Swedish born, London based producer Hans Berg provides the title track 'A Floor of Stars' for a brand new white label from Klasse Wrecks. Starry-eyed rave nostalgia for the 2020s, produced and presented without a cheapshot gimmick in sight. Luca Lozano provides a startling interpretation on the flip, increasing the breakbeat pressure slightly and taking a left turn into the hoover-vortex continuum. Its a space race journey of sorts, with the producer adorning the track with more rave decoration and climactic piano flourishes. This item is vinyl only and limited to 500 copies. More

Hans Berg's Sounds of the Forest Forgotten affirms that music can bring us to a state of mind and body that can help us feel what we've forgotten from the forest. The overlaying project of the album is to conjure musical and conceptual resonances between mysticism and nature, summoning the incredible depth and force of nature that we usually miss, especially living in contemporary urban cities. Sounds of the Forest Forgotten channels the creativity, playfulness, and freedom of a life both before and beyond ours through the sounds of analog and digital synthesizers, a modular system, drum machines, and computers. Recorded between Hans's studios in Berlin and on the Swedish countryside, the album similarly shuttles between contemplative and ecstatic, between delicate and powerful, mixing sublime psychedelic techno compositions like "Emerald Sea" with acidic dance-floor bangers like "Storm" and "Milk Thistle," all nestled between contemplative and textural ambient compositions like "Butterfly" and "Glow Worm." Berg is known for his enthralling productions and energetic livesets that capture dance floors with his particular brand of hypnotic techno, replete with angular lines, affecting melodies, pulsating basslines, and big drums. He also produces atmospheric scores and ambient soundscapes to accompany the video art and installations of long-term collaborator and celebrated artist Nathalie Djurberg. Berg's live sets have found a home in nightclubs around the world, with recent gigs in Berlin, Stockholm, New York, Tokyo, and Melbourne, to name a few. In addition to 2MR, he has released his solo work on record labels including Ian Pooley's imprint Montage, Klasse Recordings, and The Vinyl Factory. His ongoing collaboration with fellow Swede Johanna Knutsson - as Knutsson/Berg - has led them to start the label UFO Station Recordings, on which they release their own material. The duo also has released on labels such as Idle Hands, Default Position, Kann, and Random Island. More

The consistently on-point Fullbarr imprint returns with another outstanding release this September in the form of ‘Machines’ by Hans Berg, backed with remixes from Ed Davenport and Immer. Fullbarr have already seen releases and remixes from the likes of Area, LoSoul, Luke Solomon, Huxley and Youandewan. Now Swedish born, Berlin-based Hans Berg, delivers classy techno that fits perfectly amongst the back-catalogue. Berg has been developing his sharp and distinctive works for over a decade now and is currently collaborating with Swedish video artist Nathalie Djurberg, designing soundscapes for her highly praised art installation, showing Berg’s ability to push further afield from straight electronic productions. Trippy techno cut, ‘Machines’, opens the release in style, with wavy synth shots that percolate throughout, constantly shifting key and warbling in pitch to create a wild flare of dynamism. Background flourishing stereo delays on the percussive elements further fuel its infectious shuffle while saw tooth stabs are worked in, in a vociferous fashion complimenting the tracks intensity. Off the back of his critically acclaimed ‘Counterchange’ LP on NRK, Ed Davenport steps in to rework ‘Machines’, applying a more stripped-back, hooky approach. Veering away from the undulating motion found in the original, Ed opts for sturdy drum programming and subtly evolving atmospherics to create a peak-time steady bloomer. Next up is ‘Space Arp’ which again carries an up-front feel to instantly nurture your attention. The gritty electronic arp-line steadily evolves from the word go, subtly opening the filter to reveal a crunchy melodic component that will lead the way for its near eight minutes. Berg employs exquisite detail to his drum sequence, fastidiously altering the elements, retracting and adding elements every 16 bars to maintain captivation for the listener. Eindhoven born, Immer, also delivers a dismantled dub-techno remix of ‘Machines’. Sparse elements run alongside broken-beat drums, emanating a different musical scope entirely. Immer’s ability to create depth and character with an absence of busy elements is beautifully personifies through this work. Heavily reverbed synth chords and piano stabs run throughout adding a cavernous, dark edge to the original number, this is a truly unique twist and a signification of how remixes can capture the essence of its predecessor while creating something fresh entirely. More