DJ Koze introduces Sophia Kennedy - stunning debut album by 26 years old wonderwoman Sophia Kennedy! Elegant, melancholic, sometimes menacing, with smoldering piano melodies, desolately whistling organs, and a jaunty jaw's harp loop, kissed by the golden Californian sun, or shrouded in gloomy, dreary fog: Sophia Kennedy is currently the most versatile composer in German pop music – not to mention the greatest singer. Her debut album "Sophia Kennedy" reveals her as a dramatic romanticist and distanced diseuse, as a deft lyricist and master of melody. In her eleven songs, she travels from doo-wop to dubstep, from classic crooning to breathless R'n'B, from Frank Sinatra to Beyoncé. Her talent for songwriting is deeply rooted in history, yet it seeks nothing but the present: both historically versed and timelessly beautiful at the same time. All tracks have been produced by Sophia Kennedy and Mense Reents (who is known as being a member of Die Vögel, Egoexpress, Die Goldenen Zitronen).


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Dan Snaith's latest album, "Honey," marks an intriguing new phase for Caribou. Over more than two decades Dan Snaith has had many guises. After putting every ounce of himself into Our Love and Suddenly, for his sixth Caribou album Snaith now pulls himself away a little in search of music that isn’t about any one person and is available to everybody. Huge dancefloor tracks twinkle, shimmer and surprise in a way only Snaith’s productions can but with a freshness that defines an artist who is too excited by music-making to ever truly settle into any one sound.
There’s never been a Caribou record that sounds like the last, so change here is just as comforting as constant. They say expect the unexpected and you’ll never be surprised; well there’s plenty here to be surprised by, but then with a Caribou record you’d never expect anything less. "Honey" captures Snaith's curiosity and joy in music-making, offering a fresh yet quintessential Caribou experience.

Formats:

- CD in digi sleeve with spot gloss
- 140g black vinyl, 350gram heavy cardboard cover sleeve with spot gloss and printed inner sleeve
- Ltd 140g yellow vinyl (Indies only) 350gram heavy cardboard cover sleeve with spot gloss and printed inner sleeve

TRACKLIST:

A1 Broke My Heart
A2 Honey
A3 Volume
A4 Do Without You
A5 Come Find Me
A6 August 20/24
B1 Dear Life
B2 Over Now
B3 Campfire
B4 Climbing
B5 Only You
B6 Got to Change

SOCIALS: TOTAL: 2.99M

Spotify 660.000 follower
Facebook 490.000 follower
Instagram 117.000 follower
Youtube 69.800 follower
Twitter 141.000 follower
Deezer 165.000 follower
Songkick Fans 526,800 follower
Bandsintown Followers 457,500 follower
SoundCloud Followers 366,600 followers

SELLING POINTS

- Caribou’s 6th studio album
- Extended Single Release Campaign: four singles (Honey, Broke My Heart, Volume ….) will build anticipation for the album without fully disclosing its contents
- Caribou Boiler Room - Live Concert confirmed for September + Amsterdam Dance Event in October
- Caribou DJ pop-up events and festival sets throughout the summer, along with extensive touring by the CARIBOU live band across the US and Europe in 2024 and 2025

MARKETING

- Selective Digital and Influencer Partnerships
- Focused PR Campaign - selective media engagement and direct-to-audience communication
- Out of Home poster & Billboard Campaign - London, Paris – Germany
- Digital Marketing Budget across 5 singles and the album campaign
- DJ-Focused Remixes: A series of remixes tailored for DJs will complement the single releases, ensuring the album's tracks become staples in clubs and dance events worldwide
- CARIBOU and DAPHNI remixes of other artists’ work, adding to the creative narrative of the album and expanding our audience reach

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Dan Snaith's latest album, "Honey," marks an intriguing new phase for Caribou. Over more than two decades Dan Snaith has had many guises. After putting every ounce of himself into Our Love and Suddenly, for his sixth Caribou album Snaith now pulls himself away a little in search of music that isn’t about any one person and is available to everybody. Huge dancefloor tracks twinkle, shimmer and surprise in a way only Snaith’s productions can but with a freshness that defines an artist who is too excited by music-making to ever truly settle into any one sound.
There’s never been a Caribou record that sounds like the last, so change here is just as comforting as constant. They say expect the unexpected and you’ll never be surprised; well there’s plenty here to be surprised by, but then with a Caribou record you’d never expect anything less. "Honey" captures Snaith's curiosity and joy in music-making, offering a fresh yet quintessential Caribou experience.

Formats:

- CD in digi sleeve with spot gloss
- 140g black vinyl, 350gram heavy cardboard cover sleeve with spot gloss and printed inner sleeve
- Ltd 140g yellow vinyl (Indies only) 350gram heavy cardboard cover sleeve with spot gloss and printed inner sleeve

TRACKLIST:

A1 Broke My Heart
A2 Honey
A3 Volume
A4 Do Without You
A5 Come Find Me
A6 August 20/24
B1 Dear Life
B2 Over Now
B3 Campfire
B4 Climbing
B5 Only You
B6 Got to Change

SOCIALS: TOTAL: 2.99M

Spotify 660.000 follower
Facebook 490.000 follower
Instagram 117.000 follower
Youtube 69.800 follower
Twitter 141.000 follower
Deezer 165.000 follower
Songkick Fans 526,800 follower
Bandsintown Followers 457,500 follower
SoundCloud Followers 366,600 followers

SELLING POINTS

- Caribou’s 6th studio album
- Extended Single Release Campaign: four singles (Honey, Broke My Heart, Volume ….) will build anticipation for the album without fully disclosing its contents
- Caribou Boiler Room - Live Concert confirmed for September + Amsterdam Dance Event in October
- Caribou DJ pop-up events and festival sets throughout the summer, along with extensive touring by the CARIBOU live band across the US and Europe in 2024 and 2025

MARKETING

- Selective Digital and Influencer Partnerships
- Focused PR Campaign - selective media engagement and direct-to-audience communication
- Out of Home poster & Billboard Campaign - London, Paris – Germany
- Digital Marketing Budget across 5 singles and the album campaign
- DJ-Focused Remixes: A series of remixes tailored for DJs will complement the single releases, ensuring the album's tracks become staples in clubs and dance events worldwide
- CARIBOU and DAPHNI remixes of other artists’ work, adding to the creative narrative of the album and expanding our audience reach

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Ltd Edition!

Caribou classic album "Our Love", originally released on 03.10.2014, is now available for the first time as a coloured vinyl edition in pink!

Format:

- Ltd edition worlwide 2000 copies (750 units for RTD)

TRACKLISTING:

A1. Can't Do Without You A2. Silver A3. All I Ever Need A4. Our Love A5. Dive
B1. Second Chance B2. Julia Brightly B3. Mars B4. Back Home B5. Your Love Will Set You Free

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In November 2022, GOLD PANDA released his long-awaited album "The Work". It includes the two singles "I've Felt Better (Than I Do Now)" & "Plastic Future". These were remixed by Gold Panda's friend and companion Daniel Avery and the one and only Skee Mask respectively.

On Side A, British techno producer Daniel Avery turned "I've Felt Better" on its head. With a perfect balance of light and shadow, it now races at top speed like a techno bullet train through a blizzard and a multitude of barren landscapes, while the listener sits in an empty wagon, safe from the threat of nature just inches away. On Side B, Skee Mask, the enigmatic versatile electronic producer gives 'Plastic Future' a totally new identity. Known for his rolling rhythms combined with electronic soundscapes, Skee Mask slams the breaks on this remix in a big way. It's a magic combination that begs the question how did it take these 2 producers so long to collaborate like this? A match made in heaven!

TRACKLIST:
Side A: I've Felt Better (Daniel Avery Remix)
Side B: Plastic Future (Skee Mask Remix)

LISTEN LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL3htKLsdEE

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A very quiet album in loud times

On October 28th 2022, Canadian duo Junior Boys will release their sixth album, ‘Waiting Game’, on City Slang. Six years since their last album, 2016’s ‘Big Black Coat’. ‘Waiting Game’ finds producers Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus in a tender and contemplative mood; a switch-up from their punchy, R&B-infused dance melodics. The album’s additonal musicians are Canadians, too; Caribou collaborator Colin Fisher performs saxophone throughout and Bonjay frontwoman Alanna Stuart sings alongside Greenspan on the song “Yes 2”. In this, Junior Boys have made an album that reflects the quiet beauty of the world, so long as you’re prepa- red to truly listen. Junior Boys will embark on an extensive 20th anniversary headline tour in January and March 2023

TRACKLIST CD/LP/:

Side A
01: Must Be All the Wrong Things
02: Night Walk
03: It Never Occurred To Me
04: Thinking About You Calms Me Down
05: Yes II
Side B
06: Dum Audio
07: Fidget
08: Samba On Sama
09: Waiting Game

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At Ohio’s Oberlin College in the early '90s, Morgan Geist spent most of his time cloistered in a dorm room studio, crafting what would become his early techno discography. Across the street at the conservatory, Kelley Polar skipped computer science classes to play Philip Glass and Hindemith, practicing eight hours a day and competing in international viola competitions. A handful of chance meetings occurred over the latest 12” arrivals at the college bookstore: Aphex Twin, Underground Resistance, LFO. The two would cross paths doing late-night shows at the college radio station.

After Oberlin, Kelley was living in NYC and attending the Juilliard School. By day, he was the teaching assistant of synthesizer pioneer Michael Czajkowski; nights were spent in an abandoned Williamsburg sweatshop, planning art happenings with his cousin (and future LCD Soundsystem member) Gavilán Russom. Morgan ran his Environ label from New Jersey. Since returning east, he had grown obsessed with tracing modern dance music back to its disco and boogie roots. In search of lush string arrangements to record, he tracked down Kelley, and before long they were creating what were to become some of Metro Area’s most iconic records: "Caught Up," "The Art of Hot," and "Miura." Morgan moved to NYC and co-produced Kelley’s two acclaimed electro-pop albums on Environ, and the pair eventually toured together, planning their itineraries around food destinations rather than festival dates.
While they remained close friends over the subsequent years, their creative endeavors branched off in ways they hadn’t anticipated. By the end of the 2010s, a remix of Morgan’s Storm Queen alias had knocked Rihanna & Eminem from the #1 spot in the UK pop charts. Kelley, now a twenty-year veteran of USIS State Department classical chamber music tours through conflict areas worldwide, has taught at the Moscow Conservatory and performed at the Kennedy Center. Madonna used one of his tracks for her MDNA tour. Perhaps most significantly, Kelley had grown tired of city life and decamped to the woods of New Hampshire. Despite the geographical distance, the pair kept talking about forming a band. Two of each other’s oldest friends, they had still never truly collaborated from scratch—as equal partners, writing new songs together.

That has finally changed. Morgan Geist and Kelley Polar are Au Suisse, a project borne of a long creative friendship, steeped in each member’s traditions, yet simultaneously naïve-sounding and undiscovered. Kelley’s penchant for a maximalist extreme shaped by Morgan’s immaculate production ear; Morgan’s curatorial prowess from years spent record digging and international DJing combined with Kelley’s deep exposure to five hundred years of the Western classical art music tradition. Guest players include friends and labelmates Dan Snaith (Caribou) and Jeremy Greenspan (Junior Boys).

“We had some vague ideas—mainly visual, or perhaps psychological—about what we wanted Au Suisse to be,” says Morgan. “There was a lot of talk about moods and how to establish them, about reverbs and echoes and ‘lonely’ sounds. Ironic, considering we started working just before the onset of the pandemic. But I think a prime motivator was trying to eschew the roles we both fell into in our prior working relationship. I wouldn’t be making things more dancefloor-friendly, and Kelley wouldn’t be doing huge string arrangements.”
This goal is evident in “Control,” the band’s debut single. Kelley’s soft-yet-crisp vocals evoke a lonely actor in the spotlight of an empty stage, the thump of drums absent until the song’s final explosions of sound. The ambiguity of the lyrics may provide the most tangible parallel to his earlier work: “The words are concrete and there’s definitely a narrative,” Kelley says, “but in my mind the story is vague: couple dynamics, or some sci-fi civilizational arc?” “I immediately thought it was about contemporary politics,” adds Morgan. “It's absolutely one of those songs where each listener gets their own read.”

“There’s musically and technically so much crossover between the two of us,” continues Morgan. “We each do the other's thing well enough that it was quite easy working together as partners. We're discovered we’re both capable of doing this stuff on our own, but it's far more inspirational doing it together. Getting the emotional balance right—that was the greatest challenge, and the most fun.”

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"There's a place for us scattered and uprooted peoples," says Sinkane mainman Ahmed Gallab, "a place we can all know as home, with elements of all our homes." That place, as it turns out, is Mars.
On one level, Mars is dense with deep, polyrhythmic grooves that hail directly to Africa; on another level, it's a 21st century party record that acknowledges the global music village in which we all now live. The music of Mars is kinetic, sexy and catchy. But at its core, it's one man's way of working through a very American story.
While elements of Mars come from all over the world, the album is very firmly rooted in a specific place: "This," Gallab says, "is very much a New York album." He met virtually everyone who appears on Mars within his first year of living in the Big Apple. But more to the point, Mars is the sound of someone figuring out how to exist in New York, as a stranger in a strange land - a feeling anyone can relate to anywhere.
That's why the album is called Mars. People use Mars to describe some place alien, weird, foreign, a place they don't understand. "It's where I feel like I am right now," says Gallab, "a desolate, tropical place filled with hope, ambition and love."
A formidable player on guitar, bass, keys and drums, Gallab is a virtual one-man band, playing at least four instruments on every track on Mars. But he enlists some top-flight musicians, like Twin Shadow, Yeasayer bassist Ira Wolf Tuton, former Shai Hulud guitarist Oliver Chapoy, members of Afrobeat band Nomo, and saxophonist/flautist stutzmcgee.
Tracklist:
1.Runnin'
2.Jeeper Creeper
3.Lady, C'Mon
4.Making Time
5.Warm Spell
6.Lovesick
7.Mars
8.Caparundi




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release date: 03.12.2012
To celebrate the rerelease of the three classic to rococo rot records on City Slang between 1997 and 2001, we have asked two friends and fans to rework their favourite tracks of these albums.
Four Tet's Kieran Hebden chose the brooding minimal collage 'he loves me' from the bands 1997 archetypal release “veiculo“ and, like a prism in singular beam of light, his remix reveals the songs true glistening content. Mute label founder and longtime to rococo rot afficionado Daniel Miller teamed up with London based producer Gareth Jones to give 'cars', from the bands impeccable second album “the amateur view“, a compassionate modification into a ... well, let's call it a “Krautrock Disco Truck“.
The 12“ will be limited and only available for a short time.
Tracklisting:
a1 he loves me (four tet rmx)
b1 cars (Sunroof Remix by Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones)


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release date: 03.12.2012
To rococo rot's records on City Slang, “veiculo“ (1997), “the amateur view“ (1999) and “music is a hungry ghost“ (2001) have been out of print for a long time. They will see a reissue as a remastered 3 CD boxset named “rocket road“ that comes with extensive linernotes, more than twenty bonus tracks including the two remixes by Four Tet and Daniel Miller as well as an exclusive Mira Calix rework of 'from dream to dusk'. Each album will also be available on vinyl again as 180g pressing, with the original tracklisting and a CD of the album plus bonus tracks.
Tracklisting:
LP:
. Micromanaged 3:27
. He Loves Me 3:58
. Modern Homes 3:28
. Moto 2:17
. Mit Dir In Der Gegend 6:11
. Leggiero 2:32
. Geheimnis Eines Mantels 3:31
. Extra 3:45
. Fach 0:55
. Lips 4:11
. Merano 3:42
. Allover Dezent 2:00
. Lift 6:00
CD:
. Micromanaged 3:27
. He Loves Me 3:58
. Modern Homes 3:28
. Moto 2:17
. Mit Dir In Der Gegend 6:11
. Leggiero 2:32
. Geheimnis Eines Mantels 3:31
. Extra 3:45
. Fach 0:55
. Lips 4:11
. Merano 3:42
. Allover Dezent 2:00
. Lift 6:00
. He Loves Me (Four Tet Remix) 8:04
. Gehöft (Extra Track) 3:42
. Sonde Mit Orgel (Extra Track) 3:33
. Momentmix (Extra Track) 2:50
. Metalpasta (Extra Track) 0:41
. Neukölln Heute (Extra Track) 1:09
. Moewe (Extra Track) 1:00
. Leggiero (Extra Track) 8:50


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release date: 03.12.2012
To rococo rot's records on City Slang, “veiculo“ (1997), “the amateur view“ (1999) and “music is a hungry ghost“ (2001) have been out of print for a long time. They will see a reissue as a remastered 3 CD boxset named “rocket road“ that comes with extensive linernotes, more than twenty bonus tracks including the two remixes by Four Tet and Daniel Miller as well as an exclusive Mira Calix rework of 'from dream to dusk'. Each album will also be available on vinyl again as 180g pressing, with the original tracklisting and a CD of the album plus bonus tracks.
Tracklisting:
LP:
. I Am In The World With You 3:20
. Telema 3:42
. Prado 4:19
. A Little Asphalt Here And There 3:11
. This Sandy Piece 4:05
. Tomorrow 4:30
. Greenwich 3:51
. Cars 2:58
. She Loves Animals 4:12
. Die Dinge Des Lebens 4:56
. Das Blau Und Der Morgen 3:00
CD:
. I Am In The World With You 3:20
. Telema 3:42
. Prado 4:19
. A Little Asphalt Here And There 3:11
. This Sandy Piece 4:05
. Tomorrow 4:30
. Greenwich 3:51
. Cars 2:58
. She Loves Animals 4:12
. Die Dinge Des Lebens 4:56
. Das Blau Und Der Morgen 3:00
. Cars (Sunroof Remix by Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones) 7:56
. Mirror (Extra Track) 2:31
. Milker (Extra Track) 3:45
. Meteor (Extra Track) 5:36

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release date: 03.12.2012
To rococo rot's records on City Slang, “veiculo“ (1997), “the amateur view“ (1999) and “music is a hungry ghost“ (2001) have been out of print for a long time. They will see a reissue as a remastered 3 CD boxset named “rocket road“ that comes with extensive linernotes, more than twenty bonus tracks including the two remixes by Four Tet and Daniel Miller as well as an exclusive Mira Calix rework of 'from dream to dusk'. Each album will also be available on vinyl again as 180g pressing, with the original tracklisting and a CD of the album plus bonus tracks.
Tracklisting:
LP:
. A Number Of Things 4:14
. For A Moment 4:31
. How We Never Went To Bed 4:12
. First 2:24
. From Dream To Daylight 4:10
. Your Secrets, A Few Words 3:12
. Along The Route 2:50
. Overhead 4:08
. Koku 0:39
. Pantone 2:56
. Mazda In The Mist 4:18
. She Tended To Forget 2:20
. The Trance Of Travel 4:58
CD:
. A Number Of Things 4:14
. For A Moment 4:31
. How We Never Went To Bed 4:12
. First 2:24
. From Dream To Daylight 4:10
. Your Secrets, A Few Words 3:12
. Along The Route 2:50
. Overhead 4:08
. Koku 0:39
. Pantone 2:56
. Mazda In The Mist 4:18
. She Tended To Forget 2:20
. The Trance Of Travel 4:58
. From Dream To Dusk (Mira Calix Remix) 4:09
. Expo (Extra Track) 2:19
. Rebirth Of Spock (Extra Track) 1:46
. Stefan Funk (Extra Track) 2:06
. Craig Loop (Extra Track) 0:56
. Boss Groove (Extra Track) 2:16
. Attractor (Extra Track) 2:33
. Dub Mix (Extra Track) 4:55
. Mars (Extra Track) 3:12
. Tone Song (Extra Track) 3:10

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