mörk finally arrives with it s first album, a super extended 3lp of deep, heady club excursions from long-time la musician, producer and dj, grant.

dusseldorfian dj normal 4 steps up to the plate and knocks it out the park with 4 tracks of breaky madness. influenced by the past but by no means a cliche, the vivid ep is both homage and statement...catch it before its gone

who is v? some say a belgian with an ebm heritage, some say a nomad from outer prussia, im afraid no one knows for sure. lets just fall back on the old cliche of letting the music do the talking, 2 perfect newwave/post/proto/dance tracks sure to rekindle the flames of a lost love or sooth even the most broken hearted of souls. on the flip is a man known to many as ripperton who delivers two slices of his trademark deep and mysterious technohouse music that unfurl with a poise and elegance known only to those with a true mastery of the craft. glorious stuff.

fuckthegovernment.ltd, a.k.a. f.t.g (alfredo trastulli) and music box head honcho, marco riff, return to the skylax fold in 2016 with a cache of house nuggets for our listening pleasure. their last venture on skylax saw f.t.g collaborate with a bunch of his friends, resulting in some of the best tracks we’d heard all year, including the unforgettable fuckthegovernment theme. their tracks have been celebrated and hailed by some of the best djs in the game, names such as derrick may, ricardo villalobos, raresh, and dj harvey. the bar set by the first record remains sky high, and somehow, these two manage to raise the bar even higher. it may be the biggest cliche going when talking about an album, but the duo certainly do take us on a journey, through the past and present of house music. it’s a record not too dissimilar in tone to paranoid london’s from a few years back, but f.t.g and marco strip things back even further than those guys did, in our opinion, the sound is more raw with less frills, and no track names to predispose feelings in the listener either. this eight track project is cohesive and elaborate, with movements through sounds both acid and jazzy, minimal and maximal. it explores sounds that came to prominence in famous house locales such as detroit and chicago over in the u.s., but the underground european influence is definitely present, from paris to berlin, and of course f.t.g and marco’s home of italy. with this album, these guys add to the underground sound that has cultivated in the city of perugia for years now, a place that has seen the likes of simoncino and nicholas hone their craft.don’t miss out on a piece of skylax history

the first volume in an ongoing series compiled by butter sessions & noise in my head, domestic documents surveys independent artists who are living and producing electronic abstraction in australia far from a complete guide to the country s burgeoning scene, the 2lp set presents a cross-section of wide ranging sounds and ideas, travelling the endless highways between brisbane, sydney, canberra, melbourne & adelaide as well as regional towns, ballarat and keyneton. featuring exclusive tracks from daze, mic mills, albrecht la brooy, lucy cliche and more, the comp also marks the first vinyl outing for newcomers chiara kickdrum, ben keynes & a fresh dan white / ryan hunter collaboration turner street sound. stay tuned for volume 2, coming late 2016!

jakarta based jonathan kusuma delivers a new ep on cocktail d amore music. after his european debut on cosmo vitellis i m a cliche, followed by a successful ep on berlins imprint love on the rocks, the indonesian artist keeps carrying the vessel of the far east sound.

celebrating our 20th release, glasgows dave clark returns to optimo trax as sparky. he was responsible for the third release on the label as luma which featured the club smash -john broadwood- and recently had another big club hit with signals- on numbers. we are delighted to welcome him back in what is a contunuation of a relationship that stretches back further than we care to remember. all four tracks here are certified dancefloor winners, from the reach for the lasers, kickless things fall apart through the synth rhapsodies of black swan and my prophet, climaxing in the jacking seven daggers. all killer, no filler is often a trite cliche in these blurbs but is entirely true in the case of this ep.

it’s not easy to create something that sounds epic and yet doesn’t veer off into cliche-riddled pathos, which is why the latest release from gaspard de la montagne hits so hard. it’s perfect.

dirty analog techno from french boss, crackboy trevor jackson: brilliant! crackboy (and all his dirty aliases) never disapoints for his second chapter on crowdspacer (after releases on tigersushi, im a cliché, zone or fragil), crackboy, the king of french dirty analog techno, half of pov with label-boss joakim, digs deeper into that detroit melanchol-epic vibe with weapons of steel on the a-side before going bonkers on the b-side with 2 naughty stripped-down beat-centric dj tools for the sweaty late night crowds. made me think of some gemini tracks when i first heard it (thats a compliment).

vactrol park is an honest outpouring of thematic obsession, a celebration of championed studio components and the mastery of their nuance, an avant garde collaboration between kyle martin (land of light, spectral empire) and guido zen (gamers in exile, brain machine). simply entitled i (the first of a 2 part series), this debut ep opens the door to a world of ebb and flow, layers of oscillation falling in and out of sync, keeping us on the brink of vertigo and, as cliché as it may sound, we find solace in its chaos. this homogeneous release plays with the notions of systems as beautifully symbolized mario hugo s capsule of cardiologyyet another visually arresting module in the esp institute catalogue. some music is made for drugs, some is made on drugs, these tracks simply are drugs.

israels hottest export follow up excellent eps on hivern and im a cliche with a 3-tracker for the global psychedelic cult of multi culti.

a summer on the rocks is truly a summer of love. from the light blue sea of indonesia comes jakarta-based jonathan kusuma to redefine the label standards on love on the rocks. highly celebrated for his releases on im a cliché earlier this year, kusuma continues his streak with yet another double a side. buzzing oceancool pads bump into a catchy piano roll on steins way, which is the perfect openair main stage filler on a sunday afternoon. on the flip comes the game changing underpass to celebrate the gathering of a horde of down-tripped mushroom infected goblins in java. the moon looks bigger from the other side.

repress !!! since launching in early 2014, the hong kong-based homesick series an offshoot of cliche records has provided disco djs with some of the strongest edits of recent times reverential but floor-friendly reworks that get the right balance between re-mastered original parts and house-friendly additional beats. this third volume comes from borrowed identity, a house producer whose edits and productions have appeared on an impressive list of labels. these four reworks are predictably tidy, soulful and groovy, with familiar disco and soul staples being given loose but heavy rearrangements. picking highlights is tough given the high quality threshold, but we re particularly taken with the vibraphone-laden party shuffle of run run run- and lowslung afro-disco strut of you cant change a man-

2014 was a great year for glenn astro, but appearances on dj kicks (brandt brauer frick) and brownswood among other labels, numerous remixes, and a string of beautifully-crafted eps already look set to be eclipsed in 2015. the essen-based producers collaboration ep with max graef will launch their new label money $ex records in january, while his debut lp is to follow on tartelet records in the spring

having spent three years tirelessly growing the la vie en rose label from strength to strength, championing avant-garde house music and helping launch the careers of fresh new talent, label boss terence:terry: now steps forward with a string of his own works. inspired by his blossoming collective and following his recent remix of marcos baiano on lvr015, * acid heroes* ep contains three original terry productions truly for the club.the title track enters in strong punchy form, concocting deep industrial vibes and sinister vocals that echo into the darkness, until, half way through, it takes a more upbeat turn, lifted by reverberating synth chords. * cliché* slaps a little harder with a pounding bass and clashing symbols, before warming up with female wails and woos. a short, sharp taste of chord jabs and the journey builds up to what seems like the climatic futuristic ending, before melting into softer territory and a much welcomed infectious kick, for that last lease of life. rounding off with the murky, splashing number * testing the water*, deep keys and the expert layering of techno effects equals a sublime underground house track, most certain to arouse the dancefloor. * acid heroes* is served as the perfect appetiser to get you salivating before * house couture* , the first compilation from terence:terry: on lvr, mixing producers past and present, as well as a handful of unreleased future-gems to come on the label.

the idea of merging recordings of different instruments and sounds appeared out of recording harp for an audiobook. the result are 4 innovative, unpredictable and completely homeproduced tracks on the a-side of the record, which negates the cliché of the harp as an apparently benign tool for gentle and smooth tunes. in order to go one step further in breaking tradition-steeped sounds there are 3 remixes from 3 different artists coming from the more technoid world of music (technical grief, carina posse, mod.civil) on the b-side. there you’ll find the attempt to alienate the original instruments and let them coalesce with danceable electronic sounds in a new context. the 12- is on black vinyl, packaged in a silkscreen print cover and limited to 200 pieces.

for the fourth instalment of our limited white label series we welcome the mysterious parisian producer crackboy. sporadically crawling from the depths of the citys underbelly to deliver prime, raw house cuts he has graced the likes of tigersushi, get the curse and i m a cliche with musical snapshots of darkness and light. crackboys latest is very much the soundtrack to the summer… the cheeky off track heats the soul and soles as our feet and body are unable to resist the pounding kick-drum and purple samples. this is set to leave a crackboy sized imprint on the summer of 2014.
single sided pressing with roland tr-909 etching on the flip.

vinyl only, 180 grm , 12 inch in plastic sleeve. dj support: slackk, murlo, dj q, oil gang, inkke, mixpak...
* keep calling*, this eps title track, is one of the key anthems at leading grime clubnight boxed (finn contributed to their boxed vol. 1 compilation), and comes backed with the high octane * dangerous* and the gorgeous * only boy*. like blackjack, low deep and iron soul before him, finn is combining r n b and grime without ever resorting to cliché, and the results are killer.

pressing on red vinyl.
leskin, massimo di lena, joseph russel and rio padice (aka the early sound collective) deliver four outstanding deep & raw house/techno cuts. of course, shitloads of records come out these days that fit the deep & raw house description, but this stuff just goes beyond. without falling back into cliche, their characteristic use of analog equipment takes you right back into the early days of hypnotic, raw & soulful machine music competing with the detroit/chicago cats from back in the day.

formed somewhere in the 5th dimension, acid mondays is the cosmic coalition of fellow psychonauts negghead and lex wolf. brought together by their love for fat beats, inter dimensional travel & cups of tea, they are on a never-ending journey exploring inner and outer space. expect altered states of hallucinogenic house and reality bending techno. it would be a cliché to say they have a great future, but they’ve been there and beyond and have returned to the now to do it all again…

leskin, massimo di lena, joseph russel and rio padice (aka the early sound collective) deliver four outstanding deep & raw house/techno cuts. of course, shitloads of records come out these days that fit the deep & raw house description, but this stuff just goes beyond. without falling back into cliche, their characteristic use of analog equipment takes you right back into the early days of hypnotic, raw & soulful machine music competing with the detroit/chicago cats from back in the day.

detroits man of the hour with three raw analog feeling deep detroit house cuts... for those who knows

>see blind through< is the new single from sydney-based desert house outfit canyons. it follows on from their lovemore ep on their own hole in the sky records, the fire eyes 12 inch on nycs dfa records, blue snakes on paris i m a cliche records and the my rescue 12 inch on modular. >see blind through< is from their debut album keep your dreams, which is available now, and its a late, late night house mutant built on a swampy bassline and the heavily warped vocals of nite jewels ramona gonzalez. >the see blind through< 12 inch features the original track, heroes of the galleon trades sexican version and an almighty remix by the don himself - dj harvey.

***vinyl only*** some of you might know nycs marcos cabral from his work as half the duo runaway. together with jacques renault, runaway has stacked up a slew of releases and remixes over the past few years. the labels theyve worked for include, dfa, rekids, wurst music co, chinatown, im a cliche, crue-l, mule, endless flight, need want, fina, solar disco, aus, under the shade, plant music, turntable lab, spectral, playout, permanent vacation, nervous, ohm, tartelet, and their very own label on the prowl. their resume is very telling of their musical abilities. this year, marcos has decided to push the envelope even further and create something a bit more personally reflective…his new label hamilton dance records. just as the label artwork foreshadows, the presentation becomes blurred. edits, originals, creative sampling, its all lumped together with a certain vision. special dance-floor tools being the most obvious

originally on cosmo vitellis parisian label im a cliche, runaways >dead dog farm< finds additional life with on the prowl releasing four new stunning remixes. the original version exitst as a beautiful blend of live instruments recorded by nycs brennan green

following the phenomenal >separat/izolat< single by cosmin trg, 50 weapons proudly presents rising new uk talents benjamin damage and doc daneeka with 2 stunning collaboration works, merging classic techno and house influences with uk bass elements.
>creeper/infamous< yet again shows modeselektors 50 weapons label from a new and different perspective. thanks to the fresh and addictive house flavor of benjamin damage & doc daneeka we are convinced we indeed can not avoid the overused and cliche word hit. there we said it, now you decide for yourself!

again, it comes action packed with a trio of quality remixes: brooklyn crew runaway - affiliated with dfa, rekids and im a cliche - nyc hipsters in flagranti & hot belgium djs/producers sound of stereo.

its a fine line between reference and cliche
its a fine line between rough and cheap
its a fine line between moody and dark
its a fine line between independent and arrogant
its a fine line between obscure and abstruse
its a fine line between intricate and complex
its a fine line between passion and obsession
its a fine line between ambiguity and confusion
its a fine line between style and genre
its a fine line between loud and proud
its a fine line between repetitive and repetition
its a fine line between principles and rules
its a fine line between simple and easy
its a fine line between ideas and ideals
its a fine line between nu and new
its a fine line between disco and disco
its a fine line between tim paris and ivan smagghe ... and thats why they are walking it.

for the second installment of otp party breaks, jacques renault from runaway (rekids, dfa, im a cliche, rvng, wurst, chinatown, mule, etc) delivers four sucker punch edits that zig and zag from late-night house gems to rhythmic!

minimal techno which is primarily made with expensive soundsystems in mind, these tracks are about chunky rhythm, melody and colour, built to cut through under any circumstances without pandering to cliché

on the prowl launches their new sub label with otp party breaks 1. nyc house legend marcos cabral from runaway (dfa, rekids, im a cliche, wurst, chinatown, mule, etc) solidifies the backbone of whats to come. expect nothing less than to hear the sound of the current wave of nyc dance music with upcoming releases featuring nyc artists that we know and love. lifetime groove (marcos cabral & shux edit): on side a marcos teams up with chinatown records partner in crime brennan green to rework some roller boogie magic. the result is an epic twelve minute adventure, jam packed with balearic overtones and dubbed out feel good vibes. an instant classic! lonely (marcos cabral edit): on side b, he shows how simple arrangements can ignite the dancefloor. classic deep house track sampled and looped up...bursting with tension over eight minutes of chord stabs and repetative saxophone flurries. this edit has been notoriously canned across the globe in many runaway dj sets, now available for the masses.

azari & iii, pronounced a-zar-ee and third, is the clandestine collaboration between toronto based producers dinamo azari and alixander iii. with a sound both futuristic and reminiscent, bold tracks like hungry for the power (released on im a cliche records) and the now following brazen reckless (with your love) have made their way onto the top of the taste makers charts and into the sets of many renowned djs.

is kerowacks first follow-up single their acclaimed ep, the first ep. a is a heavy drum and electro synth four. it is partly a sentimental track, communing with one hand with the 90s warehouse techno revival, yet with the other hand, forging forward in the evolution of electrohaus, sacrificing nothing and tripping no cliche. fc kahuna lead the back-side of this release with a live rock acid disco reinterpretation, conjuring up an entirely different waking dream, untamed yet methodical, acoustic, analog, whacked out yet perfectly in control as fc kahuna always is.

determined to write a new chapter in nycs long history of dance music, marcos cabral and jacques renault (think dfa, rekids, im a cliche, wurst edits, chinatown, editions disco, rvng, trapez, and more) have decided to launch their own record label on the prowl. with a heavy nod to american classic house, techno, and disco, otp listeners should expect a variety of sound that will propel them to dance for years to come. the first otp instalment entitled the poltergeist throws a heavy blow of dark acid bass, todd terry-esque stabs, and proper dubbed out distortion for a feeling that will leave listeners floored... leaving even the most stubborn of listeners open for more. house music, raw and unrestricted. the b-side, not to be overshadowed, brings us dont block the box. an a-side in its own right, delivering us good old fashioned house music with hypnotically filtered samples and pulsing arms in the air swells of resonance.

since its foundation in the year 1995, reykjaviks gus gus are working hard to make this world a less boring place. initially tagged by the press as the next big icelandic music export after bjoerk, the band swept away all cliche thinking with their highly infectuous metrosexual multimedia pop and secured themselves a deal with the prestiguous 4ad label. &#8233,,,since then a lot of hot water has been ejected by icelands geysers but gus gus miraculously always managed to combine avantgarde with pop, soul and of most prominently - with electronic music. especially with their furious live shows they ve earned themselves a devoted following worldwide. &#8233,,,&#8233,,,this years september will bring us the release of their sixth studio album that goes by the name 24/7. at this point, we dont want to let too much of the cat out of the bag but its certainly right to say that they ve once more reinvented themselves and the result is truely breathtaking. as we re convinced that the world-embracing harmonies and impeccable catchiness of add this song should be heard during this summer season, so we ve decided to already share this with you now. &#8233,,,&#8233,,,the remixes all sound as excellent as their producers: patrick chardronnet, lopazz & zarook and gluteus maximus...

first 12 inch from double cd compilation >moments of a crisis<, celebrating 5 years of cosmo vitellis >i m a cliche< label! happy birthday!

good fun horror themed disco lp from germany. featuring members of the boney m family this rare lp first hit our shores in 1977, and has become synonymous with the horror disco lps from the likes of simonettis goblin. containing 7 tracks ranging from even vampires... and dracula goes dreamy which are slower instrumentals, to the more upbeat terror on the dance floor which features bizarre crowd noises and sleazy overtones. the major track on the record, soul dracula has every cliché one would expect from a dracula track: maniacal laughing drrrracu la, catchy background gimmicks that drill themselves into your head and sleazy overtones. this track recently found its way onto quiet villages fragments of fear mix cd!

john talabot is a youngster from barcelona with a rather special way of approaching music. borrowing his schools name for his alias and the most diverse samples for his music, he produces expansive and iconoclastic housey tracks. his influences range from flamenco to northern soul, from african music to traditional asian songs and he s inspiration sources go from the profound and sensual house of moodyman and labels such as sound signature or kdj to disco music, chicago house, pop or techno, whatever he likes. sounds like a bass kick and a sampler, he says us in his myspace, no less. this young producer and tireless musical tracker has the ability not just to find the appropriate samples but also to conjugate them wisely. in a great exercise of sonic inventiveness, guitars, strings and keyboards are combined in his tracks with rhythms and vocals with african reminiscences, to give us his own vision of house music, original and personal, but yet very effective. cliche allergic, songs like naomi, korlee or afrika sound cosmic and tremendously emotional without losing sight of the dance floor (thats what we call fat beats). his tracks are organic, human, full of life, the kind of music that keeps not only your foot moving but also your heart tingling.

after one year composing in isolation, bot ox is tackling 2009 at full throttle. following the 12 releases on dfa and dc recording last year, cosmo vitelli and julien briffaz are coming back on im a cliche to release three singles till 2009 put together like a trilogy. here is the first single including arab drift and rue de l arsenal.

after &#145,putting in the overtime&#146, (cliché017) by runaway, cosmo vitelli is back on his own subdivision cliché breaks with 4 big edits. enjoy!

melbournes d t3ch gives his own interpretation of wildly jacking house music in the classic chicago style.

entertainment is a duo. im a cliché is proud to release their very first e.p on september 29th. juan de guillebon is the bass player. he studied a lot jaco pastorius, but decided not to spend the rest of his life playing in jazz rock combos. you can easily guess his attraction to no wave bands (suicide or james chance), krautrock (his faves are cluster), or ebm and early electro (daf). alongside, hes part of the ectoplasmic band, performing as backing band for tigersushis boss joakim. antoine montgaudon plays the guitar, and we bet he would have fit perfectly in any brian enos late 70s recording. he builds endless psychedelic atmospheres with feedbacks, loops and fxs. all this only with his guitar. hes also part of my sister klaus, a project released on tigersushi (again).

botox last november single on im a cliche, >babylon by car<, later licensed by dfa in january, gets a new life with unreleased remixes by padded cells richard sen, discodeine (alias pilooski & pentile), and dissident records invincible scum. supported by ivan smagghe, toby tobias, photonz, crowdpleaser, mylo, dj morpheus, matt walsh (turbo), riotous rockers ..

after releases on labels as famous as relish, rise, and im a cliche, here is the new production from yuksek. as usual with the french electro new wonderboy, a bridge is set between all his influences, ranging from rock to electro with an unusual ease...

top charted by simian mobile disco >the best record since agees< , francois k, ivan smagghe, riton, munk, tim sweeney (dfa), joakim…… dirty 30 is toronto based producer alphonse lanza. we are proud to present his first ep on im a cliché, featuring 3 brand new tracks. check the keith richard-like riff in >star 80<, and the crazy aciddisco jam called >disco apocalypto<. erik rug brings in his science of old school electro with a remix of the roman steppes track. im a cliché is a parisian label created by cosmo vitelli. they released material by cosmo vitelli, bot ox, dirty 30, juan & anton sparx , runaway, simian mobile disco yuksek, aysam,, domenico torti, erik rug, quiet village, tacteel, bogus, tekel

the second release by the breakfastaz on their own breakfast club imprint girls money drink & drugs ist a twisted breakbeat with male raps about the top cliche in the scene flip over for a devils gun remix notto be missed

good song writing and a keen melodic ear set ludo and his new emotive composition apart. hectorine is a womans name and from the sounds of it ludo is in lust. remixes are served up by new school minimalist alland byallo and in house jet setters audio soul project. alland keeps the epic pads from the original weaving in and out of his surgically designed bouncy groove. on the flip asp get down to business with a remix that would’ve been right at home on their seminal community lp. the song is essentially re written with new music and drums. this rendition could almost be mistaken for a track on one of todays fashionable labels except for its lack of dogma and cliché

talented parisian producer cosmo vitelli is now running his own imprint >im a cliche< !! his new single >delayer< takes a surprising minimal approach (also quiet village remix). already a big buzz amongst electro specialists

the sublabel of dirt crew rec. comes with two strong dancefloor tracks by out of orbit owner martinez!! slowly driven groove, far away from every electro cliche on the one and ruff beats, with an outstanding spacy bassline that evolves into great peaks and follow you into oblivion on the other side..