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Wax Tailor – This Train | Leave It
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Plastic City takes off with a new compilation series to allow you an overview of european deep and tech house culture. Every compilation will take a country and a city that is well known for its pulsating nightlife. In case of the first episode Plastic City decided to take a look into the scene of Switzerland and asked DJ Miguel to create the compilation. He is one of Switzerland’s leading Djs and producers and founder of the labels east2zurich and “Out of Ordinary”, part of the Smalltown Collective and owner of the Mig Projects agency and the “smoove group GmbH”. Furthermore he signed up at Circle Music and for new projects on Plastic City. With Get Physical’s Lopazz he produced tracks for Bacteria Records Switzerland and Eyerer’s & Romboy’s Session Deluxe at the beginning of the year.
The very balanced and bright mix includes deep and melodic tracks from The Timewriter, Rene Breithbarth, Nacho Marco, Gorge, Franksen & Tom Wax, Nicole Moudaber, Andry Nalin, Smalltown Collective, Greg Parker, Nick Curly and DJ Yellow presentz Mindz Kontrol Ultra. Between funky, groovy, atmospheric and very flowery tracks Miguel creates a pushing and kind of dark dancefloor atmosphere that characterizes the sound of DJ Miguel and the catalogue of Plastic City. So keep your eyes open for the Plastic City Night at Supermarket in Zurich with Terry Lee Brown Junior at the beginning of september 2009 and the second Plastic City Night with Gorge at Zurich’s Mascotte in november.
Filed under: CD / Download | Tags: Album, CD, Downbeat, download, Electronica, Harthouse, House, Lounge, Tech House, Techno
With their numerous releases on labels like Harthouse, Rekids or Cocoon, Deepgroove & Jamie Anderson are playing in the first league of global acting dj’s and electronic producers. With their outstanding 4Decks:FX Show Deepgroove smashed the dancefloors at We Love…@Space, Ibiza, Glastonbury, Fabric, Gatcrasher Summer SoundSystem, Zouk, Singapore, Ministry of Sound, London, Trailer Trash, Wet Yourself, Privilege, Ibiza, Eden, Ibiza, Korea, Snowbombing, Canada, Chicago, Warsaw, Solar Festival, Holland, Bloom Festival, Mulletover, Bugged Out! or Excentric in 2008. Furthermore they had three successful EP’s on Alter Ego’s Klang Elektronik in the same year what led to a signing at Sven Vath’s Cocoon in spring 2009. Jamie Anderson activities in the electronic music since the early nineties are enormous. As the founder of the Artform imprint he had a big influence of the tech house genre. In 2005 he founded his second label Fixia Records for his minimal, acid and experimental output. He worked with artists like Jerome, Owain K, Jesse Rose, Kevin Beber (Headlock) and Dave Angel (The Sound Enforcers). The list of labels he releases on is nearly countless: International Deejay Gigolos, NRK, 100% Pure, Rotation, Front Room – just to name a few. Furthermore he did a lot of remixes for internationally well known artists. The latest release on Harthouse was the great „Mutantz“ EP. But now they are coming around with their new and fresh album „13MACHINES“. The thirteen machines on the album are working constantly and absolutely dependable. Ranging between purest minimal, tech house and techno with delicious applications like driving tribal parts, absolutely clean synthesizer arrangements, unimaginable melody and rhythm structures and irrestistible beats and percussions. Every track symbolizes a different machine created for only one purpose: Reflecting our technological environment through the extremely pulsating language of electronic music. And this purpose aims directly to the most up to date dancefloors of the world.
Filed under: CD / Download | Tags: Album, Downbeat, download, Electronica, Hip Hop, Lounge, Mole Listening Pearls, MP3, Music, Pop, Wax Tailor
His first album “Tales of the Forgotten Melodies” drew comparisons to the likes of RJD2, Portishead and DJ Shadow, while his second “Hope & Sorrow” (80 000 sold worldwide) landed him a nomination at the prestigious Victoires de la Musiques, as well as the US Indie Awards. Wax Tailor is coming off a year which saw him tour relentlessly (over 200 concerts) and score the title track for the movie “Paris” by Cedric Klapisch as well as a few remixes (Nina Simone, ASA). He is now a well-established and respected producer.
Written in both Paris and New York City, his third album “In the Mood for Life” is an organic landscape with orchestral accents. Taking its cues from Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop or 60’s Pop Music, this is one eagerly awaited 52 minute journey. Who else than this necromancer of forgotten melodies can assemble such a wide array of influences and make them coexist with such ease? On Wax Tailor album melancholic melodies reminiscent of The Cocteau Twins strike a delicate balance with a brand of Hip-Hop seldom seen since the days of Jurassic 5. Wax Tailor also masters the art of reinventing oneself, and although his signature sound is immediately identifiable, this new album establishes a true evolution both in terms of production and song writing. Sting instruments, which were once just extras, now assume a more prominent role (Dry Your Eyes, Go Without Me). Where genres once crossed path from one track to another, they now collide within a track (This Train, Fireflies). The resulting sound is denser, more organic as well (Leave It, I Own You…) and the song writing more finely chiseled.
With the opening notes, the mood sets the stage. Wax Tailor is now a sound stager, the director of an aural movie whose urban roots meet the perfect casting. Throughout this album, he appropriates a multitude of references with a very personal touch. His music is beyond genres and defies categorization, it is a modern brand of Pop music, designed with a rigor and an expertise that betrays the love this artist puts into his craft.
Albumtrailer: In The Mood For Life
Video: In The Mood For Life (Making of)
Tourdates: In The Mood For Life Tour 2009
Filed under: CD / Download | Tags: Tech House, Free MP3, Plastic City, Lounge, Electronica, Techno, MP3, Album, Music, Ibiza, CD, House, Downbeat
With his first album “Rhode Stories” Lukas Greenberg received a lot of attention and convinced the critics (e.g. “Rhode Stories” was record of the month in Raveline). The mixture of house, easy listening, electro and downbeat combined with soulful vocals and spoken words opened a new chapter of relaxed and at the same time still deep sound on Plastic City. The tracks from Lukas Greenberg are solid, emotional and straight with a touch of naturalism. For the new album “Prisoner With A Key” he improves that concept from his first album “Rhode Stories”: Spreading out his facilities in combining and creating sounds, he wrotes chapters for his new “book of sounds”. The chronological order of the tracks is his story of the second step of his musical work on Plastic City.
For this album, Lukas Greenberg worked together again with the singer and electronic musician Karl Jenkins aka Ideophonic from Great Britain, who was also part of the “Rhode Stories” production process before. Furthermore he engaged the vocalist Nica Brooke, who is working on her new album at the moment together with Grammy Award winner Don Mizell. The result is a great combination of warm, bright and tight tracks which we inclined to call album art. “Prisoner With A Key” is also a real masterpiece on account of metamorphosing jazz, funk and soul elements into a new and electronic surrounding. This album is a must have for everybody who does not want to miss the next step of high quality electronic music: intelligent, complex and absolutely deep!
Audio Interview: Lukas Greenberg
Free Download: The Green (Sweet Album Mix)
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This is the new and outstanding album from the Cosmic Orient collective, an accumulation of artists who lay their focus on electronic vibes paired with oriental coloring. Head behind the project is Frankfurt/Main based producer and DJ Herb T who invited the convincing artists Catenia Quentin (vocalist), Abdurraham Köse (percussionist), Mercedes (vocalist), Dana Golombek (vocalist), Markie J., Aaron Gibbs and Nemesis to create a mixture of western music ideas with oriental elements like vocal parts, harmonics, instruments and percussions in a completely fascinating and new get-together. Herb T discovered his passion for music in his early childhood what made him handling with the styles Soul, Funk, R’n'B, Jazz and Reggae as a DJ. In the middle of the nineties he discovered oriental music, especially Arabian and Indian sounds and developed his very specific sound he is realizing constantly with his Cosmic Orient project he founded in 2001. Their first compilation, named “Eastern Electronics” was released in 2002 which the first album on BlueFrameRec., “Cosmic Orient, followed in 2006. In 2009 it is time to release the second album “Black Flame”. With the new album Herb T, who was inspired by the Asian Underground from London, and his international artist colllective are fusing downbeat, trip hop, ambient and dub to an anbsolutely unique mixture of lounge music with a razor sharp profile. The combination of eastern mythology and western technology hits a very assailable point: the individuality of cultures. Cosmic Orient are crossing borders with their music and displace them. The result is an unbelievable poetic and emotional style of fragile and beautiful tracks that are easing the mind.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Art, Avantgarde, CD, Electronica, Julien Plenti, Karo.Me, Music, Phoenix, The XX, XL Recordings
A On Saturday, August 23rd 2008 in a long-planned performance at the Ludwig-Forum in Aachen, plus49 decided to establish for the first time the main theme of their new studio album. The title: “Aircrash saved my life”. The plane crash as worst-case scenario. Three days prior to the premiere a SpanAir airplane with 175 passengers crashed at the Barajas Airport in Madrid. 154 of the passengers were killed. For 21 passengers this experience has changed their life for ever. Rumor has it that during World War II Joseph Beuys crashed with his Stuka over the Crimea. Tartars found him and saved his life. They covered his burns with fat and felt. “The first performance of my life” says Beuys later on. The experience was essential for his later artwork. Three days after the accident of Madrid plus49 was still deeply touched by the crash – too deep. Art, which is always a reflection of reality, became real for a moment, was swept out of the exhibition hall for some days and the multimedia performance “Aircrash saved my life” was postponed for several weeks. The pursuit of integrity, for the untouched existence, is determined by physical or mental injuries. This is the main theme of the 16 new songs on „Integrity and Injury“. Within this context, the song „Aircrash Saved My Life“ builds the center. plus49 have been regarded as “phenomenon on standby” for years. They are part of the new generation of artists who have as many hands as possible in as many different plays as possible. Since 2002 they have recorded multiple Electronic-Alternative-Pop albums (All The Beautiful Things, Hymn Without Country), published radio plays or created music- and video setups, e.g. in 2003 for the Gasometer in Oberhausen (The night of angels). They shot artistic movies (pollyDAYS) and developed sound designs for cell phones, TV stations and the sound of the gong for the Cologne-Bonn airport. plus49 also won the Midem NetAward for the best Online Event in Cannes. Their music, performances and productions range somewhere between Pop and Avantgarde. plus49 started out as a project and have ultimately transformed into a full-blown band with traditional cast (guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals), supplemented by electronic plots and a classic cello player. „Integrity and Injury“ marks plus49’s most consistent album so far. It tries out and makes use of all musical possibilities. The music is inspired by all possible disciplines. An album that consequently exceeds expectations. But „Integrity and Injury“ marks a contrast to its predecessor album „Hymn Without Country“ – no poetic creation which romanticizes, no more lament about personal misery. An album that takes on the spirit of the time. The focus is on the world’s standby condition; distant, ironic, also sarcastic, but never indifferent. The songs of “Integrity and Injury” are not a kick in the butt – but at least a slap in the face of today’s crisis generation.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Album, Café del Mar, CD, Downbeat, Electronica, Lounge, Mole Listening Pearls, MP3
Sky d’Or is a project around the Zurich guitarist, keyboarder and songwriter Alexander Vögele. He mixed a lot of his own tracks with ideas of Jillene Luce and Robert Jan Meyer. He gives his music a flying lounge sound similar to pop songs. The spherical voice of Jillene Luce let the tracks fly in the infinite as the name Sky d´Or already shows. The sounds of Robert Jan Meyer and his long-standing experience as a producer and DJ delivers a propelling and respectable ground for the whole album. For some tracks Alexander Vögele has invited, well-known swiss musicians just like jazz & lounge saxophonists Philippe Chrétien and G-Sax, also soul voice Jessy Howe or solo guitarist Martin Tuffli. “Inner Music” contains 15 varid and animated tracks which are testify of different musical influence. Jazz, Latin, Ambient and Popmusic melt to an aerial warm lounge sound with strong hooklines.
All tracks has been produced during the last three years. Four tracks were already published on the famous “Café del Mar” compilations (named by Alexander Vögele or Alexander Vögele feat. Jillene Luce). “Inner Music” should summarise the best lounge tracks of Alexander Vögele, which have originated during the last years partially together with Jillene Luce and Robert Jan Meyer into a big sound picture.
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| 01. Moving On | |
| 02. Calor | |
| 03. Engiadina | |
| 04. Into The Sun | |
| 05. Dance With Me | |
| 06. Soul Connection | |
| 07. The World | |
| 08. Heavenly | |
| 09. Inner Music | |
| 10. Dos Amigos | |
| 11. Ibizarre | |
| 12. Break Away | |
| 13. Magical Memories | |
| 14. Time & Place | |
| 15. Len & Jay | |
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Last year Sweden born producer and DJ Jonathan Axelsson aka J. Axel convinced on Plastic City with the singles “This Time” and “Love Letters” (produced together with Astrid Suryanto). Now he comes around with his second album “Start Receiving”. His passion for the Deep House genre started in the middle of the nineties. Jonathan started Djing and producing his own music and met Johan Bacto, who later founded the PlackTown Sound imprint. The productions that were released on PlackTown Sound caused a huge feedback from radio stations, magazines, Djs and television. After releasing a mini album on Chris Grays label Deep4Life he layed his focus on vocals in combination with the deep character of his music while producing and releasing instrumental house tracks beside under his early alias Ronin (on Driftwood). At this time he met Sumatra born vocalist Astrid Suryanto, who worked with Victor Calderone, John Digweed or The Prodigy’s Neil McLellan so far. They started working together and Statra Records released their first production “You Give Me (Love)”. On this album Astrid features three songs. But one more female voice supports a track on the album: the voice of Stockholm based Zemya Hamilton. Zemya Hamilton releases singles and albums since 1989 on labels like Sonet Grammofon, WEA, EastWest or Warner, where she published her album “Trollbunden” in 1993. She gave her voice to a lot of dance tracks and produces songs with her band Zemya Hamilton and the Cozmic Energy.
“Start Receiving” is an extraordinary Deep House album. Through the strait structures of the arrangements the voices of both vocalists are able to breathe while the romantic and melancholic synthesizer combinations create a wide and strong background for the melodies they create. In the instrumental tracks Jonathan Axelsson aka J. Axel draws fields of emotional colours that are opening like huge blossoms. Between Lounge and Deep House Jonathan turns every stone and discovers little dimensions he explores with his synthesizers. “Start Receiving” is a really big album that hits heart, body and soul directly.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Album, Electronica, France, Hip Hof, Mole Listening Pearls, Wax Tailor
His first album “Tales of the Forgotten Melodies” drew comparisons to the likes of RJD2, Portishead and DJ Shadow, while his second “Hope & Sorrow” (80 000 sold worldwide) landed him a nomination at the prestigious Victoires de la Musiques, as well as the US Indie Awards. Wax Tailor is coming off a year which saw him tour relentlessly (over 200 concerts) and score the title track for the movie “Paris” by Cedric Klapisch as well as a few remixes (Nina Simone, ASA). He is now a well-established and respected producer. Written in both Paris and New York City, his third album “In the Mood for Life” is an organic landscape with orchestral accents. Taking its cues from Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop or 60’s Pop Music, this is one eagerly awaited 52 minute journey.
Video: In the Mood for Life | Making of (big | small).
