limitiertes 4-fach vinyl im stephan-cover.

limitiertes 4-fach vinyl im gonzo-cover.

norway’s ploink imprint returns this april with a four-track ep from production duo dortmund titled sauerkraut featuring a remix from christian tilt. hailing from bergen, thomas urv and miss mostly’s ploink events have been championing the norwegian techno scene for over two decades. launched in 2014, the ploink label has hosted a string of versatile twelves from the likes of prins thomas, christian tilt, skatebÂrd and most recently mental overdrive, whoís innovative ëhardwareí album dropped in march. returning to the label since providing a track on ploinkís 20th anniversary release last year, hardware specialist dortmund, real name karl markus zavodny, is also well known for releases on montrealís turbo and leipzigís vocabula recording

peeps, this release is something special. catalogue number 004 will only be available on vinyl - limited to 200 copies. ante & michal met several years ago, and have since taken on the world hitting some ace parties and eventually joining forces in the studio. the result was 2 house music tracks par excellence, combined with a remix by the peruanian and get physical artist israel vich. just to show their love to the black gold, ante & michal printed all covers by themselves. they generated 200 unique copies, which are waiting to be dropped on the turntables. now get in everybody, as the doors are closing and we re getting ready for departure...

three cities, three artists, three definitions of modern deephousemusic. fm delivers a great journey for all deephouse lovers out there. helly larson are known for his awesome releases on labels like plastic city, acryl, shayan music, lucidflow and many more. here he comes with a truly deep-tech monster. cassique still run his own net-label supafeed. his percussive hypnotic track >deepware< offers a catchy vocal lines to let the crowd moving. marc cotterell still have released on soul industries, peng, deep pressure music, um records and more. he bring us a sweet and soulful track with an incredible sax line, played by jonny vasquez.

60’s based indie rock from dortmund.

following move d’s -kunststoff“ reissue, damiano von erckert s „recklinghausen ep- is the next 2018 release on ava. this record contains nothing more then 4 tracks. handmade vinyl cover as usual!

one of dortmund s finest exports, mr. fries, returns to wolf music bringing his signature sample heavy house touch back to the label. six tracks of mpc saturated cuts take the stage for wolfep045 with the hazy rhodes, rhythmic stabs and sax flutters of nocturnal opening up the e.p. sun takes things on a percussive workout before work leads you down a road of dusty detroit loops, akin to the productions of the motor city greats. on the flip you get a smokey jazz, sun-drenched roller in getright , moving into junkfoodnmusic which encapsulates that comatosed feeling its titled after down to a t - dropping the pace down into a laid back jam. closing out the ep thesimplethings driving bassline, fizzing percussion & sensual samples offer up a late night groover to round off another stellar outing from mr. fries.

claude debussy (+1918) was one of the most popular and forward thinking composer associated with impressionist music. his innovative and at this time new way to compose music with non traditional scales and chromaticism inspired countless artists from the likes of steve reich, philip glass, miles davis and herbie hancock. remarkable attributes of his music were i.e. the usage of parallel chords, bitonality and many compositions of whole-tone and pentatonic scales and all this surely reminds us on contemporary electronic music where you hardly find limits or boundaries when it comes to traditional, harmonic sounding scale tone music. after studying countless composers of the last centuries marc romboy decided to accept the challenge to edit, remix and reconstruct several works of his favorite french composer, ranging from „la mer“ to -prélude à l après-midi d un faune“. romboy: „one sentence of debussy impressed me a lot when he said that he simply intents to write new sounding music. this is and has been exactly my goal, to create kind of unheard sounds“. on the album romboy performs together with the dortmund philharmonic orchestra, the renowned conductor ingo-martin stadtmüller, the well respected düsseldorf based concert master miki kekenj and sound programmer ali khalaj. the recordings was directed december 12th 2016. it s the first live recording ever released on an album where electronic sounds and classical components were merged in such manner.

marc romboy presents his upcoming album voyage de la planete his first solo full-length production in over eight years. released on his newly launched hyperharmonic label, voyage de la plantète signifies an exciting new chapter for marc as he experiments with his sound - pushing the boundaries between classical and electronic music to create both an emotional and atmospheric experience. the first impression of this new sound can be heard on this 10inch, the album opener monde futuristewhich blends together beautiful strings and soft flittering synths. while „monde futuriste“ merges the beauty of the violine played by miki kekenj and electronic arrangments, „voyage de la planète“ mixes the two mediums together with fluttering synths and a somber string quartet. inspired by a concert with the dortmund philharmonic orchestra where he performed claude debussy works in a contemporary way, this 10inch and the album signify the start of a new chapter for marc romboy. combining the strange, fascinating sounds of electronic music with the sublime beauty of classical music to create an extraordinary sonic experience for the listener.

dortmund based producer mr. fries comes up with a soul’ed out 4-track ep for the soul notes imprint (11th installment in the main series).

launched in 1996, ploink has been a core brand in norwegian techno for two decades now, booking the likes of jeff mills, juan atkins, derrick may, carl cox, radio slave and richie hawtin, as well as launching a record label that champions scandinavian artists. with the likes of prins thomas, mental overdrive, nordenstam, mind over midi and label founder thomas urv appearing thus far, 96-16#3 is the third and final instalment in the 20-year celebratory releases.

early last year we played at the small but perfectly formed, oma doris club in dortmund.one of the residents that night was a young dj by the name of mr fries

for their first release dortmund/germany based label contrary records got mr. fries and soner catalbas for its house-b-side on board who recently had a great release on moodygrass. on the techno-a-side unsphere & stikdorn and reduct give their debut. all in all contrary001 perfectly represents the concept and the idea behind.
early support by hector oaks, invite, phil weeks, ...

this release sees ante perry team up with a host of names in his very own studio in dortmund. first up belgian artist maxim lany is the first to accompany him in a deeply warm number named honigmitmais , a track possessing a sullen resonating sub-bass and romantic piano stabs with male vocal coos scattered throughout. xtc1 with german artist dirty doering then shifts the mood, dominated by a low-end unmistakably perry with the addition of pitched down vocals and eerie atmospherics make for a trippier track altogether.

be an ape is a record label, founded by ante perry, and is based in dortmund. finally the time has come, that ante decided to launch a new chapter in his life as an artist.

this is a joint venture of up and coming paskal & urban absolutes and house veterans henry l & ingo saenger. all 4 producers are connected by their penchant for deep and raw house music, while living quite far apart in berlin (b), düsseldorf (d), dortmund (d) and koeln (k). paskal & urban absolutes recently released on the highly respected sonar kolletiv label among others, whereas henry l and ingo sänger released on their own farside label and have been playing house music all life long. the 2 original tracks plus the 2 remixes are all sexy swingers! welcome to 2013!

dennis ferrers objektivity imprint return with their first release of the summer and a debut single from hot new talent, adam berecki. the 22 year old from dortmund is set to make a huge impact in 2012 with his westpark trax ep. a double-header that sees him channel the spirit of early nyc and chicago house.

when dynamodyse made his debut on wph back in 2009 he struck a chord (pun intended) with lovers of emotional deep house worldwide. hailing from dortmund, mathias matze schmitt is a special character that immediately fit the bunch of wph nutters, so it was only a matter of time before he would be back with a second release. which incidentally will be his second release ever, which goes to show how much he trusts wph and how much wph trusts dynamodyse.

dikso from berlin drop another amazing 4 tracker in their super sound single series! ladies and gentleman - the dikso spring collection … winter is over, no more depressions, no more shitty weather. the new dikso super sound single volume 5 is all about spring fever. love from london, amsterdam and dortmund and even more love from the dikso headquarter in berlin.

a relative newcomer, having released a couple of lovely records on the conya label, and another on hertlich, larse also hosts the friday night show on germanys biggest youthradio >1live klubbing< since more than 10 years. now we proudly present the talented dortmund based producer on we love this. >i got a feeling< is a beautifully balanced, expertly produced cut that soars through the post-disco-nuhouse skies like a flaming rocket bound for the dancefloor. low-slung, totally groovy and decidedly disco edged, a thick wall of classic drums, addictive vocals and top class studio finesse make this a superb new release for larse. hamburg based solomun adds his hand to the mix, with a wonderfully deep yet pumping remix of the original. calling on some classic chicago vibes, with his trademark dry and crisp sound, they diynamic boss doesnt dissapoint in this straight up late night roller. larse finishes off the mix with >off the ground< - a heavy funk laden jam that once again drips with class and a great love of the old salsoul days. euphoric vocals shine through in this summery, anthemic slice of modern electronic soul.

quality house ep with vocal & deeper tracks to keep fans of this great label more than happy..! dynamodyse is the deepest german we know and he is hailing from dortmund, usually only known for sausages and the odd good result of the local football team. as we dont believe in stereotypes and we have been listening to loads of superb teutonic house music these last years, we never questioned the association between the words deep and german and we just listened to the music. safe to say it blew us away.

>realtime art< - that s how blackisbeautiful call their electronic music art. an analogue idea within the digital age. inspired by the aesthetics of analogue music devices, the first album of the dortmund-based producer team will be released in september via the upcoming cologne-based techno label 200. blackisbeautiful partnered up at the vrstck club in dortmund two years ago. they bonded through their deep connection to analogue art. residency atvrstck and a musical and friendly collaboration were to follow. both look back at long-term musicianship and life experience. while tim dicke paved his way into the electronic scene through being a drummer, bassist and soloartist in punk and hardcore bands and later on as dj, Ümit han quickly moved from djing to producing his own tracks. in 2006, Ümit won the remix contest to gabriel anandas >glücksmelodie< and also released tracks on karmarouge, meerestief, harthouse and other labels. blackisbeautiful created two tracks in real handicraft with alerion and purpur: mesmerizing and enthralling at the same time! music that invites you to dance and yet puts you to rest for a closer listen. attention to detail and experiment-happiness get you addicted to blackisbeautiful: occasional street recordings of sounds in everyday life and sampling of snap-shots run through their dynamic sound images.

dortmunds very own ‚diskobär, the inimitable ante perry prepares for new double cd long-player extravaganza , flashing disco sounds, with two cuts exclusively produced with close studio comrades tube & berger. these hot co-productions between the long-time buddies simply cannot fail to get the party going. the overwhelming anthemic stir of human you is evident for the very start, but its true dancefloor potential can only be understood after the full ecstatic wonder of the breakdown pours out over a large crowd. super-constructed tech-discohouse is where its at in this high intensity, high drama, big room flashing disco monster. the curiously titled walthervondervogelweide on the other hand is a more brooding beast altogether. working the underlying tension and keeping the pressure tightly locked to the floor its a dangerous late night dancefloor workout... left in the wrong hands this could seriously damage your ability to leave the dancefloor! finally fellow dortmund heavy-calibre producer peter jürgens works his remixing magic and twists human you into a housed up, long building affair that operates on a more stripped, subterranean level to begin with but bursts out above ground with carefully timed energy. warm driving beats and pads layer to reveal the identifying melody of the original.

tip! ftw are proud to present their new talents from dortmund-city, called morgenklang. it s their debut on vinyl with 3 tracks and a big ep from this hot producer duo. wonderful deep minimal tunes with decent vocalz & floating grooves

after the success of the last drumpoet community remixes 12inch for jamie lloyd, australian label future classic returns with another selection for djs in tune with the deep end of the dancefloor. westpark unit (herb lf and ingo sänger) are the founders of the excellent farside imprint from dortmund germany. in addition to their farside releases including 2007 hit >jeepah<, westpark unit have contributed productions to top imprints such as dessous, stir 15 and stormed playlists of steve bug, djinxx and rocco to name a few. hooking up with future classic in cologne in 2007 the bond was cemented, with the >bar of choice< ep further building westpark units reputation for extremely deep, highly playable and musical productions already in the playlists of jimpster, Âme, motorcity soul, lars behrenroth and the warm hq in london. jimpster (freerange): new future classic is awesome mate!! need to play it out!! Âme (innervisions): really like it! c-rock (motorcitysoul / cocoon): wicked ep! directly in my set erik (giant step): i’m really feeling the bar of choice ep (will definitely add to my personal chart for the coming month)… >bad weeds grow tall< and >goin steady< are my favs!! ric mcclelland (urbantorque): bad weeds no. 2 in chart asli (farside / thugfucker): brilliant stuff! lars behrenroth: would fit perfectly in my set

new energetic monster tracks by techno global player robert natus !!

claude debussy (+1918) was one of the most popular and forward thinking composer associated with impressionist music. his innovative and at this time new way to compose music with non traditional scales and chromaticism inspired countless artists from the likes of steve reich, philip glass, miles davis and herbie hancock. remarkable attributes of his music were i.e. the usage of parallel chords, bitonality and many compositions of whole-tone and pentatonic scales and all this surely reminds us on contemporary electronic music where you hardly find limits or boundaries when it comes to traditional, harmonic sounding scale tone music. after studying countless composers of the last centuries marc romboy decided to accept the challenge to edit, remix and reconstruct several works of his favorite french composer, ranging from ãla merÒ to -prŽlude ˆ l apr�s-midi d un fauneÒ. romboy: ãone sentence of debussy impressed me a lot when he said that he simply intents to write new sounding music. this is and has been exactly my goal, to create kind of unheard soundsÒ. on the album romboy performs together with the dortmund philharmonic orchestra, the renowned conductor ingo-martin stadtmŸller, the well respected dŸsseldorf based concert master miki kekenj and sound programmer ali khalaj. the recordings was directed december 12th 2016. its the first live recording ever released on an album where electronic sounds and classical components were merged in such manner.

2014 gewann ein unbekannter newcomer namens gold roger das vom splash mag ausgerichtete mot-rap-turnier mit links. obwohl er mit battlerap nichts am hut hat und so recht in keine deutschrapschublade passen will. die gold roger story begann vor gut 20 jahren in dortmund. mit der ersten stereoanlage bekommt er zwei cds: eko fresh und die €rzte. gold roger wird €rztefan, entdeckt die white stripes und skaten fŸr sich. mit den ersten rŠucherstŠbchen wird die lieblingsmusik langsamer und erste raps ausprobiert. als er 2010 kendrick lamar hšrt macht es klick: zum ersten mal wusste ich, wie ich gern rappen wŸrde erinnert sich gold roger und fasst bald den entschluss es ernsthaft mit dem rapding zu probieren. nicht als karriereoption sondern als kunstform.