In the eighties DJ Yellow pushed forward French hip hop and he also had big influence on what French house music is today. Currently, Alain Ho aka DJ Yellow is one of the electronic music artists who established himself as one of the forward thinking artists in general. With his label Yellow Productions (founded 1993 with his mate Bob Sinclar) he released artists like Salome De Bahia, Dimitri From Paris, Joe Clausell, Bang Bang and Kid Loco. With his second imprint Poussez Music (founded in 2003) he created an outlet for his own sounds. Thus here he started his projects Alienation, Intermission and Paule with which he experimented on different fields of electronic music. On the new album DJ Yellow fuses characteristics of deep, funky and tech-house by using tender basses and well dosed percussion lines, paired with some real e-bass parts one feels remembered to the album "Paradise" from Bob Sinclar (which Alain assisted to). But these little elements can only be seen as little quotes to the roots. All in all the album, which was produced together with Portuguese producer Tiago Fragateiro (aka Hi-Tech²), provides a clever mixture of deep and funkyness. Using dark and promising spoken words from time to time the record takes a mystic narrative mindset at the very beginning. What follows is an emulsion of warm arrangements with a strong and well balanced base that aims directly to the dancefloor. To get the first impression of the current "Mindz Kontrol Ultra-Sound" you can just listen to the track "She Is Gone".

DJ Yellow presents Mindz Kontrol Ultra - She Is Gone

"We always wished to have it (at least we thought since the beginning of the year), but never got the possibility to do it: Our very own Plastic City Radio Show. So we recorded an imagined radio show hosted by Kriss Dior. And who could be better for this job as the man with the right radio show experience: Kriss Dior aka Bassface Sascha?" As Bassface Sascha he is one of the german Drum and Bass pioneers and started his first own radio show “Reload” on Evosonic Radio in 1997. From 1999 to 2003 Sascha had his second radio show called “Outbreak “ on hr/XXL till the radio station was closed and transformed to You.FM.
            
        Kriss Dior, who is one of the early Plastic City artists, made an outstanding DJ mix for this release. Starting with soft ambient and breakbeat tunes, he lifts his mix up to the next level when the four-to-the-floor rhythm arrives in his mix. Then he leads us through all kinds of atmospheres that are possible in TechHouse and House. Using the different kinds of kicks and bass in a very intense and interesting order as well as handling with chords of different rhythmic styles shows the experience of 17 years working as a DJ. The mix breathes, it pulsates between strain and relaxation. Bassface Sascha, who is also known from his pseudonyms  Blue Mauritio, Ghostwriter, Mental Bombin, Raiders Of The Lost Art, Richterscale, B.O.R.G. or Smoke Starr, knows the right moments to set accents to hold the suspense, keeping you on the move. After 77 minutes, 20 seconds and 23 tracks later, Kriss Dior brings his Plastic City Radio Show, filled with a few jingles of course, to an end with some surely surprising downbeat sounds and we listened to the huge DJ skills of a man, who experienced and formed a decade of electronic music in more than one genre. On Plastic City the founder of Smokin’ Drum Recordings who also appeared several times as guest VJ on MTV and Viva, fuses his unique sound together with strong TechHouse grooves and relaxed house sounds. And now there is nothing more to say but enjoy the mix, listen to the seamless changing of melodies and let the manyfold rhythms lead you in the right mood to have a special electronic music experience.
            
        We just like to add that while working on this CD it has resulted that we actually produce our own “Plastic City Radio Show”.  On 13th of august, 22 pm (Central European Time), we started the weekly "Plastic City Radio Show" on Radio Ibiza Sonica, presented by <a href="http://www.contact-booking.de" target="_blank">Contact Booking</a> and <a href="http://www.tracktracker.com" target="_blank">TrackTracker</a>. Every week Gorge and Greg Silver will play the deepest and hottest Tech-House tunes on the island. Since november 2008 you can also listen to the "Plastic City Radio Show" every saturday (10 - 11 pm) on the German based web radio station <a href="http://www.welovehouse.fm/en/show/plastic-city-radio-show" target="_blank">we love house fm</a>.
            
            For playlists and more information: <a href="http://www.plasticcity.de/index.php?main=radio">Plastic City Radio Show</a>. Turn on the radio! 
          
          Available Formats: <a href="http://www.plasticcity.de/index.php?main=releases&kid=plac058-2">CD</a>, <a href="http://www.plasticcity.de/index.php?main=releases&kid=plac058-4">mp3</a>.

Plastic City Radio Show, hosted by Kriss Dior

In 2007, Lukas Greenberg released his successful first album “Rhode Stories” on Plastic City. It was an outstanding collection of tracks - influenced by people, life and musical history and hits bulls eye aiming at the Plastic City philosophy. The “Rhode Stories”  verify his sense for high quality listening stuff: He rolls out his musical range while connecting all tracks like writing a book. For the his second  album “Prisoner With A Key”, Lukas Greenberg improves that concept from his first album": Spreading out his facilities in combining and creating sounds, he wrotes chapters for his new "book of sounds". The chronological order of the tracks is his story of the second step of his musical work on Plastic City. The result is a great combination of warm, bright and tight tracks which we inclined to call album art. To get the first impression of the current "Lukas Greenberg-Sound" you can just listen to the deep albumtrack "The Green".

Free Download Link: <a href="http://www.plasticcity.de/index.php?main=artist&artist=lukas-greenberg-the-green&name=Lukas+Greenberg">The Green (Sweet Album Mix)</a>.

Lukas Greenberg - The Green (Sweet Album Mix)

Being the sixth album from Jean F. Cochois aka The Timewriter, this latest one is a fresh surprise in many ways. First and foremost, he has chosen the German title Tiefenschön, wich could be translated as 'beautiful depth', but really it is a more poetic way of saying that in the German language. Secondly, he has positioned himself in an altogether different way on a musical basis but still continues in his unmistakeable Timewriter style, and once again proves as a producer his fine feeling for sound and musical arrangement. After a long musical journey beginning in 1994 with his first single and subsequent albums, he now melts together his continuously developing sound with the sound of the good old days. The results are deep and tech house tracks which have a warm old school twist and flavour to them at the same time as totally hitting the zeitgeist. Extratiefe is a special new track inspired by the album "Tiefenschön".

The Timewriter - Extratiefe

"...The major problem in the past was to locate the setting of the ancient Plastic City. Referring to our latest findings Plastic City was not a city built of stone or metal but more kind of built out of ideas... (Plastic City) can not be found by our archaeologists. We will have to examine the ideas and then try to reconstruct Plastic City in our minds..." (Excerpt from "Scientist Report Network", ID 12.587, Year 2495)
    
    "Imagination of the Shape" is the slogan ot the current release period. The future of the label is the past and present. Or the present is the future. It depends how you look at it. Plastic City has always meant development. We will stay true our policy of releasing but quality tracks which can be heard and played in years to come. Maybe the upcoming releases will show you this again...

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