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this is the first record of the modern house quintet, a french band who makes house music. it features two house-deep house tracks: * bosphore* starts with a piano loop and a deep house bass line which are steadily joined with several other chords, percussions and a jazz guitar. * venise* begins with a bass line and a piano chords which progressively evolve until the break introduces heavy open hit-hats and then, a flute pursues and concludes this deep house trip.

french producer julien saillenfait (deapmash) is delivering broad shouldered textures and sequences with attitude for the sophomore stale output. from the jump, the picture that the french producer is painting shows really vivid. intrusing rhythms that pierce through ear canals and are nicely propped up by taints of distorting and peculiar vocal cuts.

he is back. twenty years after boulevard, fifteen years after the multi-platinum album tourist (over 3 million copies sold worldwide) and a world tour spanning several continents, ludovic navarre, alias st germain, finally found his way back into the studio. an uncontested and respected figure in the world of electronic music for the past two decades, a pioneer of the * french touch* and a creator of intelligent and sensual deep house, st germain has always stood out. his consummate art thrives on a subtle mixture of machines and instruments, of authentic roots and modern influences.

arranged by godin, taurelle the original trakc was written by georg christian lehms, composed by bach and adapted from bach cantata widerstehe doch der sünde bwv 54. here bach’s church cantata for solo voice meets languid gainsbourg & birkin, albeit in german, with exquisite choir and strings. nicolas godin says i wanted songs on contrepoint, to act like poles that hold up a tent. this piece starts with a very strange chord, which was avant garde for its day. bach’s scores are outside any rules, which i wanted to exploit. i also wanted the lyric in german because no one expects german to sound sexy and cool. the main singer is gordon tracks. the other voice is dorothée de koon, a friend of a french artist i know - they both have german blood.

repress 2015! another of the big successes of traxx underground by dj stew from french!

new ep from valentin from paris on silver network imprint! after silver 030 and silver 31, valentin delivers two fantastic tunes on silver s 41st release. with two fresh remixes from french house maestro franck roger, you can t do no wrong. stay tuned

young pulse is going from strength to strength and is now ready to drop vol. 3 of his best-selling paris edits series. together with fellow producers the reflex and reverend p its become clear that the french are now leading the way on the edit scene with their high quality reworks. on this ep from young pulse you get a high energy version of ewf (can t let go), an 80s disco/funk edit of kasso (dig it) and an absolute killer boogie work of lamont dosier (shout about it). gamm on point as usual.

system2 return with 006. four tracks varying and covering all aspects of house music. a1 - wet dog is an 808 inspired track with a deep groovy bassline with vocal cuts. a2 - old fool with its chopped up bass stabs & open hats with a cool vocal hook b1 - esp brings a more sub bass & deeper vibe on this ep. shakers panned from speaker to speaker & filled out with background sounds and chords b2 - tell me is a tech house chugger with relentless bassline filtering in and out. great mainroom peak timer with a french house vibe

echolette proudly presents its stunning debut release,
* you gonna dream - feat. byron stingily*, from french producer who and the vocal from byron stingily itself of his *it’s over* released on nervous records 1998. the wonderful tracks comes in two distinct versions: the first mix works off skipping percussion, a warm round sub bassline and uplifting vocals full of hope, love and joy. on the flip the * club mix* adds a tougher edge, taking us straight on to the dance floor of a new york basement club circa 1994, while the vocal (feat byron stingily from nervous record) keeps the bright and upbeat.

celebrating 10 years because music with this voyage across french cosmic and electronic avantgarde from 1970 to 1980. limited deluxe edition double vinyl plus cd in replika gatefold sleeve.

ben cohen is a french dj based in paris. he started to play music at the end of the 90’s and produces undefined house/techno with esoteric references invoking the hazy contours of the ever mystical inner zones. he has released two eps on the french label badance and recently voyage to rahoz on bliq. his first appearance on dba was on the various artists excursion dab019.5.

remastered reissue, originally released in 1976 on french disques espérance label.

throwing rave parties since 2011, the bp collective has been founded with the objective of bringing a new breath to the french underground techno scene. in the bp tag und nacht” parties the visual universe tends to merge with the sound. each of the two stages has something different to tell: tag for the open air, nacht for the dark and smoky room. this project is based on the belief that the story told by sound depends on the visual atmosphere in which it is played. indeed this very first ep is built between those two atmospheres, the 4 tracks of the ep could be played in any of the two scenes tag or nacht with a totally different impact on the audience. on the tag stage, both of the tracks are colorful, atmospheric and dynamic whereas on the nacht stage, they become dark, trippy and powerful. this record is the first release of the two artists x1000 on the a side and vidock on the b side. both of them are part of the bp collective since the beginning, they draw their influences from the 90s detroit and belgium techno and trance scene. its difficult not to think about artists like the martian, model 500, robert leiner or the whole r&s label while listening to these 4 tracks.

new stuff from the stylerocket boys: pmz soundz behind this names there is max, a french boy, successful in france and germany and who had already released on named international labels. his track in one of three on the newset stylerockets release. stylerockets is part of the kiddazfm musicgroup, based in berlin.„„may the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars - this quote of the blow movie describes dompes track. so - let´s blow some glitter into the colourless ...

seventh release for biomix! on the a side, 2 classic house tracks from the end of the 80s. on the b side, a strong and funky classic for tropical nights and a slow mo tune with sexy french lyrics for very tropical nights... all edited by dj steef !

considered french label d3 elements continues is carefully curated run with a new ep from berlin based italians, hinode. featuring four cuts of tough deep house, this sixth ep is another high grade affair that follows on from great efforts by strong souls and brian harden.

first, let me pay homage to institubes and the codeine generation who discovered red bull in 2003. para one, teki and tacteel were on the front line just like us making the french scene stronger and even more exciting after the first french touch wave. in 2004 for the fourth release on ed banger we were looking for french artists who were killing it, pushing boudaries, those we wish we had signed. three names: para one, feadz jackson. both feadz and para one accepted to remix krazy baldhead’s first ep, this record is very special to me, we pressed 2000 copies.

onnsets third release is delivered by uk based french artist damien schneider. seti ep consists of three original tracks plus a remix of the title track by ansome.

defined as an independent entity, drawing its inspiration from the deconstructed walls of an imaginary and utopian society where music is king and artist is servant, forsaken cell is a paris and lyon based structure composed of a small ravers community, aimed to show an indie, radical and experimental face of the french underground scene.after showing a raw and anarchic vision of techno with deikean s debut release, the forsaken cell keeps on exposing a radical and experimental face with, this time, a brighter and oniric aspect. this ep, debut of the&#30703,,&#28608,,solid system, presents itself as a fine mix of industrial and psychedelic textures inspired by the diversity and eclecticism ubiquitous in the rave culture. thus this character, as discreet as he is, shows up at the scene: naked, assuming from the outset to be as much influenced by the bass music sharp rhythmic and dusty textures of industrial dub techno, that warm colorings and transcendent sounds of psychedelic music

its that time again at ccb headquarter for reaping the harvest of another good year for the label. the paris club music, volume 3 is here and the journey is better than ever. once again the full crew worked hard to deliver this time a more contemplative yet still percussive set of tracks exploring the dance music of tomorrow. first in the field bambounou and french fries teams up for mizu ni idou suru an intimate slow mo thing playing with intricate rhythm textures and dusty key stabs fading away in the back.

following the success of *elecktro diktators - the french dissidents vol.1* compilation published early this year, new flesh records proudly presents the return of infamous umwelt delivering another collectible output on his own electro label! much anticipated *when future and past collapse* combines firing snares with rolling 808 kicks, acid lines, sub-bass and driving futuristic melodies, all packed in this sophisticated ep. umwelts aesthetics and dystopian vision has never been so dazzling. we could write more about it, but why dont you give it a listen (at your own risk of course)? expect nothing but depths, terrific tales, and authentic secrets about the origins of mankind in this must have five-tracker.

feelings is the next single to be released ahead of tim deluxes highly anticipated lp the radicle, a deep and jazzy cut which includes two distinct versions. with its deep jazzy reprise and classic french house-influenced tone, the club edit pairs a shuffling groove with freeform trumpet courtesy of renowned instrumentalist jay phelps with whom tim has worked extensively. the ice cream dub throws back to tim’s garage-roots, with the name directly referencing the highly influential record label he founded back in the 90s. tim skilfully blends the techniques of his heritage with the more modern, garage-influenced house sounds, creating a bubbling, low-end monster.

the imprint of the french man lazare hoche is back for his tirtheenth with release presenting some killer cuts for the debut ep of voltery & medicis.

the first vinyl edition of the label moonrise hill material presents the differents artists work which will composed the label. funk to ambient, with proper jazzmen groove, where the house music predominate and appears like gold in every tracks with something which united them. the vinyl starts with « fucked up jazzmen », powerful track with jazz and hip hop influences from folamour, french producer which the last release on fauxpas musik is a love declaration to the sampling and to the 20s grooves until today. next listen with « jack my sista » from kaffe crème, french producer who takes the auditor in a perpetual modulation of the pads and bass under a syncopated rhythmic, between a real game and the tr-808. there is passion and percussions talent that comes to his classic formation in acadamy. the other side begins with « manhattune » from ethyène, soul anthem from 70s mixed to a proper chicago deep house rhythmic. after a empty period, the french producer annonces his next releases for the coming months, where samples and groove found a paramount place. the release ends on « cosmic spirals » from the lyonese okwa, who reveals his love to the electronic sounds for a half path ballade between dark walks and dance floors. after a great ep « preacher », in which he develops a returns to the 90s house music. focused on poetic house music, from the one that you can t stop dancing on to the one that you want to keep for yourself, the label defends the preciousness of every musical journey and the sensibility through beautiful stories.

key vinyl don their scouting caps once again for another split ep featuring fledgling and debuting talents. first up is the plant worker. this french dj and producer isn’t exactly new to the game, but as the plant worker he’s been slowly journeying down harder, rawer trajectories—as the name may suggest. with a trio of eps out already, “iota 001” and “iota 002” continues his exploration into purer techno forms with two cuts of deep, probing, loopy floor material. then on the flip, key vinyl unveil the first works from masked newcomer transient x4. “lost in perceptions” is a jangling sic fi trip to techno’s bleak and pitch-black periphery, whilst “ways to space” sends its cosmic theme off for a spell in the basement, coming out as a monstrous peak-time send off.

format lp vinyl - limited edition + poster following the much-acclaimed bcompilation, french dj duo jess & crabbe return to curate a second collection under the bazzerk banner, exploring a criminally unknown dance scene. changa tuki classics takes us on an exhilarating trip to a venezuelan underground electronic scene. defining changa tuki as a genre is tricky, the respective meanings of the words themselves is a mystery yet to be elucidated. changa emerged in the late 80’s as a the word to describe all strands of hard-hitting electronic music, to this day it remains the one popular term applied to all forms of house or techno.

laboratory is back with a real house music >vinyl only< ep from a new parisian talent : steve marie. remixed by the french duo ange siddhar & illan nicciani.

new nowhere produced by french new comer jiman.

brand new label from london-based french, pastaga. pastaga records is a vinyl only label focused on quality underground music. very limited quantities and no re-press. save your copy!

french producer vendi delivers four originals in diverse moods at one record. all together make it smooth and complete ep ready to enter your bags....

house grand-master hector moralez join material! the french don after being on viva, avotre time to release a huge housey tune with remixes by philip bader and daniel nitsch!

who is zoé zoe? its not a new french fashion designer. its not a new grill bar in your neighborhood either. and its not a newfound african tribe, nor a thailand made bio energy drink. its a lithuanian small town boy turned promising groom, turned taxi driver, turned techno producer, turned berlin inhabitant or the other way round. he could also be a man behind that secret weapon of your summer 2015 sets. hoy!

cotton claw is a brand new project that brings together four french producers : lileanarrative, zo aka la chauve- souris, yoggyone and zerolex. real live band, each on his pad controller, cotton claw takes us into their world tinged of powerful club music, fluffy house music using massive analog synth, unstoppable arpeggios and sexy granular melodies. the four members of cotton claw, have met in order to play together each part in live, to create a new modern live band, to take and give pleasure to the dancefloor, and give their vision of club music.

young french talents kitkalt present their work on the labels 94.5 th release. kraft oddity ep is a mesmerizing display of production skills and a testament to the duos true understanding of techno-hypnosis. pushing from the start with urgent bass lines, chord combinations all the tracks build and morph with its intertwining elements, introducing subtle textures and suggestions of melody. a debut release with powerhouse percussion along with a textured techno-stabs in this straight-up club trip.

having previously used their dnuos ytivil offshoot to release material from their nearest and dearest (think batu, bruce, hodge and alex coulton), bristols livity sound crew turns to unknown french producer simo cell. the two tracks showcased here are a rather fine introduction to this newcomer, with opener *piste jaune* offering a clandestine blend of stuttering electro bass, discordant analogue percussion hits and spooky electronics. the mystery man goes for the jugular on *cellar door*, with pitched-down, bleep style melodies and liquid electronics riding an off-kilter, broken techno groove. another fine livity release.

kat deliver release number 7 on the kat45 offshoot but this time in the form of a delightful 10 inch vinyl with 4 ace tracks from super ace french producer florent f.

”love will remember pharaon de winter” is said at the end of the record. pharaon de winter was a painter from north of france, who lived from the end of the xixth century to the beginning of the xxth century. today, pharaon de winter is reappearing again. it’s a band, but also the name of a song, which changed everything for his author. past leader of both bands toy fight and (please), maxime chamoux was playing since now a genre between north american rock of spoon and neutral milk hotel, and sophisticated british pop from prefab sprout or xtc. we find today in this new project songs navigating between french, for most part, and english. partners and friends since a long time, thomas pirot at the drums and raphael ankierman at the bass are playing alongside fx guéant-mata at the guitar. we also find mina tindle and her delicate voice appearing here and there. at last we don’t forget the goldsmith’s talent of canadian musician sandro perri who’s joining the band, highly recommended by pitchfork magazine with his album impossible spaces in 2011.

the second release we do with french artists upwellings aka vincent raude who is professor of modern art at the academy of brest and has been recording music since 1996. his ep comprised two tracks. a-side >dubbin at the strobe< feat. michael zerang shows a nice interaction of drums and sounds developing a profound deep mood. drum parts were recorded in chicago by michael zerang, a real jazz legend who played a lot with peter brötzmann and joe mcphee, hamid drake. the flip side >lighthouse dub< has the aura of an place which is extremely isolated. the sound is at times extremely pulled back and melancholic and holds a sentiment that reminds us a bit of joy divisions >we are the young men<. the track undergoes a transformation beatwise when going more uptempo.

white asega co-­owner jack dixon wrote new curtains after a friend who was coming wildly off the rails told him he was a good producer but his tunes were boring. the original version was really sparse and about 300bpm. when jack moved to new york the parts got lost, so he remade the track a dozen times. this was the version we all liked best, although jack never wants to hear it again in his life. it sounds tough and tropical. our friend troy gunner remixed it, and turned it into something so loud and slamming it will knock your teeth out. after telling jack to stop making boring music, mark kodiak spent two horrendous years working with jamie kodiak on a song they ve called taargus. it nearly destroyed their friendship forever but we think it was worth it. it has brutal weapon sounds, nasty snares and an incessant “yo” that has been described as “annoying and unnecessary”. the artist tom pounder has created a blinding video for it that contains brand new colours. french born bass genius bambounou stepped up to remix the track, taming the wild stems into a hypnotic early­morning house stepper. it took us approximately 2000 exhausting facebook group chats, four cross­atlantic flights and one divorce to get to this point. we hope you will enjoy this record for the rest of your lives. rip ken tulley.

hailing from toulouse, french trio signs have already carved themselves out an interesting niche within the nu-skool neuro scene, stamping their unique output into the publics consciousness with big releases on red light records, bad taste recordings and c4c recordings. their beats are sparse and militant with each drum hit afforded the space to dominate the audio spectrum, with pauses and moments of silence, delicately programmed into the dna of the drum tracks, playing big part in the groove s forward momentum, propelling the riddims forward and creating a dynamically powerful and compelling backbone for the rugged, tough basslines to shine.

the virgo ep is the 4th of mutewax’s non-stop output, featuring french artist cømpass. vindemiatrix is a classy, uplifting peak-time track that sneaks up behind you. if you were thinking of leaving the dance floor. think again. spica lays heavy on the kick-drum & thick bass-lines. it’s a mind-winding trip which reveals a mature twist on the classic acid tweets. arcturus bounces joyfully across the dance-floor and picks up the pace with its hard-hitting acid notes and infectious rhythms. porrima beautifully stirs the emotions - the melodic rhythms predict a sweet future, yet it retains an atmospheric nostalgia for all things which must pass.

french producer julian m joins the decay records roster with his reveal way ep this june featuring remixes from fellow parisians dj w!ld and chris carrier.

next up on les disques de la mort, and we playing with all the preconceptions, once more. now we are slowing things down, and speeding them up. the word is elastic . we are back with our most psychedelic release to date and you are the first to be injected. rodion & mammarella are known for their strange hybrid of slow burning electronic disco but they have been on the mountain of truth. they saw the light. they flew off. on the remix duties toulouse low trax provides the dusseldorf angel dust to suspend you in time and space and flavien berger, the new wunder french kid, is on the opiate shuffle.

180g vinyl only. >pourquoi pas< is the french for >why not<. why not such a title. why should we not break the boundaries of established genres of electronic music in an orgasm of modern psychedelic experimentations and grooves, and come back to the roots of our sexy house music all in one single record. why shouldn t we have the mole on the remix duty. why wouldn t this record be dedicated to our brothers refugees, we are one people. pourquoi pas!

those with a passion for heavyweight electro and drexciyan sounds have long held french producer franck kartell in high regard. he s been working away on the fringes delivering high-grade material for a decade, and finally got round to dropping his debut album, afterlife, last year. here he delivers a swift follow-up, effortlessly flitting between icy ambience, vector lovers style electro-idm, creepier compositions, and the kind of oddly symphonic, soundtrack-inspired fare that exists to stir the emotions. its a far more fragile sounding set than some might expect, but no worse for it. while theres little dancefloor material on show, kartell s downtempo fare is a cut above most of his contemporaries.

welcome back to the movielike resonating sound world of the 23s. already in 2008 the mysterious one-man band proofed with the album “bolivia” that they are trying to do another kind of music – something that isn’t entertainment, something that isn’t show, something that goes gently straight to your soul. now the producer from nord-rhine-westphalia did it again and tuned in the longplayer “flamingo”. anew he delivers a special kind of cinematic journey music that grooves opposite to his other, more rhythm based hypnotic dance productions. also as the 23s he produces pattern-based music, but it pursues a different intention: each listener should dive into a hallucinatory world of seen and unseen films that his inner eye creates unprejudiced. all ten tracks are romantic smooth operators. they put themselves in service of an artistic vision, in which the listener should get lost in music. the album can be seen as a love-letter to the movie scores of the french 70s cinema or the impressionistic sound arrangements you can hear in the early cinema of peter greenaway. with double bass heat, discreet piano melodies, levitating guitar chords, some gentle horns here and there and beats that recollect the warm jazz influenced soul of oldschool hip-hop the 23s generate a sublime get-down-deep instrumental journey. you can listen to it attentive. or you can just play it in the back while doing whatever you like to do. it is recommended to play “flamingo” in a decent amount of volume as all loungey tracks begin to live bigger and brighter with sound intensity. if you play it flashy you will experience an atmospheric sometimes light-flooded, sometimes foggy 40-minute electronic journey that offers open-minded souls to fill the room between the notes with their very own milky fancy. soon the album will be accompanied by a bunch of remixes tuned in and twisted by producers like giegling and white artists edward, christian s of the cómeme tribe, canadian producer the mole and the german post rock and electronic music band to rococo rot.

so, the third of the new transmissions trilogy is here, and what a monster release it is! new transmissions pt. 3 contains tracks from belgium techno legend redhead, french producers sirius brown and killians, and is rounded off with a track from primates very own chief ape john warwick.

after the success of the first tijn01 with djebali, the eponymous tijn series continues with 4 originals from groovy french sounds to solid techno.

the new bulgarian label caph comes up with their first release with 3 original classic tracks from the talented french duo zendid and a rework by the odd boys. definitely a record with a personality. limited 300 copies / no repress.