Lovely versatile collection of music produced by Karlovak's Mr.Tophat! This is the third part of a beautiful triptych all build around field recordings molded into a lovely collection of lush tracks suited for the club, the ambient room or early morning listening session in the garden (and hundreds of other occasions! :-) More

Karlovak related project from Mr Tophat!! This is the second part of a beautiful triptych all build around field recordings molded into a lovely collection of lush tracks suited for the club, the ambient room or early morning listening session in the garden (and hundreds of other occasions! :-) More

Karlovak related project from Mr Tophat who has a lot to tell about the release!! A beautiful triptych all build around field recordings molded into a lovely collection of lush tracks suited for the club and the ambient room! This is what Mr Tophat wants to share; " The first ideas of creating an actual album came in the spring of 2016, not long after the breakup from a long relationship. A dark time full of contemplation and re-evaluation of my life. That September I got the first sonic images. Right after a month I'd spent living on Ibiza. The powerful sunsets, the dramatic skies over the Balearic sea, the starlit nights and the beautiful sunrises. I remember swimming in the ocean with a view of a pretty horizon, filled with love and soft emotions. I remember I standing alone in the pitch black night, how I met the Mediterranean storm and heavy rain hit my cheeks. It felt as I was crying and screaming, even though there was noting but silence. The thunder lit up the cloudy sky like a stroboscope, to suddenly a few hours later with the turn of dawn bring everything into a calm and peaceful nature of sinus - like everything was reset. The fundamental state of mind to perceive a real world more like the unreal; mesmerise and tilt the present understanding of being alive made me scared. Dramatic and dynamic. Partly hard and treating but also soft, gentle and friendly. Horrifying but still so beautiful. This remind me of life, death, primal aspects and the biological processes in general. Everything started when my childhood friend Kalle and I first visited Berghain. It was 2008 and we where 18 years old. We had found each other being two individualists with our own nerdy interests. Together we plunged into them, Kalle in hairstyling, me in electronic dance music, computer games and cyber-punk. With borrowed ID's, platform shoes, blue-dyed hair and the idols form 'The Party Monster' we overdressed and started raving in the forests and clubbing in the city of Stockholm. Berlin and Berghain became a place we went and visited almost once a month during a two year period. The city in itself, and the club in particular, has been giving us so much inspiration, creativity and early on even a meaning of life. To this day Kalle still lives in Berlin together with his husband. Ever since those days I've always loved and felt a big passion for the rave- and club-scene. As a space where you can freak out, be yourself, queer and believe in hedonism. It shall and should be about freedom. I guess that's why the scene and the music attracted me. Something I've lately been thinking of is why do people often not dance when they go out? From that thought ideas were born and I started to create a body of music that would maybe work better for the concert hall or a theatre rather than a proper night club. If people want to go out and hear and enjoy dance music without moving their own bodies, then why not go out on a Thursday and sit down in a nice, soft chair and enjoy two hours of the highest class of contemporary music and stage art - dance? Because the past and our history is what the new and the contemporary is built upon. It moves my thoughts towards dance and the club scene. It all started with make-up, rave, ecstasy, angst, glamour and life. The turquoise sky and the coloured sea in peach were faded together into a seamless vision, the horizon was impossible to navigate; meanwhile the bright dusk was filled with hate, darkness and mayhem. Nature - so simple, but still so complex. My legacy is the night - Dusk to Dawn. Mr. Tophat" More

Karlovak co-founder Art Alfie steps up for some solo action on home turf. Three Karlovak centered house/techno bombs, as always! More

Oi... big house tunes alert!! 2 big tunes from the North that sounds like the hay days of Club House in the mid and late 90's! Fresh house bangers from the Karlovak label honchos them selfs!! More

Next up on Karlovak is Italian DJ and producer Santos. Having released music since 1995 on labels such as Crosstown Rebels, Desolate, Ovum and Bedrock; Santos has an impressive string of releases in his back. We are thrilled welcoming him to Karlovak with this 2x12" containing four house burners thats been road tested and approved by the label heads themselves, Mr.Tophat & Art Alfie, over the past year.

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Karlovak dropping its first Various Artist record with Sakro and Champy on the bill! Super solid sample driven house tunes in the vein of label headhonchos Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie. Filter disco vibes combined with warm chords doing the job.


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CJ Scott is a Stockholm based house talent with an extra More

After nine successful releases on their KVK series of the Karlovak label, KVK1000 will be the tenth and final release on the KVK imprint.
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Next up is KVK900 with the much sought after track 'House Music'. A 14 minute long mesmerising house journey that's already been included in Ryan Elliotts Panorama Bar 06 mix. On the B-side you'll find 'The Glitch', a psyched out tech-bomb stuck in the Karlovak machine.




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Solid building house track full of tension as a one-off collaboration between Karlovak and Snatch OFF. One-sided limited remix single with Mr. Tophat & Art Alfies's remix of Santos - Let It Be. Be quick!

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Karlovak delivering the goods. Another 12" by these guys from the north with solid pumping house bombs. Nice job by Mr.Tophat & Alfie!


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Loco Dice & Samo DJ remixes for these nordic youngesters of Karlovak records. Tight functional tracks by Tophat and Art Alfie getting the remix treatment by Desolat label boss Loco Dice on Crab At The Green Hunter. On the flip you'll find producer virtuoso Samo DJ turning inside out of No Holdings. Efficient modern house cuts with some of that Nordic flavour. More

Two more bangin Karlovak tracks for the neverending party!

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Two stripped down tools in Karlovak style, perfect for sweaty sessions. Dont sleep on these More

TRapdily gaining a reputation for delvering some solid house tracks, Karlovak records is back with their 5th release!

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"The sun's play on the car window reflected on to the passengers seat next to him, creating intertwining circles of lights on the scorching hot leather dressing." The Green Hunter is a legendary joint located in Stockholm. Radio Edit is a radio-edit but not a short-length radio edit, nuff said, it's more about irony. KVK200 is the second instalment on the new swedish label Karlovak. This chapter reveals the tracks Crab at The Green Hunter (A1) and No Holdings (Radio Edit) (B1) by label masterminds Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie.

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