Filed under: CD / Download, Interview, Podcast, Vinyl | Tags: Audio, CD, Dadamnphreaknoizphunk, Hardfloor, Interview, Jazz, Lounge, Mole Listening Pearls, MP3, Music, Vinyl
On the album “The Cheerleaders Are Smilin’ At You” Dadamnphreaknoizphunk presents sounds and moods between Trip Hop, Downbeat, Soul, Funk, Acid and Electro in a mixture that brings high comfort to the listener but furthermore the possibility to explore great music with wonderful quotations and a relaxed music experience. For the fourth album Dadamnphreaknoizphunk (also known as Hardfloor) engaged the fabulous upcoming female Jazz and Soul singer Bella Wagner from Vienna who gave her warm soulful voice of high contrast, the 24 old DJ, turntablist and producer DJ Rafik, the female American artist JEN, the Iran born and London based MC Blade (who also supported Eminem in the past) and the Hungarian female singer Virág.
Audio Interview:
Interview with Oliver Bondzio and Ramon Zenker” (English);
Eine Gespräch mit Oliver Bondzio und Ramon Zenker” (German).
Filed under: CD / Download, Vinyl | Tags: Dope Beat, Funk, Hardfloor, Hip Hop, Lounfe, Mole Listening Pearls, Soul, Vinyl
Welcome to the new and relaxing but also adventurous dope beat ambient trip hop funk soul experience by the two great germans Oliver Bondzio and Ramon Zenker. As Hardfloor they worked out their own place in music history by releasing great electronic music. In 1992 they released their “Hardtrance Acperience EP” on Sven Väth ’s cult status label Harthouse. This EP made them famous for their innovative sound far beyond European boundaries, the song “Acperience 1″, which even made its way into the UK charts, is still one of the milestones of Techno culture. Apart from working as producers Hardfloor are very requested remixers for International pop acts like Depeche Mode, Mike Oldfield, New Order, Yello, Human League, Mory Kante and Anne Clark. In 1995 Hardfloor presented the first DDPNP EP on Harthouse which was followed by the second in 1997 and in 1999 by the first album on !K7. As DDPNP Bondzio, who socialized with Hip Hop and Electro, and Zenker, who began his musical education with e-bass and synthesizer, went to the more relaxed areas of electronic music using dope beats, funky electro basslines, samples from nearly every genre and the 303 structures they are famous for. For the new album “The Cheerleaders Are Smilin’ At You” they engaged the fabulous upcoming female Jazz and Soul singer Bella Wagner from Vienna who gave her warm, soulful voice of high contrast to the 11th track of the album. The other support on this record is the 24 old DJ, turntablist and producer DJ Rafik. The six times DJ-World-Champion, part of the Lordz Of Fitness Crew and the “Cosmic Delivery Project” gave his extraordinary scratches to the tunes number 5 and number 13 of the album giving them a touch of weird funkyness. The diversity of this album is also supported by the artists Jen, who is part of different bands like Rabbit In Red, Boyracer or Possum Moods and the Iran born and London based MC Blade, who supported Eminem and recorded one of the best selling Hip Hop Albums in the UK with his partner and producer Mark B. Moreover the hungarian female singer Virág is joining the collective. Her voice appears in tracks that found their places on released from labels like Plastic City or Shayan Music. On this album the collective presents sounds and moods between Trip Hop, Downbeat, Soul, Funk, Acid and Electro in a mixture that brings high comfort to the listener but furthermore the possibility to explore great music with wonderful quotations and a relaxed music experience. Available formats: CD, 2LP,mp3.
| Title | Sound |
| 1. Intro |  |
| 2. Up The Down Steroids | |
| 3. Orange Crush | |
| 4. Powerless (feat. Virág) | |
| 5. My Game (feat. DJ Rafik) | |
| 6. Rhyme Bomb Part 2 (feat. Blade) | |
| 7. Gridiron | |
| 8. Machinez | |
| 9. Illegal Shift | |
| 10. The Minister Of Defense | |
| 11. A Freak (feat. Bella Wagner) | |
| 12. Crackback | |
| 13. 1 Point 53 (feat. DJ Rafik) | |
| 14. Powerless Instrumental | |
| 15. Waiting (feat. Jen) | |
| 16. Outro |
Actually we don’t have to introduce Terry Lee Brown Junior because Norman Feller is one of the very early Plastic City artists and part of the international elite house scene for years. He had a lot of success with his four international well respected albums “Brother For Real” (1996), “Chocolate Chords” (1997), “From Dub ‘Til Dawn” (2000) and “Karambolage” (2006). At the moment, his 5th album “Softpack” turns on the wheels of steel around the globe and recently number 11 of his high quality mix compilation series “Terry’s Café” was released on Plastic City. The new Single “Wait”, that Terry did with Robert Manos who gave his wonderful warm and soulful voice to this tune, burn the clubs. So it’s time for some unbelievable remixes – and here we are with part 1 of “Softpack” Remixes! order| Title | Sound |
| A1 Wait (Nacho Marco Remix) | |
| A2 Wait (Greg Parker Remix) | |
| B1 Wait (The Timewriter Remix) | |
| B2 Wait (Sendos Fuera Remix) | |
Harthouse is proud to present you the new single of the French primary rock Scan X. Beginning his carreer in 1993 Stéphane Dri released noumerous tracks on noumerous labels since then and created an intellectual style of electronic music combined with pure dancloor power. So be prepared for the next dancefloor smasher from Scan X.
Prism:
Starting with this licking kicks and the moldy synthesizer purr the prism starts reflecting all the dust and dirt that is hided in the doomed corners of the favourite underground dance machine placed in the basement. And now Stéphane, who also worked together with Laurent Garnier to create the soundtrack of the Cartoon “Globi”, unpacks his secret weapon. The explosive and driveling bassline licks your meninges till every clear thought is digested and transformed to something undefined that will proceed the dancefloor range. Here the experience of years producing for the dancefloor, playing on events like Sonar, I Love Techno, Mayday, Montreux Jazz Festival and spinning in clubs like Liquid Room, The End or Space and working on soundtracks for films of Laurent Merlin (“Papa”/”Step By Step”) is splitted by the prism, Stéphane build in nearly 7 minutes.
Prism (Alex Kid Remix):
Here the labelmate of Stéphane, who did the big “Mint” Longplayer and is very succesful with the actual album “Caracol” at these days, did this very gushy interpretation of the original “Prism”. He’s taking time to build his strong architecture of his remix. At the beginning of the track you will ask yourself: Where is all the energy gone? But then the kicks and high percussion arrive and make this beatconstruction roll like there is nothing else to do than dropping trees. Alexkid, who is influenced by the likes of Larry Heard, Phil Spector, Carl Craig, Chateau Flight, Scientist, Radiohead, Sleeparchive or Portishead comes around with the bassline after 4 minutes and so maximises its pressure in subjective perception. But don’t forget the other whirring sounds – they will shave your head if you don’t pay attention!
tracklisting 
A. Prism
B. Prism (Alex Kid Remix) 
Filed under: Download Only, Vinyl | Tags: Gedankensport, MP3, Techno, Vinyl
Gedankensport signed a new amazing artist for you. With his sense for minimal techno and house arrangements he bursts every brain, because he will start the real sport of thoughts in your mind. Christopher Rau, who came in contact with electronic dance music in 2004, produced three poetic minimal housetracks reduced to some kind of essential form of electronic music. A: Gribuntal: This track is pure minimalism. Based on this monotone organ chord that seems to make you insane during the nearly eleven minutes, there is kind of tropical feeling, too. The easy tribal percussions put this track in warm, windy and relaxed beach surrounding, nobody wants to leave. And yes, this track has the intensity of waves murmuring on the beach. It’s the pulsation of live reflected in the bassline, the intensity of matured thoughts and the manyfold expression of feelings. This track will hypnotize you! B: In “t.s. off…” you will find the same concept as you explore in the titletrack: one strong synthesizer sequence builds the base of the strong instinct this track has. Fine rhythmic elements will make you feel standing in a huge forest with big trees, that are locking out the sunlight with its clear and warm intensity. Only a few spots are glimmering through the leaves and then a little piano phrase rises from the background, like a deer is suddenly jumping over a break.
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Filed under: CD / Download, Hotspot, Vinyl | Tags: MP3, Plastic City, Tech House, Vinyl
Plastic City presents the second part of the “The Timewriter Resensed Series” with yet another great remix collection of tracks of one of the label’s most important and most influencing artists. Just like the first part, Resensed Part Two is a journey through more than 12 years of The Timewriter. Established artists as well as fresh young talents from around the globe were invited to create their own interpretations of various tracks taken from all five The Timewriter albums “Letters From The Jester”, “Jigsaw Pieces”, “Diary Of A Lonely Sailor”, “Paintbox” and “Soulstickers”.
Out came an unbelievably diverse collection of interpretations. The styles are ranging between full peak time tunes with wide melodic chord arrangements, dry and dusty minimal funk, sexy and romantic love soundtracks, multi-layered rhythm structure odysseys, dark and techno influenced Deep House, summer-breezed drives in progressive House arrangements, flavours of relaxed Lounge or big, dubby basslines.
And this time around we present to you mixes made by fine artists such as Terry Lee Brown Junior, Milton Jackson (Tronicsole, Glasgow Underground), the Berlin-based Einzelkind duo, François Dubois aka Funk D’Void, the fresh face from Sweden Johan Ilves (Kinky Vinyl, Loopfreaks), Daniel Kyo (Next Dimension Music), as well as Berlin-based Sasse (Moodmusic), the new talent Manuel Tur aka Arcade Mode (Mada, Brickhouse), Bucher & Kessidis (Exun, 8bit), New York-based Beat Pharmacy (Deep Space Media, Eskimo) and from Manchester, Solonaut aka Adam Cox (who was once of this planet but after the slow prelonged death of Hip Hop, he left).
This compilation is a mirror of The Timewriter’s (aka Frank Cochois) work and showcases the huge influence his tracks had and still have to the electronic music scene.
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Filed under: Download Only, Vinyl | Tags: MP3, Plastic City, Tech House, Vinyl
It all started in 1998 on a houseboat in Helsinki harbour. Roberto Rodriguez was one of the organisers of a “swimming” club night. It all went well till the day of the closing party: some time in August ‘98, almost the entire Finnish Dj and producer scene played the venue and after a successful night, Roberto & the posse went for a last afterparty to a friend’s house. A few hours later, hardly awake, Roberto watched the newsflash on TV showing his boat – his house, his working place, his party venue, his home. It had sunk shortly after their departure. Roberto lost an impressive collection of classic techno and house records, an elaborated light & sound system and an awful lot of personal stuff. Working as a garbage truck driver, Roberto still invested all income he could afford in music production equipment. After several months “on the road”, he became a producer. Just a few years later, Simpatico Roberto is known as the producer of the Future Beat Investigators, responsible for their massive success on labels like Raw Fusion or Sonar Kollektiv, also responsible for oldschool-ish Housebombs on Laka or Frisbee Tracks. So far, some might also know him as a part of the Acid Kings (Sähkö Recordings/ Keys Of Life) or for the 90s Deephouse he dropped via Stereo Deluxe. With the “Engine EP” he opens his book again, reading the new lines of the “Rodriguez House Sound”, this time on Plastic City.
| Title | Sound |
| A1 Broadwalk | |
| B1 Motor | |
| B2 Overlay | |
Filed under: CD / Download, Hotspot, Vinyl | Tags: Harthouse, MP3, Tech House, Vinyl
“Electronic Injection & Active Agent” had been more than simple label compilations where just a cross section of artists added a track. Harthouse is setting a really high standard since their relaunch last year. The sounds parts are a pretty good match, interlock and have a quite reasoned basis. Harthouse has been one of the most important electronic institutions for the last fourteen years with names around as Sven Väth, Alter Ego, Der Dritte Raum, Spicelab, Hardfloor or Resistance D. – to name a few. Therefore it’s not surprising that as a corollary the “Mirror Of The Future” shows you the meaning behind Harthouse! “Mirror Of The Future” is the new groundbreaking composition from Harthouse – highly epidemic and instantly causes addictive behaviour. The wisely assorted collection of artists is a clue for how high the bar has been raised and you can look forward to the adverse effects. Quite varied artists unify within a incomparable fusion which resembles a suspenseful myth. “Mirror Of The Future” quickly dispreads through the whole body and lets appear everything in a clearer, more powerful and detailed way than one is accustomed to. The big names of the 90ies go hand in hand with the new talents – a well balanced mixture of well known ingredients and innovative substances whereas the heroes from the hour of birth are in no way inferior to the newcomers and sound newer than ever. Boris Brejcha did a marvelous mix for the CD Version (on the mp3 version you can find the all tracks in full lenght plus the dj-mix as one additional file). Boris Brejcha stands for Harthouse, with his productions like: “Die Maschinen sind gestrandet” or “Arche Noah” he celebrates bis success. Der Dritte Raum, Hardfloor, Braincell, ADJD, Spicelab, Dachshund, Anderson Noise, Scan X, Rocha & Lewinger, Leandro Gámez and many more aim at bulls eye and definitely hit it! Available formats: CD, 3LP, mp3.
| Title | Sound |
| 1. Dachshund & Fil – Without | |
| 2. ADJD – I Want You (Afternoon Coffee Boys Remix) | |
| 3. Benno Blome – Sync Me | |
| 4. Boris Brejcha – Lost | |
| 5. Dub Taylor – Morning Cum | |
| 6. Klaus Schneider – The Harder They Don?t Come | |
| 7. Rocha & Lewinger – Wheel Chair | |
| 8. Spicelab – Tension | |
| 9. Anderson Noise – Doori | |
| 10. Citizen Kain & Jaumetic – Te tengo y te vas | |
| 11. Mihalis Safras – Salom | |
| 12. Modul – Wych | |
| 13. Scan X – Silver | |
| 14. Christian Gimbel – hiRise | |
| 15. Leandro Gámez – Green Ball | |
| 16. Mikael Jonasson – Coming Up For Air | |
| 17. Bjoern Stolpmann – Foliage | |
| 18. Braincell & Jola Bola – Stimuli | |
| 19. Der Dritte Raum – Wirbelwind | |
| 20. Hardfloor – Don’t Trust Chief Wiggum | |
It may be quite precipitate to already set up the first forecasts for 2008, but one thing is certain: the Swedish producer duo Minilogue’s debut album “Animals” on Cocoon Rec. is going to be one of the most influential releases of electronic dance music. The synergy between the intimacy of sound and the variety of movement in cinemascope is extravagating the existing boundaries of Techno and Experimental, a sensual hearing in a repealed sense of time, as the German newspaper DIE ZEIT described it. So, many things speak for the fact that, for the development of reduced Techno, “Animals” is going to be as important as Robert Hood’s “Internal Empire” almost 15 years ago.
Insofar, it’s only more than consequent that, with Dubfire and The Mole, two of the momentarily most popular visionaries of electronic dance music could have been resurrected for the remixes of the Jamaica EP. The Mole aka Colin de la Plante, the 33-year-old Wagon Repair protagonist from Montreal is taking away this selectivity of sounds that “Hispaniola” contains with a Dub framework of extraordinary warmth. This track could not be re-shaped in a more hypnotic way. Ali Shirazinia aka Dubfire, born and raised in Washington and one half of House duo Deep Dish, has already been awarded with a Grammy, but since his club hits “I feel speed”, “Roadkill” and “Ribcage”, he also belongs to the leading solo producers and remixers these days. His 13-minutes-long interpretation of “Jamaica” adds this typical Dubfire mood of nightly paranoia to the original. However, after a Fabian beginning, the pumping bass drum sends clear signals to the dancefloor, and the repeated valve discharge sounds make the club also very present in your domestic living room. VINYL
Tracklisting
| A1 Jamaica (Dubfire Remix) |
| B1 Hispaniola (The Mole Remix) |
Filed under: Download Only, Vinyl | Tags: 7", Alternative, Czech, Electronica, Khoiba, Mole Listening Pearls, Music, Praha
The name of the Midwestern state of the United States “Ohio” is derived from the Seneca word ohi:yo’, meaning “beautiful river”. Khoiba´s music is also like a river, with a beautiful melancholy, with many crooks, rapids with deep and shallow water, with riber beds of sand and stone. Ohio is a bitterweet song about a love crisis. About the good and the bad things of relationship. The hightrope walk between all or nothing. The desire of a new start, with the fear, that noting realy will changed. Beside the single version the miraculous I&I Remix is convincing over all. The relationship quarrel was translated into a musical duet between Khoiba singer Ema and the US singer Adam Sarmiento from the band IandI. The Remix was realized tover Myspace and will appeared beside the original version on a limited 7inch vinyl. MP3
