UPC 827170576865 Rel date 1.12.2014
Tracklist:
A. Over And Over (Time To Celebrate Mix) B1. Just A Glimpse B2. Pleasure Play
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Half Baked Records proudly presents the sixth instalment of their sought after Vinyl Only series. After having being featured on the second release of the label, the Canadian modular man of mystery, aka Mike Shannon, drops another swinging monster to his already extensive list of wax slabs. This EP celebrates Half Baked's 5th birthday and the A side, "Over and Over (Time To Celebrate Mix") is the perfect embodiment of that, a cybernetic-gospel-funk monster that will drag even your grandmother to the middle of the dancefloor, shaking her ass till she faints. On the flip side we find "Just A Glimpse", featuring Mike's
signature elements, crisp drums, a spooky yet playful bass and teasing electric piano jazzy phrases. The B2, "Pleasure Law", is the deeper and more romantic cut of the record, adding some mellow chords in the equation that eventually get picked up by Detroitish wave of filtered epicness, finally unfolding into an uplifting piano solo outro. HB006 will take no prisoners. More

UPC827170563865 Re-Release 18.8.2014
Tracklisting
A. Slip It
B. Slip It - Melchior Productions Ltd Remix (ft edit)
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After its first installment, Half Baked Records is back with a stellar Ep where two milestones of the underground electronic music scene collide: Mike Shannon and
Thomas Melchior. The original cut, crafted by Mr. Shannon, label head of Cynosure and Haunt, carries his typical sound signature; crisp swingy drums, hypnotic stabs and a
haunting modulated bassline. However, this time, we venture into deep house territories rather than techno, with a jazzy delayed chord progression that will no
doubt cause ruckus on the dancefloor. On the flipside, Thomas Melchior, under his “Melchior Productions Ltd.” moniker, delivers his interpretation stripping it down to the essential. A 12 minutes minimal trippy monster that effortlessly locks you in the groove. Needless say more with these two, let the music speak.
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RELEASE DATE: Nov.28 2013 Barcode 827170528062
A Gravitron
B Valosel 4000
Mike Shannon throws another volley of no way back and only forward techno. Gravitron is the monster A side named after a cheap amusement park ride that spins it's passengers inside a wheel faster and faster until it's passengers are all floating off the ground. Playing this track at 100 db should also give the listener the same effect. Valosel 4000 is a phase shifted bass monster. With a chest hitting kick this track takes hold of a spacious, wave table bass line that connects the listener with a sound influenced from early 90's UK techno/hardcore but weaves it's reference into a complex maze of compression and dynamics only found in the music of the future.
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Barcode 827170504561 Rel date 02.09.2013
A1Bleep Back
A2 Serge Up
B Bleep Forward featuring Evan Baggs
Mike Shannon has revived Cynosure Recordings after a two-year hibernation, and its revenge has come with a focus on Mike's solo productions and Collaborations. Reset, Bleep puts the label's catalogue back at 000 and begins to count backwards to where its roots began.
The A1 - Bleep Back is a deep bass monster with some definite in your face, morphing wave table trickery. And if Shannon's latest sets are anything to go by, it is a tried tested and true weapon on the dance floor, one that you'll find yourself coming back to in your mind. Following is "Serge Up", a super dry and crunchy minimal house number produced with the famous Serge Modular system, a rare synth used by producers like Richie Hawtin and Jean Michel Jarre. In the hands of Shannon, this machine has produced some of the weirdest and wildest sound to come out of his studio to date. Finally we have "Bleep Forward", an alternate mix of the A1 track. This time Shannon enlists the help of NYC/Berlin badass Evan Baggs. This version leans more towards a futurist sound with an underlying modular bubble and a synth progression that chugs tirelessly forward. Backed with an Aux88 style 808 groove and Ghetto Detroit style bass line, this track is poised to be a regular from Berlin to Brooklyn.
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Mike Shannon steps up to the Cityfox LTD plate and squeezes the jack juice on his latest offering for Cityfox LTD entitled Foxology. It's a 3 track (5 digital) session of deep jazzy basslines and smooth cuts. We start things off with 'Foxology feat. Flowing', a twistedly deep smoothy of a house cut with Shannon's signature shuffle groove and warped dynamic basses featuring some wicked Blues harp action from Amsterdam's Flowing. Foxology's B-side is home to 'Foxwell' and 'Zukunftstrasse', the former being a rather hot number bubbling with bouncing bass, whereas 'Zukunftstrasse' is even more laid back and down tempo, while still playing your mind with it's sonic insight to the distant future. Digitally, you have the pleasure of Foxology feat. Flowing (Dubmix), taking things deeper than before. Digital buyers will also receive the 'Spritz Mix' with it's emphasis on percussion and mood, this sounds like a whole new track. Leaving the Jazz at home in favor of a bubbling Detroit style deep jack mix.
Tracklist: A Foxology feat. Flowing B1 Foxwell B2 Zukunftsstrasse
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It’s been 10 years since Mike Shannon started making a name for himself on the international techno scene as a DJ, producer and label owner. Now, having recently relocated to Berlin he’s crowning his
first decade of active service with The Memory Tree, his third LP in all and the first for another notable Canadian export – Plus 8 Records. Anyone who knows his previous two albums will already be aware
that Shannon’s music covers a broader spectrum than just minimal techno. In fact 2005’s “Possible Conclusions To Stories That Never End” was awash with downbeat electronica, highlighting a natural
instinct for fusing rhythm and melody whatever the style or tempo. Although “Memory Tree” follows a more club oriented trajectory it retains much of the emotional response generated on “Possible
Conclusions” and is all the better for it. As a result Shannon has put together a collection of tunes that are simultaneously dark and soulful, stays true to his roots while embracing the future and never fails to deliver a flurry of kick-ass, funk inflected beats.
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It’s a long time since Mike Shannon first presented Richie Hawtin with his first dub plate at a Jack party in Detroit
way back in ‘96 and although since then he’s gone on to establish himself as one of Canada’s foremost techno
producers, there seems to be a strong sense of destiny surrounding this new collection of tunes being released on
Plus 8. Either way, Memory Seed is the first EP to be taken from Shannon’s forthcoming Memory Tree LP,
containing three varied cuts that perfectly capture the style and direction of this remarkable album.
With its long, beatless intro Mercury Mile makes its presence felt amid a wash of static interference and squirming
synth riffs, while the molten bass and raw, angular snare lend the groove a cool Detroit-electro flavour. Mix friendly
and deeply atmospheric, it’s a handy dance floor tool for breaking things down and spacing things out with its
snaking rhythm section and cavernous wash of background effects. Shannon’s natural instinct for combining
rhythm and melody will have beads of perspiration breaking out in anticipation before he finally allows the sultry
beats to kick in.
The X Flex mix of Dr X is a more beat intensive version of the album cut and another flawless example of
Shannon’s highly addictive synthetic funk, this time with a raucous, jacking main riff replacing the classic filtered
down chord stabs and soft melodic interludes of the original. Shannon downplays the groove during the opening
stages allowing the deep, chugging bassline to make full use of the space between the beats. By gradually
dropping snares and hi hats in tandem with secondary melodies, Dr X goes through several stages of subtle
elevation before the main riff opens up and the rhythm section solidifies into a rough and ready techno shuffle with
just enough distortion to stop the beats from boiling dry.
Love Fry is one of the pivotal, stand out moments on the album occupying the middle ground between the
contrasting musical aspects of Shannon’s work. On the one hand - the dark, engrossing synth lines full of ecstasy
and menace, on the other - the soulful, jazz inflected elements that add colour, light and a tinge of nostalgia to his
work. And right at the heart of Love Fry they collide like two shifting tectonic plates throwing out a jagged
mountainous terrain that suddenly levels off into a lush, expansive plateau. It’s a masterstroke made all the more
impressive by the chameleon like bassline that morphs through all manner of twists and turns before the resonating
wind chime fx add a tactile, new dimension to the mix-out. If that’s not enough, there’s also an exclusive raw mix
available for download that peals away the rhodes sequence focusing instead on the dark, funk of the track’s
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active for more than ten years and one of the luminaries of the canadian electronic music scene MIKE SHANNON just settled to Barcelona but left this nasty three tracker as a parting gift for his Wagon Repair buddies. possibly Mike found quite a large cockroach population "under the carpet" as he was packing his stuff cause the jumpy percussive beats, rubber bassline and staccato sounds that make up the itchy a-side track sound like those nice cohabitants had quite some busy party going on. the b-side holds two more stunners that are bound to cause some ruckus - not only underneath the rugs but also on floors of all kinds - with "global pleasureism" boasting an addictive pizzicato synth-string melody and stepping beats plus cluttering electronic funk of "valence". More

Track list

A - Mike Shannon Mix
B - Dewalta Mix

Short info:
DDMS is the combination of 4 prolific producers : Deadbeat, Dewalta, Mike Shannon & The Mole
Previously this combination has appeared on Haunt records releasing a two part series in 2013 to critical acclaim.
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Tracklist
A Can't Do it
B 1 Uncertain Future (live Mix)
B 2 Oizo's Theme
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The Abstrat Matters Duo is back after releasing the hottest title on the Cynosure label in 2014! With regular play from legends like Derrick May to Danny Tenaglia. That being said the follow up is sure to land in the similar crates and rock dancefloors from Ibiza to Detroit. This Ep delivers a combination of raw and rock solid techno grooves that boarder on the familiar or dare I say old school but maintain the futurist sensibility that make a proper techno twevle inch.
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A Own This featuring San Proper (vocal mix) B 1 Own This (Dub mix) B 2 Own This (San Vs San a pella mix)
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Amsterdam's house music master of insanity steps up to the Mic to deliver some lust inspired poetry.
Old School chords and a groove worthy of a NYC Shelter EP crafted with San by two Cynosure regulars... Mike Shannon and Andrea Fiorito.
An instant party classic.
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Tracklist:
A People in da house Jam B 1 Voodoo groove B 2 The biggest love
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After a year spent perfecting the sound and style of his latest project, Andrea Fiorito makes his highly-anticipated return to Cynosure Recordings with Voodoo Grooves, the first of a two part EP that fuses funk, dub, and minimal with elements of analog house music straight from the New York city underground. Inspired by a recent pilgrimage to South America, Voodoo Grooves borrows the sounds of the Amazon, the flavour of Cuban Santeria, and the spirit of the rainforest in its warm, grounded basslines and hypnotic loops.
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Tracklist
A Rafael B 1 Give yourself to me B 2 Free jam (Brain &butter)
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After a year spent perfecting the sound and style of his latest project, Andrea Fiorito makes his highly-anticipated return to Cynosure Recordings with Voodoo Grooves, the first of a two part EP that fuses funk, dub, and minimal with elements of analog house music straight from the New York city underground. Inspired by a recent pilgrimage to South America, Voodoo Grooves borrows the sounds of the Amazon, the flavour of Cuban Santeria, and the spirit of the rainforest in its warm, grounded basslines and hypnotic loops.
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UPC: 827170562264 Release : 01.09.2014
Tracklist A1 Neighbors B1.Interplanetary Connection B2.Mennie

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This is a brand new collaboration between two neighbors from Puglia, Italy.
After years of not seeing each other they reunited and came together in the studio to deliver the Neighbors EP.
Both are prolific Italian dj/producers having released on several international house and techno labels worldwide
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UPC 827170543065 RELEASE DATE: 5.5. 2014
A1 Capitaloid B1 Just Wanna B2 Under Your Tongue
Dewalta & Shannon have teamed up and delivered some mind-bending releases in the past on Cynosure, Haunt and Meander. But after listening to the "Runaway Sugarcube EP" you'll agree that the two have most definitely come up with their most twisted combination of techno to date. The shuffled funk of Capitaloid starts things off and takes you straight into the deep depths of the warped afterhour soundtrack. So many details swirl about including subtle vocals mumbling in the background about finance, with morphing wave table digital funk and analogue bass power driving the groove. Jus Wanna follows suite and takes things up a notch with a harsh over compressed groove and a mean ass grinding bass line. Lastly, Under Your Tongue has the down beat acid touch. Waves of liquid morphing bass build up to a monster industrial percussion line. A tip of the hat to the sound of Plastikman and Speedy J on this one.
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UPC 827170534063 RELEASE DATE: 24.3. 2014
Tracklist A1 My Doin' B1 Legal In Uruguay B2 Dragones y Otro Cosas
Uruguayan Guillermo Miranda is no stranger to Cynosure Recordings having released a number of EPs in the past as part of the defunct super duo Monoblock. Following a path to the dancefloor similar to his past collab releases with Martin Teysera Guillermo steps it up and delivers a bomb combination of Chunky house groove and futurist techno sound design with the DRAGONES Y OTRO COSAS EP. Guille doesn't waste time and bangs the box with style on "My Doin". Some very punchy drums served up with a tasty synth hook, makes a mean Techno House meal. The title track "Legal In Uruguay" is a slick, shuffled, bong influenced, techno burner. Some additional production from Mike Shannon shines in a few familiar areas while Guille comes with a massively catchy hook that drops at about 3 minutes in. Hands up! Hands up! The Deep and Headstrong B side called "Dragones y otro cosas" has a slinky groove that leads to a mind puzzle of a breakdown. Mind melting with some Modular synth madness for almost a minute and then dropping the listener back into some ultra deep territory. Magic.

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RELEASE DATE: Nov.28 2013 Barcode 827170528062
A Gravitron
B Valosel 4000
Mike Shannon throws another volley of no way back and only forward techno. Gravitron is the monster A side named after a cheap amusement park ride that spins it's passengers inside a wheel faster and faster until it's passengers are all floating off the ground. Playing this track at 100 db should also give the listener the same effect. Valosel 4000 is a phase shifted bass monster. With a chest hitting kick this track takes hold of a spacious, wave table bass line that connects the listener with a sound influenced from early 90's UK techno/hardcore but weaves it's reference into a complex maze of compression and dynamics only found in the music of the future.
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Barcode 827170504561 Rel date 02.09.2013
A1Bleep Back
A2 Serge Up
B Bleep Forward featuring Evan Baggs
Mike Shannon has revived Cynosure Recordings after a two-year hibernation, and its revenge has come with a focus on Mike's solo productions and Collaborations. Reset, Bleep puts the label's catalogue back at 000 and begins to count backwards to where its roots began.
The A1 - Bleep Back is a deep bass monster with some definite in your face, morphing wave table trickery. And if Shannon's latest sets are anything to go by, it is a tried tested and true weapon on the dance floor, one that you'll find yourself coming back to in your mind. Following is "Serge Up", a super dry and crunchy minimal house number produced with the famous Serge Modular system, a rare synth used by producers like Richie Hawtin and Jean Michel Jarre. In the hands of Shannon, this machine has produced some of the weirdest and wildest sound to come out of his studio to date. Finally we have "Bleep Forward", an alternate mix of the A1 track. This time Shannon enlists the help of NYC/Berlin badass Evan Baggs. This version leans more towards a futurist sound with an underlying modular bubble and a synth progression that chugs tirelessly forward. Backed with an Aux88 style 808 groove and Ghetto Detroit style bass line, this track is poised to be a regular from Berlin to Brooklyn.
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