Almost exactly one year ago, this transcontinental cooperation released their first EP on Persistencebit Records. Both tracks on the Ice Monster EP emerged from a cooperation with the Goethe Institute. Back then, Mathias Schaffhäuser travelled through Singapore and produced several tracks with Xhin. Working together went well and the tracks were super well received, so their cooperation continued in cyberspace. The duo’s “The Revenge” is the most rave so far, though at the same time a speech sample picks up the theme “genetic imprinting versus socialization”, which against all expectations grooves just fine and works extremely well. Masuki and Falko Brocksieper came up with distinct remixes and gave them a good portion of peaktime potential. “Imperial Sauce” is a more playful house track from the “Ice Monster” sessions, which the Treplec remix renders into a beautiful, atmospheric jazz hybrid.

Falko Brocksieper has been running the label Sub Static Records for years. He also releases tracks for Treibstoff, Tuning Spork, Resopal, and others. Masuki, owner of Frappant Records, last released the great EP “Dry Rain” on MindTrip Music. Treplec, the man behind Milnormodern, produced the wild remix for the Brandt Brauer Frick smash hit “Iron Man” on Tartelet Records.

Xhin lives and works in Singapore and has released EPs on Meerestief and Stroboscopic Artefacts. Mathias Schaffhäuser owns Ware Records and has just finished his work on his third remix album to be released in March 2010.