Cadenza Split Composition Series: An Introduction Minimal just got messier.Minimal techno has always been about stripping things down to their essence. Now, with Cadenza's Split Composition series, the opposite approach comes into play: building a new sound, and a new tradition, from the beats up.Each edition will consist of four sides of vinyl broken out into several skeletal rhythm tracks and a handful of
supplementary parts: ambient fantasias, shimmering drones, treated vocals, electro-acoustic collages. The series is a riff on the old idea of "DJ tools" offering stripped-down tracks meant to be mixed in
performance. But the Split Composition series vastly expands upon that idea, both in terms of format and the music itself. Drawing not only from techno but also from jazz, musique concrete, and 20th entury composition, the individual elements of every Split Composition release are also meant to stand on their own. In addition to being tools, they work as tangible traces of the artist's creative process—minimalist sketches of a lone idea or a single mood. While their primary purpose is to bring a sense of creativity and a spirit of play back to the DJ booth—supplying DJs with the raw materials to create dynamic mixes that don't play by the rules of the season's anthems—the Split Composition series is also a challenge to producers to step outside their comfort zones, playing with timbre, texture and melody in new ways. And for listeners who aren't DJs—or perhaps are DJs only in the sense that they craft endless playlists in their media player of choice—the Split Composition series offers a new way for listeners to approach electronic music. Split Composition invites listeners to play, shuffle, and rearrange; it invites them to remix the music not only on their turntables, but in their minds. If the DJ mix is famously described as a journey, the Split Composition series is the map of the back roads and hidden vistas, a map that yields a new route every time you unfold it. Cadenza Split Composition 001: No Model No Tool The first record in the series comes, appropriately enough, from Luciano (aka Lucien Nicolet and Lucien N Luciano), an artist who needs no introduction, and the originator of the Split Composition concept—an idea that stems from his uncompromising, experimental approach to DJing as well as from his many collaborative projects, including Sense Club and Narodniki. The A-side and B-side both find Luciano in prime form as he crafts two subtle, snaking percussive workouts. He's up to all his old tricks: topsy-turvy syncopations,relentless polyrhythms, sci-fi effects and unearthly treatments galore. Running 10 and 12 minutes, respectively, both tracks are a DJ's dream, offering endless possibilities for layering, interleaving, building up and breaking down. The B-side in particular channels all the darkness of Luciano's recent productions for Cadenza, sucking out the shadows so that only the structure—hard, angular, like an architecture of anxiety—remains. The C-side offers five short interludes, running between two and five minutes apiece. They range from a lilting vocal track, strangely reminiscent of Eraserhead's "Elevator Song," to innerspace explorations via FM synthesis to an unsettling duet for organ and air-raid siren. It's Cadenza's deepest foray into the dark side— so far. The D-side, meanwhile, is something else altogether. The color of an oilslick, the 15-minute track is a slow explosion of tone that evokes horns, strings, and bells, constantly morphing around an unstable synthetic center. As slow and weightless as a sleeper's breath, it makes the perfect close to a record designed to mix
seamlessly into the ether.

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NON RETOURNABLE!

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limited 12" vinyl in hand screen-printed cover

Genre: Deep House, Dub House, House


Tracklist 12":

A1 - Mountain Lake
A2 - Cycles

B1 - 2156
B2 - Immersion

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Dub maestro Idealist returns to Mojuba with his second EP "Hidden World", four new tracks of finest dub & deep house crafted with Swiss precision like no other, inspired by the countless secret spaces that are part of our lifes. Enjoy the music!

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- limited edition
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Due to heavy demand we’re releasing a limited 10” of the Martyn’s ‘Electric Purring’ and the All Night Long version of Sideshow’s ‘Television’ feat. Cortney Tidwell. 'Aus Music...All Night Long' as a title is not just a play on the timeless House Music All Night Long phrase, it also expresses the musical diversity of the label. From the live dub of Sideshow through to the layered, undulating techno of Sian via the heartwarming, richly textured grooves of Lee Jones our aim has always been that you can play Aus music from dusk till dawn… all night long. So with this in mind we introduce a double album that aims to fondly remember the first 20 releases via A&R and cofounder (alongside Sideshow) Will Saul's DJ mix of the back catalogue (CD2) whilst looking forward to the next twenty with 13 totally new and exclusive tracks from the core roster, friends of the label and artists who we'll be working with in the future (CD 1). Martyn needs no introduction. His debut artist album ‘Great Lengths’ on his own 3024 label has been a huge success and critically acclaimed world wide. Martyn has just returned home to Washington following 2 months of intense world wide touring in support of the album. Will reached out to Martyn at the start of 08’ to try and get him to remix the original version of the Sideshow track that backs this 10”. Although Martyn couldn’t do the remix at the time the pair kept in touch and became friends and we’re proud to have two original tracks from the Dutch wizard on the All Night Long album. His track ‘Electric Purring’ is the closing track on the CD, a potent piece to pull at your heartstrings. Fin Greenall would describe himself as the engine of Sideshow, backed up by the band he has been touring with as legendary London label Ninja Tune’s first and foremost singer-songwriter, Fink. During the bands downtime in between touring Europe and the USA, and writing his critically acclaimed soul-blues-dub, they came together in his 7Dials studio in Brighton to bring us some more trademark dub infused goodness in the form of their Admit One album which was releasedon Aus in February. His collaboration with Cortney Tidwell was a departure form the rest of the album and see’s the band touch on an Interpol esque post punk sound which we hope they explore further for the next album. Cortney Tidwell’s debut full length Don’t Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up came out of nowhere: its ravishing guit pyrotechnics, brittle electronic excursions, intimate torch songs and a duet with Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner served as context for Tidwell’s spectacular vocals and ensured critics adored the record. Now she’s back with Boys, her long awaited second album and her first for City Slang Records, and after two years in the studio the woman described as Nashville’s own Little Sparrow (an undisguised reference to Edith Piaf) has eclipsed her opening set with nonchalant bravado.

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Short about the label:.
A joint effort between Prins Thomas and Word And Sound- The idea behind the label is to put out good music and not limiting ourselves to stick with a specific genre, instead opting to stay fresh and individual with each release going in every direction we feel. We're gonna be highlighting new talent, re-releasing some lesser known nuggets and certainlly give you some dancefloor killers along the way to. From japanese techno to California kraut : ) just the way we like it...for INT005 we bring you a slow house chugger in the form of "Break the barriers", done by malaysian born and Berlin based Frankie Flowerz. I have to say, it's not by choice I decided to put this track out but a calling... upon hearing this track in Frankie's myspace player I knew I HAD to put this out over 12 inches in full scope... I spent some time trying to come up with the perfect match for remix duties and I think we've succeeded with the choice of man of the moment(and soon to be "legendary")John Daly of Galway who turns in a slightly faster, darker and a bit dubbier affair... sooooooo good ; )
Oslo, 17th of october 2008
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Have you ever experienced the empty spaces of Ghost City Detroit? They inspired Sten aka Lawrence to this hypnotic 12inch- three versions of "Squares". The deep techtunes can be regarded as an hommage to early Derrick May tracks, Heath Brunner and all Detroit Techno Bunch from back to now. Functional Grooves from the Roland Machines on a melodic soundcarpet plus the mighty Detroit string section- this one is made to dance, eyes closed, the heart open. Peter M. Kersten aka Lawrence / Sten launched the dial label in 2000 together with his flat mate and dj friend Carsten Jost. In 2005 he released the record store and Label "Smallville" in Hamburg St. Pauli with 2 friends. After releases on Ghostly International, Cocoon, Mule Electronics, Kompakt and Sender a new Album - Sten "The Essence" will be published on Dial Records in May 2008.


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Urban nomad Tolga Fidan continues Vakant’s limited series VALT with a much sought-after track which has been around for a while. Fidan, just moved to Berlin a few weeks ago, says ‘So Long Paris’
in such unique style that that we hope he’ll never leave Berlin again. Vakant’s VALT series has been kicked off last year with Onur Özer and keeps on delivering music straight for the dancefloor.

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When Dérive Records released "Ne Travaillez Jamais" in 2009, Christopher Rau succeeds what rarely happens to the universe of House Music: He creates a longtime everybody's darling, a dream around that one magic loop which would last forever on the dancefloors. Now after releases on Staub, Laid and Smallville the dream develops, the magic expands: Christopher Rau`s Debut Album Asper Clouds builds up one hour of pure beauty. No trend to be followed no invention to be intended it is the reduced gorgeousness that lets us float on sweet Asper Clouds. Nick Holder, Theo Parrish, Moodymann, Pete Rock, J Dilla- they all simply cached the right sense for magic samples, heavenly loops, warmest basslines- Christopher Rau might not connect to this heroes personally but he belongs to those magician who forms happiness out of a lowest amount of ingredients. It has been the sweetness and warmth of the city of Hamburg, it's delightful venues such as the Golden Pudel Club and Smallville Parties at Ego that made him diving into deepest music. After "Ne Travaillez Jamais" became the favorite track of all Smallville and Dial Djs and Rau played on one of those magic nights the idea of an Album was born. The plan was as simple and lovely as the music on Asper Clouds is. Here comes the sun.


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