Behind Inverse Cinematics is the Stuttgart native Danilo Plessow (also known as Motor City Drum Ensemble). His works are settled somewhere between Jazz, Soul and club-oriented music like breaks and deep house, which Detroit Jazzin’ is a perfect example of. Laid back and powerful in the same time.
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I’ve been listening to Mira’s mix for about a month now and it’s really worth every track. If you live in Switzerland be sure not to miss the party next Saturday @ Hinterhof Bar in Basel! She will play together with Dirty Doering & Britta Arnold from the infamous BAR 25 Label!
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Our fridays Weekly Choice’s starts with a wonderful edit by the beloved Roundies.
We decided to create a new series on our Blog. Its going to be posted every friday night. It will be only one Track each friday, free for download. One track because one is enough hence we will make shure that this weekly choice will rock your friday.
This week we’re going to start with a wonderful edit by the Round Table Knights.
m&R is a DJ Team from Basel. This 1 hour snipped was recently recorded at an afterparty. Enjoy!
1. Tube&Berger – Bring back the love (Berczelly edit)
2. Maceo Plex – Under The Sheets
3. Agoria feat. Scalde – Singing (Dixon Dub)
4. Maetrik – The Entity
5. Philip Bader – Good For Nothing
6. Christian Burckhardt – Boomerang
7. Wandler – Captivate
9. Who made Who – Every Minute alone (Tale of us Remix)
10. Daniel Bortz – Suedwind
11. Kevin Saunderson feat. Inner City – Future (Kenny Larkin Tension Mix)
Like the Zaber Riders, DJ Le Roi‘s acquaintance took place at the Number One Record Store which was located in Basel. Playing with other DJs such as Nick Curly, Gorge, DJ T, Jimpster, Tiefschwarz, DJ Spen, Liquid People, Jon Cutler, Kiko Navarro, Quentin Harris and Copyright, Cedric Eichenberger stood his ground as a talented DJ and entertainer who knows exactly where the boundaries can be broken and teased to total frenzyness. Le Roi has played out to crowds in Miami, London, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Georgia, Albania, and Bordeaux. On Monday GPM 160 will be available.
DJ Le Roi Edit 2011
Getting down (again) to business with a new groovy and catchy hookline forming kind of a new lead!
DJ T. Remix
Get Physicals Chief physicist deliveres a spherical version that prooves that nothing is impossible. Prof T messed with serious matter here and createt something totaly new.
Joris Voorn This is not a remix remix
Well well well… what could i be possibly telling you. Maybe that this track was produced on 192’000 Khz and 36 Bit?
Mister Voorn delivers a sweet piece of Jorism. His style combined with the awesomness of the original is worth every cent.
Late Nite Tuff Guy Remix
Tuff Guy comes with a pair of serious balls. Very good Bassline and thats about it. All ya need is kick clap hihat bass and Roland Clark obviously. works your body down like Schmitt’s Cat!
Embassy of Love Remix
There you go Girl! Disco but still House, holds just the perfect amout of fidgetiness to make the Girls booties go way round on the floor. If there is one shure thing: You got to make the Girls dance. The heartbeatlike arrangement of the drums and kicks are realy very close to perfection!
The Release Date is set on Monday 16th of January 2012. Buy at Beatport!
Here is a littal Christmas mix from Le Roi. enjoy!
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Todays Monday Mixes is a showcase, made by the NYC based duo Populette. In 2011, they did a bunch of edits and remixes, played a lot of gigs and delivered a fine EP on Throne Of Blood. On the tracklist below you can see how busy they were with producing last year. Now they let us have a little review of their 2011 with this flowing mix. Check it out!
Tracklist:
1 Citizens! – True Romance (Populette Dub) – Kitsune
2 Jessica 6 – White Horse ( Dub) – Peacefrog
3 Richard Richard – Toro (Populette Remix) – Plant
4 Populette – Lasers Are Forever (Remain & Mlle Caro Remix) – Throne of Blood
5 Populette Vs Remain – Discomfort – Promo
6 Hannulelauri – Box of Box (Populette Remix) – I’m a Cliché
7 Francis Bebey – New Track (Populette Reinterpretation) – Born Bad
8 Murphy Jax – We Dance (Populette Remix) – Turbo
9 Black Strobe – Boogie In Zero Gravity (Populette Remix) – Black Strobe Rec.
10 Spencerpask – Way Too Long – I’m a Cliché
11 Gentlemen Drivers – Asphalt (Populette Remix) – Because
12 The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love (Populette Remix) – DFA
13 Scratch Massive – Waiting For a Sign (Populette Remix) – Pschent
We recently wrote about Maya Janes Coles latest EP on Hypercolour. This time it’s about their little sister label Losing Suki with an EP of James Welsh called Air Valley.
James Welsh had some quite experience with a hardcore band called ‘The Rise’ and an electro-pop band named ‘Ocelot’ but here he dives into some heavy house music and the outcome is a brilliant EP full of character. It will drop in January, so watch out!
In 2011 the record labels have grown more familiar and identifiable by celebrating so-called label-nights. In the past labels organized a label-night maybe once a year and only in their hometowns. This year labels represented themselves all over the world and more frequently. Some, for example Visionquest were more perceptible as a DJ-team then as a Label.
2011 was the year for Crosstown Rebels, Hot Creations, Visionquest and Wolf + Lamb. They pretty much created the music scene of today, invaded clubs all over the world and established a new wave of sexy, playful and deep house-music. Some of the most interesting artists this year released on some of these labels. Like Maceo Plex, Jamie Jones and Deniz Kurtel.
Diynamic and Leftroom had a very successful year. Coming more from a minimal direction they opened the field for new influences. Especially the releases by David August „You got to Love Me“, the Solomun & Stimming split EP „Challenge Everyday“ (Diynamic), Matthew Burton & Nick Lawsons „Playdo“ and the compilation „The Extended Family Part 2“ (Leftroom).
Running Back is a European pendant to DFA Records, not by having their focus on live performing artists but by bringing back 70‘s disco vibes to the state-of-the-art.
Artists like Todd Terje, Tiger and Woods and Roman Flügel published records on Running Back.
Tiger & Woods – Gin Nation
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A very exciting and successful podcast-series in 2011 was launched by the label Noir Music. With Noir & Haze (Solomun Vox mix) they can praise themselves to having probably the biggest club-hit of the second half of 2011 in their catalogue (check our Top Tracks).
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Top Upcoming Labels
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Here are a few ones we picked, which are very exciting and highly recommended to keep an eye on.
Bloody Mary‘s so-called label Dame-Music singed a few very promising artists and brings together house pioneers like Quenum and fresh talents like Jozif or Midnight Perverts.
AUS Music and Future Boogie focus on innovative music between bass-music, house and techno. Amongst other great records, they released with Midlands „Through Motion“ (AUS Music) and Julio Bashmores „Father Father“ both timeless and wonderful songs.
Catz and Dogz‘s Pets Recordings placed Poland to the European map of house music and gave local talents the possibility to succeed on the international market. Their last two compilations under the name of „Friends Will Carry You Home“ were not only great but promise a great future for 2012.
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Last year, popular R n‘B Music found it‘s ways into underground UK-garage sounds by replacing the MC‘s by an R n‘B vocalist. Then in 2011, Jamie Woon and SBTRKT took this influences and produced both a masterpiece of electronic pop music. SBTRKT is influenced by dubstep and experimental sounds, on the other hand Jamie Woon is slighty more influenced by electonica.
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With no doubt one of the most influential compilations of this year. It belongs to the album section because it mostly consists of the W+L stable’s work and showed their path of the past years. The compilation came with a bonus mix called 5 Years at Marcy Hotel, showing the philosophy behind W+L’s work and as important as WLSC compilation.
‘Without You’ was on of the most played tracks of 2010, so the expectations to their album were huge. But Art Department exceeded them entirely and Drawing Board became an important milestone of Crosstown Rebels rise.
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Late in 2011 but at the right time; Portable’s debut album Into Infinity on the legendary Perlon label. The timeless and wonderful track ‘Onward’ showed what House is capable of. He used his voice not just as a sound element, he used it like a song; without falling into the classical song-structure.
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Roman Flügel‘s album Fatty Folders is very interesting in the way how he leaves the classic electronic music arrangements by morphing one part into another, layering countless and rarely repeating sound-elements over each other. Sometimes even leaving out most of beat elements and creating the rhythms with only noises and instruments.
The album titled Pyrography by Osunlade is a deep, percussive and organic journey into sound, often accompanied by soulful vocals. The song ,Envision‘ entered the dance-floors all over the world.
Steffi released Yours & Mine, a pretty dark house album. The exceptional thing about the album is the drive in all the songs, that really takes you in and keeps you in a flow from the first beat to the last.
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After having huge success with „Limit To Your Love“ and „CMYK“ James Blake created a very personal album, and brought his music from the dance-floors to the living-rooms. The album deals with the gaps between the sounds and when Nicolas Jaar released his album „Space Is Only Noise If You Can See“, which has the same ,dancefloor-to-living-room‘-vibe, around the same time this year, James Blake might be saying: „It‘s the gaps that makes the sound, if you can hear“.
