...just because my friends!

Guido Schneider & Florian Schirmacher - Places Ep

Not so long after reviewing something including Schneider in the family name, and with an amazing Ep (probably to be reviewed) between the two brothers coming, time to give a proper referral to the main and oldest Schneider: Guido.

A wanderer in electronic music, Guido started his steps in the 90’s as part of a project called Neue Welten, an avant-garde experimental new disco sprinkled with nice trancy electronic details and reverbed basslines from (it’s a guess!) old machines such as the Roland TB303 or other similar vintage synthetizers and drum machines.

But, what mostly stands out from Guido Schneider path in electronic music it’s his capacity to metamorphose and edit through many and respected labels over here. We became aware to Guido’s productions back in 2004 when there was a tune that always played in one of the best after hours that ever existed in Oporto (It was a boat, btw) and was considered an hymn of those afterhours and given a status of mandatory: As Dry As I Can, released in Pokerflat, Unterwegs Mit Guido Schneider. So, considering this it’s even odd why we never rendered homage to such a name from the motherland of avant-garde electronic music, Deutschland.

From Deutschland as well comes Florian Schirmacher, member of Wareika Trio, label owner (FormResonance) and important player in the German scene with a gifted voice to such productions that tends to be quite familiar. Just to throw some clues in to the board, his magnificent interpretation of Riders On The Storm, the original from The Doors or his performance in Mountain Ride as part of Wareika just confirm all the previous words. Florian, also a synth player and a dynamizer who just cannot stand still, has a new project called Hatikvah along with Helmut Ebritsch that we’re just waiting for what comes out. If electronic music was pop music, Florian Schirmacher would be David Bowie, so many his facets and masks.

So, it was gladly with good eyes we saw such a combination within one of the best labels around, Moodmusic.

Places Ep is a dancefloor killer in all its majesty. Starting by Hanna, a hypnotically voice driven sampled track melted around a bubling hypnotical groove that is just delicious, we find the perfect sweetspot to any crowd pleasing goal from the performer. This track will make a lot of people dance and sing along into another level. 

Then we go to Lost and it seems the only one to be totally lost in the groove will be the listener! Because it doesn’t appear in any way that Mr. Guido Schneider has been lost when producing it, so many the amount of interconnection and details within it. This track brings us back to the better days, with a luscious rhythm and will to drive any human member or body extremity to go along with it, the drive. It’s a drive track, it’ll not stop, it’ll circle around you, grab your attention and leave with a bitter feeling that’s over. In a matter of seconds you’re just repeating again and again to another bumpy grooved trip.

Making use of Florian Schirmacher voice, we find In The Toilet, that we will not discuss it’s origins, but will attest that is a fresh and mandatory introduction into any dancefloor. It starts with a very specific racket rhythm streamlined along different kinds of sounds that fitted together, produce a masterpiece. It’s in fact very addictive and unforgettable since there’s a small history sang by Mr. Florian that will grab the attention of any crowd and pause any bassline attack into a happiness movement. It’s one of those tracks that takes us to places.

Philip Bader remix of In The Toilet works along the same vibes, adding a stronger bassline, a more darkened vision of the track, sampling it’s voice around and focus on a dubbier inspiration. If the Ep wasn’t complete yet, this is just the final statement.

Release vividly recommended to any bag, case or crate, it makes a difference in any performance that stands out.

Label: Moodmusic | Catalog: MHR063

Tracklist (On the web player)

Robag Wruhme - Olgamikks

Writing a review about one of our references it’s a real hard task. Maybe not because we love a specific music, bunch of tracks or the whole release, as it turns out to be the case, it’s mainly because touching on such a name that just inspires us in so many directions and it’s even one of the reasons why this blog exists (more on that later), well,  then we realize we’re in another league and we even feel afraid in every press we do on the keyboard.

We’ve been following Robag Wruhme for quite a while, since the beginning in fact. What to say about this true musician that keeps creating his own path? Nothing we can remember just right now, so we’ll give the short story version. 

Gabor Schablitzki aka Robag Wruhme is a producer and label founder fertile in pseudonyms, styles, soundscape innovations and variations. Being an active adolescent with positive attitudes towards music and feeling an inner appeal, he started Beefcake along with Volker Kahl, a positive project along harmonies, mixing between progressive beats with a bit D’nB influence from the 90's (golden years) and several experimentations, being Coincidentia Opositorium a good example of last words. Still today, Beefcake is praised on it’s scene. After a while, Gabor started his solo career as Dj Gabor, a name which appears to have a frugal appearance with the very sunnier Summertime on Freud Am Tanzen, label he co-founded with Bodner Sören. As if this was already a bit jaw dropping for Us, then there’s the appointment that precisely Bodner and Gabor are Wighnomy Brothers. He also edited as Machiste about the same time he started his career as Robag Wruhme and already with a consolidated name, he also released singles under biases as Themroc  or Rolf Oksen on Freud Am Tanzen. We even think he haves a finger (A big one) in one of the best new labels, or at least, the most avantgarde one the last couple years: Pampa Records.
Nevertheless, Gabor was always one of the forward thinkers of the scene for Us, so today is our little thank you with the proper release: Olgamikks, a collection of unreleased and released edits and dispersed tracks from Robag pseudonym.

Funny enough, one of the reasons this blog exists is precisely Robag Wruhme, when, after a magnificent party of Ricardo Villalobos in Sá da Bandeira, his first time in Portugal, after following him for a while, myself and Hugo just arrived at his home, without any will to sleep after so many energy spending and still with those tunes on our heads recycling around, we just started hearing to individual tracks that could have been played by him. And through some acquired tracks during those days before the party hearing the likes such as Pantytec – Elastobabe, we arrived, to Robag Wruhme, almost hidden. It was an instant reaction “Villalobos plays this sort of thing, this is recycled music”! And so, listening to tunes like Fittichklopfer or Jenna Makks was only a question of days. It’s the first name I retain and nowadays I can see clearly why.

So, getting to Olgamikks, what can we say? We already know how Robag’s tracks drive us in all sort of different ways. It must be absolutely referred that we almost had a review for Thora Vukk, one of his intimate works and masterpieces, we even got it from a promo e-mail but we just missed it due to problems at those times and lack of time, so, this time, with such a wonderfull release covering all frequencies of Robag Wruhme in small glimpses, even if late, this could not be missed, at all!

Olgamikks haves various edits from Audision, Marc Romboy, Claude Vonstroke and even Gui Boratto, and then there’s a name that stands out: Thom York, from Radiohead on Modeselektor track. 

We can assure this is a timeless release, one of the best this year's so far, round and absolutely complete where all the reverbed, recycled basslines from Robag say "present", matured like a good Oporto vintage wine refined with all his tricks and majestic ways of combining patterns and rhythms to seem exactly the opposite and just a recyclated mesh. Or the way Gabor just keeps in cadence in Wolluwe, for example. Olgamikks it’s beyond any description, we think all that’s been said about this magician of the innovative paths, reverbed sounds and basslines along with glitchy interconnected highs is pretty enough. It’s just a question of listening and get your own feelings about it, cause, one thing is sure about Gabor Schablitzki: If there is no path, he just creates it and is one of a kind, the kind of artists that keep opening breakthroughs in electronic scene with an immense gift turning themselves into icons of entire generations.

Thank you Gabor, it’s been a true pleasure to follow all your work since the beginning of this trip in our little land, the minimaland!

#Catalogue: NDCD01
Tracklist: Please check on the player below

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)

Moomin - She Said She Won't Be That Long Away

Moomin, or should we say, Sebastien Genz, is one of those cases where the releases start appearing, in a very subtle way, and even if the electronic market is crowded nowadays of new names, appearing every day, there’s a real line that defines and separates genius from average. Moomin has not crossed that line with this release, we’ve been aware to his talent since “Sweet Sweet” on Smallville Records. At those times I was just about to make a review but then, suddenly between all my lack of spirit and time at the moment I left it, but I remember pretty clear the thought “this guy will release something that will get an effective review from me in the next times”. Well, it was not needed to wait for less than a year and other releases confirming this. This AIM 008, “She Said She Won’t Be That Long Away” is a masterpiece in all frequencies and his productions assume kind of a “Nicolas Jaar” ambiance that, strangely enough, doesn’t get the same applause. Well, from us for sure it does, maybe is a hype thing that we’ll never understand... What’s really a fact is that my curiosity and the opportunity to see Moomin live, just to confirm this review, appeared at Electrosanne in Lausanne (Switzerland) this weekend in a deep small, hot, and underground club called “La Ruche” were, along with Cristopher Rau composing the duo “Roaming” they made a brilliant act confirmed in the sweat of happiness that fulfilled all the place.

So, getting facts straight, Moomin’s productions always have a glare of sweetness, happiness and deep emotion attached to it. This is probably the best description I can get for his productions, diluted somehow between deep dub mixed with a superior class of production. It can get you to states of deep happiness and deep introspection without ever getting boring or repetitive. It’s a own classy touch Moomin haves that one can fast realize in the first 30 seconds of listening. To any of his releases, and, of course, this is no exception but in fact a strong confirmation.

With 3 tracks, we start with Beautiful As You Are, which was released in youtube along with a very artistic video just before the getting to stores. Wow, it’s just impressive how it enters your subconscious emotions and gets a direct attachment to the listener. Kick straight and simple, mind games with cymbals and a lovely piano create a illusion of a beautiful place appearing in front of your eyes retinas and then a Sax.. yes, a Sax, this says so much of how high class this music is when all things just convey together, a masterpiece of deep origins. Better even, it can take you to some of your own origins or a special moment of your life, just of how touchy it is.

Then Don’t Fly If It’s Foggy, a bumpy and smooth ride within a magnificent built bassline. Yeah, this is so bipolar and I really hate the fact I don’t have a linearity in words to express something so clear and beautiful. And then another great mid sound just takes you again to another wonderful place where it seems Moomin definitely lives. I even have no more words, please, only listen.

To finish such a perfect release, a bit of variation within same melodious textures with She Said She Won’t Be That Long Away, naming the Extended Play. Thriving to a little bit of experimentation and alternative circumstances, it just closes a state of the art production, a release strongly recommended to listen alone. If you’re listening it with someone you think may fall in love, thrust our advice, you will for sure!

Within the sound area of deep dub this release is A class, confirming Moomin production style and fingerprint, making us just wonder when he’s going to stop getting a release better than the previous one. We just hope never! The sky is the limit, literally.

Release Date: 22/08/2012
Catalog: AIM008 | Format: Vinyl/Digital

Tracklist:

A1 - Beautiful As You Are
B1 - Don't Fly If It's Foggy
B2 - She Said She Won't Be Long That Way
Buy HERE in a limited 180 gram edition directly from label

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

Souki - The Jack EP

After our first review of the debut Extended Play of Souki (Carina Lohmeyer) on Einmaleins Musik (Click here to check it!), it was pretty certain there would be just a matter of time until we found another release from her to confirm our bet and her immense potential. That release came again on Einmaleins Musik, one of our favourite labels, and it's name was "Monkey Sun EP". Unfortunately we didn't review it because it passed by somehow, however, now deserves some reference! With Souki sweet voice, clean and gasping bassline and a mumbling timbale, she produced a true minimalistic and powerfull driven track. So now, to honor her and minimaland as well, since we are really proud of "baptizing" her first release, we thought it could come handy to review her first release on Zaubermilch Records, run by Manou de Jean, wich in German means something like "clean milk", spelled in a crazy way. Well, since they're trying to re-invent the "pasteurizing" within the electronic music world, nothing better than picking such an awesome producer as Souki is and release a great EP with remix credits to Mr. Frank Martiniq, a producer we embraced since minimaland start, back in 2005.

So, presentations done, even if they're not really needed with this lady (in fact, we love her minimal style since the beggining), time to "drop the needle" and check out how these spicy condiments and ingredients sound together in this release.

"Jack", first track to be hit, in fact hits the listener. Hits and punches right on the chest, probably the weakest part! Starting with a fade up, haves as much of the right amount of bass as it haves of the perfect sound to be always skipping on behind, a very own Souki sound, corrugated and deeply dark with nostalgic feelings that go back to the beggining of underground electronic music. As it develops, each detail is kindly added in a subtle way, as always with Souki, with voices, reverbs, electronic little grasps and synth melodical patterns along the mesh. It seems simple but is in fact very hard to produce a track like this, so soothing and thunderous at the same time, revolving the listener in a one way path, embraced by all Souki's kindness and violence at the same time!

So, with a track like this, nothing better than calling Mr. Frank Martiniq to apply the remix it deserves and develop another view upon such a brilliant track from Souki. Applying some more layers of sounds and varying the bass to a mumbling pattern, Frank masters the illusion of making the remix of "Jack"seem another complete new track, just in the same level of quality and not distorting it too much while creating almost everything new. These are the kind of remixes we like and Mr. Frank deserves congratulations for this one.

Ending the EP, a more private side of Souki, with a heavy, dark and countoured bassline track followed by a distorted ancient organ sound, in a little creepy way, called "Nothing", so let's not forget Souki haves 4 faces! As the track evolves, we are kindly embraced by some ambience sounds, some espiritual sounds and some voices, relieving the heavy ambience while maintaining the same dark compass which creates something of a opposite forces struglling along it's evolution.

This is another brilliant masterpiece from Souki, confirming that sometimes is not the amount of releases, it's the quality each one of them possess individually! Also, let's not confuse Souki with Soukie (of Soukie & Windish), this Souki, the first one we met it's the true one and we're still in love with her productions overhere after 3 years passed.. And we kinda think we'll still be in the future... :)

Released: 09/12/2011
Catalog: ZMR019
Format: Vinyl/Digital

Tracklisting

A1 - Souki - Jack
B1 - Souki - Jack (Frank Martiniq Remix)
B2 - Souki - Nothing

Matt Star - Rhodesse EP

In 2011 there's a name that catched up our ears! It is Matthias Schildger (aka Matt Star), which seems to be one of the greatest talents coming from Offenbach (Frankfurt Am Mainz). Needless to say the connection between Offenbach and Electronic Music, it's only a question of naming the underground club "Live At Robert Johnson" and then things get more clear. Btw, Their Label is now about to release a special book in March with all the histories and important moments that marked the 13 years of Robert Johnson club in Offenbach, a probably not to miss one. In any case, it's Mr. Matt Star, also from Offenbach, that we have the pleasure of presenting today, probably influenced by the Offenbach scene during his growth and probably as well, influenced it in the last years.

Goes the story that Matt Star started playing in small parties at the age of 12, and besides his youth, there's no doubt that when the word quality is adopted, Matthias is really a Star! Clean and accurate grooves are his mark, but it would be pretty far any definition of his work just saying this, so, referring to releases on Cocoon, Meleon or Kling Klong will keep ideas more clear. He's also a master of the cadence and the hypnothic derivatives, making his productions being among the best (at least in our humble ears). After a perfect grooved track on Meleon's 3 year, a release intended to celebrate 3 years existence of Danjel's Esperanza label, we then focused our ears on him as a space radar looking for stars does. And it seems we found one.

This release, on Spur Recordings, a Italian based label that seems to start with the right foot, provides a glimpse of the kind of variation, clean cutted basslines and variable creative sounds Matt Star is capable, embracing the listener in a very spicy and smashing trip either on the groove frequencies or the harmonic details.

Naming the Ep, we have "Rhodesse", a 4 minutes track, Tribal and melodic paths within the rhythm are probably the best approximation to define it, and his clean bassline sticks to it like glue, a nice delight to hear in about any ambience! 

Then comes "Im Garten" a nice experience in the spacy chords frequences, ripping and popping any dancefloor to another level. Die Haustiere vision applies a more rugged and violent bassline, keeping its dorsal spine, which again can only signify the quality of construction of Matt Star tracks.

"Matterdron", with Candy Csonka is just one of those you start listening and then kidnapps you to another world, maybe a better one, where deep senses, cadence and harmonic trips define the listener's horizon, being a little bit undefinable, which always means a really nice one! Finishing the row, we have Metrica remix, adopting a more heavy groove and space aged synthethizers which sound to things we've used to hear back in the end of 90's in the underground german techno/trance culture with a different approach and some boiling deep chords. It closes the release as a crown over Spur and Matt Star.

Release Date: 18/11/2011
Catalogue: SPR002

Tracklisting:

1 - Matt Star - Rhodesse
2 - Matt Star - Im Garten
3 - Matt Star - Im Garten (Die Haustiere remix)
4 - Matt Star, Candy Csonka - Matterdron
5 - Matt Star, Candy Csonka - Matterdron (Metrica remix)

VA - Desolat X Sampler (Purple)

Desolat’s 
third
 edition 
of 
its 
Christmas
 sampler
 is 
a 
bumper
 tribute
 to 
a 
year 
of
 fine
 music, where undoubtly "Patio de Juegos" from Guti pinpointed the year
 and 
is 
arguably
 its 
best
 edition
 to 
date and in one of Desolat best years.
 With
 this 
many
 goodies 
included, mirroring an incredible year for Desolat,
you
 won’t 
need
 to 
look 
under 
the
 tree 
for 
anything 
else!




Desolat
 assembled 
some 
stellar 
talents
 for
 this 
compilation, but even better, interstellar tracks starting with Desolat
 co-owner
 Martin 
Buttrich himself,
who 
teams 
up 
with 
Davide 
Squillace
 on 
a 
power 
session
 of
 polished 
grooves and xylophonic frequencies; 
to 
the 
promising
 pairing
 of 
up
 & 
coming
 London
 DJ
 and 
producer
 Hector
 with
 Alexkid 
on 
a 
slice 
of 
finely 
observed 
and 
bittersweet
 deephouse. 
Rising
 talent
 Anthea, mostly known for tunes along with Alex Celler (Anthea & Celler) 
also
 makes
 an 
appearance, 
offering
 soul-drenched
 vocal
 shards
 on
 a 
heart-breaking 
experimental house
 tune 
by 
versatile
 Argentinean 
Guti,
 replete
 with
 addictive 
bassline.
 Reboot 
steps
 up 
with 
the
 sprawling
 and
 catchy 
14 
minute
 analogue jam
 that’s 
sure 
to 
slay
 dancefloors not only in the silly season. If all the tracks and artists listed before already made it juicy, Reboot's "Daddy" is one of those tracks that usually sticks like glue in the listeners memory and never leaves again, thankfully due to a variable "flute", it's like we're the snake and Reboot haves the power to enchant. Perfect tune.




Two
 tracks 
are 
aimed 
especially
 at 
those 
who 
like 
to 
throw 
shapes:
 straight 
outta 
NYC, following 
remarkable
 releases
 and
 remixes
 on 
Shelter’s
 Restricted 
and
 Un-Restricted
 Access,
Yoruba 
or 
Simple
Sound,
 Filsonik
 comes
 good
 on 
a 
shimmying 
jam
 with
 shades of 
Chicago
house, 
while 
Funk
 E 
steps 
out 
of
 the
 shadows
 with
 an 
effervescent 
cut 
that 
plays
 with
 hip
house
 and
 electro
 atmospheres.
 Meanwhile 
Danny
 Ocean
 returns 
after
 “Lights 
In
 My
 Dark
 World”
 with
 a
 thoroughly 
contemporary 
and
 elegant
 take
 on 
some of
 those
 sounds 
that 
made
 up 
the 
hey day
 of 
90's 
techno. There’s
 plenty
 to
 celebrate 
round 
the 
Desolat
 offices,
 and
 2012
 looks
 set
 to 
be
 a 
corker.


After an excellent 2011, we can expect nothing less from Desolat!!

Even if lost in Christmas sweets, this is a release that deserved its proper space in minimaland suitcase. Highly recommended by its quality and variety of shakes and grooves!

Catalogue: DESOLAT020
Format: 2xSingle/Digital
Release Date (Vinyl): 05-12-2011

Tracklist:

A1: Hector & Alexkid - Ontra
A2: Danny Ocean - Backstage
B1: Funk E - Goostep
B2: Filsonik - Tamur
C1: Reboot - Daddy
D1: Martin Buttrich & Davide Squilace - Mishima
D2: Guti feat. Anthea - Option One

VA - 15 years of Drumcode

Fifteen years of Drumcode shaking the electronic scene deserves a proper celebration! Mr. Adam Beyer, one of our favorite artists, delivers a gift that's supposed to be enjoyed by fans and listeners worldwide for this christmas!

”It‘s not an easy thing to do over a 15 year period—to maintain an interesting, updated formula of something you started fifteen years ago,” commented Adam Beyer on his label Drumcode in a recent interview. Since 1996, Drumcode has grown to become an institution in the global techno scene, encompassing a radio program, an event series, and, most importantly, a home for the musical vision of its artists and founder. First founded by Beyer to self-release his own records, Drumcode is currently placed alongside the most influential techno imprints, and ranked among the world‘s best. “15 Years of Drumcode” not only celebrates this legacy, it propels the label further with a fresh injection of new and unreleased tracks from some of techno‘s finest producers.

In typical Drumcode fashion, “15 Years of Drum- code” celebrates the past by focusing on the present. There are no throwbacks, rehashings, or even remixes of the label‘s classic tracks. Instead, the 28-track compilation showcases only the newest and most exciting work of Drumcode‘s current roster, cascading between tough, thumping techno and housier, atmospheric arrangements. Yet even with its heavy variety, each track displays the kind of no-nonsense attitude that has become a hallmark of Drumcode‘s sound.

Amongst the talent featured on the compilation include of some techno‘s undisputed heavy-weights, CLR boss Chris Liebing teams up with Brian Sanhaji on their stomping, warehouse-filling track “The Undertaking”. H-Productions founder Cari Lekebusch and Joseph Capriati collaborate on “Napoli 4 pm”, a hybrid tech-house track ondulating with bass and metallic effects. There‘s also appearances by Soma Records founders Slam, whose tracks “Temperance” and “Sonic Scuffle” bristle with momentum and straightforward velocity. Adding to the roster of talent on “15 Years of Drumcode” are tracks from Dustin Zahn, Gary Beck, Jesper Dahlback, label head himself Adam Beyer, and many others.

Slated for release in late November, with various vinyl issues during december, kind os as a nice christmas gift, “15 Years of Drumcode” will be celebrated with a concurrent album tour across Europe‘s most prominent clubs featuring headlining sets by Adam Beyer and other members of the Drumcode family. While there‘s certainly plenty for Drumcode to reflect on over

the past fifteen years, it‘s still the moment that counts!

Label: Drumcode
Artists: Various Artists
Title: 15 Years Of Drumcode
Format. 2 x CD Compilation/Digital Compilation/Vinyl
Cat.Number. DCCD06
Release Date (Digital) November 28, 2011
Distribution Digital. Beatport, I-Tunes, Juno, What People Play




Digital Compilation
01. Grindvik and Billie - Hold, Doubt, Back
02. Slam - Temperance
03. Ben Sims - Make That Shit Funk
04. Paul Ritch - Adreneline
05. Adam Beyer - A Walking Contradiction (Joseph Capri- ati remix)
06. Nicole Moudaber - Contents Of My Head
07. Gregor Tresher - At The Fall Of Night
08. Kaiserdisco - Drum Suspension
09. Alan Fitzpatrick - Running Backwards
10. Cari Lekebusch and Joseph Capriati - Napoli 4pm
11. Jesper Dahlback - No Control
12. Dustin Zahn - Breaking the Cycle
13. Joel Mull - Shake Trip
14. Tony Rohr - Work
15. Gary Beck - Round Your Place
16. Patrick Siech - Structure
17. Mauro Picotto and Riccardo Ferri - Asteroids
18. Nihad Tule - Collider
19. The Advent and Jason Fernandes - Rocket Science
20. Slam - Sonic Scuffle
21. Pascal Mollin vs Egbert - Several Voices
22. Nima Khak - Red One
23. Roberto Capuano - Oblique
24. Nagano Kitchen - Black Panther
25. Chris Liebing and Brian Sanhaji - The Undertaking
26. Gary Beck - Distant
27. Harvey Mckay - Supercell
28. Rocco Caine - Orphan


CD1 - Various Artists - 15 Years Of Drumcode
01. Kaiserdisco - Drum Suspension
02. Alan Fitzpatrick - Running Backwards
03. Paul Ritch - Adreneline
04. Mauro Picotto and Riccardo Ferri - Asteroids
05. Patrick Siech - Structure
06. Jesper Dahlback- No Control
07. Joel Mull - Shake Trip
08. Cari Lekebusch and Joseph Capriati - Napoli 4pm
09. Gregor Tresher - At The Fall Of Night
10. Adam Beyer - A Walking Contradiction (Joseph Ca- priati remix)


CD2 - Various Artists - 15 Years Of Drumcode
01. Grindvik and Billie - Hold, Doubt, Back
02. Slam - Temperance
03. Nagano Kitchen - Black Panther
04. Gary Beck - Round Your Place
05. Chris Liebing and Brian Sanhaji - The Undertaking
06. Ben Sims - Make That Shit Funk
07. Nicole Moudaber - Contents Of My Head
08. Slam - Sonic Scuffle
09. Roberto Capuano - Oblique
10. Rocco Caine - Orphan

Rob Small - Phased EP

Artform is founded by Jamie Anderson having in mind the idea of transmit their good vibe and the mission of this label is to bridge the gap between genres of electronic music by experimenting with fusing styles and developing new sounds. With this presets, Artform has new three tracks of rotational tech-house with producer and DJ Rob Small. Needless to say, Rob's DJ and producer career is the product of growth in the early '90s and being influenced by House & Techno dub background.

With only 20 years, Rob started with his own event called "friction", an event that happened in a club in Leeds in 2006, after the reputation growth with this actions, Rob was invited to join in 'Breakout audio Records Label, and the newfound passion for the industry triggered Rob’s enthusiasm for music production. In January 2009 his Detroit techno influenced ‘Torment EP’ was snapped up and released on Selektor Music which was later supported by the best. Rob Small from there went on to have a series of projections and remixes on various brands across the world, and is fast becoming one of the most exciting talents to recently emerge from the UK’s House & Techno scene. His style of Synthetic Techno and ‘Proper’ House Music dj sets has seen him devastate clubs the world over.

So, having said this, "Phased" comes with his particular sound, slightly acid, sub-bass ignited delight of electronic music, continuing to privilege Artform with a great release, playing an integral role in pioneering worldwide Tech-House phenomena.Droping the needle, appears “Phased”, naming the Ep and providing a balanced mix of old school techno snippets and a great tech-house groove, slightly mental and trippy. Dub version of “Phased” sounds a little more coherent and as well more “quiet” maintaining the same basics and comes as a great alternative to a set which is demanding some cadence in the sound path. Finally, with a little hand of Kyle Marshall, appears “Smoke & Ski”, a track with a great groove line, trippy semi-influenced Detroit organ sounds and a nice experience to warm some crowd into an introspective dance, mixing accurately old school in the claps and other details with the current bassline trends, creating a great mixture of both.Artform has accumulated more than a decade of Detroit Techno and Chicago House influencies, championed by the likes of Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, DJ Sneak, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Laurent Garnier and Dave Angel, a growth which finally outcomes in this Ep as a bright mix of their roots with a smell of present times attached to it.

Genre: Techno / Tech House
Label:: Artform

Catalog: #ARTFORM0213

Tracklist:

1 - Phased – Original Mix

2 - Phased – Dub

3 - Phased Smoke & Ski – Original Mix

Mario & Vidis - Staar Wars EP

There's releases that somehow are destined to meet us and not the reverse way. After a suggestion by someone I respect a lot, I gave it a try on soundcloud. Then, magically, Staar Wars EP entered and never left anymore. Even more weirdly, I was looking for more info on this masterpiece and it came to my surprise it was on my promo list! And well, after all these coincidences, it's really worthy of a good review here since it's a production so magnificent it would be a sin to let it go released without our kind word.

Following the much talked about ones on Japanese Endless Flight, Australian Future Classic, German Best Works, British Crosstownrebels, and Otherworldly Philomena – a string of tracks,

remixes, and releases of 2011 supported by Âme, Dixon, Damian Lazarus, Andre Lodemann, Soul Clap, Anthony Pappa, Sasha, Joakim and far too many others to mention, here comes brand new four track Staar Wars EP of interplanetary dance music by Mario & Vidis. Best Kept Secret is a label founded by Vidis to uncover & present the hidden sounds of Vilnius House scene and intends to release good secrets over next times!

Staar Wars EP is one of those releases we just feel proud to find. And we feel proud cause since the first play our ego goes high and we take music like this as if it was made for us specially, driving an appeal of love and emotion not easilly found anywhere. Yeah, we know we tend to use fancy words to describe an EP or a track, but, with this EP is different: I'm wordless.

All I can say it's that any listener will not feel that this was the result of some mouse clicking during a rage of inspiration.. yeah, maybe it's that also, but then adds all the ingredients that tend to divide a huge production from a collector's masterpiece. Still wordless, I'll just refer that every track is a storyline and the main actor is the listener, Manaan, as the name itself tends to describe, it's pure joy of God's feeding to mere human listeners, it's pure magic and shiny energy feeding anyone directly into the ears. What more we can say?? There's a player below just in case... :)

Tracklist

A1 Ryyk

A2 Manaan

B1 Illum

B2 Loove Wars feat. Michelle Bee

Label. Best Kept Secret Artist. Mario & Vidis Title. Staar Wars EP Cat. Number. BKS001

Format. 12“ Vinyl, Digital EP

Release Date. November 11, 2011

Distribution. Word and Sound

Domain. www.facebook.com/bestkeptsecret.lt

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.

Pawn Shop People - Hometown EP

After releases on Blufin and Sleaze‘s sublabel Smut Music, Pawn Shop People finally deliver their debut for the Kiddaz Music Group and represents a good discovery for us.

Their sound represents cutting edge dance music, vibrating between techno and tech-house with a certain analogue & rough appeal that keeps driving listeners. .

“Hometown” comes in with hypnotic bassline, deep synths and a penetrating beat. Little bit dirty, techy and deep underground music that appeals to a mumbling pattern of rhythm which embraces a nice journey of 4/4 mood. “Streetsmart“ appears with a rough drumming code combined with dark vocal drops and snippets, wrapped into Chicago‘s old school sounds while embracing some minimalistic pulpy hi hats that get side along perfectly with the groove working on the base of it, revealing as a good uplifter to any dancefloor. youANDme, who recently released a huge record on Cocoon and their own imprints, delivered an amazing 16 minutes rework, offering a complete new and heavy vision of “Streetsmart”, where techno is the basis for a dark trip around an interconnected mesh of delusive sounds that add some experimentation, brilliantly sending us back to old days of soulfull dark techno.

Tracklist:

a1 - Hometown

a2 - Streetsmart

b1 - Streetsmart (youANDme Remix)

Artist. Pawn Shop People Label. Style Rockets Title. Hometown EP

Cat. Number: STYRLTD007

Format. 12“ Vinyl, Digital EP

Release Date. October 24, 2011

Seidensticker & Salour - Katzenjammer EP

Seidensticker & Salour (Jakob Seidensticker & Bardia Salour) are a name that’s becoming really familiar to us. Or, well, maybe is just our ears that are becoming enlightned by its intrincate and energized tapestry of sound construction, who knows, is just something that is explained perfectly looking upon a fast backward to these both artists biography.

While Bardia is a local hamburg dj and music connoisseur with great influence on the whole hamburg scene for years now, Jakob Seidensticker is a essential part on the internationally respected Wareika trio, releasing in labels we love and as known like Perlon, Circus Company, Eskimo and being well acclaimed internationally.

After Dj'ing in various clubs and locations , they have finally found their base at the'fulmina

nt' EGO club in hamburg where they share their tracks with other Dj's and the ass shaking crowd in general. One thing is for sure, Seidensticker & Salour's track selection and their dub influenced sound have been known to satisfy all hedonistic impulses one may have.

The duo have recently started a party called 'Dance For Fans' in hamburg. The concept is for a range of local events to spread innovation into the local club environment and inside clubbers into a new vision .

After their releases on Einmaleins Musik & FormResonance the two tracker "Katzenjammer is the next step.

..And this is what we consider a good release, the mythical convex of underground and

its definite search between labels and real artists. This connection between URSL Records and the magic cadence of the duo results in rare release combining a taste of deep appealing and „sexy“ grooving in a musically shaped tapestry that defines all their productions and enriches any listener’s experience. It’s not supposed to be a mere music, it’s supposed to be a all-in melodic trip, a delicate „enchantément“ of cadency trough fusions and snippets that outcome to become real music, which defines real musicians.

"Early in the morning " is pure deepness art and a perfect, delightfull listening, ready to take the ears by its gentle touch and keep pushing forward to a pretty quiet and blissfull trip along the way, translating itself as the official soundtrack to any warmup or enjoyable after-party as its name says!

"Midnight Tar" is brilliant crescent, growing cadenced music, or defining it better, -something never fair-, a peak galloping track, in a cresty chrome of a delusive and charismatic cyclic sound, fusioning different instruments that create a personality unique which outcomes as a bomb with understatement.

This music with sensuous melodic and harmonious sounds are of gentlement to gentlemen. From music lovers to lovers.

Seidensticker & Salour.

Tracklist:

A1 - Early In The Morning

B1 - Midnight Tar

Release Date: Around Next Days... | Available on www.decks.de | Info: http://www.ursl-records.com/

Catalog:URSL004

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