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: 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: CD / Download | Tags: Album, CD, download, House, Ibiza, Lounge, MP3, Music, Tech House, Techno, Terry Lee Brown Junior
After the “Soul Digits” remix EP and the “Repack” remix album with remixed tracks of Terry’s album “Softpack”, Plastic City’s Terry Lee Brown Junior continues his “Terry’s Café” mix compilation series this summer! Like on the previous “Terry’s Café” compilations Terry’s DJ set combines the most modern, emotional and warmest tracks from Adam Jace, Loco Dice, Mihai Popoviciu, David K, Amelia, Milton Jackson, The Timewriter, Antelia, Steve Lawlwer, Kevin Giffiths, or H.O.S.H. and remixes from David Alvarado, Pezzner, Jimpster, Nick Curly & Gorge and Martin Eyerer.
In his mix Terry handles with the right feeling for different summer atmospheres. A picknick in a very green park, a relaxed afternoon swimming in a clear lake, barbecue with friends and clubbing afterwards. Terry’s facilities behind the decks are able to describe once again nearly every taste, every smell, every feeling, temperature, joke and magic that floats in the air or between people and is the perfect soundtrack for the summer. “Terry’s Café Vol. 12” will tinge every experience this summer into the right color and transform it into an unforgettable adventure of pleasure.
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Filed under: CD / Download | Tags: Album, CD, download, Electronica, Equator, Gayle Sans, Ibiza, Tech House, Techno
This first time ever done project, initiated by the worldwide performing DJ Gayle San, combines two forms of entertainment in one Produkt, the Network. t is understood since a long time already to spice up a concert or a DJ show with lighteffects and visuals. Regardless if its only with simple coloured lights or, in the best case, with a special Visual Artist, VJ, that performs live videos on TV sceens or projected space. Worldwide popular and famous DJs exclusively produced tracks for this very project. It is a journey through the worlds Technomusic produced by DJs from Germany, England, Spain, USA, Belgium, Slovakia and Sweden. Alone this compilation is a jewel everyone with a love for Techno should have at home. The DVD features two specifically programmed and produced videos for each track. No presets or standard visuals have been used, these videos are exclusevly made for Network. Europes most popular and award winning visual artists, that already performed for famous events such as Sonne Mond Sterne, Paul van Dyk, Sven Väth World Tour 08, and also worked for clients such as Mercedes, Ford, NFL Europe, create an audiovisual unity with the tools of contemporary Visual Art mixing with sound. You can run this DVD on your player at home, or any professional devices such as the Pioneer Video/Audio Mixer.
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Filed under: CD / Download | Tags: Album, CD, Electronica, Free MP3, Harthouse, House, MP3, Music, 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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Since his first release with “Dualists” on Plastic City in 2001, Babak Shayan is on a continuous release course in the deep Tech-House sector. As a member of “Soda Inc” and because of his well respected label “Shayan-Music”, he becomes a firm size in the German Tech-House scene. Now, after countless releases on vinyl, more than 20 compilations and albums, Babak Shayan presents his debut soloalbum and his most personal work: “My life“. It’s difficult to do Babak’s music in a drawer. Between Tech-House tunes like “Snake in The Grass“ or “Flowers” the listener can find always some sounds with Iranian origin and roots. On tunes like “One In A million“ which was also part of the “Lima” compilation (Global Undergound by Nick Warren) but also on other tracks, oriental sounds (from sitar to ney) are to be perceived over and over again. An Interlude even shows a conversation on Iranian between Babak’s friends.”Azadi Nist” (translated in english: “no freedom“), fits topically too well to the political situation in Iran at the moment.
Babak dwell in Germany since his childhood although his whole family still lives in Iran. After studying maths he moved to Cologne and started as a self promoting musician. With “My Life” Babak Shayan shows his qualities as an artist of electronic dance scene, his obsession to music in all forms and colours as well as his feelings to his homeland.
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Filed under: CD / Download | Tags: CD, Electronica, Lounge, Mole Listening Pearls, MP3, Music
“It´s night. A sea of lights in- and outside in the casino shine her the way into the inside of the mighty building. With her skintight silk dress strolls past in money, diamonds, cigar smell and men gazing at her ….”
Big orchestra, blower and groovy percussion-sounds combined with a clear women’s voice – this is “The Casino Royal”. “The Casino Royal” was founded in Portugal by producer Pedro Janela. After a longer search, he decided on the singer Marisa Mena as firm “voice” for the still young band. The first album “Dolce Vita” was completely produced and recorded at Master Mix Studios in Portugal. The band, today consisting of Pedro Janela (production, keyboards), Marisa Mena (vocals), Mauro Ribeiro (guitar), Ricardo Ribeiro (percussion), Miguel Duarte (bass) and Filipa Cortes (violin), is influenced very strongly by the “Easy-Listening” sound. The voice of Fado-singer Maria Mena, cheeky, sexy or melancholy, embodies a breath of Hollywood in the 50s and 60s and brings this atmosphere also on stage during the live gigs of “The Casino Royal”.
Inspired from the “Dolce Vita”, to the luxurious life in the casino in which women and men are surrounded by money, luxury and hedonistic plays, the first album is to be understood as a perfect soundtrack for such a scenario. The film aesthetics and the soundtracks of the 60s and 70s had strong influence on the album “Dolce Vita” also. The idea and the red thread of “The Casino Royal” is the creation of a female character which is involved constantly in “Little Plays”. Whether power plays between men and women in “Now that I’m Blond” or own play addiction in the casino are described in the lyrics of “The Casino Royal”.
All songs from the album “Dolce Vita” are an epic, discribing presentation of circumstances. Step by step the listener can experience the pleasure of an outstanding Portuguese band.
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