in the box of karotte, adriano canzian (gigolo), daniel taylor, christopher just, hansen & dj daniel�! more dj reactions: 'like it very much!' - ewan pearson 'excellent! one of my sure top10!' � oliver huntermann, 'perfect afterhour sound! works very well!' � tobi neumann, 'very nice - right into my charts!' � mathias schaffhäuser, 'like all mixes, very good production!' � david duriez, 'i am really into the main mix!' � laurent garnier, 'one of my faves this month!' � funk d void, 'fantastic! play it a lot...!' � timo maas ,'right up my alley!' � m.a.n.d.y.

strong prog electro houser with a lot of atmosphere great bassline and bleepy synths (sb)

the consumer seems to bring up some 'advisory' with a wide range of styles going from the simple and raw oldschool side of electro to the more fine and digital sound combined with a lot of mad and dark lyrics that brings each track a little higher. 6 very different tracks with a lot of surrealism and 3rd dimension and still you find some tracks with a simple structure - keeping it all down to earth. the consumer-sound can be described as a unique atmospheric, but yet very dry and sharp sound that includes alot of small crazy elements

as one of the founding fathers of the uk techno scene, kirk s discography is staggering especially when you think about how he s stayed so true to himself and remained focus on what he does best � deep, atmospheric, soulful techno. so here we have 2 slices of said deepness in the form of alcyone and tau ceti . this is simply lush, machine music made with a lot of tlc from an original master of his game. stick it on your hi-fi whilst tripping or blast it on your car stereo whilst hurtling along at 4am for maximum impact

nice deep progressive tune with a broken beat part and a lot of drums and percussions creating a nice atmosphere flip for a complete breaks version (sb)

after the fantastic remixes for dominik eulberg and break 3000, denis karimani aka remute, offers us three delicious pieces of cake with cream ontop.. all the three tracks have a solid groove and grant the mind a lot of space..

two 12 records with deep and dirty sometimes dark house tracks by elio riso and rhod crespo giving a lot of atmosphere to the late night clubbers

cool crazy latin track with some cool spanish vocals drums and percussions plus a lot of trumpet and funky guitar action

nice grooving tribalistic and deep prog tracks with a lot of spacey atmosphere for the late night action

labelhead of bitshift and systemcalls carried out a lot of interesting things during the last time.. here comes the first long player of robert natus called 'straight'!! t:classics have got it going now ..!!

a professional slice of 2005 kick ass dance music � phat bassline meets crazy ass efx meets tight drumming meets deep melodies� big up johnnyboy! it feels so good, on the flip, displays jds more laidback and atmospheric side! funky fresh vocal snippets + solid bass groove + killer arrangements + proper rave action will make you dance-a-lot. already big with miss kittin, laurent garnier, damian lazarus�

nice grooving electro houser with a lot of spacy atmosphere and a great male voice

newest electro release on sundays best from kompis with an atmospheric track including male and female vocals giving you a lot of space

soulful vocal house by kenshyro with a nice female vocal and a lot of funk for the floor

milton jackson drops this tune out with a lot of attitude and gusto in two nice mixes

funked up vocal cut with a lot of rock and punk flavour using the guitar riff and vocals from ac dcs you shook me all night long

slamming vocalhouse floorshaker with a lot of funk to stop you to stop dancing

cool trippy stompin house/ techhouse traxx with a lot of filter and echos in the female vocals � villalobos fans aufgepasst !!

bassline road, equal parts deep house souldiers (matthew bandy) and community collective (jon nezda), with this new 12 on nordic trax. having already turned a lot of ears on nts 'many shade of house' comp last year, the 'solar drums mix' of 'you will find it' finally gets an airing, with its chunky tribal rhythms, clapping beats, spaced out chords, and deep grooving bass all laying the groundwork for some soaring keys to dominate over. on the flip you get the sumptuously deep original take, with less percussion and more rich chords, and a stellar 'intro/outro' track for adding mixing pleasure

the mix we have right here is an extended dub, which has a lot of the elements of the original track, with just enough bryan zentz thrown in to turn it into a dance floor monster!!

hard & dynamic techno bombs !! in 94 stigmata aka andré walter founded with chris liebing they own label called 'soap' records. they have done many productions with a lot of people like massimo, al faris or toni rios. in 1998 andré & chris liebing intensified their work and founded the labels clr, clau and stigmata. these labels got a lot of international respect and releases on other labels like primate or intec followed

juna has everything what a girl needs: dirty basslines, sexy melodies and loads of creamy beats topped with a little bit of acid and trance reminiscence. on the flip you find dirt crew reworking this in their incredible hallucinating open souvereign electronic manner which takes the whole lot and rewinds it like a breath of fresh dusty air

mitja prinz stretches the definition of modern tech house with his third and yet strongest release on blaou. the recipe is simple: you mix two handfuls of percussion and a lot of pounding bass in a bowl. add a juicy songline seasoned with a couple of fresh breaks

the record has already been gaining support and props from djs as diverse as laurent garnier, ivan smagghe, jeff mills, riccardo villalobos, highfish, and many others. three tracks of slightly experimental dancefloor minimalism that defies genre. the first from a talented duo that we will all be hearing a lot about in the future.

brill new style consisting of broken beats, 80ies influences, and dubby progressive influenced house music style. on side b, the tiefschwarz boys were the first choice to deliver a dub mix that reminds a lot of their latest releases on the internationally renowned classic label.

cd, second album from faada freddy

40 timeless xmas titles

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one of the most widely respected names in drum & bass, the brookes brothers are gearing up to release their second album, Ôorange lane, a 13-track lp filled to the brim with upbeat and soulful production. * now, six years after their first album was released on fresh and adam fs breakbeat kaos label, the brookes brothers have returned with their long-awaited sophomore lp, Ôorange lane, another masterpiece that showcases the brothers unmatched musicality and diversity. * the album features a variety of vocalists, including: shezars soulful vocals and bossman birdies smooth rap breakdown complementing the empowering sounds of Ôflashing lights - while industry favourite charlotte haining lends her grace and charm to Ôwaiting right here, and pierre da silva adds a warmth to the acoustic sounds of Ôtimes of trouble, as well as the album closer Ôwe got love. * combining soul, funk, disco and a whole lot more in a way no one else can, the brookes brothers have truly reached new heights with this lp. Ôorange lane is destined to be a modern classic.

solipsism is an archival release of music from mike simonettiÕs tenure as owner of italians do it better records, spanning from 2006-2013. during that time mike wrote a lot of music. some of it was used for films, some for tv commercials, some for fashion shows and he even released a record or two.

it s been around three years since jpattersson opened up a whole new horizon of formerly unheard possibilities between the worlds of dub and techno. a lot has been happening ever since, and thatÕs very noticeable on his second album. it still has all the signature elements of jpattersson: there s his dreamy, virtuous trumpet play and his witty vocals, there s his dubby delays and heavyweight beats which often line up in a downbeat rhythm. however, besides his fanfares there s now also many folks, many musical friends who contribute to the vibe of this album. there s a track with berlin mc longfingah, latin-flavoured rhythms from polish reggae and dancehall producer dreadsquad as well as a stylistically wide range of remixes that reflect the symbiotic cooperation and mutual inspiration of these last years.

this compilation spanning a period of 37 years features burnt friedmanÕs releases and edits thereof from vinyl-only labels (latency (fr), marionette (ca), dekmantel (nl) amongst others) plus 4 hitherto unreleased tracks, making them available on digital formats. friedmanÕs music from 1980 to 2017 covers a broad spectrum of played and programmed rhythmic styles that traverse not only club music from techno, electro and dub, but, above all, trace friedmanÕs own artistic development. a trajectory that owes a lot to his long-standing collaboration with can drummer jaki liebezeit, who died at the age of 79 in 2017. like liebezeit, friedman already explored even and uneven rhythms back in the late 1980s. this selection of 17 tracks documents this pursuit while bringing rough or discarded tracks to light, which did not fit onto any album or were intended for the nonplace label. the compilation runs the entire gamut of his work on percussion, keyboard, samplers and toys of all kinds using various production methods (tape, atari, midi, sampler, hard disk recording, digital audio tape). studio work (instant-composition, programming and recording) underwent major technological changes and revolutions in the 1980s and 1990s, but friedmanÕs distinctive signature style prevails throughout. surprisingly danceable tracks, interrupted by alien atmospheric periods, defy any genre.

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 -pr�lude � 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 stadtm�ller, the well respected d�sseldorf 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.

pilocka krach still means nothing but pilocka noise. sheÕs the charming queen of berlins post techno underground and a true recording & perfoming artist. her new release on her very own imprint greatest hits international is a conceptional framed double vinyl album and a journey diary of her last two years on tour around the globe, with mexico, detroit and her hometown roots in berlin as fixpoints on her neverending agenda. pilocka krach is ãsugar caneÒ & ãthe lost amigosÒ, her band and all at once. her style is pure electro post rave simplicity, where each single sound is either raw sampling cuts or deep growling synthesis. big basslines meet funky grooves and surprising hooks, grooving along with her own voice and a lot of other vocal features, whereever you go. each Ôn everthing gets the room it deserves and mingles alltogether to so much more, than just another stereo sum. never heard an album that dry and that wet at the same time, with an overall fun and jam factor, that is truly touching. she took her original style more than just a few steps further and sharpened her skills in an impressive and real straight forward way of raw funkyness and true storytelling. you canÕt listen to it without moving. pilocka is always surfing the right balance of how much, or better how less it needs, to keep it going, get down to the point of no return and beyond the miracle of repetition.

a lot can be said about the stubborn and confrontational ways of prolific dutch producer drvg cvltvre and his new york haunted label, but one can never accuse him of taking the easy way out. musically, his output of experimental electronics has swayed between heavy industrial techno and noise, composed music and slow, doomy and experimental house. on this new, full lenght album nobody cares forever he blends all of the above. from the orchestral hit, rave fueled opener to the melancholic synths of closing track all of my heroes and everything in between is pure experimentation and decomposing of standard house, rave and techno elements. now, here, in this #trumpage, you can feel his resistance to authority and the readiness to confront in every inch and fiber of this album...

hotflush are proud to introduce an exciting young artist, pyur, along with her singular debut lp epoch sinus. despite her relative newness, pyur meets the world with fully formed and unique signatures in both visual and sonic work, revealing a deep artistry that transcends medium. growing up in munich, in and amongst the same fecund scene that spawned artists like the zenker brothers and skee mask, pyur cut her teeth from a young age as a guitarist and singer before becoming spellbound by the electronic worldÕs endless scope for sound design. endowed with innately strong synaesthesia and reared in a shamanic household, she tells how music Òplayed the biggest role in my growth. it alone had the purpose to help me dissolve boundaries, discover the beauty of lifeÕs mechanisms, create freely. it talked. soon i felt like the music was making me, not the other way round.Ó epoch sinus is a seamless and heartfelt whole, a life-like being unto itself, describing the disintegration of barriers between the self and the all. here pyur offers an intimate and personal statement, combining knowledge of universal harmony with electronic music. she states: Òi m mainly influenced by my inner visions and nature itself, yet also a lot from club culture, which is undoubtedly an important space of connection and freedom for so many people. the record dances playfully between supposedly incompatible qualities: moments of brutality turn to softness, new life embraces decomposition, while explosive rhythmic and melodic structures are tempered with gentle and subtle percussion.

based on the eponymous play by brothers and author/performer team tobi and mike m�ller at schauspielhaus z�rich, swiss experimental documentary film a1 traverses through time and space along switzerlandÕs first and most elongated highway structure. rich in archival sources, it sheds light on the costs and benefits of rapid movement: social, migratory and ecological patterns, economic and military designs that are mostly not immediately obvious to the casual motorist. stefan goldmannÕs soundtrack engages the filmÕs multi-layered aesthetics full on, providing a dazzling array of short compositions. profoundly synthetic in production, this free-wheeling phantasmagoria of peculiar, yet intensely likeable miniatures branches off into all directions Ð from minimalistic to overflowing, calm to banging, nightmarish to soothing. the visual patina of historic documents is playfully mirrored in intense distortion and noise artifacts, bound into rhythmic units and melodies formed of ghost notes. finding ever new ways of mining his techno background to yield surprising new forms and ideas, stefan goldmann has proven his abilities in a dazzling range of projects over the past years. works for dance, ensembles, an opera and various object-based creations made him a natural choice for the job of finding a refreshing way of linking sound and image. on its own, the music holds up by putting the listener on a high-velocity road trip of the curious mind.

was bewegt einen erwachsenen mann dazu, sich f�r einen ganzen monat aus der zivilisation zur�ckzuziehen und sich in eine kleine h�tte in den italienischen alpen zu begeben? im fall des hamburger musikers stimming war es die arbeit an seinem vierten album, das nach seinem refugium, alpe lusia, benannt wurde. die frage nach dem warum beantwortet stimming mit den st�ndigen wohlstandsgesellschafts-ablenkungen. stimmings album beginnt mit dem pl�tschern eines bachs, und in gewisser hinsicht ist es genau das: ein fluss, der in seinem verlauf neue str�me aufnimmt und somit an energie gewinnt, aber stets derselbe bleibt. zeitweise rei§end wie eine stromschnelle, andernorts ruhig wie eine flussbiegung, doch immer aus derselben quelle stammend. ich wollte etwas eigenes machen, eine reise die sich (abgesehen vom grundrezept house) m�glichst wenig an aktuellen str�mungen orientiert, so stimming. wenn man auf das feedback diverser kollegen vertrauen m�chte, scheint ihm dies gelungen zu sein so meint z.b. dj koze: ich bin begeistert. wahnsinnig warm, runtergestrippt, tief, verspielt und vor allem eigen! fast wie jemand, der einsam auf einem kutter �ber die meere gondelt und vor seinen kisten sitzt auf ritalin

ntogns second full length album was made for the art installation *where threads lead*, curated by frantic art gallery in tokyo.
the idea is to give a sonic interpretation of strings as both art and as an all encompassing structure of life. ntogn s approach to this has been to work with few evolving elements, flowing and curving like threads in a web. resulting in a varied lot of sonic braids.
early support by cio d or, svreca, takaaki itoh, valentin corujo (exium), mod21, attemporal, eomac, iori, jonas kopp, rasmus hedlund, retina.it, victor martinez, periskop, sam kdc, antonio vazquez, blndr, luigi tozzi

italian dj and producer manuel fogliata hasnÕt released a lot of records over the last ten years, but the few he has put out have always been worth tracking down. perhaps best known for his work alongside donato dozzy in creating the much sought-after aquaplano records at the tail end of the last decade, nuelÕs solo outings have been just as consistent and just as impressive. whether taking on metallic electro or syrupy, bass-heavy ambience, nuelÕs attention to detail and his keen ear for a groove has made each release something to treasure. nuelÕs only previous full-length, trance mutation (further records, 2011), was a masterpiece of minimal repetition.

f�r seine 500.000 einwohner hatte das n�rdlich von brasilien gelegene surinam schon immer eine lebhafte musikszene. obwohl international weitestgehend unbekannt, hat das kleine land einen starken einfluss auf die niederlande, wo viele surinamesen leben. das land ist f�r den musikstil kaseko, der aus der traditionellen kawina musik entstanden ist, sowie seinen soul bekannt. aber auch pop, jazz und funk wurde gespielt. zwischen 1976 und 1983 wurde eine vielzahl an hochkar�tigen soul, boogie, disco und funk-songs eingespielt, die auf der kindred spirits compilation surinam! boogie & disco funk from the surinamese dancefloor 76-83 versammelt waren. sumy war mit soul with milk vertreten

electronic music approximately 35 years after bands like kraftwerk opened the magic box. a lot happened since then and it seems all is said, done and invented. however it is almost surprising that new things still pop up here and there when it comes to electronic music production.

how much do you really know about nina kraviz? shes a russian techno dj, an accomplished producer, one of dance musicÕs breakthrough names of the last five years. true enough, but theres so much more to her story than that. shes one of electronic musics most interesting characters, someone who has stuck to her musical guns since day one, someone who has wide-ranging roots that run deep in the past, yet shes also the embodiment of the future. her signature sound is a raw blend of house and techno with a very acidic feel. if that feels very now, kraviz has a lot to do with it, which is why she was asked to mix the latest instalment of !k7Õs landmark Ôdj kicksÕ series.

following up to their much applauded international debut save the youth, denmarks answer to warpaint,giana factory, return with their second album lemon moon this spring 2014. fronted by louise foo (sister of sharin of the raveonettes) and flanked by lisbet fritze (who also plays guitar in the trentemoller band) and sofie johanne, giana factory specialize in a wonderful kind of iced pop, beautiful songwriting with a lot of depth and diy attitude punch.

der sozusagen nomade matt karmil produziert und ist dj seit jahren unter vielen alias-namen in verschiedenen formen, aber hat nun den flow und den sound, der ihn in eine rosige zukunft schreiten laesst. releases auf tim sweeneys beats in space, der a lot to share 12inch (pnn06), die geheimnisvolle haf001 und nun sein debuet-album auf pnn (pnn07) werden ihr uebriges tun, dass 2014 ein sehr spannendes jahr f�r matt karmil sein wird.

awesome cd absolute jazz gold! everyone a winner - a lot of these tracks would have turned dingwalls, london, upside down back in the day! tip!

digitalism has lovingly created a mix for !k7s legendary dj-kicks series. for these two young germans, jens moelle and ismail t�fekci, joining the ranks of contributors to the series was nothing short of a dream come true. twelve years ago, the duo met as two record store workers in hamburg, admiringly selling the dj-kicks series to their customers, and appreciating the dexterity of the mixes and range of artists who assembled each mix. their favourite contributions include tigas mix (his mix was the essence of edgy and cold electro-techno.), the playgroup mix (more really playful stuff.) and erlend oyes mix (cause he sung over a lot of stuff and had some favorites like j�rgen paape and the collaboration with morgan geist.