Filed under: CD / Download | Tags: Album, CD, Czech, download, Electronica, Lounge, Mole Listening Pearls, MP3, Music
Ohm Square – Taking ShapeMole Listening Pearls presents the next big album from Czech electropop combo Ohm Square. Famous for long periods of creating the new album “Taking Shape” was written and recorded in the last two years. Ohm Square is one of the most famous Czech bands. Founded in 1996 as a trio Jan Čechtický (Jan2), Jan Kleník (Jan5) and Dušan Lipert (Dušan Only One) engaged english songstress Charlotte Fairman soon, who worked for the English dance act Wubble U as lead singer in the 90ies. But also the male colleagues of Charlotte were part of national successful band projects like The Sebastians or Colorfactory. At the beginning the band focused their creative energy on Drum’n'Bass and Breakbeat and released the results of their collective work on the own label Mr. Cucumber. After the first singles „Pillow“ and „Coloured Post“ the first album „Ohmophonica“ followed also in 1996 and was the start of an impressive career. Until now Ohm Square were honoured with two Popular Music Academy’s Angel Awards and the caption „Band Of The Decade“ by the only Czech indie radio station Radio 1. Meanwhile they toured with Fat Boy Slim, Lou Reed, Coldcut, Kosheen and the EZ Rollers and produced three albums.
The follow-up longplayer of „Love Classics“ puts it concrete form. The strong songwriting and the intuition for clear and complex forms leads the sound of Ohm Square to a new quality of pop eclecticism. Placed between Soul, R’n'B, Breakbeat, Electro and Dance the exploding sound of Ohm Square’s „Taking Shape“ fuses to light and dreamy but kind of abstract lounge styles in the ballads. It is amazing how careful the voice of Charlotte Fairman manages all the different styles and colours. Between Kosheen and Moloko exists enough empty space to fill it with this funky, smooth and complex kind of power pop spiked with enough soul, sensitiveness, creativity and candidness. This very direct and soulful album goes directly into heart and body and is definitely one of THE electropop albums in 2009.
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Audio Interview: Ohm Square (recorded in may 2009)
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Album, Electronica, Hardfloor, Harthouse, Tech House, Techno
Since Daredo Music took over the world famous Harthouse Frankfurt label in 2004 many things have changed. Electronic music and especially the techno genre explored new ways and characteristics to formulate its aims. Since the beginning of the new century reduction took place in the whole European electronic music scene and it seemed that electronic music searched for its cultural justification after the big sold-out in the late nineties. Harthouse, as one of the first German labels characterized the techno genre in Europe like only a few other labels did and supported and established artists that belonged to the big names at that time and today. Marco Zaffarano, Hardfloor, Braincell, Barbarella, The Arpreggiators, Spicelab or Alter Ego found the right platform for their music with this label. The combination of sophisticated and impulsive artists leads to Since Daredo Music took over the world famous Harthouse Frankfurt label in 2004 many things have changed. Electronic music and especially the techno genre explored new ways and characteristics to formulate its aims. Since the beginning of the new century reduction took place in the whole European electronic music scene and it seemed that electronic music searched for its cultural justification after the big sold-out in the late nineties. Harthouse, as one of the first German labels characterized the techno genre in Europe like only a few other labels did and supported and established artists that belonged to the big names at that time and today. Marco Zaffarano, Hardfloor, Braincell, Barbarella, The Arpreggiators, Spicelab or Alter Ego found the right platform for their music with this label.
Nowadays some of the primary rocks like Der Dritte Raum, Hardfloor or Spicelab are joining artists of the younger generation like Billy Dalessandro, Boris Brejcha, Phil Kieran, Tigerskin or John Dahlbäck. And even big names like Joey Beltram (who mixed the latest Harthouse mix compilation named “Lost In New York”), Terence Fixmer or Joel Mull spend their creative energy to form the musical content of Harthouse Mannheim. The combination of sophisticated and impulsive artists leads to the eclectic sound profile the cataloque of the labels reflects since 2004.
This label compilation features the best and most interesting works of the last five years like remixes of Jesper Dahlbäck (ADJD’s “Space For Bass”), Hardfloor (Gui Boratto’s “Atol”) and original tracks from Der Dritte Raum, Zoo Brasil, Phil Kieran, Spicelab, Joey Beltram, Tigerskin, Billy Dalessandro, Braincell & Joel Mull. This compilation shows that Harthouse is still on the top in the techno label ranking.
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| 1. Der Dritte Raum – Plutonium | |
| 2. Zoo Brazil – Crash | |
| 3. Phil Kieran – Idiots Game | |
| 4. Spicelab – Tension | |
| 5. Joey Beltram – See Through Accordeon | |
| 6. ADJD – Space For Bass (Jesper Dahlbäck Remix) | |
| 7. Gui Boratto – Atol (Hardfloor Remix) | |
| 8. Tigerskin – Capsule | |
| 9. Braincell – Absorb | |
| 10. Billy Dalessandro – Magenta Milkshake | |
| 11. Joel Mull – Sleepless | |
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alex Flatner, Audioflux, CD, Circle, Club, DJs, Ed Banger, Eukatec, Get Physical, London, Music, Techno, The Egg
The new Circle mix compilation concentrates on the club “The Egg”. “The Egg” resident Dj Luciano Esse mixed the first CD and represents style and sound of the club. With its excessive nights embedded in a soundtrack of most modern electronic music mixed by international top Dj’s like Mr. Flash (Ed Banger), Vicarous Bliss (Ed Banger), Betoko (Eukatech), Mark Williams (Audioflux) or AudioJack (2020 Vision) and events like “Always On Fridays” or “Breakfast At The Egg” the club counts to the best frequented night clubs in London. The first CD is mixed by Circle Music’s Alex Flatner and Lopazz from Get Physical Records. Both worked together on different projects like their “Perfect Circles” project released on Circle Music. Lopazz, who is internationally well-known as a soundtrack composer, produced a remix for Flatner’s “The Voice” and his wife Deafny Moon gave her voice to his track “The Voice”. As a Dj-team the composer and multimedia artist and the A&R of Plastic City or Harthouse and Labelhead of Circle Music and Gedankensport are working together perfectly. Bundling their facilities they created a mix that is emotional, light-hearted, progressive and made in one casting. The second CD is mixed by Luciano Esse, who began his musical carreer in Italy in the early nineties, found his home at “The Egg” and is very successful with his sets when he supports the different guest Dj’s at the numerous labelnights on the balcony terrace, the big garden or the floors inside the club. With his eclectic, driven and tribal Dj mix with tracks from artists e.g. Alex Flatner feat. Lopazz, Señor Coconut, Loco Dice, Marco Carola or Subform he gives the listener an impression how the nights at the club sounds like.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Album, Czech, Downbeat, Lounge, Mole Listening Pearls, Music, Ohm Square, Video
Ohm Square is one of the most famous Czech bands. Until now Ohm Square were honoured with two Popular Music Academy’s Angel Awards and the caption „Band Of The Decade“ by the only Czech indie radio station Radio 1. Meanwhile they toured with Fat Boy Slim, Lou Reed, Coldcut, Kosheen and the EZ Rollers and produced three albums. Now, Mole Listening Pearls presents the next big album from Czech electro-pop combo called “Taking Shape”. The strong songwriting and the intuition for clear and complex forms leads the sound of Ohm Square to a new quality of pop eclecticism. For the first song on the album called “Monomania”, a brand new video was shot in Prague. You can watch it here: “Ohm Square – Monomania”. You can watch it here: “Ohm Square – Monomania”.
Filed under: Download Only | Tags: House, MP3, Plastic City, Remix, Tech House, Terry Lee Brown Junior
Highly addictive grooves and elements of house, techno, jazz, downtempo and even breakbeat melt together and thus you can never expect a certain category of sound – but there’s an important ingredient for all of his works: Emotion! From early beginnings until the present the musical ideas from Terry Lee Brown Junior had great impact on what we now call “Tech-House”. As a pioneer and central player of the Tech-House scene he succeeded in getting and remaining one of the most requested producers and DJs worldwide. Especially in the U.S.A. and Great Britain he established himself as archetype for nearly every following production or name in this division. In 2008 Terry Lee Brown Junior was very successful with his 5th album “Softpack” and the singles “Pulsar”, “Chatterbox”, “Delightful Encounter”, “Wait” and “Soul Digits”. “Everyday”, which was produced in cooperation with The Timewriter, is the last breathless remix package from “Softpack” with new interpretations from Nikola Gala and Budai & Vic.
Available Format: mp3.
Filed under: CD Only | Tags: CD, Downbeat, Electronica, Free MP3, House, Ibiza, Tech House
It is the wonderful mixture of electrifying club nights, light-hearted days on the beach, sweet idleness and sensual lifestyle that renders Ibiza unequaled. Luxury House A&R Jérome Noak and Marc Ozz present their latest mix-compilation- a vibrating tribute to the magical island- just in time for the new season. ‘Ibiza House Session 2009′ combines the passion of the typical Eivissa feeling with groundbreaking tracks which are going to shape the sound of the Ibiza summer 2009. Among these tracks are some exclusive ones which won’t be published until summer 2009 in the form of a single of Luxury House. Ibiza experts Jérome Noak and Marc Ozz are already setting standards for the new season with breathtaking and sensual vocals of Inaja Day, Beverly Knight and Bryan Chambers’ impulsive rhythms and lighthearted melodies. The distinctive sound unifies international big names and Ibiza residents such as ATFC, Kid Massive, Knee Deep, Sin Plomo or Paul Lomax and impressive newcomers from all over Europe who have musically captured their Ibiza feeling. Ibiza House Session 2009- an impeccable stylistic appetizer and companion for the summer 2009 in Ibiza- for fans and all those who are about to become one.
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Filed under: Download Only | Tags: download, Greg Parker, MP3, Plastic City, Tech House, Techno
In the Year 1996 Greg Parker began to work for the Distribution “DMS” and the Recordstore “Imports”. In 2002 he started to manage the recordstore on his own and changed the name into “Smoove Records”. The insight into the different kinds of electronic music allowed him an extended overview in the electronic music scene, which is actually reflected in his individual and bulky Sound. At the End of the 90’s Greg Parker was a wellknown Dj in Darmstadt and it’s outer regions. In 2002 he became Resident Dj in the famous House Club “Room 106” where he got in contact with Terry Lee Brown Junior. From this point of time on they started a close friendship which was not only based on the shared Interest in electronic Music. Inspired by their friendship the first own production from Greg Parker was released on the compilation “Imagination Of The Shape”. Greg Parker also produced two tracks together with Terry for his albums “Karambolage” (I Feel Lost) and “Softpack” (Headache). After his success with his first 12″ called “All Good Things” it was only consequential to ask him to compile his first DJ Mix compilation “Deep Meltdown” for Plastic City.
Available Format: mp3.
Filed under: Download Only | Tags: Downbeat, Hip Hop, Kurtis Blow, Lounge, Mole Listening Pearls
Kurtis Blow, one of the founders and creators of recorded rap, stands as an emerging leader in a new generation of rappers with street sense, social criticism, and commercial savvy, a timeless artist and hip hop legend, Kurtis Blow has been instrumental in raising up a generation of MCs, and he will soon carry the torch for hip hop music into new arenas. In 1979, at the age of twenty, Kurtis Blow became the first Rapper to be signed by a major label. Mercury released “Christmas Rappin”, and it sold over 400,000 copies and it became an annual classic. Its gold followup “The Breaks” helped ignite a stillspreading international Rap Attack. He released 10 Albums over 11 years – the first entitled Kurtis Blow, his full length debut and his second, a Top 50 Pop Album Deuce, a big hit across Europe; “Party Time” which featured a pioneering fusion of Rap and GoGo; “Ego Trip”, which includes the hits “8 Million Stories”, “AJ”, and “Basketball” and in 1985, “America”. The “America” video innovation received a MTV Monitor Award. From this album, the song If I Ruled the World became a top 5 hit on Billboards R & B chart. Columbia/Sony recording artist Nas debuted at #1 on the Billboards Pop Album chart with a cover of the song in 1997. He was honored to coordinate King Holiday, along with Dexter Scott King, a song to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther Kings Birthday. The Mercury/Polygram single coproduced by Kurtis Blow includes the collaborative efforts of Whitney Houston, New Edition, Stephanie Mills, El Debarge, James JT Taylor of Kool & the Gang, The Fat Boys and Run DMC among others. It has become an annual Holiday Classic. Besides his own work, Kurtis has been responsible for Rap hits by The Fat Boys and Run DMC. Run began his career billed as The son of Kurtis Blow. Love Bug Starski, Sweet Gee, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Full Force, Russell Simmons and Wyclef Jean all have been produced or have worked with Blow in the past.
In 1995 Kurtis Blow started working on-air in radio. Power 106 (1 CHR). Radio station in Southern California had Kurtis Blow on-air Sunday nights with The Old School Show, a highly rated specialty show that features Blow playing the hits from the past. The show was rated #1 for 4 years. Kurtis is now working for Sirius Satellite Radio on the Classic Old School Hip Hop station Backspin 43. In 1996 Kurtis Blow was featured in a Hip Hop display at the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame. The display still stands. In 2002 after 9/11, Kurtis went overseas to the Middle East to tour the Armed Forces Bases for 17 shows to bring a little bit of back home to the troops stationed there. The tour consisted of shows in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Krgystan, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman. “It was a tour I will never forget”, Blow says, “I did the Bob Hope thing”.
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Future Funk was one of the first international respected house acts from Germany. They were respected by artists like George Morel and Masters At Work because they used to play on events all live. Founded by Jerome Isma-ae and Marcel Krieg, Future Funk released many records on their own labels Flavour Rec. and Toasted, but also on more underground orientated labels as Delirium, Compose, Plastic City and Hey Babe! or on international labels like for example Strictly Rhythm. Jerome Isma-Ae is also the owner of the label „jee-productions“. Based in his native Munich, he played gigs throughout Europe, as well as in South America, Australia and New Zealand. International gigs have included appearances in Ibiza (Privilege, Amnesia), Brussel, Warsaw, Kiev, Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, Zurich, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Hvar, Kitzbuehl, Venezuela, Sidney, Melbourne, Darwin, Auckland, all cities in Germany and many other venues. Jerome Isma-Ae also wrote the movie soundtrack for the German film „100 Pro“ in 2001. This is a ReRelease of the classical album originally released on Plastic City UK in 1998. Available Format: mp3.
Filed under: CD / Download
The latest coup of the label luxury house comes as a delicious composition in a sound box. The stylish package contains 13 surprising tracks ‘House This?’- assorted with love and mixed by KneeDeep: the producer duo from Hamburg, Basti Döhring and Toddie Freese aka KneeDeep have been standing for top quality house tunes for over ten years now. They sticked to their passion for the true, the pure soul as basis for their producing- even when the electro wave flooded the club scene. This passion for their own style and the large spectrum of their talent was recompensed by production orders of big names like Jamiroquai, Brandy, Rihanna or David Morales. The duo from Hamburg apply themselves to their deep house side with groovy bass lines, elegant melodies and selected vocals on their tribute to luxury house. Here belong exquisite ingredients like tracks from Jimpster, Milton Jackson, KneeDeep and Lovebirds. Pure seduction for every club floor… hmmm, delicious!!!!
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| 1. Florian Kruse feat. Saara – Thrill (Vincenzo & Elmar Schubert’s Satinsoul Remix) | |
| 2. Soulphiction – Ghana Wadada feat. Phlegmatic (The Lost Men Remix) | |
| 3. Jimpster – I Got A Hold On Your Soul | |
| 4. Lovebirds – The Night | |
| 5.Tim Fuller – Beautiful (Fred Everything Remix) | |
| 6. Lovebirds – In The Shadows | |
| 7. KneeDeep – Sweet Love | |
| 8. Dan, Phil – Brighter | |
| 9. KneeDeep – All Nite | |
| 10. Alex Piccione – Floppy | |
| 11. Justin Martin – The Fugitive (Winners Circle Remix) | |
| 12. Milton Jackson – Crash (Lovebirds Remix)? | |
| 13. The Timewriter (with Theresa Baltimore) – Vintage Circuits (Nacho Marco Remix) | |
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