ibiza is known for that very special and unique vibe. this atmosphere full of deep emotions mixed with wild energy, salty air and hot summer nights. this is what we want to give to you and what we tried to present right from the start of our great ibiza adventure more than 15 years ago! all led by the big mastermind mister sven vŠth who started back then on the white island with his vision and made it come true more and more year by year. looking back at 15 editions of his mix-cd-series the sound of the season we have to state that these mixes are acoustic documents for contemporary witnesses, the recored soundtracks of our lifes on the island for all these great and unforgettable summer seasons!

tim green turned to one of our main players here at cocoon recordings as he is looking at his fifth release with this one already.

ilario alicante is back and delivers another alicante-blueprint full of minimal techno beats ready to rock and hypnotize us. 4 tracks that represent the typical handwriting of the italian who moved to berlin a couple of years ago. hard techno however sexy and funky and close to perfection.

after touring the world like no other techno artist on this planet and focusing on his ibiza-parties and mix-cd-projects our most wanted techno shamen sven vaeth returns with a new 12inch finally! well, its not really a new solo production to be honest as it is a remix-treat sven received from adam port who fell in love with the 1993 classic ritual of life.

we welcome back len faki and present an unbelievable hot remix for young swedish techno activist fauntleroy and his track everything which was originally released on fauntleroys own label anemone. faki gives the original track a massive berlin flavoured techno polish. pressing on multi-color marbled vinyl.

johannes heil and markus suckut team up for the new cocoon release and what they came up with is simply amazing! a techno monster! the two high profile producers seem to merge various techno influences out of the last 15 years here but they manage it to do this with their very own hand writing. the opening track intuition appears like robert hood and speedy j helped out triggering the right sounds in the studio.

cocoon recordings is back again with something fresh n hot by uprising player waff! a release that needs no warm-up, no introduction go ahead and judge this one by the sound and the energy of freeks and groover and you will realise these gems will make your body move immediately!

vinyl box-set limited to 500 copies + includes the compilation on cd - time is running and it seems like we just woke up out of our interstellar sleep-mode as we are facing the arrival of the 14th edition of the almighty cocoon recordings compilation.

eep emotional techno full of warm chords and analogue basslines merged with cool beats to get that special fitzpatrick vibe. music for dancefloors and living rooms at the same time, charismatic and dynamic!

with dominik eulberg and arne schaffhausen (of extrawelt) we welcome back two longtime cocoon heroes to the label.

minilogue are known for their bigger than life electronic music adventures! a fact that makes their announcement to-have-a-break even more painful for us and many of their fans! markus henriksson and sebastian mullaert decided to put their collaboration aside for an undefined period and focus more on their solo careers from now on. however they are not waving good bye without a last mega-sign of their former existence and we are proud and happy to be the label of choice to present this ep

tim green serves the right desert to a long and delicious cocoon recordings 2013 meal and leaves us all with a satisfied smile on our faces

cocoon latest artist signing coyu is back on the track with his second cocoon recordings release. and he strikes back louder and heavier than ever before! for quite some time coyu focused mainly on the deeper sides of house and techno, especially with his own label suara

here we are, presenting mauro picottos and ricardo ferris release >the riff<.
cool but lush house beats with the right amount of techno added, merging with hypnotic synths and monster basslines that force you to dance! get crazy, get lost, forget where you are, shake your head and feel the vibe!

harvey mckay is back on the track, and stronger and harder than ever before!

cocoon recordings celebrates the 100th release! incl. 3 x vinyl + 2xcd + ein paar exklusive slipmats! well, to be honest, we are even over in the 100 meanwhile as our anniversary release needed some time to get well prepared and to make sure it will be a very special one.

- slamming remixes by legowelt, mr g, adam port, m. kaden!
- daniel stefanik generated some buzz this year with his latest album release on cocoon recordings.
- and he prooved with a number of outstanding dj-sets over the last weeks that he progre

lets start with the italian ilario alicante and his dj-mix to get the immediate scoop of what makes this guy so special: we cannot describe it other than saying this mix rules! strong but relaxed at the same time with a good variation and xxl deepness in the selection makes this mix a great house-excursion. this is the sound of hot summer nights and happy people dancing til the morning. you can imagine this very special summer party vibe while listening to ilarios mix which incorporates the right elements such as emotional piano-breaks, cool vocal-samples, kicking house-beats and hypnotic basslines.

cocoon recordings welcomes pele & shawnecy for his cocoon 12 inch debut. without any doubt the rosenheim resident is one of the fastest rising names in germany. the bavarian tech-house-hero has built up an impressive reputation over the last two years. his driving and testosterone loaded productions and remixes can be found in many top notch dj-sets and charts. pele is a master of kicking tech-house and his style of incorporating chords and vocals create real peaktime highlights. there is no escape when the sound of pele kicks in on your pa system!

welcome back to the cocoon recordings headquarter. we are proud to present the next chapter of our infamous compilation-series and believe or not: its m already!

spanish dj and producer uner is looking back on an impressive but intense career. after first milestones on top notch labels like saved and diynamic he scored even more points with his last releases on the Überlabels cadenza and visionquest which made him one of the most wanted minimal-techno-producers around

sven vaeths coocon system .. in limitierte auflage von 500x , ... technische daten: frequenzgang: 20 hz - 20 khz, ausgangsspannung (5 cm/s): 8 mv, auflagebereich: 2 - 5 g, empfohlene auflagekraft: 3 g, gewicht: 18.5 g

the warning we all here at cocoon still remember their label-debut as a duo. timeless and kickin tech-house with hands-up-energy and potential to set dance floors on fire - until today!

everything comes in its own time: a wordly wisdom that marcus henriksson and sebastian mullaert aka minilogue take for granted. since their foundation in the year 1997 they emerged to one of the most respected and hard to pigeonhole electronic music acts world-wide.

cocoon recordings is back on the track, just in time to start this years party season! and we are more than happy to present one of the men of the moment: adam port!

shake is techno at its best! dub techno elements in a basic-channel-style meet kicking, masculine beats as you may know most likely from santos releases, all united in the meanwhile typical mckay style. mckay is the incarnate techno beat, and shake is no exception! ltd 300 copies, white labels

sam paganini is not a real newcomer anymore. after all, he produces great tracks for more than ten years now and also became an acknowledged dj in italy during this time. however, his career received an enormous boost since 2011 with his releases on plus 8 and drumcode, and now reaches a new height with his cocoon recordings debut.

cocoon recordings is back in full force with the follow up to last years superb vinyl compilation >dots & pearls< providing a tracklisting that is nothing less than the modern interpretation of house, techno and tech-house >dots & pearls< ii eschews monotonous loops and predictable formulas and rather delivers a selection packed with energy and depth.

the name paul ritch echoes around the world. his productions and live sets, charged with pure adrenaline and characterised by his powerful, harmonic, and deep techno, have made him the holder of a unique mark of sounds in which his passion and power transmit numerous memorable music moments.

cocoon recordings no. 10010 is a mighty club tool and comes from the studios of dana ruh & andre galluzzi resp. of agent!, vito & danito.

daniel stefanik is one of the techno and house newcomers of the last years. his carefreeness as a dj behind the decks and his likeable appearance are literally distinctive for a new generation of young, down-to-earth producers from germany, which are the result of the influence of väth, villalobos and hawtin on the one side, and solid but hedonistic house on the other. whereas many producers nowadays have dedicated themselves to only one musical direction, the influence of kerri chandler, chez damier or kevin saunderson is clearly noticeable in stefanik’s music. his longplay debut for cocoon recordings is a mirror of all these influences and yet it’s so up-to-date and contemporary like only few other techno and house albums today.

vinyl only release !!! >> come on, be honest. you also have been waiting for this. for more than seven years now, the 27-year-old frankfurter chris tietjen stands, like hardly any other dj, with his cocoon mix compilations for the sound of this label. apart from sven väth, maybe.. so, it was really time for tietjen to carve his music-aesthetical biases finally into vinyl, because for the value-oriented and highly dedicated dj, its a matter of honour to release his tracks in the traditional ep format only.

fur the texan, born bryce isbell, extracts minutiae with precision. his compositions, while airily sparse, are saturated with details plucked from broad of landscapes, whether they resemble the texan prairie or the expanses of industrial germany. isbells composite micro-samples are infinitesimal, soaked in breathless allusion and divorced from their context. the crisp, insistently percussive arrangement oscillates like metal shavings manipulated by an unseen magnet. fur has untraditionally tapped into a eu techno mind-meld, a berlin thought-stream. after his early work with neon indian’s alan palomo as ghost hustler, isbell dove deep into minimal sounds that transported listeners closer to inner city detroit than the mid-west. unos first fur ep cocoon follows several years of isbell silence. after a notable debut with lefse, fur submerged below a sea of techno and came up with a deep analog style that has acquired fans in fred p and firecracker records with twisting house like >knots<. a second part in the fur saga on the way, uno has faith this young westerner will be putting a big texan stamp on the house scene to come.

after broom has remixed tracks by gennaro le fosse and johannes heil for cocoon recordings, it was now unquestionably time for a musical exclamation mark under his own name. and so, the rave mix of sq18 is setting a hedonistic imperative for the club year 2012 right from the beginning, quite naturally interspersing a mentasm rave signal after about three minutes within its driving detroit dub techno, but never conveys the sense of nostalgic mustiness

fantastic cocoon logo slipmat in solid grey print .. sven väth s imprint

great logo slipmat from sven väth s imprint cocoon .. 2x slipmats (pair) fresh colour

there is hardly any other track so closely connected to sven väths twelfth ibiza season, like adonis by alex ridha aka boys noize. with his fusion of energy disco with massive percussions and chicago memories, adonis fitted just perfectly to the intensive late summer we had. but theres still more to come, and so cocoon recordings are offering no less than five congenial versions: on the vinyl edition we find, besides the original version, the first remix of stone breaker mark e, dj and producer from birmingham who recently had the honour to do an album on the well-respected us label spectral sound. he skilfully transfers adonis into a hypnotic house opus with a recognisable detroit pinch.

right before christmas, its the perfect time to pause for a moment and to draw a balance of the past year. cocoon recordings eleventh year of operation was characterised by pacesetting compilations: the >k< composition designed an intensive vision of modern electronic dance music,and also >eleven years< was a techno retrospective and an outlook at the same time.and if this wasn’t enough already,cocoon now puts a very special christmas gift under our tree,the >dots and pearls< double vinyl compilation.

bangin prime time floor techno monster !!!

frank lorber & philipp maier aka santé are rolling a big tech house blunt that abducts you deep into the realms of modern club music. hypnotic, groove-charged and with a very demanding bass line, the duo proves that their cooperation was a very good idea

limited to 500 copies!!!! hardly any other german music producer is so involved in the powerful development of elektro, techno house and noise pop over the last six years as almost 30-year-old alex ridha from berlin. with highly acclaimed releases on international deejay gigolos, turbo and last not least his own label boys noize records

25-year-old tim green from the south of england is well-known to the attentive observer of the electronic dance music scene: besides releases on get physical, trapez and four:twenty recordings, he also gained a lot of attention with his contributions to the third cocoon 10 inch vinyl (lone rider) and the cocoon compilation i (exercise). on his debut ep, green presents the whole stylistic bandwidth that modern floorfillers can have. for almost ten minutes, >lemon< oscillates between a full frontal percussion assault, fragmented deep house vocals and detroit-influenced harmonies, consequently setting the signs to >summer<. the first track on the flipside, >jimmy rave up<, is a dark and pushing runner that impressively proves greens wealth of variants once again. the trio is completed by >dodjo<, a track that forms a more than pleasing intersection between tropic calypso sounds and machine-like strictness - an unforgettable track that will echo long after the year 2011, promised!

special extended vinyl edition plus cd release ltd to 1000 copies! the cocoon compilation k, being the longplay flagship in the cocoon catalogue, adequately starts the second decade of the label with a musical imperative. but dont worry: even if the letter k has sometimes been misused as an indicator for the degree of hardness of some sonic noise in the past of the tech-house scene, >k< is definitely the deepest survey of contemporary electronic dance music that has ever seen the light of day on cocoon recordings!! please note: the full-length versions of all tracks are only available in the 6-vinyl edition !!!

originally born in the south of england into a musically gifted family, mark reeve received the major order to be a dj and to play electronic dance music when he moved to the rhein-main area in 1998. mark is now known today as a non stop dj and producer , as an artist he has now had his most important releases on cult label defected with with düsseldorf-based tapesh, solo on traumschallplatten (sep 2011), for monique musique or neurotraxx - marks tracks are always a mixture between dancefloor moovers including groovy rhythms and big baselines. in his cocoon debut, reeve presents himself in all his stylistic bandwidth: >daybreak< combines a highly-functional tribal bass pumping station with such mighty dub chords that make the sun shine even in in the most remote corner of the club, while >morning on mars< gives priority to the hypnotic effect of percussion. mark reeve is definitely a name to remember in 2011!