Fjaak's CROWD label proudly presents the third EP, this time by X Club., Australia's freshest export, showcasing their signature tribal rhythms & euphoric vibes. Kicking it off with 'Hold On (Chop'D n Screw'D Mix),' a dance floor anthem featuring flashy synths, euphoric vocal cries, and a rolling baseline. 'Sitting Ducks' keeps the energy levels high with fast-speed drums, tribal percussion, old-school stabs, and a dominating bass. Lastly, 'No One' offers a stripped-back banger with turbo-charged synth motifs, well-swung claps aligned with robust drum grooves. Despite their young age, X Club. has achieved remarkable success in the underground scene! More

X CLUB. is the production duo of Ben Clarke and Jesse Morath. Founded in Brisbane/Meanjin Australia’s warehouse scene and exported to London and beyond, their music is inspired by early 90s techno all the way through to future-facing drum’n’bass, with X CLUB. carving out a space entirely of their own thanks to their authentic and eclectic take on dance music with serious consideration for underlying groove.

With releases on labels such as Steel City Dance Discs, SPANDAU20/CROWDS, 99CTS Records and Stay On Sight, X CLUB. have seen their records reach global audiences with frequent touring across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

Wrestling With New Technique by X CLUB. is the second release on their own label HIDE THE JUNK, a powerful four track offering that follows on from it's HTJ001 predecessor which set out to explore the groovier, percussive and fun side of techno. These tracks have met dance floors the world over, summer into winter, making for big stage moments and more intimate club connections. It's the follow up EP that fans and DJ's alike have come to know and expect in X CLUB. and the start of what will be an exciting 2024. More

X CLUB. is the production duo of Ben Clarke and Jesse Morath. Founded in Brisbane/Meanjin Australia’s warehouse scene and exported to London and beyond, their music is inspired by early 90s techno all the way through to future-facing drum’n’bass, with X CLUB. carving out a space entirely of their own thanks to their authentic and eclectic take on dance music with serious consideration for underlying groove.

With releases on labels such as Steel City Dance Discs, SPANDAU20/CROWDS, 99CTS Records and Stay On Sight, X CLUB. have seen their records reach global audiences with frequent touring across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

Wrestling With New Technique by X CLUB. is the second release on their own label HIDE THE JUNK, a powerful four track offering that follows on from it's HTJ001 predecessor which set out to explore the groovier, percussive and fun side of techno. These tracks have met dance floors the world over, summer into winter, making for big stage moments and more intimate club connections. It's the follow up EP that fans and DJ's alike have come to know and expect in X CLUB. and the start of what will be an exciting 2024. More

- 2022 repress -

Tracklisting:
A1 Viper Diva - Born To Be Slytherin (Tbilisi Mix)
A2 Viper Diva - En Y
B1 Viper Diva - Hold Me Back
B2 Viper Diva - Cold Heart Prediction

Release Note:


After introducing Hadone to the scene with his Defining Persuasion EP on Taapion last year, Shlomo once again teams up with him to create their most exciting project to date: Viper Diva.

More than a regular collaboration, the French duo featuring Shlomo & Hadone is a fuse between 2 generations of producers bound to deliver a timeless and unique output, unleashing their mind-crushing energies at the service of the dancefloor.

It all comes down to 3 simple words to define their style: thrusty, anthemic, techno. More

RAWAX proudly welcomes legendary Fresh & Low to the family!
We are very happy to present you in future most of their amazing
past productions on the new "Treasures" series.
Starting with groundbreaking LITTE "i" EP from 1997! More

Vibraphone Records starts the new year with another banger from Basic Realities! Dubtroit is a classic techno hommage to Motor City and it comes around with an stunning remix by the Legend, Mr. "Inner City" Kevin Saunderson! The Vinyl is expected to be out last week of January!
Highly recommended! More

Tracklist:
1.Springinsfeld
2.Der Arpeggiator (featuring Nicola Rost)
3.Acquamarina
4.Ahoj!
5.Synaesthesie (featuring Sophia Kennedy)
6.Italotape
7.Ravedave - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSfYktVMpXk
8.Mantas
9.Salut Les Copines! (featuring Luis Baltes) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37BZhNMbK_k
10.Verkackt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJrguVxULUw
11.Zukunftsmusik
12.Riding Low (featuring Luis Baltes)
13.Hitsong Von Uns Beiden

Vacation. A backpack trip through Australia, a campfire in the Schrebergarten. Cruising in the car with friends through the Lüneburger Heide or just a short holiday in the mind, during a rainy lunch break or with a glass of Sprizz on the balcony. And this all includes music, music, music! Grooves which roll like an intercity train into the horizon, Rhodes chords as soft as sand on the beach and synthesizers that sparkle like the reflections on the ocean. Music as colourful as a Hawaiian shirt and as warm as the morning sun.

Welcome to Erobique’s second album “Erobique No. 2”. Here even the song titles are in a holiday mood: “Ahoj!” greets the young “Springinsfeld”. The “Mantas” glide elegantly around the “Acquamarina”. “Salut Les Copines!” we shout to the yacht next to us. “Come on the ‘Ravedave!’” they echo cheerfully. “Riding Low” is the motto while the “Arpeggiator” beautifully condenses the “Synaesthesia” of our dazed senses. The “Italotape” in the cassette deck plays the “Hitsong Von uns Beiden”. It’s all so beautiful “Verkackt”, it sounds like “Zukunftsmusik”!

Carsten Meyer released his debut album “Erosound” in 1998 under the name “Erobique”. Exactly 25 years later, the now 50-year-old releases his second Erobique album on his own label A-sexy. Thirteen diverse tracks ranging from holiday disco to rhythm box rave, recorded and produced with many of his friends and companions. Twenty-five years, that's pretty much the time it took disco to evolve from the legendary loft parties of pioneer David Mancuso to the impressive mass spectacles of Daft Punk's performances, or from Meyer's birth to his first full-length record. So why only now a second album as “Erobique”?

Meyer has been improvising performances for years in front of dancing audiences. Even his hits “Easy Mobeasy” and “Urlaub In Italien” are not pop songs in the proper sense, but were created from spontaneous inspirations, in the adrenaline rush, in the party flow, in the middle of the moment! Sung along and fallen into oblivion at the same instant. Recorded live and there you go! Don't look back! Every Erobique concert is an attempt to build the unforeseen, failures and accidents into a unique moment of being there. “Fehler Ist King” once said the witty Knarf Rellöm - and Carsten Meyer is the King of Errors!

How are you supposed to conjure up such moments in the studio without a party, without the energy that spills back onto the stage on such a children's birthday for adults? Meyer remembered another Erobique hit and changed its title accordingly: He collaborated with an overdose of joy! Drummer Lucas Kochbeck (The KBCs, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band), who now also supports Carsten in his live gigs, as well as neighbour and buddy Christoph M. Kaiser, (former bass player with The Jeremy Days, now film music and pop strategist) laid the groove foundation with shining tiles, like once at Trinity, Hamburg's legendary 80s disco. Sophia Kennedy came by to sing from the neighbouring studio and Lieven Brunckhorst dragged the whole brass set of Jan Delay's big band Disco No1 in front of the microphone.

Meyer recorded harps, xylophones and violins in his music room at the Hamburg Fish Market or with Tobias Levin in his Electric-Avenue Studio with Fleet View. In Berlin Carsten finally met up with his hero Siriusmo to spin some ideas through the electronic shredder. Nicola Rost stopped by and delivered some unbelievably dense choirs and wonderful songs. Finally, all tracks were sent to Ludwigsburg in Swabia, where Freundeskreis-DJ and disco expert Martin Welzer alias DJ Friction added an incredibly warm and dancefloor-friendly overall sound to the whole madness.

Now for the drawing board: The cover artwork is, like in all A-sexy publications, painted and designed by Meyer himself. After all, his original career was being a schoolbook illustrator.

In the course of one summer a musical box of chocolates was created, which not only enriched the holiday playlist of its fans and listeners, but also made Meyer’s several quantum bytes deep archive of ideas and sketches a little thinner. Outside his disco services, everywhere and nowhere, Meyer has not remained idle in the last quarter of a century.

In the years from 1998 to 2006 he developed ultra-modern electronic soul with DJ Koze and Cosmic DJ as International Pony. Together with Jacques Palminger and Chris Dietermann he supervised amateur songwriters making pop music in the project “Songs for Joy” at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin. In 2007 he created the secret hit “Wann Strahlst Du?” with the great lyrics by Barbara Stützel. Speaking of theatre: For theatre director Herbert Fritsch he arranged the hits of Gino Paoli and Hugo Wolff for overcooked evenings at the Schauspielhaus Zürich (2016) and the Residenztheater Munich (2015), for Stefan Pucher he put Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales through the home organ mill (2010).

For his colleagues at Studio Braun, he brought the “Dorfpunks” to life at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, and immediately afterwards he developed the authentic new wave sound for their mockumentary “Fraktus”, which was released in cinemas in 2012. So this is film and TV music. Here, too, Meyer has had a lot to do in recent years. The soundtrack for the popular TV series “Der Tatortreiniger” with Bjarne Mädel in the title role probably was the best one.

By the way, the “Tausendsasa” (= ‚jack of all trades’, quote Peter Bursch) also released several albums on his own label A-sexy: Rumple Funk as “Babyman”, finest chanson-pop with Palminger and Yvon Janssen for “Yvon im Kreis der Liebe” and warm, modern Hammond-Jazz with the “Hamburg Spinners”. And now finally his anniversary album, the silver wedding with himself. 25 years of Carsten and Erobique, together forever and happy as never before! Here's to the next. . . no, stop it! We don't want to wait that long! More

Chilean artist Magda Rot makes a head-turning debut here with some ice-cold electro rhythms on the Return To Disorder label which is now fast approaching a quarter century of releases. There is no messing with these sounds - they're built on tight, kinetic rhythms with fierce sound designs and stark futurism. 'Triads' is a mix of crisp hits and gurgling synths with dramatic background chords. 'Black Sense' is a slamming cut with a twisted bassline and hammering drum funk and 'Coincidences' brings the chilliness with its frosted lines and cold waves of synth. 'Unusual Theory' shuts down with a far sighted sense of electro-techno doom. More

Mom’s Spaghetti returns with the fourth instalment of club tracks for weak knees and sweaty palms! Once again jam packed with club ready edit bangers with a strong focus on Hip Hop for this edition… Big toppings from the East/West Coast and some Dirty South Sauce make for another fine slice of club heat! More

Red vinyl, picture sleeve version of French live trio, Oden & Fatzo’s chart topping, house smash hit, ‘Lauren’.

DJ Support:
Franky Wah, Danny Howard, Pete Tong, Annie Mac, Jax Jones, Jodie Harsh, HUGEL, Bakermat, Cut Snake, Salomé Le Chat, Piem, David Gausa and many more

A bootleg experiment that got out of hand, Oden & Fatzo’s Radio 1 A-listed single is the accidental hit that everyone is talking about.

So how do you go about making an ‘accidental hit’, by accident of course... The track came about when French DJ Fatzo tried to demonstrate the difference between an edit and a remix to his dad, “... I took a song from the band Men I Trust, sped it up and added a drum beat and violin. After playing it to Oden, they loved it, and in turn, added their secret ingredients.”

Unlike the name might suggest, Oden & Fatzo consists of three people: The Parisian underground collective are a powerful fusion of the electronic live duo Oden, and house DJ Fatzo. Back in 2020 a bootleg version of ‘Lauren’ was uploaded to the YouTube channel of the electronic label Novaj, kicking off an unforeseeable wave of enthusiasm. That video is now approaching 4 and a half million views. Enthralled listeners begged for a commercial release, a year later Ministry of Sound/B1 cleared the sample and the track started its march across the airwaves and up the charts.

With its captivating beat and nostalgic catchiness, ‘Lauren’ makes up for the party nights lost to the pandemic lockdowns, and sees people dancing in their homes and on the streets, as concerts, parties, and live sets are finally making a return. As the trio put it: “This song was all about hope, freedom and a party atmosphere at a time when you couldn't go anywhere. We think it gave everyone who heard it a little bit of an escape, including us.” More