New DJ mix from Alex Smoke who is mainly known for his intense live shows. This mix showcases that he is also a kick ass DJ. Recorded at Kater Holzig during a Vakant Night early 2013.

VA Podcast 21 - Alex Smoke's 2 Broken Arms And A Hearing Aid Mix

VA052 Avatism - Adamant Remixes I

Vinyl release date: 25.11.
Beatport release date: 09.12.

So here I am, happily an album older, introducing the first of Adamant's remix packages.

Since the whole project was, generally-speaking, "a personal affair" and a lot of the album was not necessarily "club-ready" (does that even make sense?), we invited our friends on board to do the dirty deeds for me and rework my sounds into something normal people can dance to.

First up are Mind Against. I've known these guys for a long time, and despite them being somewhat "new" to the scene, I clearly remember them fiddling around with cheap cracked software like the rest of us Milanese idiots around the same time. Matured into true synth magicians, they've been years in the making and, if you ask me, it shows.

Next is Alex Smoke, who I believe needs no introduction. Probably one of my biggest influences, I have been a fan for ages and he is the reason I discovered Vakant. In case you've been living under a rock, after a little break he's now back with a bang, responsible for probably one of the year's best LPs (as Wraetlic), an outstanding EP on the legendary R&S and now this. I've had the pleasure of finally meeting and hanging out with Alex a few times while we were both living in Berlin and I have to say he's exactly as awesome. His remix totally destroys my original, which I thought sounded "fat" but now sounds like a skinny girl in Barbie clothes in comparison.

Lake People (actually just one Lake Person, Martin Enke) is another really nice guy who just happens to make great music. After months of people telling me I should check his stuff out, mentioning we had a lot of things (sound-wise) in common, I had the pleasure of playing after him in Paris. His liveset totally rocked the place and I've been a fan since, so it was a pleasure to have him on board.

Last but not least, new Vakant boys Sons of Tiki round off the package with a club-oriented version of "Blackened".

I guess that's all. I'm not very good at this marketing hype thing, and upon re-reading this it actually made little sense, nor is it particularly inviting. Whatever the case I hope you enjoy listening, playing or partying to this as much as we did making it: I assure you the music is better than this writing.

T

Preorder 12"

Avatism - Mastodon (Mind Against Remix)

Avatism - Not Everything Is Lost (Lake People Remix)

Hey everyone,

It’s me again. I’m sipping coffee and staring at this Mac’s calendar, suddenly realising it’s already been more than 4 months since the release of “Adamant”. I think thank-yous are way overdue so I’d like to take this opportunity to acknowledge everyone involved in the project as these have been a really amazing four months.

Enough nonsense and let’s back to business, or the purpose of this text: I (drumroll) proudly present the final 5 re-interpretations from some talented friends.

It’s an honour for me to have Francesco’s techno, David’s modular madness, Jake’s synthwork and Martin’s melodies all in one package, but being both fan and friend of everyone on board I’d be blatantly biased in describing this record’s contents.

So, since it’s 2014, why don’t we switch banalities, skip the “description" and “let the music do the talking” (ugh, did I really just write that?)

Thank you all!

PS. Seriously, does anyone read these anymore?

T

Preorder 12"!

Avatism - Laments feat. Federico Rizzo (DeWalta Remix)

Avatism - Different Spaces feat. Forrest (Lake People Remix) - digital exclusive!

Quantum Entanglement is a new project by Fin Greenall and Lee Jones.

More info about Quantum Entanglement:

www.facebook.com/quantumentanglementworld

QE on Beatport

VA Podcast 22 - Quantum Entanglement's Wave Function Collapse Mixtape

Vinyl release: 10.06.
Beatport release: 23.06.

For the second instalment from Quantum Entanglement we delve into the misty past, a time when moving parts ruled the dance, when the power of the night rested on a needle and a bassline, and before CDJs calculated the bpm for you...you had to touch things, buy things, and the bassline ruled over all.

Acid Thunder, a classic by Fast Eddie, was the first dance record i ever bought. It was important. The guy who sold it to me, at the time a spotty school kid in his school uniform, was called John Stapleton, and the shop was Sidetrax in Bristol. Mentrix totally gets the kinda NY sluttiness of the original, and brings it right up to date....less of a cover, more of a homage, the entanglement of then and now.

Need You is an entanglement of two very unlikely BFFs... John Lee Hooker and Joey Beltram. This isn't really a cover, it's more like the offspring of many things, times, and moments - it's like the grandchild of John Lee Hooker's track dated the nephew of Joey Beltram's track and lived in Neukölln. Again, Direct - "Techno Gone Mad" on R&S was another of my earliest techno purchases - at the time it was considered "Dutch Hardcore" but now, it's almost cute....

Quantum Entanglement....recycling other people's good ideas since January 2014" 

Fin Greenall

Quantum Entanglement - Acid Thunder feat. Mentrix

https://soundcloud.com/premiesku's addition to the VA podcast series!

Their latest 12" is available here:

Decks: http://www.decks.de/t/premiesku-pe_dos_ep/c3m-rq
Deejay: http://www.deejay.de/Premiesku-Pe_Dos_Ep__151788
Juno: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/premiesku-pe-dos-ep/541123-01/

Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/release/pe-dos-ep/1345121

More info about Premiesku:

https://www.facebook.com/premiesku

VA Podcast 23 - Premiesku - Sounds From Our Car Stereo

VA - 10 Years Part II will be released on March 2nd on Beatport and vinyl.

1. Alex Smoke – Executive Realness
2. Cesare vs Disorder – Monasterio
3. Avatism - Bones
4. Anonym pres. DLS – Organ Donation
5. Nico Purman – Ferroxide
6. CW/A – Loop 19538
7. Quantum Entanglement – What Do You Know About Acid House Music?

So here I am.. after having forced Vakant’s artists to write their own press releases a few years ago, since I think this has a more personal approach besides that everyone is tired of the usual press blurbs, I do not get around to draft something for this 10 Years Vakant compilation by myself. 

10 Years is a long time and I will refrain to summarize this in a text. This is not a summary but rather a statement where the label stands today in early 2015. The music you hear went through a process of joy, pain, armwrestling, threats and relief and shows our idea of contemporary club music. 14 new and previously unreleased tracks of the 14 artists I (still) work with closely, some from the first year of Vakant’s existence and some who just joined recently. 

Very happy to see this finally coming out, with music that still makes me shuffle in my kitchen after all these years. Thank you guys for all that inspiring and sometimes frightening stuff and thanks to you who at least read this until here if not spent some time with our music in your very own past. 

A. 

RA interview: 
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=27747

Ibiza-Voice interview:
http://www.ibiza-voice.com/story/news/6830

Avatism - Bones

VA - 10 Years Part II will be released on March 2nd on Beatport and vinyl.

1. Alex Smoke – Executive Realness
2. Cesare vs Disorder – Monasterio
3. Avatism - Bones
4. Anonym pres. DLS – Organ Donation
5. Nico Purman – Ferroxide
6. CW/A – Loop 19538
7. Quantum Entanglement – What Do You Know About Acid House Music?

So here I am.. after having forced Vakant’s artists to write their own press releases a few years ago, since I think this has a more personal approach besides that everyone is tired of the usual press blurbs, I do not get around to draft something for this 10 Years Vakant compilation by myself. 

10 Years is a long time and I will refrain to summarize this in a text. This is not a summary but rather a statement where the label stands today in early 2015. The music you hear went through a process of joy, pain, armwrestling, threats and relief and shows our idea of contemporary club music. 14 new and previously unreleased tracks of the 14 artists I (still) work with closely, some from the first year of Vakant’s existence and some who just joined recently. 

Very happy to see this finally coming out, with music that still makes me shuffle in my kitchen after all these years. Thank you guys for all that inspiring and sometimes frightening stuff and thanks to you who at least read this until here if not spent some time with our music in your very own past. 

A. 

RA announcement and interview: 

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=27747

CW/A - LOOP19538

Quantum Entanglement - What Do You Know About Acid House Music?

Free mini compilation with one track of every Vakant artist playing at the 10.5 Years party at Watergate on April 2nd!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1568365866776490/

More info about us:

https://www.facebook.com/vakantrecords
https://www.facebook.com/avatism
https://www.facebook.com/CW.Clockwork
https://www.facebook.com/livioroby
https://www.facebook.com/cwalive
https://www.facebook.com/anonymousrelease
https://www.facebook.com/sonsoftikimusic

CW/A - Conducting The Method

New mix from Cesare vs Disorder alongside his new release Vortex to Unreason.

12": http://www.decks.de/t/cesare_vs_disorder-vortex_to_unreason/c4y-ge
Beatport: https://pro.beatport.com/release/vortex-to-unreason/1490673

Buy 

VA Podcast 24 - Cesare Vs Disorder - We Don't

DeWalta LIVE set at Sziget Festival 2011, Meduza Stage.

VA Podcast 12.2 - Sziget Festival 2011 - DeWalta LIVE

Upcoming: VA062 Sons of Tiki - Apologies For Being Lost

New Sons of Tiki EP with remixes by Malin Genie & Dorian Paic.

Sons Of Tiki - Don't Reach Back

Tenacity is now out on exclusively on Beatport: https://pro.beatport.com/release/tenacity-2016/1728224

Taken from Cesare vs Disorder - Vortex To Unreason: https://vakant.bandcamp.com/album/vortex-to-unreason

Tenacity is Vakant's new annual compilation series with its first edition to be released in March 2016! Tenacity 2016 reflects what has moved us in the past two years and it sets the guidelines for the near future of the label. Two new and exclusive tunes from Nico Purman and Sons of Tiki round up this 20-track heavy weight collection.

http://vakant.net 
https://vakant.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/vakantrecords

Cesare Vs Disorder - Vortex (Cristi Cons Extended Remix)

Tenacity is now out on exclusively on Beatport: https://pro.beatport.com/release/tenacity-2016/1728224

Taken from VA - 10 Years Part I: https://vakant.bandcamp.com/album/10-years-part-i

Tenacity is Vakant's new annual compilation series with its first edition to be released in March 2016! Tenacity 2016 reflects what has moved us in the past two years and it sets the guidelines for the near future of the label. Two new and exclusive tunes from Nico Purman and Sons of Tiki round up this 20-track heavy weight collection.

http://vakant.net 
https://vakant.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/vakantrecords

Premiesku - Orchestra De Calculatoare

Tenacity is now out on exclusively on Beatport: https://pro.beatport.com/release/tenacity-2016/1728224

Taken from Quantum Entanglement - Acid Thunder/Need You: https://vakant.bandcamp.com/album/acid-thunder-need-you

Tenacity is Vakant's new annual compilation series with its first edition to be released in March 2016! Tenacity 2016 reflects what has moved us in the past two years and it sets the guidelines for the near future of the label. Two new and exclusive tunes from Nico Purman and Sons of Tiki round up this 20-track heavy weight collection.

http://vakant.net 
https://vakant.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/vakantrecords

Quantum Entanglement - Need You Feat. Fink

Robag Wruhme in the mikks.. A podcast beyond house and techno for the lion-hearted amongst you! Enjoy.

VA Podcast 01 - Robag Wruhme's Börneböll Mikks

VA071 Tolga Fidan - Lone is available here:

Bandcamp: goo.gl/yQGFQo
Deejay: goo.gl/x8ubTb
Decks: goo.gl/tA97Sd
Juno: goo.gl/cPWyXC
Clone: goo.gl/z2zHjF
Phonica: goo.gl/yXQE7E

Tolga Fidan returns to Vakant. Remix by Convextion (vinyl only).

Tolga Fidan - Hord

Podcast by Jeremy P Caulfield & Walker Barnard to accompany their debut EP "Bedouin" on Vakant.

VA Podcast 14 - Jeremy & Walker's After The Bedouin Mix

Livio & Roby - Shinichi SNIPPET

Samples of the whole release here: https://soundcloud.com/vakant/kenneth-scott-lets-go-program-thomas-clips

Bandcamp: https://goo.gl/cxa16f
Clone: https://goo.gl/ELTrVn
Decks: https://goo.gl/E6JoJr
Deejay: https://goo.gl/cxr3nD
Juno: https://goo.gl/D3imNJ

16.04.2018 (vinyl release date)
30.04.2018 (digital release date)

A1) 	Let's Go Program Thomas
A2)	Let's Go Program Thomas (The Exaltics Remix) - vinyl only
B1) 	Pranic Lift 777
B2) Pranic Lift 777 (Evigt Mörker Remix) - vinyl only

Let's Go Program Thomas (The Exaltics In This Twilight Mix) - digital only

Kenneth Scott finally making his debut on Vakant, long overdue, such a great DJ and repeated guest at Vakant parties. Phew.. Remixes by The Exaltics, co-owner of acclaimed electro imprint Solar One Music, and Evigt Mörker of Northern Electronics fame. The Exaltics & Evigt Mörker Remix will only appear on the vinyl.

https://soundcloud.com/the-exaltics
https://soundcloud.com/evigtmorker

Let's Go Program Thomas

Let's Go Program Thomas (The Exaltics In This Twilight Mix)

Kenneth Scott - Let's Go Program Thomas (The Exaltics In This Twillight Mix)

Pre-order: https://vakant.bandcamp.com/album/ate-up-ep

@avatism @maenadveyl @aquarian @deapmash

Forever cursed with “deep-“ and “tech-house” labels by the press due to decisions taken 10 years ago before he had any idea how this industry worked, Avatism returns mildly angrier than ever before with ‘Ate-Up’, an EP the producer actually started writing during an MDMA-induced lucid dream after Vakant label boss Alex spiked his drinks in 2011. 

To give his poor soul some credibility, we’ve enlisted AQXDM (Aquarian & Deapmash, fresh from their storming debut on Bedouin Records) and the mysterious Maenad Veyl (Veyl, Pinkman, Death & Leisure) on remix duties.

Ate-Up EP

Avatism - Ate-Up EP (AQXDM & Maenad Veyl RMXs) (clips)

Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/TENACITY18
Beatport: http://bit.ly/2Dq4Xiu
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2I9czEV

Some time has passed since our last compilation and it is with great excitement we present the third edition of our various artist series ‘Tenacity’ to you. The compilation features gems spanning the last year and half of our discography from mainstay artists like Tolga Fidan, Cesare vs Disorder, Anonym, Kenneth Scott and Premiesku as well as a few brand new cuts from Livio & Roby, Avatism, Lee Jones and Fin Greenall’s Quantum Entaglment alias, and one of the finest cuts to date from the master Alex Smoke. Evigt Mörker’s gorgeous rework of Kenneth Scott’s ‘Pranic Lift 777’ opens the journey and is available in digital format for the first time. 

Over the span of fifteen genre blurring tracks from Hip House to Breaks to Minimal House to Techno, we know this collection is probably our most comprehensive to date. Take a trip with us, immerse yourself in ‘Tenacity 2018‘ and stay tenacious. Much love.

Avatism - Self Control

Tolga Fidan - Lone

Kenneth Scott - Pranic Lift 777

Cesare vs Disorder - Dinner With Bogdan

Quantum Entanglement - Hob Digay

Avatism - Gnosis

Livio & Roby - Chestii

Alex Smoke - Smivvy

Kenneth Scott - Pranic Lift (Evigt Mörker Remix)

Quantum Entanglement studio mix, made exclusively to accompany their Tenacity 2018 contribution 'Hob Digay'.

You can listen to Tenacity 2018 in its entirety here: https://soundcloud.com/vakant/sets/va-tenacity-2018-stream

Vakant Bandcamp: https://vakant.bandcamp.com

Quantum Entanglement - Hob Digay Mixtape

Vakant's latest addition to their podcast series with a new contribution by the romanians Livio & Roby!

Buy Livio & Roby music

VA Podcast 16 - Livio & Roby's Shinichi Mix

Pre-order: https://vakant.bandcamp.com/album/superior-things-voiski-remix

https://soundcloud.com/cyrkmusic / https://soundcloud.com/voiski

CYRK, the Belgian-German duo of Sammy Goossens and Pascal Hetzel, is giving its debut release on Vakant with three fast-paced no-holds-barred electro jams topped off with a remix by French producer Voiski.

'Superior Things', the eponymous title track, kicks off the EP with driving funk and and acid lead synths, followed by 'Heatwave', another futuristic high-tech-funker. On the flip we have 'Chappers Said So', a sublime homage to classic Detroit electro and last but definitely not least Voiski's remix of the latter, an immersive and trance-inducing techno re-work for you to get lost in.

Artwork by SEO – www.artseo.de

Superior Things

CYRK - Superior Things (Voiski Remix) (clips)

Taken from VA047 Nico Purman - The Bubble on Vakant.

Buy 12" on Decks.de

Nico Purman - The Bubble

Out July 15th on 12" & digital: 

https://vakant.bandcamp.com/album/tightrope-ocb-remixes

Joonam, the new project from fellow NY friends Elon Admony & Nima Khalilian is landing its breaks and techno laden debut EP on Vakant this Summer. On remix duties we welcome OCB from Casa Voyager with two reworks.

Fotography by Expreso Nova (Valentín Rodríguez)

Tightrope

Joonam - Tightrope (OCB Remixes) (clips)

Taken from https://soundcloud.com/joonam808 - Tightrope EP. Out July 15th on 12" & digital:

https://vakant.bandcamp.com/album/tightrope-ocb-remixes

Remix by OCB from https://soundcloud.com/csvoyager.

Check the full EP here: https://soundcloud.com/vakant/joonam-tightrope-ocb-remixes-clips

PREMIERE: Joonam - Freefall (OCB Remix)

Room to let: welcome to Vakant. Doing our thing since 2004.

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