aux-rec is being launched by airdrop records as an offshoot label designed with a specific mission in mind: to look back and pay tribute. aux-rec surveys musical history looking for those inspiring pieces of music (famous or forgotten) that carry a very distinctive groove and identity, and that offer the potential to be revisited in an ingenious contemporary way. at airdrop, we love music of all ages and of many genres! we feel aux-rec is a way for our artists and for us to pay our due respects to the origins and the evolution of contemporary dance music.
the existing airdrop roster of artists will be invited to contribute to aux-rec, but different artists will also be uncovered specifically for this project. off to a fresh start, franco cinelli and club rayo (a duo composed by rafael sorol and pablo terreil) engrave their long-time friendship on this record. franco cinellis first productions were released on the duos imprint club rayo disquets at the beginning of the millenium. the club rayo collective has been extremely active in the local argentinean scene for more than twelve years now.
going back to one of music historys greatest classics, >fever<, franco cinelli and club rayo bring their own interpretations to a theme that has known as many versions than people taking a sing at it in the shower! using ella fitzgeralds and elvis presleys voices, club rayo create repsectively the fitzgerald mix - a rocking dancefloor jam looping ellas fantastic voice bringing it to a culmination - and the king dub - a 118 bpm groove punctuated by elvis low-pitched and resonant tone. cuerdas is a short guitar instrumantal rendition of the fever theme. on his remix, franco cinelli creates a 10 minutes drum symphony, especially designed for the post-climatic hours. both producers kept in mind ellas famous quote when undertaking this great enterprise: >i stole everything i ever heard, but mostly i stole from the horns.<
the following releases on aux-rec will also be in the form of bootlegs, edits, re-works or samples (you name it). they will bring back memories to your heads and mostly the groove to your feet. to be true to its mission of a vintage exploration, aux-rec will be releasing exclusively on vinyl, in the tradition of the essential music format of the 20th century. there will be no digital releases at aux-rec. in the pipeline are soul claps edit of laid backs >bakerman< as well as le loups version of sheila es >a love bizarre<, produced by prince.
also played and supported by agnes, butane, ripperton...

nice price deal !!! limited repress! ukrainian artist anton melikhov known as rayo has brought an original vision of techno and minimal music to propaganda records. his long way as an artist and experience of being resident dj of moscows best club arma17 since 2009 naturally came out through his production. side a contains minimalistic >mayachnya< produced by rayo and yuri usachev - it is as close to >one take record< as possible. also heavy, broken and not ordinary >lezo< made for listeners who are looking for a powerful party. our friend deadbeat found interesting to make a remix on >lezo< which suits very well for side b. as usual we print 180 gr inside-out black wax in a gatefold sleeve.

right on the heels of aux-records enthusiastically received 1st release featuring very contemporary revisits of the 1950s classic >fever< by franco cinelli and club rayo, this 2nd chapter of the aux-rec project travels to different eras, into different styles. and this is precisely what we had set to do: zig-zag through dance music history in search of personal favorites and classics to be revisited or refreshed. for the present release, we travel to two distinct dates: 1989 for the a-side, and 1979 for the b-side. two tracks that are 10 years apart, but that both share a fiercely upbeat and affirmative musical profile, as well as a certain ageless, core, compositional quality.

raphaël ripperton from lausanne started his dj career in 1997. among other clubs, he started spinning at the famous loft club/ lausanne in 2001. in 2003 he produced the winning album of the diesel u music award with >sounds natural< by reasons. in 2005 ripperton was one of the winning remixers for laurent garnier s >controlling the house< remix contest. furthermore he released a record with his project rayon on crosstown rebels, which was used by damian lazarus for his compilation >suck my deck< and by carl craig on the fabric mix 25. today, apart from his rayon project, he is working on a project called lazy fat people, together with mirko loko, which will be released on james holden s famous border community label, beginning of 2006