As DJ and as live act, France's Nhar certainly knows how to tweak the controls. He's transmitting his message on every channel, sporting his personal recipe for dancefloor mayhem, consisting of driving beats, melancholic euphoria and some other ingredients meant to stay a secret. On diverse labels like Mobilee, Plak or Modelisme, the former member of the 22 Crew shines with his panoramic view, melodic depth of focus and concise footwork. That love has to be rewarded, so Kompakt's Jörg Burger, a.k.a. the Modernist throws in one of his rare remixes for "Close Up", delivering that bonus punch and enhancing the original's charm with the razor-sharp musical scale he's become known for. It's a born winner for WIR. More

Plak is really proud to announce monster heart driver debut 12". Like Agoria, the driver is from Lyon and has really good taste for raw techno and detroit excursions.
The A-side "Raw As Fuck" is straight from the mid 90's with a small detour via the year 3000. An analog session recorded on the fly, loud kick, phat toms, oversized nasty hats and a rave gimmick for your head, forget the forward thinking depressive thing, this shit is a perfect big room techno tool, you gonna smile, dance and sweat ! On the flip side "The Path" is your late rainy sunday companion, it will show you the road off detroit,UR and Shakir are at the corner, to Bristol dubby thing…unreal excursion that worth the trip. Welcome home m0nster heart driver !

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Coming not so far from the Alps, Opuswerk is a new talented artist in love with hardware equipment and already got some strong producing skills.The charismatic tall guy is a main actor in the renewal of the techno scene in Geneva, throwing parties every week-end he's got a residency at Milk club and will also open up for Carl Craig at Electron Festival…yep Opuswerk knows how to move a crowd.
The A-side features Futurewerk, the first of a collaboration with London Based techno outfit Fundamental Interaction, is a raw dubby influenced track where chords and rhythm clearly aim for the dance-floor at 3am, or later depending on your countries going out habits. On the B-Side, TH13-13 is a flashback to the mid-90's, a squirting bassline with bleeps and blops, it plays subtly with a syncopated rhythm section and discrete chords…Pure Hardware jam !
Comes in 180 grams of black wax, carefully mastered at D&M,Berlin. Full printed sleeve designed by Frederic Laborde.
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cco aka Contra Commumem Opinionem has released 2 EPs on the Chicago based label Mathematics that were played a lot at Plak office. We've been even more amazed to meet him at Zukunft club in Zürich...the young talented producer is not from the windy city but from our lovely sweetzerland !Soo here we go with 2 slices of raw chicago techno/house carefully crafted & extended for Plak: the moody atmosphere of "Structural constraints" will fly you far far away, on the flip side "Structural Drift" is a spiritual momentum with a liquid 303 lead and sensual pads for your chemical sunday therapy. This piece of wax is an analog affair, no software !
feedbacks:
Ripperton (Perspectiv Records-Lausanne) : Plak is still on my top list label. This is aceness. Much love ripa
Agnès (Sthlmaudio Recordings-Geneva) : Like the A Side, support
Brendon Moeller (steadfast-NYC) : Lovely soulful electronic music
John Daly (one track records-feel music-Cork) : cool !!!!
Alex Dallas (drumpoet community-Zürich) : Awesome release Flo, love this!
Deetron (musicman-rejected-Bern) : really cool ! reminds me some good old environ records
Eric Cloutier (The Bunker | Down | Den of Thieves | NYC) : damn near impossible to pick a winner from these two, they're both so fantastic, but i think "structural drift" is the winner of the two. brilliantly gorgeous and sublimely mental...love it! can't get enough!
Lexx / Kawabata (drumpoet community-Zürich) : quality release! love the a side. will play this out.
Wandler (motoguzzi-Zürich) : Another nice record from Plak! I love this label which stands for quality music from sweetzerland. Gonna try out both sides...
Quenum (crosstown rebels-clapper-Geneva) : Very Good vibe
Bostro Pesopeo (permanent vacation-Münich) : Brilliant as always
Dachshund (highgrade-clapper-Geneva) : lovely tunes
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An eternal raw groove, dirty keys, deep & dub chords...extended house for club abuse ! Part 4. More

A 14 minutes epic track, extatic keyboards, melancholic strings & raw beats…Call it house, techno or what you want, this is an outstanding soulful piece of music written by the electronic chameleon Ripperton. From analog to analog, dedicated to wax lovers. More

After his collaboration with hopen and releases on plak , num and mentalgroove ltd . the owner of plak comes back with a solo 2 tracks ep : fragile mix up of chicago house & dirty bleep minimal . it’s all about freakies parties , vodka , love & friends . More

We are very proud to welcome Quenum(num , cadenza) on plak ! 2 endless maximal techno monsters , complex drums edits ,percussive funky synth madness , sophisticated breaks & crackling stuff . Quenum gots the groove & produce an other swiss hi-tek masterpiece . More

How to make sense of a window AKA Hrdvsion & Lee Van Dowski ! The 2 hottest producers of the moment jam together in a virtual studio over the ocean , Lee' pressureful minimal tek vs. Nathan' post technoid feeling . Complex rhythms structures ,spaced out synths, weirds bleeps , all you need to get high after the after party ! More

Brand new ep by the swiss duo chaton+hopen(mentalgroove/plak) . Long upbuilding hypnotic house with detroit-esque chords & spoken words ( Monk ) . Flip side, 2 tracks of tricky spaced out minimal, analog bleeps & moody synth flavoured….for those who can't get down ! Tracklist : a "Monk " b 1 "It is cut " b2 " Platz "
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