Ben Klock February 2009 Top 10

1 Martyn – Great Length Album [3024 ]
2 Levon Vincent – Six Figures [Novel Sound ]
3 Norman Nodge – MDR 05 [MDR ]
4 Roman Lindau – Simplicity [Fachwerk Records ]
5 Steffan Linzatti – See [Stockholm LTD ]
6 Frozen Border – Frozen Border 01 [Frozen Border 01 ]
7 Loco Dice – 7 Dunham Place (M. Dettmann remix/M. Huckaby remixes) [Desolat ]
8 STP – The Fall (T++ remix) [Subsolo ]
9 Sian – Red Cloud (Minilogue remix) [Aus Music ]
10 Liquid Sky – The Darkness [Filtered Visions ]

Christian Burkhardt February 2009 Top 10

1 Federico Molinari – dos [Love Letters From Oslo ]
2 Sascha Dive – upcoming [Deep Vibes Recordings ]
3 Ray Okpara – Brothers ep [Oslo Records ]
4 Vera – Heartbreaker [Cyclical Tracks ]
5 La Peña – La Peña 4 [La Peña]
6 Christian Burkhardt – Leg back [Oslo Records ]
7 Johnny D – Touched Soul [Deep Vibes Recordings ]
8 David Labeij – My 20 Models [Remote Area ]
9 V.A. – TEN YEARS RAUM [Raum...musik ]
10 Christian Burkhardt – Tres [Love Letters From Oslo ]

Remute February 2009 Top 10

1 Remute – Condensated [Remute]
2 AFFKT & Rafa Siles – Cocofai [Barraca Music]
3 P.Toile – Tvoelf [Ostwind Records]
4 Midfield General – Error [Skint]
5 Simone Tavazzi – Space Invaders [Sleaze Records]
6 Van Hai – Mono No Aware [Meerestief Limited]
7 David Keno – Discoteca [Kindisch Records]
8 They Came From The Stars I Saw Them – Moon Song
(Holy Ghost! remix) [THISISNOTANEXIT]
9 Mr. Pauli – Le Crunch [Moustache]
10 Rescramble – 01 [Rescramble]

Mihalis Safras February 2009 Top 10

1 Caie & Lagora – Miss Wonderfull (SIS remix) [Material Series]
2 Shinedoe – Hey DJ [Area Remote]
3 Kerkez – Music Is The Answer [Saf Series]
4 Mihalis Safras & Kimono – Cable [Trapez]
5 Spektre Ft. Chelonis R. Jones – The Ride (Mihalis Safras remix) [Suruba]
6 Christopher Benjamin – Down The Rabbit Hole [Flux Recordings]
7 Mihalis Safras – Interafrica (Bart Skil & Anton Pieete remix)
8 Dustin Zahn – Bees [Truesoul]
9 Gregor Tresher – Black Rain (Mihalis Safras remix) [Great Stuff Recordings]
10 NoiDoi – Ahoia [Material Series]

Mark-Henning February 2009 Top 10

1 Audio Werner – Easy Going [Hartchef Discos]
2 Jug & Mark-Henning – Mug2 [Autoreply]
3 Billy Dalessandro – Acidburn [Sonic Culture]
4 David Sens – Deepnotic (Tim Gregor Remix) [Microfreak]
5 Victorville – Cloaks (Alex Jones Remix) [Hypercolour]
6 Andre Crom – Catharsis (Polder Remix) [Safari Electronique]
7 P. Toile – Beware 2 [Ostwind Records]
8 Chris Fortier – Quote Unquote (Mark-Henning Remix) [EQ Grey]
9 The Subliminal Kid – To The South [Offkey Industries]
10 Tolga Fidan & Anthony Collins – Violente [Vakant]

Two years have passed and much has changed since Gui Boratto shot to prominence with his Kompakt debut ‘Chromophobia’. A much needed spot of colour amidst the minimal milieu, Gui’s mixture of fierce production skills and a blissful pop sensibility have characterized his trajectory to the techno heavyweight before us today.

Amidst a rigorous touring schedule and busy family life arises ‘Take My Breath Away’, Gui’s eagerly anticipated sophomore album. Laced with subtle critique and double-entendre, Gui’s philosophical approach is adept at packaging the rough, smooth, bitter and sweet into a number of emotive and ultimately optimistic productions.

The title track is a fitting example. Equally a statement of concern and call for solidarity, ‘Take My Breath Away’ conveys a sense of scale and immediacy with soaring melodic progressions and pounding bass. Epic and densely constructed, clattering metallic tones escalate to a howling climax before a deep pulsed drive to close.

Recent single ‘Atomic Soda’ rasps with gritty hovering synth and complex rhythms, phase transitioning into a monolithic bass stomp with staccato percussive modulation that was built to move. The bit crushed melodies of ‘Colors’ enters shimmering dream pop territory, while ‘Opus 17′ marks Gui’s 17th album track, continuing the lineage of his debut with a mixture of droning Cologne, shuffling IDM beats and kaleidoscopic synth textures.

‘No Turning Back’ jars with uneasy cyclical rhythms, developing a tension that breaks with a chorus as grandiose as it is energetic. Gui’s wife Luciana Villanova provides the Midas touch yet again, contributing a stirring vocal reminiscent of her contribution to Gui’s anthemic ‘A Beautiful Life’.

More understated than it’s predecessor, ‘Azzura’ swings with delicate harmonic shifts, while ‘Les Enfants’ features a tripped out organ melody and live drum break to continue the brief descent in pace.

‘Ballroom’ is strictly club material, probing with stabbed synth and the hardest kick on the record. Taken deep and destabilized with uneasy melodic tones, it provides a fitting introduction to closer ‘Eggplant’. Patiently progressing from ascendant synth chords to a tightly wound concoction of frenetic percussion and dissonant harmonic elements, ‘Eggplant’ gathers enough energy to break the most vegetative of states.

Minimaland Feedback: You can throw away the pills, you are cured

- – - – TRACKLIST – - – -

01. Take My Breath Away
02. Atomic Soda
03. Colors
04. Opus 17
05. No Turning Back
06. Azzurra
07. Les Enfants
08. Besides
09. Ballroom
10. Eggplant
11. Godet

artist: Gui Boratto
title: Take My Breath Away
label: Kompakt, DE.
date: 23.03.09

Traum Schallplatten presents the long awaited second part of the collaboration between Dominik Eulberg and Gabriel Ananda. The first part “Kirschplunder & Jasmin Tee bei Gabriel” was recorded at Gabriel Ananda´s studio in Cologne. The follow up “Eucalypse Now!” was recorded at Dominik Eulberg´s studio “Ton” in the Westerwald and carries all the influences Dominik takes in there.
The first 12” ever with both of them teaming up on Traum was the “Harzer Roller” 12″ (Traum V70) in 2006. So now 3 years later you can witness two long epic and enthusiastic mixes on vinyl and an alternative mix on the digital side, which is more reduced and late night.
The title track “Eucalypse Now!“ is a cool almost Latin flavoured groove track with cool synth stabs. An epic groover which has the finest up and downs… changes perspectives within it’s 10 minute journey… always offering new dynamic impulses and changes in the harmonies… highlighting peaks of powerful chubbiness.
“Bill Kilgore” on the flipside is a cool, static, monotone, post trance, epic track which slowly builds up to a 10 minute hypnotic tracker!

Mnmland Feedback: Brain Damaging

——–tracklist——-
a1 - Eucalypse Now
b1 - Bill Kilgore

Traum V108
Rls Date: 02.02.2009