Traversable Wormhole on CLR

 

In 2009 a series of five anonymously produced ink stamped vinyl recorded releases appeared in the global techno scene under the mysterious guise "Traversable Wormhole. The series released exclusively on vinyl. The sound of "Traversable Wormhole is a unique signature of sci-fi laden techno music with gaps of time, space & bass in between sound & rhythm. Within a month's time of it's conception Volume 2 of the series appeared and a huge buzz was soon amassed on the project. Accusations on who was the artist behind the project ran wild. People all over the techno scene had made theories to who was behind it. The project quickly received huge support from many of the world's most renowned techno shops such as Rub A Dub , Hardwax, Juno & Decks.  Word traveled fast through the wormhole and it was soon reported that globally respected dj’s such as Chris Liebing, Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, Mathew Herbert, Ryan Elliot, Andrew Galluzi, Surgeon, Function, Frankie Bones, Surgeon, DJ Deep &  Radioslave were all supporting the sound of TW. With the series fast approaching into further galaxies with the appearance of Vol 3. Techno cult blogsite MNMLSSG (http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com) tracked down TW via Twitter. A sonar ping was sent back to the popular blog and soon a "Traversable Wormhole" mix appeared anonymously on the site, receiving rave reviews.  Their were also reports through the anonymous "Traversable Wormhole" Myspace profile  that dj's from the dubstep scene were supporting the songs that had more of a broken beat structure in the series. As the series transgressed to Vol 5 by the year end of 2009 the mystique of anonymity continued to grow.

To usher in the very start of 2010 "Traversable Wormhole" would release the sixth volume of the series. At the same time 20 year veteran techno artist/dj Adam X originally from NYC and now residing in Berlin would be invited to partake in a feature called "Playing Favorites" on "Resident Advisor" the worlds biggest electronic music website. As Adam's feature read towards the end he would subtly take claim as the producer behind "Traversable Wormhole".

While traversing the wormhole, Adam has crossed paths with Chris Liebing and his CLR imprint. Forthcoming in Summer 2010 CLR will release "Traversable Wormhole" Vol 1-5 in digital format for the first time ever with all five volumes being digitally remastered in the highest of quality. Also planned for release at the same time period is a massive remix project that maybe the biggest ever in techno. "Traversable Wormhole" has found itself remixed from some of the best in the scene. Surgeon, Marcel Dettmann, Sleeparchive, Function, Chris Liebing, James Ruskin, Peter Van Hoesen, Terence Fixmer, Kevin Gorman, Tommy 47 & Brian Sanhaji have all taken a turn in remixing TW. The remix project will see release on both vinyl and digital format.

AND NOW comes the "Traversable Wormhole Vol 1-5" a full length mix of all 10 songs, mixed by ADAM X himself. In support of the CLR releases "Traversable Wormhole" will traverse the world with a live show tour starting in September 2010.

Sascha Dive's Restless Nights - Album!

 

Time and again, when everything appears to have come to a complete standstill, you will find yourself seriously wondering what the future of electronic club music is going to be like. What will come next?  And it was at that very moment when suddenly a new record appeared on the market to satisfy this longing for new, fresh sounds: Sascha Dive’s “The Basic Collective Pt. 1”.

In the meantime, almost 4 years and innumerable releases later, a new genre of house music has developed from and around the concept of this young, highly inspired Frankfurt-based artist. This sound is characterized by dark, driving rhythms with clear references to the U.S. American house music of the 1990s. The German Groove magazine called it “Rhein-Main-House”— a very accurate term to describe this movement. But Sascha Dive’s success story goes far beyond and overseas: He is the only “white producer” who was given the honour of getting a remix version made by no other than the grandmaster of house music: Moodymann himself.

Sascha Dive has been successful both as a producer, and as a DJ. When you talk with him about club music, and in particular house music, you almost get the impression of talking to a human encyclopaedia. His expert knowledge combined with his definition of contemporary club tunes makes his sets a unique experience. He takes the audience on a trip towards the future and the past, and at the end of the night gently back into the here and now again.

A couple of years ago, in spite of his busy schedule and the time he would spend in his studio, Sascha Dive decided to found his own label “Deep Vibes Recordings”, and to do his own research in the aesthetics of contemporary house sounds. He released tracks of co-fellows such as Johnny D, Christian Burkhardt, Ray Okpara and Robert Dietz, as well as of his own most-favourites such as Rick Wade, Scott Furgeson, Borthers Vibe, DJ Qu, Sean Dimitrie & Tim Fuller, and Norm Talley.

After more than a year of working in his studio, he now comes up with his debut album “Restless Nights” to be released on Deep Vibes Recordings. “Restless Nights” spans a bridge between clear and driving club tracks such as “Jus Groove” or “The Jam”, and calmer sounds, for example the opener “Tribute To The Night” or the cosy, almost playful track “Summer Madnesss” and “Hey Joe”.
“Restless Night” is the perfect album for almost any occasion: from dusk till dawn, for a nice open-air party, or a gorgeous after-hour event on Ibiza.
This album is going to be this summer’s club hit.

Loving - Johannes Heil album on Cocoon!

"To share and to increase the love, to let the soul speak through the music, is a feeling which can hardly be described with words. With "Loving", I want to embrace the whole world, because this journey to the origins of electronic dance music in between Modern Detroit, high tech Soul and House is coming from the very bottom of my heart." (Johannes Heil, 2010)

What time is love? With this question, Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond – better known as "The KLF" – have officially introduced the acid-orientated second Summer of Love 1988. However, the answers to this question might be numerous as the number of people living on the earth. Some think that it is the Summer of 1967, where the Hippie movement had its peak, others may hope for the perfect love in 2525 or maybe the time of love is now, in the year 2010.
Obviously, Johannes Heil belongs to the latter group. For more than fifteen years, he is an essential part of the German Techno scene and – with his classics from the likes of "Paranoid Dancer" (Kanzleramt, 1998) or "Calling" (1999) – belongs to the acoustic long-term memory of Techno. However, in the last few years with his releases for Klang Elektronik, Anthony Rother's Datapunk label and several own imprints like JH Records, Metatron or, most recently, Shit happens, Johannes remained one of the guarantors for musical enhancements. With his eighth studio album "Loving", Heil is taking stock of his 15 years of musical past, in a modern and at the same time traditional way. He uses influences from Detroit House only superficially, the history of modern dance music that he tells is that of music as the universal language between all continents.
So, one can find broken rhythms, combined with African chants ("Hallelujah") as well as a terrific pumping electro bass line and pizzicato strings ("The Ace"), hypnotically dancefloor-binding sub bass runners ("To The Groove") or Samba percussion tracks with marching band citations ("Glockenspiel") and weightless Detroit high tech House ("Freedom Of Heart") – all of them being equally part of the comprehensive vocabulary of... yes, love! After all, love as an emotional condition still feels the best in present tense.

An album that could not fit better to the clubs and open airs of this summer!

Oliver Koletzki & Fran get Lovestoned: New Album!

 

Lovestoned! Finally here it comes: the eagerly anticipated follow-up album of DJ und producer Oliver Koletzki, set for release in September this year. After the success of “Großstadtmärchen” Oliver Koletzki has teamed up with singer Fran, voice of the über-successful single “Hypnotized", to record an 11-track electronic pop album. Fran and Oliver are not merely partners in crime when it comes to music - they are also lovestoned, glued together by their mutual love for music and their love for each other. A fact that is omnipresent on their new album: eleven songs about getting to know each other, eleven songs about spending time together, eleven songs about the first kiss, eleven songs about the wonder that is love! Muscially, “Lovestoned” is a journey through Fran’s and Oliver’s different influences: from sample-based house to synthie-pop, from late 70ies glam to late 90ies ambient in the style of Bonobo and on top this album also includes some nuggets of Jazz. The impeccable songwriting, the feeling for the right dose of pop anthems, Fran’s pure voice in English and German elevate Fran’s and Oliver’s music to a new height. But let’s start dipping into it: Things get going straight away with the summery 70ies-inspired glam-pop track “Lovestoned", a smooth funk-riden piece with shimmery guitars and funky slap bass guitars. This intro track brings the message of the album to the point: freshly in love, honey-dipped, sugar-like and skyscraper-high. That unique feeling of being freshly in love! The journey into happiness continues with the first single release “Arrow and Bow” that reminisces 80ies pop sounds: synthesizers that cause goose bumps, clap snares that will move heads and toes and of course, Fran’s beautiful voice that reminds us of the wonderful game of getting to know each other. But love can also be about sensitive feelings, something that becomes clear on “Echoes", one of the strongest tracks of the album.

Wareika Album on Perlon!

 

2x12″ including FREE BONUS CD!! Wareika invite us to their „Harmonie Park“, a place created by the love of improvisation. At the park, poles have shifted already! Florian Schirmacher, Jakob Seidensticker and Henrik Raabe, all full-time musicians, tuned their instruments to introduce us to this parallel universe. It.s about the various possible perceptions of one single moment. Loops and sequences, subjected to virtual tempo changes, without leaving the Bpm scale. In the park, everything is always in the flow. Jazz / Techno / Funk / House, all elements that appear / dissapear throughout the composition. Wareika manage to bring all this together effortlessly, without even thinking in those categories. The deeper you get into the park, the more you get absorbed by the dynamics of interlaced, polyrhythmic modulations. Luckily the groove acts like the park ranger, showing you around while taking care no one gets lost in hypnotic structures waiting on the way. At the end, this pulsating soundcluster leads into the great river named bassline, leaving us quite harmonized….. !! This release comes in a special format !! We made „Harmonie Park“ available in 4 parts on 2x12“ Vinyl. Included is a bonus CD, containing „Harmonie Park“ in one continuous part, as originally intended by the artists.

P&M Album on Sasse's Mood Music - Same Monkeys Different Zoo

Nils Penner and John Muder produced their first 4-Track Demo CD in August 2007.
Produced in the Suol Studios in East-Berlin for fun rather than with a full-blown business plan, Sasse signed 2 tracks of this demo for his Moodmusic imprint.
„Are You Lost“ became Penner+Muders first vinyl 12“ release. It got great reactions from the dj community and the Bside „Millenium Falcon“ was picked by electro-maestro Oliver Huntemann himself for his Mix Compilation „Play 02! Live at Rex / Paris“.
At this time John and Nils made the decision to only play Live sets so the duo could concentrate fully on their own
sound, rather than taking a line at the end of the ever-growing dj list.
The first gig became quite a kick-off. It happened at a Moodmusic showcase at the well-known Panorama Bar in Berlin
late summer 2008 and the feedback was none less than stellar. One good thing lead to another and gigs happened at
Watergate, Berlin and Baalsaal, Hamburg with more planned for the spring/summer 2010.
Release-wise the guys kept it slow and focussed on quality than quantity. Working from two cities (Hamburg and Berlin)
with rather short studio-time it almost took one year before the second EP „No Nose Knows“ hit the stores. Meanwhile
the duo has also remixed for Moodmusic, Oliver Koletzki´s XXX label and Suol.
Their current single, entitled „Another EP“, is in the pipe on the new imprint Wazi Wazi, which is already gaining support
and respect from the critics like De-Bug Magazine.
Wazi Wazi is Nils personal label side-project (with Sasse) besides workin with John and handling a graphic design
business he is living on. Johns passion is music based and he is working nonstop with his partner in crime Chi-Thien
Nguyen aka Chopstick and their successfull new homebase „Suol“.
Pretty much right after the release of „Are You Lost“ Sasse asked the guys if they were up for a full-length album on
Moodmusic and guess what: they were. Working on the album happened over the last two years, pending between
Hamburg and Berlin, and came to an end by the end of 2009. „Same Monkeys Different Zoo“ is scheduled for June
2010.
The first single taken from the album, entitled „Speak Your Mind“, was produced together with Roman Fritz from
Plasmik. Remixes will come from japanese Pokerflat artist Ryo Murakami and Get Physical signing Siopis.
At this point Nils and John are really looking forward to the Album release and to play some hot and dirty Album-Tour
Live gigs.