's just not as pumpy as the A side. Less funky, more sexy, it's up to you to choose what kind of music do you like the most. Release nr. 75 on Ware , a tremendous work, let's pray it goes directly to the dancefloors, so we can all have a great time of amusement.
The latest release (nr.9) on Kompass Musik , one of our favorite labels, presents a great work of Heerhorst & Meissner. Their only previous record was very nice and comparing with this one u can see the improvements in their production. "Fahrstuhlmusic", the first track of the ep, is the main one! A peace of art full of emotion. The melody is simply amazing and gathered with a deep bass makes it those kind of tracks that u can't get out of your mind. Nathan Fake kind of feelings if you know what i mean... Than you have "Whooop", a funky deep track that floates around minimal paths, perfect for the after-hours disturbed times. This ep ends with "Heroin", a track that during simple reduced beats tells you a story of an addicted guy... the vocal is nice and amusing but the music is not the kind of stuff i like! The A side is basically the important thing here. Enjoy
Link stolen from O Som e a Fúria
Anthony Collins is, in our days, one of the biggest upcoming producers of the French scene. Cannibale brings up the best there can be in minimal deep music. Released by Highgrade Records this Ep shows how trendy music can be... Suitable to all styles. The a side track is a neurotic deep modern tune very shaky and perfect to all kinds of dancefloors. The remix, by Tom Clark and Daniel Dreier lows the level down, not hitting so hard on the drums, making it less deep and more minimal. A pure Berlin work, as the experts would say. BlaBlaBla, the b side track, is also a very pleasant one. A great journey of endless feelings with a pure minimal bass line getting along. Simple and perfect. I've appreciated this one a lot... 3 great tracks to this rainy days! Enjoy it, the Cannibale's are out there!
Juror Nr 9 is the last release of Adultnapper. Minimal rude techno is what to expect here, seductive music that enters trough your soul and doesn't come out no more. The huge flute present in the a1 track brings us multiple neurotic feelings that appears to not have an end, wow! "Brandy McLeod" is another great one. My favorite I must say, cause it has that kind of construction that i'm always talking about... recycled music, beginning in a simple beat and than just keep rising and rising. A small but perfect music! The Last music of the Ep is Gaiser's remix for Juror Nr.9, a strong one, typical from him... quality music because this Minus guy doesn't know how to make bad music. Perfect way to end this three track album. The Juror might consider them all Guilty! Release nr 26 on Audiomatique, the best they had in a long time.
7th and Last release of Cereal/Killers. For those who don't know this label I can say to you that they specialize on uniting great producers in their limited edition Eps. Artists like Ada, Metope, Gabriel Ananda, Misc. or Dj Koze have previously made their contribution to this fantastic releases. The last one counts with Reinhard Voigt, Frank Martiniq and the owner of the label, Pan/Tone! The first track "Brown Star" is a simple genius track made by Kompakt's head man. Just going around a weird bell and an heavy beat in a pure minimal construction. Nice work! Then You have "Stick It" by the inevitable Frank Martiniq. I haven't heard this guy for a while and I'm glad his back cause the music he makes is brilliant. This is, in my humble opinion, the track of the album ...recycled beats, just giving and taking in a deep mysterious work. All you can expect in this one is your feelings uprising every moment during a peaceful harmony of strange feelings... You got to listen it, please! In the b side you have Pan/Tone's work. He doesn't let it down and follows his friends by doing also a great job. It's the shakiest track of the Ep. "Sly" is not new, it was released before, but by it's greatness, it's out again... Case Closed..
First release of Halland - aka Elias Landberg (Swedish Producer) - on the 8th Limited Series by Num records, label of Phil Quenum and Lee Van Dowski. A calm minimal Ep where "Lynn" is the main attraction. Detroit style all the way with a subtle growing during the music, a charge of neurotic loops and a great deep solid beat. What a seductive music. The A side - "Ginger" is also a great work imputing a perfect construction - step by step - where quality is above all. Smoother than the B side, but without any doubt, another master piece 8 minutes of excelent taste. Num records is getting quite good, always with top releases and this is not an exception.. two great dance floor tracks, minimal at it's best. Limited copies edition!
2nd release of Maayan Nidam aka Miss Fitz, from Berlin, on Raum...Muzik - release 062. This girl bases her music on low synths, pure minimal beats, always with the company of fresh loops. Ricardo Villalobos is on of her greatest fans and for that offered Miss Fitz his services as a remixer. He made a long remix, as usual, with great effects and a strange vocal, adding his genious touch in every step of the music. Less deep than the a side, but perfect for the first hours of the minimal dance floors. This might be the 1st time that a remix of Villalobos isn't better than the original music.It's at the same level... brilliant and smooth work by both producers enhancing the idea that Berlin really is the main city of minimaland! Extreme fine production by Miss Fitz - both "Maternal" and "Glide Over" are huge tracks - giving us just what it takes to enjoy well defined music... and in the b side an endless journey through mr Villalobos thoughts and feelings. Don't count on pumpy tech house music, this is pure minimal... at it's high standard level
Cio D'or start producing in 2004, her debut album "Hokuspokus" on Treibstoff was rapidly into the charts. Since than, karmarouge was on of the labels that tooked her in and she launched a great success - with Gabriel Ananda - called "Lauschgoldengel". Now she is back with "Kimono" making her debut at Motoguzzi Records with three great tracks marked by deep patterned techno. Abstract music, dark and heavy beat, slow but genious growth during the music. At the first sight it might appear too minimalist, but if you listen it loud you'll see the great minimal techno that this album has. "Kimono" sounds like minus works, very hypnotic, great bass line guided by deep grooves. A work of art, in my humble opinion. Than you have "Fata Morgana" presenting the same minimal style, a bit more techno, not so pure as the 1st one. "Psst!" might be, for the most of you, the best track of the Ep. The resonant bass line along with a great percussion its evil stuff. Than, in the middle it appears a new bass line, more intense, saturated, with a stronger filter, just perfect... a deep dark techno bomb, just going and going 'till it takes you down! All the three tracks are very good, perfect to the dancefloors. The best release i heard this last 2 weeks :) ...enjoy
Sick release from Peter Grummich - German based - on Karloff records, known by their sympathy for different music. I fell in love with the A side in the minute i put a hand into it! The tripped "Breezin" freshes up the air in a spectacular sense... the amazing dry techno beat along those disturbed sounds that just don't stop getting deep inside your head just full fills all this classy music. This is, in matter of facts, one of the best musics i heard in the last times. Heads will role when this hits the dance floor. Production at it's highest level, berlin stuff, dubby bass and deep neurotic behaviors. In the B side you have "Fresh Air for Fresh people", a great music also, more shaky, less disturbed... perfect bass, nice construction and there you have... simple classical dance music just to rise up your days, enjoy it!
To end this week i'd like to get back to typical classic minimal patterns... So i picked up Seph's last album at Dumb-Unit called Creeping Corazones. This Argentinian guy that gain his reputation with some good releases at pretty honest netlabels made a wonderful work in this one. "Creep Take 2" is a 12 minute track surrounded by a dark environment that just don't stop coming and going... I can't get tired of it, it's subtle but shaky, dark but alive! Then in the 2nd track Seph team's up with Pablo Denegri creating a tripped minimal tune. Again a long length track, again a perfect construction during it... bumping till the end. Two Top tracks marking another great release by Dumb-Unit - number 40 - deep dark techno just keeping the feeling alive..
Mihalis Safras has been the Greek producer with the most important action in the last year. In a week of spectacular albums I present to you "I Need My Mom"... Well if his mom listened this release she would definitely be very proud of him! True deep techno, this album is marked by three very disturbed bombs! Going around Detroit sounds in "I need My Mom" and then escaping to Berlim hypnotic minimal underground with "Cook N Garden" Safras show us how music can easily be so good. "Bongie" is my favourite one. Dark bass lines and pumpy beats that will leave you thrilled during all the way.. perfect if you like it simple, rough and deep. Release nr.9 on Syndikaat Records, techno label from the Netherlands.
Justin Martin debut album for Buzzin' Fly.... This San Francisco - Usa based producer created a sick groove, somewhere between deep and tech house, filled by a tripped melody and great sub bass that launches us to a great ride. I heard Sven Vath playing this one and i fell in love with it in the same moment. This music will rip you up, it's perfect to the dance floor entusiasm. I must say every release of him has been great and for that he is one of the big guys here in the 6th floor! The Manoo (member of Rodamaal) & François A remix is more of the same... brilliant music, perfectly shaped in harmony and obviously bringing us the same great emotion. Suitable for the late after hours. This is a limited release, so if you want to buy it don't waste any time..
Olivier Grégoire aka Kolombo is a Belgian artist and produced a perfect Model for Karate Klub - excellent German label - with the cooperation of mr Robert Babicz. The original one is a very pleasant track filled by smooth and deep minimal ways and by simple & genious melody. A great way to start a night... just going and going. Than you have Babicz remix, adding it more underground but keeping the feeling on! 11 minute length track taking it to incredible paths of enjoyment! A bit more funky, bit more shaky, worked up to full fill the dance floor motivations.
Another excellent ep launched by trapez, this time produced by Reggy Van Oers(character that is unknown to me, but from now on will make part of our musical dictionary). This ep contains two very audible musics and they are both worked in the same sense. As "Cytric" as "Metza" have a great individual growth,many cautions and everything done in the right time. In "Cytric" we have the possibility to listen the "mad" voices in the back. A nice ep that is worth to be listened.
Perfect 4 track album @ Sender Records by Christopher Bleckmann & Hannes Wenner aka Misc. "Fassade Noir" is the great candidate to the dance floors... it has an incredible bass line, top hypnotic feelings and a great rhythm. Synths all over the place, minimal construction, step by step... it hast it all! what a blast! You may notice the differences between all those previous albums by misc and this one... much more deepness, minimality, less confusion and lower lines. In the third track you get a taste of what Misc. is usually all about - wicked blast off music. But than it brings it down again in "Dance Your Name" with all those charges of low synths, groovy beats and neurotic percussions. Released in the last day of August, nr 67 at Sender. A must have...
Reinhard Voigt and Wolfgang Voigt got together for the 5th time to produce a brilliant ep released by Kompakt on their famous extra editions! This two old school producers ( Wolfgang is even co-founder of Kompakt) show once again how music can be great and simple. Typical smooth growing paths in the A side, very minimal, always uprising the emotions with their typical German tunes! In the B side you have a berlin track, step by step along with that great melody and there we go again... They like to call it "minimal techno pop", printing their own spirit and their personal mark. With all those minimal requirements that we like to listen in a track "Diskozwinger" will be a great winter tendency's presentation. One of the best Speicher's I heard...
September, month of responsibilities... So I'm starting it by presenting to you a work of Minilogue - one of my favourite producers - and so far, one of their brightest productions! Ghost is a deep minimal techno music perfectly glanced by a groovy bassline and some deep chords that just don't stop floating around. Than in the b side you have the "beat tool" of the original making it an excellent dub techno berlin classic style music. If you want power, u have it here! Leave The "Dub mix" to the chill out moments...
I there, it's been a long time and i have a lot to update... but just in september. August is not a season to spend time at home listening some music, but what the hell, i'm here and i'd like to show you something that i fell deeply in love with - the live remix of Nathan Fake - You are Here! It has it all: the heart, the minimal feeling, the emotions... it's just a fabulous track to enjoy in those great evenings that you surely like to have.
Analysed in the field with a cow...
Label: Get Physical Music
Catalog#: GPM074
Part one of remixes for Rework's great hit "Love Love Love Yeah"; Chloe's mix - my favorite - in the a side, takes you to a darker side than the original. Subliminal construction, tripping vocals on a eight minute track build up directly to the dance floors. In the B side we have a Rework's reconstruction. Chelsea Girls mix just enhance the paths of the original one for what it's supposed to sound in our days. A nice improvement making it a track based more on deep dub feelings ...now all we have to do is wait for the second part of the remixes. Great playhouse release, nr 138 of this old school label. listen also the original one, enjoy!
Our friend Alex Under is back - this time under the name of Friendly People - and produced a massive ep! His unique neurotic style is well stepped out in this one. Latin's production marked by heavy bass and non stop dark rythms just gets you through a higher level. I was missing this kind of performances by mr Under. Now he's back, hope he manage's to keep the high standards! Release nr 6 on Cyclical Tracks, Spanish label. Don't miss this one, it's the best u can have!:)
In a word? A Wonderful Ep, I strongly recommend it! Freies Geläut is delight to a senses of an addicted in minimal music! The other tracks complement the Ep and makes it a reference in this year's releases.. Label :Eintakt
Catalog# ET17
Tracklisting:
| a | | Freies Geläut (9:12) |
| b1 | Strauss (6:38) | |
| b2 | Wupper (6:02) |
The label of Mr. Luciano just don't know how to stop. In the last three months they released great albuns like "Argenis Brito - Micro Mundo" or "Pikaya - Kambrium" and now they present us the brilliant work of Alejandro Vivanco - Chilean based producer. Beggining with "Lemon Lab" Vivanco sets up the pace with a great minimal track. A track 100% suitable Cadenza's kind of music, perfect techno grooves, great loops and there you go, recycling the mind. Than you have "Dissolved", slowing down the rythm a bit, but keeping the feeling prepared to what comes next... "Madre Tierra" a long lenght music that gives u a great journey through Chilean rythms. What a blast, 12 minutes of deep emotions leaded by amazing percussion and a simple beat. Peacefull and Perfect, don't miss it. Release nr 18 on Cadenza Records