Filed under: Download Only, Video | Tags: Downbeat, Hip Hop, Lounge, Mole Listening Pearls, MP3, Music, Wax Tailor
Wax Tailor – This Train | Leave It
Filed under: CD / Download | Tags: Album, CD, download, Electronica, House, Lounge, MP3, Music, Plastic City, Tech House, Techno
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: Album, CD, Downbeat, Electronica, Free MP3, House, Ibiza, Lounge, MP3, Music, Plastic City, Tech House, Techno
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)
