Alex Cortiz

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FRIENDLY FIRES & THE ASPHODELLS
‘BEFORE YOUR EYES / VELO’
AA-SIDED SINGLE RELEASED ON 31ST MARCH 2014 ON TELOPHASE
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At some point in 2013, Friendly Fires, Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J Fairplay (aka The Asphodells), convened in an east London pub to discuss collaborating on new music together. The plan was to produce music that came from a place outside of their respective usual musical styles - a loose, open-ended process embarked upon for the pure joy of experimentation and collaboration rather than a specific end goal.

The collaboration came on the back of two hugely successful Friendly Fires albums – 2008’s debut Friendly Fires and 2011’s follow up Pala – and an acclaimed debut album from The Asphodells in 2013’s Ruled By Passion Destroyed By Lust, the latest in a long line of classic releases from Andrew Weatherall’s own Rotters Golf Club label.

Recording took place between Weatherall’s Shoreditch studio, The Bunker, and Friendly Fires frontman Ed Macfarlane’s basement studio just a short stroll down the road in Farringdon, using a desk that once belonged to influential German producer Konrad ‘Conny’ Plank to mix the tracks.

The result is ‘Before Your Eyes’ and ‘Velo’ - two brand new tracks that take close to ten minutes each to reveal their full hypnotic glory. The tracks will be released as a AA-sided single on 12” and download and will be the inaugural release on Friendly Fires’ own Telophase label.

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Friendly Fires & The Asphodells - Velo

Four years after wowing listeners with his surprise debut album, All One, Ferdi Schuster is back with a similarly inspired sequel. Taking his distinctive, freewheeling approach to its predecessor, Playing Life  offers a set of inspired instrumentals full of soft-focus grooves, alluring musical motifs, subtle mood shifts and plenty of intricate musical details. In fact, such is the layered nature of the productions, you’ll still be noticing new things on your fifth or sixth listen.

 Those who know Schuster’s story and previous work for Claremont 56 won’t be at all surprised. Arguably the label’s best-kept secret, Schuster ended up on Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy’s label in 2017 after speculatively submitting a demo. Murphy was blown away by the quality of the publicity-shy multi-instrumentalist’s work and asked him to work on an album; two years later, All One appeared in stores and the rest, as they say, is history.

 Just as he did on his celebrated debut album, Schuster played every instrument, note, chord and riff on Playing Life, arranging and producing the whole thing at different points between 2020 and 2023. The results are undeniably spellbinding, with the talented artist arguably delivering an even more assured, attractive and entertaining set.

 For proof, check opener ‘Dream Quality’, a sumptuous affair in which immersive pads, jazzy guitars, twinkling keys and smooth bass rise above a dubby, minimalistic beat, the steel pan-infused gentle jog towards the dancefloor that is ‘A Step Further’, and the Balearic ambient jazz masterpiece that is ‘Due’. Or, for that matter, the lapping waves and deep, dubbed-out grooves of ‘Playing Life’, and the starry magnificence of ‘Light Minded’, where Ferdi offers a few nods to the great Pat Metheny over twinkling synths and sparse, spaced-out beat.

Everywhere you look across the album, you’ll find a softly spun, exquisitely executed highlight. There’s ‘Moving Forms’, whose instinctive beat pattern and sun-bright jazz guitars enrich the soul, the marimba-sporting sunset wonder of ‘Universal Dance’, the chunky dub disco shuffle of ‘Pulsing’ and the awe-inspiring brilliance of ‘Vastness’, a suitably star-gazing, effects-laden excursion that provides a fittingly impressive conclusion to an album dripping with emotion-rich sonic gold.

Dream Quality

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CFCF - Outsiders
Out May 20th 2014 (digital only)

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CFCF - Windswept

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213-hey negrita - one mississippi (chris coco mix)-ume

Track from the Alex Cortiz album 'Lo-Fi Explorations'

Available on all streaming services and download stores worldwide.

Lo-Fi Explorations

Flex (Soul)

Flex (Soul) (full version)

From the Barfly - (Remixes) EP.

Available on all downloadplatforms and streaming-services worldwide.

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Barfly (Remixes)

Barfly (Slo-Fi Mix)

Barfly - (Slo-Fi Mix) (full version)

1 -  mohawe
vocals - ian simmonds
trumpet - martin rudloff
percussion - lutz hartmann
piano, beats - clemens kynast

2 -  phonomer
vocals - paula akinsinde
trumpet - martin rudloff
percussion - lutz hartmann
piano, beats - clemens kynast

music written and produced by clemens kynast
words paula akinsinde & ian simmonds
c 2009

02 Phonomer feat Paula Akinsinde

Track from the new album 'New Tunes Vol. 2' by Alex Cortiz.

Available on all downloadplatforms and streaming-services worldwide.

New Tunes Vol.2

Fly 69

Fly 69 (full version)

A track from the new album 'New Tunes Vol.3' of Alex Cortiz.

Available on all download-stores and streaming-services world wide.

Alex Cortiz on Bandcamp: https://alexcortiz.bandcamp.com

New Tunes Vol.3

Nightcrawlers Theme

Nightcrawlers Theme (full version)

From 1998 onwards Alex Cortiz has produced more than 30 albums of deep vibin’ grooves with elements of chill out, nu jazz, cinematic dub, soulful blaxploitation and chilled- and deep house. 
He became one of the leading producers in groovy relax and funky chill out. Often he has been linked to Kruder & Dorfmeister, Air, Nor Elle, Audio Lotion, Dj Cam, Session Victim, Zap, Dazz, Ron Basejam, Solee and lately Nils Frahm.

To dig a bit deeper into the musical carreer of Alex Cortiz... His roots in international dance music go back to 1990, when he produced one of the first worldwide techno club hits as D-Shake with Yaaah / Technotrance. After that he was succesful with a.o. Paradise 3001 (ambient techno) and Flygang (disco) And then, after that… producer / dj Alex Cortiz took over.

Discography: 19 albums: 1) Volume One 2) Moodfood 3) Make Believe 4) Mesmerising 5) Magnifico! 6) Phoenix 7) Lo Tek 8) Camera 707 9) See Me Flowin 10) Magnifico! vol.2 11)New Works Vol.1 12) Deep Deluxe 13) Oddities 14) Zooming In 15) Going Deeper 16) Dope Spheres 17) Lo-Fi Explorations 18) New Tunes Vol. 1 /  19) New Tunes Vol. 2 / 20) New Tunes Vol. 3 / 21) New Tunes Vol. 4 / 22) Heads Up 23) Dancing Naked on Pluto 24) Pensées Melodiques 25) Barista 26) Dancing Naked on Mars

4 EP's: 1) Barfly (remixes) 2) A-Chill (remixes) 3)Magic Touch (remixes 4) Funk Me up Baby (remixes)

You can buy Alex Cortiz' music on cd or on Beatport, iTunes / Apple Music and all other major digital download stores or stream it on Spotify, Apple Music and many others.

Also known as: D-Shake, Paradise 3001, Flygang and many other artists.

Nightcrawlers Theme (full version)

Alex Cortiz

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