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Fairmont – All Dreams Are Nightmares Ep

Posted on 22 Julho 2010

Sometimes an outstanding music harmony knowledgement style appears and disappears in a specific genre. In “minimaland” an harmony existed when Fairmont appeared. His Gazebo/Gazelle and one or another track, marked a season of joyfull and kind music, along with the “specials” who appeared by those times. Some of them reviewed here, indeed marked an era.
So, In this “All Dreams are nightmares Ep”, we listen to a Fairmont reappearing touch in Areal Records, a one ticket way in a good recycling process, and with a new “extra ego”, let’s say! And we applaud.

As we listen to the first track, the one that proudly badges the Ep on the A-Side, “All dreams are Nightmares” we realize that.. well…. they are, Buuuhhhh. An alter ego appears in this production, delivering a massive conscience dynamo working in all your senses and, in fact, brightly, a darkest side of Fairmont. It haves it all to a good heavy journey.

B-side We felt the Fairmont cherish productions we’ve missed. “Puppet With Glass Eyes” is that typical track where I picture the emotion of partying this in a landscape or a sunrise. That “heaven” tubular sounds and Emotions that put a little heavenly touchy side to whatever are you picturing now.. Just feel a cherish kind feeling as you let yourself go with the harmony that embraces the notes.
..good to have this back and re-energized in our land.

A – All Dreams Are Nightmares
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B – Puppet With Glass Eyes
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Release Date: – 05th July 2010
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Tags: Adultnapper, Pokerflat

Adultnapper – Slowly

Posted on 14 Julho 2010

Tracklist:

1. Slowly

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2. Gold And Forgetting

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3. Scissors And Thread

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Realese Date: 9-07-2010
Label: Poker Flat Recordings
Catalog#: PFR WHITE 06

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The American Adultnapper, one of the founders of label Ransom Note, which is going in the third release of 2010 and is now launching a very fresh EP, to calm the heat that is felt this hot summer. “Slowly” is marked by the momentum of the bass, the saxophones and sinister sounds that are felt throughout the whole track, letting yourself be enchanted by the female voice, giving a small sigh in contrast to the male voice. The construction changes with the pauses according to a constant 4/4 beat. Very danceable, especially in late afternoon overcast, reminding outdoor parties. “Gold and Forgetting” begins by throwing some sounds coming from the back, to travel, allowing to enter the snare drums, still bass grows repetitive as it remains from the first minute and after the first break. This track grabs a lot of emotion and communicates us in the sense of well-being, without thought of greatness. “Scissor and Thread” is the true cut and bake of minimal, because it remains a line from the start, which fades over the eight minutes of music. But it contains a high vibration to dance to the sound of the low frequencies in accordance with the rhythm deep enough.

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Tags: Danza Macabra, Everything Is You, Tanzbardigital

Danza Macabra – Everything Is You

Posted on 24 Junho 2010

Sometimes music goes away inside, but ticks and then comes back again. It is always there. It was always there.. So, nothing better than this release “Everything Is you” to be intimately connecting my return. Minimaland was always here, but some “you” simply disconnected the balanced XLR cable (let’s go technical about it?). hi there! :)

Since I’ve started combining tracks in the last couple days, one of the more transactional ep’s I’ve found was this “Danza Macabra – Everything Is You”. Suits perfectly any mood going up or just driving you around a well structured composition in any track you choose, you only have to choose the mood.

As far as we know, Danza Macabra are composed by the duo Royter and Edin Chuturic and this is their (please correct if so) third release. As far as it seems, it was Valentino Kanzyani’s label “Jesus Loved You” who put them in the international circuit.

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First track down, naming the single “Everything Is You”, appears as compulsive and very intense bassline with a distinct touch. It drives to a harmonical kind of xylophonic sounds and goes around with you. Or at least you go around!

“Flying Circus” enters to more hypnotic states, a track I believe to be played around a lot this summer. Really like this one, suits any set to a travelling uplifting and takes my love, in fact, is a well structured rhythm, clashes and you just have to go along with the back trance sound on it.

“Smatt Things Matter” again is on a xylophonic drive-thru way. Great bassline, great travel again and a keep the pace up track.
It’s almost a cruelty to say one track is better than another. They’re all different yet still, a real “Danza Macabra” on the dancefloor! A must have Ep.

Release Details & Track listing:

a – Stenk & Danza Macabra – Everything Is You

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a1 – Danza Macabra – Flying Circus

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b – Danza Macabra – Smatt Things Matter

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Label: Tanzbar Digital
Cat ……. : #TANZBARDIGITAL039
Store ……. : http://www.beatport.com

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Tags: Andy Stott, Modern Love

Andy Stott – Tell Me Anything / Love Nothing

Posted on 07 Junho 2010

Andy Stott’s first material of 2010 finds the producer in a sultry mood, delivering two house variants produced with his typically deep and luxurious style. “Tell Me Anything” centers around shuffling snares, a rugged bassline and sparkling keys anchoring the track somewhere between wide open and celestial expanses and the compressed warehouse environments of darkest North Manchester. When the keys drop half way through the track, you’ll be forgiven for thinking you are in underwater heaven; submerged, euphoric bliss. “Love Nothing” on the flipside is the slower of the two tracks, but somehow one of the most defining of Stott’s career, unraveling to expose an unfathomably deep arrangement of deep bass rumbles, decomposed vocals and mangled percussion. It sounds like Newworldaquarium, Mount Kimbie and DJ QU shooting the breeze, evoking the humid spirit and glamour of a hot summer in the city whilst retaining a northern grit now synonymous with the Modern Love crew. Beautiful living under difficult circumstances!

a1 - Tell Me Anything

b1 – Love Nothing
LOVE#062
Release Date: 07.06.2010

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Tags: Maruca, Pier Bucci

Pier Bucci – Amigo

Posted on 07 Junho 2010

It’s common to claim that technology is shrinking the global village, that computers keep us in touch with home no matter where we are. Pier Bucci’s new album evokes a vast sense of distance between his Chilean birthplace and his Berlin studio, however, proving the much older adage that distance makes the heart grows fonder.

The Chilean producer’s second solo artist album, and the first for his own Maruca label, feels like a love letter to his homeland, an album composed with the care of someone putting pen to paper rather than rushing out an e-mail. Indeed, if there is a consistent theme to Amigo, it’s a desire to say something of substance with machines that supposedly make communication easier but where real meaning is often lost within the wires. In that respect, the alienation that often pervades Amigo is not just that of a man abroad on a foreign continent, but also of someone searching for a human connection in a virtual world.

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Beginning with disjointed keys and bleeps interrupting whispered and barely audible voices, opening track “La Cortina De Hierro Y El Pajaro Cantor” feels as if Bucci is trying to call home but keeps losing the signal, a sense of isolation that is carried over into the yearning female vocal and equally plaintive electronics of “Canto Libre.” Like fellow producers with South American roots such as Ricardo Villalobos and occasional collaborator Luciano, Bucci works Latin vocals and rhythms into what is ostensibly minimal techno. Amigo feels South American not because of specific samples, melodies, vocals or beats, though. It’s in the way that Bucci contrasts these textures with hyper-modern production to capture the melancholy atmosphere of the bossa nova or tango. Amigo is an impressionistic album, and even when things apparently come more into focus on “Eternelle,” the music still seems intangible and almost illusory. Even the more dance floor-driven tracks like “La Payaya” feel like echoes of a party taking place over the horizon.

Not that Amigo is intended as a club album. But even more so than its 2005 predecessor, Familia, Amigo asks to be contemplated as conceptual art, and as such it’s often intellectually impressive but occasionally less emotionally engaging. Bucci is clearly exploring the gaps and tensions between things: man and machine, techno and traditional music, Europe and South America and memory and reality amongst others. That Amigo sometimes doesn’t quite connect the head and the heart encapsulates this concept perfectly. (by ResidentAdvisor)

Minimaland Feedback: Surprising album by Pier Bucci, I confess that I’ve just listened it a few days ago and I really enjoyed the all album. It’s full of cool and funky tunes to fresh up the Summer. All the tracks are full of good vibes, combining european synths and bassline’s and south american rhythms perfectly. Not to miss!

1. La Cortina De Hierro Y El Pájaro Cantor

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2. Canto Libre

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3. Papa Guede

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4. Cuando

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5. Éternelle

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6. Verte Tan

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7. Iskrenne

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8. Wayna Wasi

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9. La Payaya

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10. For Free

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Label: Maruca
Catalog#: MARCD001
Release Date: 08.05.2010

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Tags: Seraphine, Tanzbar

Seraphine – The Trip EP

Posted on 15 Maio 2010

Since childhood dealing with music. As a little boy fascinated with hip-hop music, seraphine started exploring music. Through hip-hop, electro, house and at least techno he got to know the deepest and most energetic sounds. Meanwhile he found his grandma’s phonograph at the attic. seraphine was surprised by vinyl feeling. he bought his first turntables and started scratching old records. Long way he went through, to find electronic music. Around year 2006 he met some people who pulled him into DJing. On his first parties he was playing almost all genres of house music, but after a year inspired by truly electronic tunes seraphine started dealing with techno, house and mixture of those genres. Today he play much less, because he’s really into recording his own tracks, which are made of deep, tech-styled ingredients.

Minimaland Feedback: Tanzbar has been one of my favorite labels over the last years. All of their releases, especially the Digital ones, are very well achieved combining deep house music with some minimal pattern… The compelling “Hometown” it’s the perfect example, a track that easily seduces everyone that likes true club music.

1. Warszawa Centralna

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2. Hometown

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TanzbarDigital#035
Release date: 15. 04. 2010

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Tags: Areal, Onze

Onze – Goodbye Lino

Posted on 15 Maio 2010

Lino was staring at her. This was last chance for him to save the memory of what will soon be floating forever in the digital ocean. No longer physical, yet still retrievable for everyone. The first human being decomposed into megabits, locked in forever at the other side of the monitor, yet free as never before. All explanation and preparation, we were ready, or at least we all thought that we were ready.

But the moment of truth revealed that it was all worthless, now that she was disappearing in front of his eyes and gradually turning into a percentage value. 89 %, 90 %, 91 %, and from the speakers, you could hear “Goodbye Lino” …

Minimaland Feedback: If you normally listen Areal Records releases you won’t be surprised… Onze leads the decks with deep passionated sounds ready to spread positive feelings among the crowds. We liked it, a lot!

a1 - Goodbye Lino

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b1 - Then We Make Love

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AREAL#054
Release Date: 26.04.2010

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Tags: David Labeij, Onno, Upon You

Onno – After School Special

Posted on 11 Maio 2010

Onno already proved to us just what he was capable of brewing together in his Amsterdam sound kitchen on the last Home Sweet Home compilation with the track “Common Sense”. And because it was so great there’s a remix of “Common Sense” from David Labeij on this release. Groove magazine has compared him to Frankfurt’s Funkyness, his magic cauldron is filled with a perfect concoction of rolling bass lines, sneaky vocal snippets simmering in a sauce of percussive beats. “The boy who drank too much” makes no exception, everything is exact and to the point and with one goal in mind,-to groove. “My Dad Lives In A Downtown Motel” shows us that he knows where to place an instrumental disco roll so that it ends up on every DJ’s menu. For those that still haven’t had their fill of Onno’s digital delicacies, “Bagels are fresh” is sure to cure your appetite, at least for now

Minimaland Feedback: Another fresh release on Upon You, one of the most supported labels here in the land. All the original tracks will be massive dancefloor hits but Labeij’s remix is the one that will tear it apart!

a1 - The Boy Who Drunk Too Much

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b1 – My Dad Lives in a Downtown Motel

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b2 - Common Sense (David Labeij remix)

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…… Bagels Are Fresh (Digital Only)

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UY#033
Release Date: 19.04.2010

Supported by: Format B, Anthny Collins, Todd Bodine, Someone Else, Matt Star, Hugo, Mathias Mesteno, Mikael Stravostrand, Jens Bond, Lauhaus, Markus Schatz, Jeremy P. Caulfield, Bloody Mary, Chris Lattner and many more

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Extrawelt – Neuladen

Posted on 11 Maio 2010

It’s with great excitement that we continue to follow Extrawelt’s career. All their pieces are pure gold and today I’m here to talk about their latest EP “Neuland”, released by Darkroom Dubs. When I started to listen this release I instantly though about Schone Neue Extrawelt, their brightest peace till this days. The feeling of the album is all in this tiny EP, the only thing that changes are the stories that they tell us. In “Arples” they lead off with a deep scenario of pumpy beats and nice melodies, emerging us into a rather peaceful journey. This is a typical Extrawelt track with all the ingredients that we are used to, when we’re listening their music. Next comes “Tonladen” with a magnificent step by step construction, where a rough beat and some reverbed samples seem to engage perfectly, creating a great feeling that will surely meltdown nigh and day crowds. “Neeladen” ends the instalment, bringing the continuity that you expect to listen in a Extrawelt release. Perfect to a sunny afternoon, or even a rainy one, their music easily adapts to every kind of circumstances and that’s why they are some of the greatest musicians that ever appeared in the electronic world. Quality release, heart breaking music.

a1 - Arples

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b1 – Tonladen

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b2 - Neuladen

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DRDLTD#002
Release Date: 03.05.2010

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Tags: Max Cooper, Traum Schallplatten

Max Cooper – Chaotisch Serie

Posted on 11 Abril 2010

When you listen Max Cooper it’s like if you were emerging yourself into another world, just dreaming in your own reality. Life has this amazing things and musicians like this guy are able to create different dimensions and refugees to our minds. This EP is all about that, it was released by Traum a few days ago and is composed by 3 original Cooper’s tracks and two remixes if you buy the digital version. The first one is “Chaotisch Series” a track that reminds me some of Extrawelt’s productions, produced to stab your soul with magic and illusion. It’s the perfect track to put the crowds in appropriate state of mind. Next comes “Minertia” in great style, this one has a different kind of vibe, dancefloor directed,with a great groove and some nice spacy breaks! After this comes a seductive “River Of Gold” to lighten up a rainy afternoon. Enjoy

a1 - Chaotisch Serie

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b1 - Minertia

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b2 - River Of Gold

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TRAUMv122
Release Date: 04.04.2010

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