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Once again, Erol Alkan and Boys Noize have teamed up, for what has become a stunning re-imagining of last years smash single 'Avalanche'.. Determined to avoid a taking an obvious route, the pair originally intended to commision a spoken word interpretation- the natural choice was the melifluous Jarvis Cocker.
Throwing his creative muscle behind the project, it was Jarvis's inspired choice for him to recite the seminal lyrics of Leonard Cohen's song of the same name... A handwritten letter and CDR were dispatched to Mr Cohen, who very quickly gave his full and delighted support to the project.
All that was left was for Jarvis to add his distinctive twist to the title, in the form of 'Avalance (Terminal Velocity)' despite this unlikely paring of minds the finished work sees the sonorous tones of Mr Cocker riding the megalithic slabs of fizzing synths and pistoning drums with aplomb to mesmeric effect.
On the remix tip the duo enlist the maestro himself Ewan Pearson, who supplies not one, but two different flavours of rerub - the 'Hall Of The Mountain King Remix' mix takes the original on a warped acid redux via Chicago, while the 'Deeper Underground Re-Version' reroutes proceedings to dubbed out Berlin basement afterhours to stunning effect. Not to be out done, hot talent Canblaster interprets the original as a low-slung bleeptastic old-school electro workout that rounds the package off in glorious style.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
AVALANCHE (TERMINAL VELOCITY) - Original version
Side B :
AVALANCHE (TERMINAL VELOCITY) Canblaster Remix - Ewan Pearson's Deeper Underground Re-version






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It's not for anyone else to decide what other young men and women should get up to in the sanctity of their own bedrooms. That said, it's heartening to know that not everyone using the term "bedroom band" is a lazy person making bad excuses for a tossed off record.
For four, long years, Django Django have been busy doing great things in the East London bedroom slept in by their drummer, producer and de facto leader David Maclean. The result of those great things is a great self-titled debut record.
"Time gives you options, and we had plenty of that," says Vincent Neff, the singer and guitarist who - along with bassist Jimmy Dixon and synth operator Tommy Grace - completes Django Django.
"There was no pressure on us from anyone to go away with a producer and come back two weeks later with an album," explains Maclean. "Maybe next time there will be some svengali figure banging his fists on a desk demanding hits, but we've had the luxury to figure out what we wanted to do and how we wanted to do it."
The quartet, who met at art school in Edinburgh, first came to peoples' attentions after a gradual migration to London a couple of years back. 2009's double A-side single "Storm"/"Love's Dart" laid the blueprint for a confident, adventurous and psychedelically-bruised strain of art-rock that melds intangible electronic flourishes to the visceral rub of live instrumentation.
The time since has been spent holed away, expanding upon that blueprint, seeing where they can push it. The impression one gets of Django Django is of a band laying down the first, meticulously measured borders on some vast map of a world that only they are privy to.
Correspondent to that, each track is like its own nation of harmonies, rhythms and textures. "We didn't put much conscious thought into making it sound like an album - we thought we'd let any similarities between the songs come out by themselves," explains Tommy.
What that means in practice is the swooning, bucolic Beach Boy-isms of opening track "Hail Bop" and the sterner, questing Bo Diddley beat guitars of "Life's A Beach". The industrious, go-getting tattoo verses of "Firewater" and the sleepy cowboy sighs of "Silver Rays".
"Default" and "Waveforms" are future singles. The former sounds like an uprising in a Mexican gun factory, the latter The Glitter Band's "Rock And Roll Part 2" disappearing from sight like a particularly successful Kongming Lantern.
"Music's so mad and widespread and varied, that eclecticism's the only way to be for us," reasons Maclean. "That said, I think you can draw a line through all the music we're into. It's about creativity and experimentation and the quest to find a new sound."
Amid all the diverse moods and ideas of Django Django (all there, perhaps, as the imagination wanders to stave off bedroom boredom?) it's a lyric from "Silver Rays" that most capably sums up its parent album.
"We venture out into the great uncharted," sings Neff, "go far away from any beaten track… Enjoy it now before it's far departed, you know that once it's gone that there'll be no way back."
The lyrics can be read as a desire to explore first, and a tribute to what Dixon calls their decision to "stick to their guns" when outside forces tried to convince them to forget everything they'd seen.
"A lot of people expected us to ditch our recordings and start all over again, but that was never something we wanted to do. It's great to have a body of work - something you can point to, and say this is the story so far."
If that's true, then Django Django's story looks set to be a long and compelling one. By banging together their thirst for adventure and their exacting high standards, they've produced an album that seems to have everything, but on which everything never seems too much.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. WAVEFORMS
2. DRUMFORMS
Side B:
1. WAVEFORMS (WILD GEESE REMIX)
2. WAVEFORMS (MICKEY MOONLIGHT REMIX)







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OUT 17th of OCT!
GETHIGH is a new track release from Laid Back. The lyrics may instantly lead your mind onto thinking of cannabis but try to think about it in a broader context, in a more universal way. We all want to get high whatever we do in life, in all walks of life, in spirits, sports, politics, showbusiness, all kind of business, in school and education and not to forget love. Musically the groove is kept in the recognizable family of the horse, with an updated twist. Actually the song was born in key of major, as a more rock guitar riff kinda song included in the package. Also included is an ultra minimalistic version, mainly made on Ipad. Danish electronic musician and DJ Kasper Bjørke has done a really cool remix. Finally we made a space mix, mainly for our own pleasure and for those who like to get out there and more into it. A video is in the final editing stage, following the style of Beautiful Day and Cocaine Cool, with self made animation. Music is more than a trendy sound and a fancy look. Laid Back is always going for something personal, original and timeless.
Copenhagen, September 2011.


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Frank Lorber & Philipp Maier aka Santé are rolling a big Tech House blunt that abducts you deep into the realms of modern club music. Hypnotic, groove-charged and with a very demanding bass line, the duo proves that their cooperation was a very good idea. Santé (who is well-known for his productions for Be Chosen and Tiefschwarz's label Souvenir) and the Frankfurt-based Cocoon DJ and "Nummer" label boss Frank Lorber are harmonizing perfectly. The duo are presenting three big tunes that create the appearance that they have been producing together all their lives.
While "Rootdown" and "Give It To Me" are fathoming the House area in a very skillful way, "You Know Paris" is nothing else than a veritable Tech House burner, which has no need to hide behind the productions of Butch or or Reboot. A great release, which will perfectly fit into the highly convincing DJ sets of Lorber and his colleagues!


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Tracklist: 1 The Next Little Thing 2 Division Dunkel 3 Blendwerk I 4 Leave 43 (Neverlasting Edit) 5 Aufwind 6 Herz aus Blech 7 Pontiac 8 Swallow The Leader 9 808 Slate 10 Blendwerk II 11 Phoebe 12 Dumb Age 13 Die Welt Ist Nicht Genug 14 Schlusslicht
Already their debut maxi "Soopertrack" on Border Community from 2006, which can still be found in many DJ cases, but also the "Titelheld EP" (2006) and the album "Schöne Neue Extrawelt" from the year 2008, which belong to the best-selling releases on Cocoon recordings, have also ultimately rocketed the two Hamburg residents Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe - famous for their excessive live performances - to the Mount Olympus of the most style-forming Techno protagonists within the last ten years. "We don't want cowardly Zeitgeist Techno. We want to be courageous and dare new sounds and melodies. Sunrise scenarios, energy, revolution and 'Kaputtheit' - these are all parts of the Extrawelt", the two musicians once said, and this artistic credo applies for the long-awaited second Extrawelt album, too. "We took our time and have collected tracks that have particularly touched us, no matter whether they are club-compatible or not. Besides that, we didn't want to repeat ourselves but create a unique second album that's stands for itself." Without doubt, the two have succeeded in this!
Writing about the single tracks here would not make much sense. Just a few words: Every single track is unique! And still, there is definitely inside what the label promises: Extrawelt. The variety and, at the same time, the unity of the most different sounds, the caring arrangement and the fascination for details can only be described as a great sonic performance! This is again that valiant and brave reaching into the well-filled sonic lucky bag of modern electronic music that makes "In Aufruhr" so much more than just dancefloor entertainment. The spectrum of musical influences has again extended and the most different styles of electronic music are connecting seamlessly with the Extrawelt spirit. Here, the sonic Zeitgeist is not the determining variable for the music - what really counts is the creation of nothing more and nothing less than a new world, by the means of a never-exhausting power of acoustic imagination which shows new facets, even after the thousandth time of listening pleasure. One should be careful with the use of superlatives, but this is exactly how masterpieces are sounding!


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SIS may have been a latecomer to electronic music, but he made up for lost time in no time with releases for Cécille and Sei Es Drum, including the infamous anthem "Trompeta" in 2008. Now SIS is preparing to unleash his leftfield percussive sound with his debut project for Get Physical Music, the EP 'SIS IS SIS'. For this release, SIS turns his hand to remixing some of the finest tracks in the Get Physical catalogue. On the A side we find Audiofly's recent hit "Fela"; an Afrobeat infused slow-house burner. SIS' rework favours hollow percussion and shuffling, scraping ambience. The hypnotic bass loop and pulsing mid-note tether the track to its foundations as voices float and freefall and Rhodes phrases are stretched and swollen beyond recognition. Occasional drums and bass re-inject the original track's tribal appeal, but SIS still keeps it in a feverish, psychedelic dancefloor state. Flipping over to the B side of the EP, M.A.N.D.Y.'s "4+1". The track originally appeared as a sparkling melodic highlight of M.A.N.D.Y.'s iconic At The Controls mix of 2006. SIS' new treatment adds hypnotic waves of ambience, while transforming in into an intricate work of sounds design. Within it, string noises move inwards and outwards from all angles as the extended arc of the track shapeshifts through a myriad of electronic shades and textures. Digitaly, SIS brings us his interpretation of even more of Get Physical's Gems. Dusted off, and each with their own distinct flavor, they work together as a strong release for SIS, proving he's here, and here to stay. In celebration of the EP, SIS will embark on a tour, sharing his creation with the world.



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A LOPAZZ - Migracion (SIS Edit) B Matthew Dear - Free To Ask (SIS Edit)
After the success of the first vinyl, we are proud to present to you SIS IS SIS, Vinyl Edition #2, featuring SIS's edits of LOPAZZ and Matthew Dear on Get Physical. Picking up where the 1st edition left off, SIS takes more of his favorite Get Physical tracks and puts his own spin on them. On the A side we start off with LOPAZZ's 2004 Get Physical debut, "Migracion". A hit in it's own right, SIS takes us even deeper into the groove with a stepped up bass and heated percussion track layered over reverberated chords. Next SIS pulls out a heavy Matthew Dear track, "Free To Ask" featured exclusively on Get Physical's 7th Anniversary compilation, and lightens the mood a bit while still managing to maintain the heavy bass kick. Cleaning the synth to create a more percussive feel, and utilizing crisp claps to keep the rhythm in check.


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The next EP on Germany's Hello? Repeat imprint comes from Seuil, one of Paris's most inspired underground producers. In terms of style, it's a match that could hardly be more perfect. Hello? Repeat has spent the past six years carving a niche for itself with EPs from Cabanne, Audio Werner and label co-founder Daze Maxim, plus acclaimed albums by Bruno Pronsato and Kate Simko. Seuil, meanwhile, has put out a steady stream of ultra-deep 12-inches on labels like Freak n' Chic and Sammy Dee's Ultrastretch. Both specialize in a sound that's modern, understated and hypnotic.

Late Call is exactly what its name suggests: a record made for the deepest, most tender portion of the night. The drums are slick and punchy, but the rest is woozy and romantic--this is one to put on when the crowd has stopped chatting and everyone's dancing with their eyes closed. Topping it off is a vocal line made famous by Diana Ross but recited here by an androgynous diva: If you need me, call me, no matter where you are, no matter how far... Dark, trippy and weirdly moving, this is one of Seuil's finest tracks yet. "Slow Motion" strikes a similar chord but with a more subtle approach. Here you notice Seuil's rare touch for subtlety: in the absence of any real "hook", he keeps the track moving with expertly sculpted drums, a warm half-melody and a gently propulsive beat. Soft chords sustain in the background to create a balmy summer night feel. Both tracks show Seuil and Hello? Repeat doing what they do best: delivering something deep, functional and full of character.


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Coloured vinyl!
In Philpot history we had many prolific producers dropping their best tracks by far.We keep it like that!! So here´s our second 12Inch by highly acclaimed Arttu delivering the goods on two slammin' gangsta tracks! Timeless jackshit to open your mind (...like the artwork suggests).
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The musical heavyweight Matthias Vogt is back on Polytone. "Copying the future" has the potential to be a classic. A track with character and a high recognition value: hypnotic rave stabs and uplifting chords combined with a driving groove will send shivers down each true music lovers spine. "Copying the future" is delivering deja vu´s without copying the past - a great track with a past and a future, deeply rooted in the here and now. "Stillach" claps its way into every listeners ear. The B side of the EP named after a mountain stream in the Allgäu is calm and also powerful with a slow, minimal and very tight groove. Vogt is going deeper!

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