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Two years have passed since 'Beyond Time' conquered the hearts of all the fellow space cadets from Ibiza to Frankfurt. Regardless of time and space, 'Electronica' is a worthy follow-up album. The album 'Electronica' by the professional chillers of Noom Café is ready to enchant the listener with its Balearic charm. And like the title track 'Electronica (La Droga)' already announces, no limits are known for the heady cosmos of electronic sounds. 12 tracks made their way onto the album, too many to highlight each one of them. Noom Café draw on unlimited resources of their fundus. Ambient tracks ('Polaris', 'Mother Earth') invite the listener to dream oneself to the most remote places of the universe. Reclined Broken Beats of the Viennese School ('On My Way') take on romantic Balearic synth tracks. Cinematic moments evoke reminiscences of foreign countries and undiscovered archipelagos. Here stories are told and associations are being played with. Songs like 'Atoll' and 'La Isla' set the course for an endless journey. But where does this journey lead? For Noom Café it is always a journey to one's self: The living utopia of a consciousness in harmony with the environment. Taken as a whole 'Electronica' represents a retrospective. It replaces genre boundaries with dazzling fusion. Each song participates to develop the foundation of a message that seems to stand above all: We are one. At the end of the album we finally celebrate the return from a long journey together with Noom Café and their friends. The bass drum moves to the fore again when the remixers take over to end the day with a boisterous celebration. And we are already looking forward to the next adventure.
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Barcode:4042564153835
Two years have passed since 'Beyond Time' conquered the hearts of all the fellow space cadets from Ibiza to Frankfurt. Regardless of time and space, 'Electronica' is a worthy follow-up album. The album 'Electronica' by the professional chillers of Noom Café is ready to enchant the listener with its Balearic charm. And like the title track 'Electronica (La Droga)' already announces, no limits are known for the heady cosmos of electronic sounds. 12 tracks made their way onto the album, too many to highlight each one of them. Noom Café draw on unlimited resources of their fundus. Ambient tracks ('Polaris', 'Mother Earth') invite the listener to dream oneself to the most remote places of the universe. Reclined Broken Beats of the Viennese School ('On My Way') take on romantic Balearic synth tracks. Cinematic moments evoke reminiscences of foreign countries and undiscovered archipelagos. Here stories are told and associations are being played with. Songs like 'Atoll' and 'La Isla' set the course for an endless journey. But where does this journey lead? For Noom Café it is always a journey to one's self: The living utopia of a consciousness in harmony with the environment. Taken as a whole 'Electronica' represents a retrospective. It replaces genre boundaries with dazzling fusion. Each song participates to develop the foundation of a message that seems to stand above all: We are one. At the end of the album we finally celebrate the return from a long journey together with Noom Café and their friends. The bass drum moves to the fore again when the remixers take over to end the day with a boisterous celebration. And we are already looking forward to the next adventure.
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Barcode: 4042564101058 REL DATE 3.6.2013
Spirituality in modern dance music: An apparent contradiction that Buttha completely unwinds with his new album "Magic Island" on Elux Records. This is where Dubtechno meets Chillout Moods, analog Synthsounds combine with percussive instruments. It is World Music as the lowest common denominator that describes the style of the album most likely. While having travelled around the world to many distant countries, Buttha drew the inspiration he nowadays converts into music in his studio in Berlin mostly using purely analog equipment. The sound should be rough, not digitally polished. With "Magic Island" he travels to possible places of desire, fortune but also darker realms. The result is a complex album that works primarily through its timelessness away from the fast-paced party life. The love of nature is reflected in his tracks ever again. Titles such as "Eivissa" and "Atlantis" give a foretaste of the upcoming stories of the magical islands. Mythical cities with which everyone associates his own hopes and fears. Since 2008 Buttha has releases his musical output on his own label BackisBlack Recordings. With his album on Elux Records he now spans the full range of his work. Melancholic dreamy easy listening is being combined here with relaxed danceable euphoria. In 17 tracks Buttha takes us to unheard acoustical places. We like to accompany Buttha in his search for the Magic of Island, a place that everyone can find in themselves.
Tracklisting: 1. Akoo 2. Ambient Morning 3. Atlantis 4. Eivissa 5. Endless Summer 6. Smoking Boy 7. Function One 8. Into The Light 9. Learn To Fly 10. Magic Island 11. Midnight Driver 12. Oceanic 13. On The Water 14. September Sun More

Within the first minutes of reverbed vocalsamples appearing out of ambientish soundscapes, the listener becomes a confederate within Quantec‘s sound universe. Statements that seem to speak to oneself from another space and time set the mood for his new Album ‚1000 Vacuum Tubes’. Its surprisingly melodic an rhythmic opener ‚Ayahuasca’ sets the mood for Quantec’s versatile voyage through his own Dub history. Sven Schienhammer, the man behind this moniker, has a broad view on the sounds an techniques of Dub. Where in other productions coldness and monotony became a standard sound of Dubtechno, the psychedelic warmth of this longplayer let the listener dive constantly deeper into Quantec‘s ‚Vacuum’.
Within the full length of the album, the tracks keep up a certain kind of lightness while still remaining dancable all the time. Vocal cut-ups and fragments of house music like in ‚Truth Maintenance’ and ‚Eternal Soul’ are as well processed as deep basslines and meditative echospheres (for example ‚Unplumbed Depth’ or the title track ‚1000 Vacuum Tubes’).
Reminiscences of the analogue beginnings of the ‚Basic Channel Sound’ like in ‚The Gathering’ sup up with modern digital arrangements (‚Brain Machinery’). Everything ist held together through the pointed use of vocals that create the necessary amount of personality and deepness. Besides all its complexity Quantec‘s album always remains a traditional Dub album. Which is a good thing. The different approaches of the tracks point to a greater understanding of dub as a production method that consits of much more than a typical trademarksound. It’s not the effects that stand in the foreground but a way of fathoming the different forms of expression of Dub in electronic music. ‚1000 Vacuum Tubes’ generates its special qualities from a deep understanding of a long history of Dub in Techno music. Quantec knows how to combine these elements to create a magnificient and timeless longplayer.
Tracklisting:
1. Ayahuasca
2. 1000 Vacuum Tubes (Live Version)
3. Unplumbed Depth
4. The Gathering
5. Truth Maintenance
6. Eternal Soul
7. Multiple Dependency
8. Rank And File
9. Brain Machinery
10. Dare To Start A New Life
11. We Did Survive More