Easy Changes is a minimal techno project of two friends Kirill Sil and Denis Guttersnipe that we’ve been following since their first release, back in 2007. The Russion duo have one of the most distinguishable acts in dance music where they do an incredible fusion between deep minimal clicks and abstract jazz elements. “Forouskur Dansur” is a 5 track EP that confirms all their talent in music production, it’s full of mysteriousness, mnml rhythms, exquisite percussion, weird samples, strange vocals and much more and all of this elements seem to combine perfectly in their music. It all starts with “Zhazdha Krovi” in great style, with some great dub elements, a worked up percussion and some twisted mad samples that bring a certain feeling of paranoia to the track! “Stolem” keeps the same routes of the first, it’s just a little bit more light and it maintains a certain sense of weirdness, as we could listen in the first track. After this one comes a Sweet N Candy remix of “Forouskur Dansur” delivering a perfect tech house bomb, where a damn good groove will make everyone cheer and applaud in the dancefloors. The original “Forouskur Dansur” closes up this magnificent EP in great style, this time keeping of the paranoid feelings of the first tracks and choosing instead some refined deep minimal jazz sobriety. It couldn’t exist more perfect way to end this release! Released by Mean… Unmissable!

a1 – Zhazdha Krovi

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a2 - Stolen

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b1 – Forouskur Dansur (Sweet N Candy remix)

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MEAN#008
02.11.2009

Cecille Numbers imprint is celebrating 20 months of existence and, to this particular month, they invited Lemos, who has also released their first EP, a great successful two part series one that we mentioned here at Minimaland. After eleven releases including names like Robert Dietz, Livio & Roby, Anthea & Celler, Kreon and many others, Cecille Numbers finishes 2009 with a massive release from the Greek producer. It all starts with “Nice & Clean”, a bassmonster pumpy track that will be the delight of every dancefloor. Already in this track you start to feel the unique style of Lemos that it’s also present in the 2nd track “Bebe Fefe”, this time getting a little more techy, evolving through underground environments, but never forgetting those jazzy samples that he so much likes. Ending up the party comes “Monstarda”, a typical production on Lemos repertoire, very similar to the first, but a little bit more tedious. So, get your own copy of this Ep and celebrate new year’s eve in great style.

a1 – Nice & Clean

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CEN#009
Release Date: 14.12.2009

Supported by Sven Vдth, Luciano, Onur Ozer, M.A.N.D.Y, Ricardo Villalobos, DJ Sneak and D’Julz

It’s the end of the year and I’ve decided to include here one of the Ep’s of 2009… “La Mezcla”. The track has been spread more than the H1N1 virus during the year, and was/is played by a lot of different artists, from house Dj’s like Danny Tenaglia or Dennis Ferrer, to techno minimal ones like Luciano, Ricardo Villalobos, Radio Slave, Loco Dice, Koze, Reboot, Guy Gerber, Sis, Rhadoo, Raresh, 2000 and One and M Tanzmann and all of them have had a tremendous feedback from the crowds. Now, in the end of the year, this music still shakes my heart and Minimaland couldn’t pass by such an enormous track! And this release that we present is a very special one because it contains a remix from Mr. Paul Kalkbrenner, who has also been spreading some euphoric moments in the dancefloors, since his enormous hit, Berlin Calling… movie and soundtrack!
Michel’s roots will be easy to find when you listen to his music, his tracks are full of joyful and vibrant ethnic electronic beats and full of instrumentals and in Kalkbrenner’s remix nothing was lost, he kept the main tools of the original “La Mezcla”and added some special features to it. I confess that this is not the kind of track that I enjoy in the first glance, but after a while and some dancefloor appreciation I can tell you that this is, in fact, a HUGE track and remix. Released by Strictly Rhythm Germany that have bought the property rights of “La Mezcla” to Cadenza records a while ago.

a1 – La Mezcla (Paul Kalkbrenner Remix)

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SR#09812
Release Date: 28.11.2009

3 Questions to Luciano about La Mezcla:

Like Michel Cleis ‘La Mezcla’ – you waited months and months to release that track.

Luciano: I always try to go against what people tell me.
Like with ‘La Mezcla’, I had people everywhere saying ‘release it, release it’, but I told them ‘no’.

That’s fun, because it works against what the industry does. It goes against what you’re supposed to do as a label. I wanted to create a buzz around the track, so that everyone knew it, without it being on the market already. That’s a fun way to create buzz.

How much did Strictly Rhythm pay for ‘La Mezcla’? I heard there was a bidding war.

Luciano: Ah, that is unofficial information. I can’t tell you that.

OK, were you surprised then, that the buzz you created around ‘La Mezcla’ led all the way to the door of one of the UK’s biggest dance labels?

Luciano: Yeah we were surprised. We thought about not giving it to Defected, but in the end if they can push a track and an artist more than us because they have a bigger distribution network, then that’s a good thing. They can make it bigger than we can, and that’s better for our artists like Michel.

100% Pure is Amsterdam’s longest running techno label, co-founded in 1993 by Dylan Hermelijn [aka 2000 and One] & Sandy Huner and now run solely by Dylan.For 100% Pure’s 57th release we welcome back Amsterdam’s talented techno duo – Gimikk, aka Daniel “mumbling” Sanchez and E-Contact (Eelco Augustijn) who released one of the best albums of the year, that we featured a few months ago – Untitled Concept. Accomplish Sickness is a masterful mix of dirty scraping techno treats propelled by catchy muted djembe rhythms and surprising vocal snippets. You’re going to love this infectious melody – it won’t make you sick but you’ll be dying to dance to it. It has a great bassline to boost you up and lots of hypnotic bases, just like Gimikk has been habituating us. While on the flip you’ll find Paco Osuna taken time out of his DJ residency at Barcelona’s club4 to produce this thumpingly clever remix that’s (100%) pure dancefloor, a tremendous techno track that all the underground hard dancefloors will appreciate… Bomb. There’s also a Digital only track – “Love Me” – showing another side of this guys, far more calm and subtle, as the press release says, it’s “they spacey inspired track for interstellar clubfloor travellers. You’ll love “Love Me”! Very good releases from two of the producers of the year – Gimikk and Paco Osuna.

a1 – Accomplish Sickness
b1 – Accomplish Sickness (Paco Osuna remix)
Digital Only – Love Me

Pure#057
Release Date: 25.01.2010

Hello peeps, we are ending this year and, as we said previously, we thought Cio D’or album “Die Faser” was the most valuable of 2009! So we wanted to know more about it and for that we had to engage with Miss Cio D’or for the proper interview. Here it is:

Mnmland: Hi Cio D’or First up, let us congratulate you for your excellent album on Prologue. We’ve already said in our feedback that it was one of the best albums of the year; can you describe it to our readers?

Cio D’or: Thank you***! Music and fabric have perplexing similarity. Both are sensual and emotional. A “Faser” in German means a single String, like a single sound in music, that’s the basic material that is the origin of any fabric. The analogy here is the track structure, which is then made into a piece by adding dramaturgy and structure. The coloring of the material then finally creates the mood of the piece. That’s very similar in music, it’s created from single notes and tones, which in their unique combination with other sounds ( woven in with other facets ) becomes its on form. Arranging a track is analog to designing a piece of fabric in that sense. This album is impression, emotion & vision, closely connected to a small part of my life between 2008 and 2009.

Mnmland: In Die Faser you show two sides completely different in you, one more subtle and passionate that we can listen in tracks like “Angora” or “Seide” and the other one completely directed to rough underground deep feelings like in “Brokat” or “Pailletten”. The question is, will we be able to listen this both sides in your sets? We sure hope to.

In my sets & mixes I love to start with an ambient or experimental track. At my gig in Tokyo @ Mariananight/Warehouse 705 a DJ named Craig/C_Olvrin, was playing 1 hour of amazing, only Ambient &tripped Music, so it was just perfect and easy for me to start ambient & looping “blubbs&bleeps”&other trippy sounds up to more powerful Techno. I just played 125bpm – the Crowd was dancing all the time and recognized betwhile building up the set more the “powerparts” in my Set. Techno can work in a sensitive way, too! But it depends of course also how much open-minded a crowd is! So..yes, you can hear both or also more sides in my sets.

Mnmland: How long did it take you to create this album?

I was working a long time on some melodies (for Goldbrokat) or sounds (Pailletten/Brokat/Organza/Mohair) before I started the mainly creation of my album. I spent 3 month every day from the morning 10 o’clock until the night. Good food, some friends or running into a wood were the only activities on the side. At the end of producing, I was working ca 4 weeks on “fine mixdowns” after my friend Emanuel Geller heard it with his “golden Masterears”! After the music was done, it took also a longer time to find the perfect Label for my Ideas how to present the Idea (with Remixes, Vinyl& Ambienttracks) & Prologue understand luckily this vision. Also to combine and to talk to the Remixers, Promoter Pullproxy Team and about the Visuals for the Videos from VJ Heiligenblut (Goldbrokat), Mo / Aiko Okamoto (Seide/Tränensalz) and Ateate (Wildseide) took a while and not to forget the Graphics from Jun Frogosa and all the Website Work from Wolf/Wolfgang Pöhler. Altogether this “Album work” it is a very long process like ca. 6-8 month!

Mnmland: Do you consider this your best installment till this date? And do you feel totally satisfied with it?

For me it feels like a time document &… when I stop to create a track: that means: it’s finished…for this little story and time only, but I am never finished , always in progress and never satisfied. I am not looking to long to what I did yesterday without forgetting the past. I have already some new ideas & wishes in my mind, but it’s quietly growing until I will find the perfect time to start a new creating time. A track is like a small story, an Album a little book & the whole work at the end of the days like a serial of life. I can’t say, what was my best track until today, because every track, that I did have a special feeling for a special moment.

Mnmland: “Goldbrokat” or “Cotton” are fabulous grooves that will have a tremendous effect in the dancefloors. But what are your favorite tracks of the album? What were the ones that gave you the most pleasure to produce?

My personal favorites are in this moment Pailletten, Goldbrokat, Mohair & Organza, because I was working very excited on these sounds. But I created every track with all my being! The ambient tracks I loved to do, too….because I was very interested to give emotions only & to create sounds for my visual minds and visions, too.

Mnmland: We’ve read that you are used to sample everything… can you tell us a little bit more about that process, and give us one or two examples of where you used those samples in this album?

Well…sometimes on journeys I am very inspirited from sounds around me, so I sample them & for some tracks I used them. I started with an MPC 2000 it is one of the optimal machine for samples! It was a shame in Japan:I heard that many interesting sounds around me, but I didn’t had enough space to bring my micro & minidisk to the trip. My Album is primarily made of sounds i developed myself, and melodies i performed,and recorded. On top, in some tracks i’m using synth samples to add depth and space to the music, for example in “Zellulose Wind, Goldbrokat, Mohair (2Samples by Gabriel Ananda), Brokat or Cotton.

Mnmland: You started doing music pretty young in a Jazz Band. What got you into techno then?

It’s a longer process I went more & more into electronic music for my own dance_choreographies. Classical & electronic Music gave me the optimum for inspiration for this kind of Graham Modern Dance Techniques. Also I was more interested to create a whole creation of a track than just to learn one instrument. I learned a bit of guitar, piano, flute, kalimba, kongas, but to hear just one instrument all the time bored me after a while. For this I adore Jimi Hendrix or Miles Davis!

Mnmland: What would you prefer, Playing for 50.000 people that would swallow anything you would give them, or playing for 100 people that would absolutely murder you for the mistakes you (could) make during a set? (We are not taking any sides here)

I love to play for open minded people & on a great soundsystem! I can be the same glad with lots or less people, it depends of the people.

Mnmland: What artists, producers & labels are inspiring you at the moment?

I am inspired mainly from sounds. But also this inspiration can change from time to time! It depends what I am looking for! & I am nearly sure, that I will forget to list many artists or sounds (also from the past), that I love! But exactly in this second I think about:

Sir Simon Rattle Film musicians

Xhin (Stroboscopic Artefacts), I love especially his Experiments & I am looping some sounds for my Set.

Milton Bradley (Do not resist the Beat/Prologue) did a Remix for my Organza Track (will be released in February on Prologue) & there are some Sounds inside, that it´s the future for me.

All Sounds from Artists on Prologue (Giorgio Gigli, Donato Dozzy, Dino Sabatini&Modern Heads, Milton Bradley, Obtane, Claudio PRC, Iori, Juho Kahilainen, Samuli Kemppi)

All Artists on Sandwell District Monolake on Monolake Sleeparchive (nearly all Tracks&Remixes) Zzz

Former Plasticman & Richie Hawtin Records

Some Troy Pierce Records BVDUB (nearly all tracks)

Basic Channel

Some Tracks from Jichael Mackson

Hubble

Mike Parker

Nuel

Pendle Coven

Xyramat

Kevin Gormann

Echospace&_cord

Jens Zimmermann

Modern Love

Son. Sine

Mnmland: We take you as a quite mysterious person! Who are you outside the music? In what do you like to spend your time?

For the outside of music isn´t that much time, but in these times I love to be very private within: Silence, diving and snorkeling, running in unknown forests, brilliant dinners, friends, colors & forms, architecture, nature, films & documentations and Design, reading, writing.

Mnmland: Some quick questions now… What are the places you enjoy playing the most?

All venues with a good soundsystem, an open minded crowd, sympathic Organizers, interesting rooms and beautiful Visuals (like Heiligenblut or Mo) were amazing & it´s always a cooperation between the crowd, all surroundings & me, if the night is great for all of us! This year I remember some very special moments also @: “Mariananight/Warehouse 705” in Tokyo/Japan “The Office” in Stockholm/Sweden “G” in Okinawa/Japan “Klickklackklub/Artheater” in Cologne/Germany “Fusionfestival” in Lärz/Germany

Mnmland: Analog or Digital?

I played 10 years Vinyl only& switched to Tractor Scratch Pro at New Year 2008/2009 @ Klickklackklub/Artheater Cologne. I was very nervous, but it´s working very well and I found many features, that makes sense to me. I was always dreaming to play the best moments of a track only (some tracks are perfectly allaround for me of course,) & for these ones, that I just like a part of … I just loop that favorite part! But I will love forever the haptic feeling with vinyl, too! For producing I was dreaming always from a analogue Studio: all in one…and I started with the MPC 2000! To this time I am working on a computer with Sequencer Programms. At the End I love the best Technic but less as possible, because to much Programms and equipment could keep you away from creating & ideas.

Mnmland: Favorite record of all time?

In this moment: Plasticman _ Consumed

Thanks a lot for the interview, minimaland.com wishes good luck to you and your productions. Bye

Read More about “Cio D’or – Die Faser”, our album of the year, here!

“I like hypnotic techno, it gives
people this sense of endlessness,
this infinity that trance doesn’t achieve.”

We don’t really know how often Jean-Vincent Luccini has been asked for the reasons to christen himself „Sarah Goldfarb“, a name chosen in honor of that old lady on speed from the congenial movie „Requiem for a dream“. What we do know, however, is that the producer from Marseille loves puns, genredefying credentials and synthetic sounds with lots of thrust. Since 2003 Jean Vincent produces quality techno under his always slightly irritating monicker, endowing a long-ranging array of labels old and young with his hypnotic beat patterns, and now he’s set to release his first artist album on Treibstoff. „Heartbeat City“, labeled after the seminal album by 80s New Wave band The Cars, isn’t just the next logical step in a wellfunded career, it’s the result of a labour of love and the need to evolve musically.

First, Jean-Vincent wasn’t to keen on writing a whole album, as he deemed the dance floor and the 12“ to be the best fit for his tracks, but the idea stuck with him since. It even developed into a personal challenge, meant to broaden his own horizon. So he invited a good friend and neighbour to his studio, the highly talented but virtually unknown Jean-Christophe Hallary, to climb this mountain with him. It took them both over half a year of intense bricolage, but we at Treibstoff are not the only ones to think that they reached the top several times in a row. The final product, as detailed as it is accessible, is a multilayered and danceable beast of an album, offering perfect dramaturgy and pinpointed kicks galore. It’s the album we’ve hoped for the label, the floor and last but not least Jean-Vincent himself, who arrestingly proves how well the fan and the artist can go hand in hand.
Sarah Goldfarb: not a junior anymore.

Minimaland Feedback: Heartbeat music

TRACKLIST:
1. Here we come
2. The noise electric
3. Jacki
4. Just a holiday
5. So long
6. Lights at night
7. Back in town
8. Golden sun
9. Never stop
10. Heartbeat City

Release Date: 18.01.2010
Label: Treibstoff
Catalog Nr: Treib-CD10

Resopal family is still growing with CLUBS EP. Texan native and prolific producer Maetrik, Maceo Plex presents three seductive high-rollers ready to reel you into more upfront grooves than you’ve seen in a while. Both names are identical the same person – Eric Estornel, who already released on Dumb Unit, Mothership and Treibstoff. Clubs EP is dedicated to all famous clubs worldwide and these three bass driven tunes in special. So here we are in the middle f dancefloor – la-la-land, and Resopal is getting ready to go counter cyclical and is stacking up sublime prime installments to attack these rugged times. These are three incredibly strong tracks with vicious and highly addictive vocals that surely kicks-off the clubs this fall / winter 2009.

Minimaland Feedback: The 44th release of Resopal Digital Editions could not be better, three amazing tracks to be spread in any club. Full of paranoid voices, insane beats, neurotic basslines and psychotic constructions… it will drive you insane in a matter of seconds, one of the great releases of this month, rave you will!

1 – Fabrick
2 - Fused
3 – Robo Johnson
listen and buy it here

RSPDIGI#044
Release Date: 11.12.2009

Minimaland is back, sorry for the long delay but I’ve been traveling and time has become an issue over the last few weeks. So, today we are presenting you the debut of mr Justin Drake as a solo producer. His first Ep was released by Tsuba Records a few days ago and it’s a very good one to go with the Christimas Spirit, cause it’s full of harmony and deep environments. If you don’t know Justin Drake I can tell you that he has been in the business for over 10 years and is best known for his work alongside Clive Henry as Peace Division, one of underground house music’s truly seminal acts. His remix of Frederico Molinari earlier this year on Tsuba gave a taste of what to expect as a solo artist. You will listen two tracks, the first one is “Gotta Let Me Know”, a deep one to enjoy in the early hours of the night, and the second one is “We Are Many” reminding me some of Chicago old school house music in those kind of tracks that you rarely listen in this days, with a great bassline and an edgy underground rhythm that can be spread in any hour of every day! DJ Sneak steps up for the 3rd track creating a tremendous remix of “Gotta Let Me Know” in those kind of tracks that will lift up any bad mood that may exist in you. Perfect for after-hours sessions.

a1 - Gotta Let Me Know

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a2 – We Are Many

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b1 - Gotta Let Me Know (DJ Sneak Mix)

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TSUBA#36
Release Date: 01.12.2009

Press Release:

Sáb 26 Dez ’09 @ Teatro Sá da Bandeira
Porto

Especial 1º Aniversário CLUB447

Quem lá esteve não se esquece: há um ano atrás – no dia 26 de Dezembro de 2008 – os corpos contorciam-se frenéticos ao som das pérolas electrónicas mais desavergonhadas dos noventas: algures na Baixa do Porto, mais especificamente no Clube Gare, celebrava-se o primeiro CLUB447: uma eufórica festa de homenagem à mítica discoteca Cais 447 e aos primórdios da música electrónica em Portugal.

Um ano depois, no Sábado dia 26 de Dezembro de 2009, o CLUB447 celebra um ano de festas descaradas e música incendiária: noites espaciais cheias de gente muito especial, e pistas ao rubro até à última faixa.

Para assinalar a proeza, convidamos-te a participar neste extravagante evento – CLUB447 DELUXE – cuja cereja no topo é a estreia em terras lusas dos lendários SNAP! (sim, sim, aqueles do “The Power” e do “Rythm is a Dancer”, quem mais?!), e que terá como palco o singular Teatro Sá da Bandeira, no Porto.

Deixa-te transportar de volta aos meandros dos noventas nesta noite inesquecível, que além dos SNAP! conta com a actuação dos habitués Fulano47, Sininho e Freddy (emblemático dj do Cais), vídeo feito à medida por Video Pixel, animação a cargo dos 447 Dancers, decoração de Ivo Teixeira, e outras tantas surpresas que te farão reviver as mais deliciosas e desfocadas recordações!

Pede já um bilhete ao Pai Natal ou, no caso de não te teres andado a portar lá muito bem, joga pelo seguro e adquire-os junto aos RPs do CLUB447, ou online no site da ticketline. Veste uma roupinha dos noventas e ainda te habilitas a ganhar entradas à pala para o nosso próximo evento… CLUB447: BACK 2 THE NINETIES!

Pré-venda: 10€ / No dia: 15€

www.myspace.com/club447
www.myspace.com/snapofficial

Intacto Records is still a pretty young label in the market. The Amsterdam imprint was founded in 2004 and since then they have been always bringing top releases to the scene with the participation of producers like 2000 and One, Shinedoe and Polder. Today we come here to present their next release that will be out in the middle of December and that was producer by the duo composed by Lauhaus & David Labeij, two of the most uprising Dutch artists of 2009. The Ep starts with the “Zero Zero”, a track full of joy and harmony, with some “stabbing and sweeping synths” and a 4×4 pumpy beat that will leave everyone euphoric. In the flip side you’ll listen “Green Sunday”, the track that really fits our standards, a fabulous deep track that seems to be telling a story due to it’s fabulous melodie, distant vocals and uprising beat. Perfect to be spread in clubs. If you buy the digital version you’ll have another track, “Sweatshop” the most pumpy track of the release and a really good add-on to the all instalment.

a) Zero Zero
b) Green Sunday
Digital: Sweetshop

INTACTO#023
Release Date: 15.12.2009