we’re very happy to present you the Richie Hawtin dj-mix ”Sounds from Can Elles”, which will come out with newest issue of the DjMag magazine, available after October 29th

It’s a clean mix, no fails or flaws!

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Mathias Kaden is back to Vakant records, a German Berlin based label for minimal techno run by Alex Knoblauch and Stephan Bolch, one of our favorites. In his first release this year for them he shined up with two long length minimal tracks, huge bombs I must say! In the a-side you will listen “Moron”, a great turn-on reminding me some productions of Mr. Villalobos – the bass variances are wicked and the rhythm is perfect to dance. It’s really a brilliant construction, showing us why he has such great reputation among the techno mnml scene. B side presents “Shetani” clearly going to deeper spaces. The beat is not as pumpy as the first, going through a deep construction! Once again, Kaden bets on worked bass variances (maybe he has been listening Villa, no?)! When the beat starts to uprise and then going down you’ll get a great different feeling about this! It’s really a worked Ep, with tracks that don’t bet on fashionable music, it’s just the deepest minimal you can have, with the kind of rhythms that can be only listened in the best guys of the scene! Kaden is definitely one of the greatest producers among this kind of music, one of the greatest Vakant bets! Huge EP!

a1 - Moron
b1 - Shetani

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Rls Date: 03.11.2008

It took me a long time to decide what to post here… the releases this week weren’t that great but, fortunately this EP came up, it’s easily the best think i listened in the last days. I didn’t knew the producer yet but after a small search I can tell you that Philip Flindt is a Copenhagen – Denmark – based producer and this is his 2nd release. Both have been brought up by Freunde Tontraeger, a very promising label! The released is composed by one original track “Or Wha” and two remixes featuring Monoroom and Nils Nilson, two guys that know what techno music is all about!
The original is a grooving minimal track with a powerful bassline and lots of energy to full-fill the crowd’s expectations. The emotions just keep going high and low during it. It’s a top production full of quality moments. Nils Nilson remix is also a great one, building a step-by-step track with all the sounds entering one by one, in the right time… it improves a lot the first one, giving it a greater minimal flavor. Last but not the least we have Monoroom’s work, turning the original completely upside down! This is a great approach to the track, Frank Nova & Oliver Schleenvoigt used their normal deep lines to built a rather minimal installment, the rhythm is the best you can have in this kind of music! The pace is awesome, the horns were excused! Release nr 7 on Freunde Tontraeger, another must have to all musical collectors.

a1 – Or Wha (Original)
a2 – Or Wha (Nils Nilson rmx)
b1 – Or Wha (Monoroom rmx)

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Rls Date: 03.12.2008

Music edited by Lan Muzic

Exercise One (Marco Freivogel & Ingo Gansera) are not newbies here in the minimal land. We’ve posted great releases from them like Debaya, Dark Star, Intensity, or Oi Oi London this is Kreuzberg… We really don’t want to review always the same producers, but sometimes, when the quality they generate is so good it’s really difficult for us to avoid that fact and don’t feel tempted to review another release from them.
This is exactly what happens with All Out Ep, on Lan Muzic, label run by themselves and founded in 2005 with Kitchentools Ep (Lan001). Anja Schneider (runs mobilee) supported the project on her Radio Fritz Show and then it was only a step untill invite them to release Steady Pulse Ep. After that I think the history of them is pretty well known. Some releases on Mobilee, Exone and their own Lan Muzic.
Exercise One is known also by their live performances, that have been acclaimed in liveset’s like Mobilee pre-sonar showcase in 2006. Their live performances are focused on spontaneity and improvisation which leads them to hypnotic basslines and twisted sequences.
All out is a great track, filled of senses and progressive chains interconnected trough all the frequencies of the track spectrum. A little bit progressive, goes from a start to an end adding and quitting samples and feelings with determination, what looking at track’s name makes some sense. They seem to put all out till the end of the track. It’s not really hard electronic, but its undoubtly one of the hardest tracks I’ve heard from Exercise One and still having their own fingerprint.
Parasol it’s a LP (Long-Play). The cadence and the real simple sound connections are the rule here. It’s thirteen minutes of good mood, sound exploration and musical tricks, upgraded at minute three with sounds and a new body. Everything at this point seems a little bit lost for some few moments, searching a new identity. Everything fits? So, lets go, continue the good mood! A relaxed one, to face different states of mind with simplicity. Cadence, exploration, groove and a good vibe are the keywords in this production.

Release Date: 06 October 2008 | #Catalog: LAN017

Release Info (pdf)

Tracklisting:

a1 – All Out (09:55)
b1 – Parasol (13:19)

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The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive electronically-generated rhythms with catchy synthesizer-generated melodies; mainly following a Western classical style of harmony, in a minimalistic arrangement. The group’s simplified lyrics are at times sung through a vocoder or generated by computer-speech software. In the mid to late 1970s and the early 1980s, Kraftwerk’s distinctive sound was revolutionary for its time, and it has had a lasting impact across nearly all genres of modern popular music. This live act performed at Sacrum-Profanum Festival in Krakow  shows once again their timeless geniality, let’s get back to the days…

tracklist:
01 – Intro (0:49)
02 – The Man Machine (5:21)
03 – Planet of Visions (3:22)
04 – Nummern (2:13)
05 – Computer Welt (2:52)
06 – Home Computer (6:08)
07 – Minikalkulator (6:18)
08 – Tour de France 2003 (10:38)
09 – Tour de France (4:19)
10 – Vitamin (3:57)
11 – Autobahn (6:10)
12 – Computer Liebe (4:08)
13 – Das model (3:42)
14 – Neon lights (5:59)
15 – Schaufensterpuppen (3:50)
16 – Radio Aktivitaet (7:20)
17 – Trans Europa Express (7:48)
18 – The Robots (4:41)
19 – Elektro Kardiogramm (4:44)
20 – Aero Dynamik (6:23)
21 – Music non-stop (8:02)

Download here: part 1 / part 2

Date: 19.09.2008

Tuningspork presents “Comptine D’un Autre Été: l’aprés-midi”. Jay Haze gathered with the French composer Yan Tiersen to perform a one sided Ep full of deep melancholic moods. Yan is a musician known internationally for composing the score to the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie Amélie. His music is recognized by its use of a large variety of instruments in relatively minimalist compositions.. Jay Haze fell in love with this guys music enough to take a beat under one of his tracks and the result was simply beautiful. Translated to English the title of the track would mean something like: nursery rhyme of another summer: the afternoon. It’s definitely a charming peace of the most delicate art, that really enters in your soul, and at the same time is a bumping minimal techno track perfect to open – or close – those kinds of special party’s! The piano melody along that deep typical Haze’s beat – and later the Violin – is really something that transmits a special feeling, heavy-hearted! I hope you’ll stick with this for a long time, it’s a refreshing change of pace for Haze and for Tuning Spork, and I guess that it will bring some massive turn-on moments into the dancefloor … simply amazing! Supported by Lee Jones, among others.

a1 - Comptine D’Un Autre Ette, L’Apres Midi

Rls Date:17.10.2008
Tuning Spork Ultra Edition

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Born in Germany and currently living in Amsterdam, Patrice Bäumel is a dj/producer who has been an active member of the electronic dance music scene for many years. He is an artist who devotes all of his energy to the dancefloor, with his dynamic sets as well as his trademark climaxing productions. His music is full of emotion, dynamic and contrasts of cold, warm, soft and hard: “If you can feel it, it’s good music!”

Lee Jones – MDMazing / Aus Music
Mandy – Oh Superman (Reboot’s 20 Cubans Rework) / Get Physical
Seth Troxler – Herlin
Butch – Earth (823’s Crackpot’s In The Field remix) / Raum…Musik
Elektrochemie – Starstruck / Get Physical
The Model – New Life New Love / Gigolo
Markus Guenter – Wenn Musik Der Liebe Nahrung / Kompakt
Anders Ilar – Snowflakes Are Raindrops Asleep / Fueredaserie
Someone Else – Goink / Microcosm
Paul Hughes – Unity (Chymera remix) / Made Music

Finnaly an album from Extrawelt (Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe), appears on the stores. I must blame Extrawelt for my actual criteria to define what’s good from what’s reasonable since that f*cking (sorry!) Soopertrack! That track still put my skin like a chicken every time I hear it. It’s undoubtedly a classic, a message, and very ahead for that time. Since that magnificent release on Border Community and Electrochoc I must confess it’s really difficult to have a similar feeling with a new track. Some of them are really good, but to reach the level of Soopertrack they must be a magnificent production.

Appart this nostalgic feelings, the fact is that this is the first cd from the duo, their debut cd. You can realize this is strange, but if you understand their career, you can understand why this happens. Their debut track was “Soopertrack” on Electrochoc in 2005 (curiosly, that Ep had Soopertrack and The Sky Was Pink from Nathan Fake, for me, the two best tracks from 2005), and the Ep “Soopertrack” on Border Community sort or less on the same time. Then in 2006 they travelled to Traum Schallplaten releasing “Doch Doch” and “Schmedding 8000″ with “Fernweh/Drehfeller” trough Kompass Music and a few Ep’s in between. In the same year they put a step to Cocoon Recordings, label run by Sven Väth to release “Titelheld”.

Sven’s way in techno world dictates a little bit in what’s happening with Cocoon orientated releases. Who doesn’t remember Villalobos’s “Taka Taka” , artists as minilogue or… I don’t what else to say! And, as I was saying, Extrawelt always sounded almost perfect for me, for what this combination seems very intuitive and brainstormed vibrant. Soopertrack had a magnetic vibrant in every aspects  situated in communication and emotional contexts, delivering soft growing progressive structure trough the air.. and this release by Extrawelt, “Schöne Neue Extrawelt” is magnetizing.

“Schöne Neu Extrawelt” is Magnetizing cause all the tracks seem so different and yet so inter-connected. So vibrants, but still detailed like a perfect tapestry. So simple from far, so enhanced closely. All of them have their own voice, that thing that I usually describe as “connection identity”, or whatever that you feel when you feel a music that connects to you so directly with a strong ID.

Deserves the right approuch, listening to it from start to end to understand this progressive construction in every aspects.

First track, One Tree Hill, its an opening for what is going to happen, the start of this movie and the role playing on the screen. A melody start and progressively things are replaced in a harmony. Second track, Dark side of My Room its the start credits, with the producers and main actors, so now, you’re enjoying more the movie, Extrawelt’s association!

Third track, Wippsteert, is minimalistic beginning with a delaying bass that starts working to a detailed construction with some mysterious sounds and well filled details combining together all the way around. All this is now going more intensively and gaining emotions.
Fourth track Messy Machinery, goes with a lot of simple “old” chords and gaining life, and everything going as planned with details reminding that. Some break details move the track ahead till a constructed hypnotic drive trough the machinery… why not?! From an older way of doing techno, they bring us Must Attack, with a acid rapid basslines and grooves to a very mental sound that works till your last neuron and then the acid, destructive sound, enters again into a point where it breaks to powerful magnetized connections. At the end of this music you can hear the rain falling, as the renewing force of the nature.

Trummer, the eight track, starts with the rain, powerful, going from a beggining to an end defined. This happens in all tracks, almost nothing repeats, I’ve forgotten to say! At this point you’re really enjoying it, always with reverbed bass’s, worked structures and weirdly defined patterns. Then comes Wolkenbruch, again a look in the roots with melodies and tinkly sounds going on and the sequential minimalist sound again, followed by Added Planet, a techno orientated basses and distorced voices going hand-by-hand with distorted sounds to a mental way.
Kurt Curtain (Skit), without 4/4 drum construction, is a little good thing, probably to be used as a dj tool or in the Breakbeat area, that appears interesting.
Daten Raten flows on the traveling bass and the electronic sounds that predict it, always in construction as everything so far. A interesting pack of sound samples and even patterns are merged together in this production.
Exactly the textures and the technic is enhanced in Lost In Willaura. Everything work together and melts together to a hipnotic thing. Starts innusual and then makes its course and now the end is appearing, where things start becoming clear as in a good script.
Finally, Homing, ends it, because everything haves an end, with all the emotions and sensations that we passed trough our journey, beautifully expressed and connected to a final peek of emotions that finish it with kindness.

Perhaps the first thing you feel about Schöne Neue Extrawelt is its remarkable cohesion and inter-connection , that despite its myriad tempo-changes and electronic outfits, makes extraordinary use of tempo without ever really getting down or slow. Is a magnificent production, rich, full and progressive with all the emotions added for the trip you’ll make with it. It’s definitely a must have, wherever you have it. Found hard too see an album that satisfies so much different electronic people as I believe this will do with so accuracy and perfection.
Here, different nowadays labeled tendencies and trendy schemes of doing electronic music seem to not exist, in a clear message that the fusions between good things with study, feeling and dedication normally create outstanding things that put a step ahead some conceptions.
Extrawelt transmit their vision and merge concepts to mess up a little bit more some people’s definitions and join us all together in this flow. It’s Extra… It’s well!

Schöne Neue Extrawelt Press Release (HTML)

Tracklist (Samples)
01 – One Tree Hill
02 – Darkside Of My Room
03 – Wippsteert
04 – Messy Machinery
05 – Must Attack
06 – Trümmerfeld
07 – Wolkenbruch
08 – Added Planet
09 – Kurt Curtain (skit)
10 – Daten Raten
11 – Lost In Willaura
12 – Homing

Extrawelt Website

Release Date:14 October 2008 | Catalog:#COR CD 09

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Following works realized by Sebo K, Marcin Czubala and Gummihz, Mobilee Records present us this extraordinary, deeply worked, vinyl. Marc Antona has previously took presence in labels like Micro-fibres, freak n chic and also Sender Records – label in witch he show us a magnificent work named Blind tested. In this new work  composed by two tracks he is able to transfer an enormous power and energy, maybe inspired in his Sender 073. One of them – Simple Venus -  is gathered by a constant click of two weird tones, starting with an accelerated rhythm, then a pause followed by it’s natural recycling. It’s excellent for a brain wash during a critical mind state. In the flipside of the ep it’s a well more powerful “Give me flowers” applying new situations in the right time managing to enter in the same patterns of the first track with the so called “natural recycling after the break”. It also has a great bassline composed by two distinguishable moments making the track very accessible to the dancefloor, you will start to dance and don’t even know it!

Label: Mobilee
Catalog#:mobilee 044

a – simple venus
b – give me flowers

Rls Date: 26.10.2008

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